Advanced Martial General as a Bodyguard?

"This is the investment agreement, and this is the performance-bet agreement. If there's anything in the terms you don't understand, feel free to ask me. I'll explain everything to you clearly."

Lin Baitian placed the two contracts before Su Zhan with a beaming smile.

"You seem to be in a pretty good mood today."

Su Zhan found Lin Baitian's happiness strange as he took the contracts and flipped through them.

"Strictly speaking, it's because of you."

Lin Jinyu spoke softly, her voice pleasant and melodious.

"The grand Lin family is investing in a student. Is that really enough to make you this happy?" Su Zhan said.

"An ordinary student certainly wouldn't be."

Lin Jinyu said, "Other companies and groups only see you as an ordinary genius student, but my brother knows your situation. In ten days, you went from a Beginner Quasi-Martial Artist straight to an Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist... When Father heard about it yesterday, he became very interested in you and greatly praised my brother for striking decisively."

"My father rarely praises anyone. Just receiving his praise would make my brother grin in his dreams... See? The smile is still hanging on his face."

Lin Jinyu's father, Lin Fanlong, was the head of the family, a towering figure at the Martial Marshal level.

His praise was indeed rare.

No wonder Lin Baitian relished it so much and was in such high spirits.

"That's only one part of it." Lin Baitian smiled and did not deny it. "The key is that we got ahead of the Meng family and settled this before they could react. All the guest elders, uncles, and elders of the family were very pleased... Otherwise, why would Father be so happy?"

"The Meng family?" Su Zhan looked up. "The Meng family that stands alongside your Lin family as one of the Four Great Families?"

"Yes."

Lin Jinyu nodded. "Besides signing the contract today, there are two other matters we need to explain to you. The first is the Meng family."

"The Meng family is the Lin family's mortal enemy, the kind that cannot exist under the same sky." Lin Baitian took over directly and said seriously, "Our two families have been openly and covertly fighting for hundreds of years. In recent years, ever since Meng Qianqiu became the new family head, it has only grown more and more intense!"

"That man is narrow-minded, sinister, vicious, and vindictive. Even the way he obtained the position of Meng family head was improper."

"If you joined another family, he might not target you. But since you've joined the Lin family, that makes you his mortal enemy. He'll definitely think of every possible way to deal with you!"

"So during this period, you need to be especially careful."

Lin Baitian's words made Su Zhan's mouth twitch.

You've got to be kidding me?

He was just a high school student. Why was he being dragged into the struggles of these great families?

That Meng Qianqiu was the head of the Meng family, so he had to be at least Martial Marshal level. If someone like that came after him, how was he supposed to survive?

"Is it still not too late for me to withdraw?"

"I just wanted to accept an investment. I don't want to become a sacrifice in your great family struggle."

Su Zhan directly set down the contract in his hand and spread his hands.

This was no contract. It was a scalding hot potato!

"Too late."

Lin Jinyu said bluntly, "From the moment news spread that the Lin family had recruited you, he had already set his sights on you... He has left you only two paths: either join the Meng family, or be killed by him."

"Even if you say you'll side with neither of us, we may believe it, but Meng Qianqiu... probably won't."

"Of course, you can also join the Meng family. But if you do, then we'll be enemies."

Well, damn.

Now he was truly screwed.

If he did not join the Meng family, the Meng family would have their eyes on him.

If he joined the Meng family, the Lin family would have their eyes on him.

Either way, offending one great family was unavoidable!

"Since you're telling me this, you must already have a countermeasure, right?" Su Zhan folded his arms across his chest. "Let's hear it."

They had been so direct and honest with him.

The Lin family surely had something prepared.

"You are a genius the Lin family has invested in. Whether you live or die concerns the Lin family's reputation, so naturally we won't let the Meng family kill you so easily."

Lin Baitian raised a hand with a smile.

Snap.

He snapped his fingers.

"Elder Feng, come out."

Su Zhan's vision blurred. Then a swift shadow darted out from nowhere. By the time he looked again, it had already appeared behind Lin Baitian and Lin Jinyu.

"!!!"

"So fast! I didn't see him at all!!"

Su Zhan was stunned.

He could not even make out the man's figure. Just how powerful was he?

"Young Master, Young Miss."

An aged, hoarse voice emerged from beneath a withered face.

It was an old man.

He wore a black-and-white robe, with white hair and a white beard. His eyelids drooped as though he had not slept enough, and not a trace of qi and blood aura leaked from his body.

At a glance, this robed old man was no different from the old men in the park, perhaps even frailer... But if one looked closely at his eyes, one could sense the astonishing sharpness hidden beneath those cloudy pupils!

Bloodthirsty Rampage: "Such powerful qi and blood!"

Basic Qi and Blood Method: "This person far surpasses everyone we've encountered before!"

Nine Fire Saber: "Incredible. Just probing him feels strenuous!"

Jade Body: "This guy is absurdly powerful!"

The old man's appearance made the cultivation methods feel as though thorns were pressing against their backs, each of them revealing weakness and pallor.

"Elder Feng, let me formally introduce you. This is Su Zhan, the most important target of our investment."

Lin Jinyu stood and said, then looked at Su Zhan. "Su Zhan, this is Elder Feng, one of the Lin family's experts. From now on, he will protect you until you enter university."

"Also, I need to emphasize that Elder Feng is an Advanced Martial General!"

Holy shit?

Su Zhan's eyes widened in shock.

A Martial General... and an Advanced one at that?!

Did that not mean he was only one step away from Martial Marshal level?

The Lin family was actually sending an Advanced Martial General to protect him?!

This display of resources... was truly no small matter... With an Advanced Martial General protecting him, he really would not need to worry too much about anything else.

Su Zhan immediately felt much more relieved.

Wait.

Su Zhan seemed to have thought of something.

"An Advanced Martial General is protecting me?"

"Doesn't that mean the Meng family will send an Advanced Martial General to assassinate me?"

Su Zhan hurriedly asked.

"Within Heaven City, no matter how fiercely great families fight, Martial Commanders will not take action. But below Martial Commander, there are no restrictions." Lin Baitian said, "If it were another family, they might not make such a huge fuss. But Meng Qianqiu has set his sights on you. Given his way of doing things, there is a very high chance he'll send an Advanced Martial General to deal with you!"

"The Lin family considered precisely this point, which is why we specifically sent Elder Feng to protect you."

Good heavens.

This time, things had truly blown up.

To deal with him, a mere Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist, they might actually dispatch an Advanced Martial General?

One could imagine just how dangerous his situation was now!

It would be fine if Elder Feng was diligent, but if he so much as slacked off for a moment... wouldn't Su Zhan be barbecue?