12dz Chapter 604 Leaving the Lotus Palace
Chapter 604 Leaving the Lotus Palace
Despite Tang Jianshan and the others' pursuit and obstruction, Lin Ping smiled calmly and said, "Who said I was going down the mountain?"
Having said that, Lin Ping unleashed his full speed and ran towards Cold Moon Peak.
On the way to Cold Moon Peak, there were almost no obstacles, and Lin Ping passed through without hindrance. In a short while, he had disappeared without a trace.
"Hmph, don't think you're safe just because you've hidden in Cold Moon Peak. Even if I have to dig three feet into the ground, I will find you." After Mei Jiecao knocked Jiang Yunying and Guo Zhiqian back with a single palm strike, he led over a hundred disciples up the mountain to search for them.
"Junior Brother Mei, go ahead up the mountain. I'll be waiting at the foot of the mountain. I won't give this brat a chance to escape," Tang Jianshan said solemnly.
There was only one way down the mountain, so they weren't afraid that Lin Ping would escape.
"If you want to get down the mountain alive, you'll have to grow wings!" Mei Jiecao laughed heartily.
The Lotus Palace is surrounded by cliffs on all sides. Even experts from the Red Lotus Realm cannot climb it, let alone a young boy like Lin Ping.
To descend the mountain, one must pass through the outer gate's cave, but Tang Jianshan has blocked this path.
“Junior sister, you shouldn’t have brought him back,” Jiang Yunying sighed.
Their identities are special, so they won't be implicated, but Lin Ping is an enemy of the Lotus Palace, and this trip is likely to be fraught with danger.
“I never expected my junior brother’s identity to be exposed. If I had known, I would have broken his legs rather than let him go up the mountain.”
Guo Zhixi blamed herself, saying that she wanted to take the opportunity to keep Lin Ping, but she didn't expect that her plan would backfire and harm him instead.
Seeing the members of the Enforcement Hall angrily climbing Cold Moon Peak, the two sisters were extremely worried, hoping for a miracle, but they didn't know what kind of miracle could happen.
Could it be that Lin Ping can actually sprout wings and fly away?
This idea is so absurd and impractical.
After going up the mountain, Lin Ping went straight to the forbidden area where Chu Rujun cultivated, a place he had visited many times before.
"Keep burning, the bigger the fire, the better!" Lin Ping held a torch in his hand and carefully lit the kerosene in the iron pot.
As the kerosene burned, the umbrella-shaped object made of canvas above grew larger and larger, eventually rising up along with the entire bamboo basket.
When Mei Jiecao found Lin Ping, he was already dozens of meters above the ground.
This is a hot air balloon, which uses the combustion of kerosene to consume oxygen in the air, thereby reducing its overall weight and achieving the purpose of floating.
The hot air balloon wasn't prepared on short notice; it was originally prepared for Guo Zhixi's arrival.
Lin Ping was unsure whether Guo Zhixi would expose his identity, so he built this hot air balloon as a precaution.
Looking back now, I realize how prescient he was.
"It flew, it flew, Lin Ping took flight."
"So he really can fly. No wonder he was so fearless. The Lotus Palace couldn't hold him at all."
The disciples of Lotus Palace craned their necks in anticipation, undoubtedly regarding Lin Ping as a god-like figure.
"How is this possible? How can a bamboo basket fly?" Mei Jiecao was completely dumbfounded and didn't know what to do.
"Junior brother did it! He really flew!" Guo Zhixi looked at the sky with joy.
"My wife, please take good care of yourself. I will definitely come back again." Lin Ping spread his hands into a megaphone shape and solemnly called out to Jiang Yunying.
At that moment, Jiang Yunying put aside all her worries and answered loudly in return, "I'll wait for you!"
As a traditional woman from ancient times, Jiang Yunying believed in fate.
But just a moment ago, she was inspired by Lin Ping's indomitable spirit and decided to go crazy with him.
Even the worst outcome is better than doing nothing.
The hot air balloon was not fast; it flew with the wind and it took a quarter of an hour just to leave the Lotus Palace.
"Chase it! Everyone, chase it!" Mei Jiecao still didn't give up and ordered his disciples to chase after the hot air balloon in the direction it was heading.
They are all experts, and their speed is no slower than that of a hot air balloon. As long as they keep chasing, they will eventually catch up with Lin Ping's landing.
"Lotus Palace, I don't care how powerful you were before, if you mess with me, Lin Ping, you're doomed!" Lin Ping muttered to himself with an icy expression.
"Your wife's grandmaster uncle? I'd like to see who you are and whether you can hunt me down for thousands of miles."
Besides hating the Lotus Palace, Lin Ping also blacklisted Jiang Lanfeng's senior brother, and he was the kind of person who had to be eliminated.
"Damn, they've caught up already?" Lin Ping looked down and saw a dense mass of Lotus Palace disciples below the hot air balloon.
Lin Ping was getting anxious. There wasn't much kerosene in the hot air balloon, and it wouldn't last more than two hours.
When the kerosene burned out, he could only obediently land and then be killed.
"No, we need to find a way to shake them off." Lin Ping, who was not far from the hot pot, scurried around like an ant.
"Haha, I've got an idea. As long as we try to choose the skies above rivers and mountains, the people from the Enforcement Hall won't be able to catch us."
Lin Ping admired his own intelligence; flying in the air, he ignored the terrain obstacles, while Mei Jiecao, walking on the ground, had to consider them.
There was one problem that stumped Lin Ping: this was just a basic hot air balloon, without a power device to control its direction.
In other words, he goes wherever the wind blows, and whether the capital city below is flat or not is not up to him.
Even nature was helping him; the southeast wind blew him to fly northwest, yes, the direction where there were no mountain roads for eight hundred miles.
"Brother Feng, I didn't borrow the east wind, can you change direction?" Lin Ping cried out in desperation, admiring himself for learning Zhuge Liang's skill of borrowing the east wind.
But how do I return it?
"Lin Ping, you can't escape!" Mei Jiecao kept shouting from below the hot air balloon.
"Dozens of people are chasing me, you really have no morals!" Lin Ping kept spitting thick phlegm down, hoping to drown the other person.
Mei Jiecao felt as if he had been hit by a critical strike, and seemed to understand the good intentions behind his parents' choice of this name.
The disciples next to him couldn't help but laugh out loud, and were almost slapped in the face by Mei Jiecao's icy gaze.
It flew and flew, for dozens of miles.
They chased and chased for dozens of miles.
Mei Jiecao was panting heavily, not from running, but from shouting.
He then realized that he was also quite skilled at verbal sparring.
Lin Ping couldn't help but urinate. Because he hadn't drunk water for a long time, the urine was a bit yellowish, and when it landed on Mei Jiecao's face... it smelled terrible!
"You brat, if you dare to pee on me, I'll tear you to pieces!" Mei Jiecao was so angry he was itching to be peed on; the feeling of being peed on was really unpleasant.
"This old thing can really run fast. I've almost run out of kerosene." Lin Ping looked at the bottom of the pot, his eyebrows almost burning off.
"This kid can fly pretty fast, the soles of his shoes are almost worn through." Mei Jiecao looked at the shoes with two toes sticking out, a little embarrassed.
If he had known this would happen, he should have chased after them on horseback.
Just as the hot air balloon was about to give up, Lin Ping suddenly noticed a dark mass of soldiers ahead.
"Isn't this Lao Pang? My dear baby!" Lin Ping sang and danced excitedly, finally seeing a glimmer of hope.