Chapter 390 — Lin Zhuo's Portable Grandma

Shi Jin was elated. The legendary ruin had lost its special sealing effect, but compared to the high-grade ruin Lu Yan had cracked—the one he was using now—it was obviously still the better tool.

It was just that he'd have to move again barely two months after the last move. So tiring.

Whatever. Moving it is.

But that said—the Ruin Ring, the Ruin Ring artifact, the Ruin Stone containing the Iron-Eating Beasts' evolution resources, and the legendary ruin card... that made four ruins. Seemed like a bit much. So many were useless anyway. Later he'd hand two of them over—and return the Ruin Stone to Senior Ji!

"All right, who is it you said you'd take me to see?"

Shi Li: "No rush, Chongchong. Teleport."

"To find Eleven's big sister."

Shi Jin summoned Chongchong directly.

"Mmm..."

Even the team's number one couldn't escape the fate of being a tool bug.

At the Iron-Eating Beast Legion camp.

Chief Rearing Master Lin Zhuo hadn't left the ruin in a long while. Barring other matters, her eating, drinking, and sleeping were all basically done inside the ruin.

Shi Jin had given her so many resources; she could not, by any means, let Shi Ying down. She absolutely had to raise the Iron-Eating Beast Legion into the strongest legion!

In her room, Lin Zhuo was drafting the breeding plan for the Iron-Eating Beast Legion. The data on every beastmaster's Iron-Eating Beast in the legion was recorded here with her...

Knock, knock, knock.

"Come in." Lin Zhuo spoke, looking toward the door—and at that glance, her expression went slightly blank. A woman who resembled her mother even more than her mother did stepped in from outside and looked at her.

Honestly, in all her years, Lin Zhuo had never been this dumbfounded—not even when Shi Yan and Eleven kept pulling off miracle after miracle.

Likewise, Ji Li, who had been cajoled in by Shi Jin, saw the girl and fell briefly silent.

Obviously...

Both had noticed how much the other resembled themselves.

"Haha." Just as both stood utterly bewildered, Shi Jin laughed heartily and entered with Chongchong at his side.

At that moment, seeing Shi Jin, Lin Zhuo—dressed in her black-and-white uniform—froze. Her gaze darted back and forth between Shi Jin, Chongchong, and the mature version of herself, and at last she spotted the problem. A flush of anger rose to her face. "Shi Jin, that's going too far. Tell Chongchong to drop the illusion right now."

Lin Zhuo quickly realized that this mature "self" did not look like a real person.

And upon seeing Shi Yan's Chongchong, she concluded outright: it was Shi Tan, that rascal, who had made Chongchong use its real-illusion power to create a phantasm of her.

"W-wait." Shi Cen froze, realizing that Sister Xiong Qi had surely misunderstood something. He hurried to explain, "What does this have to do with Chongchong?"

"Mmm!!" Chongchong felt utterly wronged too.

Ji Li looked at Lin Zhuo, smiled faintly, and gradually came to understand. She said, "Little girl, does your family keep a genealogy?"

Lin Zhuo: ???

Shi Li: "Senior Sister, Senior Ji was a legendary rearing master from the Martial Emperor Dynasty two thousand years ago. What she oversaw back then was also the rearing work of the Martial Emperor's Iron-Eating Beast Legion..."

"You thought that because this girl and I look so alike, she must be a descendant of my clan—is that it?" Ji Li said. "I do indeed sense a bloodline connection. How interesting."

Lin Zhuo: ??????

At that moment, Lin Zhuo panicked a little. The pen in her hand hovered in midair. What... what...

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