Chapter 84: Go Find Your Parent

After the auction ended.

Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun planned to leave, but before leaving, they still had one thing to do.

That was the group of people who had been selling fake travel passes at the city gate, whom Gu Chun and Lin Yuchu had entrapped through a sting operation and worked together to send into the Sword Alliance’s prison.

Gu Chun specifically went to the Sword Alliance to ask Sword Lord Nanming how the matter had been handled. Out of curiosity, Lin Yuchu also went along.

Inside the Sword Alliance.

After Sword Lord Nanming heard why he had come, he looked at the two youths before him, a somewhat troubled expression appearing on his face. Then he said, “I won’t hide it from you. Most of those people you reported for selling fake travel passes outside the city are elderly, weak, women, and children gathered outside the city gate.”

“They have no other way to make a living and can only survive by doing this. So it truly is difficult to decide how to deal with them,” Sword Lord Nanming said. “We are not unreasonable people either, so after keeping them locked up for a few days, we let them go back.”

Gu Chun was not surprised by this result. Following Sword Lord Nanming’s words, he said, “In that case, why not resettle them?”

“If they could be properly resettled, they would not commit illegal acts,” Gu Chun said. Then he reminded him tactfully, “Creating travel passes is not something ordinary people can do.”

“We have considered what you said as well,” Sword Lord Nanming said, sighing. “It is just that there is nowhere in the city to take them in.”

Inside Bright Moon Capital, every inch of land was worth its weight in gold.

The elderly, weak, women, and children gathered outside the city were not a small population. If they were moved into the city, then putting aside everything else, where would they find a piece of land to house them?

For such a group of people, the city also did not have that many jobs suitable for them. Even if they were deft with their hands, did this city lack artisans?

Lin Yuchu stood quietly off to the side, listening to Gu Chun and Sword Lord Nanming’s conversation. His expression was faint, and he was not the least bit surprised by this result.

How could this matter be so easy to resolve? Gu Chun had thought too naively.

Wanting to move this group of outsiders into the city involved far too much. The people in the city would not agree. Sword Lord Nanming could not bear that risk. As for Gu Chun’s idea of restoring ancient books...

From the very beginning, Lin Yuchu had felt that it was impossible.

Ancient books were precious. How could outsiders be casually allowed to restore them?

Those aged ancient books inside Bright Moon Capital had been gathering dust all this time, with no one going to restore them, not only because there was not enough manpower, but also because the Sword Alliance did not dare let people restore them lightly.

So from the very start, Lin Yuchu had known that Gu Chun’s plan could not be realized. He simply had not exposed it.

Some things still had to be experienced for oneself before one could understand. Some people would not turn back until they hit the south wall.

After listening to Sword Lord Nanming’s words and understanding what he meant, disappointment immediately appeared on Gu Chun’s face.

He looked at Sword Lord Nanming, whose face was full of difficulty, and hesitated several times, his expression as if he wanted to speak but stopped himself. In the end, he said nothing.

Instead, Sword Lord Nanming offered them both a few words of encouragement. “The two of you are rare talents on the Sword Path, and the Kunlun Sword Sect is the number one sect in the world for the Sword Path. There, your talents will surely blossom and bear fruit.”

“You must not slack off or be lazy, nor may you become proud and complacent,” Sword Lord Nanming said. A smile surfaced on his face. “Ten years from now, I will be waiting for you here.”

He looked at the two youths before him, his eyes filled with admiration and appreciation. If anyone else had been here to hear these words from him, they would surely have said he was tricking children.

These two youths were only in their teens now, and their cultivation was only at Qi Refining. If they could reach Foundation Establishment ten years from now, they would already be rare geniuses.

And at the next Sword Path Grand Competition, if they came again, they would inevitably appear in the Golden Core sword cultivator young-adult division.

Golden Core in ten years?

Impossible.

Dream on.

However, Sword Lord Nanming believed that if it was the two of them, nothing was impossible.

That was what geniuses were: miraculous existences who turned the impossible into possible.

…

Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun left the Sword Alliance’s territory and returned empty-handed.

On the way back, Gu Chun’s expression was heavy, his gaze full of worry. He was silent and said nothing, and Lin Yuchu also did not speak, walking soundlessly at his side.

After a long while.

“As expected, I should still tell Sword Lord Nanming the truth,” Gu Chun stopped and suddenly said.

Lin Yuchu also halted. He raised his head, his calm, pitch-black eyes looking at him, and said in a faint voice, “How do you plan to tell him?”

“The truth,” Gu Chun said.

When Lin Yuchu heard this, he immediately laughed. The corner of his lips lifted into a mocking, sarcastic smile, and his voice carried a chill as he said, “Tell him that Cloud Peak is about to face an unprecedented cold wave?”

“Do you think he will believe you?” Lin Yuchu stared at him and said coldly, “Not even the Astronomical Bureau has observed this. How did you know?”

“...” Gu Chun.

He looked at Lin Yuchu’s cold, unapproachable expression before him and opened his mouth, but in the end, he could not say a word.

“Then are we supposed to just leave it like this? Do nothing?” Gu Chun said, his face full of unwillingness.

Lin Yuchu stared at him, his tone even more lightly mocking and cold as he said, “Don’t tell me you’re thinking that since you can’t persuade Sword Lord Nanming, you’ll go find those people outside the city and convince them to leave instead?”

“...” Gu Chun.

Hearing this, Gu Chun’s eyes immediately widened as he looked at him.

His whole face said, how did you know?

Seeing this, Lin Yuchu rolled his eyes at him outright and gave a cold “Heh—”

He did not even need to use his brain to think about it. He could know what Gu Chun was thinking with his toes. He had to say, Gu Chun’s mind really was simple. He was not good at schemes and plots.

No, Lin Yuchu immediately overturned this thought in his mind.

He looked at the youth before him and thought, it was not that he did not understand strategy. Rather, this person was too straightforward.

So straightforward that he disdained using conspiracies and tricks.

“They won’t believe you, and they definitely won’t move away,” Lin Yuchu directly punctured Gu Chun’s original plan and said, “Before there is solid evidence, no one will believe what you say. No one will leave their home behind because of something you say without proof.”

Hearing this, Gu Chun stared at him and asked in return, “Didn’t you believe me?”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

He was smart for once.

Listening to his words, Lin Yuchu raised his eyes and looked at him, thinking this.

But out loud, he said coldly and mercilessly, “I believe in you.”

Gu Chun was instantly stunned when he heard this. Then a moved expression appeared on his face, and he looked at him with touched eyes. “I didn’t expect you to...”

But Lin Yuchu did not give him more time to be moved. He coldly interrupted him and said, “Since you said as much, and I now know about this matter, I will not sit by and do nothing.”

He looked at Gu Chun, whose face was full of emotion, and said, “I will help you.”

When Gu Chun heard this, his expression became even more touched. He stepped forward, reached out, patted Lin Yuchu on the back, and then gave him a hug.

It was a very brief hug.

They separated as soon as they touched.

Gu Chun quickly let Lin Yuchu go, his face turning serious. He looked at him and said, “What plan do you have?”

Hearing Lin Yuchu say this, he knew that Lin Yuchu must already have an idea in mind.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu looked at him and suddenly said, “Have you ever heard this saying?”

Gu Chun was startled by his sudden words, then asked, “What?”

“When you run into something you can’t handle yourself, go find someone who can handle it,” Lin Yuchu said, his face deep and solemn. “Also commonly known as—go find your parent!”

…

Then Lin Yuchu took Gu Chun to find Lin Yunheng.

On the way to find Lin Yunheng, Gu Chun looked full of worry and said, “Although you put it that way, I’m still a little worried.”

“Worried about what?” Lin Yuchu said, his expression and tone equally calm.

“...Will your father believe it?” Gu Chun could not help worrying as he said, “Didn’t you say no one would believe my groundless words?”

“That depends on who says them,” Lin Yuchu said. He turned his head and looked at the worried Gu Chun before him. “If it’s me, then even if I say the moon in the sky is red, my father will believe me.”

“...” Gu Chun.

Caught completely off guard, he was stuffed with a mouthful of dog food.

He opened his mouth and looked at Lin Yuchu before him with a complicated expression. After quite a while, he said, “...I understand.”

Lin Yunheng had a house in Bright Moon Capital. When Gu Chun heard Lin Yuchu say this, his whole person was shocked. “Your father has a house in Bright Moon Capital?”

“Your father has a house in Bright Moon Capital!?” Even Gu Chun, a poor bastard from a small rural place, knew that Bright Moon Capital was a city where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, and how sky-high the price of land and property there was!

This was no longer something that could be bought with spiritual stones alone. It also required power and influence!

A person with no power or status could not possibly buy a house in Bright Moon Capital. To own property in Bright Moon Capital, strength, background, and money were all indispensable.

“What’s so strange about that?” Lin Yuchu said, not taking it seriously. “At any rate, my father is a famous tycoon in the cultivation world, okay?”

The Lin family held an extraordinary position in the cultivation world, not to mention that Lin Yunheng himself was a grandmaster of both alchemy Dao and talisman Dao.

It was only a house in Bright Moon Capital. Seeing Gu Chun react so strongly, Lin Yuchu decided not to tell him that their family not only had a house in Bright Moon Capital, but also an entire commercial street.

Hearing Lin Yuchu’s casual tone, Gu Chun’s eyes instantly turned red. “I hate rich people.”

“What a coincidence. So do I,” Lin Yuchu agreed.

“...Aren’t you rich people!” Gu Chun said.

“I’m not. My father is,” Lin Yuchu said.

When Lin Yuchu brought Gu Chun to the Lin family’s house in Bright Moon Capital, Lin Yunheng was drinking tea in the courtyard.

Or rather, waiting for them.

As early as the day before, Lin Yuchu had written a letter and sent it over, telling Lin Yunheng that he would return today.

Lin Yunheng had been waiting there since early that morning.

When he saw Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun coming from far away, Lin Yunheng, who had originally been sitting lazily in his chair out of sheer boredom, immediately had his eyes light up. He sat up straight and waved to Lin Yuchu from afar. “Little Chu, you’re back!”

“Father has been waiting for you for a long time.”

Lin Yunheng looked at Lin Yuchu as he walked up to him, a somewhat aggrieved expression on his face and an even more aggrieved tone in his voice.

Seeing him like this, Lin Yuchu’s expression instantly paused. The conscience he had long since thrown away... hurt a little.

“Mm,” he answered.

He looked at Lin Yunheng sitting on the chair before him, pressed his lips together, then walked forward. “Father, I’ll pour you wine.”

“Father, I’ll massage your legs.”

“Father, I’ll knead your hands.”

“...”

“...”

With a smiling expression, Lin Yunheng enjoyed the service of his son, who had not returned home in so long (...), and his heart felt thoroughly comforted.

After enjoying his dear son’s service for a while, he finally brought up serious business. He asked Lin Yuchu, who was crouched in front of him massaging his legs, “All right, tell me. What do you need Father to help with?”

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