Chapter 36
The ghost Ah Xiu didn't understand, but since the curator didn't seem angry, he didn't say anything. After all, sometimes being happy in life is more important than anything else.
Holding the yellow talisman given by Lin Lang, Su Yun came to the bottom of the funeral home and found Yu Ming. He had not given up on escaping and had been trying to find an exit underground. If this was an ordinary basement, he would have escaped long ago.
Yu Ming’s location was different from last time, but Su Yun was still able to find him immediately.
"Even if you keep monitoring me, you won't get any answers." Yu Ming said with a sneer.
"I haven't been monitoring you all the time. You can think of this place as a paradise specially built for me. Is it strange that I know where you are?" Su Yun looked at him calmly. There was no difference from the last time she came. It was impossible to tell what she wanted to know.
Yu Ming hadn't been able to find a way out these past few days, and he had some guesses in his mind. He stared at Su Yun gloomily. If he could not really touch Su Yun's physical body, he would probably have stabbed him with his sword thousands of times.
Su Yun didn't care about Yu Ming's hostility. Compared with her own affairs, seeing Yu Ming now, she couldn't help but be more curious about another thing: "I came to tell you that at the old man's funeral tomorrow, as you wished, the old man is still dead, but you may be disappointed that the old man's body was sent to me, so he will not become a zombie."
Yu Ming didn't expect Su Yun to come to inform him specially. He just laughed out loud: "It's great. This arrogant old man is finally dead. He died of illness, right? He was lying on the hospital bed and couldn't move before he died. I wonder if he will regret the bad things he did."
In Su Yun's opinion, the grudge between Yu Ming and the Wu family back then was nothing. Not to mention the class issue, the fact that the government had twice intercepted Yu Ming's appointments was enough for him to reflect on why he was always intercepted by the government.
Su Yun waited for him to finish laughing, then said, "I'm actually very curious. From what I heard from the Wu family, no matter what, I can't understand why you targeted the old man of the Wu family and even went to find Aunt Wu. Do you hate him so much just because the old man didn't see you?"
"What do you know? I tried to find that old guy again and again, but he wouldn't see me no matter what. I made several appointments through his son, but he even stood me up in the end. Do you think he can fool me, Yu Ming?" Yu Ming's eyes widened, and he bared his teeth and cursed fiercely, as if he had a deep hatred for the old man of the Wu family.
"To be honest, you were just unlucky because the government intercepted your appointments every time. Who do you think you are compared to the government? No matter who you offend, you can never offend the government, right? Especially with your small business, how can it be considered an offense to the old man?" Su Yun asked in confusion.
Yu Ming sneered and said as a matter of course: "The government holds dinner parties more than ten times a month. What's wrong with him turning down a few? Is this old man who doesn't keep his word worthy of the government's trust? Birds of a feather are nothing to be trifled with. And I don't believe that the government was the one who got in on the act this time. He just wants to mess with me!"
Facing Yu Ming's twisted reasoning, Su Yun's face twitched: "If you were worthy of the old man's attack, wouldn't you have gone to see him? Besides, don't you know your own destiny? You have to thank Jingling Sect for your cultivation to achieve your current level of cultivation. It has little to do with you. Otherwise, think about it, have you succeeded in anything in these years?"
This sentence directly hit Yu Ming's biggest pain point. He had been hiding his identity for thirty years and changed his fate several times. No matter how good his fate was, he could not achieve anything. Even when he borrowed Chu Feidu's identity, he did not accomplish anything successful. The most terrifying thing was that his cultivation never improved afterwards.
Whether in the past or now, Yu Ming feels that the Jingling Sect's way of cultivation is wrong, but he also knows that his aptitude is not good enough. If he cultivates in the normal way, he would probably be in his seventies or eighties just getting started.
But it is different with the Jingling Sect. Because of the Jingling Sect's unique dual cultivation method, Yu Ming can borrow the zombies' cultivation to quickly improve his own cultivation. As long as the zombies he finds are strong enough, sooner or later he will be able to cultivate faster than the sect master.
As a result, his cultivation speed has been getting slower and slower since he defected. At the beginning, he could fight back and forth with the Jingling Sect because of his skyrocketing cultivation, but gradually, he could no longer fight with the disciples of the same generation in the Jingling Sect. Even the person he looked down upon the most at the beginning became the new sect leader, and he was just a hiding traitor.
Under such pressure, Yu Ming hated God's injustice more and more, but he could not change anything.
Seeing his angry expression, Su Yun couldn't help laughing and said, "It seems that the old man was lucky not to have met you at that time. If he had met you, he would probably have become the second Chu Feidu. But I'm still very grateful that you saved Aunt Wu. At least she didn't die in such a dirty place, so I could give her a decent funeral."
Yu Ming was so angry that he couldn't refute. He relied on Chu Feidu's relationship at the time and moved around among the many noble families in Bincheng, trying to find a way out for himself. However, he ran into obstacles everywhere. Either the antique dealer was the only one or they had no interest in antiques. Even if there were people who wanted to invest, they were unwilling to give him a unique investment.
After walking around for a long time, I found that only the Wu family was still buying various antiques. They said that the old man liked them and wanted to save more so that he could give them to his two grandchildren and daughter in the future.
Yu Ming would definitely not let go of such a client who is stupid and rich. However, from the face of the old man from the Wu family in the photo, he knew that he was a blessed man and would have a smooth life. How could he not be tempted by such a fate?
It turned out that the old man hid better than him, and he couldn't find him no matter how hard he looked. He even thought about finding out the old man's itinerary and intercepting him. It would be best if he created an accident like Chu Feidu did and made the old man one of his puppets.
But I don’t know if it was because the old man was too lucky, all of Yu Ming’s plans came to nothing. Later, when he was about to be found by the Jingling Sect, he had no choice but to find a distant relative with the same surname, Yu, to escape.
"I tell you all this because I want to ask you, why do you hate the old man so much? You actually started to make arrangements from such a long time ago, from Sister Lan to the fetal hair left at home after Aunt Wu passed away, and the later discovery of Aunt Wu's body. If you have the energy to pay more attention to cultivation or business, what can't you succeed in?" Su Yun directly asked about the thing he was most curious about.
After checking so many clues from beginning to end, Su Yun was most puzzled by this. Yu Ming was so "loyal" to the Wu family. What if he put his brain and efforts on other things?
Yu Ming said, "Too early? I thought I was too late. Do you know that I only targeted the Wu family? I didn't let go of anyone who looked down on me over the years. I had already arranged all those things. Do you think you can just lock me up like this? Those people deserve to die. I am living such a miserable life, why do they live so comfortably?"
If the targeting of the wealthy families in Bincheng had already existed, then it would not be surprising that Aunt Wu saw some tricks at the Fu family in her early years, because Yu Ming always secretly retaliated against those who were unwilling to cooperate with him according to his own likes and dislikes.
However, every family has its own problems. Su Yun has never heard of any family being particularly unlucky. Anyway, from her point of view, she couldn't see the problem. In addition, she was young before and didn't understand many things.
"It's because you've done so many bad things that you're getting more and more unlucky. Do you think God doesn't know if your fate keeps changing?" Su Yun said with a sneer.
"So what? God has been unfair to me! So what's wrong with me taking revenge on those God likes?" Yu Ming didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior at all. He just hated that he was not capable enough to kill more so-called chosen ones. Otherwise, he would kill all those who dared to look down on him.
Su Yun looked at him for a while and let out a long sigh: "Did you push the old man down the stairs too?"
Speaking of this, Yu Ming smiled subtly: "You know what? I never do this kind of thing myself. Even if God is here, he can't say that I killed the person. It was my good disciple who did it, hahahahahaha... He and I are the same person. I am on guard and he is on guard against me. You, you will never be able to wait for him to come, so give up on this idea!"
When Yu Ming was laughing, Su Yun threw the folded yellow talisman directly into Yu Ming's mouth like a dart. Immediately, Yu Ming's laughter stopped as if his neck was suddenly strangled.
Yu Ming reached out to grab his throat, then remembered that he should press a certain point on his acupoint to make himself vomit. However, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't vomit.
Su Yun walked in front of him and said, "Don't waste your energy. I borrowed the yellow talisman from someone else. I didn't write it myself because I didn't want to argue with you about this matter. It's better to just stop you from saying it. "
"Cough cough cough...what on earth is that?" Yu Mingkou was tormenting his throat so much that his face was covered with tears, but the talisman seemed to have disappeared in his throat and he couldn't find it no matter how hard he tried.
"It's a truth-spitting talisman. Eat it, and you'll have to answer whatever I ask you. You're also a cultivator, so why are you so naive? There are many ways to make you speak." Su Yun smiled and looked at him.
Yu Ming was so angry that his eyes almost popped out: "Bitch!"
In fact, Su Yun could also draw a general truth-telling talisman. She had to ask Lin Lang for it because she wanted to take advantage of his fate and innate energy. As long as the talisman was drawn by Lin Lang, it would be successful. Compared to Su Yun drawing the talisman and then finding a way to give it to Yu Ming to eat, and worrying that he would resist and tell false information, it was much simpler to go directly to Lin Lang.
He was just worried that Lin Lang wanted to know the whole story, and would not give it to Su Yun after knowing the purpose of Su Yun wanting the yellow talisman.
At that time, Su Yun was ready to play the victim, but it wasn't really playing the victim, because she had died tragically, and she tried her best to describe herself as pitiful, so that Lin Lang would not feel sympathy.
The effect of the truth-telling talisman was immediate. No matter how unwilling Yu Ming was, as long as Su Yun asked him a question, he would absolutely not be able to resist telling the answer.
When Yu Ming found that he could not resist the effect of the Truth-Spitting Talisman no matter how hard he tried, he finally panicked: "Su Yun! Miss Su, don't, don't say anything! We can discuss this matter...really! Listen to me, don't say anything yet!"
Su Yun looked at him with interest: "Okay, I'll listen to you. What do you want to say?"
“I, I…” Yu Ming covered his mouth tightly. He couldn’t help but answer, but he had to choose what to say. If he said something he shouldn’t, he would really get himself into trouble. “I, I say, Zhao Tu Hu actually knows more about this matter. Yes, yes, you can ask my apprentice Zhao Tu Hu!”
"Zhao Tuhu, but didn't you say that he wouldn't come to save you? If he doesn't come to save you, where can I ask him?" Su Yun asked with a smile.
Yu Ming had obviously thought of this problem, and he directly gave an address: "…This is the place. He has been waiting for my news there recently. I told him that I want the old man to die, and he should find a way to get the old man into the hospital. He will wait there for half a month. If he hears the news of the old man's death, it means he has succeeded, and I will give him a vacation. Later, I will teach him how to change his fate, and then he can run away."
When faced with his own life and death, Yu Ming betrayed his apprentice without leaving any room for mercy. Even though this apprentice could kill people for him, he still betrayed him without any psychological burden.
Su Yun chuckled: "Haha, from what you said, after you finish this job for the old man, you are going to part ways with Zhao Tuhu? Aren't you master and disciple?"
Yu Ming listened to Su Yun's teasing and gritted his teeth and told him what happened between him and Zhao Tuhu.
It was not quite the same as Su Yun's guess. Yu Ming and Zhao Tuhu were indeed just plastic master and apprentice. The only reason they could get together was because of the Jingling Sect. There was no affection between them. It was better to say that it was a transaction from the beginning.
Yu Ming had mentioned to Su Yun before that his cultivation speed had plummeted since he left Jingling Sect. He had no idea what was going on, but when he just escaped, his speed was obviously very fast.
As for the reason, Su Yun also told him. Whether he believed it or not, the Jingling Sect's practice was basically equivalent to dual cultivation. If he was smart, he would know that he should find a beloved monster as soon as possible, and then as long as he truly loved each other and started dual cultivation, his practice speed would become faster and faster.
However, if Yu Ming had listened to him, he would not have defected from Jingling Sect.
The story begins before Yu Ming entered Jingling Gate. Looking at the whole story from his own first-person perspective, it is filled with another atmosphere - the feeling of being disappointed in someone.
Others didn't know what Yu Ming's past was like, and Che Xuming was a generation older than him, so his master certainly couldn't explain everything clearly. But Yu Ming himself had nothing to hide from saying, and now that he had taken the truth-telling talisman, naturally everything was true.
Just like the stories told in many vernacular novels, Yu Ming was actually born into a very poor family, so poor that his family could not even afford to let him finish elementary school.
In the era when Yu Ming was born, compulsory education was gradually becoming popular. First-tier cities had kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools, high schools, and universities from the beginning. There was no need for poverty alleviation policies at all. What was really needed were rural areas and backward towns.
Yu Ming said that in that era, it was not easy to receive compulsory education even in ordinary small towns. It was something that only rich families and children of officials could receive. If ordinary people wanted to finish junior high school, high school or even college, they needed the strength of the whole family.
This so-called power of the whole family means that no matter how many children there are in the family, from the grandparents to the children and nephews, all of them go out to work, farm, or work in the factory to support only one child, and they have to find ways to avoid being reported, otherwise if someone reports you and says you are a capitalist, the whole family will be finished.
The number of families that could actually send their children to college started after the 1970s. Before the 1970s, having a high school education was considered good.
Su Yun had no idea about things in that era. She had no grandparents, as they had all passed away. Her parents were still young, young enough in their forties or fifties to go on romantic honeymoons and do heroic things at the same time. They were people living in a romantic generation.
Therefore, Yu Ming's story was particularly interesting to Su Yun. He simply sat down and listened with great interest: "So, you are the high school student who was betrayed by your entire family? Then how did you become a Taoist priest?"
Yu Ming glanced at her with a twisted face: "Lick, do you think everyone is so lucky? I am the nephew who was forced to pay for a certain uncle's schooling!"
"Ah?" Su Yun was stunned. She couldn't imagine that with Yu Ming's personality, he was willing to support a so-called uncle to go to school instead of going himself?
Su Yun could hear from Yu Ming's tone his dissatisfaction with his family and that era. In the past, he would be put in the cowshed for saying such things, but now he can say them casually.
Because Yu Ming was born in a bad era, he was almost deprived of the right to study from birth. In an era when everyone advocated that studying was equal to capitalism, wanting to change one's destiny through studying was tantamount to treason, which was a life-threatening act.
And an uncle who was supported by the whole family was able to graduate from high school early and went to the countryside. No matter what treatment and fate the young people who went to the countryside had, at least in Yu Ming's family at that time, he was the god and emperor of the whole family.
Yu Ming had to get up early and work late like other children in the family when he was five years old. There were many people in his family and many children. In order to have food to eat, they worked hard every day to earn cents. There were not many things a child could do. The few cents of meal tickets they earned a day were not even enough to buy a plate of pickles. The only thing they could do was to clean the house.
At that time, it seemed that everyone lived like this. In the countryside, there was no idea that children should be sent to primary school first, so that they could at least learn a few words and count. They thought that there was nothing wrong with working on the farm all their lives. After all, they had already raised one educated student! Why would they support a second one?
In such an environment, most people actually accepted their fate, and Yu Ming was one of them.
If the story had developed peacefully, Yu Ming would probably have been an ordinary farmer. When he reached his teens, his family would find him a wife, and he would have a bunch of children. Then, among the children, they would support one to become a college student, and that would have been about it.
As a result, when Yu Ming was eight years old, their village was going to build a factory.
After the early 1970s, production teams had reached a corresponding scale, and large and small production teams began to be dissatisfied with just doing miscellaneous work every day that did not make much money.
People, once they have enough food and clothing, start thinking about the economy. This is inevitable. Even in the most difficult decade, economic development did not stop. The construction of factories by production teams and the distribution of land to households were the economic development that could be achieved in that special historical era.
To put it bluntly, the fact that the Wu family is now praised as the "leader in heavy industry" is inseparable from the foundation laid during this period.
Just like the coal bosses and the industrial era in the north, it was the product of economic development in a special era. After Yu Ming could remember things, all his parents talked about every day was farming, centimeters, factory workers, and iron rice bowls.
The production team in Yu Ming's hometown wanted to follow the trend and set up a factory to make a lot of money. Everyone agreed. Everyone even thought, how glorious it would be if they could work in a factory?
At that time, working people were the most glorious. People without much education thought that the factory could support them for the rest of their lives, and they wanted their children and grandchildren to work in the factory as well. They thought that it was a stable job with a guaranteed income, and that they came from a good family and even had more face than the so-called bosses.
The production team wanted to set up a factory, and they needed to choose a site, determine the location, and lay the foundation... No matter how many years people have been calling for the ban on feudal superstition, when it comes to this kind of thing, everyone will do the math. Some things have to be believed, and a house that has not been calculated by a master is prone to accidents.
Especially when it comes to something as big as setting up a factory, you have to calculate everything very carefully and cautiously. And even if someone reports it, there is something to say. This is not called feudal superstition, this is called architecture!
So the production team found a master who was said to be very knowledgeable to do the fortune-telling.
There were many children in the village, and none of them had ever seen Taoist priests or monks. They had just heard their parents talk about them. At that time, many ghost movies were banned for fear of accidents, so both adults and children thought that these mysterious people were like gods.
Yu Ming had stopped working at that time, so he followed the other friends and stared at the old man in the Taoist robe. The old man looked gentle, but there was an indescribable energy. To describe him with Yu Ming's current vocabulary, he was "immortal-like". He really looked like a god who had descended to earth. It was unknown where the production team leader found this man.
The old Taoist priest calculated for a long time with the compass and finally decided on the price. He didn't ask for much money, just a few dollars and a few cents, and looked very poor.
The team leader of the production team wanted to invite him to dinner, but was rejected by the old Taoist priest. When he was about to leave, he saw Yu Ming among the children, so he paused, asked the person who was going to send him off to wait, and then walked up to Yu Ming.
After so many years, Yu Ming still remembered all the details, as well as the smell of incense, candles and paper money on the old Taoist priest's body, which was not unpleasant. Even though he was also infected with the smell after joining various Taoist sects, he still felt that he could not compare to the old Taoist priest's immortal demeanor.
The old Taoist priest held a whisk in his hand and slowly squatted down in front of Yu Ming. He carefully examined his face and sighed, "At such a young age, you have a fierce look on your face. You are destined to be a cruel and ruthless person. What a pity..."
What is there to pity? You can't just pity this bad fate, right?
At that time, Yu Ming wanted to spit in the face of the kind-looking old Taoist priest. He thought that the old man spoke very rudely and that he might not be a good person even though he looked like a human being. He should be sent to the cowshed.
However, the old Taoist looked at him for a long time and asked him, "Child, do you want to go to school and learn to read?"
The driver of the production team was not happy and came over to ask, "Master, why are you asking about this little brat? These kids hang around in the village all day long, they are not serious, their parents can't take care of them, they can't read a single word, and they don't have the strength. Why are you asking about studying and literacy?"
"I think he has a strange destiny, and I want to try to change it. It's not easy to study these days, but life in the Taoist temple has always been poor. If he is willing, I will take him back and give him something to eat. What do you think?" The old Taoist priest discussed with the driver.
"Ah..." The driver scratched his head, a bit of embarrassment on his dark face, "Master, it's no use asking me this, you have to ask the person's parents."
I don't know what the old Taoist priest was thinking. He was not in a hurry to leave. He asked the driver to take him to Yu Ming's home. His parents were not there and were still working in the team. The old Taoist priest looked at the weather and felt that this matter could not be delayed, so he went to where Yu Ming's parents worked.
In fact, Yu Ming couldn't remember what time it was. For him, that was a turning point that changed his destiny. It was inevitable that he added various filters to his memory and couldn't tell what time it was.
Compared with the clean robe of the old Taoist priest, the people in the village looked dirty and inevitably a little restrained and at a loss. This was the case with Yu Ming's parents. They simply didn't understand what the old Taoist priest meant. After the driver explained in various dialects, they barely understood that "the old Taoist priest wanted their son to become a Taoist priest."
The old Taoist priest didn't understand the dialect, but he knew the translation was wrong by looking at the faces of the parents. He quickly explained to the driver again that they could go to the Taoist temple to pray first, and then when Yu Ming was over fifteen years old, he could come back to study for the college entrance examination or stay to be a Taoist priest.
In order to explain the matter clearly to Yu Ming's parents, the driver took great effort and used countless different descriptions before they understood that it was not about becoming a Taoist priest or leaving and never coming back. Taoist priests were different from monks. They would not sever ties with their families, nor would they stay together for their entire lives to get married and have children. They could even eat meat and drink alcohol.
After all the explanations, Yu Ming's parents felt that this was a good thing!
They don't have to spend any money or effort, the kind-hearted Taoist priest can directly help them raise their children. In the future, the children will continue to recognize them as their parents and come back to take care of them in their old age. It's simply pie in the sky!
In this way, Yu Ming was given by his parents to an old Taoist priest of unknown origin, and this was the beginning of Yu Ming's Taoist practice.
The old Taoist priest took Yu Ming to a particularly shabby Taoist temple, where he had to do everything by himself. When Yu Ming was at home, at least there was a well in his yard. But when he came to the Taoist temple, he had to get up early every day to fetch water. There were only five people in the temple, including the old Taoist priest and Yu Ming, and their life was poor, even worse than Yu Ming's home.
If there is anything better than being at home with Yu Ming, it is probably that the old Taoist priest can really teach Yu Ming to read and write. He seems to be trying hard to educate Yu Ming to become a kind and upright person. However, when Yu Ming looks at those books, he only thinks about how much money these words can be exchanged for and what kind of status he can achieve in the future with this knowledge.
One does not know how long time passes in the mountains. In a blink of an eye, it was 1978. Reform and opening up began, and Yu Ming's parents sent someone to send a message saying that the time of going to the countryside had ended. Yu Ming's uncle had been admitted to university and was directly assigned a job. He might become a high-ranking official in some bureau in the future. He also brought a lot of good things home.
My parents, whom I hadn’t seen for several years, suddenly appeared, and they seemed so strange that they might have been people I knew in my previous life.
Before, his parents had never thought of Yu Ming and had never sent him any food or asked if he was doing well in the Taoist temple. Now that he can take the college entrance examination and the children can all go to school, his parents remembered their son who had gone to be a Taoist priest. They knew that he should be able to read and write now, and they hoped that he would not be a Taoist priest, but come back to attend junior high school and high school, take the college entrance examination in the future, and become a high-ranking official and make a lot of money like his uncle.
Yu Ming couldn't control his resentment towards his parents, because life in the mountains was really poor and hard. Even in modern society, there were few Taoists who were rich. People like Su Yun's parents were not Taoists, they just learned skills to become robbers.
Later, the old Taoist priest found out about this and asked Yu Ming if he wanted to go home. If he did, he could send Yu Ming home. With Yu Ming's current level of knowledge, it would be no problem for him to go directly to high school.
However, Yu Ming couldn't help but feel resentful. On the surface, he told the old Taoist priest that he would go home first to see if his parents really wanted him back. But when he got home, he didn't ask his parents directly. Instead, he secretly inquired about what they said about him behind his back. After collecting all the information, he would make a unified judgment - to judge whether his parents were qualified to let him come back to study, go to college, and support them in the future.
Su Yun felt that he was sick: "Are you crazy? Even if your parents don't treat you well, they still have the kindness of raising you for eight years, right?"
"What do you know? If they hadn't nodded at that time! Would I have gone to the mountains to suffer for so many years? You are the well-known eldest lady in Bincheng. Do you know what kind of life that is? No water, no electricity, no food, and even the slightest change in the weather makes you worry about whether you will die. If it were you, you wouldn't be able to stand this life for more than half a day!" Yu Ming gritted his teeth in hatred. He cursed his parents madly, as if he would not have become what he is now if his parents had not given him to the old Taoist priest.
"There's nothing that can't be overcome. It's not like I haven't experienced it before. I've told you very clearly that you have the same bad fate, but you can't do what I can do. Then you should reflect on yourself." Su Yun said with a sneer.
Yu Ming's face twitched after hearing what Su Yun said. He just wanted to delay time to find Su Yun's weakness. After all, she was a woman, and it was inevitable that she was too righteous and soft-hearted and stupid. But Su Yun was in no hurry from beginning to end, except that she seemed to be listening to a story and even took out the melon seeds. Her confident look made people want to tear her face off.
Su Yun ate two mouthfuls of melon seeds, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he kicked Yu Ming's leg and said, "Go on, what happened to you? Were you sent to Jingling Gate?"
Looking at Su Yunyun's calm expression, Yu Ming couldn't help but continue talking, "I went home to see my parents, and found that they were laughing at me behind my back, thinking that I was a Taoist priest with a big nose. It's too ugly to hear, so I won't repeat it. In short, it's impossible for me to support them. Before I left, I even smashed their roof, hahahaha..."
People with sick brains are bound to do ridiculous things. After smashing the roof of his house, Yu Ming returned to his body. He wanted to cry to the old Taoist priest about how badly his family treated him, but before he could do so, he heard that the old Taoist priest was critically ill and was going to be sent to another larger Taoist temple for recuperation. There was a doctor there who was a master of traditional Chinese medicine. It was said that his ancestor was a miraculous doctor. Since they were both Taoists, they specially took the old Taoist priest there.
When Yu Ming heard that this was an opportunity, he followed the old Taoist priest to another Taoist temple. That temple was called "Xingji Temple", which means "warmth in the apricot forest, and saving the world with medicine". It combines medicine with Taoism. Almost every Taoist priest there knows Chinese medicine subjects such as acupuncture, drugs, and poisons, and many of them are rare miracle doctors. At least you can make an appointment with hospital experts, but I'm afraid you can only see this kind of old Chinese medicine doctor in school.
The old Taoist priest was old and in poor health, but he had a good relationship with an uncle master from Xingji Temple. They had practiced together when they were young, but later chose different directions and entered different Taoist temples. Since then, they only kept in touch through letters.
Following the old Taoist priest to Xingji Temple, Yu Ming knew what another kind of life was. The Taoist priests in Xingji Temple were practicing medicine to save people, but they did not look poor. After careful investigation by Yu Ming, he found those precious medicines.
Many disciples travel all over the country and can basically find all kinds of rare but very precious medicines that are out of stock. If some of these things get leaked, any one of them would be enough for an ordinary person to eat for a lifetime.
Yu Ming was secretly tempted. He felt that there was no future in following the old Taoist priest, so he wanted to stay in Xingji Temple to study medicine. It would be best if he could become a closed disciple. In this way, he might become a millionaire just by receiving gifts.
As a result, the uncle from Xingji Temple took one look at Yu Ming's face and said, "This child has a bad fate. It's better to send him to Jingling Sect. They like people with such misshapen looks."
Doctors are the most straightforward in their words. The term "crooked melon and shattered jujube" is not an insult. It simply means that Yu Ming's fate is crooked. Anyone who can tell fortunes will say that Yu Ming is full of evil spirits, has constant evil thoughts, has a crooked mind, and is reaping the consequences of his own actions. Calling him crooked is a compliment.
However, the young and hot-headed Yu Ming could not bear to hear this. He was furious, but pretended to be aggrieved and sad and went to the old Taoist priest to cry and complain. He had already scolded him in vain, and he just wanted compensation.
The old Taoist stared at him for a long time and said, "Fate is not the only fixed thing in the world. How a person lives is only related to his heart and behavior. God often judges deeds rather than the heart. Disciple, if you really don't like this fate, go to Jinglingmen. There are exercises to change your destiny."
Yu Ming smiled with a twisted face: "Do you know how happy I was when I heard these words? I thought I could change my fate! I thought Jingling Sect had a way to change my destiny. I could become a superior person, a high-ranking official, make a lot of money, and no one would dare to look down on me from then on!"
Su Yun narrowed his eyes slightly: "Hmm... why not? Jingling Sect's skills can indeed change fate, so they specifically accept people with fates like you and your disciples, because only people with fates like you can withstand the influence of dual cultivation with demons and monsters."
All I can say is that the founder of the Jingling Sect is simply a god. He created this kind of martial arts, which focuses on fighting poison with poison. His extremely evil fate can just restrain the resentment of demons and ghosts, and no one will suffer.
"No, if the martial arts alone can change your fate, why did you die?" When Yu Ming said this, his teeth were bleeding. He didn't want to say it, but the truth-telling talisman drawn by Lin Lang was too strong. It forcibly pried open his mouth. Even if his tongue was broken, he had to speak.
"Pause for a moment. I advise you to think it over and make sure what you say is the truth." Su Yun raised his hand to stop Yu Ming from speaking, then took out a spare tablet from his Qiankun bag and typed something.
Yu Ming was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Don't you want to listen? What are you doing?!"
After a while after Su Yun finished typing, he turned the tablet around and pointed it at Yu Ming. Opposite him were a group of sleepy men. Sitting in the middle was Che Xuming, who was holding his wife Linglan.
Seeing that Yu Ming seemed unable to understand, Su Yun kindly explained: "I am afraid that you might be deceived by your poor judgement of people, and I want to prevent myself from being deceived as well, so I asked a professional to come first. If you don't believe it, they can also ask their own master to come as well to ensure that the information we are exchanging now must be true!"
Che Xuming on the other side of the tablet stared at Yu Ming with his eyes wide open, nodded his head and said sincerely: "Director Su is right. Also, let me inform you, Uncle Master Yu Ming, that my master has just drawn a teleportation array to go over. If you have anything to say, please say it now. We won't be able to disturb you and your fellow apprentices from reminiscing about the past."
Yu Ming: “…” Damn, they’re all sick.
[End of this chapter]
Yu Ming: I suddenly want to call the police. Maybe I should be in the police station instead of in the underground:)
Su Yun: Be content, you might get them piece by piece later O(∩_∩)O
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