Lu Yibei left the celebration just like that.
Although she and Shen Baiwei were the main characters of today's celebration, she wasn't worried that the celebration would fall flat because of her departure.
For Bai Kai, stirring up the atmosphere of a "gathering" of rely a few hundred people was as easy as pie, wasn't it?
Lu Yibei even hoped that Shui Ge would rein it in a bit and not lead the simple local residents astray.
Otherwise, there was a high possibility of seeing a subtle scene where nightclub style and ancient Western Region style were mixed together.
Starting from one end of the market where the ceremonial stage was set up, she walked through the bustling market towards the Lords Manor.
Along the way, Lu Yibei always felt like she did when she was a child, celebrating New Year's and visiting temple fairs with the adults in her family, but the difference was that now Dragon Tang was clinging to her like a child, asking her to buy this and that.
Clay figurines, wood carvings, candied hawthorn, cicadas in bamboo cages... a whole bunch of miscellaneous things.
The maddening thing was that, to preserve Dragon Tang's last shred of dignity, she couldn't let the vendors see that Dragon Tang wanted them; she could only be forced to pretend to be a child who "finds everything new and wants everything."
Others couldn't imagine how difficult it was for a stoic and socially anxious tough guy to do such a thing, and how much psychological damage it would cause him.
Even Shen Baiwei, who was following behind them, wiped away sweat, secretly sighing that it was fortunate she wasn't the one standing next to Dragon Tang.
Today, to celebrate the return of the two original Miracle Saintesses, almost all the residents of Divine Kingdom Jade Gate gathered in the market not far from Daimu Courtyard.
As they constantly approached the Lords Manor, the noise and cheers faded away, gradually becoming blurred and tinged with a sense of unreality.
Dragon Tang excitedly fiddled with the various small trinkets he had just bought, muttering to himself.
Shen Baiwei followed behind them, listening to the sounds from different sources overlapping, and suddenly had a very subtle feeling.
That feeling was like being alone at ho on New Year's Eve, eating tasteless frozen dumplings while watching the even more boring Spring Festival Gala, and suddenly hearing laughter from who knows where, the continuous sound of firecrackers downstairs, and the noise of the neighbor's child next door.
It wasn't loneliness, but the feeling of being excluded to the edge of the world was still unpleasant.
Just then, Dragon Tang's voice sounded in her ears.
"Lilim Miss... let's stop here? I'll walk the rest of the way alone."
"Just now... haha, I'm very sorry, it was really hard on you!"
Clear and steady in tone, Dragon Tang seed to have suddenly returned to normal.
Shen Baiwei stopped a little further away, watching Dragon Tang, who was smiling at Lu Yibei in front of Cunxin Hall, and for a mont, she even couldn't help but wonder if Dragon Tang's crazy behavior along the way was deliberately faked.
Soon, she shook her head again, and then thought that old people like Dragon Tang, whose minds were gradually losing control, were actually quite pitiful.
Because you never know when they are lucid and when they are confused, and you might even misunderstand their sudden changes in temperant as intentionally causing trouble.
But in fact, they just lived too long and experienced too much, and accidentally got lost in the past years.
At this ti, you just need a little more patience and wait for them to slowly co out, for example, like Calamity... Shen Baiwei thought, her gaze lingering on Lu Yibei for a few more seconds.
"What's so hard about it!" Facing Dragon Tang's apology, Lu Yibei waved her hand indifferently, "I don't care about such things, anyway, I'm thick-skinned and have many alternate identities. If one identity is socially dead, I'll just change to another and continue living. But you..."
Mid-sentence, she paused, her gaze passing through the dilapidated doors and windows of Cunxin Hall, which hadn't been repaired for who knows how many years, looking at the passage leading to the Divine Kingdom Central Hub, and pouted, "Do you really not need to accompany you to the end? It's... very dark over there!"
"No need." Dragon Tang shook his head, "When I was little, my elder brother told that when a person dies, it feels like walking through a very dark, narrow alley with no one in it, all the way to the very end, and then you can never co back..."
At this point, he turned to look at the dark passage inside Cunxin Hall, twitched the corner of his mouth, and squeezed an arc-shaped gully on his old face, "It's good for to get used to it in advance."
Perhaps choked by Dragon Tang's calm acceptance of death, BB Ji also couldn't speak, just quietly watched him, examining the outlines of Cunxin Hall, the Lords Manor, and the buildings within the distant Yun City Pass, not missing a single inch, as if wanting to imprint everything in her mind.
After a long while, he slowly said, "Lilim Miss, Shen Miss, I have already arranged all matters in the city properly. You can act freely, and soone will cooperate with you, no need to worry..."
At this point, he seed to have suddenly sensed sothing, and his eyes trembled.
Perhaps he sensed that his end was near, or perhaps it was the call of the Divine Kingdom Central Hub...
His words ca to an abrupt halt.
"It looks like I have to go, Lilim Miss."
"Wait a mont!" Seeing Dragon Tang turn to leave, Lu Yibei raised her hand to stop him.
Dragon Tang turned to look at Lu Yibei, a difficult expression on his face, "Lilim Miss, all good things must co to an end..."
"You're overthinking it, I didn't intend to keep you!" Lu Yibei interrupted expressionlessly, then raised her finger and pointed at the Phoenix Wing Tang in his hand, "I wanted to say, leave this thing with before you go, okay?"
"Anyway, you're about to be gone, so it's useless to hold onto it... This is a high-quality Spiritual Energy item after all! It would be a sha to take it in and have it crushed into dust by the Divine Kingdom Central Hub."
Shen Baiwei, standing nearby, widened her eyes as she watched Lu Yibei's actions.
At a ti like this, you still have the nerve to ask for soone else's things? And it's a personal weapon that has accompanied him for thousands of years...
How is this different from asking for the property deed and bankbook while an elder in the family is on their deathbed, leaning over their pillow?
Calamity, you have no heart!
Shen Baiwei thought, and was about to roll up her sleeves and step forward to stop her, but then she saw Dragon Tang, after a few seconds of stunned, laugh hoarsely, "Haha, no problem, then my old friend, I'll entrust him to Lilim Miss!"
As he spoke, Dragon Tang handed the mottled, battle-scarred Phoenix Wing Tang in his hand to Lu Yibei, then turned around, pushed open the door of Cunxin Hall, and walked into the darkness without any reluctance.
When the darkness completely enveloped his figure, leaving only a blurry outline, his footsteps suddenly paused, but he didn't look back, and soon continued forward, quickening his pace.
In the darkness, several Spirit Marks on Dragon Tang's back lit up one after another.
When the green Spirit Mark lit up, a gentle, warm breeze blew.
When the azure Spirit Mark lit up, the air beca filled with moisture, as if brewing a drizzle.
As the other Spirit Marks lit up one after another, the fragrance of earth, the scent of grass, «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» faint thunder... various strange phenona, accompanied by the surging Spiritual Energy, appeared one by one.
Affected by these strange phenona, one inexplicably felt as if they were on a plain with lush water and fertile land, instantly experiencing a complete spring and sumr.
Full of vitality!
Just as Dragon Tang had personally told Lu Yibei not long ago, he had been preparing for this mont for a long ti.
Except for the Spirit Mark that established his Calamity-level strength, the other Spirit Marks were all drawn to extend the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, perhaps not particularly powerful, but sufficient to support the necessities of life.
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A mont later, a mighty roar erupted from the cave where the Divine Kingdom Central Hub was located, shaking the entire Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
The low roar was like the last song of a dying giant whale before it sank to the bottom of the sea.
Imdiately after, Dragon Tang's Spiritual Energy and Wang Quan (Royal Authority), transford through the Divine Kingdom Central Hub, turned into countless phantoms invisible to the naked eye, rising from beneath the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate and enveloping the sky.
Then.
There was no grand display, no earth-shattering upheaval, like the wind and rain on a spring night, silently nourishing all things...
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Within Yun City Pass.
Not far from the market, a chubby little worm suddenly raised its head and made a surprised sound.
"Huh? What... happened again?"
As early as when a large number of local people, who knew not where they ca from, suddenly appeared in the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, the Void had exerted its Wang Quan (Royal Authority) to the extre, constantly monitoring changes in the surrounding environnt.
At first, the data it collected was shocking.
Although there were quite a few living beings in the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, according to the various data it collected, the living environnt here was not much better than the barren Gobi Desert outside Yun Pass.
However, just a few seconds ago, the various data changed at an astonishing speed.
The near-zero temperature gradually beca warm and pleasant.
The land beca fertile, and grass seeds that had slept for many years sprouted tiny bits of green.
A breeze that had risen at so unknown ti, like a soft, moist hand, brushed across the skin, followed by a light drizzle falling from the sky.
The animals and plants within the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate seed to be working overti to reproduce and thrive in this drizzle, bursting forth with a faint but continuous vitality...
If it hadn't clearly recorded the various data of the drastic environntal changes, the Void would have even thought that it was not in the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate located sowhere in the Gobi Desert, but in a certain Peach Garden in a spring day with good sunshine.
Suddenly changing from a hellish environnt to a Peach Garden, wouldn't that be a bit too outrageous?
How was this done? The Void wondered in confusion.
As it pondered, a loud cry ca from near the ceremonial stage in the distant market.
"miracle, it's a miracle! Everyone, do you feel the changes in the city? This is exactly as described in the legends, this must be the miracle brought by the two Saintesses!"
"miracle returns, salvation has arrived!"
The one who cried out was a burly middle-aged man. The Void had observed him before; when Calamity was speaking on stage, he stood directly in front of the stage, and from his position, his status among the local people should be quite high.
Perhaps soone similar to a village chief or a leader?
At this mont, this middle-aged man of no low status revealed the reason for the sudden change in the Divine Kingdom Jade Gate's environnt, imdiately causing the people gathered at the celebration to cheer loudly.
"Thank you, Saintess, for your gift!"
"Saintess above, miracle flower above!"
"..."
Amidst the cheers, Bai Kai threw an arm around the middle-aged man's neck, pulled him closer, and handed the wine flask to his mouth, pouring it down forcefully.
Although he didn't know what happened, as long as soone spoke well of Bei Bei, they were his bosom friend!
Did the return of Calamity and Shen Baiwei really bring a miracle? The Void wondered.
The next mont, Fang Ji's words, which sounded in its ears, answered its confusion.
"What miracle? There's no miracle at all!"
"How do you say that?" The Void looked at Fang Ji and asked, "Isn't such a huge change a miracle?"
In its opinion, the words of this contemporary Holy Child still had so reference value.
"Although I don't know how it was done..." Fang Ji crossed his arms over his chest, glanced at the Void, and said, "But at this mont, within the city pass, there isn't a strong enough fragrance of miracle flower to cause this level of change."
"Is that so?" The Void wiggled its plump head, looked at the cheering locals, and pondered for a mont, saying, "But, I think! Whether it's a miracle shouldn't only be asured by how strong the fragrance of the miracle flower is, right? What do you think?"
"I..." Fang Ji hesitated, then seed to think of sothing and fell into contemplation.
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Lords Manor, Cunxin Hall.
Lu Yibei stood in front of the main hall's door, watching Dragon Tang walk away, her brows furrowed, her hands subconsciously gripping the Phoenix Wing Tang.
As that unrestrained figure went to a darker place and disappeared, a warm wind blew through the city, a light rain fell from the sky, and faint thunder urged the plants to grow...
Dragon Tang's aura finally completely disappeared.
Just then, the Wang Quan (Royal Authority) power attached to the core of Lu Yibei's mythical urban legend body suddenly caused a strange tremor.
That feeling was sowhat similar to the power resonance triggered when contacting Shui Shu Beast, but not entirely the sa; it seed to have an added sense of mourning and recognition compared to power resonance.
Lu Yibei could feel that the Wang Quan (Royal Authority) power recognized Dragon Tang's life, believing that he deserved the title of Human Emperor, but unfortunately, his era had ended, so it could only mourn and lant for him.
At this mont, she for the first ti vaguely understood what true Human Emperor Wang Quan (Royal Authority) symbolized.
Although there was no obvious increase in power, this brief experience benefited her greatly.
After a long ti.
When Lu Yibei finally erged from that state similar to power resonance, she turned around, looked at Shen Baiwei, and said expressionlessly, "I'll leave this to you. I'll go ahead?"
"Ah? Where are you going?" Shen Baiwei asked subconsciously.
"..." Lu Yibei tightened her grip on the Phoenix Wing Tang, narrowed her eyes slightly, and gritted her teeth, "Leaving Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, damn that Shaman King!"
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