Repair, Find Someone, Two Saints! Stay at the Lu Family?

Lin Qingxue did not hesitate in the slightest and agreed at once.

Though negotiations were supposed to involve give-and-take, that only applied when both sides possessed a certain amount of leverage.

Lin Qingxue knew herself well. She understood that her only hope was Lu Qingyun.

And as for Lu Qingyun, there were far too many substitutes for what she could offer.

So what if her family had accumulated wealth over countless generations? Her Lin Family was merely a second-rate clan in the Great Wilderness. The "Alchemy" prefix before their name did not mean they were one of the four top-tier families—the Lin Family!

It sounded intimidating, sure, but what their treasury was really like—didn't her own family know that better than anyone?

The only things of value inside were a few hundred bottles of Saint Grade Pills.

And because saint-grade medicinal herbs were hard to come by, those pills all had different effects. The ones capable of directly raising cultivation were fewer still.

To her, they were practically tasteless chicken ribs—hard to discard, useless to eat—let alone to Lu Qingyun, a member of the Lu Family Sequence.

Yet Lu Qingyun's demand for resources was something she could never have imagined.

It could be said that he had reached the point of devouring anything in sight.

No matter what effect a Saint Grade Pill had, once swallowed, it would turn directly into Energy Points!

Thus, even knowing there would be some minor trouble, Lu Qingyun was willing to wade into this muddy water.

Especially now, while his family's regard for him was at its greatest and their guilt toward him at its deepest!

"Since you've put it that way, what else is there to say? We're all bros. The ground's cold—get up."

Lu Qingyun immediately turned genial, grabbed Lin Qingxue by the hair, and hauled her to her feet.

Lin Qingxue's scalp throbbed with pain, yet she did not dare resist in any way.

But soon, she discovered in astonishment that the two gaping holes in her chest were repairing themselves at a rate visible to the naked eye!

That speed was dozens of times greater than the effect she had experienced when she first took the Saint-Grade Vitality Pill!

Within a few breaths, her injuries had completely healed. Even those two little ballerinas had returned to normal.

Beneath the sunlight, they looked exceptionally pink and bashful.

Her chest had been pierced straight through, so naturally her clothes had been ruined as well.

But Lin Qingxue did not care about exposing her springtime splendor.

After all, Lu Qingyun, standing before her, had seen far more than this back then.

With a wave of his hand, Yang Mei appeared beside Lin Qingxue and took the initiative to drape a garment over her, covering up her exposed beauty.

"Take her somewhere to rest. I'll go find some people."

Lu Qingyun gave the order.

Since he had agreed to help, he obviously could not just head to the Lin Family empty-handed and start making a scene by himself.

Though the Alchemy Lin Family was only a second-rate clan, it was still tremendously powerful within the Great Wilderness.

True God experts there were as numerous as clouds, and there were surely no shortage of those in the Venerable Lord realm!

With Lu Qingyun's current strength, wanting to take on an entire second-rate family alone was nothing more than a pipe dream.

But now that he had returned to the Lu Family, why would he need to handle something this small personally?

The minor trouble he had mentioned earlier was simply that he needed to find an elder, explain the situation, and have the Lu Family send people.

He found the Seventeenth Elder and explained his purpose.

"You're saying that because you covet the beauty of the Lin Family's former Saintess, you want to help her take revenge, wipe out the current Lin Family, and put her in power?"

Lu Changming looked at Lu Qingyun, who was spouting nonsense with a perfectly serious face, and asked with suspicion written all over his eyes.

"Yeah, isn't it obvious? A youthful, innocent young man like me happened to meet a mature, sexy, hundred-year-old woman in the Great Wilderness. Then it was love at first sight, and I fell for her completely. I'd do anything for her, even mobilize the forces behind me to seek justice for her. This plot is perfectly reasonable!"

Lu Qingyun blinked and repeated himself.

"Reasonable my ass!"

Lu Changming screamed inwardly. He had practically watched Lu Qingyun grow up.

Just a few years ago, Ling Mu had practically been delivered right to this guy's mouth, and he had slapped her into the ground without the slightest stir in his heart.

And how old was he now?

Sure, he had grown tall and broad, but had all his hair even come in yet, talking about love at first sight?

"Tell me the truth. What's the real reason?"

"I want her family's resources. It's just a quick trip anyway—I'll treat it as getting out for some fresh air."

Lu Qingyun shrugged, speaking in a deliberately casual manner that was, in truth, even more casual.

Seeing this, Lu Changming's heart ached.

Lu Qingyun was surely still feeling stifled and resentful inside. He was looking for something to vent on!

And that former Saintess of the Lin Family was one of the very few friends Lu Qingyun had made in the Great Wilderness. Now that she had suffered such a calamity and come to seek his help, how could he possibly refuse to stand up for her?

"Granted!"

Lu Changming waved a hand and did not question him further, saying with exceptional arrogance.

It was only a second-rate family. Nothing else mattered—since they bore the surname Lin, they had to be crushed!

"Go back first. I'll personally find you some people."

"Thank you, Seventeenth Elder."

After returning to Ling Jue Hall, Lin Qingxue had changed into a pale green long dress. She looked completely refreshed, with none of her previous bedraggled appearance remaining.

Those cool, steady eyes, paired with her flawless jade-white features—even simply standing there, she was like a lustrous pearl beneath the moonlight, shimmering brilliantly with pure radiance.

The moment she saw Lu Qingyun, Lin Qingxue abruptly lowered her head.

How things proceeded was not something she could involve herself in.

She only needed the outcome to meet her expectations. As for whether Lu Qingyun could truly help her take revenge, that had never been a question from beginning to end.

Even if the Alchemy Lin Family was filled with True God experts and counted among the powerful forces of the Great Wilderness—

Before the Lu Family, they were merely somewhat larger ants.

Before long, Lu Qingyun met the people the Seventeenth Elder had found for him.

A man and a woman, like a fixed pairing.

Both appeared very young. The man was fair and refined, while the woman was delicate and beautiful.

Judging by appearances alone, Lu Qingyun had nearly mistaken them for people of his own generation.

Yet both of them faintly radiated a wisp of Saint Path Pressure, as though they looked down upon all things from on high!

These two were actually experts who had stepped into the Saint Path Domain!

Lu Qingyun was secretly astonished.

He had not expected the Seventeenth Elder to be so generous as to directly bring in two Saints to help him!

One had to know that even the Seventeenth Elder himself had yet to step into the Saint Path Domain!

Below Saints, all were ants.

Once one stepped into the Saint Path Domain, one could say they were no longer even the same species as those in the realms before it.

Even peerless prodigies, aside from the extremely few bug-like constitutions such as the Destruction Sword Body, could not break through the barrier of the Saint Path Domain and kill enemies across realms.

The difference was only a single realm, yet it spanned as far as heaven and earth!

Thus, even within the Lu Family, Saints were strategic resources and rarely deployed in ordinary times.

For the most part, they remained in secluded cultivation within the family. Otherwise, the Ancestor would personally seal them away, preventing their lifespans from being wasted away with age.

This also resulted in an astonishingly vast gap between Ancestors and Elders.

Elders were all people who had not stepped into the Saint Path Domain. They assisted with handling family affairs and various trifling matters.

As for why the Ancestors were so active, it was entirely because the road ahead was difficult to find, their lifespans were long, and they had nothing better to do.

This disparity was not unique to the Lu Family. Virtually every great power was like this.

"Thirteenth Sequence, I'm Lu Ming, and this is my wife, Shen Yue. At the invitation of Lu Changming—that piece of trash among trash who is nearly eight hundred years old, still cannot break through to the Saint Path Domain, and can at most jump up to hit my knee in a fit of rage—we have come to lend you a hand."

Lu Ming looked mild and cultured on the surface, but the moment he opened his mouth, he launched straight into an impossibly long sentence.

It was clear that he and the Seventeenth Elder had an exceptionally good relationship.

His wife Shen Yue smiled apologetically at Lu Qingyun upon hearing this.

Then, with graceful bearing and crisp, decisive movements, she reached out and fiercely twisted Lu Ming's waist!

"Gasp—!!"

Lu Ming sucked in a sharp breath. He wanted to cry out, but Shen Yue firmly clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Thirteenth Sequence, don't listen to his nonsense. It's already getting late; we should set off early. Tonight, my husband still has some matters to attend to that will cost him a great deal of mental energy."

Shen Yue gazed at Lu Ming with autumn-water eyes and spoke softly.

In just a few words, she did not take the Lin Family seriously at all.

It was as though wiping out a second-rate family was as casual as going on an outing.

Lin Qingxue felt somewhat uncomfortable upon hearing this.

She only felt that her family seemed to have been looked down upon.

But when she thought of the two Saint Realm experts standing before her—

This was a realm her Lin Family's ancestors had dreamed of reaching.

Unfortunately, the wall between Saint and mortal was far too thick, blocking countless astonishing Sovereign Realm experts.

Her Lin Family's ancestors, and even all the predecessors of her branch, had fallen before that barrier, unable to break through.

Talent was one thing, but the influence of one's background and experience was equally immense.

The Lin Family had never produced a Saint, so naturally, they had no experience in this regard.

But top-tier families like the Lu Family were different. Not only did Saint Realm experts emerge one after another, even Supremes numbered more than one.

Within a family powerful to such an extreme, not only could one freely consult the experiences left behind by predecessors, it was perfectly normal to receive the personal teachings of living Saints.

Under such circumstances, the chances of producing powerful experts were unimaginably greater than for others.

If she could, Lin Qingxue simply did not want to return to that Lin Family. The place she wanted to stay was the Lu Family!

Only here did she have any hope of stepping into higher realms and gaining even greater power!

At that thought, Lin Qingxue looked at Shen Yue, then at Lu Qingyun.

Her surname was Shen, not Lu. An outsider? A Dao Companion?

This seemed... like a possible path!

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