“Mm!”
Lu Xuan nodded in acknowledgment.
Suddenly, the scene was interrupted by the sound of a phone. Lu Xuan glanced at his phone, seeing that his mother—Liu Wanrong—was calling him again.
Taking his leave from the crowd, he came to a secluded corner and picked up the call.
“Hi, mom. What’s up?”
From the phone, Liu Wanrong’s voice could be heard. “You picked up Lu Yuling today, didn’t you!”
“Yes, I did!” Lu Xuan replied flatly.
“Well, how was it?” Liu Wanrong asked, a hint of expectation in her tone.
Lu Xuan pouted, answering, “She looked down on me—your son!”
“What?” Liu Wanrong’s voice instantly increased in volume. “What gives her the right to look down on my son? In what way is my son undeserving of her?”
Like an overprotective mother hen, Liu Wanrong was enraged in an instant.
“Forget it; it’s her loss!” Liu Wanrong quickly regained her composure as she continued, “Even so, you’ve been good at keeping your secrets, huh!”
“What?” Lu Xuan asked, thrown by the strange remark.
“One of your friends came looking for me and your dad today and came to sit at the house with us for a while. And wouldn’t you know it, she’s a real beauty!” Liu Wanrong said gleefully.
Lu Xuan was slightly confused and asked, “Mom, stop talking in riddles. Who are you talking about?”
In Lu Xuan’s head, the only person that came to mind was Ling Fei. Excluding his previous life, he had only been rebirthed a few days ago in this life. Thus, of the beautiful ladies he knew who could possibly have visited his home located in Xia City, probably only Ling Fei fit the bill.
“You really don’t have any patience at all!” Liu Wanrong said with a pout. “The young lady introduced herself to us as Luo Ying. She said she was your friend. She looks really beautiful, and even your dad thinks so, but I think this young lady might be a bit dangerous. I can tell from a glance that she’s from an especially rich background. I’m not sure if you can handle her!”
Luo Ying!
Hearing this name, Lu Xuan’s pupils immediately contracted slightly!
It was a name he was all too familiar with.
The eldest daughter of the Luo family, and also the older sister of Luo Kun. In his past life, they were in a relationship for a while.
At that time, he was not aware that Luo Ying was from the Luo family, nor that she was the older sister of Luo Kun. He suffered miserably due to her deception, and at one point, almost met a tragic end.
With regard to Luo Ying, Lu Xuan knew her better than anyone else. She had a beautiful appearance, but her heart was full of malice, and she would go to any lengths to achieve her goals.
In this life, he did not have any interactions with Luo Ying. Even after he killed Luo Kun, nobody should have found out about it yet.
Logically speaking, it was not possible that Luo Ying could know of his existence, much less visit his home and claim to be his friend.
As Lu Xuan thought about it, he suddenly stumbled upon a chilling possibility. There was only one reason for Luo Ying to come looking for him, and it was that she was investigating the dreadful incident of Luo Kun’s death.
Luo Kun had died so inexplicably that there was no way the Luo family would not conduct an investigation!
Even so, Lu Xuan did a very clean job and left no traces, which was why up until now, the Luo family had not found out who the culprit was.
As for why Luo Ying came to his doorstep, she was probably nursing some suspicions. With Luo Ying’s character, if she were suspicious about someone, she would rather take down an innocent than let the suspect get away.
The only reason why she still had not made a move was probably that she was not completely sure. After all, before this, nobody knew that Lu Xuan was a cultivator.
Luo Ying may have her doubts, but she did not have enough proof to go on.
However, the situation had changed now because he had shown his hand in the fighting competition.
There was no doubt how much influence a martial arts legend had!
He feared that the Luo family would soon receive the news as well.
When that happened, Lu Xuan would be upgraded from a slightly suspicious individual to the main suspect.
Based on Luo Ying’s modus operandi, she would definitely make a move against his family.
He was not worried for himself, as with his cultivation, the Luo family posed no real threat to him, but his own family members did not have the strength to protect themselves.
Once they were targeted by the Luo family, based on what he knew of their style of doing things, they would not stop until his family was dead.
Lu Xuan’s eyes flashed with a fearsome glow.
In this life, he was indifferent to a great many things, but only when it came to his family, there was no room for compromise.
Initially, he believed that the most chaotic era had not yet arrived, so his family’s safety would not be at risk, and he could feel more at ease. Yet now, with the Luo family following the trail and sniffing around at his door, his family, whom he assumed to be safe, was plunged into danger.
Aside from getting access to cultivation resources more easily, the most important reason behind Lu Xuan’s decision to join the Agency of Special Affairs was to solve the problem of his family’s safety.
As the saying went, “you can be a thief for a thousand days, but you cannot stop a thief for a thousand days.”
With people from the Agency of Special Affairs keeping a lookout, the safety of his family would be increased several times over.
Moreover, Luo Ying’s appearance brought to mind many events from Lu Xuan’s past life.
The Luo family and the powerful family that Lin Miaoyi and the others belonged to were part of a larger organization known as Taichu.
This organization did not make itself publicly known, but they were a super-rich financial power that far exceeded the Ling family.
They were extremely powerful, and their influence spread to the military, the government, the underworld, and more.
Going even deeper, behind the Taichu Group, a secluded sect was involved, called the Taichu Path.
Even though the Taichu Path had remained hidden to this day, they had secretly planted their seeds a long time ago. The Luo family and the Lin family, among others, were families that sprouted out from these seeds.
They were biding their time, waiting for the world to recover so that they could emerge from hiding one day.
In his past life, the Taichu Path was once the mortal enemy of Lu Xuan for a long period of time. In the beginning, Lu Xuan struggled to deal with the pressure they put on him, but afterward, when he made great strides in his cultivation, he was able to uproot the entire Taichu Path.
At the peak of Lu Xuan’s power in his past life, the Taichu Path was really nothing to him, and he could easily eradicate it single-handedly.
Nevertheless, for the current Lu Xuan, it was still a colossal enemy.
At the same time, Lu Xuan also knew that, at the moment, the secluded sects like the Taichu Path could not come out into the world yet. It was not because they did not want to, but because they were sealed.
As Lu Xuan came from a previous life, he was privy to many secrets that others did not know about. After Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang established the nation, he felt the power of the world of cultivators, so he ordered Liu Bowen to cut the dragon’s veins, thus sealing the sects of cultivators deep into the wilds of the mountains, unable to emerge into civilization.
At the same time, because the dragon’s veins of the world were cut, spirit qi rapidly disappeared from the world, and they quickly entered into the Degenerate Age.
Cultivators who were previously known for their strength all disappeared without a trace in a short amount of time.
Even if there were some remnants remaining, they were struggling to barely survive.
Hence, because the environment for cultivation was extremely bad in the outside world, all the secluded sects had no desire to return to civilization.
However, with the world beginning its process of recovery, the various secluded sects were busily making preparations, planning for their reemergence into the world.
A shadow of a figure flashed through Lu Xuan’s mind.
The chief disciple of the Taichu Path, Yan Han.
He was a genius blessed by the heavens, who once competed with Lu Xuan to be the top in the whole universe.
He was hailed as the strongest powerhouse in the history of the Taichu Path.
In his past life, Lu Xuan started his cultivation too late and was kept under his thumb for a long time. It was only much later that Lu Xuan finally overtook Yan Han in strength and killed him in retaliation.
This time would be different, however, because Lu Xuan had sufficient time.
“Yan Han, when you descend upon the world again, I’ll have a big surprise prepared for you!”
