“You've been holding it in for a long time, haven't you?” Lu Xin said.
Li Mulin's eyes lit up upon hearing this. “Do you really know the whereabouts of my great-great-aunt?”
Lu Xin nodded. He had thought it over carefully during this time. Keeping Li Youlan was useless, so he might as well fulfill his promise and release her.
Moreover, she had been sealed by his foresight, so she knew very little about his situation. He wasn't afraid of exposing anything by releasing her.
So, he took out the porcelain bottle containing her and undid the seal.
Li Youlan's voice immediately rang out, “Junior, you've finally remembered me again.” Her remnant soul emerged from the porcelain bottle, looking at Lu Xin with a face full of resentment.
Lu Xin pointed to Li Mulin and said, “Do you see who she is?”
At this time, Li Mulin was still a little dazed. She thought Lu Xin only knew the news of her great-great-aunt, but she didn't expect him to directly bring her out.
Moreover, her appearance was exactly the same as the portrait she had seen. It was indeed her great-great-aunt.
“She is?”
Li Youlan looked over in confusion, finding that she didn't recognize the person, but she felt somewhat familiar.
“She should be considered your great-grandniece.” Lu Xin said.
“Great-grandniece?”
Li Youlan was shocked. She looked carefully and found that she did have some resemblance to herself. She quickly floated over, excitedly saying, “Are you really a member of the Li family?”
Li Mulin had already come back to her senses. Thinking that the other party had disappeared when she wasn't even born yet, she quickly replied, “Great-great-aunt, it's me. My grandfather is Li Daoxuan.”
“Daoxuan, my nephew, that's right, you are from the Li family.”
Li Youlan was somewhat jubilant and also wanted to cry. She didn't expect that after so many years, she would still be able to see her relatives.
“Great-great-aunt, how did you become like this? What exactly happened back then?” Li Mulin looked at Li Youlan's soul body, wanting to touch it, but she was a little at a loss.
“This is a long story…”
“Cough…”
Li Youlan was about to start narrating when she was interrupted by Lu Xin's cough. The two turned to look at him.
“If you have something to say, go back and talk slowly. Li Youlan, I am fulfilling my promise and letting you go. You must remember your guarantee and don't come looking for trouble with me.”
Li Youlan said unhappily, “I said long ago that I wouldn't look for trouble with you. You just don't believe me. Besides, if I were to look for trouble, I would look for the old ghost Xuan Kong first.”
“Then there's no need.” Lu Xin waved his hand. “After the Holy Venerable Xuan Kong revived through possession, he shamelessly came to me for revenge and has already been destroyed by me.”
“Really?” Li Youlan was shocked, obviously finding it hard to believe.
Lu Xin's face darkened, “Otherwise, how could your great-grandniece have seen my Divine Fire Cauldron?”
“It seems he was indeed killed by you.”
Hearing about the Divine Fire Cauldron, Li Youlan finally believed it. Then, she reacted, “Good, you still said something about fulfilling your promise. If it weren't for my great-grandniece seeing the Divine Fire Cauldron, wouldn't you have released me?”
Lu Xin said unhappily, “Don't be ungrateful. If I really didn't want to let you go, I could easily find an excuse to get away with it. Speaking of which, I even avenged you. Remember to repay me in the future.”
“Hmph.” Li Youlan snorted coldly and floated in front of Lu Xin, “Then undo the soul mark for me.”
“You really can't break free yourself?” Lu Xin was a little surprised.
“Do you think I can?” Li Youlan gave him a white look.
Lu Xin was too lazy to delay and began to cast a spell to undo the soul mark for her.
Li Mulin watched the two communicate in a daze, always feeling that their relationship was not simple.
“Alright, let's say goodbye here.” After helping Li Youlan undo the soul mark, Lu Xin didn't want to stay any longer.
Without the restraint of the soul mark, Li Youlan suddenly felt her soul body relax. She looked at him and said, “Are you really letting me go?”
“Don't you want to leave?”
“Goodbye, no, never see you again!” Li Youlan immediately returned to the porcelain bottle, hugged the soul-nourishing wood, and said to Li Mulin, “Great-grandniece, let's go.”
“Ah? Oh.” Li Mulin was still thinking about the relationship between the two. Hearing this, she came back to her senses, protected Li Youlan's soul body, turned to Lu Xin and said “See you later” before leaving.
Lu Xin also disappeared in place.
…
In the Donghua Divine Palace, a woman in a purple dress rushed into a palace in a hurry, “Senior Uncle Guan, Senior Uncle Guan, it's bad, something happened!”
Guan Tinghan, who was dealing with miscellaneous matters in the hall, frowned upon hearing this, “Xiang Jun, what's the matter that you're so reckless about?”
The purple-skirted woman called Xiang Jun quickly said, “Senior Uncle Guan, you should go and take a look. Senior Sister Long suddenly fainted and then sealed herself in ice.”
“Muxue?”
Guan Tinghan quickly stood up, “Let's go, talk as we walk.”
Then, the two came to a small courtyard, which was already surrounded by disciples, “Make way!”
Guan Tinghan separated the crowd and walked to the door. He immediately felt a bone-chilling cold, his expression changed, and he quickly circulated his magic power to resist it. He walked in and soon saw Long Muxue lying in the center of the courtyard, her entire body covered with a thick layer of mysterious ice.
Seeing this, he raised a ball of purple fire in his hand and carefully probed towards the mysterious ice.
As a result, bursts of cold air, as if encountering an enemy, all gathered towards the purple fire.
With a “poof” sound, the purple fire went out.
“How is that possible?”
His expression changed greatly. On the way here, Xiang Jun had explained the situation. This mysterious ice came out of Long Muxue's own body.
However, he didn't understand. The other party was only in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, so how could the cold air emanating from her body be so powerful that it could extinguish his purple fire?
You must know that he is in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
“You all disperse.” After trying again without success, Guan Tinghan drove everyone away, sent a message, and reported the matter.
Soon, a group of Transformation Gods and Nascent Souls came one after another.
“Strange, strange, I've lived for so many years, and it's the first time I've seen this kind of situation.” Sanren Qianyuan said after trying it out.
Shangren Xuan Cheng also tried it out, “Breaking the ice is very simple, but I don't understand the situation of this woman. Acting rashly may be detrimental to her.”
After speaking, he looked at Old Ancestor Yunhua, “Old ghost, this disciple used to be from your Thousand Snow Sect. Do you really not know anything about her?”
Old Ancestor Yunhua shook his head and looked at Guan Tinghan. Guan Tinghan quickly said, “Answering all the senior uncles, when this woman entered the Thousand Snow Sect, she had a rare ice spirit root, and the quality was not bad, middle grade of the earth rank.
According to the person who taught her before, when she was cultivating, a cold air would occasionally emerge from her body, but they thought it was because her cultivation method was not up to par, so they didn't take it seriously.
However, it seems to have become more serious later, but the reason could not be found, so she was asked to find a True Yang Stone to suppress it in order to assist in cultivation.”
“It seems that the key lies here.” Everyone was thoughtful, and Old Ancestor Taihe suddenly uttered two words, “Physique!”
“Physique?”
Everyone immediately reacted, and Sanren Qianyuan said, “Could it be a spiritual body as rare as a holy grade spiritual root?”
Everyone looked at the ice-sealed Long Muxue with fiery eyes.
Shangren Xuan Cheng asked in confusion, “But how can a spiritual body hurt itself? Could it be awakening?”
Everyone shook their heads, indicating that they didn't understand.
“Then what should we do now?” Shangren Xuan Cheng said.
“Let's wait for the Palace Master to come back and talk about it. I believe that he will definitely have a way to solve it.” Old Ancestor Yunhua said.
Everyone nodded, then arranged for people to guard and prepared to disperse. As a result, a voice suddenly came from the sky:
“I said, what are you all discussing while standing together?”
