Chapter 87: Letting Himself Go

When Lin Yuchu’s gaze turned toward him, the expression on Lin Yunheng’s face immediately went a little stiff. He even had the shamelessness to raise a hand and touch his own face, then looked at Lin Yuchu with a kindly, amiable gaze. “What are you looking at Daddy for?”

“Could it be… that you think Daddy is handsome?” Lin Yunheng said in a delighted tone.

“…”

Lin Yuchu.

I have never seen someone so brazen and shameless.

At the side, Lin Fengqing rolled his eyes outright, not wanting in the slightest to acknowledge this person playing dumb as his own foolish son.

But did you think you could fool your way through by playing dumb like this?

Impossible.

Lin Yuchu was not the sort of person who was easy to brush off or trick.

Since he was pretending to be dead, then there was no helping it. Lin Yuchu could only take the initiative.

So Lin Yuchu fixed his gaze on Lin Yunheng, who was trying to play dumb and muddle through, and said, “Grandfather is having me deliver a letter. Then, Father, don’t you have anything to give me?”

Hearing this, Lin Yunheng looked at him with a puzzled expression. “Give you what?”

“…”

Lin Yuchu.

After hearing that, he immediately stared at him with a questioning look. Are you serious?

He stared at Lin Yunheng for a long while. Seeing that he showed no other reaction, a flash of disappointment immediately passed through his eyes. So it was true.

This was not his real father. He must have been picked up somewhere.

Too disappointing!

Lin Yuchu looked at Lin Yunheng with eyes full of disappointment and dejection. He gave him one deep look, then withdrew his gaze and turned away, no longer looking at him.

“…”

Lin Yunheng.

Instead, Lin Yunheng was the one who suffered a blow from that pitiful little expression of his. He could not quite bear it, and a few hints of heartache rose in him.

So, half-joking and half-serious, he said to Lin Yuchu, “How about you bring Daddy along?”

“…”

Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, his eyes instantly widened.

He stared at him in shock, surprise, and disbelief, the expression on his face seeming to say: I never thought you were this kind of father!

To think you would actually say something like that.

Right away, Lin Yuchu’s face went cold, and he refused without the slightest hesitation. “No.”

“…”

Lin Yunheng.

Although he had not held any real hope in his heart, being rejected by him so decisively and without hesitation still hurt Lin Yunheng very much!

He instantly became unhappy and said in dissatisfaction, “You’re just going to be this cruel, this decisive, without hesitating or thinking it over at all, and reject Daddy?”

“Aren’t you afraid Daddy will be sad?” Lin Yunheng questioned him.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu was not sad at all, nor did he sympathize in the slightest. He even rolled his eyes and said coldly, “If I bring you along, am I supposed to still have any dignity left?”

“I need face too, all right!”

Speaking of this, Lin Yuchu was honestly impressed. He had never seen a genius like Lin Yunheng before, someone who could even come up with the idea of “accompanying him to study.”

If he really brought Lin Yunheng with him to the Kunlun Sword Sect, he would definitely become the first person in history to bring his father along to cultivate immortality.

He would be laughed to death!

He would become a laughingstock!

Absolutely not.

But…

Lin Yuchu raised his head and looked suspiciously at Lin Yunheng, whose face was full of unconvinced indignation. “Father, you couldn’t be…”

“No!” Lin Yunheng retorted immediately, before even hearing him out. “No such thing. Doesn’t exist.”

“…”

Lin Yuchu.

Even more suspicious!

This guy was absolutely planning to secretly do something bad behind his back, wasn’t he?

More and more suspicious.

Looking at the person before him, who was denying it with all his might, Lin Yunheng said to Lin Yuchu with a relaxed expression, “What are you thinking? Is Daddy that kind of person?”

“Daddy is already this old. I’m not some youngster, so how could I mess around?” Lin Yunheng said with a smile.

“…”

Lin Yuchu.

No, the more you say that, the more worried I am that you’re going to make trouble!

The bad feeling in Lin Yuchu’s heart grew stronger and stronger. With someone like Lin Yunheng, he absolutely could not let down his guard, and he absolutely could not trust him.

The only thing he did not doubt was Lin Yunheng’s ability to make trouble.

His unreliable father, who was always fond of stirring up trouble—regarding this cold and merciless matter, only his steady and dependable grandfather could be trusted.

With an exhausted expression, Lin Yuchu turned to look at Lin Fengqing beside him, his face solemn. “When I’m not here, I’ll have to trouble Grandfather with Father.”

Hearing this, the expression on Lin Fengqing’s face immediately turned grave as well. In a heavy tone, he said to his grandson, “I’ll do my best.”

Hearing those words, Lin Yuchu immediately felt the same sorrow, and he too looked at him with a heavy expression. “Thank you for your hardship, Grandfather.”

“…”

Lin Yunheng, who had been completely ignored and left off to the side.

The smile on his face instantly could not be maintained anymore.

Hey, hey. If you two act like this, I’m going to make a fuss!

Do I have no face at all?

…

After bidding farewell to his old father and grandfather at home, Lin Yuchu set out on the road to the Kunlun Sword Sect.

There was a teleportation array in the city that led to the city at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. Lin Yuchu only needed to spend one hundred spiritual stones, go to Kunlun City through the teleportation array, then walk from Kunlun City to the foot of Kunlun Mountain, and finally climb Kunlun Mountain on foot.

The Kunlun Sword Sect was established halfway up Kunlun Mountain. It possessed the hundred thousand great mountains of Kunlun; the entire undulating Kunlun mountain range belonged to the Kunlun Sword Sect.

Because of this, the Kunlun Sword Sect was not only the number one great Sword Path sect in the cultivation world, but also a famous and powerful clan of the cultivation world.

“Going to Kunlun City?”

The array keeper of the teleportation array looked at him and asked.

“Yes,” Lin Yuchu said.

“One hundred spiritual stones,” the array keeper said.

After saying that, he paused, then looked at Lin Yuchu before him. A few hints of a smile appeared on his aged yet vigorous face, and he looked at him with a shrewd gaze. “You are the youth division’s number-one sword cultivator in this Sword Path Grand Competition, aren’t you?”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu raised his head and looked at him.

This was the first time he had seen Cloudridge’s array keeper. He was an old man who looked very ordinary, wearing a white robe that ought to have shown dirt easily. Yet there was not the slightest dust or stain on the robe; it was spotless.

As long as Lin Yuchu was not blind, he knew this was a spiritual garment of no poor quality.

The old man looked very advanced in years, with the aged appearance of an ordinary mortal in his sixties. His hair was entirely white, and his eyebrows were grizzled as well. His figure was thin, but he was not the least bit shrunken. He even seemed upright and powerful.

Lin Yuchu could not see the slightest trace of aged, frail weakness on him. All he sensed was… unfathomable depth.

Was this really just an ordinary array keeper?

Such a doubt could not help rising in his mind. He always felt that Cloudridge was a place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

On ordinary days, it looked unremarkable, seeming very common and ordinary. But once one thought about it carefully, what about it was ordinary?

There was the Lin family, which occupied half or even more of the cultivation world’s pill supply; the Jiang family, an ancient array Dao family that was famous in the cultivation world and low-key, yet absolutely not to be underestimated; as well as the Ruan family, whose numbers were few, but each of whom was a top sword cultivator in the cultivation world. There was Gu Daozi, the headmaster of the Dao Academy, Teacher Bai Xiao…

These were all people who had long been famous in the cultivation world. Yet at this moment, they were quietly staying in Cloudridge, a place that was neither prosperous nor famous in the cultivation world. They had not exactly concealed their names, but it was close enough.

Cloudridge was a city very suited for retirement. Lin Yuchu had known this from long ago.

Its pace was slow, quiet, and comfortable.

Daily life was very simple. Work at sunrise, rest at sunset. There was not much fighting, and even armed brawls on the streets were a rare sight.

But it was also a place with extremely rich resources and foundations.

It was very difficult for outsiders to enter, and the people inside rarely left.

The last person to cause a storm and create major news was Lin Yunheng, who had run away from home in rebellion when he was young.

He had single-handedly contracted nearly a hundred years’ worth of Cloudridge’s news headlines.

And this time, his son was going to leave and go outside.

The old man guarding the array looked at the young man before him with a loving and wise gaze, light flickering in his eyes. He smiled faintly and said, “You and your father are very alike.”

Hearing this, a startled expression immediately appeared on Lin Yuchu’s face.

He looked at him in surprise and said, “You’re the first person to say that.”

Others might not know, but could Lin Yuchu not know?

He and Lin Yunheng were not father and son by blood at all. He had been adopted, so what talk was there of resembling or not resembling each other? Because of that, when Lin Yuchu was outside, he never brought up any topic about him resembling Lin Yunheng, because it had no meaning.

“Is that so?”

Hearing this, the old array keeper gave a noncommittal reply. “I’ve always been very accurate when judging people.”

“Once you go out, have a good time.” The old array keeper looked at him with a loving gaze and said earnestly, “You must cherish the time.”

Coming from him, those words seemed especially sorrowful.

Lin Yuchu’s heart paused for a moment. Then he looked at him and said solemnly, “I will.”

Hearing this, the old man smiled. “Then go.”

Lin Yuchu handed over one hundred spiritual stones, then stood inside the teleportation array.

The teleportation array activated, and white light enveloped his entire body.

After a flash of light, when the white glow vanished, Lin Yuchu’s figure had also disappeared from the teleportation array.

Looking at the empty teleportation array, a smile appeared on the old man’s face. “This is the third person I have sent away this year.”

A teleportation array, this black-box immortal technique whose principles no one knew, was simply so cool it had no friends.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Lin Yuchu found himself inside the teleportation array in Kunlun City.

In the space of a quarter of an hour, he had crossed more than half of the cultivation world, going from one city to another distant city.

Lin Yuchu stepped down from the teleportation array. He walked onto the streets of Kunlun City, feeling the noise and liveliness all around him.

It was a liveliness completely different from quiet, peaceful Cloudridge, filled with boundless, flourishing vitality. The young, energetic pedestrians coming and going all proclaimed its difference from Cloudridge.

Kunlun City, which belonged to the Kunlun Sword Sect, was an important city for trade and exchange in the cultivation world. Its population was highly mobile. Aside from disciples of the Kunlun Sword Sect often coming down from the mountains, there were even more people from elsewhere.

With a great flow of people and many transient residents, public security in Kunlun City was naturally severe.

Armed brawls often occurred in the city.

Things like starting a fight after a single disagreement were very normal.

After all, there were all kinds of people here.

But Lin Yuchu absolutely had not expected his luck to be so good…

The very first time he came to Kunlun City, he encountered two groups of people brawling.

And when the city gate caught fire, it even brought disaster upon him, an innocent fish in the moat.

Here was what happened.

Lin Yuchu had arrived in a new and unfamiliar city, one he had never been to before.

So curiosity and anticipation immediately arose in his heart. This was very normal and perfectly natural, right? Even if he had always acted steady and calm in front of others, in the end, he was still only a young man!

A young man’s impulsiveness—he had that too.

Not to mention…

He had just left home to travel far away, escaping the control of his family and elders. This was simply a bird released from its cage.

Free and unfettered, free and unfettered, free and unfettered!

So Lin Yuchu let himself go without the slightest hesitation.

He was no longer in a hurry to go to the Kunlun Sword Sect. Instead, he planned to wander around the city.

As a result, once he started wandering, trouble came of it.

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