111: Chapter 110: The Little Birthday Star Lin Xuanfei 111: Chapter 110: The Little Birthday Star Lin Xuanfei The little girl, upon seeing Li Chen approaching, looked very scared and instinctively hid behind the little boy.
The elderly man saw Li Chen staring at the little girl and a glint of astonishnt flashed through his murky eyes.
“What are you looking for, young student?”
Li Chen said, “Yellow paper, vermilion, talisman ink, wolf brush!”
Upon hearing what Li Chen wanted, the expression of the elderly man grew even more solemn.
“Young student, what do you need these for?”
Li Chen bluntly replied, “To draw talismans!”
The elderly man scrutinized Li Chen and asked, “Are you from the Heavenly Master Sect?”
Li Chen: “No!”
The elderly man pressed further: “Then, from Dragon Tiger Mountain, or perhaps Mount Mao?”
Li Chen, showing a trace of impatience, said, “Old man, I’m just buying so things, do you really need to pry so much?”
The elderly man smiled apologetically: “Sorry, the old man was too presumptuous!”
After that, he handed over all the things Li Chen wanted.
Li Chen took the items, then glanced at the little girl again.
Terrified, the girl’s face turned as pale as paper, and she cowered in a corner, trembling.
Li Chen spoke softly, “Things of the Underworld should not linger in the Human World.
Today is July 14th, the Ghost Gate will open at midnight, and this is her last chance for reincarnation.
If she misses it, her soul will dissipate, beyond even divine help!”
Upon hearing Li Chen’s words, the silver-haired elder was initially shocked.
Then, he sowhat frantically grabbed Li Chen’s arm, excitedly asking, “Young man, do you have a way to help Anran reincarnate?”
Li Chen raised his eyebrows and asked, “Her na is Anran?”
The elderly man nodded vigorously and answered, “Yes, she’s my granddaughter, nad Anran.
Half a month ago, while playing by the roadside, she died in a car accident.
Being so young, she missed the chance for reincarnation, and that’s why she lingered in the Human World!”
Li Chen nodded and said, “Give her birth date.”
With Li Chen agreeing, the elderly man beca extrely excited and recited Anran’s birth date.
Li Chen wielded the brush freely, drawing talisman characters with a flourish.
At the completion of the talisman, a six-pointed white glow shimred and rose, brilliantly captivating.
However, it returned to normal in an instant.
“Have her hold this, and it will allow her to be unhard by a hundred ghosts, ensuring her safety!”
After that, Li Chen smiled at little Anran once more, and then turned to leave the store.
Li Chen did not go back to school, instead, he returned to the Cloud Mist Mountain Villa.
In the villa, lined up in a row, stood seven pressure cookers.
This was his equipnt for concocting pills.
Actually, using an alchemy furnace would yield the best effect when concocting pills.
However, Li Chen still hadn’t mastered Samadhi Fire.
Using ordinary flas to concoct these low-grade pills would simply be a waste of ti.
So, he chose to use pressure cookers as a substitute.
The quality might be slightly inferior, but it was still a hundred tis better than similar products currently available on the market.
And the most, most, most important reason: using pressure cookers for alchemy allowed for mass production on a large scale.
As Li Chen saw that the pills would still take so ti to be ready, he decided to start drawing a few talismans.
He wrote freely with the brush, inscribing Lin Xuanfei’s birth date.
The characters above seed to co alive, shifting and recombining.
The last character, a blood-red one, leaped onto the paper.
Ominous!
“This girl is indeed facing a major disaster tonight.
Lucky for her, she encountered , otherwise she would have t certain doom!”
With this thought in mind, the image of Lin Xuanfei’s playful charm when she acted spoiled flashed through Li Chen’s mind, and he couldn’t help but shake his head: “Ah, I really must have owed her in my past life!”
That evening, as the lights began to glow and the moon shone amidst the sparse stars:
Li Chen hurried to the Lin Family’s luxurious Country Garden villa at Little West Lake.
Today, Lin Xuanfei was wearing a light purple dress, tied at the waist with a goose yellow silk belt, accentuating her slender waist even more.
Under the soft lighting, she looked like a pure and ethereal immortal, standing tall and graceful.
The guests who passed by couldn’t help but be dazzled by the stunning Lin Xuanfei and tried all ans to strike up a conversation.
However, Lin Xuanfei had no intention of engaging with them, but instead tiptoed to look towards the door, her pretty face filled with an anxious expression.
So rich young masters and famous ladies, seeing this scene, all speculated who the anticipated person could be, to make a Heavenly Pride Girl like Lin Xuanfei so eagerly await.
When Lin Xuanfei saw Li Chen arrive, her watery big eyes imdiately lit up with joy.
Disregarding the modesty expected of a young lady, she hurriedly ran up to greet him.
However, when she reached Li Chen, she pouted and complained in a low voice, “You’re finally here, I thought you were going to stand up.”
Li Chen smiled slightly, looking at this playful and cute girl.
His gaze finally fell upon the peaks beneath her snow-white neck and he said languidly, “Lin Xuanfei, my classmate, you are in grave danger…”
Before he could finish, Lin Xuanfei’s face blushed with embarrassnt, and she complained in a low voice, “Pervert, couldn’t you just keep it to yourself?
Do you really have to say it out loud?
How annoying!”
“Eh?”
Li Chen was sweating with embarrassnt; he was just trying to offer a kind reminder, how did he suddenly beco a pervert?
“Hmph, I’m not talking to you anymore!”
Lin Xuanfei huffed arrogantly and ran off with a flushed face, leaving Li Chen feeling utterly bewildered.
Today, the Lin Family had many guests over, almost all of them handso young n and beautiful won of the sa age as Lin Xuanfei.
They were chatting rrily in groups, obviously part of the sa circle.
Lin Xuanfei, the birthday girl, walked to the middle of the living room’s red carpet and introduced everyone with graceful ease.
“This is my classmate, Li Chen!”
“Li Chen, these are all my friends and classmates, they’re all one of us!”
A young man dressed in Armani, seeing Lin Xuanfei and Li Chen so intimate, was already feeling irked.
Noticing Li Chen’s plain clothing, which all put together would not cost more than five hundred yuan, he disdainfully snorted in sarcasm.
“Pfft, since when is he one of us?
He’s simply devaluing us!”
Another girl, carrying a Hers bag, also gently tugged at Lin Xuanfei’s arm, glanced at Li Chen with disdain, and asked quietly, “Feifei, it’s just our own gathering, why did you bring a stranger?”
Lin Xuanfei blushed and explained: “Li Chen is not an outsider, he is my…”
She stopped abruptly mid-sentence.
Her close friend persisted with a face full of disgust, “He is your what?
Surely not your boyfriend?”
“Feifei, you must be out of your mind to fall for such a bumpkin.
Your families are mismatched; customs, cultural upbringing, nothing matches.
Even if you’re both willing, it’s dood to end in tragedy.”
“Feifei, you’re still young and not rational enough about relationships.
Take my advice, cut your losses now; being just normal friends is enough, don’t invest real feelings!”
Blushing, Lin Xuanfei fumbled nervously with her hands and muttered softly, “If only we were mutually in love!”
…
anwhile, Li Chen was staring intently at a painting on the wall.
It was a masterpiece from the legendary artist of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Bohu, in his later years: the Pri Tang Court Ladies Painting!
Beneath it, there was a quatrain that read:
How long can flowers bloom on the branch?
How long can life last in this world?
One should be drunk amidst flowers lest flowers mock our sobriety and dullness.
Seeing this, Li Chen’s pupils narrowed slightly, a barely noticeable gleam shooting from his gaze.
So, the real problem lay here!
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