Chapter 45 Born with Sin "The little monk... recognizes...
"This humble monk... admits defeat," Lechen managed to utter the two words with difficulty. "I beg you, benefactors, to show some mercy."
A look of satisfaction flashed across Wei Mubai's face, and he made a promise, "After this matter is over, I will accompany you to the Devil Sea Abyss."
Liaochen's eyes suddenly lit up, "Seriously?"
Wei Mubai nodded slightly. He never broke his promises.
"Then it's settled," Lechen agreed eagerly. With Wei Mubai as his protector, he would definitely be able to get one step closer this time.
Then, Wei Mubai changed the subject, his tone becoming more serious. "Well, now tell me, why do you need the Soul Condensing Stone so urgently?"
Liaochen's expression instantly grew serious. He pondered for a moment, as if making an important decision. After a moment, he slowly said, "Let's talk about this when we get back."
There was an unquestionable determination in his tone, and it was obvious that the reason behind this was no small matter.
The three of them returned to Wei Mubai's residence at the Wei family headquarters and cast a barrier so that no one could spy on them.
Liaochen thought for a moment, "The story starts half a year ago. Do you know the Zhao family in Qingyuan City?"
Wei Mubai thought for a moment, "Which Zhao family did the Le family's daughter marry into?"
"You do know," Liaochen said, realizing it. "This matter caused a huge uproar fifty years ago. No one could have imagined that the proud daughter of the Le family would actually marry the head of a lesser-known family. The funniest thing is, she wasn't the only woman of the Zhao family. I heard that at the wedding, six brides entered the house at the same time. Regardless of their status, all of them were legitimate wives."
Xu Wei was speechless, this is not a real stallion story!
Wei Mubai nodded, "The Le family was humiliated by this and announced publicly that they had severed ties with Le Yao and drove the Zhao family out of their territory."
Le Yao was once the favored daughter of the Le family. As the eldest daughter, she was gifted and stunningly beautiful. The young masters of the Wen and Gongyang families, two of the top ten aristocratic families, both wanted to marry her.
However, the Le family announced to the public that they would train Le Yao as the heir to the family head. Since then, she has been the young master of the Le family, holding a lot of power in the Le family, doing an excellent job, and winning glory for the Le family.
But after meeting Zhao Hongze, everything changed. The favored girl became love-brained, with only that man in her eyes and heart.
Zhao Hongze was originally just a bastard from a small family. Due to his poor talent, he was not taken seriously and his cultivation made no progress.
But one day, he seemed to have suddenly awakened, and his cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds. In just two months, he went from the second level of Qi Refining to the Foundation Establishment stage. It seemed as if his life was on a fast track, and he encountered adventures wherever he went.
The strangest thing is that the beauties with the top qualifications at that time fell in love with him one after another after meeting him. They loved him to death and gave him spirit stones and resources. Not only did they sacrifice themselves, but they also wanted to scheme for their own families for him.
Le Yao is one of the best among them. As the young master of the Le family, he took his family members into the secret realm for training. However, for the sake of Zhao Hongze, he completely ignored the lives of his family members and escaped with Zhao Hongze, so that no one in the Le family who entered came out alive.
And the opportunities they obtained were not shared with the Le family at all. They were all taken away by Zhao Hongze. Le Yao was willing to do so and did not feel that there was anything wrong.
It is said that Zhao Hongze's luck is very strange. He encounters dangers wherever he goes, but he can always turn danger into safety, while everyone else around him becomes cannon fodder, except women.
No, except for beauties.
This situation lasted for thirty years. Zhao Hongze, with his beauties, kept running rampant until he offended the ancestor of the Jiang family and was directly crippled.
The Jiang family's ancestor, Jiang Huaixin, is a true beauty with a gorgeous appearance that is extraordinary and breathtaking.
But he is a man, just with a feminine appearance, and he is too good-looking.
Back then, he attracted the hearts of countless male and female nuns, who pursued him fervently, but he was a man of pure heart and desire, even more Buddhist than a Buddhist.
Sometimes Buddhists have to enter the mortal world in order to practice.
He, on the other hand, stayed in the cave and practiced hard all his life.
There are benefits to doing this. In the early stages, your cultivation will improve by leaps and bounds, leaving you far behind your peers.
But the disadvantages are also obvious. In the later stages, especially after the out-of-body stage, the state of mind cannot keep up, and one encounters bottlenecks one after another, which makes the cultivation level stuck.
He had no choice but to come out once in a while, hiding his cultivation and training his mind in the mortal world.
That time, he opened a tavern in a remote and desolate city. He was wearing a red dress and stunned Zhao Hongze who was passing by. He ignored the beauty's disgust and continued to pester her, even trying to use despicable means.
Jiang Huaixin, the ancestor of the Jiang family, was immediately furious and directly destroyed his cultivation.
Therefore, the forbidden technique in his soul was exposed.
No one knew where Zhao Hongze had come across this vicious forbidden technique. The person who was cast with the technique would continuously absorb the luck of the people around him, especially when danger occurred, it would be easier to absorb the luck of others.
In this way, he himself can turn danger into safety, while others will inevitably die in danger, or be half-dead if not dead.
Relying on this strange luck, Zhao Hongze turned from a waste into a resource tycoon, and in just thirty years, he became a Yuanying Zhenjun.
But he has killed countless people, and this forbidden technique can also control people's minds, making people revere him like a god.
Originally, this forbidden technique was a means for cults to control their followers, but unexpectedly, he used it to seduce the woman he liked.
After being crippled, the forbidden technique was exposed, but Zhao Hongze had already absorbed a lot of luck and had amazing luck. The fact that he was crippled was due to the Jiang family's powerful ancestor, so it would be difficult to kill him.
So Patriarch Jiang invited the Zhang family's destiny master.
The Zhang family is another powerful family besides the ten great families. Because the children in the family all practice destiny, their cultivation is profound but fragile. They are always implicated in cause and effect for various reasons, and then... they die young.
The Zhang family is very afraid to go out, because going out will inevitably involve cause and effect, and cause and effect means danger, which is completely different from Buddhist practice.
Buddhists emphasize entering the secular world, but the Zhang family can only save their lives by not entering the secular world.
Therefore, although they are powerful, they have always lived in seclusion, hiding on deep-sea islands and not contacting outsiders.
As such, the development of the Zhang family is naturally not like that of the ten great families, which recruit a wide range of cultivators, and the number of people is very limited.
But the Zhang family is not completely immune to cause and effect. Some things can bring great merit. If they do them, they can add a layer of protection to the crispy skin.
It’s just that if you don’t go out, it’s difficult to encounter opportunities that bring great merit.
Therefore, the Zhang family maintains contact with the ten major families, and outsiders do not know the existence of the Zhang family except the people in power of the ten major families.
This forbidden technique should not be spread to the world and needs to be eliminated. Therefore, it will bring great merit, but it will also be difficult.
The Zhang family sent six destiny masters to reverse Zhao Hongze's forbidden luck-absorbing technique into the technique of dispersing luck.
This magic will disperse all the luck that Zhao Hongze has absorbed in a relatively gentle way over the course of ten years, and those who have benefited from him in the past will gradually become people with extremely bad luck.
As a result, about ten years ago, Zhao Hongze's luck ran out and he died soon after. The women, including Le Yao, also suffered misfortune one by one. Some died directly, and some had their martial arts skills completely destroyed.
Le Yao didn't have to die. For some reason, during the more than 50 years that she was married to Zhao Hongze, she didn't gain much benefit, her cultivation didn't improve at all, and she lost countless things.
The favored daughter of heaven gradually became mediocre, even worse than the ordinary Jindan stage.
Therefore, she was the one who was not affected.
But she actually got pregnant under such circumstances!
"Pregnant?" Wei Mubai was surprised.
When Zhao Hongze was at the peak of his fortune, he had at least thirty or forty children, but Le Yao had never been pregnant. However, she became pregnant with his child when Zhao Hongze was about to die.
"Is her luck in conflict with Zhao Hongze's?" Wei Mubai couldn't help but doubt it. When Zhao Hongze was doing well, Le Yao didn't get any benefit and lost everything. When Zhao Hongze was not doing well, she got what she wanted.
It really is what you wish for.
During the decades that Le Yao was married to Zhao Hongze, she had caused several incidents in order to give birth to a child with Zhao Hongze, including coming to the Wei family to ask for elixirs, just like a crazy man and a resentful woman who was crazy about love.
But even the Wei family's elixir couldn't make her wish come true. Others could get pregnant after taking it, but she couldn't.
At that time, I thought it was due to my physical condition, but now it seems that it was a conflict of luck.
"That's right," Liaochen nodded. "Originally, Le Shizhu's luck was meant to suppress Zhao Hongze, preventing him from wantonly absorbing other people's luck. But he manipulated Le Shizhu, making her fall hopelessly in love with him, thus reversing the situation and making Zhao Hongze suppress Le Shizhu. Only after Zhao Hongze's death did she come to her senses."
"Oh, this!" Xu Hui was stunned. The truth behind the stallion article was so unbearable. "Did she keep the child?"
Liaochen nodded, "Amitabha."
Xu Hui: ...
No, Miss Le, you were controlled before and were only thinking about having a child, but now that you are sober, why don’t you make plans earlier and actually give birth to that child?
She couldn't help swallowing, "How are Zhao Hongze's other children?"
Those women are so miserable, it doesn’t make sense that the children are okay, right?
"It's basically impossible to survive the three disasters and five difficulties. Even if you can barely survive, it's extremely difficult," Lechen sighed.
They were the children born after Zhao Hongze seized his fortune.
If Zhao Hongze did not have this good fortune, these children would not be born. Then, after the good fortune is gone, the backlash on them would be very serious.
"The baby in Le Yao's belly is also Zhao Hongze's child. It must be very difficult, right?" Xu Hui felt that Le Yao was a little irrational. She knew that the child would not have a good ending after being born, so why did she still give birth to it? It would be better to take care of it early so that the child would not suffer.
"After Zhao Hongze's death, Lord Le's luck returned, and he used all his cultivation to protect his birth."
"It's impossible to grow up safely."
"Since he was in his mother's womb, Master Le used the Le family's secret method to remove his paternal bloodline, so he wouldn't be affected by the evil deeds done by Zhao Hongze."
"Hiss~" Xu Hui sucked in a breath of cold air. Le Yao was too cruel. She directly stripped the blood of the baby in her belly. How much pain must the baby have endured? It must be like having a baby being reborn, right?
"But why?" I really don't understand why they do this?
She herself endured unimaginable pain, and the child was not born healthy. Who was she torturing?
If you don't want to give birth to Zhao Hongze's child, just abort it. Why bother with the child?
It couldn't be that she still loved Zhao Hongze and had to bear his child, right? Or that she hated Zhao Hongze and wanted to torture him by bearing his child?
"Because the master once calculated that he would be the son of destiny, Master Le felt guilty towards his family and wanted to leave hope for their future prosperity!"
After these words were spoken, the three of them fell silent.
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