Slay the Gods: The spokesperson for Zhulong, starts with the God-killing Gun

Chapter 437 Recognizing a Younger Brother (Page 12)

Kunlun Mountain, the Jade Pool Wonderland.

The Peach Banquet is in full swing, with celestial music filling the air and nectar flowing like a river.

Lin Qiye stood by the Jade Pool, his gaze fixed on Erlang Shen Yang Jian not far away. The more he looked, the more he felt that the face was exactly the same as his younger brother Yang Jin!

"No, I need to confirm this!"

He took a deep breath, strode towards Yang Jian, and suddenly slapped the other man on the shoulder—

"Ah Jin! It's me, your brother!"

The whole place fell silent for a moment.

Yang Jian slowly turned his head, his third eye slightly opening, his face full of black lines: "...Sorry, I don't have a brother."

Lin Qiye grinned: "Not now, but will be in the future!"

The immortals: "???"

Sun Wukong was munching on a peach when he heard this and spat out a mouthful of peach flesh: "Pfft—! Erlang Shen, when did you get a brother?"

Nezha, riding on his Wind Fire Wheels, came closer, his face full of gossip: "Could it be your father's illegitimate child?"

Li Jing slapped Nezha on the back of the head: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Yang Jian's forehead veins throbbed, his third eye flashed with golden light, and he coldly swept his gaze over Lin Qiye: "Mortal, do you know what crime it is to impersonate a relative of a deity?"

Lin Qiye remained completely calm, instead saying earnestly, "I'm not impersonating you, you really are my brother!"

Yang Jian:"……"

Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye, and golden light enveloped Lin Qiye, attempting to see through his origins.

However, the golden light swept across, as if passing through an illusion, unable to touch it!

"Huh?" Yang Jian frowned. "You...don't exist in this world?"

Lin Qiye shrugged: "I told you, I'm your future brother."

Yang Jian remained silent for a moment, then suddenly turned to look at the Kunlun Mirror floating in the center of Yaochi—the mirror surface was like water, reflecting all the phenomena of the heavens.

He instantly realized: "So that's how it is... You come from the extremely distant future."

Lin Qiye nodded: "That's right!"

Zhang Yun, suppressing his laughter, blushed and secretly pulled out his phone (yes, the one he brought from the modern world), turned on the recording function, and pointed it at the two of them.

"Crack!"

The flash went off.

Yang Jian:"???"

Sun Wukong leaned closer: "Oh, what kind of magic weapon is this?"

Zhang Yun said in a serious tone: "This is the 'Photography Stone,' which can record all things in the world."

Nezha's eyes lit up: "Let me play with it!"

Zhang Yun: "No, this thing is very expensive."

Nezha pouted: "So stingy!"

The scene of Lin Qiye and Yang Jian "recognizing their kinship" instantly became the focus of the Peach Banquet.

The Queen Mother of the West sat on her high seat, watching this scene with great interest: "Yang Jian, your 'brother' is quite special."

Yang Jian said helplessly, "Your Majesty, please be wise, this person's origins are unknown..."

Lin Qiye interjected, "How is it not clear? My name is Lin Qiye, and I'm your brother!"

Yang Jian:"……"

Sun Wukong laughed so hard he rolled on the floor: "Hahaha! Erlang Shen, your older brother is quite persistent!"

Nezha added fuel to the fire: "Why don't you just admit it? It's not a loss to have another brother!"

Li Jing shook his head: "Nonsense!"

Master Yu Ding stroked his beard, seemingly lost in thought: "Time and space are out of place, cause and effect are intertwined... Interesting, very interesting."

Yang Jian's forehead veins throbbed from the teasing, and he finally lost his temper, grabbing Lin Qiye by the collar: "Mortal! If you keep spouting nonsense, don't blame me for being impolite!"

Lin Qiye was not afraid at all, but looked at him with a loving expression: "Ajin, you were like this when you were a child, grabbing people's collars when you got angry."

Yang Jian:"……"

Sun Wukong burst out laughing: "Hahaha! Erlang Shen, were you this cute when you were little?"

Nezha added insult to injury: "So you have a dark past too!"

Yang Jian took a deep breath, released Lin Qiye, and turned to leave: "I'm going back to Guanjiangkou."

Lin Qiye called out from behind, "Ah Jin! Remember to come home and visit often!"

Yang Jian stumbled and almost fell off the cloud.

Zhang Yun held up his phone, recording the whole thing, laughing so hard his shoulders were shaking.

Nezha leaned closer: "Can I take a look at your 'Image Retention Stone'?"

Zhang Yun: "No, the contents of this involve celestial secrets."

Nezha: "Tch, you stingy little thing!"

Sun Wukong hooked his arm around Zhang Yun's shoulder: "Little brother, your magic weapon is quite interesting. Why don't you come with me to Flower Fruit Mountain for a visit?"

Zhang Yun: "Great Sage, I still have a mission to complete..."

Sun Wukong: "A mission? What mission is more important than drinking with me?"

Zhang Yun: "..."

Lin Qiye chased Yang Jian for most of Yaochi, constantly calling out "A Jin".

Yang Jian finally broke down and stopped in his tracks: "What exactly do you want?!"

Lin Qiye said earnestly, "I just want to hear you call me 'brother'."

Yang Jian: "...Impossible."

Lin Qiye sighed: "Never mind then, but..."

He took out the photo again and handed it to Yang Jian: "This is what you... will look like in the future. Take another look."

In the photo, Yang Jin stands in the sunlight, smiling brightly.

Yang Jian took the photo and was slightly taken aback.

"Is he really... me?"

Lin Qiye nodded: "Yes, although your personalities are quite different, you two are really alike."

Yang Jian was silent for a moment, then handed the photo back to him: "...Thank you."

In the center of the Jade Pool, celestial mist swirls.

The Queen Mother of the West sat high on her throne, adorned with a phoenix coronet and a wedding robe, and with a gentle wave of her jade hand, announced: "I bestow peaches of immortality upon all the immortals!"

In an instant, celestial music filled the air, and hundreds of fairies, riding on auspicious clouds and carrying jade plates, gracefully descended from the peach grove.

The peaches on the plate were as big as watermelons, pinkish-red, with a shimmering, translucent surface. Their fragrance wafted for miles, and even Sun Wukong couldn't help but swallow hard.

"Hehe, this year's peaches are even bigger than last year's!" Sun Wukong rubbed his hands together, slammed his golden cudgel on the ground, and stared intently at the nearest fairy.

The fairy blushed slightly under his gaze, quickly put down the peach, and floated away.

Nezha rolled his eyes: "Great Sage, can you please stop being so lewd?"

Sun Wukong: "What do you know? I'm just appreciating beauty!"

Li Jing sighed, "..."

The fairies offered peaches to the immortals one by one. When it was Zhang Yun's and Lin Qiye's turn, they each received a peach.

Lin Qiye looked at the large peach in front of him, swallowed hard, and reached out to take it—

"Snapped!"

His hand passed right through the peach and grasped nothing.

"..."

Upon seeing this, Yang Jian slapped his forehead: "I almost forgot, you are not on this timeline. This is just a snapshot of time recorded by the Kunlun Mirror. You can't eat it."

Lin Qiye sighed, "What a pity..."

However, at this moment——

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of biting into a peach rang out.

Everyone turned their heads in unison, only to see Zhang Yun holding the large peach, his mouth full of juice, a satisfied look on his face: "Mmm! Delicious!"

Yang Jian:"???"

Lin Qiye: “???”

Sun Wukong: "???"

Nezha's eyes widened: "Holy crap! How did you eat that?!"

Zhang Yun licked the peach juice from the corner of his mouth, looking completely innocent: "Is it difficult?"

Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye, his golden light sweeping over Zhang Yun: "This is impossible! You are people from the future, how could you interfere with the affairs of the past?!"

Zhang Yun blinked, his face enigmatic: "Time is like a ditch; you can always squeeze some out if you try."

There was silence.

Lin Qiye silently gave a thumbs up: "...Awesome."

Sun Wukong burst into laughter: "Hahaha! Time gully! I like this saying!"

Nezha leaned over and poked the peach in Zhang Yun's hand: "Hey, can I have half?"

Zhang Yun, possessive of her food, cried out, "No!"

Nezha pouted: "You stingy little thing!"

Master Yu Ding stroked his beard, seemingly lost in thought: "Young friend, could it be that you have mastered the laws of spacetime?"

Zhang Yun shook his head: "No."

"How did you manage to eat it?"

Zhang Yun thought for a moment and said seriously, "Maybe it's because... I'm more handsome?"

All the immortals: "..."

Lin Qiye sighed, "Can't you be serious for once?"

Zhang Yun shrugged: "Okay, actually I brought some 'time lubricant' with me."

Yang Jian frowned: "What is it?"

Zhang Yun pulled a bottle of...medicated oil from his pocket.

The immortals: "???"

Zhang Yun: "Ahem, just kidding."

He put away the medicated oil and said seriously, "Actually, I have the power of the Candle Dragon God within me, which allows me to briefly interfere with the silhouette of time."

Yang Jian suddenly realized: "I see."

Sun Wukong: "Speak human language!"

Zhang Yun: "...It means I can exploit bugs."

Sun Wukong's eyes darted around, and he suddenly snatched the peach from Zhang Yun's hand: "Let me have a taste too!"

He took a bite—

"Crack!"

Even after biting into it, the peach remained perfectly intact.

Sun Wukong: "???"

Zhang Yun slowly took the peach back: "Great Sage, this peach recognizes its owner."

Sun Wukong protested, "Why?!"

Zhang Yun: "Maybe it's because...I'm handsome?"

Sun Wukong: "..."

Nezha gloated from the sidelines: "Great Sage, you've finally met your match!"

Enraged, Sun Wukong swung his golden cudgel and shouted, "Take this from me!"

Zhang Yun covered his head and ran away, yelling, "Help! The monkey attacked me!"

Lin Qiye: “…”

Yang Jian:"……"

The Queen Mother sighed, rubbing her forehead. "These idiots..."

The Jade Pool Wonderland, the Peach Banquet drawing to a close.

As Yang Jian watched Lin Qiye and Zhang Yun walk toward the teleportation array, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his third eye between his eyebrows!

"Um?!"

He abruptly turned his head, his Heavenly Eye piercing the clouds at the edge of the Jade Pool like a sharp sword—

"You coward hiding your head and tail, come out!"

"boom--!"

The clouds burst open, and a burly figure staggered into view, his bronze skin gleaming coldly in the golden light.

—Andrei, the agent of the Earth God!

He patted the scorched shoulder armor and grinned maliciously, "As expected of Erlang Shen, you managed to be discovered even though you were hiding so well."

Andrei looked around and suddenly burst into laughter: "Just as I thought! What Peach Banquet, what Heavenly Immortals—"

He suddenly threw a punch at Li Jing beside him, but his fist passed right through the afterimage!

"They're all illusions fabricated by the Kunlun Mirror!"

The figures of the immortals swayed like reflections in water, and the Jade Pool, the peach trees, and even the Queen Mother's golden phoenix carriage began to distort.

Sun Wukong's figure vanished like bubbles, leaving behind a final grimac at Andrei: "Hehe, you caught me?"

Andrei's face darkened: "The gods of Great Xia have already left Kunlun Void... You're using illusions to buy time?!"

Just as Andrei was feeling smug, a peach pit suddenly hit him on the back of the head!

"Boom!"

"Who?!" He turned around angrily.

Zhang Yun stood in front of the teleportation array, holding another peach pit in his hand: "So what if it's an illusion? The peaches I ate were real."