82 Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You (1/2)

On the other side, Wang Fugui pulled his son back to their house.

At home, Madame Sui Shi was preparing lunch, carrying a bowl of hot soup from the kitchen. She was taken aback when she suddenly saw her husband rushing back to the house, but when she saw the youngster behind him, the bowl simply slipped from her hands and fell down.

At the same time, a red and white figure suddenly sprinted over and caught that soup bowl.

“Ai, mom, be careful. If this hot soup falls on your feet, it may become a veritable pig’s feet soup.”

“Smelly kid, don’t talk like that to your mom!”

Master Wang peevishly gave him a slap, only to be met with a smile by Wang Lu. The next moment, his dad’s cry of pain was heard.

“Ouch! Why is your head so hard!?”

“Hahaha, my IQ density is so big.”

While saying that, under his mother’s surprised eyes, Wang Lu put the scalding hot soup bowl to the table using only one hand.

His mother immediately took a careful look at his hand. “Is your hand okay?”

“Rest assured, even if it’s directly burned, it doesn’t matter.”

With that, Wang Lu turned to look at his father; his face now has turned serious.

“In the end, I have become a real Immortal Cultivator…”

Master Wang and Madame astonishingly looked at him in silence; the youth that they haven’t seen for more than two years have changed so much.

After a long time, Wang Lu went to the kitchen, carried back the rest of the dishes one by one and sat on the table. Only then did Master Wang heave a deep sigh.

“Ai, what exactly is going on there?”

Wang Lu thought for a moment. “You want a long answer or a short one?”

Madame Sui Shi's mouth moved a bit as if she wanted to say something, but when she looked at her husband’s eyes, she forcibly stopped herself.

Master Wang sternly stared at his son. “Tell us the short answer first.”

“Oh, it’s just that I’ve found the Immortal Path, so I came here to visit my home. But when I arrive, I saw a group of cult swindler was actually trying to deceive my family; the rest happened just like what you saw just now.”

Sui Shi became uneasy. “Wh-what happened just now?”

“Ai, don’t interrupt.” Master Wang asked again, “So, you found the path of Immortality?”

It was Wang Lu’s turn to feel puzzled. “Dad, for the last two years, I’ve sent you guys letters almost every month. Wasn’t my experience in the Spirit Sword Sect that I’ve written there clear enough? Except for a few shameful things, I didn’t conceal anything.”

Master Wang became even more surprised. “What letter!? Have you ever written a letter to your family in these two years?”

The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly turned cold. After a long time, Wang Lu, with an incredulous look, tentatively asked, “Have you never received even one letter in these two years?”

“Never has.”

“Damn! Who the hell did this…?” Wang Lu, who has been surprised too many times today, wasn’t surprised this time. “Is Great Arrangement Delivery really that unreliable? No matter what, they’re an industry under the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals; surely, they won’t tarnish the union’s reputation…”

The so-called Great Arrangement Delivery operated under the Union of Ten Thousand Immortal’s name and was funded by Mysterious Sky Mansion, Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, and several other large-scale organizations. Sects would send their personnel to be administrative officers responsible for managing this large-scale postal service. Its main business was the correspondence between the Immortal Cultivation World and the mortal world.

Because the communication between cultivators could be solved mostly by delivering document through flying sword and talisman, the correspondence between the mortal world and the Immortal Cultivation World had to rely on specialized postal service. However, the communication between the mortal world and the Immortal Cultivation World lacked the effective management. Only after the establishment of the Union of the Ten Thousand Immortals, after peace fell throughout the countries, and after Immortal Cultivation World deeply penetrated its control on the mortal world did this organization manage to appear.

By relying on the prestige and fame of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, The Great Arrangement Delivery held an unparalleled competitive advantage. It rapidly expanded throughout the entire Nine Regions, opening its outlet everywhere. However, it was also because of this monopoly position that its service quality has been deteriorating… It was just that, Wang Lu never thought that it has deteriorated to the point of not delivering the letter for more than two years!

“Wait a minute. This isn’t quite right. No matter how bad their service is, for the last two and a half years, I have written at least fifty letters, how could not even one of them arrive…?” Wang Lu thought that this seemed impossible.

“... It seems like the flow of information from the outside has been cut down by the Seven Stars Sect. Blocking the outside world from their target is indeed a frequently used trick by the cults. Otherwise, as long as the villagers know some common knowledge about the Immortal Cultivation World, they wouldn’t have been deceived by this low-level swindlers.” Wang Lu shrugged. “Forget it; it doesn’t matter if the letters aren’t here since I can tell any of its content myself.”

Master Wang asked, “Two years ago, you said you wanted to go out to seek for Immortality, and then what? I sent Zhong’er to track you, how come he isn’t together with you?”

“This is a long story, but, the simple summary is that I and Wang Zhong were received by the Spirit Sword Sect as disciples. After practicing more than two years ceaselessly on the mountain, we have now become real Immortal Cultivators. Now, because the sect sent us down the mountain for Experiential Learning, I took advantage of this opportunity to visit you two. As for Wang Zhong… he has his own plan.”

Wang Lu seemed to say it like they were just a normal thing, but Master Wang’s heartbeat immediately jumped, and Madame Sui Shi stared at him with eyes wide open and an incredulous look. She tremblingly asked, “Little Lu’Er, you-you really are now an Immortal!?”

Suddenly, numerous legendary stories about immortals appeared in the mind of this simple yet kind hearted woman. For her child’s boundless future, she faintly felt a trace of sadness. In a moment, her eyes had started to turn red.

Master Wang scolded, “You this woman, little Lu’Er has set foot on the Immortal Path, that’s a lifetime of good fortune, so what are you crying about?”

“I’m just too happy.” She wiped away her tears. “I-I am going to cook two other dishes; I didn’t know Lu’Er is coming back, so I didn’t prepare his meal.”

With that, she got up and left.