Li Xinwen continued to bring Sun Xiao around, shopping for books and other random stuff such as clothes, hats and even stationery but most of all, Li Xinwen indulged himself in buying chocolate. When they left the shopping mall, both of them have hands full of bags, but most of them were on Sun Xiao's hold. They didn't realize how time flew while they were inside so when Li Xinwen looked up, he was surprised that the sky had an orange tint on it. "We should go home. Mom will get worried," Li Xinwen said before he freed one of his hand and took out his phone.
He called for a taxi and luckily for them, there is one nearby so they didn't have to wait long. After a half an hour drive, they finally arrived at the entrance of Li residence. As if he got used to it, Sun Xiao paid for the fare before they got out of the car. Seeing this, Li Xinwen couldn't help that he has achieved his goal. 'If this continues... I hope that future I see from Li Jinghua's memories won't happen to him,' Li Xinwen said as he lifts up and pats Sun Xiao's head. "Good job. You've worked hard today," Li Xinwen said.
Sun Xiao looked up at him and when he saw how Li Xinwen looked proud, he blushed a deep shade of red. Fortunately, the sky is now dark so he hoped that his older brother won't notice it. They opened the gate and walked over to their house. When they entered, their nose were assaulted by the various aroma of foods.
"..." Li Xinwen who are on a strict soft food diet felt that meal time is his worse nightmare. He can only watch, but cannot eat. Though the family do try to be considerate by preparing less food that he can't eat, it still doesn't make him feel any better. 'I wish one month can pass quickly, ah!'
"Ah'Wen, Ah'Xiao, welcome home," Mother Li smiled when she saw her two sons came home. "I heard from Hua-er you guys went shopping for clothes," as she said this, her eyes went to the bags on both Li Xinwen and Sun Xiao's hand. "Looks like you both bought a lot. Go on and put them in your rooms, then come and have dinner," Mother Li said before she went back into the kitchen.
"Xin-gege just stay here. I'll help you bring your stuff upstairs!" Sun Xiao offered. "Gege is still recovering after all," he said as he took the bags from Li Xinwen and then he went upstairs. He first went into Li Xinwen's room and placed his elder brother's stuff on the recamier sofa. He was about to leave when his eyes caught sight of a jian on the bed. His heart started to race from excitement. The decoration on the sheath compelled him to touch it. He walked closer to the bed and was just about to go over and touch the jian when he heard Li Xinwen's voice.
"Ah'Xiao, what are you doing?"
* * *
Li Xinwen at first, wanted to wait patiently for Sun Xiao downstairs but then, he felt someone had entered the barrier he set around his bed. He went upstairs and went into his room only to see Sun Xiao over his bed, trying to grab Shuang Ren. "Ah'Xiao, what are you doing?" Li Xinwen asked but there was no anger in his tone, just feeling amused.
Hearing Li Xinwen's voice, Sun Xiao immediately stood up straight and turned to Li Xinwen. "Xin-gege! I... I'm sorry... it's just umm..." Sun Xiao stuttered, head down, staring at the floor.
"Do you like the jian?" Li Xinwen asked in a gentle tone. He had just managed to get Sun Xiao to regain some confidence, if the younger boy returned to his state before, it would be bad. At the question, Sun Xiao just nods his head and walked over to the boy. "You can't have this one," Li Xinwen told him. "But I have another one. If you learn martial art properly, ge will give them to you," he added. "Now, go on along and put your stuff in your room. Mom is already waiting," Li Xinwen reminded the boy that they are supposed to have dinner.
Once Sun Xiao left, Li Xinwen shook his head and looked over at Shuang Ren. 'Lanyu, I'm sending my jian over to you. Be sure to keep it safe,' Li Xinwen said in his mind before he sends the jian into the pocket dimension. After a while, he decided to reward Lanyu, except he doesn't know what to give the little spirit. 'Lanyu, have you tried chocolate?' Li Xinwen asked.
[Lanyu: Chocolate? No, I haven't, master. Is it good? Are those one of the food that the mortal here made?]
Hearing this question, Li Xinwen decided to just hand over one pack of chocolate. In those pack is 26 pieces of chocolate bar. 'Those are chocolates. Try eating them. If you like it, I'll buy more for you. By the way, how is the search of the cultivation manual going?'
[Lanyu: ...]
'Lanyu?' Li Xinwen called out again when there was no answer. 'You have exactly ten breath to answer before I go in there,' he threatened the small spirit.
[Lanyu: Master! Please forgive Lanyu!! It's the cats! The cats won't let Lanyu do his work!]
'Just feed them and leave them to play! Why are you playing with them for?'
[Lanyu: I'm sorry, master...]
Li Xinwen let out a heavy sigh and shook his head. 'Just give me whatever you have now.'
As he told Lanyu this, he felt a kind of connection in his mind and he quickly took out the books that Lanyu had prepared so far. All of them are something that were created for those with Yang constitution. He placed them on his table and planned to look through it later after dinner so he could find which one is the most suitable for Sun Xiao.
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Mini theatre:
Within the pocket dimension, Lanyu happily plays around with the cats after he had gotten over his fear of them.
Lanyu: Aiya! Why are you guys so cute, ah!
Lanyu: Hey! Don't go and excrete near the house!!
Lanyu: So fluffy! Can you be my bed?
Li Xinwen: Lanyu, how is the search going?
Lanyu who were distracted for the whole time: ... Oh no! How should I answer?!
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Reminder:
On February, I plan to have the artist do another character design. The vote will be up in discord on late January. So if you haven't joined the discord server yet, you can do so at: https://discord.me/lxl (it's L, X and L)
Lanyu's character design will be up hopefully mid-february, depending on how busy the artist will be. For the new one, it might be released on mid-march.
After dinner, Li Xinwen went back to his room. His excuse to his family was, he's too tired today after playing the whole day so he wanted to rest early. While in his room, Li Xinwen looked through the cultivation manual. 'But then... what if there are better cultivation technique for him?' he thought, since there are still more books in the dimension. Even though he said that, he still spend time to read through everything. He put those that are best compatible with Sun Xiao's body constitution aside, then sends the rest back into the dimension.
When he looked at the wall clock, he realized that it was already close to 10:00 PM. "I wonder if Hua-jie is already asleep..." he murmured in a soft voice. Though he already knew the reason why Li Jinghua is protective of her, and how Li Xinwen died, he still wanted to know more about the apocalypse. "She mentions that Mr. Min had created a pill to heal the zombie virus by using the couldron... I wonder if she saw it personally..."
Deciding to enter Li Jinghua's memories once more, Li Xinwen turned the lights off and went to his bed. Closing his eyes, he let his spiritual energy goes inside Li Jinghua's mind once more and started to look through her memories. But halfway through, he suddenly felt that someone had entered his room. Not only that, this person even got onto his bed. Thinking it was an enemy trying to assassinate him, Li Xinwen retracted his senses back and returned to his body. When he opened his eyes, he saw a figure hovering above him. A hand was under his shirt, feeling him all over his body.
"Ah, did I wake you up?" that familiar voice made Li Xinwen frown and he quickly became alert.
'This kind of person... really must not be let off so easily!' Li Xinwen said in his mind before he raised his hand up and pushed the figure off him. Pushing seems to be an understatement since the figure actually flew off the bed.
"Care to tell me why the second young master of the Xue family is in my room this late at night?!" Li Xinwen asked as he got off the bed and approached Xue Liang in a domineering manner.
Xue Liang, was at first surprised when he was suddenly pushed off but it didn't take long for that surprise to change into excitement instead. He stood up and corrected his suit while his eyes never left Li Xinwen. "So, not only did your temparament change, you also became stronger? But you've been in coma for two months, only woke up recently. So how did you manage to get this strong?" Xue Liang asked.
'This guy... something is wrong with his head,' Li Xinwen thought as he stared at Xue Liang's eyes which have a hint of madness. 'I should erase his memories. Then just call Xue Rui to pick this guy up...'
While Li Xinwen was thinking, Xue Liang continued to speak. "You see, I've already asked those doctors around but they said that nothing about you is suspicious. The discharge report says that your body still have several scars that has yet to disappear but when I touched you earlier, your skin is smooth, lacking of any scars..."
"Oh? So what does the second young master want to say?" Li Xinwen asked in a low, dangerous tone. By manipulating the spiritual energy in the room, Li Xinwen put a pressure on Xue Liang, forcing the male to fall on his knees. At the same time, he made sure to only use the pressure that a rank one Houtian practitioner can exert. After all, he didn't want to accidentally turn Xue Liang into a bloody mess on the floor. "No matter, after this, you won't remember a thing."
Li Xinwen crouched down and touched Xue Liang's forehead and he was about to inject some spiritual energy to wipe out Xue Liang's memories for the day when something unexpected happened. Because this was a mortal realm, where most of the mortals are non-cultivator, Li Xinwen had put his guard down after putting a pressure on Xue Liang. After all, it was unheard of that a mere mortal could stand against the spiritual pressure of a cultivator. And yet, Xue Liang had just proven him wrong this time.
Xue Liang moved quickly. In one swift movement, he managed to aim at Li Xinwen's neck, in his hand is a syringe filled with a solution. It was only unfortunate for Xue Rui that Li Xinwen is now a peak 4th stage Houtian, so the flimsy tip of the syringe broke the moment it hit Li Xinwen's neck.
Li Xinwen blinked for a few seconds in disbelief as he stared at Xue Liang. At the same time, Xue Liang was also sporting a look of disbelief as he stared at the syringe with a broken needle.
"You..." Xue Liang began to speak.
BAM!
Li Xinwen aimed a fist right onto Xue Liang, punching him right across his face. This punch didn't have any spiritual energy in it, it was just a normal punch. Of course, if it was up to Li Xinwen, he really wanted to beat this man before thim half to death.
This punch was already enough to make Xue Liang fall to the floor and Li Xinwen frown once again. Earlier, when Xue Liang moved, he thought that it was because this man might also be a cultivator, albeit, a low ranked one. But after seeing this, he knew that his conjenctures were wrong. A cultivator, no matter how weak he is, even if they had just started, it's impossible for them to fall with just a simple punch with no spiritual energy imbued. 'So he really is a mortal... a mortal who can stand against the pressure of a 1st stage Houtian.'
Xue Liang piqued Li Xinwen's interest. He stared at Xue Liang who are currently wiped the blood off his lips after the punch earlier. Sitting down on the floor with his legs crossed, Li Xinwen continued to stare at the other man. "I'll give you a chance. Tell me why you're here," Li Xinwen said as he then activated Mo Yan to inspect Xue Liang's body. 'Ah, no wonder he could resist slightly,' Li Xinwen thought in his mind as he discovered the reason. 'This man completed the first stage of Body Transformation and is actually close to entering the second stage.'
Leave a comment below. Again, if you like the story so far, and wish to support me, you can do so by donating at: ko-fi.com/traita
Reminder:
On February, I plan to have the artist do another character design. The vote will be up in discord on late January. So if you haven't joined the discord server yet, you can do so at: https://discord.me/lxl (it's L, X and L)
Lanyu's character design will be up hopefully mid-february, depending on how busy the artist will be. For the new one, it might be released on mid-march.
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