Chapter 132: Brother Xie Chengjin's Previous Life (1)

When Xie Chengjin was young, he was not a very rule-abiding person.

on the contrary.

Xie Chengjin felt that the Xie family had too many rules.

The Xie family started out as astrologists, and because they were familiar with the stars, they were particularly good at arranging battle formations.

Many of the world's greatest treasures are kept in the Xie family.

Therefore, such a family has many rules.

This was a vast family, yet such a behemoth seemed lifeless. Rules permeated every corner, down to the smallest detail. From the number of attendants and the number of pieces of furniture in the house to the larger matters of interpersonal relationships and study and cultivation, every detail was shrouded in rules, rigid and complex.

How can people live under such rules?

Xie Chengjin really doesn't like this kind of life.

He felt like a soulless body, like an object, no matter what, but not a person. So he did a lot of unruly things.

According to the rules, he cannot have too close a personal relationship with the attendants around him.

But he would give his share to his servants for whatever he liked.

According to the rules, he cannot have pets around him because animals are stupid, easily out of control and difficult to control.

But he secretly raised a magical bird that could fly out of the high wall of the Xie family's courtyard with just a flap of its wings.

…

There are too many things like this.

But they were not big issues, so the elders in the family just turned a blind eye.

Sometimes, if he did something a little too much, he would be punished by kneeling in the ancestral hall.

But in the end, these things are not anything too serious.

Until one summer.

A treasure stored in the Xie family was stolen by an evil demon.

Xie Chengjin followed the orders of the family elders to chase the evil demon and retrieve the treasure.

He chased the evil spirit to a deserted village.

There are not many monks here, mostly mortals, and there is a dilapidated temple.

However, the magic weapon was used as an evil weapon by the evil demon and placed in the temple to absorb the life of living people in order to improve the evil demon's cultivation and lifespan.

Xie Chengjin injured the evil demon and then went into the temple to get the treasure back.

However, as soon as he stepped into the ruined temple, the evil demon set up a barrier outside the temple to prevent Xie Chengjin from coming out to hunt him down, trapping him inside the temple.

No one knew what kind of evil magic was used to create that barrier, and Xie Chengjin couldn't break it at all.

Therefore, he could only stay in the temple temporarily and find another way to get out.

There are people in the temple.

There are beggars hiding here from the rain, scholars stopping here temporarily, old and young, male and female, all kinds of people. None of them are rich, and each has their own pitifulness, otherwise they would not enter such a dilapidated temple.

However, because of that magic weapon, the lives of these people were completely absorbed.

Now they are all lying on the ground, deader than dead.

The bodies of those who have been dead for a long time have begun to rot.

He walked around the temple and saw a little girl under the pile of corpses.

A very small little girl.

Five or six? Six or seven?

She is still alive.

But he was also dying.

The magic weapon was absorbing her life.

She was dying, unconscious, and even her breathing was very weak.

Xie Chengjin thought about it, then bent down and shook her.

He was actually a bit of a germaphobe and didn't like touching dirty things. The child was dirty, his clothes were tattered, the patches on them were worn out, and there were patches on the patches. He chose a cleaner place to start.

My hand just touched it.

The next second, the child seemed to feel it.

A dirty little hand grabbed him immediately. No one knew where such a weak child got so much strength. He held his hand tightly, leaving nail marks on the back of his hand. He was grasping at a lifeline. He fainted and kept mumbling in his sleep, "I don't want to die, I don't want to die."

But she was dying.

Xie Chengjin was caught by her, thought for a while, and lost some spiritual power to her.

But he could only transfer a little spiritual power to her. Mortals themselves did not have the aptitude for cultivation, and their bodies could not withstand so much spiritual power. If he transferred more to her, she would die even faster than she is now.

soon.

The child opened his eyes, looked around with a very alert expression.

Then she looked at him again and cautiously tested him: "Brother, are you here to save me?"

Xie Chengjin came to get the magic weapon.

He was just trapped here and couldn't get out.

He didn't answer for a moment, and the child started crying. She was so scared, afraid of death, afraid that he would leave her here. She begged him pitifully: "I don't want to die yet, brother, will you save me?"

At that time, Xie Chengjin was just a teenager.

It was the first time for him to be so far away from home. Surrounded by servants of the Xie family, he had hardly seen many mortals. Even among the mortals, those who could see him were all dignitaries of inestimable status. How could he have ever seen such a pitiful and small child?

No one had ever cried so miserably in front of him.

The children of the Xie family, at this age, still didn't know what death was, but this little girl, who looked only five or six years old, was already crying loudly, begging for help, holding him tightly, and refusing to let go no matter what, struggling and saying that she didn't want to die.

Xie Chengjin felt some sympathy.

After a while, he squatted on the ground: "Well. Don't cry."

The child still cried.

The dirty little hands made a pinky promise with him.

Xie Chengjin asked her: "What does this mean?"

The child wiped his tears and said, "My grandfather said it means it's a deal."

Xie Chengjin: "What about your grandfather?"

The child cried again.

She spoke incoherently, and Xie Chengjin learned from her words that her grandfather had died in a famine not long ago.

He wasn't her biological grandfather, he just picked her up while begging and kept her by his side.

The child cried and asked him to make a promise that if he promised to save her, he would not let her die.

How can there be such forced buying and selling?

He only agreed after she cried so hard and refused to let go.

Now I say this to him again, which is really rude. The Xie family members always speak tactfully and never speak so bluntly.

Xie Chengjin found it funny.

In fact, he regretted agreeing to her because it was the treasure that was absorbing her life force. If he wanted to save her, he would have to crush the treasure. The Xie family had strict rules, especially for the treasures stored in the Xie family. Not to mention crushing them, if he hadn't been ordered to retrieve the treasures, he wouldn't even be allowed to touch them on a normal day.

But this child—

Xie Chengjin looked at her for a long while.

never mind.

He agreed to all of them. A gentleman's word is as good as gold.

Finally, he took out the treasure.

The child saw the treasure and said, "Brother, this looks so expensive. What is it?"

Xie Chengjin: "This is our family's treasure. I came here to find it."

The child's eyes lit up.

Xie Chengjin moved his fingers and crushed it.

The child was very confused: "Why do you want to crush it?"

Xie Chengjin: "It absorbs your life. Only by crushing it can you survive."

He crushed the thing and patted her head: "Okay, you won't die."

But as soon as these words fell.

The child did not look very happy, but rather looked very depressed.

She asked, "You crushed the family treasure. Will you be punished?"

She suddenly looked very scared: "I, I know being punished is scary. I used to work as a helper with my grandfather. He broke a bowl, and they deducted his wages. My grandfather and I couldn't eat. If you are punished, I don't have money to give you..."

Such a young child.

Only five or six years old, but so precocious.

If I were to go help someone and encounter something like this, I would say these words to him.

Xie Chengjin felt a little uncomfortable.

He said, "Alright, I crushed it myself, and I chose to save you myself, so of course I will bear the consequences myself. Don't worry. Even if I get punished, I won't ask you for money."

The child seemed to listen.

She nodded, not quite understanding.

After the treasure was crushed.

The child's life had indeed stopped.

But after going through this, she was very weak. Even if he gave her some spiritual power, she still fell ill, her head was hot, and she soon fainted again.

If they could leave this temple, Xie Chengjin could put her in a clinic.

But I can't leave this temple.

One day, two days, three days passed.

Even Xie Chengjin himself was not in a very good condition.

He tried to set up many formations in an attempt to break the barrier. He used up a lot of spiritual energy and was very weak. But he didn't know how long it would take for the formation to take effect.

The child is in even worse condition and looks like he is about to die.

That night.

He heard the child crying out for thirst in his dying breath.

Xie Chengjin transferred some spiritual power to her, but it didn't work very well.

When a cultivator reaches a certain level of cultivation, they no longer need to eat or drink water. Xie Chengjin had forgotten the last time he had eaten, so after a while, he realized that mortals are more fragile than cultivators and will die of thirst if they don't drink water for many days. But where was the water for her to drink?

But she was really dying.

In reality, a mortal child would have collapsed long ago in such a situation. But she wanted to live so badly, her will to survive was so strong that it was like a burst of fire, clinging to life with all her might.

final.

Xie Chengjin cut his palm and put his hand, which was dripping with blood, close to the child's mouth.

The blood flowed into the child's mouth through his cracked lips, and the child finally fell asleep peacefully, no longer crying out for thirst.

A few more days passed like this.

Xie Chengjin's palms were cut several times, and he used blood instead of water to temporarily keep the child alive.

It is also possible that the monk's blood is useful to mortals. After a few days, the child miraculously woke up.

There is a fishy taste in the mouth.

She realized that it seemed that this brother had cut his palm these days and gave her the blood as water to drink.

She felt a little guilty.

She was still very thirsty, but she didn't dare speak because she knew that if she shouted again, the brother would still cut his palm.

But she was really thirsty and hungry.

She quieted down, and Xie Chengjin noticed it. Seeing that she looked uncomfortable, he put his hand to her mouth again.

She was obviously hesitant.

Xie Chengjin smiled and said, "Alright, drink up. I don't know how many days I'll be trapped here, and I can't even send a message. I finally saved you, don't die of thirst now."

Several more days passed.

Xie Chengjin tried a new formation.

This time, the formation finally took effect, and the outer diamond-like barrier was broken.

Xie Chengjin took the child to the clinic and gave some money to the doctor.

The child was chasing him from behind.

Talk to him with a hoarse voice.

What did you say?

She said, Brother, you are a good person, I will try my best to remember you, please don’t change, I will repay you in the future.

Xie Chengjin smiled.

He didn't say anything, because he knew that he and a little girl like this would probably never have any contact again in the future.

After leaving, he took the fragments of the treasure and returned to the Xie family to report.

He has violated many family rules.

This is the most serious one.

He was prepared to be severely beaten.

But he didn't think about it at that time.

The price would be so high——

It was far more than just a beating.