24 Chapter 24 – Lei Shu Academy (1/2)

As soon as Zhu Xuan entered the Alchemy pavilion, he was welcomed with medicinal aroma from his surroundings.

He was a famous scientist in Earth, and he worked with medicines and chemicals all the time. So he felt familiar and comfortable at the pavilion. Zhu Xuan and Zhu Meiying passed through floors and reached the top floor. They entered a grand room filled with herbs and a medicinal cauldron at the centre.

Zhu Xuan looked ahead and found no one. Before he could ask where his aunt is, he was hit in his head and an angry voice came from right behind him ”You brat, you won't come meet me and instead run around and create trouble in the clan. I had to send someone to get you to meet me huh?”

Zhu Xuan touched his hurting head and turned around to see a middle aged woman wearing white robe standing behind him. Even though she was middle aged, she looked like she is in early twenties. She looked angry; she was clearly upset he didn't come to meet her even after five days.

Zhu Xuan gave a silly smile and apologised ”I'm sorry Aunt Jia Li, I had some important things to take care of, so I didn't have time to visit and I was planning to visit you soon before Tenth sister visited me to get me here.”

Zhu Jia Li humphed and said ”What important matters, you were just creating trouble.” She then looked at him with a scrutinising look and asked ”Heard you killed a clan member in public yesterday. You look like you have changed since you got back and even activated you elemental roots.”

Zhu Xuan retracted his silly smile and seriously said ”Anyone will change after going through what I went through Aunt Jia Li. You would have already guessed who is behind all this, and if not for I'm extremely lucky and escaped, I would have died there definitely. And the person I killed is the one who led us to ambush and ran away under second brother's order, and I don't regret killing him.”

Zhu Jia Li understood why Zhu Xuan acted this way. She became sad and said with guilt ”I'm sorry Little Xuan. I didn't expect your second brother would act with such cruelty, and I was in the closed door cultivation, refining Pill and only learnt about everything after it was too late.”

Zhu Xuan understood her well. Even in the past, when no one else cared about him, his aunt helped him and always stood by him like a mother. He knew she would have faced a lot of problems helping him, but she still stood by him and he felt grateful towards her. He smiled and said ”I know you care for me Aunt Jia Li and I'm always grateful towards you. Even though second brother schemed against me and I almost died, it did help me activate my elemental roots and become strong.”

It's not that Zhu Xuan didn't trust her aunt, but he felt Origin system and anything related to it should be kept to himself and shouldn't be shared with anyone else or he believed he will face endless trouble.

Zhu Jia Li relaxed after she heard that and also felt happy for her nephew. She had heard about people activating their elemental roots in life and death situation, even though the chances are one in a billion and was happy that chance came to her nephew.

She suddenly became serious and said in a steady tone ”Little Xian, even though you activated your elemental roots, you shouldn't go create trouble and be very careful. Your second brother has too many people behind him in the clan. I will support you from anyone acting against you, but even though they won't act against you in open, they may do something in the dark and you should be careful of such matters.”

Zhu Xuan understood the issue and that is the reason he is trying to get stronger as soon as possible, then he thought of something and asked ”I will be careful Aunt. I heard Second brother is not in the clan. Where did he go and when will he return?”