"You don't need to make such a racket. I know what you mean—you want Fifth Uncle to hear you, so he'll show himself!
Second Brother, what are you trying to do? Whether Fifth Uncle sees us or not, he has his own plans..."
"No, no... We are his closest blood relatives. He's an immortal—can't he take us with him to cultivate immortality?"
At those words, Li Yue's face immediately turned cold.
"If Fifth Uncle can give something, then naturally he will. If he cannot, then he surely has his reasons.
Second Brother, if the immortal path were truly so easy to tread, why had Fifth Uncle only returned twice in all these years? Even when Grandfather and Grandmother were laid to rest, he had been unable to return.
It seemed immortals were not as free to come and go as you imagined. Whether from Father's words or from what Grandmother and the others told us, we all knew that Fifth Uncle valued loyalty and filial piety just as much as anyone.
The fact that he came today showed that he had not forgotten this place, yet he had still not returned before now.
You may take what he gives you. But if he does not give it, then even if you talked until the sky broke, you would not get it."
When Li Yue put on that cold face, Li Jie immediately grew somewhat afraid. He knew better than anyone what he had relied on to enter the imperial court and become an official.
Li Yue usually did not lose her temper, and then he was her Second Brother. But once she did, she did not recognize him as such.
"Third Sister, I only thought that if the Li family could produce several more immortals, it would be of great