??49: Chapter 45 Dad, I Know Where Your Secret Stash Is_1
49: Chapter 45 Dad, I Know Where Your Secret Stash Is_1
Seeing Yan Yourong’s face beaming with adoration and joy, Ling Xi grew even more curious.
Had her master’s dicine really worked?
If so, could it be that she too had a chance?
With this thought, Ling Xi couldn’t help but tremble with excitent.
“Sister, I’m going to change my clothes,” Yan Yourong said upon seeing Ling Xi’s expression, thinking she had guessed correctly that the eldest senior sister too had witnessed the power of their master.
Ling Xi did not stop Yan Yourong any longer, and turned her attention to Cao Zhen, who was walking out from the distant cave.
“Child, what is that look in your eyes?” Cao Zhen asked, feeling slightly unnerved by Ling Xi’s intense gaze, “Why are you looking at
like that?”
“Nothing, nothing,” Ling Xi replied, cheerfully turning away to look for Little Beiyan and the others, planning to take them to witness the second junior sister’s battle for redemption, while also letting them know that they too had a chance.
“Administrator level has been raised…”
As Cao Zhen erged from the cave, the Zhonghua Cloud suddenly sent a surprising notification.
The alchemy couldn’t have reached Level 51, could it?
How could it have caused an administrator level increase?
Cao Zhen quickly opened his own panel
Zhonghua Cloud Level 4 Administrator: Cao Zhen
Gender: Male
Cultivation Base: Immortal Bridge Period, five Immortal Bridges
Identity: Forr programr, current Peak Master of the Four Treasures Peak of the Hundred Peaks Sect, Pill King
Specialties: Programming, Grandmaster of Theoretical Alchemy, Grandmaster of Immortal Cultivation Theory
Possessions: Four Treasures Peak
Total Cultivation Experience Points: 31
Extra Experience Points: 0
Alchemy Level: 41
Talisman Level: 10
Formation Level: 0
Sword of Dodging: Level 7
“Why?” Cao Zhen asked, puzzled.
Zhonghua Cloud answered: When a designated user progresses to a higher realm, the administrator’s level is raised by one and additional authorization is granted to connect one more user.
Cao Zhen had not expected that his disciple’s advancent in realm would lead to his own administrator level increasing by one and began to ponder to whom he should assign this new user connection—his disciple Bei Yan, or his parents.
After a mont of thought, Cao Zhen chose his father.
Ever since he had crossed over to this world, it would be false to say he did not miss his family.
He had thought that he would never have the chance to show filial piety to his parents in this lifeti, but surprisingly, Zhonghua Cloud gave him another opportunity.
“Connect to my father, Cao Xinbang.”
A docunt of similar size to that of the wealthy Old Ma quickly appeared in the Zhonghua Cloud.
Cao Zhen clicked on the docunt, and a burst of images imdiately flooded into his mind.
His father, whom he had not seen for several months, had grown a significant amount of white hair.
Through his father’s mories, he could see his mother, looking much more haggard with her once black hair now peppered with white.
In the next instant, Cao Zhen saw a solemn ancestral hall with nothing but his black and white photograph on display.
His father and mother, their eyes hollow with grief, sat staring blankly at the brazier in front of them, their tear-dried eyes filled with red veins of sorrow.
The crackling sound from the fire in the brazier beca the only sound in the ancestral hall.
A sharp pain seized Cao Zhen’s heart.
He had always thought his parents were nagging him—annoyed when they called him to eat, annoyed when they told him off for gaming, and irritated when they scolded him for staying up late.
He seldom had the patience to listen to them talk, let alone chat with them.
If it weren’t for his reincarnation, if there were no Zhonghua Cloud…
Cao Zhen would not have had even a sliver of a chance to make ands or show filial piety.
“Zhonghua Cloud… can I still go back?” Cao Zhen asked in silence after a long while.
“If you’re strong enough, you can naturally traverse between the stars of the universe…”
The words from Zhonghua Cloud rendered Cao Zhen speechless, between the stars?
He and his parents were still under the sa universe?
Just…
they might be very far apart, in different civilizations perhaps!
“Thank you.” Cao Zhen didn’t inquire further about what cultivation level he would need.
He knew he was indeed far, very far from that level.
Rather than listening and increasing the burden on his mind, it was better not to know for now.
“Dad…” Cao Zhen began to make a real-ti communication with his father’s docunt.
Cao Xinbang, who was reading in his office, suddenly froze; he recognized the voice as that of his own son.
He hurriedly looked around, then laughed bitterly with self-mockery, “I must miss that unfilial son too much; I’m even hallucinating his voice.”
Cao Zhen knew that the unfilial son his father referred to was his own early death, and he regretted not having talked more with his old man when he was alive.
“Old man, do you read online novels?” Cao Zhen spoke again, continuing the conversation with his father, “This isn’t a hallucination; I’ve traveled through ti…”
Cao Xinbang searched around, then massaged his temples and muttered to himself, “Am I longing for that brat too much?”
“Dad, your private stash is behind the painting in the living room,” Cao Zhen, seeing that his father still believed it was a hallucination, had no choice but to pull out the trump card, “and also in the mop in the bathroom…”
Cao Xinbang, who had just been pondering the auditory hallucination, suddenly stood up, looking around for the source as if he had seen a ghost, “Who’s there?
Show yourself!”
“Old man, I really am still alive; I’ve just traveled through ti,” said Cao Zhen helplessly, “If you still don’t believe that I’m talking to your soul, then I guess I’ll have to talk to my mom about you hiding your private stash in my computer case.”
Cao Xinbang was stunned…
and looked around, “Little Zhen?
Are you really still alive?”
“Dad, I really am alive,” said Cao Zhen swiftly, “Marquis Ma sought you out for M10 because I tricked him into thinking I’m a deity, and you with mom are the parents of my reincarnation.
You know how credulous Old Ma is; he even believes the charlatan qigong master Wang Yun…”
“Still alive…
still alive…
as long as he’s still alive,” Upon confirming it wasn’t a hallucination, Cao Xinbang’s eyes welled up with tears.
“Dad, my ti to chat with you is up, I’ll find you tomorrow, don’t tell mom yet, I’m afraid she won’t be able to handle it…” As Cao Zhen’s words ended, he wanted to continue with more instructions but found the communication ti was completely over.
He could only see his dad searching the office, then eventually crouching on the floor with his face in his hands, in pain for a mont and then laughing with joy and tears…
Cao Zhen longed to reach out and touch his father’s shoulder, but realized that it was simply impossible…
He always thought there would be a next ti when he could easily touch his parents’ shoulders, a ti when he couldn’t express his love physically.
But how many ‘next tis’ were there?
Cao Zhen felt so regret, as he used to ignore his parents on New Year’s Eve just to assert his personality, not watching the Spring Festival Gala with them, thinking it was sothing only old people watched.
In reality…
it wasn’t the Spring Festival Gala that the elderly watched, but the annual family reunion, the year’s safety and wellbeing of the family.
If given another opportunity…
even if the Spring Festival Gala continued to be uninspiring, he would sit with his parents to watch it and eat dumplings.
“Master, we are ready,” the voice of Ling Xi interrupted a grieving Cao Zhen.
“Coming!” Cao Zhen exited the Zhonghua Cloud and hurried to the Immortal Cloud Carriage.
The disciples had already assembled on the Immortal Cloud Carriage, and with Cao Zhen’s arrival, they imdiately soared into the sky.
Yan Yourong was sitting in the carriage, familiarizing herself with the innate divine skills of the Great Five Elents innate holy body, the Great Five Elents Technique!
Due to ti constraints, the current Great Five Elents Technique was only at level ten, but how to truly utilize it, she still had no clear idea.
Cao Zhen, with nothing else to do, rembered he hadn’t thoroughly checked his own panel and Yan Yourong’s panel.
Entering the Zhonghua Cloud again, he discovered that his panel, in addition to what he already had, now included a Great Five Elents Divine Technique at level ten.
The innate divine skill exclusive to the Great Five Elents innate holy body!
Cao Zhen couldn’t help laughing.
Although the power he could exert might not match that of soone with the Great Five Elents innate holy body, it would allow him to understand the Five Elents Power better.
Moreover, this innate divine skill could be the core for his second pill concoction.
The only pity was that it was rely at level ten!
Cao Zhen secretly decided that after this duel, to gain a new level twenty innate divine skill, he would have to beco a strict master.
If necessary, he would lock his disciples in a dark room with a small whip and flog them!
He would make her reach level twenty as soon as possible.
Huh?
Cao Zhen suddenly noticed a new change on Yan Yourong’s panel.
User: Yan Yourong
Gender: Female
Cultivation Base: Foundation Establishnt Realm, Immortal Bridge with ten bridges
Identity: Second Disciple of Four Treasures Peak, Hundred Peaks Sect
Aptitude: Great Five Elents innate holy body
Specializes in: Burying people, Sword of Dodging level seven
Total Experience: 50,000
Extra Usable Experience: 5,000
Looking at the extra experience, Cao Zhen couldn’t help but gasp in amazent; Li Ke only gave 5,000 extra experience, and he didn’t expect that the disciple he had trained himself could directly grant 5,000 experience!
The other three disciples…
Cao Zhen quickly exited the Zhonghua Cloud and couldn’t help sizing up his few disciples with his gaze.
Bei Yan felt the probing gaze and couldn’t help asking curiously, “Master, why are you looking at
like that?
Is there sothing wrong?”
Having seen such a gaze before, Yan Yourong quickly said, “Little Beiyan, you should be happy!
This ans the master has taken notice of you!”
Bei Yan didn’t understand Yan Yourong’s words, but thought that since his senior sister said it was sothing to be happy about, he might as well be happy about it.
Cao Zhen began calculating the experience points he had in hand, pondering what he should exchange them for.
Should he continue to bet on alchemy, or stack them on sothing else?
In any case, he had no intention of betting on talisman making; as long as he locked Ling Xi away with a small whip, he could improve that skill.
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