#828 - The Fourth World (Part 1)
#828 - The Fourth World (Part 1)
General Rolling Curtain appeared on the surface of the Flowing Sand River. Upon seeing Qin Buyi, his voice revealed joy as he said, "Great King, long time no see!"
Qin Buyi: "..."
Qin Buyi had traveled back through time reversal.
For Qin Buyi, he had only been apart from General Rolling Curtain for a little over a quarter of an hour at most, so there was no such thing as 'long time no see'.
However, for General Rolling Curtain, it was a full thousand years since they had last met.
Seeing the strange look on Qin Buyi's face and his silence,
General Rolling Curtain thought to himself, "It's been a thousand years, but why does the Heavenly Emperor's incarnation look exactly the same? Just like it was a thousand years ago."
"Even his cultivation realm hasn't changed at all. Strange, truly strange!"
Qin Buyi then came back to his senses and said, "Rolling Curtain, long time no see!"
Hearing Qin Buyi's reply, General Rolling Curtain's face bloomed with a smile.
General Rolling Curtain said, "Great King, are you back this time for the sake of the Golden Cicada?"
Qin Buyi nodded and said, "Yes."
General Rolling Curtain thought to himself, "The Great King is truly punctual. I thought he might have forgotten about this matter."
"Unexpectedly, he hasn't forgotten even once!"
"This time it's a sure thing, that Golden Cicada is dead for sure!"
At night, a bonfire was lit on the Flowing Sand River.
Beside the bonfire, Qin Buyi and General Rolling Curtain sat down, listening to General Rolling Curtain talk about his experiences over the past thousand years.
Qin Buyi listened attentively without interrupting.
Mainly because he couldn't interrupt. General Rolling Curtain had truly lived through a thousand years, but Qin Buyi hadn't.
Qin Buyi had come through time reversal via the system, and had only experienced a quarter of an hour.
The great demons and small demons within the Flowing Sand River, looked at Qin Buyi and General Rolling Curtain, whispering to each other:
"The Great King's Great King is back!"
"Guess what that great figure is back for this time?"
"Who knows? Maybe he's just catching up with the Great King."
"It looks like he's just catching up with the Great King, after all, it's been so long since they last met."
...
After they had their fill of food and drink, General Rolling Curtain cleaned up the leftovers.
He took out coral from his spatial ring and began his carving artistry.
After a thousand years of honing, General Rolling Curtain's carving skills could be described as reaching the pinnacle of perfection!
Qin Buyi watched General Rolling Curtain in his carving state with curiosity, thinking to himself:
"If this General Rolling Curtain were to return to the Heavenly Court, he could obtain a good position with this skill."
"Making carvings for those Chan Sect and Jie Sect immortals in the Heavenly Court would definitely be more promising than being a curtain roller."
"Being a curtain roller is serving Haotian alone, while making carvings is serving those Chan Sect and Jie Sect disciples with powerful backgrounds in the Heavenly Court. The nature is completely different."
Many times, if you want to improve your position or situation, sucking up to the big boss is useless.
Unless you are a core member, is General Rolling Curtain a core member? Obviously not...
Since he is not a core member, wholeheartedly sucking up to the big boss will only displease those higher in status than him.
Being given the cold shoulder would definitely be a very normal thing for General Rolling Curtain.
If he wants to change his situation, in addition to doing homework with the big boss, he also needs to do homework with other high-ranking people.
This is called playing all sides!
Unfortunately, General Rolling Curtain doesn't understand this principle, and wholeheartedly bets his treasure on Haotian, the Lord of the Heavenly Court.
As a result, he was assigned to such a godforsaken place like the Flowing Sand River...
General Rolling Curtain quickly finished carving the coral in his hand. Looking closely, it turned out to be... an image of the Golden Cicada!
However, this time the image of the Golden Cicada was somewhat... ugly!
General Rolling Curtain had just carved a yin-yang face, half of which was the Golden Cicada's angry expression, and the other half was the Golden Cicada's lewd smile.
Qin Buyi himself had never seen the Golden Cicada smile like that.
The fact that General Rolling Curtain could carve it out must be intentional, wanting to uglify the Golden Cicada.
Looking at the ugly Golden Cicada in his hand, General Rolling Curtain revealed a smile and said, "This is good, I'll collect it!"
"Next, I'll carve the third skull for that dead ghost!"
General Rolling Curtain put the completed carving into his spatial ring.
He took out another head-sized piece of coral from the spatial ring and began to carve it intently.
This time, General Rolling Curtain's carving was extremely serious.
After a day and a night...
General Rolling Curtain looked at the coral skull in his hand and laughed, "Including this one, there are already three. This dead ghost will soon die for the fourth time!"
He strung the third coral skull in his hand together with the previous two coral skulls.
General Rolling Curtain began to play with the hand-held piece wholeheartedly...
This scene left Qin Buyi quite speechless.
Qin Buyi thought to himself, "Based on your current actions, the fact that the Golden Cicada didn't target you too much later on shows that he is already very magnanimous!"
General Rolling Curtain's current actions, the Golden Cicada did not make things too difficult for General Rolling Curtain when the four disciples were leading a horse to the Western Church.
It was really not easy.
Time passed slowly...
Qin Buyi's daily life was very simple. He listened to General Rolling Curtain's flattery, and then began to eat and drink.
There were countless small river delicacies in the Flowing Sand River. There were as many small fish and shrimps that had not yet become demons or developed intelligence as one could want.
It was simply an inexhaustible state.
Living such a life, Qin Buyi couldn't help but think to himself, "Is this the life of three small barbecues a day that people on Blue Star talk about?"
General Rolling Curtain's life was also very simple, every day was just all kinds of flattery!
The great demons and small demons in the Flowing Sand River followed suit, and their flattery skills improved to varying degrees during this period.
In the blink of an eye, a month passed.
Qin Buyi waited listlessly for the fourth reincarnation of the Golden Cicada to arrive.
At the same time, in the Western Church.
The fourth reincarnation of the Golden Cicada, his cultivation broke through to the mid-stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
Holding the Tiger Subduing Staff and Tiger Subduing Rosary that the Guide Sage had re-refined, he was about to embark on the journey to the West once again...
Over the past thousand years, the Golden Cicada had tried every possible way to suppress his cultivation and not break through.
Unfortunately, with the Cundi Sage watching, there was no room for such small tricks to be used.
Every time the Golden Cicada faced the Cundi Sage's eyes that seemed to see through everything, with a smile that was not a smile, he felt a burst of scalp tingling.
The Guide Sage said to the Golden Cicada, "Golden Cicada, your cultivation has reached the mid-stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and it hasn't been a short time."
"You should be on your way."
The Golden Cicada said with "teary eyes", "Guide Teacher, Cundi Uncle, this disciple is reluctant to leave you."
The Cundi Sage said with a smile that was not a smile, "Golden Cicada, go early and return early."
"We will have plenty of time to spend together in the future, so there is no need to be reluctant!"
The Golden Cicada wanted to say something more, but the Cundi Sage kicked the Golden Cicada's butt.
"Swoosh~!"
How could the Golden Cicada, with his mid-stage Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivation, resist the kick of a Sage.
He flew out of the Western Church territory at an extremely fast speed...
The Guide Sage said to the Cundi Sage, "Was your kick a bit sudden?"
The Cundi Sage said, "Sudden? Not sudden!"
"This kid Golden Cicada has not been less slippery with me over the past thousand years, I have long wanted to kick him!"
"Now I finally found an opportunity."
"Besides, if this kid continues to dawdle, I don't know when he will be able to leave the Western Church."
"My kick also helped him!"
The Cundi Sage's kick not only helped the Golden Cicada.
It also helped the Guide Sage. The Guide Sage was somewhat dissatisfied with the Golden Cicada's performance over the past thousand years!
He was just going through a formality when he said that just now.
Now that the Golden Cicada was kicked out, it was exactly what the Guide Sage wanted.
The Guide Sage laughed, "Junior Brother, good! Very good!"
The two Sages of the Western Church looked at each other and laughed heartily...
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