Cohabitation with Sword Spirit-Chapter 155 - 125: Performing Duties in Accordance with the Law and Regulations

When speaking to Wang Jiu, Lu Xin felt truly uncomfortable inside.

This Elder Celestial Divine Sword had indeed done too much kindness for the Li Family.

Helping Shen Qingming turn her life around from the mud, helping them ease strained family relations, assisting the Li Family's Inner Sect disciples in their cultivation, ensuring their championship at the Cyan Cloud Grand Competition, and now, he had to hand over the Li Family's hottest potato to Wang Jiu...

However, for the moment, Lu Xin truly couldn't think of any other candidate.

Wanqing, that child, to say it nicely, was proud of her talents; to put it harshly, was rather rebellious. Liking girls isn't a problem, but causing such a public uproar and facing any doubt with utter defiance is, no matter what, not a good thing.

Even if she is a naturally gifted genius, protected by her family, over time... "Heaven is jealous of genius" is not just an empty phrase. Li Fengyun sailed smoothly in the first half of his life, yet was heartbroken over Shen Yue'e, isn't this also a kind of retribution?

But Lu Xin genuinely couldn't figure out how to correct Wanqing's temperament.

A 17-year-old girl, if she were from a common family, would have already started looking for a husband's family. In a Cultivation Family, marriage isn't of much importance, but a child's worldview and temperament are mostly set. Two years ago, it was almost the last chance to correct her temperament, the Li Family placed their hopes on Yuqing True Master but...

But seeing Yuqing True Master now in this happy little woman's posture, it's really hard to muster any strength to blame her.

As for strictly binding her with family rules and discipline? That was declared futile seven or eight years ago, the stricter the restraint, the heavier the rebelliousness. That year, the old senior who, on behalf of Li Jing and Zhou Wenjun, disciplined Li Wanqing according to family law, ended so miserably... Wuqing Daoist, later considered a model among strict teachers, was, however, destabilized his Primordial Spirit in just two or three years.

Now, although Li Wanqing's cultivation is still shallow, she gives a sense of having great potential, just waiting for time to unfold. In some sense, she truly surpasses the rise of Li Fengyun in the past.

How to manage such a child? Who can manage her?

Thinking over and over, Lu Xin truly could only think of Wang Jiu.

Although this Elder Sword Spirit is usually unreliable in many ways, no matter how, he was the one who got the defiant Li Wanqing to wear a little dress!

This was the only great victory in the Li Family's over a decade of disciplining Li Wanqing.

Moreover, based on Lu Xin's observations today in the Assembly Hall, it wasn't hard to judge that Li Wanqing truly feared Wang Jiu. Even when Wang Jiu said nothing throughout but merely sat beside her, it made Li Wanqing restrain herself at least seventy to eighty percent of her normal self.

If it were without Wang Jiu, Li Wanqing would have confronted the Lu Family people head-on long ago. At 15, that girl infuriated her teacher, Wuqing Daoist, nearly causing him a Heart Demon possession; now, these Lu Family Elders are basically docile animals, Wanqing today was merely inconvenienced by her dress and her fear of Wang Jiu that kept her words from being too sharp...

Wang Jiu's effect is just this magical, making one inevitably rely on him.

"So, this matter, really can only be entrusted to you, Elder."

Wang Jiu looked at the woman who bowed her head with utmost sincerity, and his heart was moved.

From this angle, she really looked so petite, although Lu Jintong wasn't tall and mighty back then, he was still above average, what bloodline did the descendants merge to produce such a little one?

Lu Xin felt a strange gaze and couldn't help but lift her head: "Uh, Mr. Wang Jiu?"

Wang Jiu nodded without changing his expression: "Alright, leave Li Wanqing to me. I do have some methods for dealing with such unruly people."

Lu Xin couldn't help but show joy: "As expected of Elder Sword Spirit! If there are any needs following this, just contact me."

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After taking on the task of guiding Li Wanqing, Wang Jiu immediately sprang into action.

After sending flying messages to Shen Qingming and Li Chaolu, asking them to self-study later, Wang Jiu directly left the Assembly Hall and turned towards the back courtyard of the Li Family Mansion.

He was now very familiar with this courtyard and didn't need anyone to guide him as he walked straight to a secluded corner in the northeast.

Passing through a corridor surrounded by green shade, the view before Wang Jiu changed, revealing a vast and calm lake shrouded in swirling icy mist. In the distance, the shadow of a tall library building loomed vaguely behind the ice mist.

Visually, everything appeared like a fairyland; however, the biting cold emanating from the ice lake and the pitch-black rocky ground beneath almost felt like an abyss, exuding an aura that outsiders are unwelcome.

This was one of the most resource-rich libraries in the Li Family Mansion, it was where Li Jing and Zhou Wenjun truly called home. When Li Wanqing moved out of the Li Family Mansion, this couple seemed to feel relieved and moved directly into the library.

And Wang Jiu was there for a house visit.

Even someone as socially oblivious as he was aware of this basic principle: when a child causes trouble, one must first find the parents. In the past, when Shang Lanfei caused a group of wealthy merchants in Qing Province to go bankrupt and their families to separate, those ruined merchants first sought out the elders of the Shang Family to complain. Indeed, the idle old folks of the Shang Family put pressure on Shang Lanfei, forcing her to halt her commercial expansion for two years.

Later, after being held back by her own elders, Shang Lanfei's response was rather straightforward. After spreading her wings, she thoroughly crushed the ancestral businesses of the merchants who had complained in the first place. In a sense, it was also a way of finding the parents. From both positive and negative perspectives, Wang Jiu felt that finding the parents should be a common practice in modern society. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

The ice lake and mist outside the library were added after Li Jing and his wife moved in, primarily to ward off unwanted disturbances. Within the lake lies an ice lotus maze that confuses divine sense, along with mischievous fairies. Without the owner's permission, approaching the library is exceedingly difficult unless...

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On the icy lake, a group of approximately foot-long, translucent azure fairies gathered, angrily pointing and chattering non-stop at the humanoid figure that had bypassed all mechanical traps without a scratch.

"Hey, what's with you? Are you human or ghost?"

"Yeah, exactly, who gets hit by ice thunder and doesn't react at all? Do you know how much effort it took us to set off that ice thunder?"

"That's right, that ice thunder was set up by Sister Zhou, and the thunder core was unbelievably heavy. It took more than a dozen of us sisters working together just to place it in the trap. It nearly squashed Xiao Bai earlier."

"We worked so hard to unleash the ice thunder, and you didn't dodge or even flinch, not even giving a shout; that's too disrespectful to us!"

"Previously, a human accidentally wandered in and peed his pants just from seeing the ice rain; it was hilarious. You look human too, so why can't you be like that?"

"Come on, tell us! Are you human or ghost? If you don't say anything, we'll assume you're a ghost!"

Seeing the small creatures bickering recklessly and about to follow Wang Jiu ashore, finally, a woman wrapped in a thick robe floated over from the distant lakeshore.

The woman, of medium height, was wrapped in a long velvet black robe, yet seemed slender, with particularly delicate snow-white features, transparent and fragile like ice and snow, with refined features and picturesque eyebrows.

The woman held a half-open illustrated novel in her left hand, and a long candlestick in her right, its flickering light dispelling the ice fog for dozens of feet around.

Upon seeing Wang Jiu, the woman paused, seemingly relieved: "Oh, it's Mr. Wang Jiu. You startled me."

Wang Jiu, seeing the woman, frowned slightly: "Who are you? Have we met?"

The woman nodded: "I am Zhou Wenjun, Li Jing's wife. Theoretically, we haven't met."

"Then how did you recognize me?"

Zhou Wenjun said, "From a book."

"What book?" Wang Jiu asked curiously.

Zhou Wenjun said, "A fanfiction about you and Li Fengyun."

"What?"

"Nothing," Zhou Wenjun said, making the book in her left hand disappear like magic. She also set down the candlestick in her right, during which Wang Jiu distinctly saw a white flag hanging from the candlestick...

Zhou Wenjun explained: "Oh, I just heard someone breaking through the ice thunder array and thought it was an enemy intrusion, so I came out to check. If it can be fought, the Nine Nether Flame would kill the enemy; if not, then surrender early, live or die at will, which is more efficient."

Wang Jiu praised: "Truly smart."

Zhou Wenjun smiled and asked: "Mr. Wang Jiu, what brings you here?"

"A house visit," Wang Jiu said, "about Li Wanqing."

Mentioning Li Wanqing, Zhou Wenjun frowned slightly: "Is she in trouble again? But we are no longer responsible for disciplining her. There's no need to come to us for her issues."

As she spoke, Zhou Wenjun extended her left hand, reaching into the void, and after a moment, pulled out a piece of paper.

"This is the contract that Li Jing and I signed with Wanqing eight years ago. Due to limited capacity, we relinquished the right to discipline Li Wanqing and, simultaneously, do not bear joint responsibility for any trouble she causes."