Chapter 1039: Brother Lang and Emperor Li Zhi become sworn brothers

Lin Lang put the jade pendant given by Li Zhi into the storage compartment of his personal space. The warm touch of the mutton-fat jade still lingered on his fingertips. When he looked up, he saw Li Zhi rubbing his hands and walking towards the galloping horse.

Empress Wu said with a hint of concern, "Your Majesty, you're riding a galloping horse. Isn't there any danger of falling off the horse?"

Lin Lang said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty. I will patiently guide Your Majesty and there will be no mistakes."

Li Zhi couldn't help but feel curious, so he touched the electric bicycle and exclaimed: "This thing seems to be made of fine iron."

Before he finished speaking, the golden-armored guard behind him took half a step forward, as if he was very wary of Lin Lang, a stranger, fearing that he might have malicious intentions and try to assassinate him.

Lin Lang deliberately cleared his throat and patiently introduced: "Your Majesty, please take a look. Although this lightning horse is good, it requires some skills to control it."

"Your Majesty, please explain it to me in detail." Li Zhi stared at the electric bicycle.

Lin Lang picked up the key ring on the handlebar and shook it: "This is the 'Start Key', just like this..." With a slight turn of his wrist, the motor instantly emitted a low "hum", startling the nearest eunuch so much that he staggered back.

He pointed to the right handlebar and said, "This is the 'speed-increasing handlebar'. Just twist it and you're going. The left handlebar is the 'stop handlebar'. Use it when you're in a hurry."

"I understand. I can learn it once I learn it."

Li Zhi could no longer contain himself. He shook off the eunuch's support and stepped onto the carriage. He didn't even notice that the hem of his dragon robe was stuck in the gap of the seat.

"Your Majesty, hold on!" Lin Lang held the handlebars with both hands, and took advantage of the situation to gently support the body with his mind. "Try twisting it lightly first - yes, like twisting a Buddhist rosary..."

Li Zhi turned his right hand as instructed, and the electric bicycle shot out half a foot, startling him so much that he almost fell off.

"Slow down, slow down!" Lin Lang trotted after him. "This is the 'Beginning Stage'. Once Your Majesty is familiar with it, we can try the 'Gas Mode'!"

A strange sight suddenly took place in the square: the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, wearing a dragon robe with twelve emblems, and carrying two iron wheels under his buttocks, was circling crookedly, half supported and half controlled by Lin Lang.

The hem of the dragon robe swept across the ground, raising dust, which frightened the palace maids so much that they covered their mouths and dared not laugh. However, Empress Wu's eyes lit up, and the pearls on her phoenix hairpin trembled with her body.

Suddenly, Li Zhi stepped on the accelerator to the floor, and the horse rushed out with a roar. The guards were so frightened that they drew their swords and chased after him for three steps.

Lin Lang's fingertips moved slightly, using his mind power to help Li Zhi stabilize the tilted body of the electric bicycle. The bicycle actually turned smoothly. Li Zhi laughed out loud in the saddle: "Wonderful! It's like riding the wind! It's more fun than riding my own Ferghana horse!"

He rode more and more crazily, circling the bronze tripod in front of the palace three times, shouting, "I want to tour Suzaku Street." This frightened Empress Wu so much that she cried out, "Your Majesty, slow down! Be careful not to shake the dragon's body!"

Lin Lang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his thoughts wrapped around the car body like spider silk, and let Li Zhi turn the accelerator to the maximum, even though the wheels were about to emit sparks, he did not let him shake.

Seeing Li Zhi's face flushed with joy, even his beard was standing on end, Lin Lang took the opportunity to approach Empress Wu and said, "If your Majesty likes this, I have a three-wheeled electric horse with me. It's much more stable than a two-wheeled one, and you won't fall off or get hurt if you ride it."

Empress Wu's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said with great interest, "Oh? Where did the emperor put the three-wheeled electric horse? Bring it here for me to see."

Lin Lang waved his hand and conjured up a Qianhe brand three-wheeled electric bicycle from his personal space.

"Oh..."

Empress Wu was so shocked that she covered her mouth and exclaimed.

The eunuchs present widened their eyes, the whisks in their hands dropped unconsciously, their Adam's apples rolled up and down but they could not speak.

Several guards in golden armor clenched their swords so hard that they made a "clicking" sound. Their pupils reflected the three-wheeled, galloping horses that appeared out of thin air, their faces full of disbelief.

All the palace maids were stunned. They had seen a big world today.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, only the dust raised by Li Zhi's riding was still falling.

Li Zhi, who was riding an electric bicycle, suddenly slammed the handbrake, and the body of the bicycle stopped with a violent vibration. He staggered off the bicycle, and the eunuch who was running after him hurriedly held the electric bicycle steady for fear that the emperor would fall.

"What, what is this?!" Li Zhi rushed forward in two steps, his fingers almost poking at the car body. "Your Majesty, do you know any magical skills?"

Empress Wu was so shocked that her pearl hairpin swayed, and her eyes were filled with shock and fear. "I have never seen such a strange thing! Could it be that these three lightning-fast horses fell from the sky?"

She paced around the three-wheeled electric horse, her fingertips hovering over the body, hesitant to touch it, as if it were a ball of fire that would burn her.

Lin Lang was well prepared. He raised his hand in a false salute and said calmly, "Don't be alarmed, Your Majesty."

"This is the 'Qian Kun Na Wu Jue', passed down by successive emperors of our Hushang Kingdom. It can create a portable space to store things." Lin Lang raised his hand and made a half circle, a faint light passing through his sleeve. "Just now, I just took this thing out of the space."

"Our country of Shanghai is small but rich in resources. Although we don't have the vast territory of the Tang Dynasty, we are good at studying strange arts. This portable space was created by our ancestors using thousands of years of spiritual energy. It can store all things and use them at any time."

Empress Wu was amazed and said in a trembling voice, "Wonderful! This Qiankun Nawu Jue is a hundred times more mysterious than a magic trick!"

The guards around looked at each other, their hands holding the swords loosened a little, replaced by a mixture of awe and curiosity.

Li Zhi stroked his beard and laughed: "Great! Great Shanghai Kingdom! Since you have such amazing skills, why don't you show off a few more? Let me and the Queen open our eyes!" His eyes swept over Lin Lang, with both the pressure of an emperor and the expectation of a child.

Lin Lang stood with his hands behind his back, head held high and chest puffed out, the corners of his robe fluttering in the invisible air currents.

"Your Majesty, you may not know this, but successive rulers of our kingdom have possessed the secret of 'communication between heaven and earth,' a divine gift passed down through our bloodline. When I cry upon the ground, a gentle rain will fall; when a child plays, thunder will resonate in the heavens."

Before he finished speaking, Li Zhi paused twirling his beard, a flicker of suspicion in his eyes, a half-smile on his lips: "So miraculous? Is it an exaggeration?"

"Since Your Majesty has asked me, how dare I hide my incompetence?" Lin Lang raised his hand and tapped lightly on his wide sleeves, his fingertips tracing the air like plucking the strings of a zither, "Just wait and see—"

In an instant, the clear sky in front of the Golden Throne Hall suddenly twisted, and a wisp of dark cloud suddenly rose from the southeast, as if dragged by an invisible giant hand, turning into a vortex and swirling towards it.

The originally clear sky suddenly cracked in an area of ​​ten feet square above the ground, and fine raindrops fell, but only covered the square in front of the temple, and the copper bells on the eaves were not stained by a single drop of rain.

"This, this..." Empress Wu staggered half a step and held onto the Panlong Pillar, the pearls on the phoenix hairpin jingling as she trembled.

Li Zhi's eyes widened, his fingers twitching slightly under his dragon robe, and he kept saying, "How is this possible?"

Some guards even lost their swords and sat on the ground, muttering "living immortal".

Seeing this, Lin Lang curled the corners of his lips slightly and flicked his five fingers.

A whirlwind suddenly arose from the ground, and the wind swirled around the bronze tripod, but accurately avoided everyone's sleeves, and twisted the rain curtain into a silver water dragon.

Li Zhi's twelve-chapter dragon robe was blown up like a sail, but he was completely unaware. He stared at the wind and rain in the air, his Adam's apple rolling, "Do you think a real person can do such a thing?"

"It's just a trifle." Lin Lang snapped his fingers, and the rain curtain suddenly condensed in the air, turning into thousands of water droplets that hovered in the air and then dissipated in an instant.

The strong wind suddenly stopped, and the remaining clouds seemed to be crushed by an invisible giant hand. The sun poured down, and a seven-color rainbow bridge suddenly spanned the sky, with the tail of the rainbow just falling at the feet of Empress Wu.

"God bless Shanghai! God bless the Tang Dynasty!" An old eunuch was the first to prostrate himself and shout, and all the guards and palace maids in the room bowed down one after another.

Empress Wu trembled as she touched the shadow of the rainbow bridge, her eyes misty with tears. "Today, I know for the first time that such a divine technique exists in the world..."

Li Zhi eagerly grabbed Lin Lang's sleeve, his eyes full of worry: "My dear brother, I have a request for you. Can you agree to it?"

Lin Lang asked doubtfully, "What does your Majesty want?"

Li Zhi sighed and said, "The four prefectures of Yong, Hua, Pu, and Tong in our Great Tang Dynasty have recently been ravaged by drought."

"Now the people are suffering terribly. The fields are cracked and the crops are failing. They have no food to eat and no clothes to wear. They are struggling on the brink of life and death every day."

"I am extremely anxious, but I have no good solution."

"I have heard that my dear brother possesses the uncanny ability to summon wind and rain. I implore you, for the sake of the people of the world, to lend a helping hand and bring down rain for the people of the four states to overcome this drought. I will surely reward you handsomely and will not break my promise!"

Lin Lang looked embarrassed. "Your Majesty, to be honest, the previous emperor's ancestral teachings say that the power of the emperors of Shanghai, who have been able to summon the wind and rain, can only be used by the people of this country. This is the rule of our ancestors, and I dare not violate it lightly."

When Li Zhi heard this, his expression instantly darkened, his disappointment was evident in his words, and he sighed slightly.

Seeing this, Lin Lang changed the subject: "However, there is a turning point. Your Majesty, although the ancestral precepts are difficult to violate, there is a way to break them."

When Li Zhi heard this, hope rekindled in his eyes, and he quickly asked, "Brother, what are you talking about? Tell me quickly."

Lin Lang smiled faintly and said, "Your Majesty and I hit it off right away. It's a shame we met so late. If Your Majesty doesn't mind, I'd like to become your brothers. In this way, we'll be one family, and the affairs of the Tang Dynasty will naturally be my affairs. Then, if I use this magic to summon wind and rain to save the people of the four states of the Tang Dynasty, it won't be considered a violation of our ancestral teachings."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhi was delighted and laughed heartily, saying, "Excellent! This is a brilliant idea, my dear brother!"

"I also feel that I have a great affinity with you, my dear brother. I wish to become your sworn brother. It would be better to have a good day than to wait for one. Let us have a feast today, and then we can hold the sworn brotherhood ceremony during the dinner. What do you think?"

Lin Lang was delighted after hearing this: "I and Li Zhi have become brothers of different surnames. I wonder how this will be recorded in history books. Hehe..."

After reading it, Lin Lang bowed slightly, his expression solemn: "Since Your Majesty is so sincere, how can I refuse?"

"Your Majesty cares deeply about the people. I deeply admire your kindness. I am truly honored to be able to be your brother."

"From now on, the Tang Dynasty and the Kingdom of Shanghai will be as close as one family. Your Majesty's affairs are my affairs. After we become sworn brothers, I will use all my skills to pray for rain for the people of the four states and help the Tang Dynasty survive this disaster."

Li Zhi was overjoyed. He hugged Lin Lang's shoulders tightly, his eyes filled with joy and happiness. He laughed heartily and said, "Great! Great! It is a blessing for the Tang Dynasty and for all mankind to be able to become brothers with you today!"

"From now on, you and I, brothers, will join hands and there will be no need to worry about instability in the world and unrest among the people! After we become sworn brothers at the dinner, we will work together to eliminate this drought for the people of the four states!" Li Zhi's eyes were as clear and innocent as those of a modern college student.

Empress Wu walked lightly, a smile on her face, her eyes full of approval: "Today, Your Majesty and the Emperor of Shanghai have sworn brotherhood. This is truly a story that will be passed down through the ages. This is a blessing for our country. From now on, the Tang Dynasty and the Kingdom of Shanghai will be as close as one family. Working together, we will surely create a prosperous and great cause that will be praised by future generations."

It's so bloody. On the first day Lin Lang traveled to the Tang Dynasty, he became sworn brothers with Li Zhi and had the most powerful backer in the Tang Dynasty.