Free Web NovelIt was evening, near Zhenting Hall.
After bathing at Qingxia Zi's residence, Hua Sang took off her old Taoist robe and changed into casual clothes. While scratching her back with a ruler, she walked towards the iron chain bridge, attracting frequent glances from disciples she passed.
The strange looks were full of confusion, as if saying, "Beautiful Miss, who are you?"
Hua Sang rarely tidied herself up so cleanly. Although her dressing style was still a bit lazy and casual, compared to before, her current appearance was such that many disciples couldn't recognize her.
However, she didn't feel happy about this at all. Being stared at like a monkey in a zoo only made her feel uncomfortable all over.
"Master said that since I'm tracking, I should try to dress like an ordinary person to avoid attracting unnecessary attention..." Hua Sang mumbled, "But the result is even more attention-grabbing."
That super-aged single woman had always treated her disciples like her own children.
But that slightly excessive concern, even after more than ten years, Hua Sang was still a little unaccustomed to it.
She didn't dislike Master, it was just that Master's actions always reminded her of Grandma...
"Speaking of which, could Master have just made up an excuse to give me a bath?"
Just as Hua Sang was talking to herself, two female disciples in the crowd finally recognized her and came over.
"Senior Sister Hua Sang? Excuse me, are you Senior Sister Hua Sang?"
Hua Sang turned her head to look at the two girls, pouting, "Yes, is there something?"
Hearing this, the two female disciples hesitated for a while, then mustered up the courage to ask, "We, we just wanted to ask, Senior Sister, how did your skin suddenly become so good? After all, before..."
"Sorry, sorry, Senior Sister, I didn't mean you weren't good before... I, I just wanted to ask for the method."
Method? Hua Sang thought for a moment and shivered slightly.
Recalling the scene where Qingxia Zi grabbed her by the back of her collar, ignoring her struggles and pleas, and forcibly dragged her back to her residence to bathe, she felt a chill.
That posture was like forcibly stuffing a small dirty cat covered in mud into a bathtub and scrubbing it thoroughly from head to toe, completely disregarding whether the little dirty cat was willing or not.
"The method is to have my Master give you a bath..." Hua Sang paused, thought for two seconds, and still felt it was necessary to tell them the truth, "If you can withstand being scrubbed with a steel wool ball."
Yes, Qingxia Zi used a steel wool ball to bathe this little dirty cat.
The two female disciples, "..."
Seeing the two female disciples frozen in place, Hua Sang politely cupped her hands, "Two Junior Sisters, if there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first."
I still have to keep an eye on that kid!
If I delay any longer, I won't be able to catch up.
To be honest, because of her experience in Hua City, Hua Sang had always been interested in Lu Yibei. If it weren't for the fact that she had to leave the Zhenwu Mountain area, she would have been quite happy to keep an eye on Lu Yibei.
Also, I need to find an opportunity to ask that guy if he has seen Senior Brother...
I clearly asked Senior Brother to receive him, but the Old man said Senior Brother went to Shizhou City early in the morning. This is too strange. Hua Sang thought.
After saying goodbye to the two female disciples, she casually tucked the ruler into the faint cleavage visible under her Collar and turned to walk towards the iron chain bridge.
As she was about to reach the main entrance of Zhenting Hall, she saw the Zhenshan Divine Beast's huge head emerging from the pool in the distance, and her eyes lit up slightly as she quickened her pace.
Feeling Hua Sang's aura approaching, the Zhenshan Divine Beast shivered and quickly hid in the depths of the pool.
It was very afraid of this Miss...
Having witnessed Hua Sang's brutal appearance as she cooked and ate the descendants of its old friend in various ways, it always felt that one day Hua Sang would make a move on it.
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Dusk had arrived.
As the sky turned from gold to red, gradually tinged with a hint of purple, the urban legend main body core within Lu Yibei began to stir.
He continued forward.
As he passed the main entrance of Zhenting Hall, the Zhenshan Divine Beast poked its head out of the pool and gave Lu Yibei a flirtatious look that made his scalp tingle. But for some reason, after giving that look, the Divine Beast made no further movement and silently sank into the water.
He jogged through Zhenting Hall, crossed the iron chain bridge, and headed straight for Xuanwu Slope. All the way, Lu Yibei desperately suppressed his urban legend transformation.
Although he was already some distance from Da Chunyang Palace, and the Spiritual Energy fluctuations emanating from the urban legend transformation were difficult to detect, he could not undergo urban legend transformation at this moment.
He found that he was being tracked.
And he was being tracked by more than one person.
At least three!
Through the premonitions that flashed in his mind from time to time, he found that two sets of eyes were secretly observing him, and another person had seized the Paper Cicada Immortal he had placed and was following not far behind him.
Damn it, what are these people staring at me, an ordinary Night Watch reserve agent, for?
Could it be that I said too much to Yi Sihan and accidentally made a mistake?
Lu Yibei couldn't figure out what was worth paying attention to about his appearance at Da Chunyang Palace as a Night Watch agent.
At this moment, it was late, and most tourists had already left, leaving the scenic area gradually deserted. The tired sunlight filtered through the dense branches of ancient trees, casting mottled shadows on the slightly dilapidated ancient buildings.
A flock of distant birds flew across the sky, leaving mournful cries.
Walking quickly up the long stone steps leading to Xuanwu Slope, Lu Yibei's thoughts raced. He couldn't figure out why those guys were tracking him, so he could only find a way to shake them off.
Shaking off those guys wasn't actually difficult. He just needed to find an opportunity to temporarily disappear from their sight and complete the urban legend transformation.
After the urban legend transformation, both my appearance and the aura of my Spiritual Energy fluctuations will undergo huge changes. Coupled with the new ability to change my form and Coat, it will be impossible for them to recognize me.
If all else fails, stopping the urban legend transformation and going back to Hongyan Villa to sleep is also a good option.
But the problem is, how can I temporarily disappear from their sight?
Lu Yibei was thinking. Unconsciously, he had passed the long stone steps and arrived at Xuanwu Slope. He heard the roar of three thousand silver chains falling in the distance, and his eyes lit up slightly.
Is it a waterfall? I've got it!
The weak but massive Spiritual Energy splashed and dispersed when the waterfall fell can interfere with Spiritual Sense detection to a certain extent.
In fact, extreme environments like waterfalls, volcanoes, and deserts all cause some interference with Spiritual Sense detection.
This is the greatness and invincibility of nature!
He just needed to use the waterfall to distract the trackers' detection for a moment, and he could complete the urban legend transformation.
The only thing that was more troublesome was the metal box. This feature was too obvious and not easy to hide.
I can only find a place to hide the metal box immediately after getting away, and then only carry Lingtai Pure Karma, a small amount of Alchemy Dirty Bombs, a small amount of Paper Cicada Immortals, and a small amount of potions. Just this little bit of stuff!
It's like traveling light, the Coat should barely be able to fit...
With this thought in mind, Lu Yibei looked around. Seeing that there was no one around, he took a few quick steps forward and was about to climb over the railing at the edge of Xuanwu Slope and jump towards the surging waterfall when someone behind him suddenly clapped and cheered. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
"Good jump!"
Hearing the sound, Lu Yibei's body stiffened. Holding the railing with both hands, he turned his ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) head and saw two men, one old and one young, who had appeared near the melon stand at some point, holding two cut watermelons in their hands.
Seeing him look over, the two men's faces immediately showed an ambiguous smile.
Lu Yibei had seen that kind of smile before, when Shui Ge and Old Dad were bathing together, and Shui Ge was scrubbing Old Dad's back and praising how smooth his skin was.
While he was in a daze, the two men winked at him again.
Lu Yibei, "???"
No, who are you guys? Where did you pop out from? Also... why are you eating my melon?!
Seeing Lu Yibei stop in place and remain motionless for a long time, the young man lowered his voice and asked the middle-aged man accompanying him, "Elder, why isn't the Holy Child jumping? Could it be that he feels it's inconvenient to act because we are watching him?"
"Nonsense!" The middle-aged man said in a low voice, "What is jumping down from the top of the waterfall group and remaining unharmed? It's a miracle! Since the Holy Child wants to show a miracle, someone must see it!"
"What kind of miracle is a miracle without witnesses? Saleh, you haven't been in the Order for long, there are many things you don't know."
"Thinking back to when the previous Holy Child had not yet fallen, in Shibuya, Tokyo, Times Square, New York, in front of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower... every time a miracle was displayed, it was done under the gaze of thousands of eyes..."
At this point, the middle-aged man's thoughts briefly drifted to the past. The scene of the previous Holy Child displaying a miracle in the crowd and causing a frenzy appeared before his eyes. It was as if he could smell the intoxicating fragrance when countless miracle flowers bloomed in the crowd again, and unconsciously, a hint of excited flush appeared on his face.
Not far away, Lu Yibei looked at the middle-aged man with a gloomy face and a full beard, who looked like a member of an extremist terrorist organization from Central Asia. He seemed to have taken some 'treasure' produced by Jade Palace Immortal, sniffing wildly in her direction and showing an expression of extreme euphoria. She felt completely unwell.
Damn it! I can't tolerate this!
Lu Yibei cursed inwardly, took a few steps forward, pointed at the two and shouted, "Hey, what are you two looking at?"
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Seeing this, the young man whispered to the middle-aged man, "Elder, the Holy Child seems unhappy. How about we leave first?"
"What do you know?" The middle-aged man whispered back, "Based on my experience, at this time, you should answer..."
"What's it to ya?!"
Lu Yibei looked at the middle-aged man, listening to his distinctly foreign-sounding Dongbei accent, feeling extremely surprised.
Are people this fierce nowadays?
Forget it, if I can't provoke them, can't I at least avoid them?
Damn it, if it weren't for the bad timing today, I would definitely teach you a lesson!
Seeing that it was about to get completely dark, Lu Yibei was anxious to avoid the eyes tracking and monitoring her and complete the urban legend transformation. She didn't pay much attention to the two suspicious men, turned around, and jogged away along the mountain path on Xuanwu Slope.
Not far below the Xuanwu Slope mountain path, there was a smaller platform from which one could also jump into the waterfall group.
In the shadows.
Hua Sang, who had closely followed Lu Yibei to Xuanwu Slope, looked at Lu Yibei's receding back, then looked at the two tourists, and slightly furrowed her brow.
Those two people seem to know Lu Yibei?
What are their backgrounds?
Oh no, that guy is gone!
Seeing Lu Yibei's figure disappear from her sight, Hua Sang quickly put aside her doubts and chased after her.
When she passed through Xuanwu Slope, descended the mountain path step by step, and found Lu Yibei's figure again, she happened to catch the scene of her jumping into the waterfall from the platform below.
That posture was as if she was participating in the Monkey King selection contest at the Water Curtain Cave on Flower and Fruit Mountain.
Seeing this, she flashed her figure several times, chased to the small platform, held the railing with both hands and looked down. After a slight hesitation, she flipped over the railing.
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On Xuanwu Slope.
Seeing Hua Sang and Lu Yibei pass by one after the other.
The two Miracle Order members, Saleh and Shem, were silent for a moment, looked at each other, and said the same sentence in unison.
"Oh no, the Holy Child is being followed!"
Saleh was stunned for a moment and asked, "What should we do now?"
"Need you ask?" Shem blurted out, "Of course, we chase after him and remind the Holy Child!"
So, the two chased after them and saw the scene of Hua Sang jumping into the waterfall.
"..." Saleh and Shem were speechless for a moment.
After a long time.
Saleh asked in a low voice, "Elder, should we... jump?"
Shem pondered for two seconds, a look of determination flashed in his eyes, he gritted his teeth and made a decision that went against the fragrance of the miracle flower, "Forget it, let's take the cable car for sightseeing."
The cable car terminal at the foot of the mountain was near the base of the waterfall.
"Aren't we following the Holy Child's footsteps?" Saleh asked doubtfully.
"You don't understand, we can't steal the Holy Child's thunder," Shem explained.
"Oh..." Saleh nodded, half-understanding.
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The moment she jumped off the small platform, the wind whistled.
Deafening roars and thick, suffocating water vapor rushed towards her face.
In the rising mist, Lu Yibei spread her arms, feeling the wind flow through her fingers, like an osprey diving towards the water, soaring between wind and water.
After a brief descent, her sight caught a small cave below the waterfall curtain where she could land. She immediately took out a Paper Cicada Immortal from her In arms and threw it downwards, while simultaneously exerting force with her waist, twisting her body's direction of descent in mid-air.
Immediately after, she stomped her toes downwards, landing precisely on the Paper Cicada Immortal flapping its small wings.
"Screech!"
Accompanied by a slight sound of paper tearing, Lu Yibei used the force to flip back up, breaking through the water curtain, and landed steadily at the entrance of the small cave.
"Whoosh——!"
After completing a series of difficult movements, she let out a long sigh of relief, quickly took off her clothes, preparing to release the suppression on the core of the urban legend entity to complete the urban legend transformation, and then change into the Coat stored in the metal box.
As for why she put the Coat in a metal box instead of wearing it...
After all, the little cutie was a urban legend. What if she wore it openly into Da Chunyang Palace and got caught?
Lu Yibei took two seconds to take off her top and was about to take off her pants when a figure suddenly flashed past her.
So, Hua Sang and Lu Yibei looked at each other through the waterfall curtain for about 0.5 seconds, and question marks appeared in their minds simultaneously.
Hua Sang, "?"
What is she doing? Why is she taking off her clothes?
Lu Yibei, "?" freёwebnovel.com
Did a Miss just fly by? Does tracking require this level of desperation these days?
Lu Yibei was thinking when, at that moment, the sun completely set below the horizon, and the sky darkened at a visible speed. The core of the urban legend entity within her body became restless with an uncontrollable momentum.
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At 5:33:07 PM, Zhenwu Mountain Scenic Area was completely covered by night.
At the foot of the mountain, the parking lot next to the scenic area ticket office lit up. Under the warm light, a bus slowly drove out of the parking lot and stopped at the bus stop by the road for the final wait before departure.
On the bus, the driver looked back at the empty carriage, lit a cigarette, and stared blankly out the window.
Today's last bus would probably be the same as usual, with no passengers again before leaving the scenic area...
This was also good. A cigarette and an empty bus were the freedom the middle-aged man yearned for.
As the driver was thinking this, a soft voice suddenly entered his ears.
"Master, excuse me, is this the bus to Shizhou City?"
Looking towards the sound, a young girl wearing a red and white color-blocked jacket stood in front of the bus door. She was wearing a hood, and a few strands of pinkish-white hair hung down from beneath the hood, obscuring her face.
It's almost summer, and she's still wearing such thick clothes? The driver frowned and nodded, "Yes, it's the bus to Shizhou City."
"Oh," the girl responded, took out her phone, scanned the QR code next to the bus door, paid the fare, got on the bus, and walked directly to the window seat in the last row and sat down.
The driver glanced at the rearview mirror out of the corner of his eye, secretly observing the girl. Just as he was about to start the bus, a soft sound of a phone scanning a QR code entered his ears.
Turning his head, he saw a young girl get on the bus.
She was wearing a white T-shirt with the four bright red characters "Dao Fa Zi Ran" printed on the chest. The wide hem of the T-shirt hung down, almost completely covering her denim hot pants, revealing her long, fair legs, and she was wearing a pair of Hello Kitty flip-flops, as if she lived in a different season than the previous girl.
Her waist-length hair was slightly damp and hung loosely behind her, with her bangs lifted up and clipped with a cute butterfly hairpin.
A few strands of hair framed her classically exquisite oval face. Her face was unadorned with makeup, but it didn't affect her beautiful purity at all. Her eyes and eyebrows, like autumn water, had an irresistible charm.
It's her? The one who was following me just now? The moment she saw Hua Sang, Lu Yibei's heart tightened. Immediately after, her gaze swept over the flip-flops on her feet, and she frowned.
Where have I seen those slippers before?
Hua Sang stood in front of the bus door, quickly scanned the carriage, did not find Lu Yibei's figure, sighed silently, and was about to get off when two familiar faces appeared in front of the bus door.
One old and one young, they were the two tourists she had seen on Xuanwu Slope before!
It's them? The two guys who had contact with Lu Yibei.
Hua Sang's eyes trembled slightly. She chose the nearest seat and sat down without a trace.
It's her? The one who was following the Holy Child!
At the same time that Hua Sang noticed Saleh and Shem, they also noticed Hua Sang, exchanged glances silently, and also sat down.
So, after waiting for a moment and seeing no one else get on the bus, the driver started the vehicle and drove towards Shizhou City.
