Lan Suyin's Cause of Death

"Hm?" Upon returning to the Household, Xiao Ni discovered that his door had somehow been repaired. He paused in surprise before entering the room.

"You've finally returned." The moment Xiao Ni opened the door, an aged voice reached his ears.

The speaker was a white-haired old man dressed in a yellow Daoist robe. His gaze was kind and amiable, and aside from his arms, which were so thin they seemed to be nothing but bones, the rest of him looked fairly normal.

"Who are you, Senior? Why are you in my room? Don't tell me you repaired my door as well?" Xiao Ni frowned slightly and asked warily.

As the saying went, caution was the parent of safety. As the owner of the system, he had to be even more careful.

"My name is Chekenao. I am the former head of the Chek Lineage. I came today to tell you something about Miss Lan. Also, I wasn't the one who repaired your door. It was the son and daughter of Second Elder Xiao who fixed it." The white-haired old man smiled kindly.

"Uh... someone really is named Chekenao." Xiao Ni was speechless for a while. After taking some time to adjust, he tentatively asked, "Senior Nao, does the Miss Lan you mentioned refer to Aunt Lan?"

"It is Miss Lan Suyin." Chekenao nodded.

"Have you made a mistake? Shouldn't you be telling Xiao Yan or Uncle Xiao about Aunt Lan?" Xiao Ni asked in surprise.

He still didn't know what Chekenao's purpose was, so he couldn't let down his guard yet.

"You were able to seriously injure Ge Ye, but they weren't. Leaving Miss Lan's resurrection to you is the safest course." Chekenao's smile vanished, and his expression instantly turned grave.

"Resurrect Aunt Lan?!" Xiao Ni's eyes grew several degrees hotter. He grabbed Chekenao's sleeve, his voice trembling with excitement. "Can Aunt Lan really be brought back to life?"

Xiao Yan had lost his mother at two and his grandfather at three. It was rather pitiful. Besides, Xiao Yan's family had all treated him well. Now that he learned Lan Suyin might be resurrected, he was naturally extremely excited. He believed that if Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan learned this news, they would be just as thrilled.

"Although the chances of success are no greater than twenty percent, Miss Lan can indeed still be resurrected." Chekenao said awkwardly.

"Only twenty percent?" Xiao Ni's gaze immediately dimmed. "What exactly happened back then? Was there some hidden truth behind Aunt Lan's death?"

He had originally planned to follow the trail at Black Jade Pavilion and see whether he could uncover the cause of Lan Suyin's death. Yet Chekenao had come to him on his own, saving him some trouble.

As for how much of Chekenao's story was true and how much was false, there would always be a way to verify it.

"Miss Lan was actually nearly two hundred years old. Forty years ago, she pursued two Soul Hall experts all the way to the Cloud Mist Sect, but she lost their trail there. Later, Miss Lan returned to the Chek Lineage with her soul severely damaged. She would have scattered into nothingness within seven days at most, and only the Heavenly Soul-Recovery Pill could heal her. So we begged Gu He to help refine one." Chekenao's expression grew increasingly solemn, and by the time he reached this point, his fists had clenched tightly.

"Yet that damned Pill King Gu He refused to save her, no matter what we said. So our Chek Lineage set our sights on his pill formula. You already know what happened afterward. The Chek Lineage was utterly destroyed by four Dou King experts Gu He brought in, and we declined from then on. My own cultivation also fell from a two-star Dou King to a five-star Dou Spirit."

"Pill King Gu He truly deserves to die!" Xiao Ni slammed his palm against the table, then asked, "What happened afterward? How did Aunt Lan survive?"

"Afterward, Miss Lan first used a secret technique to suppress her soul, which was on the verge of scattering. Then, over the course of two months, she developed a formula and refined a Heavenly Soul-Recovery Pill herself through her own abilities." A glimmer of admiration flashed through Chekenao's eyes before his gaze quickly dimmed again. "However, Miss Lan had already missed the best time for treatment. Even with the Heavenly Soul-Recovery Pill, she could only live for another fifty years at most."

"We originally thought Miss Lan would live happily with Patriarch Xiao for several decades. But one day, Miss Lan secretly refined a Heavenly Soul-Recovery Pill for a disciple of the Cloud Mist Sect. When Gu He learned of it, he insisted that Miss Lan had stolen his pill formula, so he sent people to assassinate her in secret."

I never expected Gu He to be such a petty villain, just like Yun Shan. Fine. Since I'm going to the Cloud Mist Sect anyway, I'll find a chance to wipe out all those scum. Killing intent surged within Xiao Ni, and he felt as though his hands had already been stained with blood.

He hadn't expected Lan Suyin's talent in alchemy to be no weaker than Gu He's. Nor had he expected Gu He to differ so greatly from the person in his memories. The Cloud Mist Sect truly had no shortage of villains.

"So Aunt Lan was poisoned to death by Gu He's people?" After pondering for a moment, Xiao Ni asked in a deep voice.

"The people Gu He sent were no match for Miss Lan. However, to protect the Xiao Household, Miss Lan had no choice but to take poison and kill herself, disguising it as death by Purple-Gold Toad venom. Patriarch Xiao Lin also learned the truth behind Miss Lan's death, which was why he went to fight those Dou King experts to the death. Unexpectedly, after he had killed three of them, two Battle Emperor experts appeared. That was what led to him being hunted down and killed." After explaining some of the past, Chekenao rose from his seat. "All right, I've said nearly everything there is to say about Miss Lan. As for how to resurrect her, you'll naturally find out once you come to Black Jade Pavilion."

"Senior Nao!" Seeing that Chekenao was about to leave, Xiao Ni hurriedly called out to stop him and asked curiously, "May I ask what relationship the Chek Lineage has with Aunt Lan?"

"You can ask that once you arrive at Black Jade Pavilion as well." Chekenao revealed a mysterious smile, then leaped out through the window and headed into the distance with nimble movements.

Watching Chekenao's actions, Xiao Ni couldn't help feeling puzzled. Senior Nao had a front door yet insisted on jumping out the window. He really was quite the troublemaker.

"So Grandpa Xiao Lin's death was also deeply connected to Gu He. It seems I need to increase my strength as quickly as possible and wipe out every person who caused Grandpa Xiao Lin and Aunt Lan's deaths back then!" Xiao Ni narrowed his eyes, chilling killing intent flashing within them.

His cultivation had been far too lax before. Starting tomorrow, he would train as diligently as Xiao Yan. Even if it only improved his strength by a small amount, he absolutely could not keep living so lazily.

He couldn't always rely on the system. His own efforts and the experts around him were also important. He had to begin a journey of arduous cultivation, turning more and more powerful people into his friends, perhaps even keeping them at his side. That was the true way for a transmigrator to survive.

Tomorrow, I'll first buy a cauldron and the materials needed to refine Foundation Elixir. Then I'll find somewhere quiet to refine it, and finally, I'll go cultivate with Xun'er. Xiao Ni silently planned out what he needed to do the next day before lying down on his bed.

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