After Sheng Jun Chapter 73 (Part 2)
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 73 Piercing Cry Across the Sky (part 2)
He chatted with the two about some details of the bonding ceremony. Seeing that they had thought more thoroughly than himself, he appropriately closed his mouth, fully entrusting them to handle it, and returned to the mountain peak himself.
Just as he approached the mountaintop, Jiang Xingzhi heard Zhong Ming seemingly communicating with someone, "Understood, leave it to this lord to handle."
Probably sensing his return, Zhong Ming hurriedly ended the communication, pretending nothing had happened as he turned around, "You're back? How's the arrangement below?"
Jiang Xingzhi looked over keenly: Hmm? There's a little secret!
He pounced and hung on Zhong Ming's back, hooking his head to peer at his face, "Never mind that first. Ah Zuo, who were you secretly chatting with?"
Zhong Ming's two large palms steadily supported him, saying helplessly, "Not secretly."
"Then you ended the communication as soon as I arrived."
"We just finished talking."
"I don't believe it." Jiang Xingzhi twisted back and forth, "Oh, I know, it's seven years of......"
"Don't talk nonsense." Zhong Ming smacked him with a slap.
Jiang Xingzhi's entire face turned red at once, angrily kicking on his back, "You actually------ don't hit there!" This was too shameful!
Zhong Ming's palm slipped and changed to supporting his thighs, "Then don't talk nonsense either."
Jiang Xingzhi muttered, "Who told you to be sneaky? Quickly tell me, who were you communicating with and why are you hiding it from me?"
But Zhong Ming kept his mouth shut, his lips sealed very tightly. Seeing that he couldn't pry his mouth open no matter what, Jiang Xingzhi circled his neck and began moral blackmail, "Still not being honest. Look at how your lack of honesty before caused so much drama!"
With his biggest weakness held in someone's hands, Zhong Ming fell silent at once.
Jiang Xingzhi made a fuss on his back, sometimes biting his ear, sometimes grabbing his head and chanting. Zhong Ming supported him, finally unable to bear it and spoke up, "If I tell you, how can the surprise still be called a surprise!"
After these words fell, Jiang Xingzhi stopped, and Zhong Ming also stopped.
The two stood stacked in place, motionless for a while. Jiang Xingzhi, "......You said it out loud." Fool.
Zhong Ming immediately felt regretful.
Since he had already let it slip, Zhong Ming had no choice but to pull Jiang Xingzhi down from his back and confess to him, "When I first returned, I found Qu Tan to custom-make a gift, wanting to give it to you as a token of love."
Jiang Xingzhi was indeed very surprised, "And then?"
Zhong Ming said, "Last time at Penglai, I asked him to modify the work on short notice. He just told me that after the modification, a certain raw material is in short supply. According to his knowledge, only Old Ancestor Zhong Shu in the Southern Border has it, but Old Ancestor Zhong Shu has always been aloof and arrogant. When he went to request it, he was turned away, saying that without an appointment, he won't see anyone. If we wait for an appointment, it will take at least seven days. I want to give it to you at the bonding ceremony and can't wait that long."
"You even secretly prepared a token of love for me." Jiang Xingzhi superficially acted modest, "How embarrassing~"
Zhong Ming saw through his nature but didn't expose it. He only said, "All the ways to please you have been used by Bai Mu, I can only think of other methods."
"......" Jiang Xingzhi stared at him quietly.
Zhong Ming realized and corrected himself, "Have all been used by me before, I can only think of other methods now."
That's right. Jiang Xingzhi touched his head in praise, "You have quite a few little tricks~" After saying this, he got up, "Let's go."
Zhong Ming looked at him, "Where to?"
"Aren't we going to find that Old Ancestor Zhong Shu? Since it's a token of love for me, let's go together!"
…..
The place where Old Ancestor Zhong Shu resided was located on a mountaintop in the Southern Border.
Surrounded by dense forests, with few people within a hundred li radius, spiritual beasts and spiritual plants grew everywhere in the forest. When Jiang Xingzhi and Zhong Ming swept over the forest from above, they even startled a flock of birds.
That mountaintop stood tall and majestic in the dense forest. Looking down from above, it was like a solitary island in the vast ocean.
Jiang Xingzhi asked, "This Old Ancestor Zhong Shu, why do I feel like I've never heard of him? Have you heard of him, Ah Zuo?"
Zhong Ming shook his head, "I'm also hearing of him for the first time."
Jiang Xingzhi looked thoughtful, "Never mind, we'll know once we take a look."
When they landed in front of the mountain gate, a young servant outside bowed, "Do you two have an appointment?" From his manner, it seemed that anyone who said "no appointment" would immediately be asked to leave.
Jiang Xingzhi remained composed, "Of course we do."
His attitude was so certain that the young servant didn't doubt him and turned to lead the two inside.
They walked into the mountain for a while, and soon arrived in front of a great hall. There seemed to be few buildings in the entire mountain gate, only this great hall built with imposing grandeur, with quite a few sect members waiting both inside and outside the hall.
Jiang Xingzhi turned his head and whispered to Zhong Ming, "More imposing than us."
Zhong Ming's eyes revealed a slight sense of superiority, "Only people without dao companions would surround themselves with so many idle people."
Jiang Xingzhi, "......"
This was an angle he had never considered.
Under the young servant's guidance, the two arrived in front of the hall. The servant reported inside, "Ancestor, there are two guests seeking an audience."
"Guests?" A voice of indiscernible tone drifted leisurely from within the hall, "Please ask them to return. Without an appointment, this lord doesn't meet just anyone."
Jiang Xingzhi's eyebrows suddenly moved subtly.
"This......" The young servant's face showed some embarrassment as he glanced at Jiang Xingzhi and Zhong Ming. Just as he was thinking how to politely ask them to leave, he saw Jiang Xingzhi had already stepped across the hall threshold, "Hey, this immortal lord!"
Jiang Xingzhi crossed the hall threshold on his own, with Zhong Ming following behind him into the hall. The hall was tall and grand, with large patches of sunlight falling from outside the hall door into the hall. The figure with their back to them bathed in the halo of light, their shadow stretching long across the floor.
The legendary Old Ancestor Zhong Shu had the form of a child.
Suddenly having outsiders burst into the hall, all the sect members around rushed forward, "How dare you! Who are these people?"
Hearing the commotion in the hall, the figure in front still remained unmoved with their back to them, maintaining an air of detached aloofness, truly like a venerable master.
Jiang Xingzhi stood in the hall, squinting at that figure, "You've even learned to take human form. It seems you've made some progress in this thousand years."
The standing figure instantly stiffened, then turned around in disbelief! Jiang Langhao stared blankly at the two people in the hall, tears suddenly welling up in his eyes, then in front of a circle of dumbfounded sect members, he rushed over------
Crystal teardrops scattered along a trail behind its figure in mid-air as it charged straight into Jiang Xingzhi's embrace, so fast it was just a blur.
A thin, sharp voice pierced across the sky, "Ancestor!!!"