Free Web Novel“Oh, you’ve learned to lie now.”
“If you’re this bold at home, what about outside? How did you bully others? Confess!”
Just as the culprit, Xiao Li, was about to experience the overwhelming landslide of parental love, Ying Bing gently pursed her lips:
“Uncle and Auntie, he tricked me into calling him ‘Brother’ last night.”
“And what about... Dual Cultivation?” Comrade Dalong still hadn’t let go of the rolling pin.
Li Mo said helplessly, “Dad, I already told you, that’s a legitimate method, similar to ‘Sun and Moon Intertwined’. Although those are two sword techniques, they also count as Dual Cultivation martial arts.”
Indeed, Phoenix Cries Heavenly Marsh was very proper.
If one didn’t look at the third layer.
The couple looked at Ying Bing.
Ying Bing lowered her eyes, glanced at Xiao Li, whose eyes read ‘I’ve been honest’, and then tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, nodding lightly.
The truth was revealed.
At least Old Li and Ms. Gu thought so.
“So that’s how it is.”
“Hmm, Bing’er never lies, so it must be true. This is more like it.”
“Dad, Mom, I said the same thing just now, but you weren’t like this.”
“You even lied to me this morning, saying you took a wrong turn in the middle of the night. Do you think such a ridiculous lie can fool your Dad’s keen eyes? My eyes are a ruler!”
“Bing’er, have some porridge. If Xiao Mo bullies you in the future, be sure to tell us immediately. We’ll spank him till his butt blooms.”
“??? How dare I bully her?!”
Li Mo looked bewildered, as if he had become an outsider.
Where was the most basic trust between parents and child?
And how old was he to still be getting spanked?!
“Thank you, Uncle and Auntie.”
Ying Bing responded earnestly, her beautiful eyes glancing at Li Mo, a hint of a smile flickering within them.
She seemed to recall the times when they practiced swordsmanship, and her ruler often met his exposed backside.
While eating breakfast, Gu Xueqin said again:
“It’s normal for young people to have youthful urges. Dalong and I were also young when we started, but you must pay attention to propriety.”
“We are very careful. We have always been very polite.”
Li Mo had the air of a true gentleman.
Wasn’t a foot massage normal? Didn’t it count as adhering to propriety?
This was very polite.
No sooner ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) had he spoken than he gently gasped, looking down to see a small boot Step on on his instep, gently twisting.
The owner of the small foot was, of course, the cold Fairy, drinking her porridge with a serene expression.
“Xiao Mo, I’m talking to you. Why are you grimacing and acting strange?”
“Tsk, this porridge is too sweet. So sweet it makes my teeth hurt.”
“?”
Li Dalong opened his mouth, just about to say something else, when footsteps sounded outside, and a pair of official boots stepped over the threshold.
The newcomer was an old subordinate of his father, who immediately called him ‘Chief Li’, and then lowered his voice to report the situation to his father.
“Chief Li, something happened. There really is a Year Beast at the Ying Family Old Residence! It’s very similar to the one from ten years ago...”
“That beast really came back?!”
Li Dalong stood up abruptly, his face solemn.
“Wife, fetch my armor and weapons!”
Old Li’s face was filled with tragic determination: “The blood debt from ten years ago is due for repayment today. Killing that beast will also comfort Brother Ying and Sister-in-law’s spirits in heaven...”
“Husband! Can you defeat it?”
“A man cannot say he can’t. I’ll fight with all my might first.”
“.....”
Xiao Li and Ice Cube exchanged glances, tacitly burying their heads in their breakfast.
The subordinate, meanwhile, had a small question mark appearing above his head. Your two youngsters, the Dragon of Hidden Potential who have slain countless Disaster Beasts in the Southern Border and are renowned throughout the land, are still standing here.
Why are you risking your life? What kind of act is this?
“Cough, Chief Li, I know you want to fight, but don’t fight yet.”
“The Year Beast is already dead. I don’t know who killed it, but I’m here to inform you to investigate the scene.”
“Ah?”
The atmosphere was all set, and then a bucket of cold water was poured over it.
It was, quite sudden.
Dad went to the Old Residence. After eating, Gu Xueqin took the household maids and began to organize and clean the mansion, preparing for the upcoming New Year.
After all, because of the two youngsters in the family, the family’s prestige was no longer what it used to be, and the Li Residence’s New Year was expected to be very lively.
“It’s New Year, so we need to make a few more suitable clothes. Both children are growing fast.”
“Bring the lanterns over. Ours need to be hung high.”
Gu Xueqin had just finished instructing the maids when she turned around and saw Ying Bing there as well.
“Auntie, I’ll hang one too.”
Ying Bing’s voice was soft, gentler than usual.
Gu Xueqin was startled.
In previous years, this child would become even more taciturn than usual during the New Year, as if the New Year had little to do with her. The couple knew the reason.
Now, she was actually taking the initiative to participate in the New Year. The sun hadn’t risen from the west today, had it?
“Good, good, good, Bing’er, let’s hang lanterns together. Next year, we’ll be prosperous.”
This year.
The two youngsters seemed to have changed from their usual selves.
Li Mo watched for a while, intending to go help, but then he suddenly noticed a movement from something in his System space.
“Mom, I’ll be right back.”
He greeted her, then went to a secluded spot and took out a Beast Token.
This was a token of the Demon Summoning Sect, which the Hall Master of Hundred Beasts, Luo Yexian, had been tricked... cough, given after visiting the Myriad Aspects Immortal Sect.
He said that since the divine sect and the immortal sect were to communicate, if there was anything that needed contact, it could be done through this token.
After checking that there were no unfavorable means on it, Li Mo put it away.
“What does the Demon Summoning Sect want again? Do people from the Demonic Sect not celebrate New Year...?”
Li Mo took out the token and saw a faint light emanating from it, feeling slightly warm.
A fluctuation that only a God-Observing Martial Artist could receive also came from within.
“In three days, the Saint and two Law Bodies will arrive in the Eastern Wasteland Region. They all hold the Immortal in high regard and hope to meet the Immortal in Ziyang Prefecture to discuss important matters—Luo Yexian.”
The Demon-Calling Holy Child and the Demon Summoning Sect Law Bodies?
Li Mo held the token, his brows slightly furrowed, lost in thought.
The Demon-Calling Holy Child was once the top of the Qianlong Ranking, but unfortunately, he encountered the Great Yu Crown Prince and was rumored to have been killed at one point.
Or perhaps he truly died once, only to reappear through some bizarre means. In any case, he reappeared in the Jianghu several years later.
This person was clearly not as easy to fool as Luo Yexian.
Moreover, the other party brought two Law Bodies. Judging by the title, they were high-ranking members of the Demon Summoning Sect.
“Are the Law Bodies of the Demon Summoning Sect all Law Body cultivators?” ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
“They must have the intention to test me...”
“To go or not to go?”
Li Mo thought for a moment and finally decided.
To go!
If he didn’t go, the other party wouldn’t give up easily, and it would be hard to say when they might come knocking again. Furthermore, the power of all beings would then be dismissed as nonsense.
It’s not the thief you fear, but the thief who keeps thinking of you.
Although it seemed he was the thief...
In short, with the date set, at least he could make some preparations and go prepared.
