After Ling Qing and the others arrived at the Jade Pool, they saw Lu Dongbin waiting alone at the entrance to the venue.
"Have you paid your respects to Her Majesty the Queen Mother?" Han Zhongli asked him.
"Peony Fairy had something to attend to and left first. It won't be too late to pay our respects once we're inside." Lu Dongbin smiled.
He did not mention that he had somehow angered Peony Fairy for no reason.
"Then let's go in." Han Zhongli nodded and entered first with Iron Crutch Li.
Ling Qing and the others followed close behind.
Once they reached the venue, immortal maidens guided everyone to their respective seats.
"I heard Emperor Donghua has already returned through reincarnation?"
"Indeed. By my reckoning, the time was about right."
"Eh, isn't that Iron Crutch Li and the others? Then Immortal Donghua should be... Huh? Why are there two Immortal Donghuas?"
"How could that be?... There really are two?"
"What is going on?"
Seeing Ling Qing and Lu Dongbin, who looked almost exactly alike, the immortals who had already taken their seats instantly broke into discussion.
Not only did they look alike, but neither of them had much cultivation at present. For the immortals, calculating their fates was as easy as turning a hand over.
Yet no matter how they calculated, the result was the same: both were reincarnations of Emperor Donghua.
When they tried to calculate their previous lives, however, they all failed.
Still, that seemed perfectly normal to them. After all, the Emperor Donghua of their previous lives was not someone they could casually divine.
Led by the immortal maidens, Ling Qing and the others made their way to the center of the venue.
Ordinarily, with their cultivation, they could only have sat at the very end.
But