Chapter 994 - 944: Back on Track!

Cui Jiayi’s arrogance was completely shattered under Li Qiuzhe’s methods.

Especially when Li Qiuzhe mentioned her father with that dismissive tone and attitude, it utterly crushed what little pride she had left.

She was arrogant and overbearing, but she also knew that in front of someone who could scare that Chu-surnamed guy like this, her so-called family background wasn’t even worth putting on the table.

In the end, she bowed and apologized, and even swallowed the humiliation and knelt down under Li Qiuzhe’s demand!

Thus a so-called chivalrous act of standing up for justice ended in a complete plot twist, to the shock of countless onlookers.

As for Cui Jiayi, with her kneeling apology and in view of Du Ruanqing’s attitude, Li Qiuzhe couldn’t be bothered to punish her further. After all, she was just a willful rich girl who didn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth; for something this small, he wouldn’t go to great lengths to push her into some abyss of darkness.

Leaving Bright Square, after the rural girl repeatedly bowed and thanked them, everyone parted ways and went their separate paths. Between them, they were destined to be nothing more than fleeting passersby in each other’s world.

Maybe, in that girl’s heart, she would never forget these good people for the rest of her life.

They deliberately avoided asking about the fate of the Chu-surnamed youth and those twenty suit-clad bruisers. Whether it was Jiang Yino, Du Ruanqing, or Ou Mingsi, they all knew very well that the seemingly hot-headed Li Qiuzhe at school was no soft persimmon. If nothing else, the way people in society respectfully called him "Master Qiuzhe" already said a lot.

But they also understood that someone recognized by Qin Fan wouldn’t be the kind of lawless guy with no sense of proportion. He wouldn’t cause some murder case over this. Besides—that Chu-surnamed youth and those suit-clad thugs were no good people either; they’d probably done plenty of heartless, immoral crap. Just treat it as the Heavenly Dao’s good Reincarnation teaching them a lesson.

If all this had happened in the past, the few girls probably wouldn’t have been able to accept it. After all, this kind of thing was way, way too far from their world. But everything that had happened these past few months—Yinuo being kidnapped, them getting dragged in and kidnapped as well, almost falling into an endless abyss in that abandoned factory in the wilderness, then that nightmare on the summit of Kunlun Mountain, followed closely by Qin Fan’s bizarre disappearance, and then the grand opening lineup of Cangqiong Restaurant.

All of this, while constantly refreshing their worldview, also forced them to grow up at high speed—grow to the point where they could calmly accept all kinds of things happening in their world that they’d never even dare imagine before.

The calm yet fulfilling days slipped by one after another.

Qin Fan gradually returned to that relaxed, carefree state.

Most of the time he stayed at school; otherwise he was running between Cangqiong Restaurant and the villa where the Jiang Family lived.

For more than a full month.

Qin Fan lived freely and at ease in this stable life.

Every few days he’d be tumbling around in bed with Sister Yinuo. Honestly—Lord Qin was truly lost and intoxicated in this kind of life.

But he also knew that this carefree time was only temporary for him.

Returning to Cangqiong Continent to find the old man of the Heavenly Dao and get the answers he wanted—that was something that had to be done.

Otherwise that unease in the depths of his heart would keep haunting him. After all, he had no idea how many people or things unknown to him were manipulating him behind the scenes.

Just like the Four Hidden Sects—they were obviously being controlled to set up a life barrier for him, only his awakening had rendered that barrier useless.

But would the Four Hidden Sects be the final stage aimed at him?

Even if Qin Fan wanted to be naive, he couldn’t think that way. Those successive Immortal Wills, and the Upper Immortal mentioned by King Yan, were all still mysterious unknowns. And for these, he could only get the answers from the old man of the Heavenly Dao. As long as he couldn’t shake off that invisible control he faintly felt himself trapped in, he wouldn’t be at peace for a single day.

During this month or so.

Cangqiong Restaurant’s business was exploding.

Qin Fan had still underestimated the rich tycoons and power elites of Huaxia.

Once the big shots who attended the opening reception hyped up the dishes and their effects, and with the Forbidden City leadership personally showing up to cut the ribbon at the opening, the power elites across the entire Divine Land all got tempted.

Many people flew several hours just to see if the stuff in Cangqiong Restaurant was really that heaven-defying.

If they hadn’t checked it out, fine; once they did, they just couldn’t stop!

Crowded like a marketplace—that was Cangqiong Restaurant’s business state during this period.

News of the sky-high price of a hundred thousand per dish was flying all over the place.

Countless restaurant owners could only silently curse behind the scenes that people really don’t share the same fate.

It even stirred up wave after wave of frenzied debates online.

TV stations, variety show crews, and many reporters all rushed over when they heard the news, hoping to do interviews and hype it up, and while they were at it, try a free meal to see if it was really that insane.

But Cangqiong Restaurant’s threshold was clear: interviews are fine, publicity is fine, but if you don’t have money to spend, don’t even think about eating!

This made those in the interview-related professions grind their teeth in hatred. In the end they had no choice but to apply for funds under the pretext of news necessity. As for trying to stir up trouble or smear them? What a joke. With the Forbidden City leadership attending the opening ribbon-cutting, even if you gave them a hundred guts, they wouldn’t dare court death like that!

For a time, Cangqiong Restaurant became a topic that hundreds of millions of people couldn’t avoid in their chats over tea and meals.

It also became a status symbol for those who claimed to be rich!

Never been to Cangqiong Restaurant to spend money, and you dare say you’re rich? Bullshit!

Just under this unstoppable momentum.

In just over a month, Cangqiong Restaurant’s net profit soared to over a billion!

Correspondingly, Jiang Yuan was busy out of his mind every day. But with profits of over a billion, Jiang Yuan wished there were forty?eight hours in a day. Even in his dreams he was still dreaming of stir-frying in the kitchen.

On the other side.

The Kunlun Sect also scattered all of its disciples, sending them to be active in the worlds of Qin Fan’s relatives and friends. Zhang Qishan truly made it his duty to guard the Qin Family.

As for Penglai and the Tomb Raider Sect, people from these two Sects no longer went around painstakingly searching for the leftover paradises hidden in the mortal world. Living among mortals, they were all desperately vying for and creating opportunities to befriend and build connections with Qin Fan’s relatives and friends.

As a result.

Those guarding Qin Family’s relatives and friends were no longer just the Kunlun Sect; even Penglai and Tomb Raider were intentionally or unintentionally joining the Protective Formation camp.

This situation was undoubtedly something Qin Fan was extremely happy to see.

Given their eager offerings of diligence, Qin Fan wasn’t the type who didn’t understand human feelings.

His flunky team at his side, aside from that old man from Kunlun, gained two more people.

Both were the most talented inheritors from Penglai and the Tomb Raider Sect!

This almost made Cao Qianqiu and the old Taoist from Penglai so excited they could hardly control themselves!

After all, as the saying goes, when one person attains the Dao, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Being able to follow by Qin Fan’s side meant their Sects’ future had a hope of breaking through the shackles of the Heavenly Dao! Although for now that wasn’t very realistic, it was still something to look forward to!

Everything seemed to be on the right track.

Everything was moving toward the situation Qin Fan wanted.

Calm and unruffled, yet complete and peaceful.

For more than a month, Qin Fan had never looked for Six Paths, nor mentioned returning to Cangqiong.

He seemed completely laid-back and unhurried, letting things take their course. But that really tormented Six Paths. Sure, he’d said before that he’d already waited hundreds of years, so a little longer didn’t matter. But back then there was no hope of returning in sight during those hundreds of years; that couldn’t be compared to now at all!

Holding onto that increasingly unbearable anticipation, his mind couldn’t settle.

On this day, he traveled a thousand li straight to Jinling University.