Yao Yan has lived in the Yellow Springs since he can remember. Although he cannot go out and rarely sees the sunlight, he had a very happy childhood.
His parents and two ghost king uncles treated him very well. When he was six years old and able to cultivate, he chose the path of ghosts in order to adapt to the ghostly and malevolent energy in the forbidden land of the Yellow Springs.
Although cultivators who follow the path of demons are called evil cultivators in the outside world, he has never done anything that is morally wrong and is full of curiosity about the outside world.
After he broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, his parents agreed to let him go out and see the world outside the Forbidden Land of the Underworld. He longed for the outside world, and before he left the Forbidden Land of the Underworld, his parents told him about his background.
Although he grew up in the Forbidden Land of the Underworld and had never been in contact with outsiders, Zheng Xiangyi and Xia Changsheng taught him a lot, including reading, writing, and how to conduct himself in society. Although he didn't fully understand everything, he remembered it all.
To be honest, he didn't have much affection for his biological mother who died after giving birth to him, since he had never met her, not even once.
However, he knew that his mother had fled to the Forbidden Land of the Underworld while being hunted down. Although he had no feelings for his birth mother, he would investigate the cause of her death, avenge her, and visit his father if he had the chance.
After bidding farewell to his parents, he left the place where he had lived for more than ten years. Although he had never met any other cultivators, his parents had told him that he was very talented. A Nascent Soul cultivator under the age of twenty was a genius cultivator in the outside world. However, his identity as a ghost cultivator might bring him some trouble.
Yao Yan didn't care much. In his heart, what did it matter if he was a ghost cultivator? Of the three thousand great paths, since the ghost path was among them, why not let people walk it? Moreover, the path was neither good nor bad. As long as he had a clear conscience, he didn't care what others thought.
But he was still too naive. Even though he concealed his aura very well, he made his first friend in life. The two of them went on their training together and talked about everything. He was really happy. It felt good to have a friend.
Afterwards, they encountered a beast tide. Even though he risked serious injury to save his companions, he never did anything heinous. However, his first friend attacked him directly after learning that he was a ghost cultivator, saying that good and evil cannot coexist and that he had ulterior motives for approaching him. His friend was a cultivator from the Canglan Sect, who claimed to be a righteous person, but he found it utterly ridiculous. Righteous disciples are just like this, unable to distinguish right from wrong. Fine, those who walk different paths cannot work together. Since his path is not tolerated by the righteous path, he might as well become an evil cultivator in the eyes of the world.
Since then, he has never made friends with anyone. It's nice to be alone and witness the vicissitudes of life, especially when he encounters interesting people and things, which makes him very happy.
As he trained, he inquired about his biological parents, but due to the passage of time, he didn't even know his mother's name. In the end, he wanted to ask the divination cultivators of the Tianji Sect for help in finding her.
But he was furious. Before he could even speak, they attacked him. Did they really think he had no temper? So he decided to go all the way and kidnapped a disciple of the Tianji Sect.
Under duress, he successfully found his father and learned about his mother's identity, but the truth was always so cruel.
His mother was originally the eldest daughter of a noble family. Her talent was not particularly outstanding, but it was still above average. At the age of eighteen, she became his Daoist partner with his biological father. Although the two had no feelings for each other and it was just a family marriage, they treated each other with respect at first, until the appearance of another woman.
Of course, this was also because his birth mother's family had fallen into decline. To say they had fallen into decline would be too far-fetched; it should be said that their entire family had been wiped out. His mother lost her support, and his philandering father conspired with his new lover to kill his mother.
Yao Yan had been cultivating in the cultivation world for quite some time, but she still felt a chill. It turned out that her biological father was this kind of person.
He struggled for a long time before returning to the Xiao family openly, as the son of his mother, Shen Ruoli.
Unsurprisingly, everyone wanted to kill him, because the Xiao family was one of the instigators behind the massacre of the Shen family, and even his own father showed him no mercy.
Alright, now he won't have any psychological burden when killing these pigs and dogs.
After leaving the Xiao family, he hid in the shadows and thoroughly investigated the events of more than a decade ago. Then, he killed every single cultivator who had caused the Shen family's annihilation.
He spared no one, whether they were from aristocratic families, sects, or independent cultivators.
From then on, he became a true evil cultivator in everyone's eyes, but what did it matter? Why would he care about the opinions of those irrelevant people?
Although the cultivation world is vast, he did find it quite boring. He was not short of money, and the cultivation resources he had received since childhood were incomparable to those of ordinary cultivators, so he accidentally reached the Nascent Soul stage.
He got even more bored. When he got tired of the cultivation world, he went to the mortal world. He went wherever there was excitement. But his face was too eye-catching. Not only girls were disgusted by his beauty, but men were too. It really disgusted him. So after that, he always wore a black robe. The hood of the black robe covered his face completely.
He didn't know how long these boring and leisurely days had passed. Just as he was wandering around the mortal realm again, he discovered that some evil cultivators were setting up a soul-refining array in the city. Although he was an evil cultivator, he would never do such a thing. So he slowly ran over, thinking that he would destroy the soul-refining array when those guys were at their most smug. Their furious expressions at that time would definitely be very interesting.
But before he could see the funny expressions on those guys' faces, he discovered a group of even more interesting little guys.
Especially that little girl who looks young but is incredibly cunning.
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