69novels Chapter 138 The Curtain Falls on Tianshan
Chapter 138 The Curtain Falls on Tianshan
Chapter 138 The End of the Tianshan Chapter (Including a Summary of the Tianshan Arc)
The remains of the Tai Sui were tricked away by a girl, who was most likely the culprit who awakened the Mountain-Eating Beast. But now, whether it was the girl whose identity was unknown, the Divine Mother Sect, the Four Phases of the Great Yu, or the Mountain-Eating Beast in front of him with its chaotic consciousness, including Shen Wangshu in front of him.
It is obvious that this is a party that can only be attended by those at the Burning Sun level or above, while I am just a small-time Flame Realm cultivator.
It's no exaggeration to say that any of you here could kill him with a single palm strike.
It was a situation akin to walking a tightrope. Given his personality, he would usually run away in such a situation, but upon seeing that bronze mask, he somehow had a sense of déjà vu and unconsciously put it on, thus becoming involved in the battlefield of the Burning Sun Realm.
But since they were already here, and the mountain-eating beast in front of them, whose consciousness was in a state of confusion, seemed to be dominated by the older brother from their memories, and had not yet recognized that they were imposters.
He felt he might as well be a little bolder and try something out.
He paused, then feigned seriousness and said, "Ahem, ahem! Since it's been stolen, let it go. I, the Venerable One, don't blame you. Don't fight Lord Vermilion Bird anymore, don't fight this expert from Great Yu anymore. Go back to Tianshan."
Zhuque was a refined young man, dressed like a schoolteacher in a scholar's robe, but at this moment his clothes were tattered, one arm of his clothes was completely torn, and he looked quite disheveled.
He also saw through the young man's scheme; that bronze mask was probably left behind by the Great Celestial Venerable.
It's amazing that a single bronze mask was enough to subdue the terrifying mountain-eating beast before them. However, it seems that this farce has come to an end.
He breathed a sigh of relief. If this thing had really broken out of the Void Realm and started wreaking havoc, it could have destroyed half of Yan Province in a short time.
However, it seems that the Shen family has been hiding their true intentions. Two members of the clan are at the Burning Sun Realm, and they are also involved with the Great Celestial Venerable. Yet they have kept such a low profile for three hundred years. What exactly are they planning?
Zhuque looked down at the mountain-eating beast and listened to the monster's muffled voice, which sounded like it was crying, and kept saying sorry.
However, just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Zhuque's hair stood on end, and he shouted at the two men, "Back off!"
The next instant, a huge muffled sound erupted in the air, and Zhuque's figure instantly appeared in front of the two, raising his arm to block the mountain-like punch.
Lu Ren's mind went blank. It was Shen Wangshu who led him back several hundred meters away. Even so, just the impact of the two Burning Sun Realm Body Cultivators made Lu Ren feel as if his internal organs had shifted!
The monster, in a muffled voice with a look of sudden realization, said, "So weak. I knew it wasn't him, was it?"
Zhuque looked back and saw that even though the boy was being protected by Shen Wangshu, blood was flowing from both of his ears. Looking at the mountain-eating beast that had suddenly attacked him, his heart sank to the bottom once again.
The monster saw through me after all. It seems I'll have to fight it eventually. I'm no match for it. I can only hope reinforcements arrive soon.
However, just as his heart sank to the bottom, he heard a laugh behind him.
"Hehe, hehe!"
He turned around blankly and saw the Shen family disciple wearing a bronze mask smiling.
Not only Zhuque, but Shen Wangshu also noticed that Lu Ren seemed to have suddenly changed his demeanor.
His tone became cheerful, with a hint of cynicism, as he looked at the mountain-eating beast and said, "So it's you. I never thought that a little stone monster like you could cause so much trouble when I left you to my two little disciples to play with. I'm truly guilty. Hmm, your soul state is so strange. Oh, I see—"
Lu Ren stroked his chin and sighed, "You've done very well, Nian'er. Leave the rest to your master."
What's going on? That tone, that voice—Zhuque swallowed hard.
This Shen disciple not only had a very similar voice, but his aura was also very similar, just like the Great Celestial Venerable who had ravaged him half an hour ago was right in front of him!
Faced with this sudden turn of events, the mountain-eating beast trembled uncontrollably. "You, you're still alive? Impossible, impossible!"
Upon realizing that the person before him was indeed the invincible Great Celestial Venerable, the Mountain-Eating Beast, though puzzled as to why the other party was so weak, did not hesitate for a moment. With one hand supporting the mountain range beside it, it turned around and prepared to run back to the Heavenly Mountain.
He had just gotten up when he tripped and fell, and even Shen Yaoxing and others, who were dozens of kilometers away, felt a violent tremor. His fearful appearance before the battle even began showed that fear was etched onto every boulder of his body.
"Hehe, running away? Wrong choice."
If he fought to the death, and with the protection of two Burning Sun Realm experts, they might actually kill him now that he's weakened.
In 1723, the bronze-faced boy who had planted the seeds in Yanzhou suddenly froze as he got up.
The beautiful young woman holding her child saw him suddenly stop moving and said impatiently, "Hey, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and leave when you're done."
"Huh? Where am I?"
Lu Ren's memory was still stuck on being attacked by the Mountain-Eating Beast, and the aftermath of the battle between Suzaku and the beast, feeling as if his internal organs had shifted. But for some reason, the scene changed, and everything in front of him underwent a complete transformation.
Through the two holes in the copper surface, he could see that the world in front of him still seemed to be near the Eastern Tianshan Mountains.
But there were no thick clouds that blotted out the sky, nor a white storm that destroyed the world.
A gentle breeze and bright sunshine in the summer woods.
The woods were filled with a cool, damp air, and sunlight filtered through the layers of leaves, scattering into dappled patches of light on the ground. The wind was gentle, only lightly brushing the treetops, carrying the faint scent of grass and earth, drifting over my shoulders, making even my breath feel long and deep.
The cicadas' chirping is not noisy; it's a distant, scattered melody, mingling with the babbling of the stream, drifting back and forth in the valley.
The surface of the stream shimmered with tiny sparkles, the water flowing gently around the bluestone, a cool breeze seeping out from the cracks in the stones.
Okay, that was so relaxing, but why did it suddenly turn out like this?
There was a woman holding a child in front of him, and this woman—wasn't that his supporting character, his master?!
"Master? What are you doing here? And why has your hair turned black?"
Shen Peijue was taken aback by the sight, but seemed unfazed.
Having followed this young man for three years, Shen Peijue had learned a lot and understood what was going on.
This isn't the first time that someone has suddenly switched their perspective with their future self, experiencing a bronze-face view.
However, what is going on with this incomprehensible and confusing scene?
Forget it, forget about him, he's such a scumbag!
Shen Peijue snorted coldly and handed over the two- or three-year-old child in her arms: "Hold him!"
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Lu Ren hurriedly took it and looked at the round-faced little girl through the eye holes of the bronze mask. The child did not cry when she was in his arms.
Suddenly, a hand reached out in front of him, clutching something: "Stone, throw it, throw it!"
This little girl has a sharp look in her eyes and speaks with a strong voice.
Lu Ren looked at his black-haired master and asked, "Master, what are you doing here? And where did this little girl come from?"
Moreover, for some reason, the master in front of me had a very strange aura. He used to always have a sense of ease and composure, but now he seemed more agile. In addition, his current mood seemed to be a bit annoyed, blaming, and — resentful.
Shen Peijue gave him a strange look. What era was this guy from? He seemed to know nothing and looked so naive.
They seemed completely at ease the previous times, and even teased me unexpectedly.
She thought he had finally stopped pretending and that things were finally looking up, but he quickly went back to his old ways!
Just like now, before she could even exchange a few words with her future husband, he suddenly paused again.
"Are you done?" she asked tentatively, unsure of who the person under the bronze mask was.
Beneath the bronze mask, the world before the boy's eyes was not the dark and gloomy Eastern Tianshan Mountains, but the picturesque Eastern Tianshan Mountains. He chuckled lightly, his tone melodious, "Ah, it's resolved."
"Pebble, throw pebbles!"
The bronze-faced boy looked at the doll he was holding and chuckled, "Want to compete with me again to see who can throw it the farthest? Little Peach, your stubbornness has a touch of my own style!"
Shen Peijue glanced at him and asked, "Who was that from which period? Why do they look so clueless, like they know nothing?"
The boy put the little girl down, and from beneath the bronze mask came a thought-provoking voice: "That was just now—the beginning of the story."
Four-year-old Shen Taozi was placed on the ground, clutching a pebble tightly in her hand, her whole face straining as she threw it with great effort:
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Heave-ho!
The little girl threw the pebble only half a meter away.
She scratched her head, picked up another pebble, and handed it to the bronze-faced boy: "Go to hell!"
"You stupid peach, you can't even speak properly."
The bronze-faced boy took the pebble she handed him, made a sword-finger gesture with his hand, and carved a line of small characters on the pebble. Then he picked up the little girl and threw the pebble in his hand towards the sky with all his might!
"boom-
—
The next second, the pebble disappeared, leaving a white streak in the sky, as if a thunderbolt had struck from the ground and shot towards the horizon. Three breaths later, the thunderous sonic boom reached the mountain peak a hundred miles away.
In an instant, the storm swept through the entire mountain forest, and the burst of spiritual energy destroyed the vegetation within a radius of a hundred meters in an instant, and the air itself was ignited at that moment.
The sudden explosion stunned a large number of beasts and birds within a hundred miles. Even Shen Peijue, who was about to enter the Burning Sun realm, could not withstand the burst of spiritual energy!
Shen Peijue yelled, "Hey, are you crazy? Do you have to be so serious?"
Shen Taozi was sheltered in his arms and unaffected. She clapped her hands as she looked at the white streak in the sky, exclaiming, "So far, so far!"
"Be serious about everything you do; that's my motto."
"What did you just write on it?"
"secret."
Beneath the bronze mask, through the openings of his eyes, he watched as the pebble transformed into a shooting star, hurtling towards the heavens. The raging winds broke free from the Earth's gravity at incredible speed, hurtling towards outer space.
On the first day, the pebble crossed the moon. It covered 38 kilometers in less than 24 hours.
After flying over 100,000 kilometers, it began to circle in the solar system. The stone was not worn down; in fact, it continued to attract meteorites or fragments that were near it as it passed by.
In its first year, the pebble reached perihelion, skimming along the inner edge of Venus's orbit. But could it still be called a pebble at this point? Having been capturing fragments of rock from space, the pebble now resembled a giant boulder the size of a house.
In the seventy-second year, a meteorite with a diameter of 100 meters arrived at Jupiter. The giant planet's gravitational field captured it, and it was thrown off after orbiting Jupiter.
In the 245th year, the meteorite reached the Kuiper Belt, the edge of the solar system. Bound by the Sun's gravity, this man-made meteorite began its return journey, falling towards Earth.
The 9th year, which is September 14, 2078 AD.
In Yanzhou, or rather, in Dayu—or even throughout the entire Eastern Hemisphere—a beam of light streaked across the Pacific Ocean, traversing half the sky, and plummeted downwards!
"Was that... a shooting star?"
"A comet striking the moon is an ominous sign!"
"Mom, come out and see!"
In the shadows, countless eyes were fixed on Yanzhou, watching the meteor fall. Some laughed heartily, some looked fearful, and some were filled with resentment.
"That's ridiculous, is this some kind of warning?"
"Having meddled in other people's business for over three thousand years, do you still need to meddle in things three hundred years after your death?"
"Terrifying! Is that eerie thing dead or not?"
Thousands of kilometers away, in the Shen clan's territory in Linjiang, atop a withered branch a hundred meters above the ground, a white-haired girl looking at her phone suddenly looked up at a large star falling from the sky.
Suddenly recalling that scene from three hundred years ago, the white-haired girl's lips curled into a smile.
"It's so lively here? Let's go take a look."
As she said this, her figure disappeared from the spot and instantly landed on the falling meteorite outside the atmosphere. At the same time, a voice transmission reached Shen Yanqing's ears in the clan's territory.
"Go out for a while, and look after the clan's land."
"yes----
Meanwhile, on Mount Dongtian, Lu Ren, standing beneath the bronze mask, looked down at the scene through the round hole in the mask, a question mark slowly appearing on his head.
He suddenly realized that his master seemed to be just an illusion. In the blink of an eye, he found himself back on the battlefield, but the battlefield had also undergone a sudden change in style.
For more than ten kilometers ahead, the mountains and forests had turned into scorched earth. The molten rocks accumulated at the bottom of the pit, forming a fiery red lake. Steam rose into clouds, which then turned into rain, fell back into the pit, and evaporated again.
It was dead. That once invincible mountain-eating beast was now dead beyond any doubt.
He was killed by a meteorite about one kilometer in diameter, as if he had been pressed to death by a celestial being with a thumb.
Lu Ren was still completely oblivious. "What happened? What just occurred?"
For him, it was just a sudden lapse of concentration, and this is how things turned out.
In the very center of the crater, which is ten kilometers in diameter, the fallen meteorite stands like a towering mountain, and in the middle of the mountain are large characters that read: "A fool is standing on this."
Zhuque was horrified. Then he looked at the top of the meteorite and saw a woman with white hair and white clothes, barefoot, standing there.
Who are you?
When Lu Ren saw the woman, his eyes lit up, and then he realized that this meteorite that could slay gods and demons could be the work of his supporting character master. It was truly terrifying!
At this moment, the white-haired woman looked down at the line of words written on the rocks below, her fist clenched slightly, then relaxed.
She looked at the Vermilion Bird over there and said coldly, "The demons here have been exterminated, but there are still four Purple Iridium-level demons wreaking havoc outside the mountains. The Four Ministers of the Great Yu are still here, disregarding the lives of the people of Yanzhou?"
Zhuque swallowed hard. The newcomer was very strong, definitely stronger than himself.
It's unbelievable! He, who is known as one of the four strongest people in the Great Yu Dynasty, has encountered all sorts of monsters in one day. Each one is more outrageous than the last. However, he vaguely senses that the person in front of him is probably also related to the Shen family.
How many old monsters is hidden in the Shen family? How many things does this family keep secret?
However, the other party is right. With four purple-iridium level creatures, Yanzhou Town alone can only hold them off at most. They will need his intervention to resolve the situation.
Zhuque bowed to the white-haired girl and said, "Thank you for your help, senior. I have other important matters to attend to and will visit you again later."
As he spoke, he transformed into a streak of light and sped off to the next battlefield.
Watching Zhuque depart, the white-haired girl turned to the grandfather and grandson, a half-smile playing on her lips, and said, "And you two, whenever I ask you to do something, it's either windy or rainy. Come here and receive your punishment!"
PS: This part of the Tianshan storyline is finished. Um, there might be too many characters and factions appearing at once, and it also involves time, so many readers might find it confusing. It's my fault for not handling it well.
By now, you should be able to see that the main plot of this book is what Shen Yaoxing was looking for at the beginning, namely the three fragments of the Tai Sui. The whole book will revolve around these three fragments of the Tai Sui. You can even give a spoiler: the Shen family's preparations for the professional competition a year later are all related to the "Tai Sui fragments".
Actually, I think the story's completeness in this part is fine, but Lao Da's narrative skills are a bit lacking, which makes it feel a bit chaotic.
Let me summarize this part of the Tianshan storyline: Three hundred years ago, the bronze-masked youth saw that Gu Tong'er and Gu Nian'er had good talents, so he took them as his disciples and gave them a fragment of a Tai Sui, asking them to return it to him three hundred years later.
Three hundred years later, the Divine Mother Cult discovered from fragments of history that the Mountain God of the Eastern Tianshan Mountains might possess a remnant of a Tai Sui (a mythical creature). So they set up a plan here, intending to awaken the sleeping Mountain God of the Eastern Tianshan Mountains and steal it.
The protagonist gets involved and eventually foils the conspiracy of the Divine Mother Cult, but there is also a third party, Jiang Yanyan, who awakens the Mountain-Eating Beast and steals the remains of the Tai Sui.
At this time, the mountain god of Dongtian Mountain was actually dominated by the beast that ate the mountain. Gu Nian'er might still have an influence on him, but it was negligible.
As for Master, Lu Ren, and the love and hate entanglements of Lu Ren in his copper-masked youth celestial form—I will explain these things later.
Having written such a long main storyline, explaining so many plot points and characters, I'm quite tired. Next, I'll probably focus more on romance and daily life, trying to win over the three main heroines before moving on to the next part of the main storyline.
Speaking of romance, since this is a story about a female protagonist who loses out, if I directly wrote that she develops feelings for the male protagonist, it would lose a bit of its charm. So why didn't I just write that she didn't have any ex-lovers from the beginning? (Actually, I did think about having the female protagonists all lose out on Lu Ren again.)
Although many readers don't want to see the three boys that the female protagonist once had a crush on—Longyou, Shanqi, and Linhuanghu—it's necessary to write about them. It's essential to show that the female protagonist has let go of the past so that her next relationship can be accepted.
I won't write a long article, but this is a necessary procedure.
In the previous scene, Shen Yaoxing recalled how she had just met Lu Ren and was in such a sorry state. She asked where Long You was. But this time, in such a sorry state, her first question was where Lu Ren was. So, at this point, Shen Yaoxing had already let go of Long You and was now focused on Lu Ren.
Next up is Ji Liguang, and then Jiang Yueying will be left until the end.
I know that writing about the female lead liking other boys in online novels is a thankless and difficult task, but everyone has read this far and knows that this novel is called "The Loser's Teammate" — but don't worry, I'm aware of potential pitfalls and won't write any cuckolding scenes.
Everyone says Lu Ren is good for his stomach, so in the next chapter, Lu Ren will have a delicious meal.
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