Lu Bian went to the old man's home, set the wages the old man had given him on the table, and left a message with one of the servants. After making sure everything was taken care of, Lu Bian and his donkey left.
He left Luzhou.
In a fit of rage, Lu Bian simply got angry for a moment.
True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao, you've kicked a cotton ball by picking a fight with me!!
What good would it do to provoke me, Lu Bian?
All I'd do is quietly badmouth you to the members of the Chat Group.
Pick a fight with Erlang Shen?
Lu Bian came to his senses afterward. He knew exactly how little he amounted to.
Erlang Shen had enraged him, which was like enraging a male louse.
He'd told Erlang Shen to wait and see, but in a couple of days, he'd forget all about it himself.
The consequences of provoking Lu Bian were that nothing would happen.
Erlang Shen, you've picked a fight with the easiestgoing transmigrator in the world.
Even sending the Howling Celestial Dog to bite me would be giving me too much credit.
I'm lying down for you.
When his anger flared that day, Lu Bian had genuinely wanted to rush to Erlang Temple at Guanjiang Estuary and curse Erlang Shen to his face.
When people were angry, they lost their reason—not all of it, but most of it.
All night, Lu Bian thought about how he could get back at Erlang Shen, how he could use what he knew to make trouble for him.
Lu Bian racked his brain, but by dawn, his thoughts had cleared. He stopped being angry.
After living an uneventful life for over twenty years, Lu Bian considered himself someone who hated trouble. Going out of his way to invite trouble now surely meant there was something wrong with his head.
Picking a fight with Erlang Shen was like picking a fight with the Great Sage, wasn't it?
That monkey, Great Sage, had at least become a Buddha... Though even after becoming one, he wasn't exactly easy to deal with, was he?
Erlang Shen, the True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao, the King Who Protects the Nation and Answers Prayers, the Celestial Sovereign of Sichuan, the Heroic and Magnificent King of Manifesting Divinity and Bestowing Blessings, the Heroic and Magnificent King of Manifesting Divinity and Benevolence, the Sagely and Heroic King of Magnificent Proclamations and Loyal Benevolence, the Great Emperor of Benevolence and Holiness Who Benefits the People, the True Lord of Supreme Unity Who Upholds the Way of Qingyuan Miaodao, the Great Celestial Worthy Who Protects the Nation and Bestows Prosperity, the Great Emperor of Sichuan, the Celestial Worthy of Divine Might and Manifestation...
Lu Bian couldn't imagine what would happen if he truly enraged Erlang Shen.
He was probably already angry over what had happened to his younger sister, right?
Hmph~!
You've made trouble for yourself by picking a fight with me.
Because you won't have any trouble at all.
I can't be bothered.
If you, Erlang Shen, come after me again... Fine, I'm dead for sure.
His thoughts changed in the blink of an eye. That was Lu Bian's personality, through and through.
Kakashi Hatake: [Group owner, you're being a bit of a pushover, aren't you?]
Lu Bian: [What do you mean, pushover?]
Lu Bian: [I'm an honest man. What's wrong with being a little honest?]
Lu Bian: [Should I go to Guanjiang Estuary and tell Erlang Shen to his face, "The east side of the river may be down today, but it'll rise again in thirty years. Don't bully a poor young man"?]
Shi Tianwu: [There's nothing wrong with backing down.]
Lu Bian: [Now that's what I like to hear.]
Lu Bian: [Keeping a low profile is the way to go.]
Lu Bian: [If I weren't still a person, if I weren't still attached to the splendors of this world, I'd have found a cave in the mountains and become a caveman long ago.]
Kakashi Hatake: [What's a caveman?]
Lu Bian: [A primitive human.]
Shi Tianwu: [How are your injuries today? Have you changed the dressing?]
Lu Bian: [I have.]
Shi Tianwu: [Focus on improving your cultivation first. Once it's improved, use cell reconstruction to heal your hands.]
Shi Tianwu: [From what I can tell, the gods over there aren't much different from the Martial Gods over here. You're better off keeping your distance when it comes to them. And don't pray to the gods in your daily life, either. Once you do, you'll owe them.]
Lu Bian: [Understood.]
After the whole ordeal with the Howling Celestial Dog, Lu Bian's restless mood settled back into its old ways.
A transmigrator from the twenty-first century, the owner of the Chat Group spanning all heavens, a practitioner of Ultimate Boundless Qigong—these were all titles and identities I, Lu Bian, had gained one after another. Each sounded more impressive and carried more prestige than the last.
Ever since transmigrating, my magnetic power and cultivation had steadily grown. My divine arts were so powerful that no one in the mortal realm could compare to me, Lu Bian.
Compare?
Perhaps I'd even far surpassed some of the gods in heaven...
Erlang Shen had happened to pass by and kicked Lu Bian, making him sit at the same table as a dog. It had brought him back to his senses.
Without parents, without family or friends, utterly alone—transmigration had made him invincible, but Lu Bian had no invincible power.
Shi Tianwu: [Lu Bian, the Chat Group upgrade is complete. There's a new feature.]
Lu Bian: [I'm at the Twelfth Heaven of power now. The Chat Group's new feature is probably just for entertainment, right?]
Shi Tianwu: [The new title feature lets you add a title prefix before a member's name. Like this.]
(Only Martial God) Shi Tianwu: [See?]
(Easiest Person to Provoke) Lu Bian: [I see.]
(Group Owner) Lu Bian: [There are so many titles I can wear, and I can even make up my own!]
(Only Martial God) Shi Tianwu: [I have several titles, too.]
(Ten Outstanding Young People of Konohagakure) Kakashi Hatake: [What's that supposed to mean?]
Shi Tianwu changed his default title. The title Only Martial God revealed a little too much.
(World's Strongest Man) Edward Newgate: [This is interesting.]
(Dark Knight) Bruce Wayne: [What is this? How do I change it?]
(I Love Pasta) Bruce Wayne: [Oh, I see.]
Lu Bian: [There's another new feature. Our group can listen to music now.]
Lu Bian: [@(I Love Pasta) Mr. Bruce Wayne, could you share some music you usually like listening to?]
[Bruce Wayne shared his playlist]
Lu Bian: [My life's getting better, too. Now I can enjoy the same music as Mr. Bruce.]
Chatting with his friends and shooting the breeze lifted Lu Bian's spirits.
Lu Bian's zodiac sign was the Rat. Now he was going to find a rat hole to hide in and spend his days there.
As expected, a life of rising to prominence wasn't for him, Lu Bian.
Lu Bian, the sculpting master who had burst onto the scene, vanished as quickly as a shooting star.
Lu Bian left Luzhou City and headed south.
Lu Bian planned to go to the southern land of colorful clouds and become a "Smurf." In his memory, it had the best climate, the most suitable place for people to live. But it wasn't part of the Great Song Kingdom—it was part of the Dali Kingdom.
That was no problem.
The Great Song Kingdom and Dali Kingdom shared a language and culture, and back in the Former Tang, they had all been one family.
He would find somewhere in Dali Kingdom to cultivate in peace, and focus on cultivation until he could heal his hands with Magnetic Rotation Reconstruction.
Dali Kingdom bordered western Luzhou, so Lu Bian's wish to go there and become a "Smurf" came true in less than half a month.
After entering Dali Kingdom, Lu Bian struck up a conversation with a Song merchant traveling the same way. "They say Guanyin Bodhisattva showed the founding emperor of Dali Kingdom the route his army should take across the river to conquer the land, and told him to name his new country Dali..."
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