Chapter 30: A Fortunate Lie

She still had to coax the old man. Lin Yaoyao hugged Lin Xuanzhong’s arm affectionately.

“Father, we won’t ever go to the gambling house again!”

Lin Xuanzhong lightly tapped her forehead with his finger, which counted as punishment.

“This time, Third Brother and I won five million spirit stones in total. Each of us will give you five hundred thousand as a token of respect! Don’t be angry anymore!”

How much?

Five million spirit stones?

Lin Xuanzhong’s hand shook as he just picked up his teacup, nearly dropping it. Five million spirit stones was enough to cover the entire Lin family’s expenses for three years.

Lin Feiyuan panicked. When had he ever agreed to hand over five hundred thousand spirit stones?

“Little Five, did you really win that many spirit stones?”

Lin Yaoyao described what had happened with great excitement, and she couldn’t help exaggerating and embellishing the details.

Lin Xuanzhong listened with relish. He hadn’t expected that before the arena match, there had been the Tianyuan Gambling House incident.

Not only had she passed the trial, she had also made a fortune on the side. Lin Xuanzhong couldn’t help but admire his daughter’s courage and decisiveness.

“Little Five, you have both courage and wit, truly worthy of Lin blood!”

Beside him, Lin Feiyuan muttered, “I really am not your biological son!”

Lin Xuanzhong saw Lin Feiyuan mumbling and got angry. He scolded him, saying that from now on, whenever Lin Feiyuan went out, he had to listen to Lin Yaoyao and must not act rashly.

What concerned Lin Xuanzhong more was the rumor spreading outside about Lin Yaoyao.

“Little Five, there’s a rumor outside that you know a reclusive great master. Is that true?”

A reclusive great master?

That was clearly an excuse Lin Yaoyao had made up to fool Lin Feiyuan. When had it spread to everyone?

It must have been Lin Feiyuan who spread it. Lin Yaoyao clenched her fist, ready to hit him.

“Third Brother, did you go around telling people?”

Lin Feiyuan looked bewildered and even wronged.

“Yaoyao, you never said I couldn’t tell anyone!”

A few days ago, he had been drinking with those wastrel heirs from noble families. While bragging about how amazing his sister was, he let slip the matter of the reclusive great master.

He hadn’t expected that even though only a few people were there, word spread until everyone knew.

Lin Xuanzhong picked up the whip and gave him another lash.

“How did I raise a son this brainless? Use your head. Can you go around telling people about a blessing this great? Showing it off left and right?”

Lin Yaoyao thought it over. Oh well, since things had come to this, it might not be a bad thing after all.

With the reclusive great master as a front, anything she exchanged from the system mall and her growth in cultivation would naturally make sense.

Lin Yaoyao told Lin Xuanzhong the same story she had told Lin Feiyuan.

In short, this reclusive great master came and went like the wind and never showed himself to the world. Lin Yaoyao’s spirit root awakening and her cultivation improvement were all thanks to his guidance, and those talismans were also given by him.

“Thank Heaven for blessing our Lin family!”

Lin Xuanzhong pressed his hands together and bowed. Lin Yaoyao secretly sighed in relief.

Lin Yaoyao saw that this matter had passed and remembered that today her main purpose was to talk to her father about Shen Bai.

“Father, I have a request. Please help me!”

After Lin Xuanzhong heard Lin Yaoyao’s account of Shen Bai’s situation, he sighed that Shen Bai had suffered such a miserable fate at such a young age.

On the day of the competition, Shen Bai had indeed left a deep impression on Lin Xuanzhong. At the moment of life and death, Shen Bai had been open and honest, with tenacity and spirit. He was a promising talent.

Lin Xuanzhong readily agreed to vouch for Shen Bai and take him as an adopted son.

The weight in Lin Yaoyao’s heart finally lifted. With Shen Bai joining the Lin family, the family’s luck value would rise.

“Father, you have great foresight. Shen Bai will definitely accomplish great things in the future!”

Lin Yaoyao completed the task issued by the system, bringing Shen Bai into the Lin family.

The system awarded her an extra three thousand points. The Lin family’s bad luck index dropped to 80, and its luck value rose to 20.

Three thousand points. What should she buy?

Lin Yaoyao browsed the mall for a long time. One item caught her interest.

“System, what does spirit soil do?”

The system’s gentle voice sounded. “Host, spirit soil can quickly grow spirit herbs and spirit medicines, and turn their quality into top grade.”

Ordinary herbs planted in spirit soil could become top grade. Spirit soil was this powerful. In the future, refining pills would require large amounts of herbs, and with spirit soil, the raw material problem would be solved from the root.

Buy it. She had to buy it!

Lin Yaoyao spent two thousand points to buy two mu of spirit soil. She placed it in her courtyard and had Chunyu buy all kinds of herb seeds to plant.

Spirit soil was a treasure. The fewer people who knew about it, the better. Lin Yaoyao arranged for her two trusted maids to take care of it.

Lin Yaoyao also bought a copy of Ninth Grade Talisman Art, the highest-level technique talisman masters dreamed of.

The backlash talisman she had coaxed out of the system last time was really useful, but the price was too high.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. If she could make talismans herself, she would save a lot of trouble.

Lin Yaoyao practiced making talismans according to the methods in the book. She spent the whole night drawing, but couldn’t even make the simplest basic talisman.

The next day, Lin Feiyuan pushed the door open and thought he had walked into the wrong place.

The floor was covered with crumpled talisman paper everywhere. Lin Feiyuan had no place to step.

“Yaoyao, what are you doing?”

Lin Feiyuan casually picked up a paper ball beside him. It was covered in black smudges. What had his sister drawn?

Lin Yaoyao had struggled all night, her face pale from staying up. The former genius girl now wondered if she was just too stupid.

Looking at the lightning talisman she had drawn most satisfactorily in her hand, Lin Yaoyao decided to try once more, activating it with spiritual power.

The room was deathly quiet. Lin Feiyuan and Lin Yaoyao looked at each other, but the lightning talisman showed no reaction.

“Ugh! Where exactly is the problem?”

Lin Yaoyao refused to accept it. She compared it with the talisman in the book. She had drawn it exactly the same.

“Exactly the same?”

There were clearly several differences in the details. Lin Feiyuan could immediately see the differences between Lin Yaoyao’s talisman and the one in the book.

“So hard!”

Lin Yaoyao sighed to the sky. She might as well do tasks to earn points and exchange them for talismans.

Isn’t it just drawing? What’s so hard about that?

Lin Feiyuan picked up a blank talisman paper and copied the lightning talisman.

“Yaoyao, try this. See if it works?”

Lin Yaoyao looked at it. Lin Feiyuan’s drawing looked about the same as hers, so she guessed it wouldn’t work either.

Lin Feiyuan looked expectant, so Lin Yaoyao had to try, to not let him down.

A dazzling light fell from the sky, crackling with electricity, followed by a loud boom.

“Wow!”

“Wow!”

The siblings stared at each other with mouths wide open, unable to believe it. The lightning talisman Lin Feiyuan had drawn casually had worked.

A fluke! It must be a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

Lin Yaoyao refused to believe it. She had spent a whole night without succeeding, but Lin Feiyuan, that simple-minded, single-track person, had done it easily.

“Third Brother, did you already know talisman art?”

Lin Feiyuan shook his head. The academy had talisman classes, but people said they were obscure and hard to understand, so he had never attended a single one.

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