"Then what about Qi Qi? Qi Qi is still on her island. Won't anything happen to her?"
In the past, Li Zhentong almost acted as if Li Qi Qi didn't exist, as if he didn't have this daughter. Now, in the midst of danger, he still had to ask if Li Qi Qi was in any danger, which Tang Rao found quite pleasing from his perspective.
Tang Rao couldn't help but feel a little more favorable towards Li Zhentong.
"No, she's safe."
Tang Rao reassured Li Zhentong, who then heaved a long sigh of relief.
"So, how can we extinguish the fire in the shortest ti possible?"
Tang Rao was now Li Zhentong's backbone, the entire Li Family's pillar. When problems arose in the Li Family, Li Zhentong turned to Tang Rao for everything.
"What else can we do? Call everyone to put out the fire."
I'm not Princess Iron Fan, nor do I have the Palm Leaf Fan. What can I do?
I'm quite desperate too.
Tang Rao looked up at the sky, and even though he didn't have a better solution, he couldn't let things get worse.
"The servants of the Li Family, where are they?"
Li Zhentong started looking for water and people.
Besides those who couldn't escape in ti and got charred, Li Zhentong also noticed a group of people in the pond. It was the safest place, and the fire couldn't reach the water.
He walked to the edge of the pond and said, "What are you all standing around for? Get moving to put out the fire."
The fire got larger and larger. Even if they extinguished the fire, Li Zhentong would have nothing left. But watching everything burn while feeling powerless made Li Zhentong feel painfully unbearable.
"Yes."
"Yes!"
A few servants timidly swam from the pond to the shore. They each found a water container and began firefighting.
The wooden structure of the house, once on fire, would spread upwards rapidly, burning from the bottom to the beams in no ti.
Tang Rao felt heartbroken watching it.
His property, his treasures, devoured by the sea of flas in the blink of an eye.
No, these ordinary folks are too unreliable in handling this. If Tang Rao didn't act, the fire might not be extinguished even by nightfall.
He searched his space ring for a long ti and found nothing that could put out the fire. No, suddenly Tang Rao rembered that he had the Hellfire Shark as a backup.
"Hellfire Shark, help!"
Tang Rao eventually found it in his portable palace.
"I need sothing to put out the fire, sothing fast. Quick, think of a way to help ."
The Hellfire Shark was always waiting for Tang Rao's orders, and it wasn't until now that Tang Rao rembered such a figure.
"Sothing to put out a fire?"
The Hellfire Shark thought for a long ti but couldn't co up with a better idea.
"That's right, I think you have a wireless water device in your space ring. Check it out; unless sothing unexpected happened, you should have it."
The Hellfire Shark slapped his forehead and suddenly rembered.
"Wireless water device?"
Tang Rao didn't understand, but fortunately, the Hellfire Shark quickly sketched the device's appearance for him. By comparing the sketches, Tang Rao finally found the wireless water device.
"This thing is so small, and you think it can put out a fire?"
Tang Rao felt a bit resistant to the seemingly unreliable thing recomnded by the Hellfire Shark.
"Don't be fooled by its small size. Just take it and see. The water inside the wireless water device is equivalent to a boundless ocean."
A boundless ocean!
There was enough water, more than enough.
"Thanks, big brother."
Tang Rao blew a kiss to the Hellfire Shark and then rushed out of the portable palace.
In his hand, he held a cylindrical object. The Hellfire Shark said that as long as he pointed the cylinder at the fire and recited the mnemonic, water would continuously flow from it.
Tang Rao instructed Li Zhentong to take everyone to safety. Only after the evacuation did he silently recite the mnemonic, pointing the cylinder downward at the fire.
Imdiately, a water jet shot forth with such force that it nearly knocked Tang Rao over.
Water cascaded down, wherever the torrent reached, the fire was extinguished. The stubborn spots took a bit longer, but eventually, they too surrendered to the deluge.
Seventeen islands; it took Tang Rao three hours to extinguish all the fires.
The entire Li Family, overnight, looked like a dead island. Fortunately, the surrounding moat absorbed the spillover, preventing internal flooding in the Li Family compound.
Tang Rao returned to the ground, searching for Li Zhentong and Li Qi Qi, and eventually found Li Qi Qi in her residence.
"Qi Qi, are you alright?"
Tang Rao looked Li Qi Qi over several tis to make sure she wasn't injured before he could relax.
"I'm fine. It's good that you're okay too, Tang Rao."
Li Qi Qi touched Tang Rao's face, feeling as if the events of the last few hours were sowhat unreal.
"Of course I'm okay. What kind of person do you think Tang Rao is? I would have been fine."
Tang Rao had just finished these few words when his expression suddenly turned grim.
"Tang Rao, what's wrong?"
"The Li Family has been burned down. So many people are now holess, without a place to stay. Rebuilding will take ti. What to do with the servants during this period becos a worrying issue."
If Li Zhentong were still the Family Head, matters like funding and rebuilding would be for him to decide and solve, but since he had handed the Li Family over to Tang Rao, it was up to him to assu the corresponding responsibilities.
Alas.
Spending Purple Crystals wasn't a problem for Tang Rao, but expending ti felt like a huge loss.
"Tang Rao, rebuilding the Li Family is a huge project. If the Purple Crystals aren't enough, just forget it."
Li Zhentong's heart ached a little; his years of effort, achieved and now lost, all by his own hands.
"No, we have to rebuild. The Li Family's legacy over the years cannot just end like this."
As soone not lacking Purple Crystals, building a large structure was manageable for Tang Rao. The key was that he wanted to demolish the entire Li Family and build a unique landmark, turning it into a legend in the Divine Realm.
But what should it look like? That would challenge Tang Rao's intelligence and aesthetics.
"However, rebuilding requires quite a number of Purple Crystals. With just my savings, I can't even rebuild half of the Li Family. Tang Rao, don't trouble yourself. My Li Family is destined to fall; it's fate, unavoidable."
As Li Zhentong aged, he believed more in fate, whereas Tang Rao, being much younger, always sought to change fate. Their perspectives greatly differed in this regard.
Li Qi Qi noticed the disagreent between Tang Rao and Li Zhentong, and she began to worry.
If this difference persists, would the two start arguing?
They shouldn't.
She didn't much understand Li Zhentong's actions, and neither did she fully grasp Tang Rao's intent.
"Don't overthink it. Rebuild according to my plan, and however many Purple Crystals we need, I'll cover. If you run short, just ask . It's not just one Li Family we can rebuild, even ten would be possible."
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