Hidden Moth-Chapter 369 - 208: You Seem Fortunate Yet Uneasy

Not long ago, Lan Jiwan, to confirm the situation introduced by "Elder Huo Qing," privately investigated the Huiming Shi Family, which had been purged by the Magic Sect’s Hall of Sect Rules.

In truth, by just observing from the shadows, many conclusions can be drawn. However, to verify, Lan Jiwan personally sought out the Guest of Fate, Li Weiping, and then brought forth the Tier Two Sorcerer, Li Chun.

By inquiring from this brother and sister pair, she gained a lot of inside information, and only then did she fully trust what Ye Liangcheng and Huo Qing said, speculating that Huo Qing was the Hidden Moth.

Before this, she focused on investigating the situation of the surviving sorcerers of the Huiming Shi Family and then chose this brother and sister, especially Li Chun, as her subjects for inquiry.

Lan Jiwan felt very conflicted when she saw Li Chun; she subconsciously even felt it was a bit unfair. From the perspective of an observer, she might just be a bit jealous.

Lan Jiwan feeling jealous of Li Chun? It’s not so surprising.

Because Li Chun’s experiences were very similar to hers; both were discovered by the cultivators of the Huiming Shi Family, considered promising talents for practicing techniques, and thus were accepted as disciples and taught techniques.

But their fates took completely different trajectories. Li Chun was several years older than her and had cultivated for several more years, yet now was only a Tier Two Scholar, while Lan Jiwan had long been a Tier Three Appraiser.

If compared in terms of cultivation methods, ten Li Chuns combined might not be a match for one Lan Jiwan.

However, Lan Jiwan was an unsung cleaner; once her identity was exposed, she feared being silenced by the Huiming Shi Family. Moreover, being under the Bitter Tea Sect, she could not receive complete secret technique transmissions and theoretically could never break through to Tier Four.

Li Chun’s mentor was the elder Shi Zhiliao of the Shi Family. Shi Zhiliao, a cousin of Patriarch Shi Zhizhai, was a Tier Three Appraiser, was quite old, and reportedly had poor health due to past injuries.

After Li Chun entered the path of cultivation, she married Shi Family’s disciple, Shi Haotu. This was actually a means to maintain hereditary power; her mentor introduced many suitors, and she herself chose Shi Haotu.

Li Chun was an official registered disciple of the Micro Realm Sect and could enjoy all the resources of the Huiming Shi Family. She just needed to practice calmly every day, supported by a vast power group, and in the future, if she breaks through to the high tier, her status would be even more enviable.

In similar situations, why was there such a vast difference in fortunes?

Of course, Lan Jiwan harbored discontent, and as a victim, she naturally had no goodwill towards all the sorcerers of the Huiming Shi Family and could hardly view Li Chun favorably.

Choosing to "act" on the Li Chun siblings was somewhat influenced by this mindset, possibly without conscious awareness. However, He Kao evidently noticed this, so he kept a secret watch. Fortunately, Lan Jiwan did not truly trouble Li Chun.

With the ability to completely break away from the cleaners’ organization and worship under the Hidden Moth Sect, Lan Jiwan gradually gained newfound insights. Looking back at Li Chun, her mindset underwent subtle changes.

Is Li Chun worth envying? Perhaps, but now knowing the inner workings of the Huiming Shi Family, if she were to trade places with Li Chun and become a visible cultivator of the Shi Family, she might not want it!

What was the fate of so many registered sorcerers of the Huiming Shi Family? With the execution of five people led by Patriarch Shi Zhizhai, no high-tier sorcerers survived! Additionally, seven people were exiled and fifteen were disqualified and forbidden to teach.

Only ten individuals retained their identity as Magic Sect disciples, received only admonitions, and faced a one-year ban, including Shi Zhiliao and his disciple, Li Chun.

In his early years, Shi Zhiliao was too eager in his cultivation, sustaining serious internal injuries, leaving him unable to advance his cultivation further and in a semi-wasted state.

He was not involved in the core power circle of the Shi Family and had no connection with prohibited and illegal affairs in the Hall of Sect Rules’ investigation. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Li Chun’s husband, Shi Haotu, after cultivating for over a decade, was still just a Guest of Fate, a marginal figure in the Shi Family. But after all, since he married the official sorcerer Li Chun, the Shi Family entrusted some non-technique-related industries to him.

From the beginning, Shi Haotu had advised Li Chun to keep a careful distance from the other sorcerers of the Shi Family, and Li Chun had always adhered to this.

In hindsight, Li Chun’s position within the Shi Family was equally precarious; only by keeping herself clean did she manage to barely preserve herself in this wave of destruction, yet in the future within the Magic Sect, she would not be well regarded.

Having grasped this point, Lan Jiwan even felt a bit sympathetic towards her.

While covertly investigating the Huiming Shi Family, especially focusing on the Li Chun siblings, Lan Jiwan discovered many other circumstances. Recently, she was shocked to find that someone was attempting to harm the couple Shi Haotu and Li Chun!

With the Shi Family’s high-tier sorcerers captured in one sweep, those left either had ruined cultivation or remained in a ban period, unable to employ divine techniques. Even if their cultivation were intact, none could match Lan Jiwan.

With her cultivation methods, when Lan Jiwan seriously investigated, many secrets couldn’t stay hidden from her.

Originally, she just found some suspicious clues, but after what happened that day, she felt indebted to Li Chun, so she deliberately pursued it further, and the more she dug, the more things seemed off.

A great beast fell, marking the start of another grand feast. This metaphor might not be the most accurate, but it somewhat resembled the situation of the Huiming Shi Family.

The Hall of Sect Rules imposed a reclaiming penalty on the Huiming Shi Family; related to the Magic Sect’s heritage, all sorts of things were reclaimed by the Magic Sect.