Chapter 47
“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.
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!”