Under One Person: The Seeker of the Dao in the Lü Family

Chapter 254 Lü Ci: Get Younger with Me

A few days ago, a piece of news shocked the entire world of supernatural beings: the usually secluded Lü Family Village had invited various forces in the supernatural world to hold a birthday banquet for Lü Ci.

It's just a birthday banquet, nothing unusual in the world of extraordinary people where longevity is common. After all, which family doesn't have several centenarian elders still alive and presiding over the celebration? What's unusual is the location of the banquet and the people celebrating.

As everyone knows, there are four great families in the world of supernatural beings: Lu, Gao, Wang, and Lü. For thousands of years, the four families helped each other, but in the last hundred years, they have been in constant turmoil, and the four families that were once closely united have long since become estranged.

Over the course of a century, we can witness the changing of the stars and the vicissitudes of life. Naturally, the four families have also undergone considerable changes in the last century.

The Lu family has passed down its family traditions and precepts, and conducts itself with virtue. Its integrity has remained unchanged for a century, earning it widespread praise in the world of supernatural beings. Furthermore, it maintains harmonious relationships with various factions.

The Gao family lived far away outside Shanhaiguan. They suffered heavy losses in the war a century ago, but they also seized the opportunity to go ashore and were given official positions.

Both the Wang and Lü families contributed to the war and suffered heavy losses. However, compared to the Lu and Gao families, who were "honest and upright," the changes in the Wang and Lü families were somewhat "not so clean."

In the last century, although the Wang and Lü families have grown in power, they have always maintained the style of merchants and powerful families in their dealings with others.

The current head of the Lü family is Lü Ci, who took over the family's responsibilities at a young age and transformed from a mischievous, prickly boy into a fearsome, mad old man.

Moreover, this mad wolf old man is ruthless and vicious, and he doesn't have a good reputation or image in the world of supernatural beings.

A century has passed, and the changes in the Lü family under this patriarch are evident.

Although the Lü family was a powerful clan a hundred years ago, they were chivalrous to outsiders and kind and loving to their blood relatives, maintaining good relations with all parties.

But now, Lüjia Village has become a closed, dictatorial, and class-based wolf pack. It is devoid of benevolence to outsiders and has little kinship with its own people. It prohibits all outside inquiries and restricts communication with the outside world.

Their reputation in the world of supernatural beings has changed from that of a powerful and influential family to that of a den of wolves that everyone fears.

Now, the Lu family, this den of wolves, has actually opened its doors to hold a birthday banquet, and the one celebrating is none other than Lu Ci, this mad wolf.

Going into the wolf's den to celebrate the mad wolf's birthday is probably not like delivering a birthday gift, but rather like delivering a head to add to the festivities.

When the word "birthday greeting" was associated with "the Lü family" and "Lü Ci," everyone felt bewildered and incredulous. When did wolves who devour people without spitting out bones come to understand human relationships?

But the older folks from Lü Ci's generation were momentarily stunned, then seemed to remember something, smiled helplessly, and finally accepted the invitation.

"Grandpa, are you really going to the Lü family to offer birthday greetings to the Lü family head?"

At the Lu family residence, Lu Linglong stared wide-eyed in disbelief as she looked at Lu Jin, who was smiling, and snatched the invitation from his hand.

"Could the Lü family have tampered with the invitations? I remember you and the Lü family head have always been at odds. Why are you suddenly thinking of attending their birthday banquet?"

Lu Linglong examined the invitation in her hand repeatedly, but still couldn't find anything suspicious in the words; it seemed to be just an ordinary bright red letter.

"Grandpa, have you gone mad? That brat Lü Qian ruined your birthday banquet and slapped my brother... ugh..."

"Alright, Linglong, stop fooling around. Grandfather has his reasons."

Lu Lin quickly reached out and stopped her sister from blurting out the old story, but when she turned around, she found Lu Jin staring blankly.

"Grandpa, Grandpa."

"Um?"

Awakening from his reverie, Lu Jin looked at the playful Lu siblings upon hearing the noise and sighed helplessly, "When you get old, you just like to think about the past."

"Alright, Grandfather is fine, and the Lu family's invitation is fine too. It's just that some old things have come to mind, and my heart is a little troubled."

Lu Jin reached out and took the invitation back from Lu Linglong's hand, then looked up again at the handwriting that contained both sharpness and depth.

The handwriting is Lü Ci's, but it has changed a lot from Lü Ci's previous handwriting. It has lost three parts of the madness of old age and gained five parts of the spirit of youth.

"Old Hedgehog, I never thought that you, a man who disregards morality and ethics, would actually have a day when you let go."

Lu Jin slowly closed the invitation, and the scene of the Lu family compound back then appeared in his eyes. Lu Ci was not like this back then, and he himself was not like this now.

"I never thought that at this age, I would witness the changes of time through an invitation from you, Lü Ci."

He absentmindedly put down the invitation in his hand, then strolled back to his room.

"It's been a hundred years already, the Trinity Sect, Wugensheng..."

"Click".

The sound of the door lock opening and closing echoed within the Lu family mansion. The Lu siblings, who had been playing around, watched Lu Jin's figure disappear into the room, somewhat puzzled.

"What's wrong with Grandpa? He seems to have aged a lot in an instant, and he looks very tired."

Lu Linglong looked at Lu Jin's tightly closed door and then looked at her cousin Lu Lin with a puzzled expression.

Lu Lin shook her head. "I don't know, but I guess it's something from the past of the Trinity Sect."

The two younger members of the Lu family were puzzled by the changes in their elders, and the same situation was happening in other forces in the world of supernatural beings.

The composed older generation stared blankly at the invitation, and most of them, like Lu Jin, became dejected and withdrawn, while a few beat their chests in frustration.

"May the Heavenly Venerable grant me boundless blessings! Why didn't I do this sooner back then!"

At the Celestial Master's Mansion on Longhu Mountain, the old Celestial Master looked at the invitation in his hand, his brow twitched, and he clutched his chest, feeling extremely depressed.

"Senior brother, what's wrong with you?"

Watching the old master's exaggerated demeanor, Tian Jinzhong asked in confusion, "Did you miss something?"

"Missed it, of course I missed it."

"Lu Ci, that lucky guy, has finally let go completely. His spirits have been rekindled, and it has also set a fire burning in my heart."

The old master looked at the invitation in his hand again, and through the words, he seemed to see a mischievous boy grinning and showing off to him.

In a daze, the boy transformed back into a disheveled and unkempt young Taoist priest.

That boy was none other than the young Lü Ci, and that young Taoist priest was none other than the young Zhang Zhiwei.

The old master reluctantly put down the invitation in his hand, and also let go of his younger self.

"The handwriting reflects the person. This invitation is an ordinary invitation, but the one who wrote it is no longer the mad dog Lü Ci, but the Lü Ci of yesteryear."

As he spoke, the old master pointed to his chest, "The one reading the invitation is naturally the version of ourselves that lives in our hearts back then."

"I wonder how many elderly people will lose their composure after this move."

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