Light Fortress
Chapter 606 - 150 Please Command_3

Chapter 606: Chapter 150 Please Command_3

She watched the withered leaves falling inside the ancestral hall, and the layers of shadows reflected on the paper windows, and said, "It’s not anger towards them that I feel, but anger towards father. Since he wants me to shoulder such a heavy burden... why couldn’t he make all this simpler."

This was a game of enormous disparity.

The "chess player" sitting across the board was a vast shadow shrouded in fog, they were adults whose age, calculations, far surpassed her own, and from within that fog, there was nothing but the emission of slyness, craftiness... qualities such as these.

And she, sitting on this side, found moving forward difficult, even finding usable "chess pieces" was strenuous.

The only "heavy weapon" she possessed was also bound by the rules.

Gao Tian fell silent as well.

Li Quhu hadn’t truly prepared his daughter to "swallow wolves and drive tigers"; instead, he left behind a dangerous predicament.

"Now I begin to understand... the reasons for his actions."

Li Qingsui chuckled softly, "Uncle Gao, you can help me with so many things, but you alone can’t help me become the Li Family Master that everyone expects, some things I can only rely on myself for."

The "circumstances" of the Li Family were already sealed.

All Li Quhu could do was to live a few more years, to witness Li Qingsui grow up a bit more.

Because of Gu Changzhi’s deep slumber.

Internal rifts were unavoidably emerging within the five families... and the day when those rifts would widen was bound to come, appearing in various places, and ultimately spreading over the heads of each member of the five families.

Gao Tian fell silent again.

Indeed.

The reason he abided by the "rules" and waited until now was also due to this reason.

He could protect the young lady as she grew up.

But he couldn’t replace her growth.

The path to becoming the "Family Head"... was bound to be fraught with hardships.

This might be the most tumultuous year for the Li Family in nearly a century.

If the young lady wanted to grasp power in such a situation, it would certainly... not be peaceful.

"Miss Qing Sui, Mr. Gao."

Outside the ancestral hall, someone quickly came out to greet them.

Li Qingsui noticed that the way this person addressed her had changed.

He made a gesture inviting Gao Tian and Li Qingsui to enter.

Li Qingsui smiled faintly and stepped into the ancestral hall.

And Gao Tian, who followed closely behind, was stopped.

"Mr. Gao... The Great Elder wishes to see you." The servant’s voice was gentle, pointing in the direction not far from the ancestral hall, toward the quiet room where the Great Elder, Li Changsheng, was.

The distance to these two places... was not far.

Gao Tian nodded slowly.

As he parted, he cast a firm look towards Li Qingsui.

The two entered separate rooms.

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Inside the quiet room, there was only a single withered lamp.

The light was meager.

Li Quhu’s funeral was held within the Qingzhong Cemetery, and out of the entire family, only one person was absent— that was the Great Elder, Li Changsheng.

He had contracted a very serious illness.

This sounded much like an excuse.

Yet, now that they were face to face, with Gao Tian sitting opposite the Great Elder... he knew that the reason of being critically ill and unable to attend the funeral was not an excuse.

It was an "old illness."

The elder was truly very old, his hair withered white, his eyesight cloudy, and outside his hemp robe, he was wrapped in a thick wool blanket, his spirit beginning to dissipate.

Just sitting before the flickering light, awaiting Gao Tian’s arrival.

The older a Transcendent became, the greater the amount of Extraordinary Essence they accumulated.

From the moment his spirit began to decline... it meant that his strength would start to fall.

The Extraordinary Essence that filled Gu Changzhi’s body was like an ocean.

Yet Gao Tian just watched calmly, not feeling the slightest fear... because the old man’s spirit was too fragile, fragile to the point that he did not need to touch it, it would decay on its own after a few more years.

This was the Li Family’s last "Titled Transcendent."

But could such a Transcendent still fight?

"Little Gao..."

Li Changsheng had just concluded the meeting in the Snow Forbidden City; throughout the meeting, he had only listened with bowed head, not uttering a word... The rulers of the other great families also very considerately skipped over the speaking segment for the old grandpa of the Li Family.

Now, the three major institutions and the five great families were all ready to enter the Qingzhong Cemetery, the Li Family might be the only exception...

Because they were busy resolving their internal "dispute."

For the Li Family... that was the most important matter.

In the quiet room, the ethereal sounds of Spirit resounded.

Li Changsheng did not speak but communicated through spiritual power.

"Great Elder."

Gao Tian, skilled in spirit, replied verbally.

"Thank you... for the contributions you have made to the Li Family over these years."

The old man wrapped in a blanket slowly raised his head, and in his profound eye sockets, it seemed there was a magic power that made it impossible to look away at a glance.

Gao Tian looked straight into those eyes.

At his ear, the ghostly sound of the wind arose.

This moment.

He realized something was amiss.

The lights in the quiet room were still burning, only they were unusually ethereal... and what was terrifying was that in all directions, everything had plunged into utter darkness, those old profound eye sockets seemed to slowly grow younger.

It appeared that a force defying common sense was manifesting on the old man’s body.

Gao Tian felt he was under an illusion.

That hunched back was beginning to straighten bit by bit.

The woolen blanket fell to the ground.

The thin hemp robe was being stretched by an expanding chest.

The candlelight in the darkness traveled across a face flickering between light and shadow.

Li Changsheng extended his dry, aged fingers.

Those two fingers pressed down on a token and gently pushed it forward on the table that lay between them, and during the push, the old knuckles became younger until when it came to rest in front of Gao Tian, the fingers had turned into those of a twenty-year-old young man.

"The Li Family... faces an unprecedented great change..."

"I have made a choice for the Li Family."

The Spiritual Sound of Li Changsheng echoed within the small quiet room.

His voice was no longer old, but had become young, full, and vigorous.

Gao Tian stared at the token... it was an emblem carved with grapes.

In this world, no power could rejuvenate the aged back to youth.

If there was such a power.

It could only be a Divine Miracle.

He stood up to leave and tried to push the door open, but where he once could reach the door frame, now extended boundless darkness.

A small quiet room.

At this moment, it had become an endless prison.

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(Encountered some issues today, hence the update is a bit late.)