The bronze lamp burned like a bean, its light casting mottled shadows.
Inside the pawnshop, Su Yi lounged in a rattan chair.
The Star-Measuring Abacus eagerly brought out a jug of wine.
The Heart Knocking Bell prepared two plates of tasty snacks.
The Judgment Scale produced its weighing pan to serve as a small table, carrying the wine and snacks as it obediently presented them beside Su Yi.
That fawning manner made Meng Changyun's eyes widen. These little fellows... actually knew how to curry favor with Lord Temple Master!?
The Old Shopkeeper stood respectfully to one side and began to explain in a soft voice.
More than three hundred years ago, the pawnshop owner had brought the pawnshop across the stars to the Nether Luo Star Sea, saying she intended to search for the Divine Illusionary Heavenly Kingdom that existed only in legend and retrieve a treasure.
Not long after arriving in the Nether Luo Star Sea, the pawnshop owner left alone.
A month later, the Old Horned Dragon suddenly appeared outside the pawnshop with a letter.
Within the letter was a strand of the pawnshop owner's willpower.
She told the Old Shopkeeper that, for a long time to come, she would be fighting a contest of arts with someone called the Magician!
She would return when it was over.
At the same time, the pawnshop owner said that the Old Horned Dragon was the Magician's servant. According to the agreement between her and the Magician, the Old Horned Dragon would help watch over the All Heavens Pawnshop during that time.
In the blink of an eye, more than three hundred years passed.
Yet the pawnshop owner had remained without a trace of news until now.
As for the Old Horned Dragon, who had originally helped oversee the pawnshop, he