Chapter 75 - Remnants of Magic Circle? (1/2)

Lin Luoran wasn’t 100% sure before if Baojia could cultivate so she didn’t tell Commander Qin about it. Now, she has listened to the old story of the Qin family and it turns out that Baojia’s great-grandmother is a cultivator. Although Commander Qin and his father don’t have the Taoist root, Lin Luoran is pretty sure that Baojia does, whether the Taoist root has skipped generation or the gold pattern forces to unlock it.

Therefore, Lin Luoran nods slowly and seriously facing Commander Qin’s hopeful eyes.

Commander Qin doesn’t speak for a while due to the joy. Minutes later, he takes a pendant out of his clothes and keeps stroking it gently.

With a closer look, Lin Luoran finds that this is a pendant made of mutton-fat jade. It is gold-rimmed but is full of cracks. This is obviously the patching work done by an expert craftsman. Lin Luoran’s eyes are lighted up.

Noticing Lin Luoran’s expression, Commander Qin understands what she is thinking about. He nods and says, “This is my grandmother’s pendant, the one that was broken on the battle field… My father asked a craftsman to patch it because the crazy cultivator said that it was my grandmother’s pendant of life, and he gave it to me before he pa.s.sed away.”

A jade pendant which can protect its owner? Lin Luoran can’t help getting excited and wishes to observe the pendant at the thought that the gold-rimmed thing in Commander Qin’s hand is made by cultivators.

She tells Commander Qin about her wish. Commander Qin smiles, puts the pendant on Lin Luoran’s hands and tells her that he should go to rest now.

Except for the bead, it is the first time that Lin Luoran touches an item of cultivators. She becomes bewildered because of the excitement.

This is a fantastic night. First, she saw the actual combat mode of cultivators. Then she heard about the “Taoist root” and even some secrets of the cultivational world from Commander Qin. The surprise didn’t stop there. Now, a pendant which used to belong to a cultivator in the Qin family is right in her hands. How can she sleep?

Lin Luoran goes back to the guest room and starts to observe the pendant under the desk lamp.

Though it is full of cracks, Lin Luoran can tell that a picture themed on “fis.h.i.+ng boat on the river under the moonlight” is carved on it. The carves are simple but vivid.

Jiang Mingyue— Maybe it is the pendant of life made by the crazy cultivator for Jiang Mingyue. Although Commander Qin never says frankly about the man’s ident.i.ty, Lin Luoran knows that he must be a relative, or even the father of Jiang Mingyue!

If he were not her close relative, why would he bother to follow Commander Qin to Korea while knowing that the Qin family was full of trash without the “Taoist root”? Nothing in the world is just a coincidence. The crazy cultivator obviously went to protect Commander Qin.

Lin Luoran draws back her thoughts and looks at the jade pendant in her hands. No matter how vivid the carves are, this will not be the reason why it can protect its owner from danger.

What is so special about it?

Lin Luoran can’t see the specialty of it with her bare eyes so she looks closer at it under the lamp light.

Something is wrong. With her clear vision, Lin Luoran ignores the gold rim and the cracks. Then she is able to “see” inside of the pendant— What are those weird lines?

Lin Luoran is sure that they are not cracks. Even mingled with the subtle fractures, these beautiful lines look harmonized as they are designed to be like this.