Starry Sky Railway: Opening Performance - Taixu Sword God

A man holding a long knife walked into the Xianlong Dayu Hall with great interest.

Seeing that the assassins had surrounded Huanxi, Jingyuan suddenly became interested:

"Huh? What's going on? Is there infighting?!"

He looked at Dan Heng and the others and smiled:

"Could it be that you successfully turned enemies into friends using the unique verbal skills of the protagonists in stories? Then did I arrive at the wrong time?"

"General of the Cloud Cavalry... how could it be you?" Huanxi gritted her teeth.

"Since you're here, doesn't that mean our reinforcements are coming...?!"

"Damn it."

"...It was so close."

The assassins, whose minds had been invaded, all retreated, allowing Jing Yuan to easily walk up to Huanxi:

"Do the Dragon Masters really think no one knows what they're thinking?"

"They wanted to kill the Dragon Girl by force, then use Dan Heng's personality to make him reluctant to leave the Ming Dynasty without a leader, and ultimately stay to become the Dragon Lord?"

"Wake up."

"To attack the Dragon Girl would only destroy what little prestige they have left."

Huanxi gritted her teeth, stared directly at Jingyuan, and said coldly:

"I planned this whole thing all by myself, please don't frame me, General!"

"Save your energy." Jing Yuan looked at Huanxi: "Once the Yunqi take you to the Ten Kings Division, the judge will know the truth after a trial."

"No! I would rather perish than go there...!"

Under Jing Yuan's command, a large number of Yunqi soldiers poured into Lin Yuan Realm and took Huan Xi and the controlled assassins away one by one.

Seeing that the situation had finally calmed down a bit, Bai Lu finally spoke with mixed feelings:

"Alas, I know that in the elders' eyes I am always a superfluous existence, a pseudo-dragon who failed to inherit the power of the Dragon Lord."

"But only today did I realize that they would resort to such methods to get rid of me..."

Jing Yuan walked towards Bai Lu and said with a smile:

"Not everyone in the Chiming Clan has ulterior motives. If Lady Dragon Girl is worried, the Shence Palace can arrange accommodation for you."

"Thank you for your trouble, General... I would like to have another talk with Danheng and Brother Yan Huan."

“…” Jing Yuan nodded:

"it is good."

"I will wait for you near the ferry crossing."

After Jingyuan led the Cloud Cavalry away.

The entire Xianlong Grand Temple then returned to silence.

Bai Lu turned around, slowly walked to the edge of the main hall, gazed at the towering Jianmu tree, and sighed:

"The Vidyadharas have no parents or family. After birth, a mentor will teach the young Vidyadharas how to master cloud chanting magic and various kinds of life knowledge."

"Danheng, do you have such a mentor?"

Dan Heng slowly walked to Bai Lu's side, and together they gazed at the towering Jianmu tree in the distance, their expressions complex.

“If you’re asking about the traditions of the Vidyadhara people, I don’t have that experience.”

"I have long been a wanderer who can no longer return to my hometown."

"In fragmented dreams, there are always old friends with whom you once fought on the battlefield."

"And on my journey, I always meet people who can be called mentors."

Bai Lu lowered her head and whispered:

"As far back as I can remember, the Dragon Masters made me do this and that, and the physicians from the Pill Refining Division made me treat the sick and save lives. I had no idea whether they were considered mentors or not."

Then she looked at Danheng and laughed: "It seems that neither of us has gone through the orthodox path of enlightenment. In a sense, we are quite destined."

"...Perhaps we were friends in a past life."

"Maybe."

Dan Heng also looked at Bai Lu, recalling the scene when she and he reinforced the seal on the Jianmu tree, and calmly said:

"I was worried that Miss Bailu would run into trouble sooner or later because she had the title but not the power of the Dragon Lord."

"But I was overthinking it; you possess true power."

"Oh? You mean the power that repaired the seal?"

"Hmm." Dan Heng nodded slightly.

“I heard from the Mirage of the Scale Abyss Realm that Danfeng is not only an exceptionally brave warrior, but also able to heal others with the Cloud Chant technique.”

"What you possess is the power of the Dragon Lord, a life force that has been re-sealed and bound to the Mysterious Root."

"It's completely different from the power I possess, which is only good at destruction and annihilation."

Listening to Danheng's story, Bailu couldn't help but laugh: "Judging from this, Danfeng must be a guy with a gentle heart, right?"

"Maybe……"

Meanwhile, Yan was squatting on a broken brick wall, silently poking at the cracks in the brick with a twig to pass the time.

Yan held the small wooden stick and squinted his eyes.

"..."

The conversation that followed seemed to have nothing to do with him anymore.

"What am I even here for?"

"A bodyguard?!"

"..."

"and many more……"

"No."

"I can't go back like this."

Immediately, Yan stood up aggressively and ran wildly towards the Lin Yuan Realm ferry.

Danheng and Bailu were completely dumbfounded.

"Thump thump thump—!!"

He walked quickly and soon caught up with Jing Yuan and the others.

A large number of Cloud Riders are leading the assassins onto the Star Chariot, intending to transport them to the Ten Kings' Division in batches.

"Wait a minute—!!" Yan shouted, raising his hand.

"Um?!"

Jingyuan leaned against a rock on the shore and looked up:

"Hey, Brother Yan Huan, what brings you here?"

"Quickly, make them stop! Something's wrong!"

"what?"

Upon hearing Yan Huan's shout, the busy Cloud Riders immediately stopped what they were doing and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Lord Yan Huan, what's wrong?!"

"Could it be that there's something wrong with these assassins?"

"There's something wrong, there's a really big problem!"

Yan Huan stood at the ferry crossing and shouted to the assassins who had already been escorted onto the starship:

"Come back, all of you, come back here!"

In an instant, there were hundreds of responses.

As if possessed, the assassins ignored the Cloud Cavalry while still at the ferry and walked toward Yan Huan with dazed eyes.

Those who had already boarded the star raft immediately jumped into the water.

"Plop——!!"

As he watched the assassins on those starships leap into the sea and swim toward the shore, Jing Yuan's pupils suddenly dilated.

"What are they trying to do? Why are they forcing them to come back?"

His response was the actions of the assassins.

They untied each other's shackles.

then……

He put his hands on his body and groped around.

"..."

Jing Yuan and the group of Cloud Riders watched helplessly as these guys put handful after handful of patrol arrows into the sack in front of Yan Huan.

"..."

After all the assassins had finished their deployment, the sack was only half full.

"?"

Yan reached out and lifted the sack, weighing it down. Shocked, he addressed the assassins he had controlled:

"You call that gone? Huh?!"

"Several hundred people, and the money they carried couldn't even fill a sack?"

Faced with Yan Huan's questioning, the assassins lowered their heads in embarrassment.

"..."