201 Setting Off (IV)
When Yang Lujia left the continent where the previous City Lords were currently residing, he suddenly felt that something was amiss. However, just right when he arrived on the continent where he stationed the Shadow Trio, a feeling of helplessness arose in his heart.
It felt like someone important to him had left.
“What could it be?”
However, just as he landed, there was a beautiful old woman who was looking at him at the moment with a smile on her face. “His senses are quite sharp. Like his mother, he has trained in the three major paths as well. It seems like your son is quite a genius, my dear daughter.”
The woman laughed to her heart’s content, but her voice was confined to her own ears only. Yang Lujia wasn’t able to hear anything from his surroundings. Only the silence pervaded.
Just how powerful could the old woman be that not even Yang Lujia was able to detect her presence?
“Moreover, it seems like he’s always on guard. Is this the reason why he has not yet met with any mishaps? Is this child that is blessed by heaven—to the extent that even tribulations would be afraid of him?” When she realized how talented Yang Lujia was, she wore a complicated expression, but it showed concern for the other party.
“Anyway, we’ll meet again in the future. I just hope the tribe will accept you, then.” After saying this, she slightly frowned but then revealed a smile as she effortlessly went through the barrier of Long Guang’s world and instantly arrived outside—in the Da Shikong.
“I hope you don’t get too sad about my death, brat,” the old woman said with a crafty smile on her face, before disappearing in midair, only to arrive outside the Da Shikong. “I have to go back now. My daughter, I’ve already done what you told me to do. Due to his overwhelming talent, not only in cultivating but also in his overwhelming luck, you told me to make him feel something negative—to make him realize that things in this world aren’t as simple as they are.”
With that, she disappeared once more.
However, the void beasts that were about to attack her before she left suddenly faded into existence without even any warning.
“This girl…” An old man suddenly appeared and looked in the direction where she left. “Hah… forget it. If she wants to see me, she would’ve already looked for me…” He shook his head and disappeared back to Da Shikong.
Meanwhile, Yang Lujia just shrugged off the feeling that something was amiss. He then proceeded to walk to the three brothers who were all living their lives peacefully in his second disciple’s world.
“Eldest Brother Xia Gulle, we’re not at the Saint Emperor Realm, shouldn’t we be able to defeat that brat now—”
“Li’er, are you fucking crazy?” Xia Gulle was very angry toward this little brother of his. He was simply akin to an untamed tiger. “Can you even leave this world on your own accord? If so, do you really think the master doesn’t have the means to kill us in this world? Do you really think he’s that weak? Among Saint Emperors even, there is still an enormous disparity in strength. Do not underestimate him.”
“Right, Junior Brother Xia Li, you should behave yourself,” Xia Chen agreed to Xia Gulle’s conjecture. He even nodded in response.
Meanwhile, Xia Li was feeling resistant and unwilling. Although the life they have here was peaceful, this wasn’t the kind of life he had envisioned for them to have. That was why he wanted to fight and be free from the grasp of that person.
“You three, what are you talking about?” Yang Lujia suddenly arrived in the middle of the group’s conversation. But he was literally standing at the center while the three surrounded him.
The Shadow Trio instinctively took a few steps back to prepare their stances. Xia Li prepared himself to attack the other party while the other two were preparing to defend themselves.
“It seems like sending you three here is the right decision that I made. You seem to have reached the Saint Emperor Realm. That’s good.”
Although Yang Lujia heard their earlier conversation, he was not angry about it. After all, it was people’s nature to ask for freedom, to seek freedom.
“Who are you?” Xia Gulle’s face was grim. In fact, he had an idea of who Yang Lujia was. However, the face and the voice just did not suit that person’s. They were entirely different—like two different people.
This one right here was the most handsome man they had ever seen in their entire life. From head to toe, he seemed to be the definition of perfect. Nevertheless, although they were awestruck, they did not remain idle and instead questioned the other person’s identity.
“My bad, I forgot to introduce myself. Anyway, this is my real face. As for the face you have seen before…” Yang Lujia switched his face back to being Dum Gai. “This was the one…”
Seeing the sharp contrast between the two faces, Xia Gulle could not help but gasp. Was there really such a person in this world who could willfully alter their appearance without any flaws?
“So it’s you, Milord,” Xia Gulle quickly said.
PUTT!
He knelt on the ground. Even Xia Li instinctively knelt in front of Yang Lujia.
After exchanging pleasantries, Yang Lujia left the three of them. Before he left, however, he told them that they must hurry up their cultivation as he needed their help over something.
Yang Lujia knew that his two disciples were currently here in Da Shikong. Although he left them unattended for the purpose of training their minds and wills, he still did not feel safe leaving them alone. Therefore, he needed to have experts to find them and back them up—whenever they were already on the verge of death.
But before they left, Yang Lujia named their continent the Shadow Continent. Meanwhile, the place where the city lords settled down was named the City Lord Continent.
Even when he went to the Spirit Race, he named their continent the Spirit Race Continent.
When the Spirit Ancestor, Spirit Queen, and Spirit Princess met him, they were dumbstruck by Yang Lujia’s handsomeness. They showed the same reactions as the ladies before, but not too excessively so—just like Xia Hua.
“Chief Justice Yang…”
They even started calling him by his real name. Even the Spirit Ancestor herself could not help but feel her heart shake, especially when Yang Lujia’s eyes laid on hers. Her old heart wavered at his beauty.
If even she had such reactions, it would be safe to say it went the same with the other women around her.
“Lady Spirit Ancestor of the Spirit Race, I have come here to visit you for a toast. Would you care to prepare me some food to eat?” Yang Lujia amiably smiled at them.
Although he had already eaten his fill when he was in the City Lord Continent, he was still not satisfied as his bloodline seemed to have the power to devour everything he would intake.
“You don’t mind, right?” Yang Lujia interrupted them in their stupor, waking up everyone, especially the ladies who had been staring at Yang Lujia. There were even some of them who fantasized about going to bed with him.
However, just the thought of it made Yang Lujia feel goosebumps all over his body. Women were attractive, but not to the extent that he would reach that stage of attractiveness whereby he would already want to sleep with them.
The Spirit Race Ancestor awkwardly smiled and invited Yang Lujia in.
When he came in, he found himself comparing the palace they made to the palace made by the city lords. Undoubtedly, the Spirit Race had more taste when it came to art.
He is a person who loves simplistic designs but also loves to see overly elaborate art designs—excessive but still beautiful to look at. He didn’t forget to praise them for these little things.
The Spirit Race was naturally happy with his praise.
“How are you all doing these days?” Yang Lujia asked, probing their cultivation realms. He was surprised that some of them were even stronger than the City Lords or the Shadow Trio, especially Spirit Race Ancestor, who had reached the peak of the Saint Emperor Realm.
Within three years, it was unimaginable how she had done it. Even if she was already strong enough when she was still in Da Sishen, the speed of her cultivation should not have been this fast. It was like he had missed something.
Seeming to understand Yang Lujia’s questions, the Spirit Race Queen decided to tell him about a matter. “Chief Justice Yang, an old lady came here three years ago, just right after you placed us here. She told us that our bloodline is very special. Thus, she decided to help us out…”
“An old lady?” Yang Lujia was astonished and wondered who this old lady was. “Someone was able to enter this world on their own accord? What does she look like?”
Other than being curious, he was not feeling anything. He was not even afraid. If the other party had had ill intentions from the start, she would have already caused havoc in this world. He was just astonished at how, even with his strength, he was unable to detect anyone’s presence in this world—entering of their own volition.
“I’m afraid that we have already forgotten about her face. The fact that we can still remember her is merely just words inscribed in our memories—that she was an old lady who bestowed them with great fortune.”
Later, Yang Lujia found out that that old lady seemed to have strengthened the Spirit Race’s bloodline. He noticed it because he once inspected the bloodline of the Spirit Race Princess, Jing Shen. Because of that old lady’s blessings, they were able to accelerate their cultivation.
“Who could that old lady be?”
Actually, he had an idea. But he shook his head afterward. It was impossible for the old lady he knew to be that person the Spirit Race was referring to.
With such a question lurking around the corners of his heart and mind, he set off and left the Spirit Race Continent.