Chapter 133: Less Involved in Karma, Xie Chengjin’s Previous Life (2)…
That is a very important treasure.
There is a seal between the human world and the demon clan, all under the water of the moat outside Tiandu City. The seal corresponds to a large formation, and outside the large formation there are countless small formations and mazes. The power of these formations comes from various treasures.
This treasure is one of the many treasures that support the formation.
It was originally an ownerless thing.
Probably because the Xie family is good at formations, this treasure is kept by the Xie family.
All the ownerless treasures in the world, even those that once had owners but are now ownerless, are stored in the Xie family.
Xie Chengjin destroyed the treasure and was beaten hundreds of times, almost losing his life.
Even if he was a cultivator with excellent physique, after being hit by hundreds of sticks, his skin and flesh were torn apart, almost minced into pieces, his internal organs were shattered, and he would spit out blood and water when he opened his mouth. It was only because his golden elixir was not shattered that he saved his life.
But even so,
Still covered in blood and rotting flesh, he knelt in the ancestral hall again and accepted the punishment according to the family rules.
I thought that was the end of the matter.
But how could it be that easy?
After kneeling in the ancestral hall for who knows how many days, the head of the family came in person, bent down and asked him: "What does the little girl you saved look like? What is her name? Where is she now?"
Now that the treasure was damaged, the magic circle corresponding to the treasure became loose, and the large formation in the middle was also slightly damaged.
But because the treasure had absorbed the child's life, the aura of the treasure still remained on her.
Capture her, throw her into the refining furnace, burn her, take her life, refine her into a magic weapon, and place it back to where the treasure was originally stored to fill this gap.
Xie Chengjin asked, "The formation is somewhat damaged. Has the barrier between the demon world and the human world been loosened?"
The patriarch said, "Not yet."
Xie Chengjin felt a little uncomfortable: "Then why take her life? It's just a small loose formation, not enough to shake anything. Is a human life less important..."
Before he finished speaking.
A slap came hard, knocking his face to the side.
“Human life?
"How much is a human life worth? Go to the mortal world and take a look around. There are so many mortals like her. How many people are like this? Yet, you are too compassionate. You absolutely shouldn't have saved that worthless life!"
Yes.
Monks do not care about the life and death of mortals.
The aristocratic families divided the cities and formed alliances with each other, simply to gain more cultivation resources. Governing the independent cultivators in the cities was merely fulfilling their obligations and consolidating their position. But what about mortals? Their lives and deaths could not bring anything to the aristocratic families, so what did mortals matter?
Standing in the clouds, you can't see the ants.
Xie Chengjin remembered the child clutching his sleeve, howling even in her sleep, bursting out with such amazing strength, holding his hand tightly, saying she didn't want to die. When he left her at the clinic, the child chased him, asking him to remember her name, saying her name was Qingqing, asking him not to change her appearance, saying she would try hard to remember it, and if she had the chance in the future, she would definitely repay him.
It’s okay if you can’t see it.
But I saw it.
If you have seen it, can you still pretend not to see it?
After seeing this, can you still treat it as an insignificant life?
She is alive.
Xie Chengjin was kneeling on the ground and was knocked to the ground by the powerful slap. He vomited blood while crawling up.
He should have continued kneeling, but he insisted on standing up. He told the head of the family that he would not tell the whereabouts of the child, but he was whipped to his knees again. The head of the family was so angry with him that he really hit him hard this time and whipped him unconscious.
The body is at the end of its strength.
Xie Chengjin had to stay in bed.
While he was bedridden, people kept coming to persuade him to reveal the whereabouts of his child.
After the treasure was destroyed, the small formation at the bottom of the river loosened, and the large formation was also damaged.
The formation was jointly set up by the aristocratic families and the sects. Any changes in the formation can be sensed by both the aristocratic families and the sects.
This formation is indeed set up to work together to resist the demon clan, after all, the demon clan is an external enemy.
But in essence, there has never been harmony between the many families and sects.
Even if the barrier between the demon world and the human world is not a big deal.
But the discord between the families was thus revealed.
How big a piece of fat is the Xie family?
All the ownerless treasures in the world are kept in the Xie family. Even if someone finds some treasures in the secret realm and wants to embezzle them, the Xie family can take over these things with good reason. In the name of preservation, the family is famous for its strict rules. Even if people are unwilling to let the treasures be kept in the Xie family, there is no reason to say no.
But now the ownerless treasure stored in the Xie family has been destroyed.
Who cares who stole it?
Once the accusation of embezzlement was put on, all the strict rules that had been enforced before became a joke.
The noble families who coveted those treasures used this incident as an excuse. Once the rumor spread, the Xie family quickly became the target of public criticism.
Anyone can come and criticize them, questioning whether the Xie family is preserving those treasures or using public property for personal gain. The hostile families can even disregard their face and join forces to attack the Xie family, first using morality as a bargaining chip, and then using force, justified in their actions. When the Xie family falls, everyone will share the spoils based on their own abilities.
At this point, it no longer matters whether the barrier between the demon race and the human world is shaken.
The Xie family was a behemoth, but it had never been strong enough to stand alone against so many aristocratic families. Even the allied families had become suspicious of the Xie family because of this incident. Only by filling that loophole could the rumors be quelled.
If the child is not found and refined into an artifact, someone from the Xie family will have to fill the gaps in the formation.
The Xie family guards Tiandu, and the sealing of the demon world is also under the jurisdiction of the Xie family.
In the past, there had been cases of cracks in the center of a formation and damage to small formations.
Even if the center of the formation is cracked, it is only necessary to repair the center, and there is no need to use the word "fill".
But this time, the treasure supporting the small formation was damaged.
Defects, defects, damages are caused by lack.
The consequences are not serious, but if you want to make up for it, you must use something to fill it.
Use all your skills to fill it, use your life to fill it.
Xie Chengjin thought about whether he should catch the child back, but he told her.
You have to bear all the consequences of your own choices.
He chose to crush the treasure and saved her life, so the consequences of crushing the treasure had nothing to do with her.
Lobbyists came one after another.
Xie Chengjin got tired of listening and went to fill in the formation himself.
Walking down to the bottom of the moat, he entered the damaged formation directly, reaching out to merge himself into it. A poisonous miasma filled the air, and he felt his body dissolving, his bones being corroded by the poison. The pain was excruciating, and even after enduring hundreds of blows, he couldn't bear the pain and lost consciousness.
But he didn't die.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw the curtains in the bedroom.
The sky blue color was very familiar to him.
Why didn't he die?
Because he is the most outstanding among the younger generation of the Xie family.
When the elders of the tribe learned that he had gone to fill the formation, they were furious and brought him back overnight and replaced him with someone else.
That person was considered mediocre among the many branches of the Xie family, but he volunteered to fill the gap. Who was he? His father.
His father took his place.
His body and soul disappeared, and he became a part of the small formation, lying forever at the bottom of the river.
Where is mother?
She was in poor health, and on the first night her husband came to her, she did not shed a single tear. She lay calmly on the bed with her eyes closed, but she never woke up again.
Why?
Xie Chengjin didn't understand. He just felt a little compassion, but when he opened his eyes again, things had turned out like this. Even his parents had been buried.
He knelt in the ancestral hall, facing the spirit tablet, with violent emotions surging in his heart.
He knew that he was in pain and grief, but as soon as he felt the pain, he felt a piercing pain all over his body. He began to vomit blood continuously. Although the array was not completed, the poison had penetrated into his bones and could not be removed. Every half a month, he suffered from piercing pain.
He lost consciousness as the pain tore at him.
The wound on his palm from feeding the child's blood had not yet healed completely. He reached out and pressed it, and unexpectedly, amidst the pain caused by the residual poison, he felt another kind of pain.
So the wound on the palm of his hand never healed.
The more you stack, the more there are.
The elders from the closer branches came to see him.
The white-haired old man patted his back and spoke earnestly, "The Xie family's strict rules are not without reason. Karma in this world is uncontrollable. Only by avoiding karma can we keep things under control. Xiaojin, you should understand that the Xie family has always been watched."
The family that guards the treasure should be like an iron barrel, not allowing others to cause any trouble.
Don't be partial.
We should stay away from cause and effect.
If you give a beggar an extra grain of rice, who knows if the beggar is a bad person who will bully others in the future?
Xie Jiazi raised a bird. If it flew away, the bird might be caught and its soul searched because the bad guys wanted to see where the treasure was.
If you are friendly with your servants, talk to them more, and give them more favors, what if they have bad intentions?
He intervened in the cause and effect of the child and saved her life. This was the cause, and the so-called result might be that someone around him lost their life.
Everything is cause and effect.
Visible and invisible.
People are the most uncontrollable. Every word and action sows the seeds of cause and effect. We should treat external things as plants and trees, do less of what we should not do, and interfere less with things that we should not interfere with.
But whose fault is this?
Xie Chengjin couldn't understand.
The Xie family was such a huge family, with thousands of people including servants. It seemed that there was nothing wrong for them to protect the family and quell the rumors. As for the child, it was even more correct for him to stay in the dilapidated temple when he passed by.
Who should he blame?
Those aristocratic families? From their perspective, they all had their own reasons for being suspicious of the Xie family or wanting to plunder the treasures.
Is it the evil demon that stole the treasure? The Xie family has strict rules. If they really strictly abide by every rule, how could the evil demon find a loophole and steal the treasure?
He knelt in front of the memorial tablet, unable to figure out who to blame or who to hate.
It's a feeling of confusion.
But that hatred took root and sprouted in his heart. He didn't know who to hate. This hatred existed, but he couldn't find an object to project it to.
Who should he hate then?
He thought, maybe he should hate himself.
…
Change doesn't happen in a day.
But after a while, everyone discovered that the young master of the Xie family had become unfamiliar.
He began to strictly abide by every rule of the Xie family, becoming taciturn and rigid. The lively expressions on his face began to disappear, as if frozen by ice and snow. Later, his emotions and likes and dislikes could no longer be detected.
He never shared his favorite things with his servants again. Many years later, the magical bird he raised died of old age. He buried the bird with his own hands and never raised a new one.
Because of the poison in his body, his originally wheat-colored skin turned pale, and his rosy, plump lips also became very light in color.
Year after year, the boy grew into a man, his appearance and temperament changed a lot, becoming cold, like a piece of emotionless, hard ice.
Almost no one dared to mention what happened back then to him.
Even when it was mentioned, he had a blank expression on his face, and sometimes he would ponder for a while, as if what happened back then had such a huge impact on him that he didn't want to remember it, and even deliberately forgot some details, such as the appearance of the treasure, and the name and appearance of the child he saved.
Many years later, almost no one remembered what the young master of the Xie family looked like.
…
This year.
Xie Chengjin was tortured by the remaining poison and became seriously ill and bedridden. The poison could not be cleared and was buried in his body, recurring every two weeks, year after year.
But even so, even though he was a monk, there was a limit to the pain his body could endure, so he was unconscious and bedridden for over a month. Some doctors even said that if the poison was not completely eradicated, his body would be completely destroyed. Even if the remaining poison could not be eradicated, it would be good to find a way to suppress it when it attacks, at least to prevent his body from continuing to deteriorate.
Xie Jiaxun couldn't find a way to detoxify the poison, so he finally had to settle for the next best thing and tried to find a way to help him suppress the poison.
Finally they found a girl with a very strange bone structure.
The Xie family asked her for her blood, and she then said she would give it, but in exchange. She wanted a better identity, the opportunity to cultivate, and to no longer wander around, where no one could step on her.
The life of the son of Xie family,
Isn't it worth it for them to adopt her as their daughter?
…
When Xie Chengjin woke up again, he found that he had a stepsister.
He just responded lightly.
He didn't ask any further questions, not even his name, and went back to his desk to deal with the official business that had piled up during his coma.
It was only when the clan elder prepared the stepsister's fate plate and brought it to his desk that he took a look at it.
The stepsister changed her name after she was included in the family tree.
The elders of the clan said that her previous name was not presentable, so now she is called Xie Yanyu, which is a good match with his name.
What was her name before?
The elders didn't say anything, and he didn't care or have any interest in knowing.
To him, she was no different from the plants in his yard. The Xie family guaranteed her food and clothing and gave her status, so there was nothing he needed to worry about. Why should he bother to care about other things?
This is how the days go by.
He was surrounded by crowds and went in and out, leaving early and returning late.
He almost forgot he had a stepsister.
Until this day.
He went to the inner house to do something. His attendants surrounded him and everyone around him was bowing.
He suddenly caught sight of a figure among the crowd.
The person also saluted him in the crowd, probably because the clothes she wore were different from those of the servants. They were neither servants' clothes nor made of expensive materials. It was a simple white dress, which was very conspicuous among the servants' robes.
It could also be due to other reasons.
In short, it's very inexplicable.
He noticed her immediately, paused for a moment, and quickly looked away.
He frowned and asked the attendant beside him: "Who is this?"
The attendant thought for a moment and slapped his head: "Oh! It's your stepsister."
The attendant called out her name—
Xie Yanyu.
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