Chapter 127 - Extreme Joy Begets Sorrow (1/2)

“Brother, please let me go…”

Wen Guanjing feels like being hit on the head. Holding Lin Luoran is like holding a heated iron so he quickly puts Lin Luoran on the ground.

Such an embarra.s.sing scene has never happened in Wen Guanjing’s “decent” life before. When Lin Luoran coughs, Wen Guanjing’s face turns red. He feels so embarra.s.sed that he forgets to ask why Lin Luoran suddenly disappeared and then reappeared in his arms.

Lin Luoran is relieved that Wen Guanjing does not ask any questions as she doesn’t want to answer them at all. Therefore, although she feels very embarra.s.sed as well, she has to say something to divert his attention.

“Brother Wen, have you found what you are looking for?”

Wen Guanjing does not answer her question. He is a little unsure about who she is, asking: “Are you Sister Lin?”

Lin Luoran looks at him. She finds him funny being very careful and jokes with him: “Of course!”

Hearing this, Wen Guanjing says nothing but acc.u.mulates his strength in secret. He takes precautions because Lin Luoran will never admit that she’s “Sister Lin”.

Seeing his expression, Lin Luoran finds the atmosphere more relaxing than before. She smiles and says: “Brother, I’m only joking. I am Lin Luoran.”

Wen Guanjing looks at her suspiciously. The appearance of a person may be copied, but the character is shaped from the bottom of one’s heart, which cannot be changed overnight. This Lin Luoran has clear eyes. It is indeed the girl who is very decent since they first met and who is as magisterial as Mu Guiying, the great heroine!

With his eyebrows going down, Wen Guanjing says with a bitter smile: “Sister Lin, please don’t make fun of me next time.”

Lin Luoran is amused by his slanted eyebrows and nods. To be honest, she had a bad impression of Wen Guanjing along with the “special department” because of what happened with Zou Yaowei. After what happened today, however, it is different… When Lin Luoran was controlled by the dead woman’s spiritual mind, she could hear their conversation at first and she knows that Wen Guanjing is on her side.

They have just known each other for a short time. Lin Luoran never expected that Wen Guanjing would fight for her. He seems to be a good person after everything he has done.

“Brother, have you found what you are looking for?”

Wen Guanjing shakes his head. Have they really come to the wrong place?

Lin Luoran wants to divert his attention, so she can only keep encouraging him. They think it over that they can search this mausoleum, which only has one room, and know for sure whether what Wen Guanjing wants is here or not.

Lin Luoran starts searching from the left side and Wen Guanjing from the right side.

The mausoleum is very large, but the s.p.a.ce apart from the lotus pool is only three feet wide. Lin Luoran touches the wall and finds that it is just an ordinary stone wall. She explores with her spiritual mind but still finds nothing special. She checks the wall carefully and finishes searching pretty soon.

Nothing… This is an ordinary stone wall. The mausoleum is just like other mausoleums if it were not built under water. Nothing inside is related to cultivators.

Soon, they both finish checking and meet each other in the middle of the mausoleum.

“Brother, what are you looking for? It is so hard to search for something aimlessly.”

Wen Guanjing looks at the lotus pool and remains silent. However, he soon finds it useless to keep the secret under this circ.u.mstance and it’s better to tell Lin Luoran the truth.

“I’m looking for a long-lost spell book of Zu Mountain School named Introduction of Swords. It is mentioned in the parchment that it may be here, or I will not come here to find any treasures.”

Fortunately, Lin Luoran is not drinking water at the moment, or she may just spit it out!

Introduction of Swords? Isn’t it just the book White Fairy gave to her carelessly? G.o.d, that’s what Wen Guanjing takes her here for. She almost got killed for the book… Lin Luoran feels very bad. Now the problem is worse as she knows about it, but cannot tell Wen Guanjing that she has it — otherwise, how can she explain why she owns the long-lost spell book of Zu Mountain School?

Lin Luoran knows about the story of “the precious stone lands its innocent owner in jail”. Now she just hopes that it is actually in the mausoleum so that they do not come in vain. She is, however, not sure about it. She decides to have Wen Guanjing prepared mentally. “Brother, is it possible that the parchment is actually a trap to lure people in and help the dead woman cast ‘Possession’?”

Lin Luoran blurts out the words and she is surprised at her own thoughts. The mausoleum locates under water. Does that mean the dead woman have water Taoist root? On the murals along the aisle painted the scene of masters on the level of Gathering Vitality flying towards the halo. However, did they really fly towards the halo, or were the murals just painted like that to cater to people’s a.s.sumption?

The final mural was designed to look like it had been erased, which makes people believe that the answer is in the mausoleum. How can such an important place be broken into by some simple spells of Wen Guanjing’s?

Now thinking about it, she believes even if they cannot cast spells, maybe they can still open the door by force.

This is not protecting the owner, which is the top priority of a mausoleum. Huaxia people traditionally believe that no one should disturb the dead. Even the cultivator with the strangest ideas will not hope his mausoleum be broken into easily… Lin Luoran breathes a sigh of relief. She is very fortunate to successfully escape from such a well-designed trap.