If Mom found out I had led Abby astray, I'd be finished.
Dad was easier to deal with. He was pretty easygoing, or rather, he did not care much about anything. Aside from occasionally getting headaches whenever he looked at Chen Luo...
It was not that Chen Luo's dad had any complaints. It was just that Chen Luo had never been very interested in the family martial arts.
What era was this? Who still used swords?
Those are restricted knives, dad!
Fortunately, Chen Luo's parents had been very open-minded about his upbringing.
But... through a series of coincidences, Chen Luo seemed to have ended up on the path of sword cultivation after all.
Was it still too late to learn his family's martial arts now?
Emmm, forget it. Chen Luo usually only used Tai Xu Sword God for precision strikes anyway. For everything else, he used the Friendship Revolver.
Beyond seven steps, the gun was faster. Within seven steps, the gun was fast and accurate!
"Oh, no, Ye Yunshang—Auntie... Sister told me to say that. But someone really did come over," Abby said.
"...Next time, don't listen to Ye Yunshang's nonsense. It's all your fault—you scared me so badly that I forgot I'd installed cameras around the house."
The cameras Chen Luo spoke of were a whole swarm of spiders.
Yes, actual spiders.
Chen Luo had discovered that spider puppets were quite useful. More importantly, they could climb walls and roofs with ease, making them convenient wherever they went.
Of course, they were merely spider puppets, not actual spiders. It was not that he could not make living spider puppets, but Chen Luo still found them somewhat unsettling...
Chen Luo had installed malicious intent detection modules in all the spider puppets he had stationed around his home. This was another