Under One Person: Lifting the Ball to Soar

"We ask the Third Young Master to show some leniency..."

"It's Piao!" Lu Piao corrected the way he called her, and then added, "Didn't I promise Grandpa Qi?"

"We want to ask Third Master... to ask Piao'er to show mercy and allow us, his children, to observe mourning for our father..."

As Lu Hong said this, he kowtowed loudly!

The eldest brother, along with the other children of the seventh grandfather and the whole family, all knocked their heads to the ground with a bang!

Lu Piao was quite disgusted with old rituals such as kneeling and kowtowing that reflected class hierarchy, especially since this family seemed much older than him.

She rolled her eyes in disgust and said angrily, "Even if Seventh Grandpa dies peacefully over there, he will have to wait two hundred years. Aren't you a little anxious to be filial?"

"It's not just about my father's funeral. We, as children, have to show our filial piety to our elders.

When I think of him being old and frail, and if he gets a headache or a fever... or something bad happens... we, his children... our children... are not around... wuwu..."

It was Lu Hong who took the lead again, and the whole family started crying miserably.

Lu Piao just seems slow sometimes, but he is not stupid. There are less than three people in the entire Lu family who can definitely beat Seventh Grandpa. Even if you look at the entire world of extraordinary people, they are well-known masters.

This old monster can beat ten thousand of me, but you are so weak and frail, you big-headed ghost!

Lu Piao was too lazy to argue with this group of people, so he closed the window, put on some clothes and left the house.

Ignore those clowns from Seventh Grandpa's family in the yard and run to your parents' yard!

When he entered his parents' bedroom, he didn't expect that they were still awake so late. What he didn't expect was that his older brother Lu Ci was also there.

When Lu Piao entered the house and saw the family of three sitting around the table, his first impression was that they were doing something that ordinary people loved to do during the Chinese New Year:

“Are you playing Landlord?”…

There were no playing cards on the round table, only a pot of tea and steaming teacups in front of three people, as if they had been waiting leisurely for him to come.

Lu Piao then thought of the mansion of the patriarch's family. A group of people in mourning sneaked into his yard to mourn as if they were in an empty space...

After he realized what was happening, he began to feel uneasy. Looking at the situation, it seemed that my parents and brother might join forces with outsiders to punish me!

Lu Ci pretended to be surprised and asked knowingly, "Why are you here, Third Brother?"

Lu Piao said quickly: "I came to say goodbye, I'm going back!"

Lu Ci nodded and said calmly: "Oh."

Father Lu: "Go slowly."

Only my mother looked sad, and couldn't help but say, "Piao'er, come back earlier next time."

My parents and brother didn't even try to persuade me to stay. Such a strange reaction was totally different from the past...

The bad feeling increased...

Lu Piao encouraged himself: Don't panic! Out of sight, out of mind. If you can't afford to offend, you can hide away!

As long as I give up, I will be invincible!

The advantage is mine!

"Hey, don't let the tea get cold. Drink it while it's hot. I won't disturb you. I'm leaving now."

Lu Piao concealed his guilty conscience with an awkward laugh, and disappeared from this world as soon as he finished speaking.

He has already fled to the fairy world and is playing Minecraft...

……

Being in the fairy world, Lv Piao couldn't help but think of the strangeness of that night. Calculating the time, three days had passed in the real world. Especially thinking of the unusual instructions given by his mother before leaving, Lv Piao couldn't let it go and chose to return...

This time I teleported directly back to my room, and the first thing I did when I got home was to look out the window.

Lu Piao's face darkened. Seventh Grandpa's family was still kneeling outside the yard, but compared to the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, they were in a much more miserable state and in their clothes after three days and nights of wind and sun.

Just as I was thinking about a solution, I heard a call:

"You came back quite early this time. I think mother is just meddling in other people's business."

It was Lu Ci's voice, and there was a rare calmness in his tone.

Lu Piao was startled to realize that there was someone in the room. He followed the direction of the sound and saw his brother sitting on the bed with his eyes closed, with a bowl of water in front of him. Even when he was talking to him, he was still in a deep state of meditation.

Lu Piao looked grim: "They just kept kneeling there?"

Lu Ci remained in meditation, his tone remained calm:

"How can that be possible? After all, people need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate. Eating and drinking can be done on one's knees, but you can't just poop and pee in your pants pocket. After going to the toilet, come back and kneel again."

Lu Piao: "What about you?"

"With my status being here, how can I kneel down like the people outside?

But as the clan leader, I can’t just sit there and watch my clan members suffer for our Lu family without saying anything in return, so I will just stay here and eat nothing to accompany them.”

Lu Piao: "You're on a hunger strike? What about your father and mother?"

Lu Ci: "Don't worry about that. I'm not that cruel. Our Lu family can't be that rebellious and unrighteous. Our parents are excluded."

Lu Piao sighed: "Brother, you are so mean..."

Lu Ci: "I know you are in a difficult situation and feel bad, but third brother, you need to understand one thing.

The family is not forcing you. Our Lu family is a well-known and prestigious family in the alien world. All the Lu family members are practitioners who practice Qi cultivation. …

Practitioners must move upward, and Qigong practitioners pursue higher realms throughout their lives.

But human power always has its limits. Cultivation is limited by personal qualifications, character, wisdom, fate and other conditions. Once you reach a certain point, you can no longer make any progress. The world is like an unbreakable invisible shackle.

The Qi cultivators in this world are like frogs at the bottom of a well. They always feel that there is an endless and vast world outside the palm-sized sky. For the sake of that illusory and impossible goal in the sky, the frog will still jump hard at the bottom of the well even if they know it is futile.

Until you appeared, the fairy world brought unparalleled hope and encouragement to us, the frogs in the well, of the Lu family.

Don't misunderstand those people outside who are kneeling to you. They are worshipping the ray of light given to us by God. They are bowing their heads devoutly to their hearts seeking the Tao.

Finally, a smooth road appears before my eyes. As a Qi cultivator, I will walk on it even if I am torn to pieces!

It is a blessing for those people outside to have the opportunity to kneel, and it is also a great fortune in their lives.

The same is true for me. Don’t think that we are suffering. Not only are we willing, we are actually enjoying it like a dream!

So, third brother, you don’t need to worry about it, and you don’t have to go against your principles to accommodate us.

Moreover, this activity is not a task assigned by the family. No one is ordered or forced. Participation is entirely voluntary and one can withdraw at any time.

You don't have to worry about the safety of the tribesmen. They will retreat if they feel they can't bear it anymore. Third brother, just follow your heart and be yourself."

Lu Piao: “Haha.”

Lu Ci: "Why did you come back so early?"

"Pick up Grandpa Qi and go to the fairyland. I won't disturb you anymore. I'm leaving now." Lu Piao said and ran away.

When he arrived at Seventh Grandpa's house, Lu Piao was warmly received, but when the main business of taking him through time was mentioned, the old man avoided the question.

It was not until Lu Piao repeatedly questioned him that he confessed:

"Mi Mi sorrows of the past and present.

I miss you so much.

The people are ruined and the country is exhausted, and the predecessors are failed.

It's hard to find a place to bury my body, so I'm looking for an immortal island.

If this trip to the Immortal Realm is just to find a good place to be buried and die a good death, then I will naturally take the responsibility. But if you want to ignore your family and clan and enjoy the happiness of immortality alone...

Alas~ Even if I think about you day and night and my heart is broken, I can't do it. Otherwise, how can I face the ancestors of the Lu family after I die!

As for those little brats, if they want to kneel, then let them kneel. Piao'er, don't take it to heart. They are all martial artists and not that delicate. That little bit of training is nothing..."

After being rejected by Grandpa Qi's kindness, Lu Piao returned home with regret.

I watched helplessly as the group of ruthless people from Grandpa Qi's family knelt outside the window for another seven days and seven nights. When they felt like it, they even cried and howled a few times, which was shocking.

The guy in the room was even more desperate. He relied on a bowl of water every day to stay alive. He sat in meditation without moving an inch. Despite his profound cultivation, he managed to go on a hunger strike for ten days!

A group of people are kneeling and wailing outside the house, while the elder brother is practicing Taoism inside the house.

Lu Piao stayed at home in this terrible environment for seven days, and he became depressed and desperate...

When the seven-day limit for the physical body's time travel was up, Lu Piao returned to the fairyland without even saying goodbye!

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Chapter 17 What a sin!

Four days after appearing in the human world, Lu Piao came back from the fairy world again.

It’s still a familiar house.

In the room, Lu Ci was still sitting in meditation without moving, with a bowl of water in front of him.

But this time when Lu Piao came back, he didn't say hello, and his face was three points paler than four days ago.

The number of people kneeling outside the window not only did not decrease, but increased. Not only Grandpa Qi's family, but many elderly people over 50 years old in the village also joined in.

But there was no more wailing sound, and the condition of the group from Grandpa Qi's house was visibly bad.

Lu Piao spent another seven days with this group of people, and returned immediately after the seven days were up.

……

Eight full days had passed since this appearance. When Lu Piao came back, the scene in the house had not changed at all. However, although his brother Lu Ci was still sitting in meditation with his back straight, he had become extremely thin!

There were many more young people kneeling outside the window, and there was even no room in the yard for them to kneel, so they had to kneel on the street outside the patriarch's residence.

They stayed in the real world for another seven days. During these seven days, the people kneeling outside would reach their limit from time to time and fall to the ground, and be carried away to be cared for. However, within half a day, as soon as their health improved a little, they would come back and continue kneeling!

Return to the fairy world...

……

This time I have to wait until the tenth day to return to the world!

Among the people kneeling outside the window, there began to be children of the same age as Lu Piao.