Inside Zhang Lin’s private chamber within the Holy Land of Chaos.
The cultivation room was as quiet as ever. Pure spiritual energy flowed through the chamber like thin mist drifting through the air.
Zhang Lin sat cross legged at the center of the room. His body was motionless like stone. Every breath steadily drew spiritual energy from heaven and earth into his body.
Time passed in silence.
Until a voice suddenly sounded from outside.
“Senior Brother Zhang Lin!”
The voice was bright and lively.
“Today I brought peach cake for you! Let’s eat together!”
Zhang Lin slowly opened his eyes.
The light in his gaze was calm and deep like a motionless sea.
The door opened easily.
A young woman stepped inside without the slightest hesitation, completely ignoring Zhang Lin’s opinion.
Gu Lanyue held a small dessert box in her hands. The smile on her face looked bright and innocent like that of an ordinary carefree girl.
Zhang Lin looked at her for a moment before speaking calmly.
“Hey… this is my private space. It’s not somewhere you can come and go whenever you want.”
Gu Lanyue did not stop walking.
She calmly continued approaching him, her eyes filled with delight.
Over the past several days, ever since Zhang Lin’s fortune had increased enormously, she had decided to visit him almost every day.
Sometimes she brought desserts.
Sometimes cultivation resources.
Sometimes even exquisite food.
If outsiders saw this scene, they would probably believe the two of them were extremely close. No one would imagine that the two had once been enemies.
Gu Lanyue stopped in front of Zhang Lin before extending the box toward him.
“Senior Brother really won’t accept a gift from me?”
Her voice carried a slight pleading tone.
Her round clear eyes looked at him pitifully.
But inside her heart, her feelings were completely different.
Goosebumps.
Embarrassment.
An indescribable awkwardness.
Yet she could not say any of it aloud.
She could only grit her teeth and curse silently inside her mind.
“System… if this method doesn’t work, I will definitely butcher you.”
The system’s voice immediately echoed within her sea of consciousness.
[Looking at your expression… it seems like you actually enjoy this more.]
[If you have feelings then just tell him directly… the opportunity is right in front of you now… besides, you can’t win anyway.]
Gu Lanyue nearly choked on her own breath.
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“You stupid dog system, watch yourself!”
The system replied calmly.
[Then why is your face red? Your heartbeat is abnormal too.]
Gu Lanyue immediately fell silent.
She knew the more she argued with the system, the happier it became and the more it would keep talking.
So she forced herself to maintain a calm expression.
But the tips of her fingers had already tightened slightly.
Zhang Lin silently observed her reaction.
His gaze remained calm as always.
To an outsider, the scene looked like a young woman trying adorably to please him.
But Zhang Lin understood clearly.
This woman was not someone who would do something like this without reason.
He slowly accepted the box of cakes.
“Thank you very much. You can go back and rest now.”
Gu Lanyue paused slightly before smiling brightly.
“Don’t throw it away again… I didn’t put poison or anything in it… If you don’t believe me, you can try it first.”
But before the two of them could continue speaking any further, Gu Lanyue’s expression changed slightly.
A stream of consciousness suddenly entered her sea of mind.
It was a transmission from Gu Heng.
Gu Lanyue fell silent for a moment.
Her eyes narrowed slightly before she sent a reply through spiritual sense.
“Is there something you need, Grandfather?”
It did not take long before a response returned.
“What exactly are you planning right now? Can you tell me?”
The question caused her to fall silent for a brief moment.
Gu Lanyue glanced toward Zhang Lin, who was still sitting calmly in front of her, before carefully replying within her mind.
“I want to bring Zhang Lin under my control.”
She paused briefly before explaining further.
“The reason… is simply my intuition.”
“If we create a long term conflict with him, it seems that the Gu Clan will suffer tremendous losses in the future.”
Gu Lanyue stopped for a moment before sending another message.
“And more importantly, I have already asked people from the greater world to investigate certain aspects of his origin.”
“But the results are very strange.”
“Zhang Lin’s origin… seems to be extremely special.”
“My people know that the information once existed, but they cannot access it at all. It is as if something is blocking it.”
The other side remained silent for a moment.
Then Gu Heng asked another question.
“And Zhang Wen?”
That question caused Gu Lanyue to hesitate.
She stayed silent longer than before before finally replying slowly.
“I… am not sure. All information about him… seems to have disappeared.”
“It is as if this world never had someone named Zhang Wen.”
Her voice within the sea of consciousness grew slightly heavier.
“But I am certain something must have happened. Because that name… feels like some kind of taboo. And according to Zhang Lingyue’s memories, they came from the main branch of the clan.”
“My people secretly forced a search through the memories of members of the Zhang Clan in the greater world… The result was even more shocking than simply finding nothing.”
Gu Lanyue slowly closed her eyes before continuing.
“It appears that part of their memories were erased during a certain period.”
“A short period… around ten years that simply disappeared.”
“At first I thought it only happened to a few members of the Zhang Clan.”
“But… almost every member of the Zhang Clan that my people examined had part of their memories missing during the exact same period.”
She paused briefly before continuing, her tone becoming more serious.
“A few days ago my suspicions began to grow stronger, so I sent people to purchase information about the names Zhang Wen and Zhang Lin from several intelligence selling forces in the greater world.”
“But the results were all the same.”
“It was like searching for emptiness.”
“No matter which organization it was… none of them had any information about the two of them.”
“It was as if someone… had erased their existence from this world entirely.”
Gu Heng listened carefully to every word.
That uneasy feeling began forming in his heart once again.
His heart started to tremble.
But at the same time, Zhang Lin himself also received contact from someone.
Zhang Wen’s voice sounded.
The two spoke briefly through a spatial ring.
Then Zhang Lin immediately stood up.
Before Gu Lanyue could even say anything, his figure vanished instantly.
He teleported directly out of the room, not giving her even the slightest opportunity to stop him or ask any questions.
A moment later.
Zhang Lin’s figure appeared in front of the Scripture Pavilion of the Holy Land of Chaos.
A towering building stood at the peak of a high mountain. Vast spiritual energy swirled around the black structure built from ancient wood like a massive vortex. Golden purple runes floated through the air surrounding the building.
The elder guarding the pavilion slowly opened his eyes.
His gaze immediately locked onto Zhang Lin.
The first thing he did was not greet Zhang Lin.
Instead, he quietly took out a communication stone.
His spiritual sense flowed into the stone, sending a message to someone immediately.
But Zhang Lin did not care in the slightest.
He walked directly into the Scripture Pavilion.
The building had ten floors in total.
With his status as a quasi Holy Son, Zhang Lin could immediately use his special authority to reach the tenth floor.
Dimensional light flickered.
His figure appeared at the highest level of the pavilion.
This place did not resemble a library at all.
Instead it looked like a miniature cosmos.
Endless darkness stretched in every direction.
Within that cosmic void, countless stars floated silently.
Each star radiated a different light.
Some shone like blazing suns.
Others glimmered faintly like distant stars on the verge of burning out.
But in truth, those were not real stars.
They were combat techniques and cultivation inheritances collected by the Holy Land of Chaos throughout countless years.
