What Kind of Storms Hasn't This Sword Immortal Weathered? I'm Not Afraid

"Alright, I'll take it." Looking at the copper coin that did indeed radiate considerable spiritual power, Chen Luo hesitated for a moment before taking it in his hand.

Yun Xia had given Chen Luo some amulets and other protective charms before.

However, comparing this copper coin to those seemingly valuable and ornate amulets is an overestimation of their value. This copper coin may look insignificant, but its power to ward off evil completely surpasses that of those amulets.

It can be described as an exquisite treasure for warding off evil spirits and protecting the home.

However, it is merely a treasure, not a magical artifact. Placing this item in your home will deter weaker monsters or ghosts. But it doesn't cause much damage to more powerful monsters or ghosts.

Simply put, this thing is really expensive, and you can't buy it with money.

"Although this thing is indeed quite valuable, if you give it to an ordinary person, they will definitely think you are a charlatan," Chen Luo said to Su Yuan as he used his Void Archive ability to copy the copper coin.

"Why?" Su Yuan asked, puzzled.

"Because ordinary people simply can't tell how valuable this thing is. In fact, if you don't add that it can ward off evil spirits, they might buy it as an antique. Once you add that, you're just a con artist," Chen Luo said.

"Since you don't seem to have any money with you, and since your copper coin is quite valuable, I'll take out some money to compensate you later. Don't rush to refuse; you can't live without money in the real world, and if you want to enter society, you have to learn how to make money," Chen Luo said.

"I see, I understand now, fellow Daoist, you are a good person."

"Thank you for the compliment. Alright, we've finished eating and drinking. Tell me what you need my help with, right? I need to go home after I help you." Chen Luo stretched.

"Oh, I see. I actually have three purposes for coming down the mountain this time. One is to find my cousin. I have his address. Just tell me how to get there."

"The second purpose is to gain worldly experience. After the summer vacation ends, I should enroll in school because I heard that my cousin is also studying at this school," Su Yuan said, looking at her school uniform.

"My third goal is to find three S-rank Talent User in this city and fight them to see who is stronger. In short, it's a test of strength."

[Ding! You have a new request!]

[Finding Her "Cousin"]: Help Su Yuan find her "cousin".

Reward: 50 Primogem + 15 points of Su Yuan's favorability

Difficulty: Minor

[Enrollment]: Help Su Yuan enroll in school.

Reward: 200 Primogem + Sword Control Technique

Difficulty: Two stars + Su Yuan's favorability 10

[Test of Swords]: Help Su Yuan find three S-rank Talent User in Xinghai City and make them accept the challenge, regardless of the outcome.

Rewards: 500 Primogem + random rewards + Su Yuan's favorability increased by 15

"Emmm..." Goodness, it's actually a series of missions.

But isn't the first quest giving a bit too few Primogem?

If we're talking about finding people, Chen Luo is indeed very skilled at it, but only if the other person's destiny isn't obscured. He can observe their Fate Threads through Fate Threads ability, but if their destiny is obscured, Chen Luo only see their Fate Threads. Beyond that, he can't see who they're connected to, what they'll do in the future, or what they've done in the past.

Of course, that's not the focus right now.

"You're going to challenge three S-rank Talent User in Xinghai City. What are you planning to do? Or do you just want to fight them?"

"As a local Talent User in Xinghai City, you must know the addresses of the three S-rank Talent User, right? Don't worry, I just want to fight them to see how fast I'm growing. Oh no, actually I don't want to fight, but my master insisted that I test how sharp my sword is."

"My master said that only by combining talent with cultivation can Talent User better unleash their potential, rather than letting them develop freely and loosely on their own," Su Yuan said.

"I have reservations about that. Your talent for sword immortality is different from other talents; it would be a real shame if you didn't cultivate it," Chen Luo said with a sigh.

However, if it's just about having a fight, then it doesn't matter. 500 Primogem are enough for Chen Luo to swallow his pride and negotiate with the other three.

At worst, I'll just play along with her.

Anyway, they only said they accepted the challenge, but didn't say what kind of challenge they accepted.

However, if it weren't for Chen Luo, this task would indeed be quite difficult.

After all, finding those S-rank Talent User with Su Yuan is one thing, getting them to accept the challenge is another.

"Put your sword trial and enrollment tasks aside for now. Do you know your cousin's phone number? What's his home address?" Chen Luo asked.

"And also, isn't your cousin named Liu Wenxuan?" Chen Luo suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Since the other party is S-rank Talent User, their cousin must also be no ordinary person. And this cousin, who attends the same school as Chen Luo, even went to challenge S-rank Talent User ...

If we follow the novel's plot, then the other party's cousin is very likely Liu Wenxuan.

Just ask, it's not shameful to ask the wrong question.

"Liu Wenxuan? Isn't that the S-rank Talent User? No. My cousin's phone number and address are on this piece of paper. Here..." Su Yuan took out a folded piece of paper from her Storage Space and handed it to Chen Luo.

"What's your cousin's name?" Chen Luo asked, taking the paper and picking up his Coke at the same time.

"Chen Luo".

"Pfft!" Chen Luo sprayed a mouthful of soda onto the window next to him.

"Cough cough cough..."

"What's wrong? Are you alright?"

"N-nothing, it's just that your cousin and someone I know seem to have the same name. Let me see his home address." Chen Luo nervously flipped open the paper.

That doesn't make sense.

I have no relatives.

I've never heard of having any female cousins in all my life.

It must be a case of the same name.

"!!!"

Although I have some unrealistic fantasies about this, since we go to the same school and both are named Chen Luo, it can't possibly be someone else, right?

"Wait a minute, I happen to know this Chen Luo you mentioned. I'll call him to confirm." Chen Luo stood up and coughed twice.

At the same time, Chen Luo also placed a stack of cash on the table.

"Oh." Su Yuan nodded, looking at the stack of money beside her.

Before Su Yuan went down the mountain, her master told her that there were many swindlers down the Su Yuan and that she should be careful in everything she did. However, since the other party had already taken out the money, they probably weren't swindlers.

Su Yuan had been down the mountain for less than a month, so at least she still knew the value of money.

She just can't get the money.

"Hey, Mom, when did I get a cousin?" Chen Luo walked outside the store like a thief, hid to the side, and started making a phone call to his mother.

"What? When did you get a cousin? I didn't know that!" The person on the other end of the phone was also completely bewildered.

"Oh, it seems they've contacted the wrong person." Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, I remember now, you mean Xiao Yuan, right?" Just as Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief, a voice of sudden realization came from the other end of the phone.

"??? Mom, you just said I don't have any cousins."

"Yes, she's not your cousin, she's your aunt."

"What the heck? Auntie?"

"Ah, here's what happened. Although I can't see your expression now, when I received this call a month ago, my expression was probably similar to yours."

"I almost forgot about this. The main reason is that they said they set off almost a month ago and still haven't found you. I thought they had given up. I didn't expect to hear from them now."

"It sounds absurd, but you do have a little aunt, and you can call her 'aunt.' But don't let it slip. After a lot of reasoning between me and that guy's master, who I don't know is any decent person, I successfully turned her from your little aunt into your cousin. Hurry up and thank your mom!" the person on the other end of the phone said smugly.

"??? This can change? No, the main thing is, when did I get a little aunt?" Chen Luo was completely bewildered.

So relationships can be bargained over?

"Well, how should I put it, this cousin of theirs, she's really a cousin, she's probably the niece of my grandmother's cousin's daughter. Just... she's really a cousin."

You could tell that Chen Luo's mother on the other end of the phone had also gone to great lengths to figure out this somewhat complicated relationship.

"Huh? Then how did things turn from aunt to cousin just by talking? And why did she come to find me?" Chen Luo was completely bewildered.

It's one thing to be able to bargain with relatives, but Chen Luo really doesn't understand why the other party would come to him, someone with such a distant relationship.

"I was worried you wouldn't be able to accept the sudden appearance of an aunt who's half a year younger than you but a generation older in the family. So I negotiated with her. As for why I asked you, it's because she lost both her parents when she was young, and we're her closest relatives. Your dad and I are currently away on an archaeological expedition, and you're on summer vacation, so we can only trouble you. Anyway, you're just staying at home anyway, so take your aunt out more often—oh, no, I mean your cousin. Don't let it slip."

"This is the spoils of war I got after spending a long time talking to them until they were completely confused!"

After Chen Luo heard this, it completely shocked my mother for a whole year.

No, it was my mom who shocked me.

My dear mother is considerate of her son, but not completely.

Being considerate of oneself means forcibly turning one's aunt into a cousin.

Being inconsiderate of oneself means forcibly adding a aunt to one's body.

"No, Mom, let me explain. I really don't have it now..." Chen Luo tried to persuade his mother to take this S-level sword immortal to do archaeology.

After all, I have to run a bar at night and I'm never home during the day, so how can I have time to take care of her?

"Alright, stop making excuses. What can you do all day cooped up at home? Do you expect me to go save the world?" Mom snorted on the other end of the phone.

"You're always staying home like a shut-in, when are you ever going to find a girlfriend? You should take your aunt out more often, maybe she'll find one. Honestly, this relationship is so distant that even my mom probably doesn't know about it anymore. It's amazing they even managed to find me," Chen Luo's mother muttered under her breath.

"Ah, this..." Chen Luo still wanted to refuse.

But after thinking about it, I decided against it, because... the other party had already hung up.

Actually, taking care of the other person and going to Different World to earn Primogem are not entirely contradictory.

The premise is that... the other party is willing to sign a contract.

Chapter 383 What storms haven't I, the Sword Immortal, weathered? I'm not afraid.

Since a solution was available, and more importantly, his mother didn't give him time to refuse, Chen Luo had no choice but to accept the loss.

The other person was his own mother! What could Chen Luo do? Chen Luo was also in despair.

However, Chen Luo wasn't too panicked.

For Chen Luo, the idea of having a "little aunt" was quite a novel experience.

Chen Luo actually takes a pretty open-minded view of seniority, because Chen Luo has seen situations where the seniority difference is even greater than before.

It's not like you've never seen an 80-year-old man call a ten-year-old kid "grandpa."

However, Chen Luo was somewhat relieved that his mother was understanding and changed their relationship to cousin and sister, but not entirely relieved.

But what should we do with this cousin? Should we just keep her at home?

This won't do, will it?

After signing the contract, Chen Luo could let the other party know some things, but if he let the other party live in his house, things would be completely different...

Because there are really many secrets.

But no matter what, the first thing to do is to get the other person out of the store. Chen Luo now understands why the price for finding her a cousin was so low, and also why the cousin was in quotation marks.

Laughing to death? You're not going to laugh yourself to death.

"Wow, when did you get here?" Chen Luo turned around and was startled by Su Yuan, who was staring intently at him with her hands behind her back.

When did this guy arrive?

With Chen Luo's strength, Chen Luo could sense anyone approaching within 100 meters with malicious intent. But the other party didn't seem to have any ill intentions, and their strength was indeed formidable...

"Hmm, it probably started around the time of [what? Aunt Flo?]," Su Yuan said.

"Didn't you come here from the very beginning? Didn't your master tell you not to eavesdrop on other people's conversations?"

"No, my master only told me that one should always be wary of others." Su Yuan shook her head.

"So, should I call you cousin or nephew now?" Su Yuan asked, tilting her head.

"That's called a nephew, not a nephew," Chen Luo corrected.

"Ah, oh, right, nephew." Su Yuan suddenly realized.

"... Are you taking advantage of me?" Chen Luo squinted at the other person.

"How could that be? This is a matter of seniority, how can it be considered taking advantage? Actually, you don't need to worry too much about it. My seniority is actually very high; they all call me Junior Grandmaster Uncle. So, in terms of seniority, you are higher than many disciples in our sect," Su Yuan said.