Meng Xiuyi was somewhat surprised by his words.
Ten years ago, he found this child in the ruins. At that time, hundreds of corpses lay around him, and he sat alone on that mountain of corpses, his expression indifferent, without sorrow or joy.
Meng Xiuyi carried him down from the mountain of corpses and asked him, "Are any of your relatives among them?"
Yun Zhao, still a young child, slowly shook his head: "No."
Meng Xiuyi said no more, but set a fire to burn the mountain of corpses to ashes before burying them.
When Meng Xiuyi found him, he was still young and a mortal who had never cultivated. He assumed that Yun Zhao wouldn't remember anything from the past.
But that's not the case.
Meng Xiuyi asked him, "Do you still remember things from before?"
Yun Zhao nodded and said, "I remember, I remember everything."
Meng Xiuyi put down the flowers in her hand and waved to him.
Would you mind telling me about it?
Yun Zhao looked at Meng Xiuyi with his clear eyes and nodded without hesitation.
For him, Meng Xiuyi was both a mentor and a father.
Ten years ago, he pulled him out of a pile of corpses. He could tell at a glance that he was a cursed being, but he just smiled calmly and raised him, sometimes hungry and sometimes full.
Even though his path of cultivation was hindered by his physical condition, he never cared.
In this world, Meng Xiuyi was the best person to him, aside from his parents.
“From the moment I was born, my family knew I was born with a cursed constitution,” Yun Zhao said softly, looking out the window.
“In my hometown, there is a rumor that twins born with a cursed constitution will be punished by heaven. Therefore, whenever there is a newborn child in my hometown, a passing cultivator will take a look to see if the child has a cursed constitution. If the child does, the child will be killed immediately.”
"Fortunately, no 'cursed body' has appeared before me."
“My father knew I was born with a curse when my mother was pregnant with me, because he was a very powerful monk.”
“My mother was just an ordinary person, a woman my father rescued while he was traveling. She had a very keen sense of perception, so when I was about to be born, she took my father into the deep mountains. After I was born, my father placed a seal on me to prevent my constitution from being detected.”
When talking about his parents, Yunzhao's expression seemed to soften.
As a being born with a cursed nature, he seems fortunate. He has loving parents who protect him.
Yun Zhao continued, "We hid in the deep mountains for three years. Three years later, my mother gave birth to my younger sister. My sister is not a cursed being, which relieved my parents. Fortunately, although I am a cursed being, the curse of twins did not apply to our family."
“When my sister was two years old, my mother discovered that she had inherited her traits. From a young age, my sister liked to daydream in the woods, talk to small animals, and close her eyes to feel her surroundings. As she grew older, her mind became more and more sensitive, and her premonitions became more and more accurate.”
“I don’t know why, but my parents were very worried about my sister, so they took us away from the mountains and back to the place where they used to live.”
“I don’t know what they are worried about. My sister and I were very happy in the village for a while because we had playmates.”
“Until someone came to my house. It was a woman. She pointed at my sister and said she wanted to take my sister away or she would kill my mother. She said my mother was a traitor.”
“My mother said that she never betrayed anyone because from beginning to end she was the one who was forced, and they had no right to talk about betrayal.”
Yun Zhao's voice turned cold, and his eyes seemed to be frozen.
"That night, a group of cultivators surrounded the village. Under the pretext of looking for children with spiritual roots to take as disciples, they forcibly took my sister and me out of my home."
“The villagers cheered because of their arrival. Several children with spiritual roots in the village were indeed selected, and I was among them. My parents disagreed, which drew criticism from the villagers. They felt that it was a sin for my parents to oppose such a great thing.”
“My father tried to take my sister and me, but he was surrounded by several cultivators. Without any hesitation, they killed him. My mother wanted to see my father, but she was also killed by them.”
He closed his eyes, recalling scenes from the past.
The villagers were initially shocked when they saw the Yun couple who had died tragically, and then they began to speculate.
They wondered why they were so resistant to choosing children for spiritual practice, and then began to suspect that they had some unspeakable secret.
The harsh words and sharp gazes of those people were like knives piercing the hearts of the two children.
Yun Zhao held his little sister, his eyes filled with hatred, but he remained silent.
Until someone snatched his sister from his arms.
“It’s that woman,” Yun Zhao continued.
“She knocked my sister unconscious in front of me. She told me that it was something my mother owed her.”
Overnight, her parents died, and her younger sister was taken away.
His whole world collapsed, and he could no longer control his anger and grief.
A surge of power coursed through his body, breaking through the seal his father had placed on him.
He roared in anger, trying to take his sister back. But someone smashed a stone into his head, and before he passed out, he heard someone say something.
"Earthly body... ominous..."
Yun Zhao smiled: "Those people, in the end, still killed everyone in the village. I also thank them, otherwise I wouldn't have lived to see my master."
Cultivators don't actually have much malice towards those with the "misfortune body"; it's just an unlucky constitution, and all they need to do is stay away from it.
But in the village, he would be killed. If those people were alive, they certainly wouldn't let him go.
Meng Xiuyi fell silent after hearing this. He realized that Yun Zhao's place was already considered a very barren place in the Nine Realms Continent.
Ordinary cultivators don't go there.
His parents were probably hiding from someone, which is why they settled there and were confident that Yun Zhao's cursed body wouldn't be discovered.
If it weren't for that woman's arrival, Yun Zhao, despite his cursed constitution, would have lived out his life as an ordinary mortal in that village in peace and quiet.
That woman was clearly there for Yun Zhao's mother and sister.
At this moment, he couldn't tell whether this tragedy was caused by the curse or by the mother and daughter.
However, that no longer matters.
Now that Yun Zhao has broken through to the Golden Core stage, the Calamity Body is no longer a factor that can affect him.
He seeks revenge, and as Yun Zhao's master, Meng Xiuyi will not refuse.
"Do whatever you want," Meng Xiuyi said with a gentle smile as he helped Yun Zhao up.
"Everyone has their own path of spiritual practice. Just do what you want to do, figure out what you want to know, and walk the path you want to walk."
Yun Zhao nodded emphatically: "Yes, Master."
Meng Xiuyi patted his shoulder and said, "Come with me, I want to tell you something."
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