Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from the Black Myth

Chapter 1: The Great Sage Returns

"You carry the burden and I lead the horse."

“Welcome the sunrise and say goodbye to the sunset”

"Flatten the bumps and make a road, fight the difficulties and set off again"

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Under the sunset glow, the blue waves are boundless, and the light of the sky and the shadows of the clouds wander together.

On the vast and boundless waters, there was a phantom of a little monkey humming a song, and there was also a huge monkey wearing golden chain mail and holding a long black iron stick with golden hoops at both ends, looking extremely powerful.

With the words “The road is under our feet”, the song hummed by the little monkey came to an end.

"It sounds nice, very nice. Little monkey, what song are you humming? Can you tell me about it?" said the big monkey.

Lu Mingfei gazed at the distant horizon which was illuminated red by the sunset with a melancholy look, smiled softly, and replied:

"This is a song composed in my hometown in another world, praising you four masters and disciples for your journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, Great Sage."

Hearing the little monkey's answer, Sun Wukong stood up happily, his fiery eyes flashing with excitement, as if he could see through the source of all the joy in the world. He couldn't help scratching his ears and cheeks, his movements were full of childlike innocence and unruliness.

"What a good song, what a good song! Hehehe, it seems that I, Old Sun, am really famous and have done infinite merits. I can even get the praises of all the sentient beings in your other world! You carry the burden." The happy Sun Wukong also imitated Lu Mingfei and sang in imitation.

Although he was often out of tune and his singing was not very good, Lu Mingfei still listened attentively to the Monkey King singing "Where is the Way" from beginning to end.

Who among the people in that world could have imagined that they would have the opportunity to hear Sun Wukong himself sing this song?

After singing, Sun Wukong fell silent. He looked at the red sun that was gradually setting over the horizon in the distance for a while. Then, he turned around and looked at Lu Mingfei's gradually fading soul. The smile on his face had long been replaced by a little sadness and guilt.

"Little monkey, are you going back to the other world?"

Lu Mingfei smiled and nodded, saying:
"Yes, Great Sage. After all, this is not my world. After traveling through time and space, I have become a man of destiny, and have walked the path of breaking destiny. I have helped you, the Great Sage, to be resurrected and take off the tight hoop. I have no regrets in my heart."

Hearing this, Sun Wukong was no longer sad. He smiled with relief and then asked, "Is that world far away?"

"It's probably very far away. But compared to this world where gods, Buddhas, and monsters exist, that world might be more peaceful and doesn't need someone like you, the Great Sage, to exorcise monsters."

Sun Wukong nodded slightly. After looking at Lu Mingfei deeply, he put the golden cudgel on his shoulder, put his arms on it, then turned around and walked towards the distant horizon without asking any more questions.

Because they know that there is no need to say more when they say goodbye.

In Lu Mingfei's sight, Sun Wukong's tall silhouette under the setting sun gradually blurred, and he also said the last few words before leaving:

"Great Sage, what do you want to do next?"

"Break through the South Heaven Gate and smash the Lingxiao Palace."

"What if I never come back?" "Then I will never come back!"

Lu Mingfei said he had no regrets, but he was actually lying. He still felt a little sorry that he could not fight alongside the Monkey King and accompany him to the seemingly invincible Heaven.

When he opened his eyes again, Lu Mingfei returned to the age of seventeen.

Familiar room, familiar laptop, familiar 2D poster.
Lu Mingfei stood up from the bed and stretched comfortably. He walked to the window, opened it, looked out at the quiet picture of the residential buildings in the community after nightfall, greedily breathing in the peaceful and tranquil atmosphere of the world here.

On the bed, his fat brother Lu Mingze, who was sleeping soundly, was disturbed by the noise of Lu Mingfei walking around. He turned over and started snoring like Zhu Bajie.

In the past, Lu Mingfei would only feel a little annoyed when he heard his cousin's snoring. But now, Lu Mingfei's face showed a nostalgic smile, because he remembered an old friend.

"Second Uncle also snores loudly when he sleeps."

Lu Mingfei felt as if he had had a big dream, becoming a little monkey and a man of destiny in the Flower-Fruit Mountain, retracing the journey to the West, experiencing 81 difficulties along the way, constantly dying and reborn in the midst of fighting and killing, and finally helping the Monkey King to take off the tight hoop and come back to life. All of this seemed so real when he recalled it, but after his soul returned to this world, it was so illusory, as if he, Lu Mingfei, had just played a game.

"This world is indeed much more peaceful. If the Great Sage saw the people here living and working in peace and contentment, he would surely be very happy." Lu Mingfei sighed, feeling the breeze on his face, and stared at the scene outside the window for a long time.

After a long time, Lu Mingfei suddenly felt thirsty, so he subconsciously reached for his waist and took out an antique gourd in black and gold. He then skillfully uncorked the gourd, raised his hand and tilted his head back to pour the wine into his mouth. As a result, not a drop of water fell out of the gourd.

"Ok?"

Lu Mingfei looked at the wine gourd in his hand and was stunned. He was not surprised because there was no wine in the gourd, but because:

"Why is this Shangqing treasure gourd still with me?"

On the journey to the West again, even though Lu Mingfei possesses the great supernatural power to be able to resurrect in every land temple where incense is lit, in order to defeat those vicious monsters, he must drink the fairy wine in the gourd to restore his vitality so as to continue fighting.

After Lu Mingfei learned the art of absorbing essences from the gourd fairy, this small gourd also had the ability to refine the spirits of dead monsters and acquire their abilities.

This is what made Lu Mingfei very surprised. His Maluo body had been returned to the Great Sage, and his soul had returned to his own world, so why was the wine gourd still on him? Because he had long been accustomed to the feeling of having another gourd on his body, Lu Mingfei had not noticed it when he first came back.

However, the immortal wine and essence that were previously stored in the gourd naturally disappeared.

After realizing that things were not simple, Lu Mingfei quickly closed the window, went to the bed to meditate, and carefully felt his now thin young body.

It doesn't matter if you don't feel it carefully, but when you feel it carefully, Lu Mingfei is shocked. After feeling it, he immediately realized that although his human body is weak, it is not ordinary. His internal organs and blood meridians are full of surging magic power.

However, this magic power seemed to be in a sealed state, and he did not feel it immediately after he returned from the time travel.

But when Lu Mingfei was meditating, the sealed magic power would loosen little by little, flowing actively through his blood and meridians for him to use.

Coming out of meditation, Lu Mingfei muttered to himself with a puzzled look on his face:
"Does this magic power come from my soul after traveling back through time, or does it exist in my body? Is this world on Earth not simple?"

No longer thinking hard behind closed doors, Lu Mingfei immediately stood up, and as nimbly and lightly as a dragon playing in the water, he took the key and left the room, then walked quietly through his uncle and aunt's house, walked out of the door and closed it silently, as if even the air had not noticed his movement.

(End of this chapter)