Under One Person: The Seeker of the Dao in the Lü Family

Chapter 319 I am neither your parent nor your teacher.

Lu Qian pressed down on Li Muxuan's head, showing no respect for the centenarian, and threw his body into the distant sea.

Li Muxuan's body flipped twice in mid-air, and the force field protecting him suddenly expanded, forming a huge spherical magnetic field that enveloped him.

When the invisible magnetic field came into contact with the rippling sea, it felt as if it had touched solid ground.

The force emanating from the magnetic field steadily supported Li Muxuan, allowing him to float in the air despite his disheveled state, preventing him from falling into the waves.

"despair!"

Li Muxuan, who was suspended on the sea surface, had a bruise on his forehead and was glaring angrily at Lü Qian, who had risen back into the air. An inexplicable anger burst forth from his chest.

Yes, it was that ethereal, otherworldly figure, just like Zuo Ruotong back then—equally lofty and equally repulsive.

But I'm no longer the young man I once was, and I have no regrets.

Consumed by rage, Li Muxuan made his choice with clarity. His hands, which had been hanging at his sides, suddenly clenched, and the spherical magnetic field surrounding him contracted, transforming into a gigantic pillar that continued to grow.

The pillar stood on the sea surface, once again supporting Li Muxuan at the top as he soared to even greater heights.

"Higher and higher, I want no one to look down on me. My life is not a joke."

Li Muxuan stared intently at the young Taoist standing in the air above the sea, his heart blazing with anger, while a secret desire was quietly sprouting within him.

Looking back on these past decades, there were unruly childhood memories in my hometown, a rebellious youth who left the Sanyi Sect to join the Quanxing Sect, an arrogant young man who caused a great disaster, and a later life spent living in obscurity in a distant land...

During this experience, the figures of the three people became clearer in his increasingly blurred memory.

I'm not a joke, am I?

Deep down, he was asking himself, "Whom am I asking? The three figures, or myself, who has been forced to this point by a young upstart?"

He didn't know, and Lü Qian didn't intend to answer his question.

Looking at Li Muxuan, who was climbing towards him from the sea, Lü Qian held his phone in his left hand and waved his whisk in his right. He took a few steps to cross the height that Li Muxuan had struggled to climb and came directly in front of him.

"brush--"

In Lü Qian's hands, the whisk seemed to transform into a precious sword, its whisk strands dancing and carrying a sharp sword aura as they lashed out towards Li Muxuan's old face.

Although it sounds slow, Lü Qian's movements were actually only a fraction of a second apart. Li Muxuan only felt a flash of silver light before Lü Qian's figure had already closed in, stirring up his whisk and breaking through his lifelong practice of the "Reversal of Eight Directions" technique.

"Thump!"

Even after the magnetic field was broken, Lü Qian did not stop. He twisted his wrist, and the whisk nimbly turned a corner, the wooden handle carrying a tremendous force as it slammed into the arrogant white-haired head once more.

With a single, penetrating blow, Li Muxuan's stubborn figure, along with the magnetic field beneath his feet that seemed to be his lifelong obsession, collapsed with a deafening roar, plummeting towards the sea.

"Whoosh!"

A tall column of water splashed up from where Li Muxuan fell into the sea, and the foam on the sea surface kept appearing and disappearing.

Lu Qian pointed his phone at the sea below, descending slowly on auspicious clouds and rosy light. He looked at the bubbles that had vanished into nothingness and said.

"You really think you're something special. I'm not the Great Immortal who tolerates you, nor the Ghost Hand King who spoils you, nor the Rootless One who indulges you."

"Flying up? Do you really think you can master the 'Reversal of Eight Directions' technique to achieve the 'Triple Rebirth' technique?"

"What's done is done. Why drag things out and talk so much to me? I'll just stick to the facts."

Looking at the calm sea, Lü Qian guessed that the blow had knocked Li Muxuan unconscious. "You're really incompetent but like to shout nonsense. I had to fish you out of here."

After speaking, he stretched out his finger and drew a talisman made of the Qi of Heaven and Earth, which was generated out of thin air and turned into ropes and clamps, pulling and binding the seawater below.

"The Heavenly Scroll?"

On the phone screen, an elderly person saw this and asked, "Drawing talismans in the air, achieving success instantly—is this the Heavenly Talisman?"

"No, this isn't a Heavenly Talisman, this is a real talisman."

The old Celestial Master stroked his beard, his brow furrowing and then relaxing, and said with a chuckle, "Junior Brother Lin, Junior Brother Qin, did you see clearly?"

The other two elderly men in Taoist robes in the chat channel nodded in agreement with the old celestial master's words, saying, "That's right, returning to one's original nature, that is the true essence of talismans."

They are the leaders of Zaoge Mountain and Maoshan Mountain, respectively, and these two, along with the Old Celestial Master, are also representatives of the Three Mountains Talismans.

Many of the older generation listened to the three people's cryptic words. Some scratched their heads, while others stroked their beards and chuckled, but none of them offered any explanation.

These things have never been secrets; anyone who pays attention will understand once they look closely.

"Alright, I don't have time to worry about talismans right now. You didn't kill Li Muxuan, that brat from the Lü family, did you?"

Lu Jin no longer had the madness she felt when she first met her enemy, and her expression returned to its usual calm, but the chill in her words was even more intense.

"How could that be? This old fellow is like a leech. If he were really that easy to get rid of, how could he have haunted your dreams for decades?"

"Found it!"

Lu Qian mocked Li Muxuan's tenacious will without any restraint. With a flick of his finger, a talisman extended from his fingertip, dragging Li Muxuan out of the ocean with runic ropes.

"Whoosh!"

At this moment, Li Muxuan was no longer arrogant. He was bound like a dumpling by the runes, and his messy white hair was wet and stuck to his shoulders.

"If you ask me, there are no wrong nicknames, only wrong names."

In the lower right corner of the screen, Lü Ci, with his equally flamboyant white hair, is enjoying tea and burning incense, displaying an elegant demeanor.

He glanced at the unconscious Li Muxuan, took a sip of tea, and teased, "You naughty child, you naughty child, this childish nature of yours has never changed."

"Why are you all so quiet? I remember this wicked man from Quanxing caused quite a bit of trouble back then, and Sanyi Sect was just one of them."

"Huaguang Sect, Liuyun Sword, Qingzhu Garden... Oh, that's gone."

As Lü Ci named one sect after another, some of the elders' faces grew even more somber. They glanced at the silent Lu Jin, making their stance clear.

"We are willing to give face to the Sanyi Sect and Master Lu, and let the Lu family and the Sanyi Sect be held accountable first."

"No need. I will join you all in settling the karmic debts with this wicked creature from back then."

Lu Jin looked at Li Muxuan, who had been knocked unconscious on the other side of the screen. The previously dormant Reverse Rebirth Triple Power was activated again, and the white hair behind his head rose without wind, stirring up a heavy killing intent in the Lu family's living room.

"Young Master Lü, please take him to the former site of the Sanyi Gate. I will be there shortly after."

"Fellow practitioners, I will be waiting for you at the former site of the Trinity Gate in seven days, so that we may settle our karmic debts together."