Chapter 23: Qian Renxue's Surprise, Mom and Dad's Secret Mission

I am to take Qian Renxue to find her fourth Spirit Ring.

But if just the two of us go to find the Spirit Ring, will it be okay?

Lingxu's soul power is currently only at level thirty-six, and Qian Renxue is at level forty.

It is not impossible for the two of them to deal with a Spirit Beast over four thousand years old together; they could even accomplish it without using a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

But this requires going into the perilous Spirit Beast forest.

If an emergency occurs while Qian Renxue is absorbing the Spirit Ring, would he be able to handle it?

Since he has to complete the mission, Lingxu must take all kinds of dangerous situations into account, and also consider whether he can cope when encountering danger.

Sigh...

Let's not think about it for now; the completion time for this mission is within three months.

There is plenty of time; everything will have to wait until I contact Qian Renxue.

Just like that, another half a month or so passed, and just as Lingxu was agonizing over what method to use, his mother Luo Xingyue actually knocked on Lingxu's bedroom door in the dead of night.

"Son, can I come in?" Luo Xingyue asked directly.

"Mom, come in!"

When Luo Xingyue walked in, Lingxu discovered that she was actually wearing a set of fitted combat gear.

Lingxu asked in confusion: "Mom, is something the matter?"

Luo Xingyue said directly: "Put on your clothes first, then we'll talk."

"Alright!" Lingxu immediately got up to put on his clothes, not continuing to ask; even if there were an issue, his mother would not harm him.

After getting dressed, he saw Luo Xingyue pace around Lingxu's room several times, then, at a corner near the cabinet in Lingxu's room, she pressed down with force, and the floor tiles by the corner of the wall began to sink and shift slowly.

There was actually a mechanism here; beneath his room, there was a secret passage.

He had lived here for several months, yet he hadn't discovered it.

Luo Xingyue knew Lingxu was very confused and immediately explained: "Son, this was completed by your father and me over these past few months since we arrived; the mechanism in your room was also set up while you were out."

Lingxu had often gone out before, and sometimes upon returning, he would find that things in his room had been moved.

There were traces of cleaning, but at the time, Lingxu hadn't thought much of it.

Because in many cases, it was either the maids Liu'er and Huoyun'er coming to clean the room, or his mother Luo Xingyue coming over to tidy up and wash his change of clothes.

It had been like this for so many years, so Lingxu had not been suspicious.

It was just that what he hadn't expected was that they were digging a secret passage right under his nose.

Looking again at the passage under the mechanism his mother had just pressed, it was not particularly well-refined.

When looking down after opening it, there was even a smell of soil.

"Mom, you two are truly amazing; I didn't even notice. What is this for?" Lingxu couldn't help but ask curiously.

Luo Xingyue, however, acted mysterious and said: "You'll know when you get there!"

She leaped down, and Lingxu followed after her.

After going down, Luo Xingyue closed the entrance to the secret passage again.

The secret passage was pitch black; it was truly impossible to see one's own fingers, without a single ray of light. Perhaps because it had just been built, many things were not yet perfected.

Luo Xingyue had also been prepared, taking out a lighting device.

"Follow me!" Luo Xingyue said.

This passage was two meters high and one meter wide, enough for one person to pass through in the middle.

After walking about several meters, Lingxu walked toward a downward staircase.

After finishing the stairs, there was another straight underground passage, and it was all newly built.

At this moment, Lingxu was at least fifty meters away from the surface.

Even if many families had some secret passages and secret rooms, they could not possibly be at such a deep distance.

Fifty meters, converted to the buildings of Lingxu's past life, was about a seventeen-story high-rise; there was simply no need for that.

"Mom, have you two been busy with this for the past few months?" Lingxu asked again.

He usually spent his nights in cultivation, so he didn't know what his parents were doing at night or where they went.

Luo Xingyue said: "Yes, we were digging this passage almost every night. We put the soil into a Soul Guidance Device to take out and dispose of during the day, and then secretly bought many necessary tools and materials, such as the ventilation for this passage and the handling of seepage water. In the future, the floor and walls will need to be treated again."

"If it weren't for our soul power being sufficient, if you left it to ordinary people, they probably couldn't finish it in several years. Even as it is now, it will take more than half a year to perfect it in the future."

For several months, Luo Xingyue and Ling Bufan had barely had a good night's sleep.

"Mom, what is this secret passage actually for?" Lingxu continued to ask.

However, Luo Xingyue did not say, only saying that this secret passage could be considered an eleventh birthday gift for Lingxu.

Just like that, Lingxu walked for about a thousand meters.

In other words, his parents had built a thousand-meter underground passage in just a few short months; this project was truly not small.

And at the end of the passage was an underground secret room.

It was very spacious, about twenty meters wide, thirty meters long, and five meters high.

A layer of stone slabs had already been laid underground.

The top and the surroundings had also been reinforced.

There were a total of three passages in the secret room.

The one Lingxu came from counted as one, there was one directly in front, and another on the left.

However, the doors to these two passages were firmly blocked by stone doors.

Lighting the lamps in the underground secret room, the room gradually brightened up.

At this very moment, Lingxu's martial soul actually had a reaction.

He thought to himself, could it be that Qian Renxue is here too?

Lingxu's heart suddenly cleared, and he understood why there was this passageway here.

Although the place where they lived was separated from the First Prince's residence by several streets, the straight-line distance was no more than a thousand meters.

A thousand-meter-long passageway could reach the First Prince's residence where Qian Renxue was located.

The next moment, the rumbling sound of the stone door opening on the opposite side gradually rang out.

A figure, both familiar and unfamiliar, appeared before Lingxu.

"Brother Lingxu!" Before the stone door had even fully opened, she lowered her head and squeezed out.

"Xue'er!" Lingxu also walked over quickly.

But before the two could make contact, Qian Renxue stopped first.

"Brother Lingxu, Auntie Xingyue, wait for me a moment."

As soon as she finished speaking, Qian Renxue circulated her soul power, and her figure and clothes began to change.

To meet with Lingxu, how could she use the appearance of Xue Qinghe?

Here, she had no need for Disguise.

Changing back to her own appearance made Qian Renxue much happier.

Qian Renxue was incredibly excited in her heart, and she rushed up and threw herself into Lingxu's arms.

Fortunately, Lingxu had grown a bit more recently and was already slightly taller than Qian Renxue.

Otherwise, this height difference would have been a bit awkward.

"Xue'er, long time no see."

"Mm!"

"Xue'er, have you and my parents been in contact for a long time? Am I the only one who didn't know?" Lingxu asked directly.

"Hee hee, actually, I was the one who requested it of Uncle Bufan and Auntie Xingyue."

"Grandpa previously said he would send me two assistants to help me in secret, and until you and the others arrived, Brother Lingxu, I knew of Grandpa's arrangement."

"So this secret passage also started from that time?"

Qian Renxue nodded and then said, "Brother Lingxu, don't blame Uncle and Auntie; I was the one who wouldn't let them tell you! It was just to give you a surprise."

Lingxu suddenly thought of the time when Qian Daoliu came and said there was a special mission.

Going to Heaven Dou City, given the special mission, he actually should have been able to guess earlier that this special mission was related to Qian Renxue.

(End of chapter)