A Family of Hopeless Romantics, Except for the Evil Little Junior Brother

Chapter 66: Checking the Dao Heart

Before anyone could react, Feng Liuli suddenly stepped forward.

She grabbed Huang Peiying’s wrist and lifted her hand.

The sleeve fell, revealing the treasure hidden within.

Huang Peiying’s face changed.

Feng Liuli smiled, “Isn’t this the Seven-Treasure Gourd? It’s been in your hand this whole time, and you’re still pretending to look for it?

Oh? Could it be you deliberately framed me?

Then came to my cave dwelling, pretending to search.

But actually sneakily raised the treasure and claimed it was found in my place?”

“You.....”

Feng Liuli looked at Huang Peiying smugly, “Huang Peiying, you know what? The new road Dragonhead Peak just paved is flat!”

Huang Peiying looked completely confused.

“No gravel at all. And you still want to set people up with that IQ? Go home and get your dad to buy you some brain supplements.”

(No strength)

“You, you!!”

Huang Peiying’s eyes bulged wide.

She stared at Feng Liuli in disbelief.

This... was this the Feng Liuli she knew?

Wasn’t Feng Liuli supposed to be speechless with no way to defend herself, then take everyone to her cave dwelling to prove her innocence?

Or, after being framed, just keep saying, “It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me.”

Sob sob~

Then cry her heart out.

That was the Feng Liuli she knew.

Now look at the one standing in front of her.

Huang Peiying couldn’t hold back and slapped her.

PA!!

But the slap landed on Huang Peiying’s face.

Feng Liuli grabbed Huang Peiying’s wrist with one hand and slapped her with the other.

“Oh, she’s mad, she’s mad!! Look at her, totally losing it. She couldn’t frame me, so now she wants to hit me.”

I got slapped?

It took Huang Peiying a moment to react.

She was furious out of shame, but found she couldn’t struggle free at all.

Feng Liuli was gripping her wrist so tightly that she couldn’t break away.

Just then, Huang Linqing on the side saw someone hit his daughter and immediately flew into a rage.

He threw a punch, roaring.

“Outrageous!!”

Huang Linqing had already reached the Nascent Soul Stage.

This punch, of course, wasn’t full force.

Feng Liuli only staggered back a few steps after receiving it.

“You think this old man’s dead?!”

Huang Linqing’s eyes were wide with fury.

Feng Liuli looked at him and suddenly curled her lips.

Then, she collapsed to the ground.

“Somebody!!!”

“Is there no one on Silver Sword Peak?! Go get the Law Enforcement Elder!”

“Please, someone stand up for me!”

“I can’t take it anymore, they’re ganging up to bully me!”

“I’m gonna die! A Nascent Soul cultivator is bullying a mere Qi Refining stage disciple. Have they no shame?”

Veins popped out on Huang Linqing’s face, he was so angry his snot was bubbling.

Lu Ziyin: ............

Is this really Feng Liuli?

Did he get the wrong person?

What the hl happened during this year of closed-door cultivation?

“...........”

The situation quickly escalated to the Law Enforcement Hall.

The Huang father and daughter were clearly at fault.

They started the conflict, and Huang Linqing attacked a fellow sect disciple.

Soon, the punishment was announced.

Huang Linqing was removed from his position as an elder of Mount Shushan and confined for ten years.

Huang Peiying, for sowing discord, was fined three years of salary and ordered to do hard labor at the Menial Peak for a year.

When she heard the outcome, Huang Peiying was completely stunned.

As Feng Liuli walked past her, she softly said:

“Crack open a pomegranate, no flesh inside—still no strength, sister~”

Then she hopped away cheerfully.

A face-to-face taunt, and Feng Liuli felt completely refreshed.

Just then, she ran into Lu Ziyin, who had finally ended his seclusion.

Feng Liuli exclaimed joyfully, “Feng Liuli of Silver Sword Peak greets the Peak Master. Senior Brother Lu, you’ve come out of seclusion,”

Lu Ziyin stayed silent, then silent again.

“I heard you entered Silver Sword Peak. I was in closed-door cultivation during this time, so I don’t know—have you adapted to life here?”

Feng Liuli nodded, “Very well. Senior brothers and sisters have been taking great care of me, especially Senior Brother Xuanxiao, who’s taught me a lot.”

Very well adapted?

That’s putting it lightly. Why does it feel like you’re already thriving?

Lu Ziyin said, “Junior Brother Xuanxiao is only at Foundation Establishment. His cultivation duties are heavy. If you’re willing, you can come cultivate by my side.”

Feng Liuli hesitated slightly and politely declined:

“Thank you for your care, Senior Brother Lu, but as Peak Master you must be very busy. I’ll stick with Senior Brother Xuanxiao for now.”

“Alright then.”

Since that was the case, Lu Ziyin didn’t press further.

He looked at Feng Liuli, eyes filled with complexity.

She really has changed a lot.

Feng Liuli’s lips curved into a soft, spring-blossom smile.

Her beautiful eyes looked like two crescent moons, bright and sparkling.

But what came out of her mouth didn’t quite match the look.

“That bh Huang Peiying—I’ve got to keep my guard up around her. And the rest of her family too. What if they retaliate during the next mission? I can’t sleep at night with her still alive.”

Lu Ziyin swallowed his saliva.

Feng Liuli bid him farewell and returned to Silver Sword Peak.

Come to think of it, even she hadn’t noticed.

She’d joined Silver Sword Peak mostly because of Lu Ziyin.

She thought that as long as she worked hard with Senior Brother Xuanxiao, one day she’d be qualified to be near Lu Ziyin.

To cultivate by his side.

But as time passed, she seemed to have almost forgotten about him.

If she hadn’t seen him today, she might not even have remembered that Silver Sword Peak had a Peak Master.

Feng Liuli shook her head and muttered softly:

“Why don’t I feel the same as when I first met Senior Brother Lu?”

She could never forget that moment.

The first time she saw Lu Ziyin—

It was like fate itself moved her heart.

At that moment, she understood what Grandpa meant by “Heaven-chosen one.”

And yet, just a year later—

Nothing had changed. So why had that feeling disappeared?

“.........”

Back in her own cave dwelling, Feng Liuli resumed her cultivation for the day.

At that moment, someone knocked on the door.

“This is Li Xuanxiao. Open up. Time to check your Dao heart!!”

Feng Liuli instinctively tidied her bangs, glanced in the mirror, and then opened the door.

“Senior Brother Lu has come out of seclusion, did you know?”

Li Xuanxiao asked the moment the door opened.

“I know, I saw him not long ago,” Feng Liuli replied.

Li Xuanxiao nodded, “Let’s continue today’s lesson: How the Steel Dao Heart is Tempered. Recite the fifth paragraph.”

Feng Liuli pressed her lips together and said seriously:

“A cultivator’s most precious thing is life. Life comes only once.

Therefore, a cultivator’s life should be lived like this.

When a Mount Shushan cultivator looks back, she does not regret wasted time, nor feel ashamed of achieving nothing.

Thus, when she dies, she can say that she gave her entire life and energy to the most valuable undertaking.

To strive for the peaceful development of the Nine Provinces, and the happiness of the people........

Paul Korchak Feng Liuli.”