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  Emerging from the Vil, Li Wei paid no attention to the matters of the Vil plex. In his memories, he had been protected by these uncles and aunts since childhood. No matter who saw him, they would always observe his progress and development.

  In the vil plex, there were vils numbered 1 to 108. The higher the he greater the authority. Li Wei, thanks to his parents' prote, was able to live in Vil Number One. Because of this, he had always been curious about his owy and had tried to probe for information many times, but to no avail.

  Anyway, everyoold him to just sck off and not work too hard.

  Initially, he thought it was because of the Li family's existehat these unfathomable people treated him with such respect. Later, he realized that wasn't the case.

  The more ied, the stronger his talent became, and the better he treated the people in the vil plex, the more obedient they became.

  And now, reag the peak of the Golden Core stage should be enough to make some people in the vil plex take a!

  "When I'm strong enough," he thought, "I should be able to find out."

  Li Wei raised his eyebrows. He didn't overthink it and flew directly towards a rge building.

  It was Boss Qi's pany.

  After handing over the items to Boss Qi and leaving his pany, Boss Qi was clearly much more respectful. He shouted towards Li Wei's departing figure, "Master Li, remember, I was the first oo join our terrorist anization! I'm one of the oldest members!"

  After shouting this, the cultivators uting to and from work on their flying swords he building all wideheir eyes in surprise. "Terrorist anization?" they wondered. "Has he discovered some big secret?" Some eveheir wristbands to activate holographic images a the io the authorities.

  Boss Qi gred at them. "What are you looking at?" he barked. "And you, the oing this, what do you think you're doing? Take a good look at this!"

  He reached into his pocket, and everyone's lips twitched as they scattered like birds as.

  He pulled out his identification as the Chief of the California Supreme Police Department, which had expired two hundred years ago.

  Not long after, Li Wei arrived at the teachers' quarters of a school, a row of cave dwellings, and found the oh the character "Xiao" hanging on it.

  "You little brat finally decided to leave your house!"

  After pressing the doorbell, he saw a middle-aged man wearing gsses. He was a thin and wiry man with a serious expression, the kind who didn't seem to enjoy talking to people. This was Xiao Qingluo.

  Li Wei sooered the teacher's home and chatted with him for a bit. Their versation revolved around everyday matters, including why Li Wei hadn't been attending school retly and the statewide petition.

  The teacher had also lived for hundreds of years and had experiehe ges brought about by the resurgence of spiritual energy oh. He mostly used a devices, and Li Wei's use of old-fashioned equipment was rgely influenced by him.

  After taking a sip of the bck tea brewed by his teacher, Li Wei said, "Teacher, if I really need you to secretly bring out some of that alien species, it won't cause any trouble, will it?"

  "No trouble at all," Xiao Qingluo replied, furrowing his brow. "Just beat those researchers half to death so they won't dare say anything. But you have to tell me what you for. I 't just let you release that thing onto the streets, I?"

  "I really 't say."

  Li Wei waved his hand dismissively. "Don't you trust me?" he asked. "You know I don't like causing trouble."

  Xiao Qingluo pondered for a moment, then turned on the old television. It was only showing one el.

  [A Ruins el]

  A female doctor wearing a white coat and gsses was excitedly presenting the findings from the ruins. "This will be the greatest discovery," she announced. "There are many gaps in our uanding of historical civilizations. This vast archaeological site represents aire era!"

  Li Wei didn't pay much attention. Excavating a ruih the Earth had been going on for who knows how many years. He had heard that the Earth used to be many times rger than it was now.

  He was just curious. "Teacher," he asked, "why are you watg this el again? By the way, that female doctor looks a lot like you."

  "That's my younger sister!"

  "Ah? You're so unassuming in appearance, and you have a sister like that?"

  "..."

  Xiao Qingluo remained silent for a while, then said, "Let's not talk about that. You want the alien species? Fine, I'll get it for you in a while. But you have to agree to one dition."

  "Tell me, Teacher."

  Li Wei grinned.

  Xiao Qingluo said, "You brat, stop sg off and wasting your talent. Go to my sister. She'll arrange a cushy job for you. With your aptitude, they'll treat you like a treasure and cultivate you. You'll have all the resources you hey trol a rge number of a secret realms, which will be incredibly beneficial for you. Others 't even join if they want to."

  "Alright."

  Li Wei casually agreed, letting the wo in one ear and out the other. He wasn't g in resources right now. As for robbing graves? That was something Li Tianyi would do.

  He chatted with Xiao Qingluo for a while longer.

  Li Wei occasionally checked his phoo see how his family was doing. Fortunately, aside from Li Tianqi c death again, there weren't any major issues.

  Soon after, Li Wei headed bae. Before he k, the sky had grown dark.

  He had just finished grocery shopping auro the entrance.

  When he saw Grandma Ling still waiting there. Li Wei narrowed his eyes and turned away. Many days ago, Grandma Ling had probably already realized that the Li family was finished and inteo steal his top-grade magical treasure. Not only that, she was also testing him, probing to see if anyone would help him now that he had lost all support.

  Fortunately, Li Wei had a backup pn. He had cultivated a good retionship with Gatekeeper over the years, and Old had promptly warned Grandma Ling.

  The flict sted for a while.

  But now...

  The two of them exged a gnd smiled at each other uhe setting sun.

  "Little Li," she said, "what have you been up to all day? Tell yrandma Ling if you have any problems. I've always treated you like my own grandson."

  "..."

  Li Wei visited Grandma Ling's cave dwelling and sat there for about an hour before emerging. Stroking the ste ring in his hand, he had a face full of smiles.

  He soourned home.

  Yuexian opened her eyes and smiled at Li Wei. "Wele home, Master," she said. "What would you like to eat tonight?"

  "Let's have goose stewed in an iron pot," he replied. "Make a big portion. Send a serving to everyone who came out of their caves today."

  Hearing this, Yuexian nodded obediently. "What about Old Madam Li door?" she asked.

  "Steam two extra steamed buns ahem to her cave."

  With that, he returo his room. Looking at his desdants on the s, he recalled his teacher's words and smiled. "Finally, I py my game in peace!" he thought.

  "I'm not even going to school anymore. let alone go tomb raiding? What a joke!!"

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