Chapter 880.2: The Relationship Between Two Ungovernable Delinquents (1/2)
“I don’t know… if my guess is right, Tianqi’s going to be the kid who creates it, so it’s up to him. I’ve already interfered with too much, if I go any further, I’ll exceed the limits of what this era can tolerate.”
He was slowly gaining a sense of what could and couldn’t be done during his time here.
“Now that the netherdark’s empty and Eternal’s lost her protection, she’ll be very vulnerable to attack...” Lu Yun frowned.
“Don’t worry about that, fellow daoist.” A crisp voice suddenly traveled into his ears.
As he turned around, another youth wearing flaming red robes came into view. The youth’s hair was messily piled up on top of his head and barely secured by a topknot; one hand loosely gripped a sword while a wine gourd dangled from the other. He reached Lu Yun’s side in just a few steps.
“This modest one is Yuyu. Greetings to my fellow daoist.” A devil-may-care attitude marking his every gesture, the daoist bowed to Lu Yun. [1]
“Ge Long?” Lu Yun asked subconsciously when he saw the newcomer.
“Huh?” The youth blinked. “This modest one is not a connate dragon, you have the wrong person, fellow daoist.” [2]
“Nothing!” Lu Yun quickly brushed off the moment. He’d recognized the newcomer in flamboyant red robes—it was Ge Long in a past life, before he became one of Lu Yun’s most trusted subordinates. That ungovernable delinquent for whom nothing was off limits was right in front of him!
“This modest one’s cultivation has reached a bottleneck and my master has ordered me to train in the netherdark. I can help look after Daoist Eternal during my time here,” Yuyu said with a smile.
“Then I am at ease with fellow daoist’s arrival.” Lu Yun raised a cupped fist salute.
“You trust me so easily?” Yuyu’s eyes shot wide open with disbelief. This was their first meeting, wasn’t it? Wasn’t Lie Shan afraid that he’d boil Eternal’s egg and eat it?
“Fellow daoist’s character is first in the great wilderness. There are many who I wouldn’t trust, but I will always trust you!” Lu Yun laughed heartily.
Yuyu poured a mouthful of wine into his mouth, garbling back something unintelligible in the same spirit.
“Since fellow daoist is here now, I will take my leave!” Lu Yun raised a cupped fist salute and drifted out of the netherdark, leaving a gaping Yuyu standing where he was.
“My character is first in the great wilderness?” Yuyu blinked rapidly. “He trusts me that much?”
……
Mount Tai remained steadfastly in place, and the path of the netherdark hadn’t been affected by the battle earlier. It twisted and turned back into the great wilderness.
“Is he the Ge Long who takes his head off and uses it as a treasure?” the little fox asked curiously.
Daoist Yuyu was an unknown in the current great wilderness, and even his master Hongjun was rarely recognized. But as someone from the future, Lu Yun naturally knew of their names.
“Right, that’s him.” Lu Yun nodded. “No wonder Eternal’s close with Ge Long in the future. They struck up a friendship before she was even born.”
Some of the major events to take place before Emperors Fall—decimating the peak clans and destroying almost all connate treasures in the world—had been accomplished by Daoist Yuyu in tandem with Carmine Eternal.
When Emperors Fall came to pass, Carmine Eternal could’ve stayed out of it, but she still chose to stand by Daoist Yuyu’s side and complete his goal of slaughtering all great emperors in the world. It was now more readily apparent why she’d done so.
……
Mount Buzhou loomed in his eyes before long. A boy dressed in a black outfit stooped on the ground, casting glances into the netherdark from time to time. When he saw Lu Yun, he came running like the wind.
“Master, you’re finally back!” The child almost cried when he saw Lu Yun. Fresh faced and fair skinned, the child’s red lips offset gleaming white teeth. He looked just a little delicate and happened to be Lu Yun’s third disciple—Tianqi.
“Tianqi? How are you so big?” Lu Yun blinked, taken aback.
“Master, it’s been eight years… of course I grew up!” The boy wiped away tears from the corner of his eyes and replied mournfully.
“Eight years… That’s right, I was fighting off the heavens in the Sea of Hellfire. I didn’t notice how much time was passing by.” Lu Yun nodded.