Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 272 Can You Really Transform into Human Form?

Eji looked down at the cloud spear in her arms, then looked up at Wu Tong leaning against the door frame and said, "My lord said that once we arrive, we will stay behind the Dragon God Palace and will not go anywhere else."

Wu Tong nodded and turned to leave.

When Lei Ming and the other children finished cooking and put the food on the table, Liu Changsheng arrived and sat down in the main seat, waiting for Eji and Zhang Min to serve him the food.

Today, time was tight, so Lei Ming and his friends made a pot of meat sauce soup, cooked some noodles, and added some pickled wild vegetables, intending to make do with this meal for now.

Liu Changsheng ate with great relish, and ate very politely. After finishing his meal, he even took the two children from Eji and Zhang Min so that they could eat in peace.

At this moment, Liu Changsheng was no longer the high priest lying in the Dragon God Palace, but merely an elder who liked children.

The two babies, both in their second month of life, lay quietly in Liu Changsheng's arms. Yun Shuo was sleeping, while Yun Tui stared wide-eyed at Liu Changsheng, who was so close to him.

"He can't see anything now."

"Who said that?"

“My husband said that the child is still young and his visual organs are not fully developed yet.”

"He's right. The child is too young and not fully developed yet. Many hidden features haven't been shown because the child is too strong."

I was too hasty.

Holding her rice bowl, Eji said, "Wu Tong just told me that he hopes I can host a palace banquet. I didn't know who to invite, so I declined."

Liu Changsheng said, "He wants to kill He Junnian."

Eji was not surprised to hear this name, and continued, "My husband said that Wu Tong is not right, very wrong, and that the information he conveyed is inaccurate."

Liu Changsheng said, "That's right, they want me to help them kill He Junnian."

Eji continued, "My husband said that you would not summon us to Chang'an at this time."

Liu Changsheng nodded and said, "That's right, my original words were to wait until the child turns one year old."

"Aren't you angry that Wu Tong and his ilk show such disrespect to the High Priest and arbitrarily change your decrees?"

Liu Changsheng sighed and said, "The world is in chaos now, and the Shehuo (a traditional folk performance) is not running smoothly. Maintaining the normal operation of Shehuo has already consumed more than 90% of my energy and time. They know that I don't have the extra energy to deal with these trivial matters."

Eji said, "Therefore, Wu Tong deserves to die!"

Liu Changsheng said, "He shouldn't have died. I should have died. Now that you've come to Chang'an, Yun Ce must have gone to Liangcheng to seize the Tiger Army."

This was a grand scheme. He Tian's defeat at Lingzhou City, reducing his 3,000 Tiger Warriors to 6,000, exposed the secret that He Junnian was not dead. Furthermore, Wu Tong, through the Panxing Tower, discovered that the Tiger Warriors were connected to the First Priest of the Guifang tribe. They concluded that the mysterious First Priest of the Guifang tribe, the Great Avalanche, was none other than He Junnian.

Eji asked, "Is He Junnian currently in Chang'an or Liangcheng?"

Liu Changsheng replied, "In Chang'an."

Eji patted her chest and said, "That's good, that's good. It's good that it's not in Liangcheng. My husband had to flee without a fight when he encountered Shen Tingyu, the fourth priest of the Guifang. If he had encountered the first priest, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape."

Liu Changsheng said, "So, your husband knew Wu Tong was lying to him, but he took the opportunity to send all the most important people in his life to me?"

Eji laughed loudly, "When I came here, my husband told me that I must live in the Changsha Prince's Mansion and firmly hold the title of Princess Consort of Changsha, so that we can be protected."

Liu Changsheng laughed, then bounced the two children on his elbows and said, "He should know that Chang'an is far more dangerous than your Yun Family Manor."

Eji laughed and said, "My lord said that with the ancestral fire, you are invincible."

After listening to what Eji said, Liu Changsheng turned to Zhang Min, who was preoccupied with her own thoughts, and said, "Eji may not be as smart as you, but she is definitely the best candidate for the Crown Prince's consort. Zhang Min, you must firmly obey this. You are far inferior to Eji."

Zhang Min stood up and bowed, saying, "I already knew that."

Eji angrily said, "Since you know this, why do you still argue with me at every turn?"

Zhang Min curled her lips and said, "If two women share one man, and I don't fight for him, that man will think I don't like him. I don't believe you don't understand this kind of male depravity."

Liu Changsheng enjoyed watching the two women argue, so after finishing his meal, he stayed and drank a few more sips of the strong liquor from the mountain villa that Lei Ming had brought him.

That night, Liu Changsheng snored loudly.

Lei Ming led his younger siblings to the Divine Dragon Palace quietly. The Divine Dragon Palace was empty at this time. The ancestral fire was still burning fiercely, and the other five hundred Shehuo were also moving slowly with the ancestral fire.

Lei Ming gritted his teeth, seemingly having made up his mind, and put his left hand into the fire pit. Strangely, his left hand was immediately burned red by the ancestral fire. In the dry Dragon God Palace, Lei Ming was sweating profusely, but before he could even touch the ground, the sweat evaporated quickly.

Seeing Lei Ming in unbearable pain, Chen Lu, the second oldest of the thirty-six, also put her left hand into the ancestral fire. Soon, her left hand was also burned red by the ancestral fire. Chen Lu couldn't help but want to scream, but Lei Ming covered her mouth with his right hand, silencing her before she could even let out a scream. Huang Tieniu solemnly placed his left hand into the flames of the ancestral fire to be roasted. His hand did not turn red, but rather a dark red, his entire hand resembling a piece of meteorite iron that could never be heated to a reddish color.

As the thirty-six children sat around the fire pit, taking turns to have their left hands burned by the ancestral fire, a faint sigh seemed to echo in the main hall.

When Anji brought over the two bowls of sweet soup, it was already very late at night. Lei Ming and the others had not returned, so Eji and Zhang Min were not asleep. The two children in the cradle, head to head, were sleeping very soundly.

On the other side of the yard, there were many buckets filled with water, reflecting the starry sky.

Zhang Min stirred the sugar water with a spoon and said to Eji, "Aren't we being a little too rude?"

Eji took a sip of the sweet soup and said, "Put away your worthless thoughts. My lord said that once we arrive at the Changsha Prince's Mansion, we are the masters."

Zhang Min said with some grievance, "There are many things I don't know."

Eji angrily retorted, "What else does a concubine want to know?"

Zhang Min sighed and said, "If I had known that being a concubine would be like this, I wouldn't have become one."

When the crescent moon appears in the sky, the stars do not react at all, unlike when the full moon appears, the stars will disappear without a trace.

When Lei Ming emerged from the Dragon God Temple, he looked like a dried-up corpse that had been parched in the desert for several years. He staggered into the courtyard and plunged headfirst into a wooden bucket filled with water.

Eji could hear the hissing sound of their bodies absorbing water. As the water in the large wooden tub decreased rapidly, Lei Ming and the others' bodies slowly became plump and healthy again.

Zhang Min got up and pulled Lei Ming's body out of the wooden tub. An Ji and the others quickly filled the tub with water again, and Zhang Min put Lei Ming back into the tub to continue soaking.

This was a very tedious task, and it lasted until the early hours of the morning.

"It seems that the ancestral fire only burned them, but did not attack them."

Zhang Min whispered to Eji.

Eji whispered back, "My lord said he was attacked by the Shehuo people of Yongzhou, and the consequences were very serious. He almost died. But look at them, their problem doesn't seem so serious."

We'll continue burning it tomorrow night. My husband says that the source of all internal energy in the world is the Shehuo (a type of folk fire), and receiving the tempering of the ancestral fire is a process of reshaping the body.

"Or, you could go and burn some tomorrow night too."

Zhang Min glanced at the water-bubbled mummies, then patted her smooth face and said, "No, I'm not in a hurry to improve my martial arts."

Lei Ming, soaked in water, tumbled out of the wooden tub, his dazed eyes staring blankly at the rising sun, and roared as he threw a punch…

It's snowing again north of the Great Wall, and this snowfall is enormous.

When the chestnut horse leaped down from a mountaintop, it instantly plunged Yun Ce into a snow pit, or rather, it wasn't a snow pit at all, but a valley filled with snow.

Ever since the chestnut horse plunged into the snow pit, it has been playing dead, remaining motionless.

Yun Ce sighed, took out a shovel from the Dragon Ball, and started digging in the snow, intending to first dig the chestnut horse out of the snow pit.

Fortunately, the snow wasn't too deep, only a little over ten feet deep, and he dug down to the ground.

The chestnut horse he dug out had its mouth crooked and its tongue sticking out, pretending to be a statue and refusing to move no matter what.

Seeing this, Yun Ce knew that he wouldn't be able to leave tonight.

The snow here was very thick, so Yun Ce dug a large hole along the snow wall and set up the tent inside. After the wood stove was lit, the chestnut horse stopped pretending to be a statue, shook its mane to shake off all the snow, and then crawled into the tent, lay down in the warmest spot, and watched Yun Ce boil water.

There's absolutely nothing we can do about that shameless red horse, Ma Yunce. If you hit it, it runs away; if you chase it, it plays dead; if you really want to punish it, it barks loudly, just like a child crying; and in the worst cases, it even rolls around on the ground.

Yun Ce felt that horses were not meant to drink boiling water, such as tea.

When the chestnut horse pouted its big, hairy mouth and mimicked him sipping tea, Yun Ce was certain that his chestnut horse didn't want to become a bird, but rather a person.

Watching the chestnut horse drink tea with such relish, even spitting out the tea leaves, Gouzi couldn't wait to say, "This is a typical behavior of biological evolution, I want to record it."

Yun Ce helped the red horse change to a larger bowl and filled it with tea, as the teacup he was using was too small to accommodate the red horse's large mouth.

After comfortably drinking five or six bowls of tea, the chestnut horse, like a severely addicted tea addict, lay comfortably on the blanket and nudged Yun Ce's back with its front hooves, indicating that it should be covered with the blanket.

Yun Ce readily agreed, and after covering the chestnut horse with a blanket, he stroked its long face and asked, "Can you really transform into human form?"

(End of this chapter)