"Whew."

  Li Wei stretched zily. After many days, he finally left his room. "Let's speed up time in the game," he thought. "The children are all growing up, and with Dawn watg over them, nothing will g."

  Despite saying that, Li Wei still pced a puppet in front of the s to help with the trols.

  "Master."

  As soon as he stepped out the door, he saw Yuexian bowing to him. Her delicate eyebrows were slightly furrowed. "You haven't been to school for many days," she reported. "Your homeroom teacher kept calling home. After I blocked him, he even called the police, suspeg a program error had caused me to put Master in the meat grinder."

  "...."

  Li Wei's lips twitched. He removed the teacher from his old phone's bcklist. As soon as the call ected, Li Wei frowned and moved the phone away from his ear. He felt like the teacher's saliva was about to spray out of the receiver.

  "Are you crazy, Li Wei?!" the teacher yelled. "With your talent, why aren't you attending school? What a ridiculous excuse! Your family is on the run, but 't you try to work hard and improve yourself? You're a genius!"

  "And that petitioher day, why was the opposing genius kidnapped and taken to a spaceship? And he won't be back for two months?"

  "You little rascal, I told you to just use a little bit of effort to defeat him! Then, you would be the top genius in California, and you might even be recruited by the Earth's regur army! Do you know what a great opportunity you wasted?"

  "Did you suffer some kind of blow and don't want to see anyone? you listen to me properly? Everyone faces setbacks in life..."

  "And that gatekeeper of yours, surnamed , what's his deal? You told him to wait and not let me in, didn't you? Just wait until I bee the district secretary; I'll bring a thousand teachers to find him ale the score!"

  Li Wei scratched his head. He had been listening attentively.

  The teacher's name was Xiao Qingluo. He was quite good to all his students; otherwise, Li Wei wouldn't have helped him out.

  When the sound of panting came through the phone, and the teacher's voice paused, Li Wei coughed and said, "Teacher, I really have been busy with important matters these days. But I'm also quite afraid of answering your calls. I thought you might have calmed down by now."

  "I 't fug calm down!"

  The teacher paused for a moment. "What are you busy with?" he asked.

  "Building a business from scratch."

  Li Wei grinned. "Have you adjusted now?" he asked. "Was the principal arrested? Were you nominated as the interim principal?"

  "Ah? You were behind this too?" Xiao Qingluo was stunned, and the out a sigh of relief. "Even a skinny camel is bigger than a horse," she said. "Your Li family still holds siderable influence. I was w why, after that genius was kidnapped during the petition, the principal was arrested by the authorities the day, and they immediately uncovered years of corruption. The day after that, I was nominated as the interim principal."

  "Teacher, now that you're the interim principal, when you have some free time, could you help me bring out a little bit of that alien species being researched in the school b?"

  As Li Wei finished speaking.

  Xiao Qingluo remained silent for a long time, then said, "Have you been brainwashed by a terrorist anization? That thing is too dangerous."

  "Ah, alright, alright, I'll e see you."

  Li Wei hung up the phone. He had a good retionship with his teacher, who was also the first person to discover his talent.

  Soon after, Li Wei stepped out of his room. Grandma Ling was still squatting by the door. The moment she saw Li Wei, she abruptly stood up, her eyes fshing fiercely.

  But just as she was about to speak, her expression ged.

  She remembered that day when she had tried to steal that high-grade magical treasure, and Li Wei had taken it back from her ste ring.

  "Grandma Ling," Li Wei said, "it's early in the m. Would you like to go out for m tea together?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, the aura of a peak Golden Core cultivator erupted from his body. With his hands csped behind his back, he leaped onto the levitating North Star Spirit-Breaking Spear and soared out of the vil plex.

  As Li Wei's aura emerged, the presence of a Golden Core cultivator spread throughout the entire vil plex.

  All those who were still cultivating within the vil plex abruptly opeheir eyes iheir caves, staring bnkly towards the sky in the dire of Li Wei's departure, their expressions plex.

  Old , the gatekeeper, was eating a steamed bun. At that moment, the bun he had just taken a bite of fell from his mouth.

  "Goodness gracious," he excimed, "this talent is even more impressive than the inal Number One's master ba the day. And he's also someone who likes to py the pig to eat the tiger."

  As he spoke, he sehat Old Madam Ling was about to give chase.

  His eyes fshed fiercely, and he instantly vanished from his spot, appearing before Old Madam Ling.

  At that moment, in front of the gate of Vil Number One, Old Madam Ling stood alone, surrounded by a circle of people led by Gatekeeper . There were over thirty of them, gathered from the various vils, some wearing pajamas, some covered in grime, and some even still eating instant noodles.

  "Old Madam Ling, you've truly bee stupid from refining artifacts. In our territory, do you think you toueone who wields the Yin-Yang Diagram?"

  "Hey, we're all neighbors here. Just let it go, Old Madam Ling. You finally mao get Vil welve. tless people would love to live in your cave dwelling."

  "If it weren't for the fact that you single-handedly challehe Meoid four hundred years ago, I would sp yht now and make you vacate Vil welve! Don't push me to truly disrespect you!"

  Looking at these old geezers who had been her neighbors for who knows how many years.

  Old Madam Ling narrowed her eyes and sneered. "After being suppressed by that Li family member for so many years, you haven't ged your servile nature. Now that the Li family is gone, how much longer do you want to be oppressed by their youngsters?!"

  "And you think you stop me? You're just a bunch of fawning cowards!"

  At the entrance of Vil Number One, Yuexian peered through the peephole, the se outside. She finally released her slender hand from the doorknob auro the living room, closing her eyes.

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