Chapter 592 [First Update] 592

Liu Che had no choice but to turn a blind eye to Lu Xuan. It didn't matter if Lu Xuan came, since his son had to accompany him to heaven anyway. Lu Xuan could only stand on the ground and watch.

Thinking of this, Liu Che felt a lot more comfortable.

Liu Tan squeezed Lu Xuan's fingers. Lu Xuan carefully adjusted his cloak and said, "It's cold up there. Be careful."

Chen Ajiao, who was about to come over to give instructions: ...

For a moment, Chen Ajiao had a very strange feeling, as if her son was no longer hers.

This feeling was not as strong as when she married her daughter.

Liu Tan smiled and followed him up to the Star Picking Platform. At this time, the air cushions below had been fully inflated. After Liu Che took the elevator up, he looked down and felt something was strange.

However, when he looked up again, he found that the lights outside the palace were indeed bright. In fact, it was not only outside the palace, but the inside of the palace was also very beautiful. In addition, the homes of several high-ranking officials next to the palace were also well decorated. For a while, the whole Chang'an really became a sea of ​​lanterns.

Liu Che stood on the Star Picking Terrace and said with a smile: "This is already very beautiful."

Liu Tan said, "This angle is average."

From this angle, they are only slightly higher than the lanterns outside, and many of the shorter lanterns cannot actually be seen.

As they spoke, the hot air balloon was being set up.

Liu Che turned his head and looked behind him. This was the first time he saw a hot air balloon.

Liu Tan had done a good job of keeping the hot air balloon secret when he was tinkering with it, and Liu Che was not in a hurry to see it, which led to him staring wide-eyed when he saw the hot air balloon for the first time.

Not only him, but even the people standing below widened their eyes - they had never seen such a huge monster.

No, or rather, I have never seen such a huge creature that can float in the air.

Originally, Liu Che thought that the tower ship his son had built was already very tall, but he didn't expect that the hot air balloon would be even taller than it.

Because the distance was very close, Liu Che could not see the full picture of the hot air balloon even if he looked up.

But the people below saw it very clearly.

Liu Tan waited for a while, and when he saw that Liu Che had already begun to react, he said, "Father, let's go."

As he spoke, he extended his hand towards Liu Che.

He originally just wanted to eliminate Liu Che's uneasiness about facing unfamiliar things, but for some reason, he always felt something was wrong when he made this action, and subconsciously looked down.

Everyone below was looking up at them, and Liu Tan easily found Lu Xuan's figure among them.

He thought, he knew why something felt wrong.

However, Liu Che's reaction was completely different from what he expected. He directly held Liu Tan's hand and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid."

Liu Tan: ???

He made the hot air balloon and secretly tried it himself. What was there for him to be afraid of?

Liu Che's hands were dry and warm, and he pulled his son into the hanging basket.

Liu Che, who entered the basket, was obviously curious about everything. He touched the basket, looked up at the oil barrels and fuel pool above his head, and after visually determining that he could not touch them, he shifted his gaze to the fans.

He couldn't help but laugh when he saw these fans and asked, "The fans you sent to the palace before were the ones you came up with when you were making this?"

Liu Tan replied, "Yes, at the time I just wanted to provide some power to the hot air balloon. As it turned out, the wind felt quite cool, so I invented the fan."

In fact, he didn't feel the wind, but after he made it, he naturally thought of it as a fan.

Liu Che looked at Liu Tan with a smile. His son was becoming more and more perfunctory. It sounded like he explained why he invented the fan, but in fact... he didn't say how he came up with the idea of ​​the fan on the hot air balloon.

So this should also be something from the fairy world.

But it didn't matter. He could tolerate his son's little bit of insolence. After all, only by letting Liu Tan relax would more things from the fairy world appear, and he would be closer to that world and understand that world better.

He even had a premonition that once he truly understood that world, perhaps that would be the time when he would truly find the fairyland.

As the door of the hanging basket was closed and flames started above his head, Liu Tan began to check whether Liu Che's clothes were properly put on - he was not pretending, but it was really cold up there.

At least he was already very cold on the Star Picking Platform, and he didn't dare to think about what would happen if he rose another six meters.

The wind on the Star Picking Platform was quite strong, and the fan could rotate on its own without much help. After a while, the hot air balloon began to rise slowly.

Liu Che, who was standing inside the hanging basket, only felt his feet shaking a little, and then he felt a little bit of weightlessness.

In fact, he was no stranger to this feeling, after all, it was the same when he took the elevator.

The hot air balloon rose very slowly, so slowly that Liu Che could feel the process of rising bit by bit.

The people standing below became smaller and smaller, while the brightly lit Chang'an City in the distance became more and more complete in the field of vision.

When he rose to a height of about ten feet from the Star-Picking Platform, Liu Che saw a flash of light.

He subconsciously followed the light and found that the light came from Liu Tan's mansion. In the backyard of Liu Tan's mansion, it was as bright as day. The light from the braziers and lanterns was reflected on the ice sculptures and then reflected by the ice sculptures. Different light could be seen from different angles, which was really interesting.

But at this height, he could only see something but couldn't see what it was.

He did not ask in a hurry, but waited slowly for the hot air balloon to rise. After it reached a certain height, he felt a shock under his feet, and then found that the hot air balloon stopped rising and just floated in the air.

Liu Che did not hurriedly ask why the hot air balloon did not continue to rise. His son had already reported to him long ago that it was not possible to fly freely.

What Liu Tan meant was that he was worried about losing control, but Liu Che... Liu Che had his own understanding. He thought that Liu Tan might be worried that the hot air balloon would keep flying and would reach the fairyland, which would then anger the immortal gods.

Liu Tan didn’t know what Liu Che was thinking, but even if he knew, he could only... let him be.

Liu Che's gaze fixed on Liu Tan's backyard. Only then did he see clearly that it was a group of crystal white statues, a tree with a very gorgeous yet very unfamiliar bird on it, and a group of birds circling between the tree and the gorgeous bird.

Liu Che looked at them for a long time and found that although the birds had some color on their bodies, most of them were translucent. Unsure of the material of these things, he couldn't help but ask, "You made sugar sculptures again?"

Liu Tan laughed and said, "No, using sugar is too extravagant. What if people criticize me for my poor taste? These are all made with water. They're ice sculptures."

Liu Che was a little surprised after hearing this. He glanced at Liu Tan and said, "You are quite experienced in playing in the water."

Liu Tan blinked, and for a moment he didn't know whether this was a compliment or not.

At this time, Liu Che had become more certain of his previous suspicions - perhaps his son's magic was related to water when he was in the fairyland.

Look at what he did after arriving in the Northern Kingdom. He has been dealing with water all the time and started building ships even though there was no sea in the Northern Kingdom. All this shows that his son has an inextricable bond with water.

Liu Tan had no idea where Liu Che's imagination was going, and he patiently explained to him what these things were: "That is a phoenix tree, and the one standing on the phoenix tree is a phoenix."

"Hmm?" Liu Che didn't react when he heard the word "Phoenix Tree," thinking it was a tree species unique to the immortal world. But after hearing the word "Phoenix," a hint of confusion crossed his face. "Phoenix? Is this what a Phoenix looks like?"

Liu Tan smiled and said, "Phoenix... there are many kinds, or rather, this species has many branches, each with a different name. It's just that people don't know much about phoenixes, so they are all called phoenixes."

Liu Tan did not say what the phoenix looked like in the eyes of the Han people. He avoided the topic, but Liu Che automatically understood that the phoenix they saw... was not a complete phoenix.

In fact, Liu Tan’s ice sculptures can indeed easily cause such misleading.

These days, the images of both dragons and phoenixes are relatively simple, basically consisting of some simple lines. However, Liu Tan's creations are different. Not to mention the dragon, it also has horns, scales and various other features.

The same is true for the phoenix today. It does look dazzling and is quite different from their phoenix.

Liu Che looked at the phoenix carefully, gestured and asked, "A real phoenix... must be very big, right?"

This question really stumped Liu Tan. He... had never seen a phoenix before?

However, if you think about it, the phoenix actually has many characteristics of the peacock. The size of the peacock, especially the length of its tail, can be applied to the phoenix.

No, you can even make the phoenix a little bigger than the peacock.

After all, it is a divine bird, so it should be treated like a divine bird.

Thinking of this, Liu Tan said calmly, "This ice sculpture is probably only 30% the size of a real phoenix."

There was a hint of surprise and understanding in Liu Che's eyes, and he felt that the divine bird should indeed have such a body.

He then asked, "What about the other birds?"

Liu Tan said, "This group of ice sculptures is called Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix. The phoenix is ​​the king of all birds, so when it is around, all the birds will come to pay homage to it."

Liu Che understood, smiled and said, "I heard that you prepared this for the Queen?"

Liu Tan said frankly, "Yes, I don't have anything else fun to do, so I'll just make some ice sculptures. This ice sculpture looks one way at night and another way during the day. It's also completely different when viewed from the sky and from the ground."

Liu Che was very interested after hearing this: "Then I have to go and see it too."

Well, it doesn’t matter even if it is something his son gave to Chen Ajiao. After all, all the land under heaven belongs to the king. Even if it belongs to the queen, it is still his!

Liu Tan didn't think there was anything wrong, so he just pointed to the other side and said, "Father, look over there."

The ice sculptures were indeed beautiful, but after seeing them for a long time, they were just that boring. What interested Liu Tan was the lanterns over there.

In fact, if Liu Tan hadn't made such a hot air balloon tonight, Liu Che and his men had originally planned to go out incognito to see the lanterns.

In the past, the emperor would go out to see the lanterns every year, and several times he would bring back beautiful ladies when he saw them at the Lantern Festival. Well, he was so shameless.

But this year is a little different. Watching the lanterns among the crowd is lively, but watching the lanterns in the sky has a sense of grandeur.

That is a kind of heroic spirit that holds the whole world in its grasp.

Liu Che looked down. He could not only see the lanterns, but he could even see the people coming and going beside the lanterns. The atmosphere of fireworks from thousands of lights suddenly made him feel that the human world was not much worse than the fairyland.

Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly noticed something was wrong. He raised his hand, pointed to the north, and asked, "What is that?"

Liu Tan looked up and smiled. "That's what I ordered. I placed some river lanterns in the Wei River. Does your Majesty think they look nice?"

Of course it is beautiful. When Liu Che went to the northern border country, Liu Tan once placed river lanterns in the pond of Changshou Palace, which made him feel amazing. Later, he also asked people to place such lanterns in the Kunchi of the palace from time to time.

However, the lanterns in the pond are usually fixed in one place and rarely move. Now, the river lanterns in the Wei River have been floating. At the beginning, only a part of the river had the light of the river lanterns. Later, these lights floated little by little and lit up the entire river. For a moment, the Wei River on the ground and the Milky Way in the sky seemed to echo each other, and Liu Che, who was in the middle of it, took it all in.

Liu Che stood on the hot air balloon and watched for a long time. The lanterns were actually floating very slowly, but he did not feel bored.

Seeing that the lanterns were almost gone, Liu Tan said, "Father, the wind is strong. Let's go down."

Of course, it’s not just because of the strong wind, but more because if it continues like this, there will not be enough fuel.

Liu Che took one last lingering look at the Wei River and Chang'an City. Seeing the reluctant expression on his face, Liu Tan smiled and said, "The hot air balloon is in the palace. Your Majesty can go up there whenever he wants."

After a pause, he added, "But you can't fly too high. This altitude is the limit."

This height is certainly not the limit. If you are not afraid of the cold, you can still go up a little bit.

But he didn't dare say this, for he was afraid that after he said it, Liu Che would turn around and fly away to heaven in the summer.

He was very clear about how courageous Liu Che was. Who would dare to lead a fleet out to sea to search for immortals when their equipment was not very good?

Liu Che dared!

Now hot air balloons are obviously more reliable than the ships of the past, so Liu Che would feel more confident and bold in going into space.

However, his words did comfort Liu Che very much.

Liu Che responded, then watched Liu Tan ask someone to stop the fan. The hot air balloon didn't react at first, but after a while, he felt the hot air balloon begin to slowly descend. Finally, when it descended to about one person's height, Liu Tan asked someone to reduce the flame, and then the hot air balloon began to continue to slowly descend.

After we landed completely on the Star Picking Platform, a group of people surrounded us, some bringing hot soup and some refueling the fuel tank.

Liu Che felt that he didn't feel anything when he was in heaven, but when he came down, he found that after staying there for a long time, the feeling was still different.

He turned to look at Liu Tan and found that Liu Tan had not come down. His expression changed slightly: "What are you still doing up there?"

Liu Tan smiled and said, "I am waiting for you, Mother. I want to take you to see the ice sculptures."

At this time, Chen Ajiao passed by Liu Che with an arrogant look and snorted slightly.

She was very dissatisfied that Liu Che saw the ice sculpture before her. It was obviously made by her son for her, but Liu Che got there first.

Liu Che was busy worrying about his condition at the moment and had no time to pay attention to Chen Ajiao.

At that moment, he even doubted whether his son would return to the sky in a hot air balloon.

This resulted in him staying on the Star-Picking Platform and waiting for a while even though he could have gone back.

Anyway, it takes very little time to go up and down.

He felt so, but for some reason, after Chen Ajiao started talking to Liu, he felt that time passed very slowly.

I couldn't help but glance up from time to time.

Liu Ju, who was standing by, thought Liu Che was worried, so he said, "Don't worry, Father. I wouldn't take anything out easily unless I was absolutely sure. Besides, there's a soft air cushion underneath. According to my brother, it wouldn't be that dangerous if you fall from it."

Liu Ju originally wanted to say that falling onto the air cushion would at most result in injuries, however, many things in this world cannot be explained, and if one really encounters a strong force, one might actually break the neck if he falls down, so he only said that the danger can be reduced but cannot say that there is no danger at all.

After hearing this, Liu Che narrowed his eyes slightly and said nothing. His eldest son had no idea what he was worried about.