In my past life
"I don't want to know about past lives!" Qi Yuan was taken aback, then shouted.
"Don't you recognize them?" Ouyang Lanyue clapped her hands, and two women with their upper bodies tied up walked out of the small house.
"Autumn's chill...who is the other one?"
Chunting pouted and said with dissatisfaction, "Chunting, the place you're in is just a sketchbook!"
"...Why should I believe your empty words? Even so, I am the protagonist of my own life, and I have truly lived." The two were quick to accept this.
The woman, disguised as Qiu Yi, said coldly, "I am not Qiu Yi, I am code name 022. Her mission efficiency was too low, so I have replaced her."
"And what about her?"
"His soul has been scattered."
"..."
Ouyang Lanyue laughed happily, fanning herself as she said, "These two are from another world, what they call transmigrators. One was tricked by me, and the other has undergone some changes and is now thinking of seeking refuge with Ruan Yiyun."
"..."
His expression suddenly turned cold, and he raised an eyebrow, saying, "It's not surprising that I noticed you two in my past life. You two, one immortal and one demon, have caused far too much of a stir, taking all sorts of tragic love, deep affection, and intense hatred to the extreme."
"Most importantly, you have repeatedly bombed my territory. You are everywhere. Why are you everywhere? I started to observe you two extremely abnormal people. Whenever you are near each other, these two sneaky people will appear."
"The last time I saw you was in front of the demon array. Ah Huai, she committed suicide in front of you. I also found that woman and brought her back to the palace for interrogation, only to discover the truth of this world."
"I developed the art of rebirth just for fun. What would have happened to you if the two transmigrators hadn't been there? Who would have thought that Yun Qing would steal my rebirth technique, come to this life, and change Mu Qinghuai's life trajectory."
Upon hearing the words "suicide," a scene suddenly flashed through her mind—a bizarre dream from long ago. At this moment, the two faces in the dream also became clear from their blurriness, and the other face was none other than Mu Qinghuai!
It turns out that she had dreamt about the ending of her previous life!
Qi Yuan's expression changed slightly: "This life is this life. I don't know the meaning of what you said."
"Of course there is a connection, but I won't help you anymore."
"Again?"
"Release the seal on your memories, save him, eliminate the interference of the time traveler...aren't all of these things? In your past life, you didn't know your origins, you hated him, and he loved you. Who would have thought that you would commit suicide one after the other, ending up with both of you dead?"
"One last reminder: think carefully about what I said." With that, a gust of wind blew by, and Ouyang Lanyue and the two "time travelers" had vanished without a trace.
"What's the meaning?"
Mu Qinghuai's pupils suddenly dilated: "Wait, he said that the place where we last met in our past life... was the Demon Array."
“Evil… I remember now! The seal in my dream had yellow talismans floating in the upper left corner, and black ink floating around the array itself.”
With each word she spoke, Mu Qinghuai's expression worsened.
He was breathing heavily: "What you dreamed about... was a demonic formation."
"The seal... will it really open? That seal was suppressed by Xuan Yang Zhenren using all his power... If that's the case, he has already ascended, and the rest can only... rely on ourselves." Qi Yuan's expression was no better, her eyebrows furrowed into an inverted V shape.
"Let's go."
"Your injury..."
"It's not that fragile, it's just a minor injury."
The two exchanged a knowing glance. Ouyang Lanyue had left behind a teleportation talisman as she departed, clearly hinting at something to them.
The demonic formation was located near the Qifu Temple by Yanglin West Lake. After the two teleported, they confirmed that the rumors were true.
"Did you sense anything?"
"I sensed an extremely strong evil aura."
"No, I mean, a feeling." Qi Yuan clutched her chest and took a step forward, puzzled. "I feel like there's still a familiar aura here."
For some reason, she bent down and pressed herself against the array on the ground, trying to sense something.
The ghost bead on Qi Yuan's wrist suddenly turned red, extremely red, as red as blood.
Her hand pressed uncontrollably against the seal, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pry it open: "There's something down there!"
Mu Qinghuai inquired about the seal and also found it strange.
Hello.
A muffled male voice rang out, startling the two of them. The voice came from beneath the seal.
"Who!" Mu Qinghuai pointed his sword at the seal and asked sharply.
"You can call me Master Xuanyang. Xiaoyuan, Xiaohuai, I've finally met you."
The two men gasped, "What?!"
“If you are truly Xuan Yang Zhenren, how could you be down there! Xuan Yang Zhenren has clearly already ascended to heaven! And how could Xuan Yang Zhenren possibly know us?” Qi Yuan questioned.
The man sighed softly: "In this world, how can one ascend to heaven? Ascension is just a facade. If you were to ask anyone who saw me ascend to heaven, they would only stammer and be unable to speak. I stayed in the seal to accompany my dearest friend."
Qi Yuan most likely believed him and put down her sword: "Close friend?"
"The one who truly sealed the demonic array was not me, but him, Jin Yuejun."
Mu Qinghuai exclaimed in surprise and doubt, "The leader of the evil race? Wasn't he missing?!"
“That’s right. But he didn’t disappear. He sensed the power of the demonic array early on and sealed it with his body. As for me, I completed the final step and then stayed behind to accompany him.”
"Is he in the formation too? Why doesn't he speak up?"
"...His physical body is dead, only a wisp of his soul remains. He can't speak, so I can only talk to his wisp of soul, which is enough to keep me going."
...What amazing perseverance...
Qi Yuan continued, "Grandmaster, why do you know us?"
The people below laughed: "You can be considered my apprentice's children."
"……What?"
"Meng Yan, Bai Moyu, Murong, Mu Aogu. Aren't these your parents?"
"Could it be that you..."
“Yes, that’s right. They are my disciples.” As if guessing what the two wanted to ask, Master Xuan Yang added, “As for Hui Guang and the others, they are my sect’s direct disciples. Direct disciples and disciples are different.”
Qi Yuan's pupils dilated, but she remained silent.
"Your personal disciple Ruan Yiyun has caused Wei Shuang so much suffering..." Mu Qinghuai couldn't help but say.
"I know." Master Xuan Yang's reaction was calm, but the two people above were not so calm.
Master Xuanyang continued, “Huiguang and Jinyan are highly talented and therefore received direct instruction, but Ruan Yiyun is different. He worked too hard, cultivating to an extreme degree of obsession because… he has three spiritual roots. He cultivated like crazy to make up for this gap. But talent cannot be made up for by hard work alone.”
"Seeing how hard he was working, I softened and took him in as my personal disciple. Who knew that compared to the other personal disciples with heavenly spiritual roots, he was even more self-conscious, and no matter how I tried to persuade him, it was to no avail. The problem was that he went into qi deviation."
"As soon as I discovered that he had been kneeling before my palace for three days and nights begging for my forgiveness and swearing that it would never happen again, I forgave him. But after this forgiveness, he went even further and hid himself very well. The last time I saw him, he had already joined the evil race and was using the alias Xing Gui."
"I was furious to discover that he had killed many cultivators and gained power through evil arts. More importantly, he wanted to break the demonic array. The power of this array is beyond imagination and cannot be contained by this world. I had no time to care about anything else."
"Fortunately, Jin Yue's power is beyond our ordinary understanding. Only two people in this world can achieve this: one is him, and the other is Ouyang Lanyue. If there could be a third or fourth, I hope it would be you."
"Is there really no one else besides you who knows about his actions?" Qi Yuan asked, her eyes lowered in resentment.
"No. I haven't returned to the Silver Bamboo Sect since then. I just didn't expect that Jin Yan and the others would decline the position of sect leader, and Ruan Yiyun would become the sect leader as she wished."
"Wait a minute, you said he broke the seal, so is Yin Guijun the scapegoat?" Mu Qinghuai asked.
"That's right, that's exactly it. Yin Gui is being controlled. The thing I regret most in my life is letting him embark on the path of cultivation. You two good children have suffered."
"I want to ask...about my...parents," the two whispered.
Master Xuanyang did not answer the question immediately, but remained silent for a moment before saying, "Xiao Huai, the demonic energy and the flow of your blood tell me that your biological father is Yan Yun."
"The Demon Lord before me..." Mu Qinghuai was stunned and gritted his teeth, "I don't care who he is! I only have one father!"
"Little Yuan, do you know where the ancient ghost bead in your hand came from?" Seeing that the other party did not answer, Xuan Yang Zhenren muttered to himself, "Jin Yue asked me to give it to you, before you were even forged..."
"Forging? What does that mean?" Qi Yuan asked, puzzled.
“Meng Yan and Mo Yu didn’t originally plan to have children, and you can’t be considered their child entirely.” Xuan Yang Zhenren paused and said in a low voice, “Xiao Yuan, you… are actually a divine artifact I forged. Later, you gained spiritual energy, transformed into human form, and were given to Meng Yan and her husband to raise.”
Qi Yuan and Mu Qinghuai remained silent for a long time. She couldn't quite accept this fact, but she still refused to show the slightest sign of backing down: "So what! Those who have raised me are my parents!"
“You said there is a difference between a disciple and a direct disciple, so why are my parents, whose cultivation has reached the Mahayana stage, not known in the cultivation world? Why are they not known in the cultivation world…” Mu Qinghuai lowered his head and clenched his fists, his eyes already soaked with tears.
The man below sighed again and said, "I didn't want to either. It's just to keep the secret, and also to protect you."
"What secret? Why do you say it's... to protect us?" Qi Yuan stared wide-eyed, bewildered.
"...Because I am still alive." Master Xuan Yang said gently, "If he tries to break the seal again, I can still exert 30% of my power to help you."
"The reason I say it's to protect you is because you should know that Ruan Yiyun is very obsessed with spiritual roots, and the two of you have top-grade mutated heavenly spiritual roots, which are the best spiritual roots in the world," Xuan Yang Zhenren said slowly.
Qi Yuan was speechless for a moment, frozen in place, as was Mu Qinghuai. After a long while, he stammered, "Then, what about the container! Why do you say Wei Shuang is the container?!"
“The container, in layman’s terms, is the person Ruan Yiyun uses to store the spiritual roots. The container requires an extremely yin constitution, but if it is made from someone with strong spiritual power and shallow desires, it can still function at seven-tenths of its potential. This person is insatiable and desires to possess all the heavenly spiritual roots, so naturally he needs to find a place to hide them. You, his nominal beloved disciple, if you become the container, and with the puppeteer’s control, Xiao Yuan will completely become his person.”
"He changed his mind and made Wu Rongqiu, who has an extremely Yin constitution, a vessel! Because turning Qi Yuan into a puppet would be of greater use!" Yun Qing said resentfully from not far away.
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