Just as expected, on the morning after Mo Lin had publicly revealed his relationships with the two jewels of the Pill Tower while "embracing one on each side" in Mo Garden, a politely worded yet impossible-to-refuse invitation from the highest level of the Pill Tower was delivered to the Artifact Refining Sect.
Inviters: the Pill Tower's three giants—Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and Xuan Yi.
Invitee: Mo Lin, Sect Master of the Artifact Refining Sect.
Location: the Three Giants' Council Hall, top floor of the Pill Tower.
Holding the gilt-edged invitation, which carried a faint medicinal fragrance, Mo Lin's lips curled into an amused smile. What was meant to come would always come. Naturally, he knew why the three giants wanted to see him.
Dan Chen and Cao Ying—one was an unprecedented genius of the Dan family, while the other was the Demoness painstakingly nurtured by the Cao family. Both had also been personally taught by the three giants and regarded as future successors. Now that both had been "spirited away" by him and become the Artifact Refining Sect's "Sect Master's wives," it would have been strange if the three big shots of the Pill Tower had not summoned him for a "heart-to-heart."
"Hubby, will Teacher and the others... make things difficult for you?" Upon learning the news, Dan Chen anxiously tugged at Mo Lin's sleeve. Her nature was gentle and timid, and she held her elders in great reverence.
"What's there to fear?" Cao Ying, beside her, looked utterly unconcerned. There was even a hint of excited anticipation in her expression, as if she were eager to watch a show. Looping herself around Mo Lin's other arm, her seductive eyes shimmered. "Perfect—let Teacher and the others see what our Mo Lin is capable of! Don't worry, with me here,