Chapter 377 - Longxing City (2/2)
Yi Qing took it out casually and remembering something, his mouth twitched. He turned to look at Song Ren. “You are… sure?” This was apparently private goods put in by a certain Radish.”
“Yes please, great immortal.” Song Ren nodded hard. It was always better than garlic and chili. “Flowers has always been elegant things, and must help great immortal produce a good projection.
Yi Qing didn’t speak. He looked at him with an uninterpretable look. Even Shen Ying who focused on eating fruits at a side turned back and glanced over in surprise.
What… what’s the matter? Song Ren felt a chill in the bottom of his heart. Are dandelions very bad?
“This is it, then!” Yi Qing showed no intention to explain at all. He directly produced a seal and captured Song Ren’s soul into the dandelion. With a wave of hand, an array appeared underneath his feet. The dandelion immediately became a white light which flew into the array. The white light became brighter and brighter and started to take form. In a short while, a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old appeared inside the array.
He wore a green and white gown, and not surprisingly looked rather similar to Radish.
“I… I have a body again!” Song Ren looked over his own body with an expression full of excitement. He was an immortal indeed. He changed back to human.
“This is merely a projection,” explained Yi Qing, “Don’t stay too far away from us, or when the immortal qi from the dandelion is used up, you will return to your original form immediately.”
“I get it.” Song Ren nodded and hurried to make a salute. “Thank you so much, great immortal!”
“Let’s enter the city. He glanced at him once more, and his look stopped briefly at his lower body, before he dragged Shen Ying habitually and went into the city.
Song Ren hurried to follow.
The city was very lively and there were people everywhere. Yi Qing once thought that this would be similar to an immortal city of cultivators, but strangely, more than half of those in the city were ordinary mortals with no cultivation at all. By right, cultivators don’t live mortals unless they have to, lest they get contaminated with mortal aura which was harmful to cultivation. But this didn’t seem to be the case here at all. It seemed exceptionally… diverse.
Yi Qing asked around about the location of Mystic Daoists, before taking the two all the way into the city.
Along the way, many passers-by carried a peach wood sword similar to Tang Han’s, or swords made from tying up cotton coins, on their backs. Upon those swords there was very weak movement of spirit qi, but it couldn’t have counted as even a first-level dharma artifact. It seemed that they were Mystic cultivators who wanted to join the Mystic Daoists as well.
The trio walked across the main street, and a palace faraway appeared before them. The palace floated in the air. But the palace wasn’t huge, and probably due to the thinness of spirit qi, it floated a mere four or five meters from the ground. Nevertheless, it looked rather grand and magnificent. Upon the palace roof, there were two large golden words: Mystic Daoists.
In front of the palace was a very big square, on which hundreds had already gathered. There was also a stage on the square. The people seemed to be waiting for something.
Yi Qing looked around. He took out that recommendation letter from Tang Han, and just as he was about to go forward and hand it to the person in front, who seemed to be in charge, a thick voice was suddenly heard from the stage.
“Thank you very much, Fellow Daoists, for coming here from far away to help us Mystic Daoists chase away deviant ghosts.” There was a middle-aged man dressed in a blue robe on the stage.
The place quieted immediately. Everyone looked toward the stage.
“The situation is urgent. Please forgive me for not being able to greet all of you one by one.”
“Sect master Ying, what actually happened?” As he finished speaking, someone from below asked hurriedly, “Why is Mystic Iron Order sent suddenly to gather Mystic cultivators from around the world in a rush?” This was the first time that Mystic Iron Order was sent since the formation of Mystic Daoists.
“The matter threatens a worldwide disaster, and I was forced to do that.” The sect master on the stage whose surname was Ying took a step forward, and with a very gloomy expression he looked towards the crowd and said, “A few days ago we received the news that a large group of deviant ghosts have appeared in the Southwest. The number is large. Mystic Daoists have tried to stop them for many times but reaped no results. Right now deviant ghosts have already broken into Jiangyue City, and they are approaching our direction. Within less than three days they would reach Longxing City!”
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