Chapter 491: Chapter 491: Parents

Riding the flying boat, Han Luoyun safely brought his party of three, encountering no accidents and safely returned to Qian Country.

Halfway through, Yang Xuanfeng departed from the flying boat and returned to the imperial city. Afterward, the flying boat pressed on until it finally arrived at the Purple Mist Sect.

When the flying boat descended, the entire Purple Mist Sect was brimming with excitement, as numerous elders and disciples hurried forward to welcome them.

“Welcome back, Sect Master!”

Roaring welcomes echoed, and every one of the disciples and elders approaching bore excitement on their faces.

Han Luoyun disembarked the flying boat with Han Xiaoxing and Fang Lin, receiving warm support from everyone, especially from those disciples who looked at Fang Lin and Han Xiaoxing with reverence and fervor in their eyes.

Fang Lin and Han Xiaoxing’s performances in the tri-nation tournament were already well-known; both had become role models for many disciples of the Purple Mist Sect, objects of their pride.

“Father, sister, Fang Lin.” Han Yinyue greeted them with a smile on her beautiful face, full of joy and relief.

Han Xiaoxing followed her sister and left without lingering long.

After a brief stay, Han Luoyun summoned the higher-ups of the sect to discuss some important matters.

Only Fang Lin was surrounded by a crowd, unable to walk away even if he wanted to.

“Long live Brother Fang!”

“Brother Fang, you are our pride!”

“Brother Fang, I want to have your baby!”

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Four hours later, Fang Lin was finally able to escape from these frenzied disciples and return to his residence within Pill Sect.

Unfortunately, the peace didn’t last long; soon enough, there were people coming to visit one after another.

Fang Lin was helpless, but he couldn’t turn them away. So, he had no choice but to entertain them. By the end of the day, his face had stiffened from smiling too much.

At dusk, another person came to visit Fang Lin — it was Lu Xiaoqing, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.

“Brother Fang, haven’t you forgotten about me?” Lu Xiaoqing said with a giggly tone, her voice carrying a teasing note.

Fang Lin smiled: “Forget about everyone else, but I wouldn’t forget about you, Sister Qing.”

They chatted while sitting across from each other at the stone table.

Lu Xiaoqing hadn’t changed much, she was still the young girl from before. But she had officially become a disciple, and thanks to Fang Lin’s care, no one bullied her because of her junior status or young age amongst the official disciples.

While they were chatting, they discussed Lu Xiaoqing’s recent situation. It turned out that Lu Xiaoqing was struggling and therefore sought out Fang Lin’s help.

Lu Xiaoqing told Fang Lin that she had encountered a disciple from the Martial Sect named Zhang Shuntian while on an excursion with other sect members. This man was infatuated with her, but Lu Xiaoqing held no good feelings for him.

When Zhang Shuntian’s harassment failed, he threatened to cause trouble for Lu Xiaoqing’s family, the Lu family. This has been stressing Lu Xiaoqing, and even after she reported it to the seniors, while Zhang Shuntian did slightly improve his behaviour, he still harassed her in private.

Lu Xiaoqing was also worried that Zhang Shuntian would harm her family, living with constant apprehension. With no solution in sight, she sought out Fang Lin for help.

After hearing her out, Fang Lin nodded but didn’t say anything.

Despite his good relationship with Lu Xiaoqing, this was only her side of the story. So, he would need to investigate the matter to verify if things were indeed as Lu Xiaoqing had said. If Zhang Shuntian was indeed harassing her and threatening her, then Fang Lin intended to teach Zhang Shuntian a lesson.

Then, Fang Lin gifted Lu Xiaoqing with some pills as a small present since she had always been kind to him when they were Pill Apprentices.

After seeing off Lu Xiaoqing, Fang Lin didn’t rush to deal with Zhang Shuntian. Instead, he went to see his parents.

Of course, the parents from this life, the Fang Family. The only survivors of the Fang family disaster were his parents from this life, who were only saved because the Li Family wanted to use them for their own purposes.

Fang Lin’s parents were living in a quiet place. Over the past few days, they would frequently hear news of Fang Lin’s brilliant performance in the tri-nation tournament. Although they didn’t entirely understand the importance of the tournament, they took pride and comfort in Fang Lin’s outstanding performance.

Even though Fang Lin didn’t have any emotional attachment to his parents in this life, he was still Fang Lin of the Fang Family and not Pill Sovereign Fang Lin.

When he arrived at his parents’ residence, he saw his mother airing out the laundry from afar, and his father silently tending to some plants.

“Dad, mom.” Fang Lin approached them and greeted, wearing a smile on his face.

Both immediately dropped what they were doing and came forward to hug Fang Lin, becoming visibly emotional and joyful.

“My child, you’ve finally come back,” Fang Lin’s mother spoke with unrestrained emotion, her eyes welling up with tears.

Fang Lin’s father, Fang Qian, also had a tear-streaked face. After the Fang family was destroyed and after being imprisoned by the Li Family, the couple had experienced great despair.

Their single thought, their sole support, was Fang Lin.

Now that they were reunited with Fang Lin, the couple was unsurprisingly overwhelmed.

For the next two days, Fang Lin stayed by his parents’ side. Although they were not his real parents, he experienced their care and affection.

Fang Lin’s father, Fang Qian, was also a martial artist, but his realm wasn’t high, just at the first level of the Earth Element. Fang Lin’s mother was an ordinary person.

Thus, Fang Lin intentionally refined some mild potions for them to improve their vitality and resilience.

After taking care of his parents’ health, Fang Lin planned to refine Lifespan Extension Pills to prolong their lives.

He couldn’t always be with them and there may not be many chances for them to meet in the future. This was his compensation for them.

Meanwhile, Fang Lin asked Qing Jianzi to investigate Zhang Shuntian to confirm whether the situation was as Lu Xiaoqing had said.

It turned out that Zhang Shuntian was notorious for harassing female disciples and had been punished by the sect before. But then he was taken in by a high-ranking member of the sect, which emboldened him.

Zhang Shuntian indeed persistently harassed Lu Xiaoqing and had even visited the Lu Family, her family, attempting to pressure them into marrying Lu Xiaoqing off to him.

The Lu Family, a small clan weaker than the Fang family, yielded under Zhang Shuntian’s threats.

Although Zhang Shuntian knew that Lu Xiaoqing and Fang Lin were on good terms when they were Pill Apprentices, he believed that Fang Lin, now a famed talent, would not intersect with Lu Xiaoqing anymore. This emboldened him to behave as such.

Hearing about all these incidents, Fang Lin went to the Martial Sect personally. There were things he had been wanting to do for a long time but the timing was never right, so he decided to take advantage of his current popularity to do them once and for all.