After returning to the Yang World, Yuan Jing naturally took on the task of helping He Junyi entrust a dream and sending her to Jinxing Town, while Lu Zheng followed Real Person Qing Song and Daoist Priest Mingzhang back to Shaotong Mountain.
Once they were seated in the quiet chamber of the rear courtyard, Real Person Qing Song did not stand on ceremony and went straight to the point. "How did you come by that bronze mirror of yours?"
"Ah? The Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror?"
Lu Zheng had guessed that Real Person Qing Song and Daoist Priest Mingzhang might be curious about his magical treasure. After all, that bronze mirror had suppressed Night Bone True Lord so completely that he could not fight back at all, and even Lu Zheng himself had been greatly surprised. Still, he had not expected their very first question upon returning to be about it.
Real Person Qing Song froze. "Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror? A name you gave it yourself?"
Lu Zheng nodded, patted his gourd, took out the Cloud Palace Treasure Mirror, and handed it to Real Person Qing Song.
A trace of satisfaction and amusement flashed through Real Person Qing Song's eyes. He accepted it and examined it closely.
"Grand Uncle-Master, do you recognize this mirror?" Lu Zheng asked. "This disciple seized it from a ghostly creature. At the time, there was a painting of a hundred ghosts paying homage on the back of the bronze mirror—yakshas, asuras, Evil Ghosts, zombies, and in the center, a skeletal corpse seated upon a throne."
Then Lu Zheng explained how he had acquired the bronze mirror. Come to think of it, he had obtained it by chance on the road home after coming down from White Cloud Mountain for the first time and traveling to the