"Are the fireworks ready?" Tower Lord Doghead—Sunbreaker Halberd Guo Da—asked.
Manor Lord Seven Lives Talisman replied, "They don't allow firecrackers at New Year's anymore. They say they pollute the environment."
"But setting them off in Shuhang's Core World should be fine, right?" Young Master Phoenix Slayer drawled.
Venerable Yellow Mountain said, "My oversight. It's been so long since I celebrated New Year's like an ordinary person that I forgot to buy firecrackers and the like. There's still time to buy some. Who can make a trip?"
"I'll go. I'll be right back," a voice replied.
Venerable Yellow Mountain said, "Good. As long as a fellow daoist goes."
Then... about two minutes later.
Young Master Phoenix Slayer suddenly spoke again. "Speaking of which, what are we doing about firecrackers? Won't New Year's feel a little lonely without fireworks?"
Venerable Yellow Mountain said, "Uh, I remember asking someone to buy them."
"If there isn't enough time, I can imitate the sound of firecrackers later. I guarantee it'll sound exactly like real fireworks and firecrackers," Dharma King Creation volunteered. "Just imitating firecrackers, no singing."
"Well... all right." Senior Yellow Mountain thought it over. If the Dharma King didn't sing and only showed off his vocal mimicry, it should be fine. Besides, wasn't Creation Fairy from the Confucian School still with Song Shuhang?
Creation Fairy's Voice of Heaven seemed capable of neutralizing Dharma King Creation's singing, so if anything went wrong, they could still salvage the situation.
"The couplets are ready. Hurry and put them up!" Venerable Eternal Fire flourished his brush and nodded in satisfaction—he had outdone himself with these couplets. Every character was so beautiful it seemed about to come alive.
Heaven-Hiding Hook Zhou Li immediately took the many couplets and pasted them around Tyrant Song's front door, then put more up