Chapter 77 - Invitation (1/2)

Mu Tiannan shakes his head, “You are such an unlovely woman. Can’t you ever talk nicely?”

Wen Guanjing pulls Mu Tiannan aside, “Miss. Lin, you are a member of the Taoist School, and you must know what is going on in the department. We tried to protect Zou Yaowei before not because we saw human life as straw, but that we were out of options due to the short of hands.”

Lin Luoran asks seriously, “The pink smoke Zou Yaowei emits is clearly wicked. Are you not picky at all?”

Wen Guanjing is embarra.s.sed, “Though his pink smoke is nothing good, it is quite powerful. Don’t you think so, Miss. Lin?”

Thinking of the pink smoke which can mess with people’s mind and disable them, Lin Luoran a.s.sumes that she may be defeated last night if she doesn’t have the bead. She can’t deny that—Zou Yaowei’s pink smoke is a powerful weapon when his enemy is unguarded.

Why is Wen Guanjing telling her about this?

“Mr. Wen, I’m just an ordinary woman and I can’t understand even a little bit of what you are saying. How about you just tell me your purpose today so we can discuss about it?”

Hearing Lin Luoran’s words, Wen Guanjing is stunned. Then he says seriously, “I shall just speak frankly then. Miss. Lin, your cultivation is deep and it’ll be a waste if you don’t serve our country. I come here today to invite you to join us on behalf of the department. Please give this a careful consideration.”

Invite me? Did I hear him right?

Lin Luoran casts a glance at Commander Qin, who also looks confused.

“Give me a reason why I should join your department.” Lin Luoran always behaves herself since she was a little girl, and she used to be moved by stories in the history book. However, only after she enters the society that she realizes that the State of Huaxia is no longer simple as it was first established. Wen Guanjing’s words that she should serve the country make her want to laugh.

Certainly, there are still lots of old revolutionists like Commander Qin who are respectable, but there are more corrupted officials… Why should she serve such a devastated country with enthusiasm?

It suddenly occurs to Lin Luoran that Wen Guanjing may think she is stupid.

“Mr. Wen, are you asking me to serve the country so that sc.u.mbags like Zou Yaowei can have a safer environment to indulge in dissipation and focus on acc.u.mulating their wealth?” Lin Luoran says with sarcasm.

Her words make Wen Guanjing awkward and Commander Qin sad. As for Mu Tiannan, he thinks that his usual behaviors are no better than Zou Yaowei except that he never breaks the law. Mu looks to the other way after hearing Lin Luoran’s sarcasm.

Wen Guanjing says with a heavy heart, “Miss. Lin, I have nothing to say to contradict the truth. I know you have learned from a master, and as cultivators, we are not meant to involve in mortal affairs… But the world is disordered. It is better to live a wonderful life than to cultivate hard and just live longer. Miss. Lin, common people make up for most of the population of the country. Please don’t say no to them! Commander Qin may know some inside stories about the flood in the year of 98, or the fact about that famous cult. The authority only tells part of the truth to fool its people… Foreign forces are involved in all of these. Not all cultivators are born in the State of Huaxia.”

The world is disordered?

Wen Guanjing actually says more than Commander Qin knows. Lin Luoran panics. Is it true that cultivators will also die in the end hundreds of years later…? Is it the real situation in the world of cultivation?

What about herself? Is it worthy to stick to the path of cultivation when she knows no spells and has no master to guide her?

Lin Luoran hesitates. She doesn’t even understand why she begins to cultivate in the first place.

Seeing that Lin Luoran falls into silence, Wen Guanjing raises his voice and calls, “Miss. Lin!”

Lin Luoran wakes up from her thoughts. What is happening to her? She is so disappointing for thinking of giving up! The world is short of Reiki, so what? She doesn’t have spells and masters, so what? She has the mysterious bead and the s.p.a.ce, as well as the powerful gold pattern which she will one day figure out!

She is luckier than most of the cultivators, and she just actually wants to give up?

The world is disordered, and then she can cultivate herself without relying on the world! She should only follow her heart and she will live up to herself. Why can’t she find her own “Tao” since she has got the chance?

Lin Luoran feels that something just break through the soil in her heart. A seed finally sprouts.

From the choice she made when Baojia was hurt and Zou Yaowei was protected, to this very moment when she decides that she should find her own “Tao”, Lin Luoran’s state of mind has changed though she is still far from being mature.

The change from simple acceptation to active pursuit makes Lin Luoran’s overall temperament different.

Lin Luoran doesn’t realize this, but Wen Guanjing does.