"What's so surprising about that? Plenty of people in this world look alike. It's hardly strange for one or two to look exactly the same!" Luo Youyou blinked her bright eyes.
Luo Qing shook his head. "No. I sensed our Luo family's bloodline in him."
Hearing this, the other three were stunned, and the same far-fetched notion sprang into their minds. "Could the ancestor... really have come back to life?"
They were all gifted disciples of the family and knew some of its secrets. Otherwise, they would not have stayed here to cultivate so diligently.
With this improbable conjecture in mind, they soon returned to the Luo family's medicine hall.
As soon as they arrived, someone pointed at the donkey by the entrance and said, "Whose horse is this? Why is it so ugly? It looks just like a donkey!"
"Horse, my ass! Your whole family are horses! Take a good look-this demon is a donkey!"
"Who? Who's talking?" Luo Tianyuan tensed all over and looked around.
"Your grandpa Donkey!"
The four looked over and saw the donkey's face brimming with anger, as though he felt humiliated yet did not dare lash out.
"A talking donkey? He must at least be a demon in the Divine Bridge Realm, the third realm of the Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm, right?" Luo Youyou covered her mouth in astonishment.
The donkey looked thoroughly offended. "Divine Bridge? Who are you looking down on? This demon is a mighty demon of the Dragon Transformation Realm!"
"Dragon Transformation? Doesn't that put you in the same realm as our family head?" Luo Qing's face filled with shock.
Looking proud, the donkey released the slightest wisp of his aura, once again shocking the doubting youths into speechlessness.
"Feel that? That's the power of Dragon Transformation!" The donkey swaggered smugly, thoroughly enjoying himself.
All four went pale, terror in their eyes. Fighting the trembling in their hearts, they said, "May we ask what brings you here, Senior? This is our Luo family's medicine hall..."
It was not that they wanted to act this way, but the donkey's strength was simply too terrifying. A mere wisp of his aura made them feel as though they faced a formidable enemy, their souls trembling with uncontrollable fear.
That was how it was when low-level cultivators faced high-level cultivators. When the gap between their realms was too great, the suppression of rank was terrifying.
The donkey raised his muzzle and said resentfully, "A kind man gets ridden, and a kind donkey gets bullied..."
"Ahem." A soft cough came from inside the medicine hall.
"What I meant was, following Senior is the greatest happiness of my life, as Donkey Erdan!"
The four understood. This imposing demon expert had been forcibly taken as a mount by someone even stronger.
A powerful cultivator more unfathomable than even someone in the Dragon Transformation Realm!
And that person was inside the medicine hall...
For a moment, none of the four dared even breathe. Had the Yaoguang Holy Land made its move?
"Could it be a peerless expert from the Yaoguang Holy Land?" Luo Youyou voiced her guess, her face deathly pale. At such a sensitive time, no faction other than the Yaoguang Holy Land would come calling. No one would risk offending such a colossus to befriend the Luo family.
Ever since their ancestor's death, the Luo family's standing had plummeted, falling from a super family to a top-tier family, and it was still declining. If not for the three Dragon Transformation Realm elders holding the fort, they probably would not even have been able to retain their reputation as a top-tier family.
Now, even a single holy land elder could decide whether the Luo family lived or died!
Thus, this person could only be a top expert from the Yaoguang Holy Land!
Was the Luo family... doomed to destruction after all?
Perhaps handing over little sister Xian'er was the only way...
The moment that thought appeared, Luo Youyou was startled by her own thinking. Sacrificing an innocent little girl for the family-was that something a human being could do? In other words, only someone worse than a beast would do such a thing!
"The Yaoguang Holy Land? I think I've heard of it. A very powerful place!" The donkey searched his memory carefully. He seemed to have heard of this place somewhere.
"Senior, you aren't from the Yaoguang Holy Land?" Luo Qing asked. Things seemed different from what they had imagined.
The donkey opened his great mouth. "I don't know! Not long ago, I was still in the mountains eating spirit herbs, living peacefully in a paradise beyond the world. Then one day, a huge hand that blotted out the sky reached down and grabbed me, so I was forced... to follow Senior willingly!"
Luo Tianyuan asked, "Then, Senior, do you know whether the senior you willingly follow is an expert from the Yaoguang Holy Land?"
The four held their breath, waiting for his answer.
If he was, then the Yaoguang Holy Land had finally made its move against the Luo family. If not, perhaps this person was simply passing through.
Luo Qing, however, recognized the donkey and asked in a trembling voice, "May I ask, Senior Donkey, is the senior you speak of the one who led you into the city today?"
The donkey stared at him. "I've seen you before. You're that boy at the city gate! Who besides that senior would dare lead me around? I'd kick them to death!"
Hearing the donkey's explanation, Luo Qing looked utterly stunned and muttered in disbelief, "The ancestor... isn't dead!"
The other three sucked in a breath of cold air and entered the medicine hall with uneasy hearts.
At that moment, Luo Tianlin was beside a young man, serving him tea and water with utmost reverence.
"Luo Tianlin? Doesn't he usually act like he fears neither heaven nor earth?" At the sight, they were struck speechless. The truth had become reality.
That seemingly ordinary young man really was their Luo family's ancestor, whose soul lamp had gone out!!!
The four approached, their voices solemn. "Your junior, Luo Youyou, pays her respects to the ancestor..."
"Your junior, Luo Tianyuan, pays his respects to the ancestor!"
"Your junior, Luo Huaimu, greets the ancestor!"
"Your junior, Luo Qing, greets the ancestor!"
They were utterly respectful, not daring to show the slightest neglect.
Although his legend occupied only a few scant lines in the history of the Eastern Wasteland, almost everyone within the Luo family knew it.
As a child, he had caught the eye of a mysterious figure and been accepted as that person's final disciple. At ten, he opened his Bitter Sea; at twelve, he entered the Life Spring; at fourteen, he stepped onto the Divine Bridge; and at sixteen, he ascended to the Other Shore. Having completed the four realms of the Sea of Bitterness, he began to distinguish himself. In the Dao Palace Realm, he gained an initial command of the Time Divine Art, becoming invincible within his realm. Fighting those of higher realms was as routine as eating a meal.
Later, in the Four Extremes Secret Realm, he was invincible throughout the Eastern Wasteland. He defeated a peerless divine physique of a Desolate Ancient Family and suppressed prodigies on the level of holy sons and holy maidens, wielding the art of time with transcendent mastery.
In the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, he forged his own life-bound treasure, the Time Mirror! At tremendous cost, he could use the mirror to return to the past and slay his opponents in their youth, erasing them from the world. From then on, the whole world became his enemy!
At Immortal Platform One, the Half-Step Great Power Realm, no one among his peers could match him, so he could only set out alone along the Starry Sky Ancient Road...
The next news of the ancestor came from the depths of the starry sky...
Ancestor Luo Yan had been surrounded by the myriad races of the starry sky intent on killing him. In his fury, he used heaven-reaching methods to cut away a span of time...
The myriad races fell silent!
Supreme experts used supreme divine arts to investigate, only to discover in horror that everything on the Starry Sky Ancient Road during that span of time had been cut away by the Luo family's ancestor, as though it had never existed in history!
In the end, a peerless expert used an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to examine that stretch of history, yet uttered only a single sentence:
Luo Yan... had become a Saint!
Yet the myriad races of the universe all knew that Luo Yan might be more than just a Saint...
Recalling all their ancestor's glorious deeds, the four felt immense pressure as they stood before this seemingly unremarkable man.
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