Chapter 247 - Choosing One out of the Two (1/2)

“Miss Lin, they have escaped!” Rong Donglin murmurs when he is woken up.

Lin Luoran smiles and says, “It doesn’t matter. We can go out slowly. If I don’t go out, they can’t escape.” She is now in charge of the gold ware and gold stamp. The Dragon Palace with an owner is not the place where the two cultivators can come and leave as they like. How can they escape if she doesn’t open the door?”

The Dragon King left a letter, saying that she will be rewarded with the whole Dragon Palace when she finishes what it entrusted. But she can’t get the treasures now. Lin Luoran doesn’t know whether she should cry or laugh. At the end of the day, just like the s.p.a.ce, she is just the user of it, not the owner. There is a huge difference between the owner and the user!

Fortunately, Rong Donglin has helped her cleared up the Hall of Nothingness.

As Lin Luoran is going to leave, she catches a glimpse of Li Anping’s body. She sighs and uses her Cleaning Spell to gather the cremains on the ground. She did that for the sake of their past relations.h.i.+p. Lin Luoran is really forgiving.

On their way out, they see the seventh and eighth hall that weren’t seen before. But they are also empty. It seems that all the treasures of the dragons are hidden in the Hall of Nothingness.

Lin Luoran is not greedy. She came to Dongting Lake with the original purpose of looking for the Soul Wood. Although she has only found a small piece, it is better for her than nothing. The Dragon Palace is really a windfall. It is lucky for her to have it.

Out of the Jiuhua Palace, they go down a path that is enveloped in mist and then return to the strange tree.

Elly’s body is covered by sand in the garden of the Dragon Palace. Her face is dark and pale, and her eyes are wide open, seeming to be airing her grievances. Detecting with her spiritual mind, Lin knows that she is dead.

Does she hate Elly?

Yes, she did. When she was humiliated by Elly one day ago, she thought about taking revenge after she got out of trouble. But since Elly is dead, it is impossible for Lin Luoran to whip her corpse.

After keeping silent for a moment, Lin Luoran takes out a fireball. As the fire is burning on her body, Elly’s body soon turns into ashes. Lin Luoran puts Elly’s ashes beside Li Anping’s, preparing to bury them when she goes out.

Rong Donglin wears an expression that indicates that Lin Luoran is unreasonably kind. Lin is annoyed and explains:

“I did that for myself, because leaving them here will pollute the environment.”

Rong Donglin chuckles without arguing with her.

Rong and Lin have gone through fire and water together. In the past, their relations.h.i.+p is between employer-employee and friends, but now their relations.h.i.+p has evolved. They are real friends with tacit understanding.

Lin Luoran doesn’t care about his ridicule. She puts away Elly’s cremains and hurries to the gate of the palace.

When they get out of the gate of the inner hall, they still don’t see the two people who ran away. Lin Luoran doesn’t care. She has locked the Dragon Palace, which can only be opened by the Stamp of the Dragon King in her hand. If they insist on hiding in the palace, they will only die here. Lin Luoran wonders if she doesn’t come to the Dragon Palace for some years, will the two people starve themselves to death?

There are pearls and treasures in the palace, but unfortunately, there is no food. Good luck to you!

She and Rong Donglin are covered by the blue light emitted by the stamp. When they open their eyes again, there appears morning glow in the sky, and the nearby Dongting Lake is dyed with warm orange.

The first man Lin Luoran sees is the crazy Taoist. His strange Taoist robe is always eye-catching, thus can easily be seen in the beautiful scenery.

“Senior!” Lin Luoran greets while she sees Huizhu, who looks sullen. Since the crazy Taoist is here, she feels much more confident.

The crazy Taoist says smilingly, “I came here as soon as I received your paper crane. My dear apprentice, why don’t you call me master? Are you mad at me?”

Master? When did he become her master? When she glances at Huizhu, who is in silence, she suddenly feels that her eyes are misty. Does the crazy Taoist want to justify her?!

Other cultivators always believe that she has a mysterious master in the level of Bearing Essence. Lin Luoran went along with the rumor when she was in the level of Training Qi, so people’s misunderstanding about her went deeper. Although she is more and more powerful, she is still not the rival of Huizhu, who has unpredictable power. Is the crazy Taoist coming to protect her?

She suppresses her emotion and answers, “How can I not be mad at you? You received the message already, but you didn’t come here until now. Others who have support from their masters bullied me, for I was alone in the Dragon Palace without any support…”

As soon as she finishes speaking, Huizhu’s eyelids twitch.

The crazy Taoist touches his beard, saying, “It’s my fault. It’s my fault. My dear apprentice, come and see my new apprentice, your junior fellow apprentice!”

Lin Luoran gets excited. She has already seen a young man in the Taoist robe standing behind the crazy Taoist. Because he has been keeping his head down, she doesn’t see his appearance clearly, but she guesses that he must have a close relations.h.i.+p with the crazy Taoist. As expected, he is the crazy Taoist’s real apprentice, so Lin Luoran has to pay attention to him.

When the young Taoist raises his head and solemnly calls her “Sister Lin”, Lin Luoran stammers: