Chapter 374: Cause and Effect

"To be honest, if you want to crack it completely, a hundred years will not be enough."

Ye Suifeng looked at the familiar curse and kept rubbing his forehead.

He recognized it. This blood curse was the one that was cast when the Tang family, one of the other two major families in Yunxiao City, was purged.

From that time on, anyone with Tang family blood would never be able to practice cultivation.

"Impossible! I can solve it within five years!"

Ji Chao was obviously dissatisfied and argued back.

Ye Suifeng shook his head without further explanation.

He had set the curse himself, so naturally he understood it better than anyone else.

Ji Chao was indeed good. In more than a year, he had roughly restored the original outline.

But as you go further, the complexity increases exponentially.

Not to mention that in the end, he also incorporated the laws of nature into it.

Even if the Immortal Emperor came, he would still need to do some work.

Even if Ji Chao was given 10,000 years, he still wouldn't be able to completely crack it.

"Give it up."

Ye Suifeng said: "No matter what your purpose is, don't stay in Tanggu Village."

"This village has some connection with me."

Ji Chao's face showed a look of struggle. After all these years, he finally saw a hope of rising to a high position. Naturally, he was unwilling to give up.

"I can pay the price!"

He still wants to fight for it.

Ye Suifeng shook his head and stood up.

"You only have one choice."

As he spoke, he walked towards the door of the secret room.

"I have to go do something. When I come back, you'd better leave this village."

Afterwards, Ye Suifeng pushed open the door and walked out of the underground secret room.

Only Ji Chao was left, his face alternating between cloudy and bright.

After leaving the courtyard, Ye Suifeng walked alone on the quiet street.

After a while, we arrived in front of a building that looked like a temple.

Here is the ancestral temple of Tanggu Village.

Ye Suifeng wanted to see what the relationship was between this Tanggu Village and the former Tang family, and when they moved here.

If it is really the Tang family, then the place where I am now is most likely the Yunxiao Realm.

The gate of the ancestral temple was tightly closed, but nature was no problem for Ye Suifeng.

In a few seconds, he climbed over the wall, pried open the door, and entered the ancestral hall.

The flame of the eternal lamp flickered, making the shadows inside more blurred.

Directly in front, there are dozens of tablets of various sizes, located behind eternal lamps.

With the help of dim light, Ye Suifeng looked at the name on the tablet.

There are so many names, so densely packed together, but I don’t recognize any of them.

All the way to the top, there is a man called Tang Jie, and there is a severely faded portrait next to it.

Still don't know.

Ye Suifeng shook his head, then found a thick family tree on the altar and flipped through it hastily.

The family tree briefly records the origin of Tanggu Village.

About a thousand years ago, the village chief Tang Jie, along with a dozen of his tribesmen, fled from a place called Xiongfeng Pass and established Tanggu Village here.

This place is isolated from the world and has little communication with the outside world.

So after a thousand years, it is still a relatively large village.

After reading the family tree, Ye Suifeng sighed slightly.

It seems that this place was not the original place where the Tang family settled, but they moved here because of some changes.

What is Xiongfeng Pass?

I remember that at that time, Tang Shaoqing led the remaining members of the Tang family all the way north, entered the Qinggu Plateau, and the final destination was the northern snowfield.

But there seems to be no place called Xiongfeng Pass in the northern snowfields.

But time passes, things change, and nothing can be predicted.

Shaking his head, Ye Suifeng decided not to think about it anymore.

You will always encounter what you are destined to encounter. There is no need to be too obsessed with the past. Just let everything take its course.

"So many years have passed, it's time to settle the old hatred."

Ye Suifeng thought about it, turned around and left the Tang family ancestral temple.

A moment later, he arrived at the only ancient well in Tanggu Village.

He stretched out his hand, and a pool of blood appeared on his palm.

This is a pool of blood of a member of the Tang family that was taken away before leaving the underground secret room.

With a thought, an extremely complex curse slowly appeared in the blood.

It was the blood curse from before.

“Let’s end it here.”

Ye Suifeng pointed his finger at the curse mark, and the curse that had lasted for who knows how many years began to dissolve rapidly. Within a few breaths, it completely disappeared into the blood.

The blood curse has been broken.

Then, Ye Suifeng sprinkled the blood into the ancient well.

As long as they drink the well water inside, the descendants of the Tang family in Tanggu Village will be freed from their shackles and return to normal.

After doing all this, Ye Suifeng felt a sense of relief inexplicably.

“It’s cause and effect.”

"Perhaps, this is why I was reborn here."

With a smile, Ye Suifeng turned and left.

A moment later, he returned to Ji Chao's underground secret room again.

But what he didn't expect was that Ji Chao was still in the secret room and did not leave.

"Still not willing?"

Ye Suifeng asked.

Ji Chao smiled bitterly.

“Although the world is big, there is no place for me to go.”

"I have ideals and aspirations, but I keep encountering setbacks and never achieve my goals."

"I'm tired of hiding."

Ye Suifeng frowned slightly.

"I told you that you can't stay here."

Ji Chao shook his head.

"I didn't think of staying any longer."

"I just want to ask, you just said that there are hundreds of thousands of Ningdan masters in your family, is that true?"

Ye Suifeng seemed to understand Ji Chao's thoughts.

"You want to visit my family?"

Ji Chao nodded.

"I don't want to miss even the slightest chance to become stronger."

"If I could, I'd pay any price!"

His eyes were firm, even with a strong obsession.

Ye Suifeng said nothing.

In his previous life, he might have appreciated such a person and given him some opportunities in the future.

But in this life, he just wants to travel around the world leisurely, not wanting to be involved in too many causes and effects and ties.

"Again, you only have one choice."

Ye Suifeng rejected him.

Ji Chao seemed to have anticipated this result. He smiled weakly and the light in his eyes gradually faded.

"Then I'll choose the second option."

After saying this, a smell of decay gradually rose from Ji Chao's body.

His life force quickly dissipated, and his body became visibly thinner, with even his skin beginning to wrinkle.

Ye Suifeng was slightly surprised.

This is actively disbanding and dissipating one's own vitality.

And that life force spread out in all directions and merged into the land of Tanggu Village.

More miracles will happen in this village in the future.

Ye Suifeng watched all this silently and did not try to stop it.

Everyone has his or her own choices. It is impossible for him to change the direction of his life just because Ji Chao chose to die.

After about an incense stick of time, Ji Chao's life fire had completely dissipated.

The former Taoist priest has turned into a skinny corpse.

Ye Suifeng sighed, turned and left.

Before leaving, he completely sealed this underground secret room and Ji Chao's body.

On the way back to the blacksmith's shop, Ye Suifeng felt a little disappointed.

This world, under the influence of Yuanshi Gong, has indeed reached the level of universal cultivation, and people have more opportunities and more choices.

But the world's troubles and worries do not seem to have diminished with the changing times.

This is an eternal topic that never changes with the times.