Cheng Ye knew that Cheng Shaoli would not ignore his show of weakness. Even if he could not cause any substantial harm, a mosquito leg is still meat. Giving him a little trouble in daily life would be enough to disgust Feng Yuxuan.
Knowing that Feng Yuxuan was not having a good time, Cheng Ye felt relieved. He put aside all distractions and concentrated on secluding himself with Cheng Xi for a long time.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Xi is actually a genius in sword cultivation. After removing the blockage in his meridians, Cheng Xi's cultivation level is increasing at the speed of light.
Cheng Ye, who was nestled in his cave eating snacks, could barely hold onto his chips. He opened his mouth slightly and said, "Did I get the wrong script? Cheng Xi is actually the protagonist? The grassroots type who fights monsters, levels up, and marries a beautiful, wealthy woman."
666: “…”
After a long while without receiving an answer, Cheng Ye tilted his head slightly: "What's wrong with you lately? You haven't appeared in a long time?"
666's voice was a little tired: "I don't have a physical body, how can I appear?"
Cheng Ye narrowed his eyes. "Don't try to change the subject. Are you planning something? What are you planning recently?"
666 hadn't meant to hide it from him, but things weren't quite done yet, and he was afraid of giving him hope and then disappointing him, so he kept putting it off. Seeing him ask, he finally said, "I've accumulated some energy in these past few worlds, and I want to see if I can get you back to your previous world."
The world before?
The world where that scumbag ruined his life?
Scumbag? White lotus?
Cheng Ye thought he was holding a grudge, after all, they had ruined his life!
If it weren't for 666, he would have been only twenty years old. He hadn't yet truly felt the beauty of the world, hadn't experienced all kinds of wonderful things, and hadn't made more like-minded friends. His life would have just... ended!
Cheng Ye clearly remembered that at the moment he closed his eyes for the last time, the grievance, unwillingness, and even resentment in his heart almost reached the sky.
He wished he could swallow those two scumbag boys into his stomach.
But--
For some reason, when 666 mentioned it just now, Cheng Ye seemed to feel that that time was very far away, so far away that he almost forgot the whole thing, even the overwhelming hatred at that time.
This is also the reason why after entering this world, he did not have the strong desire to get rid of Bai Lianhua as before. His resentment towards Feng Yuxuan was also due to the torture Cheng Xi had suffered in the Feng family.
Could it be that time can really dilute everything, including hatred?
Cheng Ye leaned back dejectedly, lying in a spread-eagle position, his round eyes fixed unfocused on the uneven rocks.
"Can we not go back to the real world?"
666: "You don't want to go back?"
Cheng Ye turned over and lay on his side: "It's not that I don't want to go back."
He no longer has any relatives in the real world, and he was determined to go back just to teach the scumbag and the white lotus a lesson, so that they can also taste what it feels like to be heartbroken.
But now—he seemed less persistent.
I don’t know what to do when I get back.
666 couldn't bear to see him frown. "You're obsessed with them because you hate them. You want to prove that you can live well without them, even better than them. But after experiencing so many worlds, your mind has matured. You don't want to waste time and energy on these unimportant people or things. In short, it's not that you don't hate them anymore, but that you feel they are not worth your hatred."
"They are just passers-by in your life, not the masters of your life. Don't change the trajectory of your life arbitrarily because of passers-by. Love or hate, you live for yourself."
"For myself?" Cheng Ye murmured again.
666: "Yes, as long as you feel happy."
Cheng Ye rubbed his face hard.
666: "You definitely have to go back. You can't keep shuttling back and forth in the mission world. It will take a toll on your mental state over time. But as for how you'll go back, it all depends on you."
"What will happen when I go back?" Cheng Ye seemed to be asking 666, or perhaps asking himself, he closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.
"What's going on?"
"What's going on?" Facing Cheng Shaoli's anxious look, Cheng Ye looked confused. He had just come out of seclusion and hadn't even had time to perform a cleaning spell. His whole body was dirty and in a mess.
Cheng Ye looked down and lifted up the discolored hem of his clothes: "Didn't he just finish refining the weapon? Where's Cheng Xi? Has he come out of seclusion?"
"What Cheng Xi? I'm asking how the things you refined became Feng Yuxuan's?" Cheng Shaoli glanced at Cheng Ye, thought for a moment, and pulled Cheng Ye to sit down. "You don't know?"
"You know what? When did I refine that thing?" Cheng Ye was puzzled by his sudden seriousness. He had originally thought of coming out of seclusion to find Cheng Xi as soon as possible. After all, it was more reassuring to see it in person than through the video.
The child suffered a lot and is still paralyzed and hasn't recovered yet.
"It's the protective shield that you said was defective last time." Cheng Shaoli mentioned it, and Cheng Ye remembered it.
The Cheng family's home is surrounded by mountains, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. However, the original owner felt sorry for his father who had to expend a huge amount of cultivation every once in a while to maintain the protective formation, so he tried every way to find shortcuts. After finally making some progress, he found some minor flaws before he could be happy, the kind that could cost lives at a critical moment, so he put them aside like chicken ribs - useless to eat and a pity to throw away.
Cheng Ye narrowed his eyes: "You said Feng Yuxuan took her for himself?"
"That's right. You don't know how glorious he has been during this period!" Cheng Shaoli even rolled his eyes and drank a cup of tea before he calmed down his anger.
Cheng Ye's mood became a little complicated: "I put the refining formula of that thing in that small secret realm."
"You said last time that the ban on that secret realm had been broken?" Cheng Shaoli felt quite disappointed when he saw that he was not in a hurry at all.
"Well, besides me, only Young Master Qi can take things out of it." Cheng Ye's eyebrows slightly lowered, and his messy hair fell down, covering his entire expression.
Cheng Shaoli looked at him, his lips corners drooping a little bit, but he understood that some things could not be solved by others' persuasion, and he had to get through them on his own.
Cheng Ye took a deep breath and raised his head: "If it's mine, it can only be mine. If it's not mine, I won't accept it even if it sticks to me like a dog-skin plaster!"
"Well done!" Cheng Shaoli slammed the table. "I was waiting for you to say that. This account must be settled. The violation of the restriction was unintentional, but taking things from it without permission, where did this rule come from?"
Seeing Cheng Shaoli's serious expression, Cheng Ye wanted to laugh at an inappropriate time, but he forced himself to hold it back: "Okay, we must get rid of this!"
"Okay, where's Cheng Xi? Has she come out of retreat? How's her cultivation?" Cheng Ye finally asked. He was coming out at the exact time Cheng Xi was supposed to be coming out. If he delayed any further...
Cheng Shaoli smiled softly: "You are really a child. You always like to be with children and don't want to spend time with an old man like me."
A hint of smile flashed in Cheng Ye's eyes: "No, he's not in good health, I'm just worried about him."
Cheng Shaoli: "Don't worry, you can't neglect the person you care about. The pharmacist has already gone over to take care of him. Do you want to go over now?"
Cheng Ye nodded and stood up: "Well, I'll go take a look."
"Just like this?" Cheng Shaoli pointed at his face. Cheng Ye then remembered that he still hadn't washed up. He laughed twice and quickly cast a cleansing spell on himself. He was a little impatient to see the results of the child's practice. "Second Uncle, then you take a seat first. I'll be back soon."
"Why should I sit still? You haven't seen each other for a long time. Cheng Xi has just started practicing, so he must have a lot of problems. You go and take a look." Cheng Shaoli stood up after him and watched him walk hurriedly into Cheng Xi's yard. There was no fluctuation in the restriction at all.
Cheng Shaoli narrowed his eyes, followed him for two steps, then felt that he was making a big deal out of nothing, so he turned around and went back.
Before Cheng Ye walked in, Cheng Xi came out neatly dressed to greet him. The corners of his mouth curled up: "Come in."
"I came to see how you are doing." Cheng Ye stopped where he was and looked him up and down. "Not only has your cultivation level improved, but you've also grown a lot taller." Before he knew it, the skinny kid was now a head and a half taller than him.
Cheng Xi nodded: "It went quite smoothly." He didn't say much to begin with, and he used the simplest language to describe the process of how he took the pill and practiced. At the end, his tone was a little anxious.
Cheng Ye thought he had a problem, and grabbed his wrist in a hurry: "Are you okay? Why do you feel short of breath?"
A trace of hatred flashed in Cheng Xi's eyes: "I heard everything."
"Really?" In front of Cheng Xi, Cheng Ye stopped pretending and said indifferently, "It's just a defective product, but it's mine. It will be mine sooner or later!"
Cheng Xi nodded and said, "Yes, it's yours."
Cheng Ye looked at him for a long moment: "Do you believe me?"
"Um?"
"Do you believe that I made it? You know, my reputation isn't very good. I'm not a genius like Feng Yuxuan. Let alone making a magical weapon, I probably don't even know how to start a furnace."
"I believe you, it must be yours." Cheng Xi said firmly without any hesitation.
Cheng Ye smiled, turned around and ordered a table full of delicious food, and beckoned Cheng Xi to sit down: "Okay, let's not talk about unhappy things. Although you've been fasting, you must have missed food after such a long time of seclusion. Come, let's have a big meal first!"
Cheng Xi: “…” It’s you, it’s not me!
Cheng Ye was so absorbed in eating that he didn't notice that Cheng Xi was still looking at him, and even the smile in her dark eyes never disappeared.
Cheng Xi didn't eat much, and only occasionally picked up the chopsticks to take a few bites when Cheng Ye looked up.
One person was eating and talking, while the other was listening attentively with a half-smile on his lips.
The atmosphere at the table was very harmonious and warm.
Cheng Xi decided that no matter how high his cultivation level was, he would eat three meals on time every day!
Cheng Ye did not plan to look for Qi Yu and Feng Yuxuan immediately. After all, Cheng Xi's cultivation still needed to be consolidated, so the investigation of the stolen magic weapon and the contact with Qi Yu were all handed over to Cheng Shaoli.
Cheng Ye stayed behind to concentrate on helping Cheng Xi practice. He also took Cheng Xi to explore many dangerous secret places, just to unleash his potential at the critical moment of life and death!
Hard work pays off. Cheng Xi has a very strong comprehension. Although he started learning a little late, he can make up for his shortcomings with diligence. In the next half hundred years, his cultivation level was almost as high as Qi Yu. Moreover, because he had been practicing in dangerous situations, compared with Qi Yu, his moves were more ruthless. Once he drew his sword, he would not put it away until blood was drawn!
Cheng Xi's cultivation level grew rapidly. Although many people said that there was no problem, Cheng Ye was still worried and even a little anxious.
During this period, he had been contacting people from Danta, hoping to make some pills for Cheng Xi that could open up his meridians and consolidate his cultivation. Unfortunately, good materials were hard to come by. After going in and out of secret realms that opened only once every hundred, thousand, or even ten thousand years, he was able to barely gather enough materials for a Yangyuan Pill.
As soon as they left the secret realm, Cheng Ye packed up and took the raw materials to Danta.
Danta was acquainted with the Cheng family, and Cheng Ye even came here often. He found the registration office with a familiarity: "I'm looking for Ningxia."
The outer sect disciple who was in charge of receiving guests knew Cheng Ye, so he immediately said politely, "Okay, Master Cheng, please wait a moment."
Cheng Ye came here alone, intending to give Cheng Xi a surprise.
He sat in the reception room and checked the materials in the Qiankun bag again.
Not long after, he felt the restriction being triggered. He thought it was Ningxia coming over, so he put all the materials back and looked up to see Feng Yuxuan, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
“……!”
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