Eventually, the woman became pregnant. She didn't notice anything unusual about the Second Elder and was happy to share the good news. The Second Elder gradually began to accept this, until one day, he accidentally caught the man cheating on her while she was pregnant.
How could the Second Elder tolerate his beloved being subjected to such a humiliating disgrace? He immediately engaged the man in combat. The two were evenly matched and fought fiercely until the sky darkened. By the time the woman noticed something was wrong and came looking for them, the two had already been fighting for quite some time.
The woman's cultivation level was not low, and she wanted to step forward to stop the two, but she was accidentally injured by the man and fell onto a rock nearby. At this time, the woman was already quite far along in her pregnancy, only two months away from giving birth. Due to such a shock, blood began to flow between the woman's legs.
The woman lost her life due to an unexpected premature birth. She was injured by the man's blow, which damaged her bones and muscles, leading to severe bleeding during childbirth.
The Second Elder lost his beloved overnight. The man never came to see her once and ran away early on. Before she died, the woman realized that she might have entrusted herself to the wrong person. She used her last bit of strength to ask the Second Elder to raise the child.
The Second Elder was devastated. He wanted to strangle the child, but when he saw the child's features, which resembled the woman's by seven parts, he ultimately couldn't bring himself to do it.
Yu Ze grew up under his care. At first, he didn't care about Yu Ze, as long as he was alive. Later, when Yu Ze became more and more like his mother, the Second Elder saw him even less, but he still gave him everything he needed.
He thought that would be enough, but he was wrong.
The Second Elder stood to the side, head bowed, like a child who had done something wrong, unsure of what to say.
After Yu Ze finished speaking, he closed his eyes. He had lost the will to live, and his life was rapidly slipping away from his body. The Second Elder just watched quietly from the side, seemingly without any intention of intervening, which satisfied him.
Yu Ze wanted to die quietly in a corner where no one cared.
...
The Second Elder took him back to his own mountain peak. Yu Ze hadn't lived here before because the Second Elder wouldn't allow it, but now the Second Elder had taken the initiative to bring him back.
After settling him down, the Second Elder turned and left the mountain. He went to the Sect Master's Peak to see Zi Sangyi.
Zi Sangyi looked at her old friend standing in front of her and said, "You mean you want me to keep him here? But as the sect leader, I have already said what I meant. I know he is your child. You can arrange a place for him to live outside the sect. He can live just as well. There is no need for him to live inside the sect."
Zi Sangyi analyzed the situation rationally, and the Second Elder slowly said, "He is not my child."
Xu Yuehuai sat beside him, and the Second Elder seemed not to notice, continuing to tell his story with Yu Ze. Zi Sangyi was shocked after listening to it, "Why have you never told me or Wei Shengliu these things?"
“I originally wanted to keep these things to myself, but today I realized that in my relationship with him, I was the only one who treated him as the son of an enemy, while he genuinely treated me as his father. I feel ashamed of him. The child is innocent, and he should not be involved in the grudges of the past life.” The Second Elder probably discovered this when Yu Ze was talking to him.
He then realized that Yu Ze had been secretly chasing after him, but there was a problem: Yu Ze was not his child and did not have such high talent. Despite his best efforts in cultivation, he only achieved a mediocre result.
Over time, this caused Yu Ze to feel unbalanced.
After hearing the story, Zisang sighed and said, "In the end, he is still a child with a tragic fate. You can keep him, but he cannot go anywhere except your mountain."
"Thank you, Sect Master." The Second Elder bowed to Zi Sangye and then turned to leave.
The room fell silent again.
Xu Yuehuai stood silently to the side until she left, at which point Zisangyi asked her again, "Will you blame me?"
"What do I blame you for?" Xu Yuehuai found his words inexplicable.
Zisangyi also felt that Xu Yuehuai was sometimes smart and sometimes stupid. "It's my fault for keeping Yu Ze and not kicking him out."
"He can't affect me, so it has little to do with me, and naturally, it can't be blamed on you." Xu Yuehuai was calm and composed, speaking clearly, and was not blinded by simple hatred.
After returning from the sect leader's mountain, the second elder couldn't wait to check on Yu Ze's condition. Yu Ze was still unconscious, as the meridians in his limbs had been severed in an instant, causing irreversible damage to his body.
He pried open Yu Ze's mouth, fed him the pill, and stayed by his side the whole time.
When Yu Ze woke up again, it was already evening. He thought he was about to die, but when he opened his eyes and saw that he was not in the forest, but lying on the bed, he was stunned.
He sat up, his feet barely touching the ground, his meridians severed, and every movement of his limbs was excruciatingly painful.
There was no one in the room. Just as he was thinking this, the door was pushed open, and the Second Elder stood outside with a bowl of steaming porridge in his hand. When the Second Elder saw that Yu Ze had woken up, he said, "There is not much food on my mountain, but now your meridians are destroyed and you have lost your cultivation. You are no different from an ordinary person, so I went to find something for you to eat."
As he spoke, the Second Elder placed the item on the table to the side, looking at Yu Ze with anticipation in his eyes, hoping that he would sit down and eat it.
But Yu Ze remained seated, not moving an inch, simply staring at the Second Elder, asking, "What exactly do you want to do?"
Yu Ze felt that given his relationship with the Second Elder, after he said those words, the Second Elder should have abandoned him in the wilderness and ignored him. He never imagined that he would receive such good treatment.
The Second Elder was a little embarrassed. He had never really gotten along with Yu Ze before, not even when Yu Ze was a child.
“It wouldn’t be easy for you to live alone down the mountain. I pleaded with the sect leader to let you stay on my mountain peak. But from now on, you can only travel on my mountain peak within the sect. In the meantime, you should read books on self-cultivation. If there is an opportunity in the future, I will send you down the mountain to gain experience.” The Second Elder didn’t know how to bring up that matter.
He felt it was a bit too blunt, and that Yu Ze was not very resilient to stimulation or setbacks at the moment.
Yu Ze frowned slightly and sneered, "When did Second Elder become so kind? I am no longer your disciple."
Yu Ze believed that the Second Elder had never treated him as a son, so at this moment he was only referring to himself as a disciple.
The second elder smiled sheepishly, a stark contrast to his interactions with outsiders, saying, "Child, don't say hurtful things."
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