Several days later.
The flying boat landed in a deep mountain within the Floating Sky Realm.
Hua Ran was startled by the suddenly descending flying boat. When he saw Chu Jun coming down from it, his face lit up with joy, “Venerable, you’ve finally arrived!”
However, upon seeing Ning Buwei behind Chu Jun, he shuddered in fear.
Ning Buwei didn’t particularly like this little flower demon and couldn’t be bothered with him. He reached out and stuffed the small wooden puppet that Ning Xiu had just taken out back into his little bell.
“Ah~” Ning Xiu looked at his father in confusion.
My little wooden puppet~
Ning Buwei casually used his spiritual power to make a chubby little duck for him, “Play with this.”
Ning Xiu hugged the little duck and took a bite. Ning Buwei’s spiritual power had the taste of Nine-Leaf Lotus, sweet and delicious. Ning Xiu’s eyes lit up, “Aiya~”
Tasty~
Seeing that he liked it, Ning Buwei made two more for him. Sure enough, Ning Xiu’s attention was completely drawn to the ducks, forgetting about the wooden puppet.
Ning Buwei pressed the wooden puppet that was secretly trying to crawl out back into the bell with one finger.
When Ning Xiu was just born, he had drunk Ning Buwei’s blood for several days and responded well to his spiritual power. He ate two little ducks in one go and contentedly patted his little belly, “Da~da~”
Father~ The duckies are yummy~
Ning Buwei helped him rub his belly, “No more eating, or you’ll get as fat as Big Yellow.”
Big Yellow, who was chewing on the little black dragon, tilted its head, “Awoo?”
Ning Buwei tugged at its big ears. Down below, Chu Jun and Hua Ran had exchanged some words, and Hua Ran looked up a couple of times before reluctantly leaving.
Only then did Ning Buwei carry Ning Xiu down.
Ning Xiu sat on Ning Buwei’s shoulders, his back supported by his father’s large hand. He was clearly very satisfied with his new perspective, his little head swinging like a rattle drum.
Chu Jun said, “This is where Ning Xingyuan obtained the Linglong Bone years ago. Now, after more than five hundred years, the terrain in the Floating Sky Realm has changed greatly. This used to be a cave.”
“Wu~wa~” Ning Xiu grabbed his father’s hair and enthusiastically mimicked Chu Jun’s speech, his whole little body excited, refusing to sit still on the shoulder.
Seeing this, Chu Jun took him down, “Do you remember this place?”
“Ah da~” Ning Xiu looked at him with confusion, “Liang~ah~”
I just finished my porridge~ Mother~ cuddles~
Ning Xiu hugged Chu Jun’s neck and kissed his cheek, grinning, “Yiya~”
Mother’s face is soft~
Chu Jun, with his face covered in drool: “…Seems he doesn’t remember.”
Ning Buwei placed a formation on the ground, and after a long while, the formation finally sent back spiritual power fluctuations, “Very faint, doesn’t seem like there are any ruins.”
“After Ning Xingyuan took out the Linglong Bone back then, he sealed this place,” Chu Jun recalled, “Try your Ning family’s crest.”
Ning Buwei paused, then silently recited an incantation, and a faint cyan Nine-Leaf Lotus family crest slowly appeared on his brow.
“Ah~” Ning Xiu blinked and excitedly pointed it out to Chu Jun, “Aiya~”
Mother look~ Father has flowers on his head~
Then he reached up to touch his own forehead, “Da~”
I want little flowers too~
Chu Jun pinched his little hand, “You have it too, you’ll be able to show it like your father when you grow up.”
“Wu ya?” Ning Xiu turned his head to ask him.
Then when will I grow up?
Chu Jun looked at the little one sitting on his arm and said seriously, “After you stop wetting the bed.”
Ning Xiu sighed sorrowfully, “Ah, da~”
Not wetting the bed is so hard~
Before Ning Xiu could finish sighing, a door made of spiritual power slowly appeared in the previously empty space, gently wavering in the wind.
Ning Buwei sent a trace of spiritual consciousness inside, and after a while opened his eyes and said to Chu Jun, “There’s an empty house inside.”
Chu Jun nodded, “Let’s go in and take a look.”
Ning Buwei looked at Jiang Yizheng, Cui Yuanbai and the others who were eagerly watching from the flying boat, “Come down, let’s go together.”
Cui Yuanbai jumped down happily from the flying boat, climbed onto Ning Buwei’s shoulder and asked, “Dad, are we going to fight?”
Ning Buwei picked him up and placed him on the ground, casually asking, “Have you finished refining your Purple Palace?”
Cui Yuanbai instantly became dejected, “Not yet.”
Yang Lingzhu nervously looked at the door, her left hand clutching Jiang Yizheng’s hand and staying close to her, “Elder sister, can we not go in?”
Jiang Yizheng said softly, “Since Father let us follow, it must be safer inside than outside.”
“Right, maybe there are people waiting to ambush us, so it’s safer to follow,” Feng Zizhang added.
Jiang Yizheng immediately felt uneasy, “Big brother, you’d better not speak at times like this.”
Feng Zizhang’s words seemed to have been blessed, and recently became increasingly prophetic, giving Jiang Yizheng a headache whenever he spoke.
Feng Zizhang immediately covered his mouth, “Pretend I didn’t say anything.”
Everyone followed closely behind Ning Buwei as they entered the door. Chu Jun carried Ning Xiu at the rear, and Big Yellow deliberately slowed its pace to fall behind, biting Chu Jun’s sleeve and tugging.
“Awoo?”
–Is the thing you said before that could make me speak here?
“That’s right.” Chu Jun nodded and looked down at it, “Was it Pei Heguang who attacked Ning Xiu back then?”
“Woof!” Big Yellow nodded.
Chu Jun asked, “Why didn’t you go find Chengfeng for help, but came to me instead?”
Big Yellow tilted its head and whined a long string of woofs without expressing itself clearly, so Chu Jun had to give up.
Big Yellow scratched its forehead with its paw and wagged its tail.
–Of course dangerous things should be left to powerful people to handle—definitely not because it’s petty and holds grudges about being hit and crying…it had long forgotten about that!
The little wooden puppet in the bell moved slightly.
Sure enough, Ning Xiu soon remembered his wooden puppet and reached out to take it from the little bell, but before he could touch the bell, someone placed a fluffy little bird in his small hands.
The gradient blue feathers shimmered with flowing light, and there was a tuft of beautiful white feathers on top of the bird’s head, which affectionately nuzzled against Ning Xiu’s fingers, “Chirp~”
Ning Xiu’s eyes lit up, “Ah ya~”
So pretty~ So fluffy~
Chu Jun looked down and said, “It’s a pet for you, you can have porridge with it from now on.”
“Por~ridge~” Ning Xiu carefully stroked the bird’s round beak, “Ah?”
How do you drink porridge?
Chu Jun smiled slightly and continued walking forward while holding him.
The wooden puppet completely forgotten in the bell: …………
Behind the door was a long narrow passage, and after walking for about a quarter hour, they finally reached the end.
At the end were two tightly closed grand doors, with a familiar dazzling aura emanating from them. Brilliant gold and silver treasures sparkled and shone.
These two grand doors were exactly the same as the doors at the entrance of the Floating Sky Realm, with several bold characters written in flowing calligraphy:
[Floating Sky’s Linglong Bone must eventually scatter.]
