Li Mo read the expert guidebook while sitting on the couch in the living room.
It spoke of the Experts Alliance’s rules and an expert’s share of resources.
Li Mo’s share was that of a first level expert since that was his evaluation.
Experts Alliance was divided into levels of power. As it happened, it was the same division as the universe used, from first level to the tenth.
Hexamand race’s Domon, who ended up getting killed by Li Mo, followed a different system of cultivation from humans. Although falling inside the first layer of ‘Divine Sea Stage’ category, more than half of the universe’s races never had cultivation systems to begin with, since they were innate strong from birth. They needn’t train or cultivate so putting them in the Divine Sea Stage wasn’t quite an accurate gauge of their strengths.
The operative term would be fith level.
From what Li Mo recalls from his past, the three organizations from Earth held back the alien invasion for a few years but succumbed in the end. But in their time of struggle, countless powerful figures emerged.
The two chiefs of Experts Alliance, Fang Tianci and Zhuge Yan. Earth’s Retaliation, with Xin Xiaowei, Fang Xinyao, Du Fei, Fang Qiang, Ye Beitian, Ye Nantian. And of TS, they were Enchanting Snake, Phoenix Queen, Vampire King, Obscure King, Fist King. The list went on and on. In that period, they were all as powerful, if not above, the aliens invading them.
The first alien races’ invasion was done in secret by the Hexamand race along with ten other races. Their objective? To snatch what the supreme ancestor of the Human race left behind on Earth, the time-space artifact – i.e. Staff of Origin.
In Li Mo’s previous life, Domon stole the Staff of Origin and all the time-space ruptures vanished from Earth. Humans could only cultivate by entering the God Realm. That period was humanity’s most wretched years. The humans were imprisoned and the strong were hunted down. After ten years, the Earth had lost its final warrior, along with humanity’s civilization. Only a handful of humans managed to escape among the vast stretches of the universe.
Li Mo threw his eye over the experts’ list in the expert guidebook and stopped over one name, Zheng Wufang.
Name: Zheng Wufang. Type: first level body cultivating gifted. Strength: mid.
Li Mo’s squinted.
Zheng Wufang and Li Mo were two of the humans that entered the universe. This guy was as average as one could get. With his meager talent, he should’ve been fated to meager success. But thanks to Li Mo’s repeated help, he, with mediocre talent, became supreme. Before the six century-long war, from the endless strings of death on Earth, only ten escaped. Zheng Wufang was among the lucky few.
‘Wasn’t that sword that came out of nowhere his?’
Traveling the weary and winding road that was war, of the nine other humans, Zheng Wufang was the only one unharmed. He was also the only one standing beside Li Mo.
The past Li Mo had always suspected him but never quite able to put his finger on what was amiss.
Li Mo frowned.
It was clear to him the deadly sneak attack came from his comrades. As to who specifically, he didn’t rush into pointing fingers.
It wasn’t that he found it unlikely, but more along the lines of being unwilling to accept and bear such a notion.
They fought side by side for six long centuries, going through thick and thin together, that Li Mo didn’t want to even start doubting any of them.
“True or not, I can neither jump the gun, nor ignore it. That only leaves me with one option. Go through it again!”
Li Mo took the dalmatian plushie out of the drawer.
The plushie laid motionless on the couch after Li Mo threw it there.
Li Mo was stupefied.
On any given day, and time, the dalamtian plushie would’ve jumped him by now.
Li Mo waved and the seal on the plushie’s mouth was removed. Yet even after a long time, the plushie showed no reaction.
“Ye Xiaolu?”
The dalmatian plushie threw Li Mo a lazy look then walked next to the drawer before jumping in.
Li Mo was stumped…
…
Feng City’s outskirts, at the foot of Cangnan Mountain.
Du Fei got out of the cab and looked around. When he noticed the nearby charming figure, his heart tensed.
Just then the woman turned her tear-stained face. It was actually He Lili!
“Du Fei…”
He Lili threw herself in Du Fei’s embrace.
“S-stop, let me go!”
Du Fei shouted but he did nothing to push He Lili away.
“It was wrong of me to do what I did. But I had to. My mother is sick and in urgent need of money…”
He Lili started sobbing, washing away any resentment Du Fei had for her.
“Why didn’t you tell me? You thought I wouldn’t help you? Y… I am not angry you took my money. I am angry at you for doing such a thing while I was in a coma!”
“My mother was so ill she couldn’t take much longer.”
“Then I forgive you.”
Du Fei’s hands roamed all over He Lili. The cubby had gone to a ‘masseuse parlor’ almost every day and was no longer a cherry boy.
“Wait.”
He Lili struggled out of Du Fei’s embrace.
“What’s wrong?”
“Do you know why I called you here?”
“No, why?”
“My daddy wants to see you.”
“Your daddy? But didn’t you say when you were small, your dad…”
While Du Fei hesitated, Zhang Ding walked out of a Hummer parked at the side of the road. He Lili threw herself in his arms.
“Good daughter.”
Zhang Ding patted her butt, under Du Fei’s shell-shocked look.
‘Is this how a father and his daughter behave?’
“Stand aside dear daughter. Daddy needs to have a chat with him.”
“Ok.”
He Lili kissed Zhang Ding and got in the Hummer, not sparing Du Fei a second glance.
“Du Fei was it?”
“Who…”
Zhang Ding knocked the wind out of him with a well-placed blow to the gut. It was so strong, it got Du Fei puking blood.
He Lili heard Du Fei’s miserable wail and stuck her head out. When Zhang Ding waved her, she just glanced at Du Fei then duck her head back.
Zhang Ding cracked his fingers, “You’re a hard man to find, brat. It took me nearly a month. I used all kinds of methods but none work. I had no choice but to use your old flame.”
“I am not He Lili’s father, although I am her daddy. I only had to give her five hundred thousand and she screamed daddy all night long.”
Du Fei spat more blood.
“I am Zhang Ding. I looked for you so that you may pay for what you did to Lei Yan and young master Lei Fei!”
Zhang Ding’s turned cold as his fist became golden, striking at Du Fei.
