novelMus Story Over the Years (II)
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To understand how this matter relates to Mu Tiannan, it is inevitable to talk about what has happened to Mu Tiannan these years.
It was 2027 in the old calendar, which was the eighth year after Lin Luoran disappeared leaving for the Penglai immortal world from Jiaodong Peninsula. Mu Tiannan left his hometown with anger, and he finally figured something out—"Leaving his hometown with anger" was not accurate to describe his situation. He was timid facing a relationship that would never work out.
He was very uncomfortable with Liu Zheng who had engaged to Qin Baojia but still courted Lin Luoran. However, he also couldn't deny that Liu Zheng was still better than him, a mortal with a short lifespan. If Liu Zheng could be in a relationship with Lin Luoran, he would never leave Lin Luoran alone after a few decades. The longevity of a cultivator could only make her sad if she had a mortal lover.
To his surprise, after he left the country in anger, Lin Luoran and Liu Zheng did not tie the knot.
At that time, he broke off the connection with the Mus family. The only one whom he communicated with was Xuan Yuanchen.
Master Mu got so angry with this unfilial grandson, but Sixie could still be his comfort in the Mus family. Master Mu knew that Mus always became love-stricken. If Mu Tianqing could support the future of the Mus family, Master Mu would ignore Mu Tiannan, an unfilial grandson who ran away from home.
Without control, Mu Tiannan lived in a mess. He drank in bars and gambled in casinos. He even once tried drugs. All kinds of new drugs did not numb his spirit, but almost destroyed his body.
Brother Mu had been a playboy but he never got into trouble. In 2025 of the old calendar, he was already in his fifties. His body was destroyed by drugs and he looked kind of old. Although his face didn't change much, his hair began to go gray.
This year, he still heard nothing from Lin Luoran. It was reported that she was lost in the Penglai immortal world. There was a judgment in the world of personal ability in Huaxia—Lin Luoran might have been dead in the immortal world overseas!
People of the personal ability world overseas was ready to take action. Of course, they were happy about the death of the mainstay in the world of personal ability of Huaxia.
When he met Roddick in an underground bar, this Blood Line was discussing Lin Luoran's death. It seemed that Roddick bore a grudge against Lin Luoran because she killed his sister. Hearing the rumors of her death, he was happy but also disappointed.
Mu Tiannan couldn't help getting closer to him. Xuan Yuanchen didn't tell him all news, but Roddick could talk freely. Mu Tiannan thought he was acting secretly, but he didn't know that the acute senses of Blood Line had locked on him.
When he left the underground bar, Roddick followed him all the way. Roddick looked glamorous. However, he and Crystal disobeyed the family's rule during the battle of Huaxia. They violated the ancestral law and hurt Huaxia cultivators secretly. Although he escaped successfully, his family could not accept him anymore for he brought irreparable losses to the family. He was now prohibited from setting foot on Euroe.
He was accepted only in some small barren countries, or the top country with various of people.
In the dark alley, Roddick failed to suck all Mu Tiannan's blood. Instead, Mu Tiannan got in touch with the old bat hiding in the ring for recovery.
Without the Taoist root, he couldn't train Qi and cultivate. However, the old bat was very optimistic about his being useless.
The old bat asked him to collect twelve jade plates for it, and it would teach him the method of training body as a monster.
Mu Tiannan didn't think that he could take advantage of an old monster. It was true that he had to collect twelve jade plates, but the bat must have some other plans. But so what? After all, this was the last life-saving straw, and Mu Tiannan could only choose to hold on to it tightly.
The old bat asked Roddick to offer a drop of heart blood. The heart was the most important organ for the Blood Line. As long as the heart remained, a high-level Blood Line could survive a very serious injury. The heart blood of a Blood Line was more precious than that of a cultivator.
Roddick was naturally unwilling to do it, but the old bat negotiated with him. Finally, the young Blood Line agreed with an evil smile.
Many years later, when Mu Tiannan was overwhelmed by the dual control of Roddick and the old bat, he finally understood what the smile of the Blood Line meant.
Many years later, Mu Tiannan enhanced his personal ability at an amazing speed. He had the advantages of Blood Line while got rid of the defects. Roddick also somewhat understood why Blood Line had regulations of prohibiting developing the descendants of the Huaxia ethnic group—of course, it's not because Blood Line's kindness to the Huaxia people, but the talent hidden in the blood of the Huaxia people. If they developed Huaxia descendants, they might be controlled by their descendants on the contrary.
In this situation, Mu Tiannan, the old bat, and Roddick harbour totally different intentions, but they got along in peace under the wonderful balance of their own needs.
Mu Tiannan sucked heart blood of Blood Line but he did not become a 100% percent Blood Line. In essence, he was the combination of a monster and a human. However, the coldness in his blood made him feel bloodthirsty.
He definitely didn't want to make a living by sucking human blood. The old bat waited until his spirit was worn away before teaching him to absorb moon essence to resist the coldness in the blood of his body. In this way, he cultivated his body as a monster.
Monsters like abundant Reiki on the Earth. However, before humanizing, they prefer various spirit herbs and spirit medicines that thrive in the environment with abundant Reiki. These herbs and medicines can improve physical fitness and heal the hidden illness brought by cultivating.
Their self-cultivation before humanizing is based on absorbing moon essence.
After humanizing, moon essence is very important, and Reiki is also indispensable.
Mu Tiannan's situation was special in that he cultivated to be a monster with a human body, so he did not need to humanize and he stepped on an unprecedented path.
Stumbling along the way, Mu Tiannan's strength soared. In the early stage of the Alpha Alliance's invasion, he was cultivating while playing all kinds of tricks and he had already collected seven jade plates.
He knew the whereabouts of three in other five jade plates. One was in the Wens family of Huaxia, and another was in the Asadas family of Nihon. The last one was in Roddick's former family.
The old bat urged him to get them all at once, but Mu Tiannan remained unmoved. He really didn't see the benefit of collecting the jade plates as soon as possible. It was just "giving the old bat chance to kill the donkey the moment it leaves the millstone" earlier.
Of course, his excuse was that there had been too many rumors recently. There were various stories of how he collected jade plates in various countries in the world of personal ability. The owners of the remaining five jade plates had strengthened their defenses. With his current strength, he was not confident enough to get them all. Therefore, it's better not to "beat the grass and frighten away the snake" as the old saying goes in Huaxia.
The old bat knew he intended to delay it. Anyway, it was still decades before Bermuda's secret land opened. The old bat didn't want to had a bad relationship with Mu Tiannan. It had many ways to strengthen its primordial spirit but it couldn't trust the foreigner Roddick for help. It still had to depend on Mu Tiannan.
Unexpectedly, the Alpha Alliance invaded the earth, and the peace was broken. Wars raged on the Earth. The Mu family sent Sixie on behalf of Huaxia to negotiate on the moonstar, but he died there... Mu Tiannan could hardly imagine how Master Mu felt at that moment.
Everything was chaotic, and he returned to Huaxia secretly. He had been to Fragrant Hills Villa, but he didn't see Master Mu.
At that time, this old man was busy in the world of cultivation. He wanted to unite all cultivators to defend against foreign enemies. If possible, it would be the best that the cultivators of various countries temporarily ignored previous enmity and cooperated together.
Six cultivators of the Lins family were all on the front line. The youngest Cui Wanlu had already become a young girl, and even she didn't choose to escape from the war.
The war continued. Mu Tiannan knew that even the old bat began to worry. It disliked the cultivators of Huaxia very much, let alone ordinary humans. However, if this planet was ruined, it was afraid that Lost Land would also be destroyed.
Mu Tiannan also joined the army under a pseudonym. He could risk to do anything so he made a lot of military exploits and did not embarrass the Mu family. However, the general situation was terrible. How could the earth's weak defenses which was just like a paper withstand the attacks of alien civilizations?
In Huaxia or other countries, the strength of cultivators today was much weaker than that of the glorious era. The war lasted for too long, and even cultivators couldn't protect every compatriot.
The Alpha Alliance was determined to destroy the earth, and the war was getting fierce day by day. Ordinary people sacrificed and then cultivators also sacrificed. Mu Tiannan was terrified. He cared about both the Mus family and the Lins family.
He was short of power. Since he cultivated to be a monster, it was the first time for him to have thirsty for power growth in addition to pursuing lifespan.
The old bat tempted him that the blood of the alien was waiting for him to harvest. The price of destroying family and country should definitely be paid back with blood. Mu Tiannan soaked up the blood of a soldier of the Alpha Coalition Army but he couldn't remember how he was feeling at the time.
The blood surged in his body, which was a faster and purer way to accumulate power than cultivating with moon essence. The blood of human had a kind of fragrance and different vitality which made Mu Tiannan addicted.
The blood weakened Mu Tiannan's consciousness faster than drugs.
He was fascinated by the speed of personal ability enhancement and this bloody self-cultivation method. Mu Tiannan's fighting on the battlefield won the respect of his comrades. However, in private, he always exhausted all his will to control himself not to drain his comrades' blood secretly when they were sleeping for fatigue—as Roddick said, the blood of the Huaxia ethnic group was the most attractive for Blood Line in this world.
Oh, as for Roddick, this unfortunate Blood Line was hit by a quantum cannon. Only his consciousness was preserved by the ring of the bat. In the following years, he could only hide in the ring of the bat and be partner of the old bat.
The old bat asked Mu Tiannan to wear his ring which would bring him unprecedented power.
The Alpha Alliance came closer to the central area of Huaxia step by step. Countless civilians were killed, and the casualty toll in cultivators was also high. Mu Tiannan had no choice but to wear the ring of the bat. From then on, he was subject to the bat instead of being equal at the beginning.
But it was true that he could make use of the power accumulated by the Blood Line for several generations in the ring of the bat. When the cultivators of Huaxia were on the way to the Tower of Babel, he secretly contributed his power, and the other contributor was Black Tortoise. But he didn't notice it back then.
In the world of personal ability in Huaxia, the five elements of the single Taoist root cultivators were gathered. It also took the power of all cultivators from all countries to build the last defense of the Tower of Babel to protect the earth: the Shelter of Gods.
Once the Shelter of Gods was launched, the Alpha Alliance would be defeated. However, all people there had to enter the Tower of Babel within three days and then be sent away to an unknown distance. This was the sequela of "the Shelter of God". Perhaps when the mysterious master made this defense at the beginning, he or she had expected that when "the Shelter of Gods" was launched, the earth would come to an end. That was why all cultivators participating in the Shelter of Gods had to be sent away.
Mu Tiannan saw many strangers and many old friends in the crowd who were sent away. Cultivators could take immediate family members with them. The Lin family had six cultivators, so they were naturally sent away.
There should be many people who were sent away from the Mus Family, but Mu Tiannan didn't see them. They might never be able to leave because of the war.
He saw Master Mu who looked much older. However, he didn't see Grandpa Guo who always gave him a shoulder ride when he was a child.
Mu Tiannan did not dare to think about what it meant. He wanted to leave, but he was discovered by Master Mu.
Master Mu could feel the strong smell of blood on his body. He had already understood how his grandson lived since then. However, in the younger generation that the old man loved most, one was Mu Tianqing and the other was Mu Tiannan. If Master Mu had noticed this before the war, he might kill him. However, the war had already robbed the old man of so much. It was not easy to live. Finally, he gave this wrongdoer a way out.
But when the Mus family asked Mu Tiannan to leave with them together, Mu Tiannan refused and Master Mu also did not agree.
Mu Tiannan told them something that he could talked about. He had planned to stay on the Earth since a long time ago. In fact, Master Mu was also worried about the actions of the Alpha Alliance after the war ended. He believed that Mu Tiannan might have changed his temperament, but he would never do anything evil. After all, he was the young man that the Mus family had cultivated with much effort!
Master Mu agreed that Mu Tiannan should stay on the earth. He even personally got the jade plate kept by the Wens family and gave it to him.
So far, Mu Tiannan had collected eight jade plates. The other four jade plates had been lost in the war.
Hearing that Mu Tiannan personally watched the cultivators on the earth leaving, Lin Luoran holds her breath and asks, "In front of the Tower of Babel, the Lins family..."
Mu Tiannan nods, "Don't worry, the Lins were all there. Although your mother was a hundred years old, she had a ruddy complexion and was still healthy. They had always believed that you were still alive in the world, waiting for you to find them."
Lin Luoran has mixed feelings when she hears it. She doesn't know what to say at this moment.
Mu Tiannan then continues. Even though Master Mu had not killed him at that time, he forced Mu Tiannan to swear an oath before he left that Mu Tiannan would never treat the compatriots on the earth with evil methods, never forget that he was a descendant of the Mus family, and never be in conflict with the interests of the earth.
Mu Tiannan swore tearfully.
When the cultivators left, the Alpha Alliance was also frightened by their action. Although the alliance had a large number of members with great strength, it had paid a heavy price to get a rabble planet just for some kind of "the secret of longevity" which might still be useless. Its senior leaders were very dissatisfied with this result.
Eventually, the Earth Federation was established. The war ended up with that the Earth became a Rank One member star of the Alpha Alliance.
The reconstruction of the earth was very difficult. There was an acute shortage in the human and material resources. For outside, the Alpha Alliance had trade blockade against it. For inside, there was harassment from mutant monsters after the war.
Mu Tiannan had also been at a loss for a long time.
He wanted to change this situation, but he didn't know where to start.
Wandering in the Alpha Star Territory, he sucked up the blood of a noble of the Alpha Alliance who had enslaved the people of the earth. Accidentally, the noble sucked a drop of his blood, and then Mu Tiannan found the situation had changed.
That noble became his servant.
The nobleman couldn't inherit the master's power at all, but he had the character of blood servant in Blood Line so he couldn't resist the master's order. Mu Tiannan was suddenly enlightened.
He relied on this ability to make breakthroughs. In hundreds of years, he made a big relationship network called "Blood Line Club", which penetrated into all areas of the Alpha Alliance. He controlled it carefully, and it even expanded to other alliances from time to time unknowingly in the past century.
Only one person was controlling this net, and that was Mu Tiannan.
The people who made up the net included nobles, alliance leaders, interstellar merchants, and gangsters. Mu Tiannan controlled it cautiously. The Alpha Alliance had noticed something about it, but it was unable to find out the root.
It was well known that the cultivators on the earth all disappeared, but no one knew that the combination of the monster and the human would choose to be left behind.
After being noticed by the alliance, Mu Tiannan changed his strategy from developing "members" to offering support openly.
He did not trust the Alliance members, so his objects were mostly limited to the Earth Alliance. He would not only support politicians, but also support people who wanted to do research or be businessmen in the future.
Until Lin Luoran returned to the earth.
The other scattered four jade plates during the war were also found out one by one. The farthest one had been out of the Alpha Alliance and had become the private collection of a high-rank star nobleman.
Mu Tiannan felt that it was almost the time for the Earth to escape from the Alpha Alliance's slavery. Of course, if he wanted to see the victory, he must first get rid of the shackles of the old bat and the Blood Line. Over the years, he had done something against his principles for them. The more he knew about the monsters, the more he doubted the bat's purpose. The old bat was not only interested in the twelve jade plates. It taught him to cultivate as a monster because he could be used as its container in the future.
He didn't expect that Lin Luoran also went to the secret land. By mistake, he had not had time to cover his "disgraceful past", but he was completely exposed.
Except for his secret purpose, Mu Tiannan has explained everything clearly. He is frank, and he actually removes the biggest burden. As he said, he was once stained with disgraceful past. If Lin Luoran can't accept him, they will never be friends again.
Not everyone should know Mu Tiannan's history. Others have already left with excuses wisely. Two cups of tea in the yard have been cold. The gourd fruit above their heads has already been picked. Cucumber vines in the corner of the yard are now flourishing. The fragrance of tea and fruit wafts in the Mas' small courtyard.
Lin Luoran does not respond as Mu Tiannan expected. She quietly listens to Mu Tiannan and adds tea for him. She then asks, "You have promised to Master Mu. Did you break your promise?"
Mu Tiannan shakes his head for many times. No matter how severe the blood poisoning was, he didn't dare to forget what he promised to Master Mu. He had never done anything to his compatriots on the earth. He can swear on this.
Lin Luoran shrugs, "Then it's alright. One flaw cannot obscure the splendor of the jade. Everything you did is much better than what I did. I have no right to look down on you."
What does the so-called good and evil in the world of cultivation matter? What Mu Tiannan did to the Alliance people was nothing more than repaying the killings caused by the Alliance in the war to invade the Earth. If they are all considered innocent, what about the innocent people on the Earth?
How many people are still alive on this blue planet which once had a population of six billion?
Lin Luoran suddenly thinks of the support Mu Tiannan has talked about, and she asks, "Is there anyone I know among the people you support? With Blood Line Club alone, are you so sure about taking the opportunity to make the earth become independent when the Alpha Alliance is in war?" Mu Tiannan nods, "Our old ancestors has taught us alignment and nonalignment. I don't need to exert too much effort. I only have to act as a fulcrum for leveraging. Of course, you have known some of my men. Pang Xianzhong counts as one. The club also once supported the Hans family. However, in the generation of Han Kuisheng, the club has allowed the Hans family to develop freely.
Besides, you may be interested in an institute."
When Mu Tiannan is relaxed, he finally plays tricks with Lin Luoran and keeps her guessing.
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