Chapter 757 — Disagreement

At any other time, Yang Ce and the others might have been thrilled, but now their first thought was still how to deal with the Right Elder, and since there was nothing they could do to help here, their enthusiasm naturally faded away...

"Let's stick to our original plan," Yang Yanzi said. "But Yezi, you've got yourself a trump card for staying alive!"

"Once we're back, I plan to give the jade pendant to Yiyi to wear..." Liu Yu said gravely. "What worries me now is that she might be in danger..."

"Huh?" Yiyi was taken aback for a moment, then hastily shook her head. "No way. That pendant is yours, and it's meant to save your life. I'm not going off to fight anyone—why would you give it to me?"

"I have the Vajra Gu to protect me, so I'll be fine!" Liu Yu said.

"Doesn't the Right Elder have that powder that counters the Vajra Gu?" Yiyi shook her head.

"That powder can counter the Vajra Gu, sure, but it only leaves the person hosting the Gu weak and limp. The Gu is still there—it just temporarily loses its ability to act," Liu Yu said. "But he still can't kill me!"

"But since the Right Elder has the powder that counters the Vajra Gu, you can't guarantee he doesn't have other ways to make the Gu completely useless!" Yiyi said. "No. I don't want the pendant, and that's final!"

"All right, Yezi. Your jade pendant can't send a signal to the saucer when your teammates are in danger and have it fly to the rescue, but through the pendant's mental link, you can sense when your friends are in danger and go save them in time," Sun Ce said. "So the pendant is more useful on you than on anyone else!"

"I see..." Liu Yu thought about it and had to agree. If Yiyi were ever in danger, he would still be able to sense it. The saucer might not receive the signal, but couldn't he just go rescue her himself? And if he ended up in danger while shielding Yiyi, that would still summon the saucer—and then he could grab hold of her, and wouldn't they both be carried off together?

At that thought, Liu Yu nodded. After all, Yiyi wasn't a fighter, so the danger to her wasn't great. But the pendant was the thing he knew best; wearing it, he could sense the safety of his other teammates at any time.

"By the way, Grandpa Sun, since you're so capable, if Brother Lin takes the Hercules Gu, could you help cure him of it?" Yang Ce suddenly asked.

"That... no, I can't!" Sun Ce shook his head. "I said before, Gu poison is a profound discipline, a completely different direction from the science and technology I study. When you were researching Gu poison before, I researched it alongside you, but made no progress—it's not my field!"

"So that's how it is." Yang Mo looked a little disappointed.

"All right, Yang Ce, no more research. I've already decided to take it, so just let me take it. Staying here isn't necessarily a bad thing anyway—won't you be leaving your grandson here to keep me company? Then I won't be lonely..." Lin Ce said.

"Young master, you intend... to leave your child here?" Mo Kongwen was stunned by Lin Ce's words.

"Yes. For one thing, it lets him keep his father-in-law company; for another, it gives him some training," Liu Yu said. "Boys need training—isn't that always been my father's view?"

"That's true... but..." Mo Kongwen hesitated, as if wanting to say more.

"But? But what?" Liu Yu asked. "Don't tell me... Father wants me to take the child back?"

"Young master, you know as well as I do that your father possesses many cultivation methods and oral formulas, but by the time he found you, you had already missed the optimal age for cultivation. You never laid a foundation from birth, so all you can practice now are some methods for strengthening the body and improving health—the same as your grandparents. You can live a long life, but you won't have much offensive power..." Mo Kongwen explained. "So the Grand Uncle hopes you'll take your child back and let him cultivate from a young age, so he can become a truly formidable person..."

Mo Kongwen's words left Liu Yu silent. It was true that his father possessed many cultivation methods and oral formulas. His father's early life had been extraordinary—he had encountered aliens and thereby obtained a great deal of precious material, including some ancient martial arts formulas handed down from antiquity that had long since vanished from the world. But cultivation came with limits: it had to be supplemented with medicine and built on a foundation laid from birth—the so-called foundation building. If the foundation wasn't laid properly, one couldn't cultivate at all, and could only practice ordinary methods for strengthening the body and prolonging life.

(For the story of Liu Yu's father, please read the prequel *Very Pure and Ambiguous*; for the continuation, please read *The School Beauty's Personal Expert*.)

As for Liu Yu himself, certain circumstances had kept him from living with his father during childhood, so he had never been able to practice the formidable formulas his father spoke of. Now his father wanted his grandson to cultivate—there was nothing unreasonable about that.

"Then... can't he cultivate here?" Liu Yu asked, unwilling to leave Lin Ce here alone.

"That... it's not that he can't, but this method is rather unique. Without someone to supervise and guide him, he could easily suffer a deviation and lose control. And haste makes waste—if he tries to take on too much, something could go badly wrong! Here, Mr. Lin Ce doesn't understand any of this, so if a problem arose during cultivation, it would be difficult to handle..." Mo Kongwen explained.

"I see..." Liu Yu was disappointed, but still asked, unwilling to give up: "Then could one of you stay behind to supervise or guide him? Or could you think of a way to let him cultivate step by step?"

"That... how about this: I'll consult the Grand Uncle and then give you an answer, all right?" Mo Kongwen said after a moment's hesitation.

"That works. Go ahead and ask first," Liu Yu said. "If you can't do it, then I will. I refuse to believe that if I whine and wheedle and roll around on the floor, Father will still say no..."

"..." Sun Ce and Mo Kongwen were both speechless.

Yiyi and Yan and the others nearly burst out laughing.

After a brief reunion with Sun Ce and Mo Kongwen, Yang Ce and the others prepared to leave. Since no good solution could be found here, they would have to stick to the original plan and have Lin Ce take the Hercules Gu.

"By the way, though we can't help you deal with the Right Elder, we do have communication equipment here that can reach the outside world. Would you like to contact them?" Sun Ce suddenly remembered something as Yang Ce and the others were preparing to leave, and said quickly.

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