Volume 1, Chapter 286 – Making a Plan

After leaving home, Ning Kangping first asked someone to go to the police station and find out how the case was progressing.

When he failed to get any useful information, he went straight to Lin Mo’s residence.

He needed to determine whether there had been any eyewitnesses when Ning An killed those men, and whether Lin Mo had seen anything that could be used against her.

If he had, then Ning Kangping would have to find a way to silence him.

Bending the law for personal reasons was something Ning Kangping had never imagined would happen to him, but no one knew Ning An’s character better than he did. He could not bear to let his daughter suffer a prison sentence she never should have faced.

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After returning home, Lin Mo lay on the sofa in silence.

The memories of his first cycle were far too distant. He could no longer remember them clearly. He only recalled that he had no parents, that he had grown up in an orphanage from childhood, and that he did not know where he had come from, like duckweed without roots, drifting with the current as he repeated the same experiences over and over again.

These endless repetitions had long since filled him with utter disgust. He wished the entire world would simply disappear, but even though his martial power had already risen above the peak of the world, he still could not affect this world in the slightest.

In one of his lives, he had even detonated all the ultimate weapons of the three superpowers of that age at the same time, reducing the whole world to ruin in an instant. Yet when he opened his eyes again, everything had still returned to the beginning.

Knock… knock-knock…

There was a knock at the door, and Lin Mo rose to open it without the slightest surprise.

He knew exactly who was standing outside. He had dealt with Deng Yisi countless times before. In those distant and blurred memories, he had even shared several romances with her.

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Creak—

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At the instant the door opened, Lin Mo could not help freezing for a moment.

Standing outside was not the expected Deng Yisi, but Ning Kangping, whose eyes were bloodshot from staying up all night searching for Ning An.

“Can we talk inside?”

After a moment of silence, Ning Kangping spoke slowly.

The two entered the living room and had only just sat down when, before Ning Kangping could speak, there came another knock at the door.

Lin Mo got up and opened it. This time, Deng Yisi was standing outside in casual clothes.

The instant he saw Deng Yisi, Ning Kangping could not help clenching his hand.

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Ning An had not rested well the previous night, and she had also been wounded by gunfire. Although Shi Lan had already treated her, she was still exhausted, and after returning home, she soon fell into a deep sleep.

Deep within Ning An’s sea of consciousness, Shi Lan cultivated the Secret Canon of Spirit Refinement while also considering whether there was any point in continuing to remain in this world.

The heaven-and-earth spiritual qi of this world was limited. At the absolute most, it could only allow one to step into the Innate Realm. Even in the most spiritually blessed places, it likely could not produce anything truly extraordinary.

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She did not have much time left. Although she had already cultivated the True Martial Undying Body to the middle stage of the first layer and now possessed the strength to fight transformed Demon Kings, her actual cultivation was still genuinely only at the Heavenly Astral Realm, and her lifespan had not increased by even a little. She had just a little over twenty years left.

As she thought it over, Shi Lan gradually came to a decision. She needed to return to Lingyang as soon as possible, but she could not leave immediately.

That Zhao Ye from the Wuji Sect had escaped the night before. Unless something unexpected happened, he would definitely bring people back for revenge. If Shi Lan let go and left now, not only would Ning An die, but Ning An’s parents would likely be dragged down as well. That was not something she wanted.

If she was going to do something, she would do it thoroughly.

Since her arrival had already changed Ning An’s destined death, she might as well take it all the way, cleanly solve every remaining problem, and return Ning An a lifetime of peaceful living.

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Inside Lin Mo’s home, the living room was silent.

Lin Mo reclined sideways on the sofa, his eyelids half lowered, looking very drowsy as he answered Deng Yisi’s questions in a distracted and intermittent way.

He had no attachments left and did not want to become entangled with anyone. All he wanted was to get Deng Yisi out of the way as quickly as possible.

Sitting to the side, Ning Kangping listened to their exchange, and gradually relaxed a little inside. Lin Mo’s reactions did not seem abnormal. He probably had not seen anything he should not have seen.

After questioning him for quite a while without getting anything useful, Deng Yisi could only leave in frustration.

Ning Kangping left together with her. When the two reached the building below and Deng Yisi saw the bloodshot eyes in Ning Kangping’s face, she could not help offering a few words of comfort.

“Director Ning, National Security has already taken over this matter. I’m sure the truth will come out soon enough. You don’t need to worry too much. You should go get some rest.”

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At those words, the little reassurance Ning Kangping had just managed to recover instantly rose into anxiety again.

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After Ning Kangping and Deng Yisi left, Lin Mo opened his eyes fully, sat upright, and crossed his legs, without the slightest trace of drowsiness.

Everyone in the world knew that the three realms of the martial path were Force Tempering, Bone Tempering, and Blood Transformation.

In this age, where martial artists were scarce, reaching Bone Tempering was enough to found a school and establish a force of one’s own. A Blood Transformation expert could become an honored guest of a great clan. Even in the capital, a place filled with hidden dragons and crouching tigers, such a person would still count as a figure of note.

But after so many cycles, Lin Mo had already touched a higher realm. He called it the Human Immortal realm.

Without borrowing external force, one could walk through the air, and by relying on the power of heaven and earth, one could withstand every modern weapon below the level of the ultimate strategic arms. It could be said to be invincible in the mortal world.

Lin Mo had long since grown tired of cultivation, but now he needed power to investigate the strange changes that had occurred in Ning An.

The changes in Ning An had already altered certain things and pushed some events onto an unknown path.

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Ning Kangping returned home full of unease. Seeing that Ning An was sleeping soundly, he did not disturb her. Urged on by Qin Yinhua, he returned to his room to rest.

Ning An slept all the way until evening, yet still felt terribly drowsy. After Qin Yinhua woke her and got her to eat a little food, she fell deeply asleep again.

At nightfall, “Ning An,” lying on the bed, slowly opened her eyes. Her gaze was calm.

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The reason Ning An felt so sleepy was naturally Shi Lan’s doing. She had things to do that night.

Shi Lan got up and opened the wardrobe.

Although she had already grown used to long skirts, Shi Lan still found some modern clothing impossible to accept. Short skirts, for instance. The feeling of cool air on both legs and wind between her thighs was simply too hard for her to handle.

After looking through the wardrobe for a while, she selected a dark-colored outfit, locked the bedroom door, tossed the phone beside the bed, opened the window, and vaulted into the night.

Shi Lan had gone out under cover of darkness to deal with the two bodies at the police station.

Since this world had martial artists and a state that maintained order, then it was impossible for the state not to know about martial artists. If that was the case, then there had to be corresponding violent enforcement agencies to deal with martial matters.

When she killed those men, she had erased none of the traces. It would not take much investigation for the trail to lead back to Ning An, and then there would be another troublesome problem.

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What Shi Lan did not notice was that several hundred meters away, on an upper floor of a hotel, a telescope was taking in all of her movements.

Not long after Shi Lan left, a figure arrived beneath Ning An’s building and began climbing upward along the edges of the windows, heading straight for Ning An’s room.

A short while later, Lin Mo, wrapped up so tightly he was almost unrecognizable, crouched beside the window, looking at the empty room and the phone by the bed, his gaze tightening.

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