Chapter 3: The Lu Family's Request for Collection

  It took Lu Shao three days to climb up from the cliff, and it turned out that this cliff was a precipice outside the town. When climbing the cliff, Lu Shao found that he seemed to have more strength, his whole body was like having endless strength, otherwise, he would not be able to climb up the cliff.

  The Lu family's grand mansion, with high walls and a continuous courtyard, seemed to be built in the style of Suzhou gardens from his past life, according to Lu Shiyu's memory.

  "Knock knock..."

  Lu Shao Yu knocked on the Lu family's large gate. At this time, his stomach was also growling with hunger.

  With a creak, the Lu family's large gate opened and two servants wearing fur hats and dressed in gray attire walked out. Upon seeing Lu Shaoyou, their eyes seemed to hold a hint of surprise.

  "You'd better go through the back door, madam has given orders that you can't enter through the front gate." The two servants looked at Lu Shaoyou in surprise, but didn't take him seriously and immediately closed the large doors.

  "You two dog slaves, still thinking I'm the old Lu Shaoyou? You'll be sorry later." Lu Shaoyou spat a mouthful of saliva in front of the Lu family's main gate and then had to head towards the back door.

  According to the memories in his mind, Lu Shaoyou knew that the previous Lu Shaoyou had never walked through the main gate of the Lu family before. Although he was a young master of the Lu family, his mother was originally a maid of the Lu family and had a very low status. After giving birth to him, she suffered even more from the exclusion of his father's first wife, and his own father did not dare to speak out, while his mother endured all kinds of humiliation.

  "Mr. Shao, you've finally returned! You've been missing for five days and the second madam is almost worried to death. Hurry back!" An old servant with a frail appearance at the back door said to Lu Shaoyou with a gaze filled with concern and pity.

  "I understand, Uncle Nan." From memory, Lu Shaoyou knew that this old servant was called Uncle Nan, and he was also one of the few people who were good to him besides his mother. When he was young, Uncle Nan had taken care of him a lot.

  "Huh, could I have been mistaken?" As he watched Lu Shaoyou's back, the old servant's dull grey eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness, before returning to their usual cloudy state. He slowly closed the rear door.

  Lu Shao Yu walked through several long corridors and arrived at a low courtyard, where the Lu family's servants lived. The Lu family was one of the top families in town, with two or three hundred servants alone, and if you counted both direct and collateral relatives, there were nearly seven hundred people in total. A family of seven hundred people was not small.

  In front of a somewhat dilapidated courtyard, Lu Shao walked into the courtyard, which was also somewhat dilapidated. After hesitating for a moment, he pushed open the door.

  "Shaoyou, where have you gone? Your mother is worried to death." Inside the room was a woman wearing a light green blouse, about 36 or 37 years old, with a clear and delicate complexion, a pointed face, long eyebrows, and a very beautiful appearance. However, her eyes were somewhat red and swollen, as if she had been crying.

  As soon as the woman saw Lu Shaoyou, she hastily walked up to him, looking at his disheveled clothes, and her eyes were again filled with moisture.

  "Mother, I'm fine." Looking at the kind-hearted woman in front of him, Lu Shaoyou's heart skipped a beat. Her son was already dead, but he couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth. From now on, he would be her son.

  "Quickly tell your mother, where have you been these few days? Why did you go out without saying a word?" Watching Lü Shǎoyóu's body didn't seem to be missing anything, the woman slightly let out a breath of relief and pulled on Lü Shǎoyóu's arm asking.

  "I have something to attend to, sorry to worry you." Lu Shaoyou replied, naturally unable to say that his son had been beaten to death and thrown into the cliff.

  "You must be hungry, Mother has left you some delicious food." The kind and beautiful woman immediately brought over a few steamed buns and a bowl of meat dish. Lu Shao Yu took one glance and could tell that the dishes were not bad, but they should be leftovers.

  "This is clean, it's what Uncle Nan secretly brought from the kitchen, eat quickly, this is your favorite food." The beautiful woman looked at Lu Shaoyou and said, with a hint of apology in her gentle gaze, "It's all my fault, letting you suffer since birth. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have given birth to you."

  "Mother, this is not your fault. In the future, son will not let mother suffer again." Looking at the beautiful woman's eyes, Lu Shao Yu couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat. His past self was an orphan who grew up without maternal love. Perhaps his rebirth was heaven's way of compensating him, giving him this rare chance at maternal love. In this moment, Lu Shao Yu secretly vowed that from now on, he would consider her his own mother and never let her suffer again.

  "Good boy, eat quickly, finish eating and take off your clothes, mother will help you mend them." The beautiful woman smiled happily as she looked at Lu Shaoyou.

  Lu Shao was indeed a bit hungry, and he hastily wolfed down the food, devouring all five mantou in one go before returning to his room.

  "After crossing over, it's time to plan for myself." In the room, Lu Shaoyou gazed at the dilapidated room and muttered to himself. His previous life had been uncertain, but since he had crossed over, this life could be a new beginning, so how could he be content with being ordinary?

  This is my second life, completely picked up, if there is no effort, I would not be worthy of the heavens. In my past life, I was powerless to choose, but in this life, I will indulge in beauty and grasp power, this is what I want to possess.

  Thinking of it, Lu Shao's blood in his heart seemed to start boiling up.

  "It seems that although you've lived an ordinary life for 16 years, there's still a sense of discontent hidden in your blood. Don't worry, I'll help you fulfill it from now on." Lu Shaoyou said lightly.

  "You've become younger." Sitting in front of a worn-out copper mirror, Lu Shaoyou looked at his current appearance. Originally, he was supposed to be 23 or 24 years old, but now he had the appearance of a 16-year-old, which was quite a gain.

  "Although it's your ordinary life, people aren't as elegant and handsome as jade trees in the wind, but they're also quite flavorful." Lu Shaoyou looked at his current appearance with a slight smile, his tall and slender figure, wheat-colored skin, five senses that were still three-dimensional, especially those eyes, shining like stars.

  "Not bad, I quite like it." Lu Shaoyou smiled self-contentedly, his thin lips slightly raised, and a lazy smile appeared. In the smile, there was a hint of ambition hidden within.

  "Now, I've got a good understanding of this world." Lu Shaoyou lay on the bed, carefully searching through everything in his mind about this world.

  This is a continent completely different from the previous one, called Lingwu Continent. The continent is boundless and endless, where strength is measured by martial power and spiritual power is revered. There exist warriors and spiritual practitioners here.

  Martial power is boundless, and it's said that once you reach a certain level, you can move mountains and seas, trample the void, and shatter the emptiness. Martial artists are divided into several levels: martial disciples, martial knights, martial masters, martial souls, martial generals, martial marshals, martial kings, martial sages, and martial emperors.

  Spirits are said to be mysterious and powerful, with incredible abilities. At a certain level, spirits can even control the weather. Spirits are also divided into different ranks: spirit disciples, spirit warriors, spirit masters, spirit souls, spirit generals, spirit marshals, spirit kings, spirit lords, and spirit emperors.

  And on this Spiritual Martial Continent, those who have reached the level of Martial Grandmaster and Spiritual Grandmaster are absolutely powerful individuals, each standing high above others. The old master of the Lu family, also his own grandfather whom he had never met before, was said to be a Martial Warrior.

  On this continent, apart from warriors and spiritual practitioners, there are also demonic beasts and spiritual beasts. These demonic beasts and spiritual beasts are extremely formidable, and humans dare not provoke them. Only those powerful warriors and spiritual practitioners with super strong abilities dare to deal with the demonic beasts and spiritual beasts. Therefore, on this Spiritual Martial Continent, the status of warriors and spiritual practitioners is lofty.

  "It seems that I can only become a spiritual being or a martial artist, but why can't I become either? Lu Shaoyou thought to himself, recalling from his memories that his body had been examined since he was young and seemed to have some problem with his meridians, making it impossible for him to become a martial artist or a spiritual being."

  If I could become a warrior and a spirit, then my mother's and my status would not be lower than that of a servant.

  "I must find a way to become a spiritual being or a martial artist, this is the only way out." Lu Shaoyou thought to himself, in this world, if one wants to achieve something, there are only these two paths.

  "Huh, I had forgotten about you little guy." Lu Shaoyou took off the tattered clothes on his body, intending to give them to his mother to wash, and found that the light yellow small snake was wrapped around his arm.

  "Thank you for the reward from zi yi 22, Wang Xing Shun, Yu Ye Ting Feng, 04ainiping2006 and Mu Qin Wu Lei."