Having not seen his family for almost half a year, Shushu missed them quite a bit and was too lazy to leave. After leaving the secret place, he grabbed Lu Li, who was standing next to him, and teleported to the front of the original courtyard.
Immediately afterwards, he couldn't wait to shake off Lu Li and rush inside.
However, no matter how many times he shook it, the sweet potato couldn't break free from Lu Li's hand and was still held firmly.
Shushu looked a little confused and turned around in bewilderment, only to meet Lu Li's equally puzzled gaze, as if asking her what she was doing.
Shushu choked, and before she could say anything, she swallowed it silently. She didn't struggle anymore, but continued to hold Lu Li's hand and happily pushed open the courtyard gate, shouting happily all the while.
"Grandpa, Father, Mother, I'm back."
The excited Shushu was completely unaware that Lu Li had been secretly glancing at their clasped hands several times, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up in a wide, uncontrollable smile.
When the sweet potato didn't get a response and looked over in confusion, he quickly suppressed his smile and reverted to his usual expression, a change of expression in a second.
So what Shushu saw was Lu Li, exactly the same as usual.
Shushu didn't think much of it, only glanced at him quickly before turning her attention back to the yard, muttering to herself, "Strange, why can't I see any mice?"
After muttering to herself, she called out again, still not believing it, "Grandpa, Grandfather, Father, Mother, I'm back."
The courtyard remained quiet; the usually enthusiastic people were nowhere to be seen, and not a single mouse responded.
Looking at the empty courtyard, Shushu's doubts deepened. Undeterred, he scanned the entire place with his divine sense and even knocked on the door of the Liuyue Sect next door.
But they found that both sides were empty, without a single person in sight.
Now, not only was Shushu surprised, but Lu Li couldn't help but become curious as well.
The senior and junior disciples exchanged a glance, and were about to take out their communication jade tokens to ask when they heard excited shouts and what sounded like the clash of weapons.
Following the sound, one could see another flight, different from the one in the secret place. A dragon and a phoenix seemed to be engaged in fierce battle, sometimes soaring into the air and sometimes descending.
Lu Li looked around several times before confirming the location: "That's the training ground."
Shushu repeated: "The training ground?"
Lu Li nodded in affirmation: "Yes."
Then, the senior and junior disciples looked at each other in confusion. So, they started fighting?
The two, having regained their senses, didn't dare to delay and rushed towards that direction at top speed.
Soon, the two arrived nearby and saw Long Yi fighting a phoenix named Lu Shu on the central arena.
Surrounding the arena were dragons and phoenixes, as well as treasure-hunting rats and members of the Flowing Moon Sect, in three concentric circles.
So everyone's come to watch the show. Shushu breathed a sigh of relief and, without disturbing the enthusiastic crowd, concealed his presence and quietly slipped into the encirclement to watch the spectacle.
Seeing this, Lu Li also reduced his presence and stayed close to Shushu.
Because the two of them had come in a low-key manner and were deliberately hiding themselves, and because the competition stage in front of them was indeed lively, the senior and junior brothers and sisters stood there for quite a while without anyone noticing them, and remained focused on the stage.
Seeing that the dragon and phoenix above had been fighting for a long time and were evenly matched, unable to determine a winner, the dragon and phoenix clans below began to come up with bad ideas.
One of the dragons shouted, "Long Yi, don't just focus on hitting it! Try tearing its feathers off. Tear all the feathers off its wings and see how it can fly then!"
Long Yi was also easily swayed. As soon as he heard that a dragon was coming up with an idea, before his mind had even cleared, the dragon's claws had already reached out towards Lu Shu's feathers faster than his brain could react.
Now it was the phoenixes' turn to complain, and someone even came up with a worse idea: "Lu Shu, if it pulls out your feathers, you should pluck out its dragon scales."
Lu Shu and Long Yi were of similar temperaments, and upon hearing this, Lu Shu immediately targeted Long Yi's most obvious weakness and began to attack.
A surprised exclamation immediately came from below: "Hey, I told you to remove the dragon scales, not the reverse scale! The dragon's reverse scale is reserved for its Daoist partner. You don't mean to become Daoist partners with this stinky dragon, do you?!"
The words 'Daoist Companion' are quite potent. Upon hearing this, Lu Shu's claws, which were about to reach the reverse scale, quickly released their grip as if burned, and turned to attack the other dragon scales nearby.
After grabbing a new dragon scale, she ripped it hard before taking a moment to retort in the direction of the voice, "Pah, I wouldn't even look at this stinky dragon."
This time, it was Long Yi's turn to be disliked and retort: "You talk as if I'd even look at you."
One sentence successfully ignited the anger of both sides. They snorted coldly at each other, one with fire in his eyes and the other with water in his claws, and they went for each other without any politeness.
In an instant, water and fire were locked in a fierce battle once again, with water trying to extinguish the fire and fire trying to evaporate the water.
Whether it's water and fire, or the people behind them, everyone is putting in their best effort to overpower the other and prove that they are the more powerful one.
Unfortunately, as the saying goes, the dragon and the phoenix are evenly matched, and neither can defeat the other.
In the end, Lu Shu couldn't stand it anymore, so she stretched her neck and prepared to use her most primal strength to capture Long Yi.
Long Yi wasn't about to let it succeed. With a flick of its tail, the dragon was about to smash into Lu Shu's head.
Lu Shu nimbly dodged, her eyes turning cold as she extended her usually concealed claws, fiercely grabbing at Long Yi's body.
Long Yi was startled and deftly moved aside, only to be met by equally sharp dragon claws.
The two claws collided, instantly producing a piercing sound and sparks flying everywhere. Both the dragon and the phoenix unconsciously took a half step back.
Immediately afterward, each emitted a loud dragon's roar and a phoenix's cry, and then the dragon and phoenix charged at each other with fierce eyes, clearly determined to fight to the bitter end.
Soon, they were no longer satisfied with the arena area and soared into the sky.
Both were expert fliers, so they began a chase through the clouds, one shooting rockets and the other launching water balloons.
You unleash a Water Dragon, I unleash Fire God's Wrath; all sorts of skills come out in quick succession, creating quite a spectacle. Wherever they pass, they stir up gusts of wind, with water and fire swirling around them.
As they fought, the dragon and the phoenix unknowingly came out of everyone's sight.
It wasn't until the two had shrunk to a tiny dot that everyone came to their senses.
The next moment, Rat Dad noticed the presence of Shushu and Luli, and his sharp eyes spotted the two holding hands.
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