This time, Zhu Yi learned the whole story of her past life.
Jiang Chenying, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family in the Spirit Realm, was injured by the extreme cold ice during a cultivation in a secret realm and needs the fire of Zhurong to save her life.
Jiang Lin, a young Buddhist monk awaiting his departure for cultivation at Baima Temple, received a telepathic message from his senior brother, Jiu Jiu, instructing him to keep an eye out for a spark of fire while traveling.
Zhurong's fire is the fire of the gods. Jiang Lin encountered a little peach tree spirit in Denglin who was frantically trying to put out a fire.
This little peach tree spirit is very strange; she was originally just a lonely soul who had wandered into the spirit world.
Having lived in Denglin for many years, it absorbed the essence of the peach forest left behind by the giant Kuafu's staff. As the years passed peacefully in the mountains, the little lonely soul unknowingly condensed a new physical body with that wisp of peach forest essence.
Jiang Lin found the spark and helped the little peach tree spirit put out the fire in time, rebuild their home and houses, and replant the little peach trees that had survived the divine fire.
Jiang Lin named the little peach tree spirit Zhu Yi, and when he brought the fire seed down the mountain, he also brought little Zhu Yi back to the spirit world.
Xiao Zhuyi enjoys being with Jiang Lin, and Jiang Lin doesn't reject Xiao Zhuyi's advances. His strict supervision of Xiao Zhuyi doesn't stop him from doting on her.
Sometimes, when Jiang Lin needed to travel far away to gain experience, Xiao Zhuyi would stay obediently in the small vegetable garden of Baima Temple, chanting scriptures and planting vegetables with the fat monk Jiu Jiu, practicing her cultivation in a lazy way.
Buddhist practitioners who practice with their hair intact are allowed to leave the monastic life, get married, and start a family. Jiang Lin had been recruiting new members, waiting for Xiao Zhuyi to grow up, and then he promised to marry her.
Xiao Zhuyi was as happy as a lark, and was happy for several days in a row. She was especially diligent when learning magic.
Jiang Lin thought they would get married and live happily ever after in a beautiful place in the spirit world. However, Jiang Lin underestimated a variable.
Jiang Chenying, who was rescued by the fat monk Jiujiu and Jiang Lin, repeatedly expressed her love to Jiang Lin but was rejected. Feeling resentful, she colluded with the old patriarch of the Demon Serpent Clan to set a trap for Jiang Lin to possess her body and devour his soul during Jiang Lin's last journey to capture demons.
Jiang Lin, who was seriously injured in the battle with the monster, was captured by the old patriarch of the Demon Serpent Clan.
The old serpent clan chief had a wicked son named Que Ze, whose depravity was beyond description.
Not only did he indiscriminately slaughter innocent residents of the spirit world, but he also devoured his own kind, arousing public wrath and resentment. In the end, he was killed by Lan Tian, a powerful member of the Demon Serpent Clan, leaving no trace of his body and his soul scattered.
The old serpent clan chief was unwilling to let his son be killed like this, so he used forbidden demonic techniques to retrieve Que Ze's soul. After hundreds of years of nurturing and condensing the soul, he finally restored Que Ze's soul.
However, Queze's physical body is gone and can no longer be repaired.
The old serpent clan chief then set his sights on the young male cultivators of the spirit realm.
After searching for a long time and harming hundreds of male cultivators along the way, they finally discovered that this young Buddhist cultivator named Jiang Lin had the best physique, and his exquisite and capable body was most suitable to be used as a new body for their son.
Que Ze used a secret demon technique to enter Jiang Lin's body, intending to seize control and devour Jiang Lin's soul to strengthen himself. However, at the crucial moment of the possession, he was killed by Jiang Lin in a desperate counterattack.
Jiang Lin, relying on his powerful mental strength and cultivation, managed to contend with the thousand-year-old demonic serpent Que Ze, barely suppressing Que Ze's soul within his own body. However, he had already irreversibly transformed into a half-human, half-serpent form...
Jiang Lin can no longer go back to fulfill his promise to marry Xiao Zhuyi. He is now half-human and half-snake, and there is always the possibility that Que Ze will take over his body and turn him into a demon snake.
He was worried about keeping Xiao Zhuyi by his side, fearing that one day he would lose control of Que Ze and cause Xiao Zhuyi to be harmed by Que Ze.
Jiang Chenying said that the Jiang family possesses the Nine Heavens Mystic Jade, which can help Jiang Lin refine the soul that went to Queze for his own use. She can lend the Nine Heavens Mystic Jade to Jiang Lin, but on the condition that Jiang Lin marries her as his Daoist partner.
Jiang Lin refused without hesitation, and when he learned that Jiang Chenying had colluded with the Demon Serpent Clan to plot against him, he accidentally disfigured Jiang Chenying's face...
On the Dragon Roar Sword, Jiang Lin remained silent, his brows furrowed, his lips slightly pursed, and his fists clenched, all filled with worry for Xiao Zhu Yi.
"Hey! Why are you flying so fast? It took me ages to catch up!" The Blue Feather Golden Claw Eagle caught up, panting, and landed on Jiang Lin's shoulder, letting out a long sigh.
Jiang Lin conjured a protective shield for it to make it more comfortable and kept it silent.
Are you worried about your little girl?
Jiang Lin remained silent.
"If you like it, take it back to the nest and lay eggs and hatch them together!" the eaglet blurted out.
Jiang Lin grabbed it by its two wings and was about to throw it down.
"No! Don't throw me!" the little eagle cried unhappily. "Although I can fly, I'm very tired right now. If you throw me down, it will be very difficult for me to fly back up!"
Zhu Yi felt that little Zhu Yi would definitely not obediently accept Jiang Lin's arrangement and return to Denglin with the fat monk Jiu Jiu without knowing why.
She was a little confused, and Zhu Yi, in the void, whispered playfully along with the little black snake on her wrist: "If my boyfriend wanted to break up with me without explanation, I would definitely be very sad, wouldn't I?"
The little black snake on her wrist seemed a bit guilty, and unconsciously coiled its little tail again, causing Zhu Yi a slight pain.
"Songsong, don't get too close, or I'll grill you and throw you in some seasoning!"
The little black snake loosened its stubborn tail, revealing its tiny fangs in an attempt to scare Zhu Yi, but it didn't dare to actually do it.
"Exactly, I've never been in a relationship either. But, there's always something fishy going on when things are going strange. If two people are about to get married and one of them suddenly backs out, I need to know if it's my fault or the other person's."
The little black snake shook its head again, indicating that it didn't want a pot, it didn't want to be grilled!
Zhu Yi suddenly understood the little guy's concerns, and stroked its head with her fair and warm fingers to comfort it, "I won't eat you. I'm just saying that I don't want to break up without knowing anything. It's not right that Jiang Lin didn't tell little Zhu Yi anything!"
The little black snake nodded, "That's definitely not right. How can such a cute snake be used for barbecue? Waaah!"
The man and the snake were talking at cross purposes, and Zhu Yi didn't expect to get any useful information from the little black snake.
With its blue bricks and gray tiles, the street is not far from a cluster of houses. At the entrance of the alley, two peach trees stand tall and lush, with small, green peaches hanging from the branches. Under the trees, several children are all smiles. A bamboo dragonfly lands at Jiang Lin's feet, and the children, with their chubby faces, apologize to Jiang Lin.
A cute, childlike voice said, "I'm sorry, uncle, please don't be angry..."
Zhu Yi, who was standing next to Jiang Lin, suppressed a laugh: "Uncle? This kid has no sense at all. Call him brother!"
Unfortunately, when the child heard Zhu Yi speak, he stared blankly as Jiang Lin disappeared around the corner not far away.
Time break — Below is the scene after Xiao Zhuyi was rejected by Jiang Lin.
Xiao Zhuyi was pushed away violently by Jiang Lin, feeling bitter inside.
But Xiao Zhuyi refused to believe that Jiang Lin would abandon her. She kept pestering the fat monk Jiu Jiu for the reason, and her crying made everyone in the White Horse Temple think that the monk Jiu Jiu had bullied the little girl...
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