3 Xiao Lan

Zhu Yinbing waiting for her husband to speak. This heavy air of her husband give her a bad feeling.

"Another Head of court spirit scholar just gone insane after study Shang'er basket rune"

"Again?"

She ask with worried look. Because this is the 4 time in the last 10 years that anyone who try to study that unholy rune will go insane just before they're going to make sense of the rune on how it's worked. If not because of this rune has the ability to instantly destroy those horrific creature that have the battle power equal to the Ascension realm. No one'd like to make this repeated mistake.

But unknown to her of the fact that her adopted son is the one who unconsciously use his power to destroy those horrific creature instead of those strange looking unholy rune.

Her husband nod before continue.

"But this time. He actually record something before he's going insane"

"What did he record!?" She immediately ask.

Zhu Songtian heavily sigh before answer.

"[I hereby declare a highest warning to anyone who wish to study this accursed knowledge. This knowledge is not for any lesser-being mind. It's beyond our reach. Tell his majesty to forever seal it, and never let it be study again.] It's what he wrote on the ground by using his entire blood essence and spirits qi before he dies, and it cannot be wash, or delete by any means unless we dug up the entire patch of ground."

"This…."

Zhu Yinbing stutter in disbelief. This is the gravest warning she ever heard from the court spirit scholar that usually study the unknown and dangerous discovered knowledge. Whether it from the ancient rune or some of the primal ancient lost city. They study these dangerous thing on a daily basis, but never give out such a gravest warning such as this.

Fear start creeping to her unwavering heart. What was her adopted son origin? But this fear does not frome her son. It's from the great unknown of his origin.

Because no matter how big or what his origin really is. She didn't care at all. Her adopted son will always be her and her beloved son.

Thinking back to the first time she met her adopted son. At first they decide to adopted this son due to the life saving gratitude from the mysterious rune that came with their adopted son basket. But after all these years, It's not anymore. Now their love of their son come from their heart. It's not from the sense of gratitude anymore.

"That's right dear. What about the elixir that'll help our son with his spirits root problem." She ask her husband.

That's right their beloved son has a one major defect. Despise his heaven defying comprehension and intelligence that led her son to master the cooking rival to the greatest spirit chef of the world in just 2-3 try, out of his curiosity.

Their beloved son don't have any trace of spirits root in his body. And this might be the major reason that their beloved son has been abandoned by his original family.

Because if we look into the reality of this world. Most of the powerful clan has a very low sense of kinship in their family. Each of their clan member that eat from their money, or cultivate from their resources. They think as investment. And investment don't tolerate the goods that does not return their funding.

One might ask that their son have heaven defying comprehension. Why not let him be the spirit scholar to research or invent some new things. But one must not forget that all things in this world is based on cultivation. Even the most useless commoner have their spirit roots. Everyone have their spirits root, and almost everything use spirit to control. In other word. It's like someone want to be a scientist while they can't do the basic math.

Zhu Songtian shook his head with frustration in his eye.

"This time, I have a fortune to meet with the old patriarch of Medicine dao sect. But… He said [It's possible to heal even the crippled spirits root. But it's impossible to create a spirit root to people that don't have it from the start.]"

Both husband and wife feel it's very hard to swallow this cold hard truth. But they already guess that for the living being that didn't have spirit root. It's impossible to create one from scratch.

Zhu Songtian look at his wife worried face before trying to console her. But before he can speak anything, his wife has speak up.

"It's ok dear. If even the old patriarch of spirit dao sect can't do anything. Then it's fate. Even our son can't use spirit qi his entire life. We still have ability to provide for him. And no matter what happen in the future. He'll be our son forever.

Both husband and wife smile and embrace each other, like they want to console each other to forget about this bad news.

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Outside, not far from the Zhu manor

Zhu Wushang walk out of his manor to the Green lake inn, the place where his friend family own. Actually he's working as the special chef from time to time at that place, and it's make the Green lake inn name spread across the continent. And because of this. It's make his village the Mountain lake village to prosper. A lot of foodie across continent has travel to his village and bringing along the prosperity of the village.

He might not show it, but deep down, he's feeling very good about his culinary skill. He's walking past the village square that's large enough to be the town square to the road that lead to the mountain lake. The lake that's very beautiful and the location of The Green lake inn.

"Hi Shang'er" A beautiful voice of the mature woman call him while he's walking up to the mountain road.

He's turn his head to the direction of that voice, and see the overly luxurious horse carriage that's stopping beside him and at the window of the carriage appear the face of a very beautiful woman. Her white jade skin and voluptuous body make a lot of passer by traveler drool.

"Godmother? why're you here?"

This is his godmother Tian Xue'er. It's Rare to see her here in the desolate continent because she's working in the imperial court. He don't know of what position she's working in. But in this society. It's quite rare to see the woman in the position of power like his godmother.

"To eat your hand cook food of course. It's the special gourmet week of the Green lake inn isn't it?"

Right…. He's forgot that his godmother is a brain-dead foodie. She even want to bring him to live with her in the Imperial continent and work as her personal chef. There's one time that she even go so far to ask the Great Phoenix empire emperor to bestow the decree for this. Fortunately the emperor didn't comply with her stupid request.

"Come with me shang'er. I'll bring you along to The Green lake inn"

Zhu Wushang enter the carriage without much thought and go along with hid godmother carriage to the Green lake inn.

After a while the carriage stop in front of the luxuriously big structure that build entirely with the 100 years old Thousands spring wood that has a beautiful fragrant of wood, nature and many flower. It's roofed with the gold trimmed green roof tile. The word [Green lake inn] that create with the 100% gold by the skill of the master artisan hung outside of its gate.

"Thank you godmother" He thank his godmother before going inside the building.

"Ahh… i didn't meet with my little girl for a long time. I wonder if she still love me… or already hate me. Tian Xue'er murmur with low spirit. She thought about her biological daughter.

"No point thinking about it milady. You just need to apoligize to young lady and tell her the reason. Young lady is sensible, i belief that she'd understand the circumstance of her mother." The carriage driver tell her with the smile.

"I knew that Black hawk. It's just that… haaaah.." Tian Xue'er sigh with depression before exit from her carriage and go inside the building.

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Inside the Green lake inn. Zhu Wushang walking to the kitchen zone and many of the employee of the Green lake inn greet him with enthusiasm. This is not the first time he help the Green lake inn with their business, so all of the employee knew about his culinary skill.

"Wushang!!" An innocent voice of a younger call his name before she running to him before hugging him with a happy smile

The beautiful gorgeous young girl with a beautiful waist-long black raven hair. Her appearance is just like the gorgeous doll that sculpt to perfection. If she grew up this beauty can even bring down an empire.

"Xiao Lan, stop hugging me. I need to go to kitchen"

He feel helpless about the child like behavior of this childhood friend of his. He remember that she came to live here 4 years ago. His parent ask him to befriend her, and that's the first and last time his parent ask him to befriend someone out of their own volition. At first don't think it too much. But as time pass he find it strange, because every time this Xiao Lan came to his house. His mother seems to be a little bit too polite to her even if she's try to hiding it by acting normal around Xiao Lan. But she can't hide the respectful gaze when she unconsciously looking at Xiao Lan.

But never mind that because it does not change the fact that Xiao Lan is his precious friend.