"Master!" Qiao Yu dozed off.
When he opened his eyes, the only two people present were him and his junior brother. It was as if he had been in a very long dream, but as he came to his senses, he had completely forgotten the theme of the dream.
"Junior brother! When will you wake up?"
"Uncle Qu! Uncle Qu!"
After calling out for a long time without getting a response from Qu Xiu, he felt like he had forgotten something important. The mountain of corpses below had long since disappeared, as if someone had cleaned it up.
"Junior brother, I have made a bold decision. Do you want to come with me?"
Ling Yi was still in a deep sleep, so he naturally couldn't respond.
So Qiao Yu patted his head and helped him agree: "Okay, you've nodded, let's go down and take a look."
Ling Yi was tied to his body and carefully stepped onto the next platform. The coffins were still there, but none of them were broken. Many of the coffins that were originally neatly arranged were now empty.
"How could this have happened? Did someone take advantage of me while I was sleeping?"
Qiao Yu found it strange, "If I break another piece, will you take it back in front of me?"
He was a pragmatist, especially after discovering that many of the people in these coffins were not a threat. He boldly and meticulously took out a hammer from his storage bag.
"I'll just try it out, cough, down!" Before he could finish speaking, he saw the person standing behind him in the reflection on the coffin. "You, who are you?"
"Aren't you scared with so many coffins?" the man asked him.
Qiao Yu looked at him with suspicion.
This person's face was a bit stiff, with a fox-like face. His eyes seemed unable to open, only squinting. The corners of his mouth were pulled up in a smiling arc, which looked very friendly but also had an indescribable sense of incongruity.
Have I seen you before?
If Qiao Yu had actually met such a distinctive person, she thought she would never forget him.
"Fool!" The man slapped him on the forehead with his folding fan. "I was your grandmaster in your past life."
In this life, Qiao Yu's body houses the soul of Liang Si from her previous life. Their paths have both changed in this life, but...
“My master doesn’t look like this.” Qiao Yu touched her head. “And my junior brother was able to come back because he met Yang Wennan from his previous life. In his previous life, his name was Di Ruo. He was the last hidden priest of the Soul Clan. My master died at that time.”
"The one who died was a stand-in."
"Then this life is over too!"
"Because I'm not your grandmaster in this lifetime!"
Qiao Yu touched her head again, which had been hit. "What you said makes a lot of sense, but I still can't be sure."
"How about your master takes you out? You shouldn't get involved in things here. We'll just stay in the back and watch the show while we eat sunflower seeds."
"Well..." Qiao Yu was still a little nervous. After all, he wasn't the real Qiao Yu, and his mind wasn't that straightforward. "Who is your master in this life? If you don't tell me, I won't go with you."
The man with narrowed eyes wasn't angry; he still had an appreciative smile on his face. He pointed to the sky and said, "This must not be revealed."
Qiao Yu also glanced at the sky, "If I go out, will I forget everything like in my previous life?"
"That's natural."
"Then why did I come up here? There has to be a reason, right?"
"Maybe...it's..." The squinty-eyed man stroked his beard. "I don't know either. I just crawled out of my coffin myself. Who knows if the people lying in these coffins also have to get out like me?"
Qiao Yu: "What do you mean?"
“Anyway… a long time ago…” He pointed his finger at Qiao Yu’s forehead, “It seems that someone gave me a face, and I did something great with that face. She told me that there are many entanglements in this world, so I have studied divination for several lifetimes with these memories in mind.”
"So what did you find out?"
“If we can’t get any information out of him…” He leaned closer to Qiao Yu and patted his face, “Do you think your master would have been brought here without knowing anything about it?”
Qiao Yu shook her head, and a memory she should have forgotten from her previous life resurfaced in her mind.
When he first arrived on the mountain, Wen Jingge found him annoying because he was so noisy. At that time, he was kicked out and encountered a masked man—the man's face—
Qiao Yu reached out and touched the face of the squinty-eyed man. "Is this face a mask?"
“No, it’s my own face.” The man pointed to himself. “I’ve always felt that I should have this face, so in my past life, I used this face to coax you at night, just to scheme against the gods in heaven.”
He chuckled smugly. "Pretty unbelievable, isn't it! This is the third time. Qi Yun probably never imagined that the obedient grand-disciple appearing before her was a puppet. But she doesn't seem to be Qi Yun either. Oh well, never mind that. Just tell me if you're coming with me or not!"
“Let’s go.” Qiao Yu nodded. “When we came up, there were still a few demonic cultivators on Ten Thousand Zhang Peak. We’ve been up here for so long, we don’t know what’s going on down there. Since we can’t help here, let’s go back first!”
"Then you can't call me Grandmaster."
"Why... Oh, right, you're not my master anymore."
"No, Master dares to speak the truth here only because this place still has an impact on those four gods, but once we leave, this place will be the heavens."
Qiao Yu was unusually confused. He picked up Ling Yi and said, "Does Master know why such a big change has happened in this life? Master only took two disciples in his previous life."
"In her past life, she only took in the two of you."
Qiao Yu: "..."
"She was not the same person in her past life, the life before that, or this life. I feel that the one in this life is more to my liking."
After a moment of silence, Qiao Yu said, "Is it really okay for us to discuss our master like this? Won't she be angry if she finds out?"
"About this lifetime..."
The man squinted so narrowly that his eyes were barely visible. Perhaps feeling that his appearance was too strange and had attracted the attention of his foolish grandson, he simply tore a piece of cloth from his sleeve and covered his eyes.
"About what..."
"It's probably going to be a fight to the death."
Qiao Yu: "Master, it's not that, that violent, is it? You are, you are Grandmaster! She's smart, she should be able to tell the difference."
"So after sending you out, Master went to find a place to hide. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have come out to join in the fun. In the previous two lives, I almost became the master, and in this life, I'm about to become the ancestor. I can't handle this!"
Qiao Yu was speechless for a moment. This grandmaster was indeed just like the unrestrained and unconventional image he remembered.
"You'd better say less! What if it really is an ancestor? Wouldn't they be able to hear you?"
"Right! What if she's the one who gave me face a long time ago, the one who taught me about opportunities? Wouldn't I still be the one being schemed against?"
Qiao Yu shut her mouth.
"Alright! I've outmaneuvered three gods, so I haven't lost out in this life."
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