Chen Ping'an brought Guo Zhujiu, Xie Gou, and Law Enforcement Chang Ming into the Lotus Root Blessed Land. They were first heading to the Fox Kingdom, which was still under lockdown.
Sharing a Talisman Boat, they passed through layer upon layer of cloud seas. Xie Gou was bored out of her mind, stifled beyond endurance. Standing at the prow, she shouted and hollered, repeatedly thrusting out her palms to disperse the clouds on either side or punch holes through the banks of cloud.
Xiao Mo had gone drinking in the Azure Sky World. She was in a rather poor mood. Chen Ping'an had gotten some pastries from his own Yashui Shop. Opening the food box, he handed Guo Zhujiu a piece of almond crisp. Guo Zhujiu accepted it with both hands, raised it high above her head, thanked her master for his reward, and only then wolfed it down whole. Chen Ping'an handed peach blossom cakes to both her and
Chang Ming, smiling as he told Guo Zhujiu to eat more slowly. Chang Ming sat beside the Mountain Lord, her eyes narrowed in a smile.
The human world was a splendid sight, its mountains and rivers like a magnificent painting.
What a beautiful painting it was.
Xie Gou withdrew her fist techniques, made a Qi Sinks to Dantian gesture, and sat beside the Alliance Leader of her own little hilltop. She asked, "Guo Zhujiu, is that Cao Ci really so invincible with his fists? Even our Mountain Lord can't beat him?"
Around Mountain Lord Chen, Xie Gou found it inconvenient to call Guo Zhujiu Alliance Leader.
Chen Ping'an actually knew perfectly well. Yet regarding all these little hilltops and their clique-forming ways, Lord Mountain Lord had always kept one eye open and one eye shut, pretending not to know. Guo