Others were shocked at how Jian Sheng and Jian Xiu Huan had managed it, but Jian Sheng’s gaze was drawn to the forest not far away.
“Brother Jiang, you and brother play here for a while, I have something to attend to and need to go out.”
Jian Xiu Huan stared dumbfounded at the little girl who had vanished in a flash. Wait, you ran off, how am I supposed to explain this to them?
The live stream room had completely exploded, the courtyard that had transformed overnight was simply like witnessing a miracle.
However, no matter how Jiang Bin questioned him, Jian Xiu Huan only vaguely answered without giving a clear explanation. When pressed, he even blurted out:
“Ask Sheng Sheng when she gets back.”
At this moment, Jian Sheng, the instant she dodged the camera after leaving, disappeared and arrived in the forest several hundred meters away.
Looking at the man before her, Jian Sheng’s small face was solemn.
“You’ve finally decided to show yourself.”
The man scrutinized Jian Sheng, marveling, “I never expected it, I always thought a powerful figure was behind you, capable of killing my benefactor of a master, but I didn't expect it was you yourself who made the move.”
The little girl said expressionlessly, “Since you know it was me, you still dare to come?”
She had used her spiritual power to arrange the courtyard last night, intending to attract the person who had been secretly watching her. She hadn’t expected this person to take the bait so easily.
The man chuckled sinisterly, “Since there’s no one else behind you, then I'm the one you need to worry about.”
He had already set up a Spirit Dispersion Array here. As long as the little girl dared to step into it, her cultivation would be gone.
But in the next moment, flames ignited from the little girl’s hand, and the man’s eyes widened in astonishment.
“How can you still use spiritual power?”
The little girl pouted, “This is something I’ve long since mastered from childhood. You still have the nerve to bring it up?”
The moment the flames ignited, a rope shot out from the little girl’s hand, binding the man securely.
These flames were a wisp of Yellow Springs Karma Fire, specifically designed to burn souls.
The man’s body sustained no damage, but he rolled on the ground, emitting a tragic howl. Startled, Jian Sheng quickly cast a spell to create a soundproofing array.
This place wasn’t far from the film crew. It wouldn’t be good if others heard this.
Screaming in agony, the man directly revealed his intentions. He was a disciple of Lou Jusheng. Hearing that his master had been killed, he came to investigate and found Jian Sheng to be the culprit.
He hadn’t expected Jian Sheng to be a rare Innate Spirit Physique and wanted to capture her to be a cultivation furnace.
Upon hearing the word “cultivation furnace,” Jian Sheng frowned with disgust and was about to finish him off.
The man, thoroughly frightened, quickly shouted, “Don’t you want to know the whereabouts of your maternal grandfather’s soul?”
Jian Sheng’s hand gesture paused, “You know who did it?”
She had been practicing deduction techniques specifically to find the murderer of her maternal grandfather and the whereabouts of his soul once she became proficient. She hadn’t expected to receive such news here before her deduction skills were fully honed.
“Let me go, and I’ll tell you.”
“Tell me, and I won’t kill you. Heaven as my witness.”
“The Cheng family, the Cheng family in the capital. They have an ancestor named Cheng Zhixian, it was him who made the move. Cheng Zhixian is currently overseas, and your maternal grandfather’s soul remains in the Cheng family in the capital.”
The man was immensely fortunate. His master was good friends with Cheng Zhixian, and he had overheard this piece of information from his master’s casual conversations.
Hearing the familiar name abruptly, Jian Sheng was momentarily stunned before she realized.
Cheng Zhixian was precisely the person she had dealt with, along with Lou Jusheng, when she was in country M!
This was truly a twist of fate.
Looking at the man curled up on the ground, Jian Sheng placed her palm on his dantian and released her spiritual energy, directly crippling his cultivation.
“I won’t kill you. You can leave now.”
Returning to the small courtyard, Jian Sheng immediately told Jian Xiu Huan about the matter.
Jian Xiu Huan immediately forgot about the show and dragged the little girl to a secluded spot.
“Sheng Sheng, are you injured? Is the source of the information reliable?”
“He wasn’t lying, and Cheng Zhixian is indeed an evil cultivator.”
After a discussion, they immediately decided to temporarily withdraw from the program.
Now that the "new home" was built, their task was considered complete. Furthermore, considering the incident yesterday where Jian Sheng was almost injured by a slingshot, many people would advise the little girl to withdraw for her own safety. Their withdrawal now wouldn’t be too abrupt.
They found Hu Guangxu and expressed their willingness to pay the liquidated damages.
Upon hearing their decision, Hu Guangxu, though disappointed, stated that their task had been over-fulfilled and they had attracted enough traffic for the show. They could leave directly, and the production team wouldn’t demand any liquidated damages.
That same day, the news was announced to the public. The audience, who had been mentally prepared, largely expressed their understanding.
Those who didn’t want the little girl to leave the group were all captivated by the overnight transformation of the courtyard. Compared to their withdrawal, they were more curious about how the courtyard had been built.
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Jian Family.
Upon receiving the news, everyone rushed back.
And they saw a few people who were completely unexpected.
Qi Suibai, Gu Jiangyan, Gu Huaijin, and Gu Changlin.
The atmosphere between the three was somewhat tense.
Jian Juntan coughed, breaking the stalemate between them.
“Since everyone is willing to help, let’s all share our thoughts.”
Qi Suibai slightly raised his head, “What opinions could there be? Since we’ve provoked the little ancestor, we should just eliminate them.”
The others looked at him with strange expressions. They didn’t doubt the Qi family’s strength, but…
Jian Juntan coughed twice, “Young Master Qi, you can’t represent the Qi family, can you?”
Qi Suibai glanced at him sideways, “You don’t really think that when I call her ‘little ancestor,’ it’s just a nickname, do you?”
Jian Juntan looked bewildered, “What do you mean?”
Qi Suibai said matter-of-factly, “Of course, it’s because she is our Qi family’s little ancestor. The kind for whom a living shrine has been erected in the ancestral hall.”
Everyone else: “???”
What did they just hear?
At this moment, the little girl, who had been gone for a while, suddenly appeared out of thin air, holding a small jade bottle in her hand.
“I just returned from the Cheng family. I’ve found the item. I’m going to help my maternal grandfather’s soul return first.”
With that, she darted away.
Everyone looked at each other, feeling their worldviews had been severely impacted.
Half an hour later, they gathered again.
At this point, everyone fell into silence.
Jian Sheng also walked silently to Qi Suibai’s side, as if a chasm separated her from the others.
Grandpa Jian’s problem had been resolved; they just had to wait for him to wake up.
As for the Cheng family, the Qi family had agreed to intervene, and they only needed to follow up and deliver the finishing blows.
What they were now facing was the gap between them, as ordinary people, and the little girl who had become a cultivator – the concept of mortals and immortals.
Jian Sheng knew it would take time for them to fully accept, so she chose to remain silent.
Jian Junruo was the first to react. She walked directly towards the little girl.
However, before she could get close, someone else reached the little girl first and directly picked her up.
“Sheng Sheng, Dad’s back. Did you miss me?”
The little girl’s face broke into a smile, and she raised her hand, bringing her thumb and index finger together, “A little bit.”
With Gu Jiangyan’s action, seeing that the little girl didn’t show any rejection, everyone else subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
The worry in Jian Sheng’s heart finally subsided.
Looking at her scumbag father’s smiling face, Jian Sheng felt that her scumbag father seemed different since returning from country M.
Before, her scumbag father wasn’t so emotionally expressive. He was cold and tsundere, like a robot whose intelligence hadn’t been activated.
Jian Sheng sat on Gu Jiangyan’s arm. As she looked down, she suddenly saw the pendant around Gu Jiangyan’s neck.
“Dad, did you encounter any danger in country M? Why was the pendant I gave you activated?”
Gu Jiangyan recalled the burning sensation on his chest at the hotel and then recounted the events.
Jian Sheng lowered her head and pondered for a long time. Suddenly, she felt the communication talisman in her spatial ring vibrate. It was a message from Grandpa Tianji.
After reading it, Jian Sheng suddenly understood.
No wonder in the same world, she could know the plot in advance through a novel. It turned out that novel was written by a disciple of the Tianji Sect after deducing the future.
However, that disciple, seeing the actual development deviate from the prediction, wanted to intervene, but unexpectedly, she was blocked by the protective jade pendant Jian Sheng had given to her scumbag father.
“Ahem.”
Suddenly, Gu Changlin coughed twice, attracting everyone’s attention.
“My good granddaughter, your dad has called me. Shouldn’t you call me Grandpa now?”
Everyone else: “???”
Wait, today’s impact was a bit too great, and the amount of information received was also quite large.
Who could tell him what Old Gu meant by that?
Jian Sheng, however, knew his relationship with her scumbag father and sweetly said, “Hello, Grandpa.”
Gu Changlin smiled and replied, “Yes, hello, Sheng Sheng.”
Jian Juntan looked at him, then at Gu Jiangyan, “Uncle Gu, you are?”
Gu Changlin looked at Gu Jiangyan and glared, “What about me? Go ask that disobedient son.”
The crowd exchanged glances, feeling their brains were insufficient.
Jian Junruo weakly asked, “Uncle Gu, don’t you only have Gu Huaijin as your son?”
Gu Huaijin gave a wry smile and explained, “This is my elder brother.”
Everyone: “???”
Gu Jiangyan, holding the little girl, snorted, “Go find your little wife. I don’t have a father like you.”
Gu Changlin’s expression was awkward.
After some explanations, everyone finally understood the inside story.
A somewhat melodramatic wealthy family story. A prince fell in love with Cinderella but, under family pressure, divorced Cinderella and married a princess who was a suitable match.
Cinderella, heartbroken, went abroad, only to find she was pregnant. After raising the child, she passed away from melancholy.
Many people knew about the past events back then, and hearing them now only brought sighs.
Jian Junruo’s avoided fiancé was from the Gu family. However, the two families had arranged for her to marry Gu Huaijin.
Unexpectedly, through a twist of fate, she ended up with someone from the Gu family after all.
For a moment, those who had arranged their marriages in the past couldn’t help but feel complex emotions.
Jian Sheng, held by Gu Jiangyan, happily pulled her mother’s hand, “Oh, why think so much? Isn’t it good as long as the ending is happy~”
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In a hotel several kilometers away from the Jian family, an elder with white hair and an ethereal aura held a young man wearing glasses, carrying a laptop, and exuding a otaku vibe.
The youth had bloodstains on the corner of his mouth and looked weak, but he tightly held onto his laptop.
The elder shouted, “Wicked one, have you eaten the rules of my Tianji Sect into your stomach? How dare you disrupt heavenly secrets for your own selfish desires.”
The youth’s expression was calm, but his eyes were extremely stubborn.
“Master, I firmly believe in my philosophy. Only by being able to predict, manipulate, and control heavenly secrets can one be considered a true member of the Tianji Sect.”
The elder was furious, “Then you would use mortals as your test subjects?”
The youth’s expression was indifferent, “They are but ants.”
The elder, enraged, flicked his sleeve and disappeared with the youth, leaving only a lingering echo.
“You have violated the sect rules. You are sentenced to three hundred years of solitary confinement. If you remain unrepentant, your cultivation will be abolished, and you will be expelled from the Tianji Sect.”
(End of the story)