A Family of Hopeless Romantics, Except for the Evil Little Junior Brother-Chapter 53: Fleeting Years, Touching and Mysterious Intentions

A clever woman can hardly cook without rice.

Recently, Li Xuanxiao had fallen into financial difficulties.

There was no other reason—he had been focusing on perfecting his skills within the sect.

During this period, he couldn’t leave the sect for fear of encountering the Empress Di Nü Feng and Liu Qiushui, who were desperately searching for him.

So, when he finally realized it, he discovered that his resources had almost been depleted.

This was one of the downsides of hiding one’s cultivation level.

The sect distributed resources monthly.

But since they believed him to be at the Qi Refining Stage, Li Xuanxiao only received resources appropriate for that stage, which were useless for someone at the Golden Core Stage like him.

To solve this, Li Xuanxiao made two preparations.

On one hand, he sought tasks that suited him.

On the other hand, he focused on alchemy!

As an alchemist, Li Xuanxiao was quite competent.

He took a small loan from the sect.

With this loan, he bought medicinal herbs and began refining pills.

This way, the prices for the pills increased several times over.

These pills couldn’t be sold within the sect, so Li Xuanxiao planned to sell them in the markets below the mountain.

He had already prepared an excuse: visiting his parents below the mountain, since his elder brother had sent word that their parents had passed away.

Though immortals and mortals were worlds apart, he still intended to visit their graves.

Li Xuanxiao’s memory of his parents wasn’t strong;he only remembered that his mother’s hands were very soft.

“........”

Leaving Mount Shushan, Li Xuanxiao didn’t travel too far.

He spent two days making his way to a market called Qingshui. Disguised, he sold the pills in batches.

He then moved on to another market and continued selling.

Not only did he sell spirit pills, but also the magical artifacts he had crafted.

Now that he was at the Golden Core Stage, most of the artifacts made for the Foundation Establishment Stage were useless to him.

He gave some to his little junior sister, Zhao Lu, and sold the rest in batches.

He repeated this process, visiting four markets in total.

Only after selling all his pills did he stop, despite some people trying to buy more from him.

Those who didn’t know thought he was selling stolen goods.

The markets were protected by various sects, but once outside, the vast, free world awaited.

It was inevitable that some would harbor ill intentions.

Fortunately, nothing happened on his journey.

Next, Li Xuanxiao headed straight for his hometown.

“..........”

Songyang Town.

The elder couple from the Li family in the town had passed away.

The Li family had kept their coffin for seven days.

Today was the last day, and the elders were to be buried.

The Li family elders had passed away peacefully in their sleep, and people said they were blessed.

They had a son and a daughter.

The elder son had become successful, running a restaurant.

The younger daughter had married a local scholar.

However, what others didn’t know was that the Li family actually had a younger son, who was the real support of the family.

When Li Xuanxiao first crossed over, he was still grateful that fate had given him a second chance.

In his past life, he had suffered from ALS, enduring immense pain.

This life… he still suffered.

He had to gnaw on tree bark to stave off hunger and nearly froze to death.

Fortunately, he encountered the wandering old sect leader.

Li Xuanxiao followed the old sect leader, and his family gained wealth, avoiding complete ruin.

Though Li Xuanxiao had been cultivating in the sect for many years, the sect had still taken good care of his family.

But immortals and mortals were different. Li Xuanxiao knew that once he walked the path of cultivation, he had completely severed ties with his former life.

Moreover, if enemies came one day, unable to defeat him, they might take out their anger on his family.

That would bring disaster upon them for no reason.

So, over the years, other than writing letters, he had never returned home.

Li Xuanxiao hid behind a willow tree at the sect gate, watching the constant stream of people coming to mourn.

The Li family was well-known for their charity, and the whole town spoke highly of them.

Those who heard the news came to cry.

His grown-up little sister greeted guests at the door.

The child by her side should be her son.

Li Xuanxiao looked at this scene, unsure of what he was feeling.

He remembered when his sister used to follow him around to steal bird eggs.

He only felt that time flew by, and it was all so fleeting.

Fleeting years, touching and mysterious intentions, how many springs have passed since their last meeting?

When the parents were buried, Li Xuanxiao left three incense sticks.

He bowed a few times and then left.

He had originally planned to return directly to Mount Shushan, but seeing the place where he had lived as a child, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia.

So, he slowed his pace.

Suddenly, Li Xuanxiao’s gaze fell upon a dry well in a courtyard.

Even under the bright sunlight, it exuded a chilling aura.

Through his spiritual eye, he could see the energy flowing within.

Li Xuanxiao silently appeared in front of the dry well and stomped his foot once.

“Come out!”

Suddenly, countless black snakes seemed to crawl out from the well, their heads emerging like a tidal wave of hair!

A figure in a white robe slowly rose from the well, with a face as pale as paper, lacking any color, and eyes hollow and lifeless.

This wasn’t a vengeful ghost, but one who had never killed anyone.

Facing this weak and pitiful ghost,

Li Xuanxiao formed a hand seal and began chanting a mantra to send the spirit on its way.

“...Ah...”

The female ghost let out a struggling cry.

Li Xuanxiao said indifferently, “Since you are dead, quickly enter reincarnation. The longer you stay in the mortal world, the deeper your torment will be.”

“No… No!”

Li Xuanxiao said nothing, just finishing the mantra.

When he looked again at the female ghost, she had managed to hold on, seemingly by her own will.

“What unfinished business do you have?”

“I’m waiting for my husband.”

Li Xuanxiao paused for a moment.

This seemed like another melodramatic story.

He was about to forcibly disperse this female ghost.

The female ghost, knowing she couldn’t resist, had already exhausted all her strength when she broke free from the reincarnation spell.

Li Xuanxiao paused his movements and suddenly asked.

“You’re too obsessed. Why didn’t you kill people to gain cultivation, turning from a mortal into a ghost?”

The female ghost weakly replied, “I dare not. I’ve never even killed a chicken in my life.”

“Then how did you die?”

“........”

The story was simple.

The female ghost was named Su Xiao, a woman who performed in a brothel but didn’t sell her body.

Later, she fell in love at first sight with a scholar and left the brothel to live here.

It happened that the scholar was going to the capital to take the imperial exam, promising to return and marry her.

But he never came back.

Su Xiao waited for two years, and one heavy snowstorm,

while fetching water, she slipped and fell into the well, dying just like that.

Due to the special position of the well here, it gathered Yin energy.

That’s why she became a female ghost, still waiting for the scholar.

The story was a bit cliché.

Li Xuanxiao had heard stories like this at least eighty times, if not a hundred.

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He set up a formation around the well and said to the female ghost:

“In a month, if your obsession isn’t cleared, this formation will force you into reincarnation. Staying in this state in the mortal world, your soul will eventually scatter. Take care of yourself.”

After speaking, Li Xuanxiao vanished from the spot.