Maybe he felt guilty!
At that time, he was eager to find a like-minded person to help him try out the newly modified cultivation method.
Even if he knew An Wu was an evil cultivator, he would probably be happy to help him try it as long as he was willing.
Jian Yunxing was quite aware of his own nature.
"When I met An Wu, I had no idea he was an evil cultivator. He was much stronger than me back then, and he deliberately hid it, so I couldn't find out."
I asked him if he would be willing to help me try out the newly modified cultivation method, and he agreed immediately. I thought to myself, I have finally found a like-minded fellow practitioner.
He was really amazing. Not only did he not suffer from qi deviation when testing the techniques, but he also gave me a lot of advice. He had a lot of things in his mind that I didn't know. I was fascinated by him at that time.
If he were a woman, I'd probably divorce my wife and marry him!
Upon hearing this, Lu Qing spat out the tea he had just drunk.
Water droplets mixed with tea leaves sprayed all over Jian Yunxing's face.
He closed his eyes, wiped the water from his face, and glared at Lu Qing:
"I'm marrying him, not you, so why are you getting so worked up!"
Lu Qing coughed until her face turned red, and Gu Xicheng quickly patted her back to help her breathe.
It took me a long time to calm down.
Lu Qinghui glared at Jian Yunxing, grinding her teeth as she complained:
"You bastard, you deserve this fate!"
Jian Yunxing wasn't angry at all; instead, he smiled.
"Yes! I fucking deserve it!"
"I forced my perfectly good wife to have a son, which caused her to develop health problems and die young. She's now raising someone else's son!"
Jian Yunxing's eyes became a little moist.
Lu Qing despised him even more. Who cares about these belated crocodile tears!
"Alright, let's continue!" Gu Xicheng urged.
Jian Yunxing paused for a moment, then continued:
"I only found out he was a heretical cultivator ten years after I met him, but at that time I couldn't live without him. He helped me cultivate and guided me in my techniques. My strength improved a lot because of him."
I thought to myself, so what if they're heretical practitioners? What business is it of mine?
Lu Qing scoffed: "Based on what you just said, you'll never be as good as my master in this lifetime!"
The reason why heretical practitioners are heretical is not only because they practice evil arts, but also because their hearts are crooked.
The essence of cultivation for disciples of the Xuanmen sect is to subdue demons and monsters and restore peace to the world, but evil cultivators are themselves demons and monsters who harm the innocent.
It is impossible for a disciple of the Xuanmen sect to share the same ideals as an evil cultivator.
If it were Yu Hengzi, even if Lu Qing went astray, he would not hesitate to sever the master-disciple relationship. This is a matter of principle and he would not be swayed by any emotions.
Jian Yunxing did not refute Lu Qing's words, because his current fate proved that he could never compare to Yu Hengzi.
“One wrong step leads to another. After I discovered he was a heretic, I didn’t distance myself from him in time; instead, I continued to associate with him.”
Perhaps An Wu had been lonely for too long. He said he truly considered me a friend and even told me about his identity and why he had become a heretic.
Seeing how honest he was, I let my guard down.
Until that day thirty years ago, I encountered another bottleneck in modifying my cultivation technique. I was about to go find An Wu to chat with when I discovered he wasn't in the room.
I couldn't wait any longer, so I went out to look for him, and there he was, ripping out the heart and liver of a living person, cutting open their abdomen. The heart was still steaming when it was pulled out!
...
"An Wu, what... what are you doing?"
Jian Yunxing walked forward shakily, his legs as weak as noodles, but he wanted to confirm whether what he saw was real.
An Wu was startled when he heard Jian Yunxing's voice.
He never expected Jian Yunxing to come looking for him, and he certainly never expected that Jian Yunxing would witness him committing murder.
An Wu had been lonely for a thousand years, and Jian Yunxing was a ray of light to him. He couldn't bear to let this ray of light leave.
So he hurriedly threw away the man's heart and liver, trying to wipe the blood off his hands, but no matter how much he wiped, the corpse was still there, and he couldn't hide it.
Because he failed to consume the heart and liver, An Wu's skin began to wither.
Like a dried-up corpse!
In fact, An Wu should have been a dried-up corpse by then.
Upon seeing his appearance, Jian Yunxing was so shocked by the double blow that he fainted.
When he woke up, he found himself already in his bed at home.
An Wuye has returned to his normal appearance, but as soon as Jian Yunxing sees him, he is reminded of that bloody heart and immediately vomits.
An Wu stepped forward to comfort him, but was pushed away.
"Get out of here! I don't have a disgusting friend like you!"
"An Wu, I thought you went astray just to survive, but I never imagined you would harm the innocent!"
Upon hearing this, An Wu's expression immediately turned cold.
Innocent?
Those who died were not innocent!
An Wu's killings are random, but not entirely random.
He only killed people he felt deserved to die!
A man who abandons his wife and children, a thief who robs and murders, a scumbag who cheats on his wife...
These were his targets.
Therefore, An Wu did not think that what he did was wrong.
"Jian Yunxing, in all these thousand years, you are the only one who knew I was a heretical cultivator and still treated me as a friend. I will never leave you!"
An Wu looked at Jian Yunxing and suddenly made a decision.
Since he minds having his heart and liver dug out, then let him become like me, so he won't have the right to complain.
An Wu bewitched Jian Yunxing, causing him to cultivate his own martial arts technique.
This technique can grant immortality, but it requires consuming human hearts and livers to maintain a normal human appearance.
When Jian Yunxing woke up, he saw his face, which looked like a dried corpse, and was so frightened that he hid in his room and dared not go out.
Until he could no longer resist his body's cravings, he went out and killed someone, consuming a human heart and liver for the first time.
After regaining consciousness, he returned to normal, but he vomited for several days and lost a lot of weight.
You get used to it after a while.
During that time, Jian Yunxing numbly followed An Wu in killing people, taking their hearts and livers and eating them to maintain his normal appearance.
Until that day, when Jianming discovered it.
Jian Yunxing was arrested, and everyone thought he would be free from this, but An Wu rescued him again.
Jian Yunxing couldn't accept that he had become a monster that ate human hearts and livers, and wanted to commit suicide, but An Wu stopped him.
An Wu took him to hide in the deep mountains and agreed to work together to research a technique that would allow him to maintain a normal human appearance without eating human hearts and livers.
Jian Yunxing then gave up his suicidal thoughts.
Three years of research yielded little result; they only managed to slightly curb the impulses the cultivation method evoked in them.
Even so, Jian Yunxing was quite satisfied.
As long as he doesn't kill uncontrollably, he can put on his black robe and go out to see his children.
However, to his utter surprise, he discovered during that trip that Jian Zeming was not his child.
Under such a blow, Jian Yunxing lost control.
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