Chapter 756: Chapter 11: Everyone Is a Dragon
One day later, at the Mountain God Reservoir in Li Family Village.
Li Jingshu was lost in thought as she absentmindedly played with the flowing water in the reservoir.
It wasn’t until Red Fish really couldn’t stand this oppressive silence anymore that she quietly poked her head out of the water.
"Something this big has happened, and you’re really not going to step up and take charge?"
Gazing at Li Family Village in the distance, lit up with countless lights, Red Fish’s voice carried a faint helplessness.
Li Family Village might still be called "Li Family Village" now, but in reality it had long since become a huge city accommodating a population of over a million.
Wide roads crisscrossed, threading through the entire city...
Neat lines of trees and the moat echoed one another...
Everywhere you looked, there was both the sense of a modern city and a primitive, desolate aura.
Of course, due to the Profound Garden Barrier’s expansion over the land, Li Family Village had not developed true high-rises in the strict sense.
Even the tallest buildings were still covered beneath the canopies of centuries-old towering trees.
Perhaps it was precisely this modernization process so utterly different from Earth’s cities that made this city’s footprint absurdly vast.
However, for Li Family Village, where practically everyone was a cultivator, this kind of distance really didn’t amount to much.
Flying through the air, tunneling underground, or just plain running...
As long as they wanted to, it wouldn’t take them even fifteen minutes to cross the entire city.
But in the vast majority of cases, the mountain people weren’t allowed to do that.
Because it violated traffic and safety regulations, and they would be fined and put in confinement, and if necessary might even be sent out of the Hundred Lands Mountain Range on assignment.
So if there really was an urgent matter, the mountain people could take special transportation, which wasn’t much slower than flying or tunneling themselves.
The key point was that no matter what form of transport it was, it could run across the whole city.
From Li Family Village to Gaotun Village, or to other, even farther places, those vehicles were far more comfortable than the mountain people flying or tunneling on their own.
"This was bound to happen sooner or later, that’s all."
Likewise turning to look down at Li Family Village, Li Jingshu answered with complete calm.
"A project like the ’Cloud Summit Celestial Palace,’ which was destined to disrupt the existing Celestial Circulation of the star system, making it last all the way until the ’Gouchen Celestial Palace’ emerged before anything went wrong—that already far exceeded my expectations."
Honestly, if anyone other than the Hundred Lands Mountain Range had proposed this "Cloud Summit Celestial Palace" project, those Star Gods up there would’ve torn them to pieces long ago.
It’s only because the Tao Ancestor is still around, and the Hundred Lands Mountain Range is his Dao field, that those Star Gods don’t dare flip the table outright.
Even so, once the Gouchen Celestial Palace ascended, the Star Gods who sensed its potential couldn’t help but start secretly making moves.
"You still can’t just keep hiding out here with me!"
Walking lightly up to Li Jingshu’s side, the Yin-Yang Daoist Robe on Red Fish’s body slowly swirled.
The moisture on her skin evaporated rapidly, and a faint mist coiled around her, making her look just like a fairy emerging from the lake.
"Hiding here with me doesn’t solve anything, and all it does is bring me trouble."
Muttering softly in complaint, Red Fish, though a few years younger than Li Jingshu, was much more mature in terms of mentality.
After all, besides being the Water God personally appointed by the Tao Ancestor, she was also the queen of the Human-faced Fish.
"I’m just hiding out for a bit of peace, how exactly am I bringing you trouble?"
Rolling her eyes with clear irritation, Li Jingshu, though already over a hundred years old, was still as domineering and unruly in temperament as ever.
"Hmph, if you’re not bringing me trouble, then why has that old ox come up the mountain looking for me several times?"
"If I hadn’t been blocking for you, you think you’d still be able to calmly sit here playing with water?"
The "old ox" Red Fish mentioned was naturally the Unihorned Rhinoceros.
Although that Unihorned Rhinoceros was nominally Li Boyang’s mount, the times Li Boyang had actually ridden it could be counted on one hand.
Most of the time, the Unihorned Rhinoceros was regarded as the Village God of Li Family Village, the kindly old ox who watched generation after generation of children grow up.
At least in Red Fish’s impression, she’d rarely seen the Unihorned Rhinoceros this anxious.
"Sigh, that old ox just loves worrying about everything for nothing!"
Hearing this, Li Jingshu finally couldn’t keep up her earlier carefree, going-my-own-way attitude.
If you really calculated it, Li Jingshu had basically been spoiled by the Unihorned Rhinoceros as she grew up; heaven knew how many times he’d covered for her.
All those messes Li Jingshu made from childhood on were almost all quietly cleaned up by the Unihorned Rhinoceros.
"I don’t think it’s that the old ox is worrying for nothing—it’s that you’re being way too obvious."
Red Fish casually waved her hand, and the previously shimmering surface of the water instantly reflected the scene inside Li Family Village’s Ancestral Temple.
Inside the Ancestral Temple, the Lady Historian was pacing back and forth anxiously, while Gouchen instead wore an expression of deep contemplation.
Beside the two of them, the old village chief, who had long since retired, stroked his long beard, his narrowed eyes filled with nothing but amusement.
The old village chief had now lived over two hundred years.
Even though he’d eaten Flat Peaches, the Essence Qi he’d burned through in the first half of his life could not be completely restored.
Li Boyang had once suggested that the old village chief either abandon this mortal body and fully transform into the Mountain God or Earth God of this mountain range,
or continue to take higher-grade Elixirs of Immortality or Longevity Pills and fully attain the path of immortality.
But the old village chief had flatly refused Li Boyang’s proposal without a second thought.
In his own words, he’d already lived enough this lifetime and seen enough, and had no ambition to become one of the Gods or an immortal.
In the days to come, just watching the lives of his juniors, watching them grow up, was enough to make him feel completely content.
"If you really don’t want to take over the village chief’s duties, and even want the old village chief to keep on living..."
"I can teach you a way: go to the Underworld and scoop up two ladles of ’Granny Meng’s Soup,’ then secretly mix it into a Pill and feed it to the old village chief."
"I guarantee that after he drinks it, both his mindset and his age will reset to being young again."
Hearing this blatantly terrible idea, Li Jingshu didn’t refute it right away; instead, her eyes rolled with clear interest.
"Wait... you’re not seriously thinking of actually doing that, are you? I was just joking!"
Noticing Li Jingshu’s micro-expression, Red Fish’s face changed instantly.
"Be careful, or the Great Fate Master will find out and lock you up!"
Without answering Red Fish’s question head-on, Li Jingshu only chuckled.
"Heh, anyway, this idea came from you..."
Before Red Fish could say anything more, Li Jingshu decisively changed the subject.
"Letting this incident ferment on its own isn’t for the reasons you all think."
"The Star Gods interfering with the formation of the ’Cloud Summit Celestial Palace’ was bound to happen; the ones making moves now are at best just cannon-fodder errand boys."
"To catch the Star Gods truly hiding behind the curtain, you need a bit of patience."
"It’s just like fishing—only after you throw in the bait can you hook the big fish."
"In my little brother’s words, this move is called ’luring the snake out of its hole,’ tailor-made for those greedy, short-sighted idiot snakes."
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