Chapter 272 - Not Dare
Chapter 272 Not Dare
Li Tianlan finally stopped walking forward.
Wang Yuetong stood beside him and held his hand tight with her head low.
Her tears fell down on his hand, they felt cold.
Li Tianlan looked at Wang Tianzong calmly.
Inside and outside the gate.
Behind him, the moonlight shone on the whole East Emperor Palace. Under the dim the light, it was the dark night.
Behind Wang Tianzong, it was the road and the myriad lights in the town. But among the lights, all Li Tianlan could see was the darkness.
The sword intent brewing and surging in the dark filled all his senses, he could faintly feel Wang Tianzong’s sword intent wandering between reality and illusion, it couldn’t be locked on.
Being able to see the essence of Martial Arts wasn’t always a good thing. At least right now, watching the darkness around Wang Tianzong, all Li Tianlan could feel was his strength.
The strength that he couldn’t defy at all.
His expression changed a bit; a bit of bitterness started to show in his narrowed eyes.
Out of instinct, he clenched Wang Yuetong’s hand tight.
That was a pair of shaking hands that slowly turned cold but still felt tender.
Li Tianlan didn’t know exactly how he felt right now. Unreconciled? Unwilling to let go? Unsatisfied? Maybe a bit of everything. But he could be sure of one thing, that he didn’t like the feeling of somebody forcefully taking away what he cared about.
What belonged to him.
What he cared about.
Li Tianlan took a deep breath, stood still and looked at Wang Tianzong.
There was a distance of dozens of meters from inside to outside the gate.
Two worlds, two paths, two directions and two standpoints.
Wang Tianzong’s gaze was so calm that it felt cold, that was the gaze from someone who didn’t care about anything in the world. He nodded at Li Tianlan and walked to the gate.
The two security guards, a fat one and a thin one had walked out of the duty room, then looked at Li Tianlan.
Li Tianlan waved his hand.
The guard opened the gate.
Wang Tianzong walked in.
Wang Yuetong took a step back subconsciously, it seemed that she wanted to hide behind Li Tianlan, but she realized it wasn’t the right move, and then she slowly moved forward and called the man father.
Wang Tianzong nodded and looked at Li Tianlan. His gaze was still indifferent, but his expression looked soft. “How’s your health?”
“I’m fine.”
Li Tianlan said quietly, Wang Yuetong, who was beside him, let go of his hand powerlessly while shaking. Her tenderness left him, Li Tianlan was soaked in the cold moonlight. His heart gradually turned cold, even his tone sounded cold.
“I’m surprised that you are still alive.”
Wang Tianzong’s tone sounded casual and blunt. In his position, standing in front of Lin Xuanyuan, it was his honor that he even talked to him. He had nothing to hide at all. “Your current state looks interesting.”
“I’m just starting over.”
Li Tianlan shook his head. His state right now was no longer a secret. At least the Wang family of Beihai and Kunlun City, two huge monsters already knew about it. Besides, his strength was gone, what was the point in lying about it?
Wang Tianzong took a deep look at Li Tianlan and said blandly, “Start over…do you have time?”
Li Tianlan froze.
Wang Tianzong’s gaze was still soft and casual, but Li Tianlan could see the coldness deep in his eyes.
“I just got back from Lin’an after a visit for Senior Li. He looks very well.” He said.
…
Li Tianlan’s gaze froze for a second, and a smile finally appeared on his poker face. It seemed like a usual smile, also like a grim smile.
“My life is long, and I still have a lot of time.” He looked at Wang Tianzong and said word by word.
…
He understood what Wang Tianzong meant. Bringing up his grandfather was his way of telling him that his life and Li Honghe’s life were linked together.
When Li Honghe was at the border, he forcefully improved his strength to the peak. Right now, he looked well, but his state was terrible. No one knew how many years were left for him, but it surely won’t be too long.
At least it wouldn’t be long enough for Li Tianlan to re-entered Invincible Realm.
When Li Honghe passed away, what would happen to the remaining Li family? What would happen to Li Tianlan, who hadn’t entered the Invincible Realm?
He didn’t have enough time.
Even when he was the Young Governor of Sigh City now.
When the Wang family of Beihai, Kunlun City, and Prince Group had stuck together, they were the general trend of Zhongzhou State. In front of this kind of cooperation, Sigh City was no longer a threat to them.
Wang Tianzong nodded in a perfunctory way.
“I just spoke to Zhuang Huayang on the phone. From now on, Yuetong won’t be attending classes at Sky Academy. She’ll go back to Beihai Province. You’re in Huating, and this isn’t the place for her.” Wang Tianzong said while keeping his composure.
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Li Tianlan nodded and gave him an emotionless answer. It seemed that he wanted to take a look at Wang Yuetong, but he didn’t, just turned around.
“Can’t let her go?” Wang Tianzong suddenly asked.
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“No.” Li Tianlan answered without hesitation.
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“You have a choice.”
Wang Tianzong said softly, “Join the Wang family of Beihai, as long as you want, I’ll let Yuetong marry you in a month. You can have the best resources, the strongest protection. Kunlun City won’t be a problem anymore. When you enter the Invincible Realm in the future, you can even use the power of the Wang family of Beihai to take revenge on Gu Xingyun. I can even give you the same status as what Shengxiao has in the Wang family of Beihai.” “As long as you want, you can have anything.”
“Oh yeah?”
Li Tianlan laughed, his eyes looked sharp and cold, as if needles were hidden in them. “If I want the entire Wang family of Beihai, will you give it to me?”
Wang Tianzong looked at Li Tianlan in silence, and the softness in his eyes slowly faded away. Finally, there was only utter coldness left.
“I have offered you a chance.”
He looked at Li Tianlan and Wang Yuetong and said, “You can’t blame me.”
Wang Yuetong looked at Li Tianlan with tears streaming down her face.
Li Tianlan finally took a look at her, he reached his hand and wiped the tears on Wang Yuetong’s face, then said peacefully, “Goodbye.”
If he joined the Wang family of Beihai, it seemed like he could have anything he wanted. But first of all, it was the Wang family of Beihai who had him.
When they had him, the Wang family of Beihai could take the chance and swallow the remaining Li family once and for all. They could even have Sigh City or Samsara Palace. In the end, it seemed that Li Tianlan had everything, but actually he would have nothing.
Only the Wang family of Beihai truly had everything.
Because the Wang family of Beihai couldn’t change its last name to Li.
So…
They could only say goodbye.
“You reject me today, but you have no idea what you just turned down.” Wang Tianzong said with a calm face.
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He really thought this was a pity, a regret.
Even if he could be completely calm in front of Li Tianlan, but how could the Wang family of Beihai and Southeast Group stay calm?
In those days, the Li family fell from the peak to the ground at the fastest speed. The Southeast Group that was supported by the Wang family of Beihai and the Li family, suddenly had an unprecedented crisis. The Wang family of Beihai forcefully turned the mess into a chance. They gathered the most enormous power in the group in the shortest time. In that period, without exaggeration, half of the Southeast Group belonged to the Li family.
If the Wang family of Beihai could give a helping hand back then, maybe Li Honghe could have made it through the crisis.
But the Wang family of Beihai kept silent all along. They watched Li Honghe run away to the border without saying or doing anything. They took everything from the Li family by being silent.
Nearly twenty years had passed; everything from those days had been settled. Most of the crucial people that Li Honghe promoted in Southeast Group had retired. But the hidden danger was still there. As the identity of Li Tianlan got exposed, Southeast Group had had a bit of tremor. And as Li Tianlan came back to life, the quake seemed to get bigger and bigger.
If Li Tianlan could join the Wang family of Beihai, everything would disappear completely.
But what a pity…
What a real pity.
In the end, the word pity could summarize a so-called Heavenly Son that started over and stuck through for some pathetic reasons.
Li Tianlan’s expression stayed still.
He knew what he just turned down. He just turned down the chance of being a slave for the Wang family of Beihai.
He wouldn’t regret it.
“Who is this?”
He suddenly looked at Wang Tianzong’s side.
A charming middle-aged man stood beside Wang Tianzong. He appeared to be in his forties and he deserved the word handsome and charming. He was a standard middle-aged handsome man, being calm and elegant. He came along with Wang Tianzong, but didn’t say a word.
Hearing Li Tianlan’s question, the middle-aged man seemed to freeze for a second, then laughed and said, “I have nothing to do with His Majesty’s trip here, I’m just passing by.”
He took out a card and handed to Li Tianlan, then said with a smile, “I’m Liu Shuanghua, Young Master Li, how do you do?”
Liu Shuanghua.
Jiangnan Society.
It was one of the intelligence giants in Zhongzhou State.
Li Tianlan raised his eyebrows and took a serious look at Liu Shuanghua.
Liu Shuanghua was considered to be a legend in the Dark World of Zhongzhou State. He was initially an ordinary scientific researcher in Prince Group, and he didn’t know any Martial Arts. He wasn’t the core member of the group, he just accidentally found out some secrets, and then the group tried to kill him but failed. In the end, young Wang Tianzong saved him.
Because of that, Liu Shuanghua joined the Wang family of Beihai, stayed at Jiangnan Province and spent more than ten years on building Jiangnan Society. An ordinary people with no Martial Arts skill spent more than ten years and made the most prominent intelligence organization in South Zhongzhou State, and it was such a legendary experience.
Li Tianlan narrowed his eyes.
“Hello.”
Li Tianlan reached in and shook hands with Liu Shuanghua, didn’t say anything more.
“Let’s go.”
Wang Tianzong took a look at Li Tianlan, and then suddenly turned around, ready to leave with Wang Yuetong.
“Wait a minute.” Li Tianlan suddenly said.
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Wang Tianzong turned around.
Li Tianlan looked into his eyes and said softly, “Before the battle of Changdao, I took a bottle of a potion called Surge. Surge, Immortality Potion and the unique technique from the Wang family of Beihai Against the Way of Heaven made me who I was in the last battle of Changdao. Your Majesty, do you know about this?”
“I did it.”
Wang Tianzong looked at Li Tianlan for a while, then spilled the truth. “I asked Shengxiao to teach you Against the Way of Heaven. If you died in Changdao at that time, I would be truly relieved.”
He narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Tianlan. “Why? You wanna take revenge on me?”
Li Tianlan looked at Wang Tianzong.
After a while.
He let out a soft laugh and took a deep bow at Wang Tianzong, then said calmly, “I do not dare.”
Wang Tianzong’s pupils contracted abruptly. In that moment, a flash of anger and killing intent appeared in his eyes.
He looked at Li Tianlan who was still bending down, twitched the corner of his mouth, then turned around and said, “Let’s go.”
Wang Tianzong left with Wang Yuetong.
Liu Shuanghua followed them.
Li Tianlan straightened his body and watched their backs.
Whether he had deep feelings or not, whether he cared or not, it was silent when they parted ways.
Only silence.
Two security guards stood at the gate quietly, the fat and thin figures made a funny scene under the night sky.
Wang Tianzong took a serious look at the seemingly ordinary security guards, narrowed his eyes hard.
While behind him.
Li Tianlan who had straightened his body also stared at Liu Shuanghua with serious expression, he also narrowed his eyes.