A Strange Bottleneck

When Lin Xuan heard Zi Yan's words, he merely waved a hand and took all the gold coins out of the system inventory, burying Zi Yan beneath the pile of coins.

Zi Yan: "..."

Very soon, Zi Yan crawled out of the pile of coins. After rolling her eyes at Lin Xuan, she puffed out her cheeks and stared at him sulkily.

Seeing Zi Yan like this, Lin Xuan could not help but smile. Then, he took several lollipops from the system inventory and tossed them all to Zi Yan.

After catching the lollipops, Zi Yan walked over to Lin Xuan's side and lightly slapped him with her hand. Then, grinning, she turned around and headed toward the room farther inside.

Seeing this, Lin Xuan put all the gold coins back into the system inventory. As for those scrolls, he had no plans to use them for the time being.

Lin Xuan walked into the house while controlling the Flying Magical Beast to fly toward Wutan City.

After all, matters in Qingshan Town had more or less been settled. Next, it was time to head to Wutan City and prepare a gift for Xiao Yan.

After entering the house, Lin Xuan saw Lin Chou and Yue Mei coming out of their rooms with cleaning tools in hand.

The two glanced at Lin Xuan, then walked past him to clean the other rooms.

Lin Xuan said nothing. He simply entered his own room and continued consuming pills. After all, there was still some time before they reached Wutan City.

Half an hour later, the Flying Magical Beast landed outside Wutan City. Lin Xuan brought Lin Chou, Zi Yan, and Yue Mei down from its back.

Then, Lin Xuan found some guards in Wutan City. After paying them in gold coins, he had them watch over the Flying Magical Beast. At the same time, he released the aura of a Dou Ling, ensuring that they would not entertain any unrealistic thoughts.

Only after finishing all this did Lin Xuan lead the three women into Wutan City.

As Lin Xuan led the three women along the streets of Wutan City, he found them rather unremarkable. After all, Wutan City was merely a small city on the Dou Qi Continent.

However, Wutan City did have three major families: the Xiao Clan, the Gale Family, and the Oba Family.

"Lin Xuan, what are we doing in a small city like this? Haven't you already prepared enough daily supplies?"

Zi Yan held Lin Chou's hand as she followed Lin Xuan down the street. Looking at the completely unprosperous streets, she could not help asking him.

"Uh... of course we're here for something. Why else would I come here?"

Hearing Zi Yan's words, Lin Xuan replied to her somewhat speechlessly.

"Then why won't you tell us what you're here to do?"

Zi Yan pouted as she spoke to Lin Xuan.

"It isn't anything major. I came to Wutan City simply to control a family."

Looking at Zi Yan's pouting face, Lin Xuan thought for a moment before answering her.

Lin Xuan wanted to take control of the Oba Family, one of Wutan City's three great families, then provide it with some alchemy methods and have it target the Xiao Clan.

He would force the Xiao Clan out of Wutan City's three great families and reduce it to a small family with fewer than a hundred members.

As for why Lin Xuan did not simply wipe the Xiao Clan from existence, it was mainly because he feared that when Xiao Yan reincarnated in the future, he might not reincarnate in Wutan City but somewhere else. At that point, it would be difficult for Lin Xuan to keep track of Xiao Yan's movements.

After hearing Lin Xuan's words, Zi Yan lost interest. After all, she disliked such matters by nature.

Lin Chou, on the other hand, gave Lin Xuan a meaningful look. After all, once Lin Xuan had summoned her into this world, she had directly copied this world's memories from his mind.

Yue Mei, standing nearby, merely looked around the streets with curiosity. After all, it was her first time leaving the Snake People Clan's territory and coming to a human street.

Although the Snake People Clan's streets shared some similarities with human streets, they were nowhere near as lively and bustling.

As Lin Xuan walked through the streets, he kept releasing the aura of a Dou Ling. After all, he did not want to encounter unnecessary trouble.

Lin Chou, Zi Yan, and Yue Mei all possessed beauty and temperament capable of toppling kingdoms and cities, far beyond what ordinary people could compare to.

Lin Xuan also understood the saying that beauty invited disaster, so he had no intention of causing trouble for himself. He openly revealed his cultivation.

In the novels Lin Xuan had read before, many protagonists were clearly extremely powerful, yet always wanted to suppress their cultivation and play the pig to eat the tiger, allowing some blind fools to bring them all sorts of unnecessary trouble.

Perhaps that was called keeping a low profile, but what use was keeping a low profile? Other than bringing oneself unnecessary trouble, what else did it accomplish?

Could he not simply release his cultivation and swagger about openly? Once he revealed his cultivation, what blind fool would dare court death before him?

Unless they were people who did not value their lives, or people who thought they had lived too long, and insisted on courting death.

Then Lin Xuan would not show mercy. He would simply kill them. Would that not settle everything? Why insist on making so much unnecessary trouble for oneself?

As for Xiao Yan, Lin Xuan could only wait until he reincarnated into this world before having some fun with him.

After all, Xiao Yan was, in this world... well... probably what one would call a child of destiny.

If Lin Xuan wanted to kill Xiao Yan directly, it was probably not very possible. But having a good time playing with Xiao Yan should be achievable.

As for why Lin Xuan thought this way, the reason was actually very simple. He had been a Nine-Star Dou Sheng for so long, yet he had never been able to break through the Dou Sheng realm and reach the cultivation of a Dou Di.

If one said that he needed the origin qi of a Dou Di's source to break through the Dou Sheng realm and reach the Dou Di realm, that was complete nonsense.

After all, Lin Xuan's true body was an Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill, and the Emperor-grade Embryonic Pill itself was the last pill in the Dou Qi Continent to contain the origin qi of a Dou Di's source.

Yet despite possessing the origin qi of a Dou Di's source within his body, Lin Xuan had not broken through the limits of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng. He had not even reached the Half-Emperor realm.

As for Lin Chou, after converting the energy within her body, she had easily reached the realm of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng. Unfortunately, she too was unable to break through to the Dou Di realm.

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