Chapter 52
Lu Xuan was barely able to hold his tears as he saw his mother standing right in front of him, alive and well.
Being able to stand before his mother was a scene he was unable to even see in a dream in his past life.
“It’s good that you’re back.” Liu Wanrong said with a beaming smile, “I’ve made your favorite fish balls. Get to sleep once you’re done eating them. Best not stay up late often, or you’d end up bald.”
An intense cough was heard from the other end of the couch when Lu Xuan heard that. A bespectacled, unassuming middle-aged man was coughing hard.
“Dad!” Lu Xuan said, and he sounded as if he was sobbing as well. His parents were alive, and he was overjoyed. He had never been so excited and content, even when he became the Celestial Lord in his past life.
I’m absolutely not going to let anything bad happen to both of you in this life! he thought.
Seeing Lu Xuan standing there just looking at him without saying anything, his father—Lu Tianxiang—glared at him and said, “What are you looking at? I’m not bald yet. Don’t listen to your mom here. I’m not bald!”
Lu Tianxiang then touched his head for a bit and grinned. While he still indeed had hair on his head, it was obvious that the amount was no longer what it used to be.
He never anticipated just how different his mother’s reaction would be from what he thought it would have been. She hardly looked fazed and seemed to have been able to take everything in.
But then again, it worked in Lu Xuan’s favor, as further troubles were prevented, and he had no need to explain much to his folks.
Lu Xuan shifted the furniture in his room around a little bit, making a small, makeshift Spirit Gathering Formation. He sat at his bed, cross-legged. He then began his training.
However, when he extended his spiritual senses, he quickly detected several very powerful auras stalking about near his place.
However, he did not sense any untoward intentions from them, so he quickly realized that those auras probably belonged to masters of the Special Task Force sent to protect his family.
Lu Xuan was at ease with such arrangements in place. He released any other concerns in his mind, sitting down, and then immersed himself into his training.
At the same time, people who were lurking near Lu Xuan’s place seemed to have felt that they were being watched. All of them checked their surroundings but found no one around.
“Why the hell did I feel that we were being watched?” one of them muttered in their shared communication channel, which elicited the same response from the others.
“You got that right. I felt the same thing as well. Weird.”
“Seems like it’s just me seeing things.”
They all felt just how weird that happening had been. All of them were capable Cultivators, and they were far from being normal folk. Their senses were considerably more acute than most people. There was a possibility of one of them just seeing things, but it was impossible for all of them to have their senses fooling them.
“Regardless, best stay sharp, people. This mission isn’t something trivial. Mess this up, and we won’t be able to hold our heads up in front of the Chief.” A rather stern voice was heard on the channel, which silenced all other voices immediately.