"Ugh..." After hiding Qin Chi in a secluded place, Song Xia collapsed from exhaustion. In fact, she hadn't run very far; she had simply used a secret technique to conceal her and Qin Chi's presence.
"You..." Qin Chi didn't know how to get along with her, and couldn't bring himself to call her. He stood there with his lips pursed.
Song Xia wiped the blood from her lips and smiled weakly, "I'm fine, don't worry."
"Who's worried about you?" Qin Chi stiffened, then turned his back on her.
Song Xia ignored his awkwardness and explained to him, "Mother is injured now. Let me recover a bit before I take you away, okay? I'm afraid that if we act rashly, your father, that hypocrite, will discover our secret."
After a long silence, Qin Chi finally turned around and stared at her intently: "Why?"
"What?" Song Xia was taken aback, then realized that he must have a lot of questions, so she sighed and answered.
"Mother never intended to abandon you. It's just that the human and demon races have always been at odds. Mother thought that with your father's status in the human race, he would be better able to protect and teach you. I never expected him to be so cold-blooded and selfish. I'm sorry, Mother is late."
However, these two sentences alone were not enough for Qin Chi to understand, after all, the grievances and humiliations he had suffered in the Tianyuan Sect over the years were far beyond what ordinary people could bear.
"If you two don't get along, why did you give birth to me in the first place?"
Song Xia lowered her head, her face filled with guilt, but she didn't intend to hide anything from him: "It's all Mother's fault."
She summarized the events of that year into a few simple sentences: "When your father first became a cultivator, he saved my life. Although he didn't know I had developed sentience at the time, I had to repay his kindness. So when he was in danger during his tribulation, I sacrificed myself to save him. Originally, after one night, our debts of gratitude would have been settled, and we shouldn't have any further connection. But fate is so coincidental. Afterwards, I found out I was pregnant with you."
Qin Chi never expected his birth to be like this. He suppressed his anger: "Since you knew that the human and demon races were at odds and that half-demons were rejected by heaven and earth, why did you still give birth to one?"
Song Xia looked at him with sorrow: "Because your mother couldn't bear to part with you. After all, you are a life. Do you know how your mother felt at that time? When you were still a fetus in your mother's belly, you kicked your mother's belly. That sense of happiness and mission was something your mother had never felt before."
Qin Chi was filled with mixed feelings. For many years in the Tianyuan Sect, he had always been disliked. Everyone called him a bastard, a mongrel, and a piece of trash. Everyone's contempt, including his father's disgust, made him feel that he should not have been born into this world. Now, suddenly someone came and said that she was his mother and that she had been looking forward to it since she was pregnant with him. He found it particularly ridiculous.
Does a half-demon like him deserve love?
"You think I'd believe that?" he sneered. "Don't waste your time. I'd rather kill myself than let you take away my cultivation essence."
Song Xia was shocked and guilty: "Child, how could you think like that? I really wanted to take you away and make it up to you. I really didn't expect Qin Taiming to be such a heartless person, completely disregarding the father-son relationship between you. If I had known he would treat you like this, I would have kept you by my side no matter how difficult it was."
Qin Chi fell silent again. It wasn't that he didn't hope someone would love him, but he dared not believe or expect it anymore.
"How about coming back to Sunset Forest with Mom?"
"What? With your cultivation level, do you think you can protect me in Sunset Forest? I'm a piece of trash who can't even break through to the Foundation Establishment stage."
Song Xia's heart skipped a beat again. She closed her eyes with heartache and kept apologizing, "I'm sorry, Mother is late."
After that day, the two did not speak again. Song Xia did most of the talking, mostly about the scenery in the Sunset Forest, but Qin Chi did not respond at all.
Every day, Song Xia would also prepare some human food, which Qin Chi never refused. Song Xia smiled and said, "Can you tell Mother what you like to eat? Mother will make it for you."
Qin Chi remained expressionless. Like? Did he even have the right to utter those two words? In the Tianyuan Sect, going hungry was a common occurrence; having anything to eat was already a blessing.
He didn't respond, and Song Xia wasn't disappointed. Instead, she continued as if talking to herself, "Sunset Forest has a lot of food, especially the fresh mushrooms that come out after the rain. They're the most tender. There are also small silver fish deep in the forest. When you fry them in oil, even the bones become crispy. There's also a kind of spiritual fruit that's extremely sour and astringent when it's unripe, but once it's ripe, the taste is so good that even Uncle Qing couldn't resist getting a couple to try. When we get back, it will be the season for them to ripen. You'll definitely like them."
Song Xia smiled as she flipped the roast chicken over: "By the way, Uncle Qing is the longest-lived being in Sunset Forest. He said he was planted by the Qingyang Immortal himself, and he is the only Qingyang Tree on the Qingyang Continent. Even he himself can't count how old he is. Your mother was raised by Uncle Qing. You can call him Grandpa Qing from now on. Uncle Qing is the kindest person. He has promised your mother that he will protect you in Sunset Forest."
Qin Chi was in a daze. Throughout the entire Qingyang Continent, who didn't know about the Qingyang Immortal?
Legend has it that there were originally no cultivators on the Qingyang Continent. It was the Qingyang Immortal who brought the inheritance, and so the continent was named after the immortal. Unexpectedly, there is a large tree planted by the Qingyang Immortal himself in the Sunset Forest. The Qingyang Immortal has been ascended for tens of thousands of years! Can a tree live for that long?
"Do you demons also eat other demons?" Qin Chi wanted to take back his question as soon as he asked it. Was he stupid? Since ancient times, it has been the nature of wolves to eat sheep and bears to eat fish. How could they stop eating just because they have become sentient and become demons?
"The law of the jungle in Sunset Forest is very simple, unlike the complexities of the human world. However, what Mother just mentioned are creatures without intelligence. Although they lack intelligence, don't underestimate them. There was once a poisonous flower that, despite being only one year old, poisoned and killed a Nascent Soul stage bear demon in the forest."
"How is that possible?" Qin Chi instinctively refused to believe it. The Nascent Soul stage was incredibly powerful, and most pills were useless against them. How could a small flower kill it? Especially a bear demon known for its thick skin and tough flesh.
"The world is full of wonders, child. Just like you think that a half-demon cannot break through limitations, this is actually a misunderstanding of the world."
Qin Chi was stunned again, and murmured, "So I can also cultivate? How is that possible? Even the Tianyuan Sect can't do it."
"Have you forgotten your Grandpa Qing? He used to follow Immortal Qingyang. No one probably remembers more clearly than your Grandpa Qing about the many legacies Immortal Qingyang left behind."
Once again, Qin Chi's belief was shattered, and he became increasingly devastated and helpless. So how much suffering had he endured all these years for nothing?
"With your mother here, I will never let you suffer any more grievances. What you endured in the Tianyuan Sect, I will take back for you one by one."
Is it really possible? Qin Chi couldn't help but doubt it. That was the Tianyuan Sect, and Qin Taiming was the only Sword Master on the Qingyang Continent!
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