Chapter 158 - Ready (1/2)

“I told you I didn’t want to go back! I won’t go back! No!”

In Lin’s villa, Li Xi’er hangs up the phone. What makes her angry is her master who always urges her to return to the school.

“What happened? Who is annoying you?” Seeing that Li Xi’er is pouting, Baojia asks with a smile.

Baojia doesn’t look older after three years. Instead, she becomes much more mature. She no longer talks like that arrogant girl whose idol is w.a.n.g Miao’e. During these years, the Lin family suffers from a lot of stress, so does the Qin family.

The Zou family seems to be sure that Lin Luoran is dead. They never do anything to Lin’s parents but they vent their anger to the Qin family. The military and the political system are not the same, however, the two systems are able to trip each other. The Zou family is not strong enough to threat Commander Qin so it puts its hand to Commander Qin’s former acquaintances. Everyone who is connected to the Qin family has a hard time because of the Zou family.

You are in the military system? That’s ok. Do you have families and friends? They have to keep a foothold in society, right? How many companies can survive the pressure coming from the Zou family?

This has been elevated from a political game to the matter of life and death. Commander Qin doesn’t care much about himself, but he can’t stand watching his old acquaintances suffer from the hards.h.i.+p. The second year, Commander Qin asks for a retirement “due to illness”.

Baojia is no longer the only grandchild of the commander of the military district and she is not the daughter-in-law of the wealthy Liu family. She is just an ordinary jewelry designer who cultivates — she lives in the Lin family but she never takes everything for granted.

Not as usual, Li Xi’er asks seriously: “Sister Baojia, do you ever notice anything unusual at night recently?”

Baojia shakes her head and looks at Li Xi’er with confusion. Li Xi’er yawns and switches the topic to cultivation. Li has the single Taoist root of gold, and she is qualified to be the teacher of Baojia and Mr. Lin in terms of cultivation.

After Baojia leaves, Li Xi’er touches the “Bundling Rope” on her wrist and she is absorbed in thought.

Her master has been urging her more anxiously in recent days. Also, Li Xi’er always senses that something always sneaks around the villa at night.

… Are these people planning to attack the Lin family?

Li Xi’er feels hopeless. She has been working hard on her cultivation during the past three years. Back in the secret land, she was not as powerful as Sister Lin was. Nevertheless, she has kept trying for three years. She will not give up until the last second.

Though death is horrifying, Li Xi’er resents herself for being a coward.

Also, her master will not watch her die, right?

What about everyone else of the Lin family?

The weather changes fast in the mountain area in summer. One minute ago, the sun is s.h.i.+ning; and the next minute, dark clouds may cover the suns.h.i.+ne. Strong wind is blowing. A shower is coming.

Li Xi’er, who was agitated, is lost in her mind. Out of no reason, she thinks of the rainy night three years ago. A weird woman in black came to Lin’s villa and Sister Lin went out at night. Then she never came back… Li’s eyes become wet.

— Sister Lin, I’m so tired. Where are you?

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A few miles away from Lin’s villa, there is the Qingcheng Taoist Temple.

If Li Xi’er had a higher level of cultivation, she would know that her master is sitting on one of the old-fas.h.i.+oned armchairs in the temple.

Master Mu is sitting on the left side, looking displeased.

Master Guo is still coughing, and he seems to be in a worse mood.

Huizhu, the superior of the Qingcheng Taoist Temple, is sitting in the middle. An is standing by his side. Though An is young, his demeanor is more and more like the successor of the Superior.

All the people of standing in the world of cultivation have gathered in the Qingcheng Taoist Temple. To put it nicely, this is a regular meeting of the world of cultivation. As a matter of fact, these people are discussing in public about how to carve up the Lin family.

Only Master Mu and Guo support Lin Luoran. However, Master Mu never wants to offend anybody and Master Guo is still injured, which means that he is not able to fight.

Chen Yun, the minister of the special department of Huaxia, is a nice guy who is wearing a tunic suit. He is not even in the level of Laying Foundation, yet he has the power of discourse because of his complicated background.

For some reasons, Wen Guanjing, the capable a.s.sistance of Chen Yun, is not present.

Huizhu, Master Mu, Master Guo, and Xi Heng who is the master of Li Xi’er, four of the five Huaxia cultivators in the level of Laying Foundation are here. Though this is a discussion, Huizhu’s opinion actually matters the most since he is in the later stage of Laying Foundation, which is the highest in the State of Huaxia.