At the foot of Mount Longhu, there is a mountain range stretching for dozens of miles. With mountains and water nearby, many ancient buildings are situated along the way, resembling a bustling ancient town.
Such an ancient town should logically have been opened to tourists for sightseeing long ago.
However, most of the people coming and going here are Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes, and the occasional few people in modern attire are local residents.
The most dazzling structure in the small town is an eighteen-storey high-rise building.
This high-rise is embedded in the mountainside, with a hundred-metre-high cliff below it, and a rushing river at the very bottom.
A skybridge about fifty metres long and ten metres wide connects the opposite bank to the Lu family!
However, ordinary people would not take this skybridge to enter the Lu family estate.
Because although this skybridge is the main gate of the Lu family, the difficulty of crossing it is far too great.
As the ancestral court of Taoism and the orthodox Taoist lineage, every part of Mount Longhu naturally contains hidden mysteries. Often, even an inconspicuous old pine tree could be a formation!
This skybridge of the Lu family was originally the first barrier to stepping onto Mount Longhu. Legend has it that this formation was personally laid down by Celestial Master Zhang back in the day.
The title of Celestial Master was originally an honourific term for those who conformed to the natural way of heaven. But in reality, the true Celestial Master originated from the mouth of the Yellow Emperor, as an honourific title for his own teacher.
There are even legends that a true Celestial Master could subdue a Qilin.
This shows just how extraordinary the title of Celestial Master truly is!
And Celestial Master Zhang of Mount Longhu is even more remarkable. Even the half-immortal Yuan Tiangang would have to obediently address him as Celestial Master.
Such figures are practically mythical. How could a formation personally laid down by such a person be ordinary?
Since ancient times, this skybridge has blocked countless people. Even during the wartime back in the day, when the enemy set up twenty cannons to bombard it in turns, the skybridge did not suffer the slightest damage!
Those who rashly step onto the bridge will fall into the rushing river in the abyss below.
To walk this skybridge, one must be a cultivation practitioner, and one must be at least at the Divine Connection Realm!
This is exactly why Lu Zihao has been looking forward to watching Luo Chen make a fool of himself.
After all, Luo Chen’s cultivation is now completely scattered, and his body is entirely devoid of magical power. If Luo Chen were to walk this skybridge, there would absolutely be only one outcome, falling into the abyss beneath the bridge and dropping into the river!
Moreover, this is Luo Chen’s first time visiting the Lu family. Whether it is Luo Chen or the Lu family, they are both considered prominent figures in the cultivation world.
Even if the Lu family did not invite many people from the cultivation world, those people would come to watch the excitement on their own.
If the peak of China were to fall into that river in front of so many people from the cultivation world, it would be enough to make people laugh their teeth out.
By the time they arrived at the main gate of the Lu family, quite a few people had already gathered there.
However, most of them were from the younger generation and people who had come to watch the excitement.
But among these people, there were no shortage of those who were famous in the cultivation world.
As for the older generation of the Lu family, including Lu Heshan, they had not come out yet.
“Do you think, since Luo Wuji is here to finalise the marriage engagement with the Lu family, will they also follow the rules and make him walk across this skybridge?” The speaker was a cultivation practitioner from Yunnan, around forty years old. Judging from his aura, he had already entered the Dao.
At this moment, a trace of mockery crossed the corner of his mouth, as if he were waiting to watch a good show.
“That is highly unlikely. After all, Luo Wuji is about to be the son-in-law of the Lu family. Now that his cultivation is completely scattered and he has been reduced to a cripple, if they make him walk across this skybridge and he makes a fool of himself, it would ruin not just Luo Wuji’s reputation!”
“It would also ruin the reputation of the Lu family!” another cultivation practitioner from Western Sichuan chimed in.
“But Luo Wuji is still the peak of China after all. Coming to the Lu family, could it be that he has to enter through some unconventional side path?”
“Then that would just make people laugh,” a cultivation practitioner from Guangxi sneered. He was very close to the people from the Luofu Mountain lineage and was one of the few who despised Luo Chen the most.
Right at this moment, the Mercedes-Benz in front stopped at the head of the bridge, and Luo Chen’s Rolls-Royce also pulled over and stopped.
Lu Zihao, Lu Shuixian, and the others got out of the cars one after another.
Especially Lu Shuixian. As soon as she stepped out of the car, almost everyone turned their gaze towards her.
Her posture was graceful and elegant, and her entire being exuded an otherworldly aura.
She was like a fairy who did not partake of mortal food.
“Hehe, Fairy Lu!”
“Is Fairy Lu well?”
“Long time no see, Fairy Lu!”
Many people in the crowd stepped forward to greet her, and there were even figures from the older generation who stepped out to cup their fists and bow to Lu Shuixian.
After all, Lu Shuixian had already half-stepped into the Awakening Realm at this point. Compared to those in the Entering the Dao and Divine Connection Realms, she truly deserved a cupped-fist bow.
And some young people simply thought Lu Shuixian was too beautiful, a beauty that could spell disaster!
“How about it?”
“I told you I am very popular in my family, right?” After responding to everyone one by one, Lu Shuixian raised her eyebrows, revealing a smug expression, and looked at Annie beside her.
This was the treatment she, Lu Shuixian, deserved, rather than being left waiting at the airport for three days and three nights by a cripple!
Subsequently, Lu Shuixian turned her gaze towards the Rolls-Royce, and Luo Chen and Feilong slowly got out of the car as well.
Although many people also cast their gazes towards Luo Chen after he got out,
not a single person greeted him.
Many people even had faint hostility and disdain in their eyes.
If it were in the past, if Luo Chen appeared before these people, they would have probably swarmed around to flatter him long ago.
But now?
Who would still pay attention to a cripple?
The commotion caused by Lu Shuixian getting out of the car and the cold reception Luo Chen received formed a stark contrast in an instant.
Moreover, many people shook their heads, looking at Luo Chen and then at Lu Shuixian, feeling that it was quite unfair to her.
If Luo Chen were marrying Lu Shuixian before, it could still be called a match made in heaven, and it would absolutely be a great story in the cultivation world!
But now, whether in terms of appearance, temperament, background, identity, or strength, people could not help but feel that a beautiful flower had been planted in a pile of cow dung!
“Sigh, I really do not know what the head of the Lu family is thinking.” A cultivation practitioner of the current generation from Mount Longhu shook his head and sighed.
“Mr. Luo, please proceed?” Lu Zihao walked past the crowd, arrived in front of Luo Chen, and made a gesturing motion of invitation towards him.
“Zihao.” Lu Shuixian frowned.
Although they had been insulting Luo Chen in various ways and discussing him behind his back along the way,
now that they had truly arrived at this skybridge, she, Lu Shuixian, could not really let her fiancé walk across it.
After all, she was not stupid. If she let Luo Chen walk this skybridge and he fell, the ones losing face would not just be Luo Chen, but also the Lu family and herself!