Lady Lin's First-ever Journey to Immortality

Chapter 561 Nothing Can be Perfect

Zhu Qi accidentally gets the Jade Map which sends a message from Sword School.

The message is not widely spread in Lanhu Star. Everyone has his or her own unique skills. Zhu Qi with street smarts also has his own tricks, even though he is just an individual cultivator. He duplicates the message in Jade Map in his own special way.

Wen Guanjing took Sword School to Tiankui Star but he didn’t find Lin Luoran. Prophet god school released the news earlier so many people were keeping an eye on Lin Luoran. No matter how powerful Sword School was, they still couldn’t defeat the enemy that overnumbered them. They couldn’t let others know they were looking for Lin Luoran, so they did everything secretly.

Lin Luoran always regards Wen Guanjing as her friend. Mu Tiannan feels so jealous when he sees Linny’s lifelike portrait on Jade Map. Later on, he is acting like a child. Lin Luoran is not a very considerate person but she still notices it.

Sword School is located in Luoxia Star which has the most abundant Reiki in the world of cultivation.

There are “six best schools” in the world of cultivation. As the most impressive cultivation star, Luoxia Star has a vast and fertile land for personal ability enhancement with all six schools. Both Sword School and prophet god school are members of the “six best schools”. There are thousands of schools in the world of cultivation, but only these six schools can be called as first-class schools which occupy the perfect Luoxia Star of the universe!

Lin Luoran gets the message. She contacts Sword School as she leaves Lanhu Star.

Wen Guanjing has been back to Sword School. Lin Luoran doesn’t want to bother him to pick them up, so she goes to Luoxia Star with Mu Tiannan.

Along the way, the closer Lin Luoran approaches Luoxia Star, the more nervous she is. Sword School cultivators who come to pick them up have told her that Wen Guanjing knows the whereabouts of the Lins. There are two cultivators with single Taoist root in her family. In the past, cultivators with single Taoist root of the five elements attracted a lot of attention. At present, it will be troublesome if others know where they are. Therefore, Wen Guanjing insists on telling her the message face to face.

Mu Tiannan murmurs, “Telling you face to face?” He must be up to something!

Luoxia Star basically cuts off itself from the outside world. It is easy to leave this star but difficult to enter. Except for the apprentices of the six schools, other cultivators living on Luoxia Star are all local individual cultivators. All kinds of strict regulations ensure that Luoxia Star’s materials for personal ability enhancement will not be over-exploited. When Lin Luoran steps out of the transmission circle, she has no doubt about the abundant Reiki.

Outside the transmission circle, some people are checking identity. Sword School cultivators show their certification so that Lin Luoran and Mu Tiannan can land on the star.

Lin Luoran will soon know the whereabouts of her family so she doesn’t care about anything else. Mu Tiannan had been on the earth for hundreds of years and he had never been treated like this. One with great power still cannot defeat a local villain—he will make himself the enemy of six famous schools. Therefore, he follows the rules.

They see white light from afar before they reach the Mountain Gate of Sword School. The long light is like a meteor shower in broad daylight.

The leader lands in front of Lin Luoran. Wind from a high place blows his robe up and down. His cuffs are embroidered with delicate patterns of flame. Hundreds of years has passed, Wen Guanjing’s appearance doesn’t change much.

As the master of a famous school, his eyes and eyebrows look very masculine, which brings an unforgettable feeling to his ordinary appearance.

“Brother Wen…” Lin Luoran’s eyes are a little red.

Xin Yuanping is her enemy. Zhixiu is not a close friend. Her relationship with An is very complicated—she can only feel the true feeling of reunion with old friends when she sees Wen Guanjing.

Because of Xin Yuanping’s apprentice Zou Yaowei, they developed a friendship after the fight in the alley of Blue Bird Club in the capital. They went to Bermuda and the desert underground world together. They shared weal and woe so that their relationship was different. With her extraordinary state of mind, Lin Luoran still reveals her true feelings.

Wen Guanjing doesn’t hide his excitement. He hears Lin Luoran calling him and he hugs Lin Luoran immediately. Brother Mu who is acting extremely cold is totally ignored at this moment.

Lin Luoran smiles and punches him on the shoulder. Wen Guanjing’ eyes are gentle when he looks at her.

“I knew you were still alive, and you would find us one day.”

Brother Mu is completely ignored, and he is overwhelmed by jealousy. However, Wen Guanjing is generous and open. After letting go of Lin Luoran, he greets Mu Tiannan naturally.

“Brother Mu, Master Mu will be thrilled to see you!”

Mu Tiannan now finally feels less jealousy. He is now less gloomy, “You even know where he is?”

Wen Guanjing nods, “This is not a good place for discussion. Let’s go back first.”

Lin Luoran wipes the tears at the corner of her eyes and nods. The three fly towards the Mountain Gate of Sword School with several other cultivators.

In this place, towering mountains, exotic flowers, and rare herbs are everywhere. A cold stream flows around the foot of the mountain. There are countless beautiful mountains. A tall jade stele stands at the foot of the mountain with simple words “Sword School” on it. These two words look very powerful. It seems that a sword is about to shoot out from the jade stele at any time.

After passing through Mountain Gate inhibition, the scenery in front of them changes drastically.

Buildings of Sword School are everywhere among endless mountains. Four highest peaks are in the middle, and an inverted triangle platform suspends in the center of the four peaks. From a distance, people can only see houses built on it.

White and elegant spirit cranes are flying around mountains. Cultivators on swords sometimes stop to salute when they see Wen Guanjing and others.

“This is Master Lin and Master Mu.”

Wen Guanjing changes his iron-fist attitude. He introduces Lin Luoran and Mu Tiannan to Sword School apprentices patiently. Before Lin Luoran reaches the inverted triangle main peak, she and Mu Tiannan have been famous all over Sword School.

They arrive at the floating peak and Sword School cultivators leave. Wen Guanjing only takes Lin Luoran and Mu Tiannan to the main peak. This place must be the residence of the school master—the architecture and floor surface of this place are both the Tang dynasty style. Zu Mountain cultivators rebuilt it more than a thousand years ago.

“Brother Wen is so powerful now.”

Lin Luoran notices that there is no one else in the palace. She smiles and jokes about Wen Guanjing.

Wen Guanjing shakes his head and curses, “Do you think I enjoy it?”

A school master has to be awe-inspiring. He lives alone on the floating peak without a servant. He has his own reasons.

The main palace is gorgeous. Wen Guanjing walks quickly. Obviously, he has no intention to show them around. They soon come to a remote courtyard. The name of the main palace is “Zhuyue”. This place is clean because of the magic circle, but messy flowers and plants still reveal that it is unfrequented.

“Why are we here?”

Lin Luoran thinks Wen Guanjing eagerly brings them to this dilapidated yard for some special reason.

Wen Guanjing doesn’t say anything but keeps smiling. Sword School apprentices are good at inhibition. With a wave of his long sleeves, Wen Guanjing stops the inhibition here. Lin Luoran discovers that they are actually in a small interstellar transmission circle!

“We heard that there is only one interstellar transmission circle on Luoxia Star… ” Lin Luoran murmurs.

Wen Guanjing nods, “That’s why we have to be more secretive. School Sister Lin, only school masters know this circle. This is the leeway that my ancestors left for the school. It is a directional teleportation with single coordinate, leading to a planet hidden behind the interstellar gravel vortex zone. If you ignore its tough conditions, it is actually a pretty good place. Now, do you know what I mean?”

Only school masters of Sword School know this directional teleportation circle with only one coordinate leading to a planet hidden behind the interstellar gravel vortex zone. He has told her so much information. Of course, she knows what he means.

“Then, let’s go.”

Wen Guanjing’s encouraging, and Mu Tiannan feels that he can’t be too mean. He offers a fist bump to Wen Guanjing—men never express gratitude with words.

Seeing Lin Luoran and Mu Tiannan disappear in the transmission circle, Wen Guanjing suddenly feels so relieved.

“Thick grow the rush leaves; Their white dew turns to frost; He whom I love; Must be somewhere along this stream.”

Wen Guanjing sighs when he suddenly recalls these verses in The Book of Songs. Lin Luoran is extraordinary. In the world of personal ability enhancement of Huaxia, many young men admired her secretly in the past. Taking himself as an example, he nipped his affection for her in the bud.

Taoist Jiang’s apprentice liked her no less than Brother Mu did. In the past, he thought Liu Zheng and Lin Luoran would be together gradually and naturally. However, the god of destiny made fools of the people. In the end, it’s Brother Mu without Taoist root who overcomes all obstacles and stands side by side with her.

Wen Guanjing has to admit that Brother Mu was self-willed and impulsive. However, he has always been sincere.

Power, personal ability, magic weapons, gorgeous clothes… these things are blasphemy to Lin Luoran. However, all men who liked her can acknowledge their failure because of Mu Tiannan’s “sincerity”, including Wen Guanjing.

…

On the other end of the transmission circle, there is a small town which is not very prosperous.

In a habitation among green hills and blue waters, there is the sound of cultivators and monsters fighting in the distance. People walking on the street are totally accustomed to it. Most of the houses in the town are wooden two-story small buildings. The ground floors are shops selling some food, clothes, and daily necessities.

From time to time, some people come back from outside, while some people go out.

The ratio of cultivators and mortals is almost equal, no matter in terms of men, women, or children. People are not gorgeously dressed, but their faces show that they are contented. They live a happy life. The conditions don’t seem to be tough as Wen Guanjing said. The dwellings are in good order. Judging from the size, there must be thousands of people living in this town.

“Why do two masters come to Taoyuan Town?”

An old man with a white beard sees two fresh faces, so he takes the initiative to inquire, neither haughtily nor humbly. Lin Luoran finds that he doesn’t have any personal ability. The old man wears ordinary clothes, but he stands extremely straight. As a mortal, he is not timid when facing cultivators. Lin Luoran really likes the folk customs here.

“Senior, you just said this place is called Taoyuan Town. Is there someone with the surname of Lin or Mu living here?”

The old man becomes wary immediately, “When people get old, they have a bad memory. Masters, maybe others know the answer to your question.”

Then he turns around and leaves.

“This old man is so bold. He dares to speak nonsense in front of us.” Mu Tiannan laughs.

Lin Luoran blinks at Mu Tiannan, and they follow the old man at a proper distance. The old man pretends to wander around. However, he walks all the way to a narrow alley and knocks a door. Both Lin Luoran and Mu Tiannan are amused.

“Uncle Lin, two foreign masters come to our town. I can see they are not good guys from their sneaky look.”

The old man opens the half-closed door and squeezes in. He shouts loudly.

“Qin Xiaojiu, you are talking nonsense again. How can foreign cultivators come to Taoyuan Town? Did School Master Wen send them here?”

Mr. Lin’s voice floats out across the wall. Lin Luoran’s vision is blurred by tears. When she hears his voice, big tears roll down.

She is sobbing. Mr. Lin on the other side of the wall can’t stand the old man Qin Xiaojiu, so he opens the door and walks out. At a glance, he sees a crying girl who can’t stand upright.

Mr. Lin has wrinkles on the corners of his eyes and he also has gray hair now. He feels it really strange when he sees a young man standing in front of his house who looks very similar to Brother Mu. He also feels bitter because of the crying girl. Mr. Lin can’t help rubbing his eyes for several times, suspecting that he is dreaming again in the daytime, “I must be getting older…”

Qin Xiaojiu rushes out vigorously, “Mr. Lin, they follow me here! I am really pissed off now!”

Mr. Lin is shocked when he hears these words. He looks up while his shoulders are shaking. The crying girl who looks like his daughter has already squatted down on the ground.

Mu Tiannan calls him “uncle” with red eyes. Old Mr. Lin answers him in a low voice. Ignoring Qin Xiaojiu, he squats down and stretches out his hand to touch Lin Luoran’s hair. His right hand in the air is trembling fiercely.

He is so afraid that it’s just another dream.

For so many times, he woke up from dreams and realized he was crying at midnight. In dreams, he put his little girl on his shoulders, and the girl giggling and yelling “dad… dad… ” repeatedly. His daughter’s voice was more beautiful than that of orioles in the forest.

The little girl grew up soon. She became powerful and she had her own ideas. She could go anywhere, from the sky to the earth. One day, she said she was going to find legendary Spirit Mountain overseas. However, she never came back.

She didn’t come back when the earthlings were migrating to the universe.

She didn’t come back when aliens suddenly invaded the earth, and mountains and rivers of the center of Chuan province were completely destroyed.

Some people said that the courageous girl of the Lin family died in Spirit Mountain overseas and she would never come back. However, he never believed such words.

But day after day, his daughter didn’t come back, and he finally began to worry.

His daughter was very capable, but they were too far away from the earth. Would his girl find the way back home?

He thought that when his girl came back, he would hit her severely. However, when the scene he has been waiting for hundreds of years comes true, Mr. Lin only squats down and hugs Lin Luoran who is sobbing.

If he holds her tightly, he is afraid of hurting her. If he holds her loosely, he is fearful that his daughter in his arms will disappear in a blink of an eye.

Mr. Lin pats Lin Luoran’s back with his palm gently. It seems that nothing has changed. She is still the girl who fell asleep only when her father patted her back to coax her.

“Ranran… Ranran…”

Ranran seldom cried when she was a child. Now she must know she is wrong, so he should never hit her.

Mr. Lin touches his daughter’s back gently. He doesn’t know tears have filled his eyes.

His tears fall on Lin Luoran’s neck, and she shudders because of the heat. Lin Luoran’s depressed sobbing finally turns into loud crying.

“…dad!”

When parents are still living, it is better for children not to stay far away from home.

Nothing can be perfect. She was so greedy that she was separated from her own family.

When she woke up in Spirit Mountain overseas, everything had changed. Her regret couldn’t change what had happened. She ignorantly chose interstellar travel. She became hopeful when getting the message of the crazy Taoist. After getting the exact news, she still couldn’t come here immediately because of the reconstruction of the earth.

Only by being busy could she forget to miss her family. When arriving here, she felt the closer she approached her family, the more nervous she was…

Life is unpredictable. After hundreds of years, she has traveled through two completely isolated places. Now, she finally finds her way home.