☆, Chapter 107 What will happen to your parents?
"We're both newbies. You'll suffer so much if you two are together later, Xiao Jiu'er. Your teacher is doing this for your own good."
"So why do you, a single guy, feel so miserable? Have you ever practiced with your left or right hand?"
"Jiuyin" Rongqing listened to the two people talking in increasingly vulgar language, so he quickly pulled Yu Jiuyin back to smooth things over, and then served him a bowl of porridge.
"Xiao Rong, why are you filling his bowl so full? I want some too." Master Yu Jiuyin glanced at the porridge in Yu Jiuyin's bowl and then at his own, feeling as if he was being treated differently. So he started to argue even more. "I want a bigger bowl."
"There's glutinous rice here. Eating it will cause indigestion." Rong Qing glanced at Master Yu Jiuyin with suspicion. He had heard Yu Jiuyin say before that his master lived a simple life at the Taoist temple, aloof from desires. So, when Rong Qing saw Master Yu Jiuyin arrive that morning, he automatically made a lighter breakfast.
But Yu Jiuyin likes sweet porridge, so Rongqing specially made glutinous rice and red dates, adding a little osmanthus honey for flavor.
It’s not about anything else, Rongqing is just worried that Master Yu Jiuyin won’t be able to digest the food.
However, Master Yu Jiuyin was very generous. "How can a man say no? I will eat twice as much as he does. Humph, you evil disciple who disrespects your master, I will eat your mistress to death."
"Heh." Yu Jiuyin sneered, full of disdain. He took the initiative to go to the kitchen to bring over the porridge pot and placed it in front of his master. "Eat it. If you can't finish it, I'll ask my godmother to beat you up."
"Fuck, women are the most vicious. If I had known you would become like this, I shouldn't have let you wear a little skirt." Master Yu Jiuyin sighed as he recalled the past. "How adorable was little Chen Bi back then?"
"When the dark history was brought up again, Yu Jiuyin was so angry that he wanted to pull out his beard.
"Jiuyin, hurry up and eat. You have to go to the trial soon, remember?" Rongqing quickly stopped Yu Jiuyin and turned to Master Yu Jiuyin and said, "Please stop teasing him for a while and let him eat first. He's been exhausted these past two days and it's hard to catch his breath."
"Hmph," Yu Jiuyin snorted coldly, sitting down to drink his porridge. Yu Jiuyin's master tilted his head to look at Yu Jiuyin for a moment, then curled his lips and ate quietly. However, when their eyes met, the master and disciple simultaneously revealed an expression that said, "Wait until Rongrong and Xiaorong are not around."
Rongqing saw this and couldn't help but sigh again. He put an egg in each person's bowl, feeling that this morning was more tiring than investigating the case.
After finally finishing breakfast, Yu Jiuyin asked Rongqing to go upstairs to change clothes while he stayed downstairs to wash the dishes. Rongqing checked the wound on his wrist and, fearing it might get wet, washed it himself before going upstairs.
Yu Jiuyin was sitting on the sofa downstairs, staring at Rongqing's back in a daze, when he was hit hard on the head.
Yu Jiuyin turned his head lazily and took a look. His eyes were very tired. Not as lively as when he was with Rongqing. Instead, he showed an indescribable sense of world-weariness.
"Why don't you tell him?" The old man touched Yu Jiuyin's head, and it was rare for him not to argue with Yu Jiuyin.
Yu Jiuyin said nothing, but lowered his whole body and put his head on his master's legs like a boneless person.
Master Yu Jiuyin had the familiar sandalwood scent of this Taoist temple on his body. When Yu Jiuyin smelled it, he felt relaxed all over.
He had been working on cases almost non-stop since he came down the mountain. Although he had lived like this before, after a four-year break, returning to such a high intensity, Yu Jiuyin was truly exhausted.
"Once I'm done with the orphanage, I'll go back to the mountains and live for a while." Patting Yu Jiuyin's head, Yu Jiuyin's master felt a little distressed. This child has really lost weight. He didn't have much flesh to begin with, and with all the hard work he's been doing lately, all the little weight he'd gained over the past four years has been lost.
Yu Jiuyin didn't get up, just lay there, his voice a little muffled, "Master, why did you ask me to go down the mountain before? Was it because you calculated that I would meet Rongrong?"
"No. I'm worried that you might get into trouble in the mountains."
"Nonsense." Yu Jiuyin raised his eyes and glared at him, "I sent Rongrong away, if you don't say anything, I will be really angry."
"Yu Jiuyin's words weren't a threat; he was clearly angry. The master was silent for a long moment, then finally told the truth, "I knew a little about the Siren Orphanage, but it was just speculation. Later, Rongqing's case abroad was solved, and I heard some details from Old Master Qin, and I felt there seemed to be a connection. Plus, I found Rongqing's situation very similar to yours, so I wondered if I could let you get in touch with him first. But before I could figure out a way, you two got to know each other."
"If that's the case, then why did you disguise me as a girl? You clearly knew that this disguise would never allow me to escape the Yu family's surveillance."
"It's true that I can't escape from the Yu family, but I can escape from the pursuit of other people." The master was silent for a long time, and finally told Yu Jiuyin everything.
It turns out that Master Yu Jiuyin had already guessed that Yu Jiuyin might not be the Yu family's biological child when the Yu family tried to kill him. The shared bloodline might have been due to some trickery. Of course, Master Yu Jiuyin didn't know about the life-swapping incident, but he sensed that Yu Jiuyin was different.
"Jiuyin, have you ever thought about this? If Rongqing's father devoured ten thousand evil spirits, and Rongqing is so powerful as a natural born evil spirit, then have you ever guessed what your biological mother or father's situation was like? Only then could you become a favorite of the Heavenly Dao, and be able to easily master anything related to the Heavenly Dao?"
"you mean"
"In the case of the game, the first people to disappear were all Tianshi, do you remember?"
"Yu Jiuyin was a little hesitant to guess further. But Yu Jiuyin's master said directly, "I have long suspected that your biological father or mother must be related to those disappeared Heavenly Masters of the Heavenly Master Association. I think you have also discovered that even the most senior members of the current Heavenly Master Association are not very capable. They are even worse than the five younger ones who followed you for more than half a year."
"What happened back then?"
"Forty years ago, a similar incident occurred. Back then, the Metaphysical Association was just a name, and many Metaphysical families didn't recognize it or accept its protection. I joined it by accident. So when the first wave of Metaphysical families were wiped out, not even many people in the Metaphysical circle knew about it. The great secluded themselves in the city, and the next to suffer were the solitary cultivators."
"Use violence"
"Yes, it's violent. But many of those independent cultivators just disappeared. And then, by the time everyone realizes that so many people are missing, it's too late to take it seriously."
In the words of Master Yu Jiuyin, the Metaphysics Association at that time was in disarray, and those who could take the lead either hid themselves and remained silent, or simply disappeared.
"Later, the matter was left unresolved, and the last clue we could find turned out to be human trafficking. I was unconvinced at the time, but I was young after all, so there was nothing I could do about it. Later, I found the Siren Orphanage. It was the case before I met you. The case of a vampire ghost. But when the case was finally solved, it was discovered that the ghost girl was not a real ghost at all, but a half-human, half-demon monster. Her body had been modified, and before she died, she asked the Sirens why they didn't come to save her. At that time, we thought the Sirens she was talking about were the gods she believed in. After all, the Mermaid King is considered a relatively powerful one for foreign monsters. But later, when the Yu family sent you to the mountains, I realized that it might not be the case. I guess the Yu family themselves didn't know that when you came, there was a very small seal on the inside of the swaddling clothes with the words Siren Orphanage written on it."
"After that, I raised you. I was amazed at how quickly you could learn all kinds of magic. Apart from ghost magic, you could almost understand everything else, even demon magic, at a glance, right?"
Yu Jiuyin was silent for a while, "I have also learned the art of witchcraft and soul-stealing."
That's right, Yu Jiuyin had learned Gu magic in the Wang family jade token case. He'd learned it by analogy after just one look at the token. As for soul-stealing, he'd learned it in the Death Game case simply by hearing the mastermind say something over the phone.
I originally thought it was due to talent, but now after listening to what my master said, it seems a bit like the inheritance of being born a devil.
Similar to the meeting between biological father and biological mother, it is sealed in Yu Jiuyin's memory, and then as long as it is touched, it can be opened and controlled.
"Then no Ghost Daoist Master was captured back then, right?"
"Yes. Ghostly magic is complex and prone to backfire. Many people cannot cultivate without cultivating their minds. There are very few. And when it comes to controlling evil spirits, your master and I have only five, which is already the limit. Little Jiuer, have you ever counted how many evil spirits you have signed contracts with?"
"Three hundred and seventy-two."
"That's right. The Ghost Dao Patriarch is only barely a hundred ghosts parading at night. If you count those he found, there would probably be over a thousand." Yu Jiuyin's master patted Yu Jiuyin's head. "So after your chessboard case came out, I asked Old Master Qin for the script, and then thought about it in conjunction with the previous case. I think perhaps those people who captured the Heavenly Master weren't just killing or collecting them, but for their souls."
"Human experimentation."
"Yes, your father or mother should be in a similar situation to Xiaorong's father. That's why you have this strange phenomenon. As for the tsunami that hit the Siren Orphanage, it was most likely caused by your biological father and mother. Otherwise, how could Yu Yongqing's grandfather steal you away?"
"So what you're saying is that the Siren Orphanage is very likely still operating, and even conducting the same experiments. Otherwise, Yu Yongqing wouldn't have been born two years after the tsunami. But are the Siren Orphanage crazy? They're doing all this just for the sake of immortality."
Yu Jiuyin thought about it and felt desperate. If he hadn't met Rongqing, then the so-called immortality would be a kind of chronic psychological torture because you would have to watch all your friends and relatives leave one by one. In the end, you would be the only one left in the world.
But Yu Jiuyin's master shook his head and said, "Not everyone is as insightful as you think."
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