After his death, Chu Nian left this world.
This time, Chu Nian passed by that sacred mountain and saw the writing brush still writing furiously. He tried to send a powerful burst of magic at it, and the brush trembled a few times, but unfortunately, it didn't fall over. After trembling a few times, it continued writing furiously.
Chu Nian fell into a new body. As a flood of the original owner's memories rushed into her mind, an ancient and melodious bell rang out in the distance. Her astonishing senses also detected the sound of monks chanting sutras.
She felt a sharp pain in her chest; the original owner must have suffered a very serious injury. Unlike the external injuries she had sustained from being beaten with a board before, this time the original owner must have suffered internal injuries.
Chu Nian planned to use her spiritual power to examine the body, but unexpectedly discovered that due to severe injuries, several acupoints were completely sealed, making it a useless body.
Now that her spiritual power is restricted in her movements, repairing this useless body is no easy task. Seeing the original owner lying in an empty room with simple, old-fashioned decor, Chu Nian felt there was no danger and decided to first sort out the original owner's memories.
The original owner of this body lived in the sacred Mount Emei from a young age, and was a nun in the Qingyun Nunnery on Mount Emei. She followed her master to cultivate the immortal arts of longevity from childhood, and because she was a Buddhist, she mainly cultivated the path of ruthlessness.
Because he was born and raised in the mountains, he did not have a name, only the Dharma name Wunian given to him by his master.
Wu Nian displayed exceptional talent for cultivation from a very young age, earning her the favor of her master. Once she had made some progress in her cultivation, her master ordered her to descend the mountain with her fellow disciples for further training.
What sets her apart from other cultivators is that she has never lived in the secular world. Although she has devoted herself to cultivation since childhood, it doesn't mean she can truly maintain a pure mind and remain unmoved by emotions. If she were to fall in love one day, the first element of this path of detachment would be broken, and she might have to stop there, finding it difficult to make any further progress in her cultivation.
So although her master doted on her, he was also very worried about her. She loved cultivation and didn't actually want to go down the mountain, but under her master's coercion, she had no choice but to go down the mountain with her fellow disciples.
Her first expedition down the mountain with her fellow disciples was to eradicate the demonic forces wreaking havoc in numerous villages and towns at the foot of Mount Emei. During their mission, they encountered disciples from several other major sects who were also there to fight demons, including many Buddhist disciples. They discussed the Dao together, which greatly enlightened Wu Nian, leading to a sudden enlightenment and a significant advancement in her cultivation.
Only then did she believe that her master's words were true: she needed to experience more and gain more knowledge so that she could understand more and develop her cultivation to a higher and deeper level.
After that, she often went down the mountain to train, sometimes alone, sometimes with fellow disciples, and sometimes with like-minded people from other sects she encountered along the way. Since it was training, it was naturally full of dangers. Once, she was betrayed by a cultivator from another sect who was traveling with her and sold into the Demon Clan.
After that, she changed hands several times before being sent to the Demon Lord's Palace, becoming a demon servant. No one knew the Demon Lord's name; all that was known was that he came from an ancient secret realm, and thus he was referred to as the Ancient One.
Wu Nian had always thought that his Dao heart was firm, but he never expected that he would fall in love with the Demon Lord Yuan Gu at first sight. It was love at first sight, and he could not extricate himself from it.
She originally cultivated the path of ruthlessness, but upon falling in love, her cultivation regressed instead of progressing, and the Demon Lord ordered her to switch to the demonic path. In order to be with the Demon Lord, she truly switched to the demonic path.
When news of her transformation into a demon reached Emei, her master was both shocked and disappointed. After decades of preparation, her master felt the time was ripe, so he rallied the Buddhist community and led the disciples of Qingyun Temple to attack Demon Mountain, reclaim Wu Nian, and cripple her demonic powers.
Wu Nian initially thought the Demon Lord would protect her, but he didn't. When the Buddhist disciples attacked Demon Mountain, the Demon Lord was nowhere to be found. Later, she thought the Demon Lord would come to her rescue, but he didn't either. It is said that the Demon Lord had already issued a message saying that Wu Nian had nothing to do with him.
Although her master had stripped her of her demonic powers, he still held a glimmer of hope for her, hoping she could abandon demonic ways and return to the Buddhist path. At this point, Wu Nian had nowhere else to go but to obey her master's arrangements and return to the Buddhist path.
In the centuries that followed, the master, seeking revenge for the theft of his disciple, rallied the cultivators to attack Demon Mountain several times. Finally, during the final attack on Demon Mountain, the Demon Lord, surrounded by powerful figures, was thrown into a bottomless abyss on Demon Mountain and disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again for thousands of years.
It is said that the bottom of this cliff is a place of countless poisons, and even an immortal would not escape death if he fell down.
Wu Nian had never forgotten the Demon Lord. Several times he followed his master to attack Demon Mountain, just to see the Demon Lord again and ask him in person if he had any feelings for him at all.
However, she was still heartbroken when she saw the Demon Lord fall off the cliff and die.
Although she obeyed her master's orders to resume her Buddhist and Taoist practices, she was unable to cultivate the path of ruthlessness because she had fallen in love. Her cultivation level could not advance any further after she formed her Nascent Soul. After the Demon Lord's death, she was utterly despondent and returned to Demon Mountain, where she jumped off the cliff where the Demon Lord had fallen.
When she fell off the cliff, she saw the Demon Lord lying asleep in a crystal coffin. This must have been arranged by the Demon Lord beforehand, so he may not have actually perished, but rather deliberately put himself into a deep sleep to avoid the turmoil of the world.
However, she could not withstand the torment of countless poisons and died shortly after falling off the cliff.
The original owner's resentment stemmed from the Demon Lord. She was deeply in love with him, but he never reciprocated her feelings. Her wish was for the Demon Lord to remember her forever, to never forget her, and for him to feel heartache whenever he thought of her, just as she felt when she thought of him.
Chu Nian transmigrated to a time when the original owner's demonic arts were abolished by her master, who then ordered her to resume practicing Buddhism.
After sorting through the original owner's memories, Chu Nian felt a headache coming on and sighed helplessly, "What a mess!"
With this physical body ruined, it would be extremely difficult to rebuild it. The original owner endured endless pain to reopen many sealed acupoints, which allowed him to start cultivating again.
She used her mental power to search through her stockpile of medicinal herbs for those that this body could consume, so she kept her eyes closed and pretended to still be dizzy.
The original owner did not have such a powerful soul. After being crippled, she slept in a daze for several months. Her master kept her alive with elixirs.
Chu Nian planned to remain in bed like the original owner of this body until it was 70-80% repaired. As long as she was sick, the old nun wouldn't cause her so much trouble for the time being.
Chu Nian didn't want to end up like the original owner of this body, being punished by the old nun to write the Diamond Sutra 50,000 times after fully regaining consciousness. Even now, recalling that memory of the original owner still made her hands ache!
However, after sleeping for two days, she heard familiar footsteps and tiptoed into the nun's meditation room.
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