Chapter 155: Chapter 154: Dad and Cheng has Returned

No matter how much Li Jain explained that he had no connection to the Zhao couple, elder Zhao still did not look fully convinced. Which was tiring, especially concerning the matter of the returning talisman. The technique for such a talisman was only available to the Zhao family, this is why elder Zhao was hard to convince.

Although Li Jain had already answered his questions calmly and without hesitation, the old man had clearly lived too long and seen too many lies to trust other’s words easily. Zhao Qiren and his wife had been missing for five years, and no one knew their location, now that traces of him appear, he wanted to get to the bottom of it.

His fingers tapped lightly on the armrest of his chair, and his sharp eyes remained fixed on Li Jain as if trying to pierce through his skin and look directly into his thoughts.

Li Jain saw the doubt in his eyes but did not feel offended. If their positions were to be reversed, he would have been cautious too. But still, this has nothing to do with him. Li Jain wasn’t sure whether the time here was the same back home, he was a bit worried about his children. He wasn’t worried about them being wrong, he was just a bit concerned about their food. If he’d known this would happen, he would’ve left the food in his spatial storage behind.

Since words were not enough, he made another suggestion: "If Elder Zhao wishes, I can draw the returning talisman again right here. This is my own method and it has nothing to do with your Zhao family." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Elder Zhao’s eyes changed slightly: "You can reproduce it? Sure, let this old man broaden his horizon."

Li Jain did not waste time, he took out the talisman paper, spiritual ink and brush from his storage ring. He could draw talismans without these items, but he didn’t want to show too much.

He began to draw calmly and quickly, the lines were neat showing that he wasn’t a newbie. Many small lines curved back into each other. At the end, they sank into the center and connected to several invisible points of balance. Elder Zhao watched as the returning talisman took shape.

He was very amazed, he watched without interrupting, he wanted them to share knowledge... Ahem, this was not the time.

The spiritual flow within the ink remained stable from beginning to end. Even for experienced talisman masters, this was something that was difficult to maintain. The talisman was the same as their returning talisman, but the method was clearly different, and from what he saw, Li Jain’s method was much easier.

"I truly do not know anything about the couple you mentioned." Li Jain said as he placed the brush down.

Elder Zhao did not respond immediately. Even if Li Jain didn’t learn their talisman method, it still didn’t change the fact that he entered the secret realm.

Li Jain reached into his sleeve and took out an array formation plate, then handed it over to elder Zhao. It was the one he created before entering the secret realm.

"This is the copied formation." Li Jain said: "The house had already been destroyed, so I transferred the active structure to this array plate. What remained at the original location is only an empty shell. Without this plate, there will no longer be any way to enter that secret realm from the other side."

Elder Zhao accepted the plate, and examined it carefully. His expression grew more serious the longer he looked. He could tell that the transfer had been done correctly. The copied formation was stable, and complete, even the access point was well preserved.

While holding the plate, Elder Zhao quietly cast a truth spell, to make sure whether the remaining formation was really an empty shell.

Li Jain noticed what he was doing, but did not point it out. After searching a couple of times, Elder Zhao finally relaxed.

Elder Zhao looked at him and asked one more time: "You truly know nothing about Zhao Qiren and his wife Meiyu?"

Li Jain shook his head. It doesn’t matter how many times he says it, the elder only needs to trust his truth spell. Speaking of which, if he had known earlier, they could’ve just started with the truth spell, instead of going back and forth.

Elder Zhao exhaled slowly. The suspicion in his eyes finally disappeared: "Very well, thanks for returning the array plate. You may remain at the academy for now. Li Cheng will return with my grandson, Zhao Yun, in the evening. The two are staying at the Zhao Sect. I just send words, so they should return by the time the sun sets."

Li Jain had no problem with the arrangement, and nodded.

...

South River City; the children returned from school in the late afternoon.

The moment they entered the courtyard, their first destination was naturally the kitchen. After spending the whole day at school, they all headed to the kitchen out of hobbit. Usually, their father would be there making something delicious for them.

But when they rushed inside, the kitchen was empty. Only then did they realize that their father hadn’t returned yet.

Li Jingxuan looked around and let out a long breath: "Father still isn’t back."

"That much is obvious." Li Yuhan said

Li Juanxin held Fluffy in his arms: "Maybe he is just late. Uncle Xiong said that he would be back this evening or early tomorrow morning."

"I don’t mind waiting but I want to eat something cold and delicious, right now! The sun is too hot." Li Jingxuan said and threw himself into the chair. The hot sun was even more unbearable for him, who has a fire spirit root.

Li Jingsheng hands him a fan: "If Father is not back, then we should think of something ourselves."

Li Jingxuan: "That sounds good. I want ice cream."

Li Zhang looked at him with disbelief: "You want ice cream, there is no ice cream here in South River, only father can make that. Unless you know how to."

Jingxuan folded his arms: "I will do it. It’s hot, and I had a very hard day. Only a cold and delicious ice cream will suit my soul right now."

Li Zhang snorted: "What was hard? Sitting in class and pretending to listen? Don’t think I didn’t see you being chased by Mr Liu today."

"And what were you doing looking outside instead of paying attention in class?"

"You guys really had a tough day." Li Juanxin sighed, pitying them.

Li Yuhan sneered: "Don’t listen to their nonsense, it wasn’t that hard."

"Anyways, apart from ice, we don’t have any of the ingredients dad used to make ice cream. Let’s make smoothies instead." Li Jingsheng suggested.

Jingsheng listed all of the things that were needed to make the smoothies and handed the list to Jingxuan. His intention was obvious, since Jingxuan was the one who wanted the dessert, he should be the one buying the necessary ingredients.

Li Juanxin offered to go with his sixth brother and took Fluffy along with him. The two boys and one fox walked out of the Li resident and headed to the fruit market.

Only after walking far did Juanxin realize a problem.

"Brother Sheng didn’t give you any money to buy the things, what are we going to do?" He asked.

Li Jingxuan paused in his excitement and looked back in shock: "That little punk named Sheng, is scheming again. Instead of using his smart brain for something good, he can only use it when it comes to cheating me."

Li Juanxin sighed: "Forget it, I still have my allowance, we can use it."

Li Jingxuan shook his head: "That won’t work, I also have an allowance, let’s use mine."