Chapter 123 Chapter 123 30

Gu Qifan stopped outside his master's wife's residence, took a deep breath, and then walked in.

As soon as I pushed the door open, I heard an unhappy female voice.

"Fan'er, kneel down! Why are you bullying Ling'er again? Don't I always tell you to give in to Ling'er? If you can't even handle your relationship with your future Taoist partner, how can you handle other things?"

Gu Qifan didn't dare to refute and could only kneel down obediently, listening to the endless chatter with a blank face.

But after she vented her dissatisfaction, the familiar process returned.

Lily's expression changed again, tears streaming down her face as she helped him up. "Fan'er, do you resent Master's Wife for being too harsh on you?"

Without waiting for his reply, she continued, "I hope you won't blame Master's Wife. This is all for your own good. There's a saying in the secular world that if jade isn't polished, it won't become a useful object. Master's Wife also hopes that you can achieve more."

Lily said this, but only glanced at him and then looked away.

He looks so much like Mudan. I don’t even know which wild man Mudan had the child with. His appearance is even better than the Mudan in my memory.

She stroked her cheek, which had become rotten due to the secret technique, and kept repeating in her heart, "The overall situation is more important."

Yes, the overall situation is important, and the one who laughs last is the winner.

Something had happened to her grandmother that year. She disappeared without a trace overnight and she couldn't get in touch with her. Later, after careful investigation, she found out that the entire Hele Sect had been wiped out. Except for those lowly cauldrons and furnaces, not even a corpse of the rest was left. Everything turned to ashes.

She didn't even dare to go back to take a look, and didn't dare to reveal any clues, for fear that someone would notice something was wrong and the person who killed the entire Hele Sect would come to find her.

Fortunately, she was pregnant at that time, and all her anxieties could be attributed to her pregnancy.

It is much more difficult for a cultivator to get pregnant than for an ordinary person, and even the pregnancy period is longer than the ten months of pregnancy for ordinary people. Although she was afraid at the time, she was also happy in her heart. After all, if she exchanged her life with Mudan as her grandmother said, then the child she gave birth to would naturally be a person with great luck. Even if her grandmother died and could not enjoy the benefits brought by a person with great luck, she, as a mother, could enjoy it!

But after she gave birth to the child after countless hardships, the Qianshan Sect's Great Elder calculated that she was a rare person, a forsaken person. Just as rare as a person of great luck, but in reality, she was a million miles away from that.

She had initially gritted her teeth and refused to believe it, but ever since she gave birth to that child, everything had gone wrong for her. Even the martial arts she practiced most often had nearly led her to go insane. This forced her to believe in the power of the "Forsaken of Heaven."

Fortunately, even so, her husband did not despise her, but was just secretly frowning, which made her feel uncomfortable.

She then secretly returned to the Hele Sect's lair and found the life-changing technique in the secret room where her grandmother often stayed.

But the secret method did not mention that the secret method would cost one's own face. Ever since she found Mudan's child and performed the life-exchanging method for her child and him, her face became what it is now. A piece of rotten flesh that could not be removed appeared on her originally good cheek.

Fortunately, fortunately her husband never despised her.

But she couldn't completely ignore it. Whenever she remembered, she would call Gu Qifan over to vent her anger.

But she couldn't go too far. After all, it was a life for a life. Only by deceiving herself could she deceive others. If she went too far, problems would inevitably arise.

She even had to watch her husband teach him the secrets of cultivation, bestow upon him rare magical weapons, and treat him like his own son.

"By the way, just give Ling'er the sword she asked for. The little girl is a bit more lively, so you should learn to be tolerant and generous. That man named Yuanrui saved Ling'er's life after all, so you must not bear a grudge against him."

While she was shedding tears, she kept saying that if Gu Qifan dared to say anything against her, it would be disrespectful to her.

"Did you hear that? Fan'er, when did you lose the ability to even say "yes"? By the way, remember to find a reason to let Yuanrui enter the inner courtyard. After all, he was injured because of Ling'er..."

Gu Qifan frowned and knelt on the ground, feeling very embarrassed. "But Master's wife, this is against the rules."

As for his master's wife's earlier complaints, he had ignored them. After all, even if he had answered "yes," he would still have been scolded for being perfunctory. But if he spoke too much, his master would have accused him of being unreliable, saying that as the eldest disciple of the Qianshan Sect's head, he would be a bad influence on his fellow disciples.

Lily became even angrier and threw the teacup to the ground. "I told you to enter the inner courtyard, so go ahead. I'm the wife of the Qianshan Sect's headmaster. When did I become incapable of making decisions on such trivial matters? Also, didn't you get a phoenix tail flower a few days ago? Consider that flower as compensation to Yuanrui and give it to him along with the sword."

Gu Qifan looked up suddenly, intending to say that he was saving the flowers to gather enough ingredients for the Yuan Dan Replenishing Pill so he could find someone to help him refine it. Yuan Rui wasn't the only one who saved Huo Ling'er a few days ago; he was the one who first lured away the ferocious beast for his fellow apprentices, and he had also suffered considerable injuries for doing so.

Just looking at the ferocious expression on his master's wife's face, he swallowed his words silently.

Forget it, he couldn't argue anyway. His master and his mistress picked him up from the valley. They not only raised him, but also saved his life. He had to endure it even if he didn't want to.

Besides, it’s not that his master and his mistress had never been kind to him, it’s just that their treatment was sometimes good and sometimes not. He should look for the problem within himself, just as his master had taught him.

At this time, Baili Qing also came back. Seeing Gu Qifan kneeling in front of the hall, he frowned silently and looked at his wife. However, when his eyes fell on her rotten flesh, he shifted his gaze and looked at Gu Qifan twice more.

"What's wrong? Fan'er, how did you make your master's wife angry again?" Baili Qing floated by like a gust of wind and sat at the head of the seat, his voice ethereal.

When Lily saw him coming back, her expression changed immediately, and she signaled Gu Qifan with her eyes to leave first.

"Husband, you're back." She quickly explained, "Oh, it's about Ling'er."

She didn't dare to tell anyone about Yuan Rui's existence. After all, when they decided to use the life-changing technique, Baili Qing had repeatedly warned her to treat Gu Qifan as her own son, and not to reveal any clues at least until the life-changing technique was completely successful.

Although Baili Qing never mentioned it again later, everything he did showed that he cared about this matter extremely.

What she didn't know was that if she had that face before, acting like a spoiled brat would have been quite charming. But with this face now, Baili Qing clenched his fists, not wanting to turn around and look at her.

He coughed lightly and said to Gu Qifan, "Your master's wife is not in good health. Try not to make her angry. She is doing this for your own good. Ling'er is the granddaughter of the Great Elder and your future Taoist companion. You should take good care of her for both public and private reasons. He does have some little girlish tendencies, but he is kind and innocent, and has no bad intentions."

Gu Qifan nodded in agreement, but he laughed at himself the moment he lowered his head.

Yes, Master's wife was doing this for his own good, Master was doing this for his own good, Huo Ling'er had no bad intentions either. Everyone was good, except him - no matter what he did, he couldn't do it right.

When he walked out of his master's wife's residence, no one used any magic, but instead walked aimlessly around Qianshan Sect.

"Kid? If you're not going to practice, what are you doing here?"

Gu Qifan looked up and realized that he had accidentally wandered to the place where his junior uncle's mount was kept.

"Sorry, Junior Master, I'll leave now." He said hurriedly, and his fair cheeks showed a little red. It was really not the first time he had accidentally entered here.

Ying Wo stared at his face for a second, then stopped him, "Wait, haven't you been collecting ingredients for the Yuan Dan recently? I'm giving this to you, but it's useless for me to keep it."

As he said that, he threw a box over. Gu Qifan opened it and found another rare elixir needed for Bu Yuan Dan.

"Junior Master, this is too precious..." He touched the elixir blankly, as if he had regained a bit of vitality through it.

"It's precious, what's wrong with me, your uncle, giving a little brat a spiritual medicine? It's not like I can't afford it."

Gu Qifan pursed his lips helplessly, like a living person at this moment. "Junior Master, you're swearing again. Besides, I'm almost fifty years old, and it's just my appearance that hasn't changed."

But even so, judging from his appearance, he is definitely not a little kid.

"Okay, if I say you are you, then you are it. Get out of here!" Ying Wo waved his hand impatiently.