Lu Li, Purely Foolish?

"I'm here."

The wooden staircase creaked.

An elderly man in brocade robes descended the stairs.

His movements were unhurried yet swift, and amusement gleamed in his tiger-like eyes.

At first glance, he did not look like someone delighted to meet a guest, but rather like a mountain tiger wearing a happy expression.

He took three steps in the space of two and arrived before Lu Li, giving him a once-over as he spoke with measured courtesy:

"This humble merchant, Zhu Houcai, greets our esteemed guest."

"May I ask where my little shop has failed to serve you properly, to provoke such anger from you, esteemed guest?"

Lu Li looked at the old man before him, a trace of barely perceptible wariness flashing through his eyes.

Why was the branch manager overseeing Beaconfire Wild Hall in the outer city this smiling tiger?!

Shouldn't he have been the head manager in the Storm Domain?

Why had he appeared in the Neptune Domain?

After thinking it over, Lu Li felt it was probably due to the timing.

After all, when he first met Zhu Houcai in his previous life, Earth had already been fully revived for two and a half years.

Back then, he had tried to escape the Lu Family's control, crossing tens of millions of light-years before accidentally arriving in the Tempest Domain.

He had planned to purchase several teleport Jade Tokens from Beaconfire Wild Hall and continue his life on the run.

Yet Zhu Houcai had seen through his identity and exposed him to the Lu Family.

He had later been driven into a hopeless situation and died there. This man had played no small part in it.

The fury of hatred smoldered within his chest.

Lu Li raised his Great Halberd and pointed it at the clerk in the