Chapter 37 - Relatives Without Bloodlines
"Big Brother, are you still blaming Xue"er for giving you the poisonous Spirit Channel Pill back then? Xue"er really didn"t do it on purpose …"
Li Xue stopped crying after hearing what Li Mu said. She knew that her brother must have met with some kind of accident. Otherwise, Li Mu, who had always doted on her, to the point of even surpa.s.sing her, would not treat her in such a way."That"s right!" It"s all because of you. If you weren"t so stupid and got used by that b.a.s.t.a.r.d Li Feng, I wouldn"t be where I am today! Now that you know the answer, you can scram! "
Li Mu roared angrily at Li Xue. Although he could not bear it, he still made up his mind.After Li Xue finished listening to her explanation, she nodded sensibly. Then, she stood up and ran off into the distance, leaving behind her sorrowful wails that still echoed in Li Mu"s ears.
"Hehe, it"s time to leave. Li Family … It will never be a concern of mine ever again! "
Li Mu muttered to himself, looking at the sky with a bitter smile, he forced the tears out of his eyes.
"Wood, what"s wrong with you? She is still a child, and it would be cruel to her. "
Ren Xiaoyao"s voice transmitted into Li Mu"s ears. Like a ghost, he silently arrived beside Li Mu and sat down.
"Brother Ren, do you think it"s funny that Li Zhengkun did not deserve to be the Li Family"s Patriarch and my father? No, Li Zhenglong, he said that he wouldn"t help me, but I was an outsider in the end, and did not even have the Li Family"s bloodline. "
Li Mu laughed at himself, his tone filled with loneliness.
"What did you say?" You don"t have the Li Family bloodline? Could it be that you were picked up by the Li family? "Stop teasing me!"
Ren Xiaoyao had a face full of disbelief, thinking that Li Mu was joking with him.
"I don"t believe it either, but it is true. Ai, from now on, I will have to travel together with you and wander around!"Li Mu laughed bitterly.
"Wood, do you mean it, not... How could you not be of the Li family bloodline? Isn"t this nonsense! "
Ren Xiaoyao still felt that this was unbelievable.
"I was carried by my grandfather from outside. Everything is real, what"s wrong? Don"t you want me to go with you? "
"Of course! If you aren"t the young master of the Li family after all this time, then what about the silver you owe me? You can"t be thinking of reneging on your debt, right? "
Ren Xiaoyao replied seriously:Li Mu laughed, he gratefully looked at Chen Xiaoyao, he obviously did not believe that he cared about the money, the reason he said that was to ease his heart.
Ren Xiaoyao patted Li Mu"s shoulders and comforted him: "Alright! "Don"t think too much about it. This world is so big, so what"s so bad about traveling with me. Life should be carefree and at ease. Where did all these worries come from?!"Li Mu nodded his head. Wandering the world with Ren Xiaoyao perhaps was truly a good choice.
When night fell, Li Mu lay on his bed for a long time without falling asleep.
First, it was the experience of the past sixteen years. Each and every familiar face, each and every familiar person. Most of them were from the Li family. In the end, the number of people he knew was quite limited.
When he thought about Leng Qingcheng, he remembered that woman, who was as cold as ice and as beautiful as the frost that could topple nations. He had even once told her with a smile that he would marry her when he cultivated to the True King Realm.
"I wonder when he will recover his Essence. If only he was here, I wouldn"t be unable to find someone to talk to."
Thinking about that, Li Mu started to worry. Ever since the Sunset Valley had sent him the Spiritual Sense to use on him, he had not woken up."Mu Er, are you asleep?"
Suddenly, Li Yuncheng"s voice came out from outside the room.
Li Mu felt that it was a little strange hearing it, but he still got up and opened the door.Li Yuncheng laughed, and walked to the side of the table and sat down.
"Senior …" What"s the matter? "
Facing Li Yuncheng, who didn"t know how to address him, there was no way he could call him grandfather anymore. Calling him by name also showed that Li Yuncheng was disrespectful to him.
Upon hearing Li Mu calling him senior, the previously smiling Li Yuncheng"s face immediately darkened, and said: "You stinking brat, with my age, Li Yuncheng, can"t I be your grandfather!"
"Senior can naturally be my grandfather, but …"
"But I am not your grandfather! We don"t have any blood ties, do we? "
Li Yuncheng interrupted Li Mu"s words, his face full of anger.Li Mu remained silent and agreed to Li Yuncheng"s words. To him, wanting to treat the other party as his close relative was extremely difficult.
"Sigh, I already knew that the result would be like this, hehe, to think that I only told you after you grew up, and even sent a death order to all the people in Li Residence who knew about it, I definitely can"t say anything about you."
"I don"t blame you for not recognizing me as your grandfather, but it really isn"t right for you to not recognize your father and Xue"er."
"I know what you"re thinking. You just want to leave the Li Family, and have nothing to do with us from now on, right? That way, you can leave in peace. "
"But let me tell you, Li Mu, people"s emotions are not linked by blood, it"s by this place!"
Li Yuncheng said as he pointed to his own heart.
Li Mu still did not speak, but from the expression on his face, it was obvious that he was moved.
"Your father, Li Zhenglong, was! He has been strict with you since he was young. In order to let you increase your cultivation speed, he has been training you day and night. But do you think that he doesn"t love you!? You"re wrong! I was completely wrong! "
"He knows that your background is extraordinary, and he will surely leave the Li family for good in the future. He knows that what you will face in the future is not something an ordinary person can imagine, so he did his best to raise your cultivation!"
"His goal is for you to leave in the future. Do you know how much more he can protect you with? For you, after he had Xue"er, he didn"t want another child. Do you want to know the reason? "
Li Yuncheng said with reddened eyes, and looked at Li Mu deeply.Li Mu shook his head, his eyes filled with tears.
"The reason is that he has already treated you as his own son. In order to give you the cultivation resources, how could he have any more children!"
There"s also Xue"er. After you left the Li Clan, she never smiled again, and she spent her days in fear. She even dreamed of calling you Big Brother.
The last time I came back and saw her depressed, I took her away. I said that I was teaching her how to cultivate, but in reality, I was taking her out to relax.
"Do you know when I first saw her smile all these years? It was you who called out to me in the square today, and she only smiled when she heard your voice, so she rushed into her house at the first possible moment. "
"She"s still a child. She"s only nine years old this year!"A few drops of tears fell down, Li Yuncheng choked with sobs and no longer made a sound.
Li Mu was already crying. Although he was crying, his face was full of joy.
"Grandfather, Mu Er knows her wrongs!"
Li Mu knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Li Yuncheng.Li Yuncheng nodded his head in gratification, and said: "You can go. Your father has always locked himself in the Heavenly Phoenix Restaurant, and has been drinking all day!"
Li Mu nodded, then rushed out of the room.
"Second Elder, stop drinking. If you continue drinking, it will harm your body!"
Inside the Qu Feng Pavilion, Li Zhenglong drank one cup after another. Beside him, the Steward Qin was persuading him with a face full of worry.
"Old Qin, do you think that what I did as a father was a failure? Isn"t he living a useless life?"Li Zhenglong asked as he finished the cup in one gulp with a pained look on his face.
Second Master, how could you have failed? With a good son like Young Master Mu, who would dare say that you have failed? Which father in Sunset Cloud City would be able to cultivate a son like Young Master Mu? You didn"t fail, and you are stronger than everyone else! "
With regards to Li Mu, he was an old housekeeper who had stayed in the Li Residence for dozens of years. Naturally, he knew a bit of the inside story, and understood why Li Zhenglong wanted to use the alcohol to ease his worries.
"Father, drinking too much is harmful to your body. Drink less. Even if you want to drink more, you have to circulate your true essence to eliminate the smell of alcohol."
Li Mu"s voice came from outside the Qu Feng Pavilion, and immediately after, Li Mu walked in front of Li Zhenglong and grabbed the wine cup from his hand.
"Mu Er, you... "Why are you here?"Looking at the Li Mu that suddenly appeared, Li Zhenglong was stunned on the spot, his face full of disbelief.
"Aiya, Young Master Mu, it"s good that you"re here. I can"t persuade Second Elder, come on, I"ll take my leave now."The Steward Qin patted Li Mu"s shoulder while smiling. In the dark, he gave Li Mu a thumbs up, and then left the Qu Feng Hall and closed the door.
"Mu Er is unfilial, I have let you old man worry about me."
Looking at Li Zhenglong who had a head full of white hair, Li Mu felt a little ashamed. If not for Li Yuncheng"s persuasion, he would never have understood the other party"s intentions.
Not having another child, just because he wasn"t his own son was not something anyone could bear."I"m already very happy that you don"t hate my father. Good, good, very good."
Li Yuncheng woke up more than half from his drunken stupor. Looking at Li Mu, his eyes were moist and his face was filled with gratification.
Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "You have always been my most respected father. You have always been, and Mu Er may not be able to accompany you forever in the future. The reason I came here today is to apologize to you, and to say my goodbyes."
"Farewell? Where are you going! Can"t you forgive your father? "
Once he heard that Li Mu was about to leave, Li Zhenglong couldn"t sit still anymore.
"No, father, you don"t need my forgiveness. From the beginning to the end, you have not done anything wrong. The one who was wrong was me. It was me who did not know what was good for me and misunderstood you. You are very great, truly!"
"Actually, none of this happened today. This child also wants to bid you farewell, take a look."
Li Mu said as he took out the Gold Jade Sect keepsake that Yao Shanshan gave him. A golden order tablet with the word "Gold Jade" carved on it.
"This is?"
After receiving the Gold Jade Sect"s keepsake, Li Zhenglong"s mood calmed down a lot. He carefully sized up the golden order badge, his brows revealing a sense of puzzlement.
"This is a present from a senior from the Xueling Sect not long ago. It is a token from one of the ten great sects in the northern part of the Yuheng Continent.
Li Mu knew that Li Zhenglong could not figure out the origins of the golden order badge so he quickly explained.
"What!?" Gold Jade Sect? I"ve heard that it"s a big sect, but they"re nothing compared to my Chu Country"s number one sect, the Cloud Cracking Sect. You actually have this kind of opportunity, good, good! Being able to join the Gold Jade Sect is definitely better than staying in a small place like Sunset Cloud City! "Li Zhenglong returned the golden order badge to Li Mu, his face full of excitement.