After watching the docks a little longer, Xiao Yuzhi sent his four disciples away.
"All right, go about your business. You each have important duties now. There's no need to keep an old codger like me company."
The constables exchanged glances and smiled, but one of them hesitated before asking a question.
"Master, have you crossed that threshold yet?"
Xiao Yuzhi looked at his disciples and smiled.
"Reaching for the clouds and sticking your noses where they don't belong. Get going, all of you!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" "As you command!"
The renowned constables were not worried about their master in the slightest. He might have been seventy or eighty, but he was a treasure of the Great Yong Constabulary, his martial prowess at the very pinnacle. Some in the Ministry of Justice even claimed he had entered the Xiantian Realm.
Recently, storytellers in the Capital City had expanded on certain tales from the Four Seas and Mountains Record. One told of the origins of a treasure called the Sea-Calming Divine Needle. The renowned constables thought it an exceedingly apt description of their master: he was the Sea-Calming Divine Needle of the Great Yong Constabulary under the Ministry of Justice.
After his disciples left, Xiao Yuzhi remained on the outskirts of Heaven-Bearing Harbor, watching the bustle at the various docks. Only after a long while did he raise his eyes to the sky.
On the eve of his departure from Yuanjiang County all those years ago, his master had visited him in a dream, saying the Demon-Subduing Sacred Venerable had recruited him as a Heavenly God.
Years later, statues of a god named Lu Xin had indeed begun appearing in True Lord Temples, one after another. Xiao Yuzhi was willing to believe that his master truly had ascended to heaven and