Chapter 3



After Qiao Lian made this plan, the family began to prepare for the long journey.

And just at sunset, on the top of the mountain, someone was gazing quietly at the village below where smoke was rising from cooking fires.

The man was tall, with an upright and strong posture. He was wrapped in a half-worn green robe and looked a little shabby. His long hair half covered his face, but his facial features could not be seen. It was as if his face was covered with a layer of pale fake skin, looking very eerie.

Although there was a spiritual shield on Jueshan Mountain, for some reason, it did not stop this man and his two followers, and they reached the tree on the top of the mountain unhindered.

The man with leopard eyes and strong waist standing behind him was named Zhao Yuchen.

At this time, Yu Chen had been with his master in the cold wind for half an hour. He endured it again and again, but still couldn't help but carefully reminded: "Master, do you want to report this to other sects?"

The "matter" he was talking about was the fact that the reincarnation tree had already produced spiritual fruit, but the fruit unexpectedly fell to the ground at some point, leaving only fragments of the shell.

This tree is ten thousand years old. Its owner, Su Yishui, offered a blood sacrifice and gave up half of his cultivation that was lost at the stage of Jindan, so that the tree could continue to inherit its remaining soul and transform from nothingness into a physical body.

Yu Chen did not understand the master's self-destructive behavior. Because the master did this in order to reincarnate the notorious female demon Xiu Mu Qingge!

Although Su Yishui was once Mu Qingge's disciple, it was the female devil Mu Qingge who was greedy for Su Yishui's good looks and forced him, who was originally a disciple of Shushan, to become her disciple and also forced him to change to the way of magic.

Think about it, his master, before he became an immortal, was the concubine of the powerful Prince Ping at the time. Although he could not be included in the ancestral temple family tree, because he was born to the beloved woman of Prince Ping, he had been pampered since childhood. How could he be ordered around by a woman?

Who would have thought that after the young master decided to cultivate immortality and isolate himself from the mundane world at the age of sixteen, the beautiful boy would fall into the hands of a notorious female demon.

Fortunately, the master is a genius with great intelligence. Even if his cultivation is not as good as Mu Qingge, he eventually surpassed her and even betrayed his master to help the righteous side to kill the evil female devil.

Back then, Mu Qingge was attacked by the three major sects of immortal cultivation and was hit by the nine-layer bone sacrifice curse. He had no chance to fight back. In the end, his bones were stripped away, his spiritual power was dispersed, and he ended up with his soul torn apart.

If the master had not shown mercy and left a trace of her soul to attach to the Reincarnation Tree, there would probably be no more demon cultivator Mu Qingge in the world in the future.

It was a pity that before the female devil died, she actually moved her fingers and cast a curse on her master, a damn face-melting curse! Su Yishui, who had the appearance of an immortal, had his face sealed, and from then on he could only cover his face with a veil.

Before her death, she performed some mischievous acts, which clearly showed the evil intentions of the female devil!

Perhaps affected by the Face-Melting Curse, whenever the master showed his true face, it would always draw exclamations or ridicule. In the years that followed, he spoke less and less. Apart from building his foundation and refining the elixir, he spent most of his time like he does now, standing alone in silence facing the empty mountains.

The gentle and kind boy in the memory seemed to have become a different person after Mu Qingge was executed, and he became so quiet that it was frightening.

Perhaps it is in order to break this annoying curse that the master is determined to resurrect this female demon?

However, just seventeen years ago, when Yu Chen and his sister Yu Tong accompanied their master to Jueshan Mountain, they suddenly discovered that the tree had grown fruits. Unfortunately, the three major sects sent people to destroy the reincarnation tree at that time. The master stopped them and had a fierce battle with several powerful men.

Because of the consumption of his inner elixir to help Mu Qingge reincarnate, Su Yishui is no longer as strong as before. However, his readiness to shatter his soul and die together with him at any time makes him hard to resist.

After all, everyone knows that Su Yishui played a great role in the victory of the three major sects. If he died at the hands of the three major sects, the reputation of the righteous path would be ruined.

In the end, those powerful men were really annoyed by Su Yishui's entanglement, and felt pity for him as he looked so ugly but now his face was blurred. So they decided to go with the flow and make an agreement with Su Yishui in an open-minded and generous manner - to let Mu Qingge be reborn on the tree so that Su Yishui could lift the curse.

However, the three major sects had made it clear that after the curse was lifted, Su Yishui would no longer have the power to decide Mu Qingge’s life or death.

From then on, a curse was cast on the mountain, and no one could approach it. Ten years later, the fruit of reincarnation would ripen and fall.

However, because the tree had been irrigated with Su Yishui's spiritual blood, even with the spiritual shield it could only block some people with ulterior motives, and could not stop Su Yishui from going up the mountain.

But in such a long time, Su Yishui never came again. Until today, when they passed by this place, they suddenly found that the spiritual shield was weakening, as if someone had broken into it, so they went up the mountain to take a look.

This is a shocking sight! The Yu brothers and sisters discovered that the reincarnation tree would drop its fruit at an unknown time, and the reincarnated female demon in the fruit was nowhere to be found. If the reincarnated Mu Qingge's demonic nature remained unchanged and there was no one to restrain her, wouldn't the world be in chaos again?

Su Yishui, who was standing on the mountain for a while, uttered a few words at this time: "There is still one..."

After hearing this, Yuchen looked back and was surprised to find that the tree, which had been a little bald just now, actually had a fruit.

He couldn't help rubbing his eyes and found that the fruit was behind a few wilted leaves. Maybe he didn't look carefully and didn't notice it?

But the top of the tree where the fruit grew is obviously different from ten years ago! Could it be that... this tree has two fruits?

The woman who had been standing silently by the side was Yu Chen's younger sister. Her name was Yu Tong, and she had always followed and served Su Yishui.

Seeing this, Yu Tong tried to probe: "Mu Qingge was extremely evil back then, but her sister Mu Ranwu, who practiced with her, was a kind-hearted person, completely different from her sister. Unfortunately, such a kind person could not escape Mu Qingge's clutches, and finally died together with Mu Qingge in the battle at Jueshan..."

At this point, Yu Tong paused, as if he suddenly thought of something: "At that time, Mu Ranwu assisted the three major sects and wanted to use the Soul Devouring Chain to lock Mu Qingge's soul, but unfortunately she was countered by Mu Qingge and was pulled into the Soul Devouring Chain. Could it be that their remaining souls are entangled in one place, so they are reincarnated on the same reincarnation tree and produce two fruits?"

Yu Tong was young at the time and had not yet established his foundation, so his impression of Mu Ranwu was very pitiful. Although Mu Ranwu had a good character, compared to her sister who was very gifted and beautiful, Mu Ranwu was so mediocre that people could not even remember her appearance.

What is puzzling is that if there are two fruits on this tree, who would be the reincarnated person who falls to the ground first, Mu Ranwu or Mu Qingge?

When Yuchen raised his doubts, Su Yishui, who had been standing in the wind, still did not speak.

Yu Tong pursed his lips and said angrily, "Have you ever seen a cuckoo occupy another bird's nest? Once the cuckoo chicks are hatched, they will push the original owner's eggs out of the nest. The spiritual power of the reincarnation tree is limited. If two fruits grow, the spiritual power will be equally divided. Now, of course, the weaker one is squeezed out."

Just seventeen years ago, Yu Tong had accompanied his master to Jueshan Mountain. The fruit that fell at that time was growing on the west branch of the tree. But now, the fruit on the west branch is gone, and the almost invisible fruit growing on the east branch has suddenly grown very big.

It was obvious that Mu Qingge squeezed out her sister's residual soul reincarnation and occupied the spirit tree alone. After all, Mu Ranwu was far inferior to her sister Mu Qingge in terms of qualifications and wisdom.

Poor Mu Ranwu, he fell down before the time came. I'm afraid he didn't even have a physical body, and was just weathered away by the wind?

Thinking of Mu Ranwu's innocent and kind-hearted appearance, Yu Tong felt a little bit sorry for her.

But at this moment, Su Yishui, who had been standing in silence for a long time, finally uttered a long sentence and said, "Lingxi Palace has not accepted any disciples for a long time. You should go to the nearby villages to recruit some disciples."

The Yu brothers and sisters were stunned. Lingxi Palace was a sect founded by the female demon Mu Qingge. They did not consider one's aptitude or intelligence to join the sect. They only accepted orphans, and regardless of gender, they had to look at whether they were handsome. Such rules simply exposed the nature of the female demon.

The fact that she was able to receive a disciple as talented as Su Yishui was simply a blind cat catching a fat, dead rat.

Afterwards, the female demon was defeated, and the Lingxi Palace, which was filled with black smoke and miasma, was left without a successor.

However, the female demon did leave a lot of gold and silver for her orphan disciples. In addition, most of her so-called disciples had no magic cultivation skills. The three major sects, which claimed to be upright, did not want to let them be executed together and damage their reputation. So they just let them take the money and make a living on their own.

But now Su Yishui wants to reopen the school and recruit disciples in the name of Lingxi Palace, which really confuses the Yu brothers and sisters.

However, Su Yishui refused to explain further. He just tapped his toes lightly, fluttered in his green robe, and quickly went down the other side of the mountain. The two brothers and sisters of the Yu family also hurried along, following their master away.

The mountains have been turbulent these days, but the village is still peaceful and the people in the village still work from sunrise to sunset.

After Qiao Lian made the decision to move, she began to arrange to rent out the few acres of land at home for a long term.

The houses in the village are not worth much, so it is better to keep them for now and wait until the storm is over before deciding whether to come back.

But at this moment, unexpected things happened.

When Carpenter Xue went to Mr. Ding's house to settle the wages for carpentry work, Mr. Ding's wife found fault with Carpenter Xue's workmanship and said that the tabletop of the dining table he made was cracked, so she refused to pay him.

The second son of the rich man Ding was getting married soon, and they were making a whole set of furniture. Xue Liangui had worked for more than a month, but now his family refused to pay him. Now, not to mention setting off on the journey, even the oil, salt, firewood and rice at home were a little tight.

Carpenter Xue was a stubborn person. He had told Mr. Ding that the wood of the table was not good and had some moisture in it. If it was used to make furniture, it would probably crack.

But the rich man Ding was greedy and wanted to save some money on the wood, so he insisted that the wood was still usable and refused to buy any more.

Xue Liangui had no choice but to do the carpentry work as his employer instructed. Unexpectedly, the Ding family's wife turned around and refused to admit it. She even instructed her own farmhand to slap Xue Liangui twice.

In fact, the Ding family's wife did it on purpose. Her second son had a promising future and finally married into a noble family in the county. But he was obsessed with the sickly girl from the Xue family and kept mumbling about taking Xue Ranran as a concubine in the future.

If Miss Juren knew this, wouldn't she be so angry that she would break off the engagement?

Mrs. Ding thought that her second son was bewitched by the thin waist of the sickly girl, so she decided to teach the Xue family a lesson and let them know that it is not so easy to enter a wealthy family. She told the little bitch to give up and stop trying to seduce her son. That's why she found fault with the deduction of wages and took the opportunity to teach Carpenter Xue a lesson.

Qiao Lian was so angry that her face turned red. She cursed: "He is a scoundrel. He is so wicked! No wonder no one was willing to take work from him before."


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