Chapter 184 One Willing to Strike, One Willing to Endure
"Senior Uncle, please come in quickly."
Liu Ruyi opened the formation and warmly invited Lin Xuan to enter.
Her exquisite small face raised a brilliant smile, but the smile did not reach her eyes.
"Mn!"
Hearing these words, Lin Xuan glanced at her in surprise.
He had not failed to mention entering Starlight Peak, however, he had been refused with various reasons.
Today, why would Liu Ruyi invite him in?
Had Liu Ruyi finally discovered her conscience?
Thinking of this, Lin Xuan gave a faint "mn" and nodded with relief.
He had given these four people so many treasures, and it was finally not in vain; their hearts were finally leaning towards him.
In other words, the four intended to accept him and were willing to switch to his sect!?
At the thought of taking all four under his wing, Lin Xuan's expression was stirred, uncontrollable.
After all, the four were supreme monsters with Seven-Star, Eight-Star, and Nine-Star talents.
Their talent and fortune were even higher than the five disciples he had previously taken.
Moreover, the four were as beautiful as fairies, each with their own merits; just looking at them every day could make one feel happy.
Thinking of the beautiful life in the future, Lin Xuan could not help but curl up a rippling smile at the corner of his mouth.
However, when walking into the great hall, Lin Xuan's rippling smile instantly stiffened on his face.
He saw that Luo Rou's eyes were filled with tears, looking as if she were about to cry but wasn't.
She was looking at him with a gaze full of hatred.
And there was Zhi Meng.
Why would Zhi Meng appear here?
"Lin Xuan, why did you abduct my disciple?" Luo Rou asked indignantly.
If Xiao Hongdou had not taken the recording stone to show her, she would not have believed that Lin Xuan could do such a wicked thing.
One must know that in the cultivation world, the master-disciple relationship is more important than blood kin.
After all, one spends countless years and painstaking effort to cultivate them, viewing them as successors to one's mantle, and also as interdependent companions.
She did not know how many natural treasures she had used to cultivate Lin Chuqing.
She tirelessly guarded Lin Chuqing's growth day and night, the hardships of which were unknown to outsiders.
In the end, she had managed to cultivate Lin Chuqing to the King Realm.
Lin Xuan directly picked the fruit of victory.
The more Luo Rou thought about it, the more resentful she became; she had never wanted to kill someone as much as she did at this moment.
"Rou'er, I didn't, listen to my explanation..."
Seeing this, Lin Xuan panicked completely.
He just wanted Lin Chuqing to have one more master, he did not want Lin Chuqing to sever ties with Luo Rou.
"No need to explain, in this life I will be at odds with you." Luo Rou interrupted his words, her expression decisive.
No matter what difficulties Lin Xuan had, that was not a reason for Lin Xuan to sever her succession.
Her Hidden Immortal Palace was not to be bullied.
There were several Divine Fire Realm ancestors who regarded Lin Chuqing as a treasure.
She had already sent a message to the ancestors.
Lin Xuan was completely numb.
He looked at Luo Rou in a daze, unable to believe that Luo Rou, who had always loved him deeply, would sever ties with him and become enemies over Lin Chuqing.
She had changed.
He felt that Luo Rou had changed.
The previous Luo Rou was gentle, quiet, and understanding.
No matter what he did, she would support him unconditionally without hesitation.
"Senior Uncle, it's not me saying this, with your Divine Fire Realm cultivation, what kind of disciple do you not want?"
"Why must you sever Rou Sister's succession?"
"You are also someone who has had disciples, do you not know that a disciple is like a child?"
"Put yourself in their shoes, if others snatched your child, could you agree?"
"Also, Senior Uncle, you are too shameless, actually delusionally wanting to take the four of us under your wing together. Do you still want face? Do you have face? Are you still human?"
"You are simply insane and worse than a beast..."
Xiao Hongdou made a timely attack, looking heartbroken, her little mouth like a machine gun, chattering non-stop.
She was extremely disgusted with people like Lin Xuan who were scum but did not know it themselves.
Xiao Hongdou did not believe that Lin Xuan did not know that breaking the engagement with Luo Rou to marry Zhi Meng would cause Luo Rou great harm.
Knowing this, Lin Xuan still did it without hesitation, even calling it treating Luo Rou only as a sister.
Bullshit sister.
Clearly, he was using the name of a sister to play a Platonic love game.
Lin Xuan: "..."
Although that's the case, Hongdou, what you said makes sense.
But damn it, when taking his treasures, why didn't your hands go soft?
Lin Xuan's beautiful dream of taking disciples was completely shattered, and his mentality exploded.
His expression twisted, looking at Xiao Hongdou with a gloomy gaze.
At this point, how could Lin Xuan not know that he had been tricked yet again.
He fell into the same pit repeatedly.
Even more excessive, Xiao Hongdou actually scolded him as being worse than a beast.
It was simply unjust.
"You, you guys are very good."
Colluding to deceive his feelings and cheat him out of his treasures.
Really very good.
Lin Xuan was so angry he went crazy.
"Hehe, we are indeed very good, and we have to thank Senior Uncle for the treasures. Thank you, Senior Uncle, for being so generous." Xiao Hongdou giggled.
In her heart, she felt somewhat regretful.
Actually, she still wanted to fleece Lin Xuan a bit more.
However, Lin Xuan's treasure vault was empty, and only the bottom-of-the-box treasures remained; Lin Xuan would not give them to her.
Rather than waiting for Lin Xuan to realize slowly, it was better to strike first.
As for doing this, would she be patted to death by Lin Xuan in a fit of anger?
Xiao Hongdou was not worried at all.
Because Zhi Meng had already decided to kill Lin Xuan.
Even if Zhi Meng could not kill Lin Xuan, was there not the old ancestor of the Star God Palace?
She did not believe Lin Xuan could block the siege of the Star God Palace.
"You..."
"Pu..."
Lin Xuan was so angry he spat blood, and then he really spat blood.
That was his accumulation over a hundred years.
Of course, as for the treasures, if they were gone, they were gone.
What Lin Xuan could not accept was that he had been deceived.
He, a dignified Divine Fire Realm expert, was deceived in circles by a few ants, played like a monkey.
Emotions such as resentment, shame, and frenzy surged into his heart, making Lin Xuan wish he could explode on the spot.
"Senior Uncle, great anger harms the body. If there is something you cannot think through, say it and let everyone be happy."
A smile will not disappear; it will only transfer to someone else's face.
The more painful Lin Xuan was, the happier Xiao Hongdou was.
Xiao Hongdou's exquisite small face raised a brilliant smile, her voice clear and pleasing.
It echoed in the empty and magnificent great hall.
Everyone in the great hall looked at each other.
Zhi Meng's proud, cold, and beautiful expression cracked inch by inch.
Luo Rou also stopped her tears, looking blankly at Xiao Hongdou.
Lin Chuqing's eyelids twitched straight.
The Liu Ruyan sisters looked at each other.
Although Xiao Hongdou spoke to their hearts, making them feel smug and elated.
But, if they had not seen it with their own eyes, they really could not believe that a temperature of thirty-seven degrees could say such cold words.
It was simply killing the heart.
Lin Xuan had been angered to the point of spitting blood.
"Xiao Hongdou..."
Lin Xuan roared, his hair standing up in anger, his eyes completely red, as if hiding a sea of blood, incomparably terrifying.
"What exactly did I do to wrong you? Why do you join forces to scheme against me?"
He could not figure it out, really could not figure it out.
He passed on techniques to the four and gave them various supreme treasures.
Yet the four repaid kindness with enmity.
Are they still human?
"Does Senior Uncle know who she is?"
Xiao Hongdou pointed at Lin Chuqing, answering with a question, her gaze teasing.
"Who?"
"Isn't Chuqing Rou'er's disciple?"
Lin Xuan's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition rose for no reason.
"She, Lin Chuqing, is Gu Qing's childhood sweetheart, and also his fiancée."
"Pu!"
Idiot.
I am a big idiot, really.
Lin Xuan spat blood.
He never imagined that things would be like this.
Damn it, who could have imagined that in the vast sea of people, he actually met Gu Qing's fiancée.
Lin Xuan hated it.
If he could do it all over again, he would definitely investigate Lin Chuqing's identity and background clearly.
"Then what about the two of them?"
Lin Xuan pointed at the Liu Ruyan sisters, his expression revealing a nervousness that even he had not perceived.
In his heart, he prayed constantly; please don't be Gu Qing's fiancée or confidante again.
He would go crazy.
There was no way not to go crazy.
Bai Suying and Su Qingyue were already stunning enough, beautiful beyond measure.
They were goddesses that countless people could look up to but not reach.
The result was that both of them were Gu Qing's Dao companions.
Now came an even more stunning Lin Chuqing; if even the Liu Ruyan sisters were the same.
Lin Xuan would be so jealous that he would disintegrate.
"They are not."
"Phew!"
"However..."
"..."
"However what? Say it quickly?"
Seeing Xiao Hongdou toying with her thumb and index finger, Lin Xuan went crazy. Damn it, at a time like this, she still cares so much about money.
"Here, here, take it all."
If he could not get the answer, Lin Xuan could not help but beat himself to death.
"Hehe, Senior Uncle is generous."
Xiao Hongdou's small heart thumped violently. With just a few words, she obtained a piece of complete Divine Iron. The Star God Palace was indeed her Xiao Hongdou's blessed land.
It was destined that she, Xiao Hongdou, would make a fortune.
"Liu Ruyan was brought out of the deep mountains by Gu Qing; he has the grace of knowing her. Do you understand?"
"Understood."
Lin Xuan put on a mask of pain.
What kind of heaven-defying luck was this?
The disciples he wanted to take were all closely related to Gu Qing.
Again and again, he fell into the hands of Gu Qing's women.
"Then what about you?" Lin Xuan, as if catching the last life-saving straw, stared dead at Xiao Hongdou, his voice hoarse.
"Me? As you can see, I am his junior sister." Xiao Hongdou said.
"Phew!"
Finally there is one...
No, Xiao Hongdou was the disciple of Gu Qing's father-in-law.
Even if she wasn't close to Gu Qing now, she would definitely be confused by Gu Qing, the pretty boy, in the future.
Perhaps Xiao Hongdou had already been confused by Gu Qing's face and secretly gave her heart.
Thinking of this, Lin Xuan collapsed.
As a man, he could not accept at all that Gu Qing possessed so many proud daughters of heaven.
Lin Xuan breathed heavily for a good while before regaining his senses.
He looked at Luo Rou and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Rou'er, you heard it all, right? I was schemed against by them joining forces; it wasn't that I wanted to snatch your disciple."
Although losing four proud daughters of heaven was a pity, Luo Rou was the sister he owed for a lifetime.
If Luo Rou also became enemies with him, Lin Xuan felt pain just thinking about it.
Lin Xuan had sworn to use his life to make up for his debt to Luo Rou and help Luo Rou avenge the extermination of her clan.
He had not killed Zhi Meng yet, and he could not let Luo Rou misunderstand.
"Heh, Senior Uncle, what are you saying? If you didn't have evil intentions, how could we see your true face?" Xiao Hongdou sneered.
"What do you mean?" Lin Xuan was numb.
He was schemed against, so it was all his fault?
Is there still law? Is there still justice?
"The literal meaning: one willing to strike, one willing to endure. Senior Uncle wouldn't be a sore loser, right? You wouldn't be, right? You wouldn't be, right..."
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