Lu Bei invited Huang Xiao to join him in painting "Little Yellow Fish in the Myriad Monster Kingdom." They had originally planned to submit it in three days, but an uninvited honored guest arrived, and they had to call it quits halfway through.
We'll owe the rest for now and finish it another day.
Huang Xiao: (_)
Lu Bei dusted off his hands and slipped away. With five fingers, he tore open space and brought the guests waiting outside the Southern Heavenly Gate to Great Luo Heaven.
Gazing at the Immortal Fate Disk hanging over the high heavens—the Heavenly Book as it was now—Ji Chang was filled with complicated emotions. After a long while, he still could not utter a single word.
Out of courtesy to his guest, Lu Bei waited for quite some time before finally smiling with one hand behind his back. "What's wrong, Little Ji? Feeling sour inside?"
"..."
"You don't need to explain. I understand. Take a couple more looks. Once you get used to it, you'll feel better."
"..."
Ji Chang remained silent. He did not care for himself; he mainly felt sorry for Yinglong. The thing the latter had painstakingly managed for several thousand years and dreamed of obtaining had, through a twist of fate, all ended up belonging to Lu Bei.
Fortunately, Yinglong was already dead and could not see Lu Bei's smug face. Otherwise, how cruel would this scene have been?
"Human Emperor, you have met the Great Heavenly Venerate."
"That's not quite right. You aren't the Human Emperor, and I'm not the Great Heavenly Venerate. At most, I'm a Heavenly Emperor, still far from being a Great Heavenly Venerate." Lu Bei waved his hand. Great Heavenly Venerate sounded ominous; Heavenly Emperor was much more pleasing to the ear.
Ji Chang nodded