webnovelfull Chapter 425 Rebirth
Chapter 425 Rebirth
"And then?" Yun Qiheng's heart tightened, and he quickly asked. After hearing just two sentences, even his slight grievances vanished, and he regretted that he had resented Yun Qingyi for so long.
"Then... I went to the Demon Capital through that time tunnel. Some things happened in the Demon Capital. After resolving them, I wanted to go to the Great Liang Kingdom to find you. But I didn't expect that when I arrived, the capital had become a ghost town."
As for the incident where she almost lost her life at Yun Yu'er's hands, Yun Qingyi didn't mention it. One reason was that it was shameful, and the other was that it was already in the past, and mentioning it would only cause people to worry.
Yun Qiheng: "So, you didn't leave me behind on purpose..."
“Actually, I know you’re not dead,” Yun Qingyi said. “I just haven’t been able to find you.”
"You...you know?"
Yun Qingyi nodded. Her master had mentioned him when he gave her the kill list back then, but Yun Qingyi didn't want to talk about it. "So, do you still resent me now?"
Yun Qingyi gave a haughty snort and turned her head to the side: "Since you have your reasons, I'll reluctantly forgive you, but don't go back on your word! You have to be my master!"
Yun Qingyi raised an eyebrow: "You really want me to be your master?"
Yun Qiheng thought Yun Qingyi had changed her mind and disagreed, so he became anxious: "You just agreed in the hall, you can't go back on your word!"
Yun Qingyi chuckled: "I have no reason to go back on what I've said. I just want you to think it over carefully. After all, this is no small matter. Moreover, although I am quite capable, my experience in teaching disciples is indeed not as good as those senior brothers and sisters."
Yun Qiheng: "I don't want them, I only want you!"
Yun Qingrou and Xie Xiyan, who had just arrived, heard this sentence.
Yun Qingrou strode over with a cold laugh: "You brat, who do you want?"
To everyone's surprise, Yun Qiheng showed no fear whatsoever when he saw the newcomer. "Heh, of course I want my master. What, does Uncle-Master even need to interfere with this?"
Yun Qingrou was taken aback and was about to say something when Xie Xiyan stepped forward first, his eyes smiling but not reaching his eyes: "Hello, little apprentice, I am your master's father."
Yun Qiheng: "?" Looking at Xie Xiyan who suddenly appeared, his mind went blank for a moment. "Master?"
Seeing Yun Qiheng's discomfiture, although Yun Qingrou was also annoyed by Xie Xiyan's self-introduction, she finally felt relieved and in a particularly good mood. She smiled teasingly and said, "Oh dear, still dreaming of taking advantage of your proximity? Sorry, my sister already has someone else~"
Yun Qiheng snapped out of his daze, a fleeting look of hostility flashing in his eyes as he looked at Xie Xiyan.
I never imagined that all these years of misunderstandings with my sister would allow this kid to beat me to it.
He snorted inwardly, thinking, "But it doesn't matter. The master-disciple relationship is the most solid. What is a Daoist partner? My sister can change her if she doesn't like her anymore, but a disciple is a disciple for life."
Thinking of this, Yun Qiheng was still a little depressed, but his mood improved a lot. "Master, if there are any things I don't understand in my cultivation in the future, it will be easier to trouble you for guidance. Please don't misunderstand then."
Xie Xiyan was not emotionally affected by Yun Qiheng's words, but simply smiled slightly and said, "Of course, your master is not such a clueless person. If you need it in the future, I can teach you."
“However…” Xie Xiyan changed the subject, looking at Yun Qiheng with a hint of inquiry in his eyes, and said casually, “But I see that although you are only fourteen years old, you have already reached the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage. You don’t need your master to teach you much anymore, do you?”
Yun Qiheng was slightly shocked.
How could he know? He had deliberately concealed his strength and even used a secret technique to lower his cultivation to the mid-Golden Core stage. Unless it was a powerful expert in the Tribulation Transcending stage, there was absolutely no way he could have been discovered.
Could it be...
Yun Qiheng's pupils contracted slightly as he looked at Xie Xiyan.
This person actually has the cultivation level of the Tribulation Transcending stage?!
Yun Qiheng suddenly felt the pressure increase dramatically, but still asked, unwilling to give up, "How...how did you know?"
Xie Xiyan didn't see it, but that doesn't stop him from having another major flaw: Ling Xuzi.
Ling Xuzi is a soul entity with considerable strength. Moreover, he was an old man who could control everything in the previous era, so it was no surprise that he could see through Yun Qiheng's cultivation level.
"Master, are you saying that Yun Qiheng's secret technique can only be deciphered by cultivators at the Tribulation Transcending stage?" Xie Xiyan did not answer Yun Qiheng's question immediately, but instead chatted with Ling Xuzi in his mind.
Ling Xuzi: "That's right, so what? You little brat, you have some ideas?"
Xie Xiyan smiled knowingly: "I just wanted him to face reality and stop thinking about people he shouldn't be thinking about."
"What are you laughing at!" Seeing that Xie Xiyan didn't answer him but only curled up the corner of his mouth, Yun Qiheng immediately got angry. "I asked you how you knew my cultivation level."
Hearing Yun Qiheng emphasize this again, Xie Xiyan's smile became even more irritating: "I think... your priority right now shouldn't be worrying about this issue, but rather thinking about how to explain it to your master. What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Yun Qiheng stiffened and slowly turned around, only to see Yun Qingyi looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze. His heart sank instantly: "Sister..."
"I'll give you a chance to explain." Yun Qingyi's tone was flat, as if she were talking about something trivial, but the atmosphere around her clearly turned icy.
“You can speak properly, but think carefully before you speak. I hate being lied to the most.”
Yun Qiheng's ears immediately drooped. "Sister... I didn't mean to hide it from you. Okay, I admit it. My current strength is indeed at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm."
"The reason?" Yun Qingyi said calmly, "I don't believe that a fourteen-year-old child can have the strength of the Nascent Soul stage in just a few years."
After struggling with the decision for a long time, Yun Qiheng finally made up his mind and looked at Yun Qingyi, saying, "I can tell my sister, but there can't be any outsiders present." After saying that, he deliberately glanced at Yun Qingrou and Xie Xiyan.
"Hey! You brat, I'm my sister's younger sister. You can talk if you want, or get lost!" Upon hearing Yun Qiheng's words, Yun Qingrou's eyes, which had been watching the show, immediately turned angry.
Xie Xiyan also said without any politeness, "I am Qingyi's Daoist partner, not an outsider." He even emphasized the words "Daoist partner."
Seeing the intense reactions of the two, who showed no intention of backing down, Yun Qingyi thought for a moment, then cast a protective barrier and said to Yun Qiheng, "Let's just say it directly. From now on, we will only be one entity. I don't want there to be any hiding things from each other. The two of them are indeed not outsiders, but partners and family."
Although Yun Qiheng was still reluctant, Yun Qingyi insisted, so he compromised. He silently organized his thoughts and slowly said, "I... am actually reborn."
After Yun Qiheng finished speaking, he expected the three of them to have a strong reaction, but to his surprise, they didn't show any emotional fluctuation at all. "?"
"Why aren't you surprised at all?"
Xie Xiyan didn't just stand there. He sat down next to Yun Qingyi, a slight smile playing on his lips, his eyes full of amusement: "Tsk, to have the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator at fourteen, and not some evil cultivator, there are only a few possibilities."
Yun Qingrou: "It's either possession or rebirth."
Yun Qingyi herself had entered the cycle of reincarnation five times, so she was even more familiar with this kind of thing. "Not all reborn people have the strength to become gods in just a few years, so what happened?"
Upon hearing this, Yun Qiheng's thoughts returned to his past life. "You may have heard about my past life, the Yun Zeye family of Huayin Domain."
Yunze Ye Family?
The three of them did know about this, especially Yun Qingyi and Yun Qingrou. Before joining the Xuanmiao Sect, the two lived in the Southern Spirit Continent, so they naturally knew more than Xie Xiyan, including some rumors and secrets about the Ye family.
More than fifty years ago, the entire Qianye family was brutally murdered, and at that time, their only child was not even twenty years old.
The Ye family was murdered, and the Ye family lost its leader overnight. At this time, the younger brother of the former Ye family head, who had disappeared for many years, stepped forward, stabilized the Ye family members, and eventually became the new Ye family head.
Many people felt something was amiss at the time, but no one verified it, and the matter was left unresolved.
Looking at the three people with different expressions, Yun Qiheng continued, "Before I died, I saw clearly that the person looked six parts like my father. After my soul wandered around, I realized that he was my uncle."
"He killed my parents just to obtain the Ye family's secret manual—the Kun Tian Jue."
"But he didn't expect that my parents would rather die than tell, and I was the only one who knew where the Kun Tian Jue was. When I learned of my parents' death, I fought him head-on, but in the end, because I was not strong enough, I could only seriously injure him, and I also died there."
"He originally intended to search my soul, but because I was too badly injured, he didn't have time to do so, which allowed my soul to escape."
“Back then, I was just a lonely soul, wandering with hatred, only wanting to warn the other members of the Ye family to be careful of that person. But I never expected that he would not only be my uncle, but also become the new head of the Ye family.” At this point, Yun Qiheng’s voice was almost filled with gritted teeth, and his thin lips trembled as he spoke.
"At that time, my soul dared not get too close to him, but later I gradually found out the truth. The Kun Tian Jue is divided into Yin and Yang parts. The Ye family usually cultivates the Yang part, while the Yin part requires Ye family members with pure blood to cultivate."
For this reason, only the direct descendants of the Ye family can cultivate the Kun Tian Yin Technique. However, cultivating the Kun Tian Yin Technique is extremely easy to go astray and become possessed by evil spirits. Every direct descendant of the Ye family must have a firm resolve to attain enlightenment in order to cultivate it.
Because very few people pass this test, it evolved into a system where only members of the Ye family qualified to cultivate the Kun Tian Yin Technique could become the head of the Ye family.
"At that time, my uncle was exceptionally talented, but because he was restless and his Dao heart was not firm, he lost the qualification to cultivate the Kun Tian Yin Technique and thus had no chance to become the head of the family."
My father was less talented than him, but he passed the test and was able to cultivate the Kun Tian Yin Technique. This made my uncle very resentful, so he ran away from home in a fit of anger.
"Years later, my uncle was unwilling to accept this and plotted to kill my whole family, including my grandparents. My uncle resented and looked down on my father, and by extension, he also resented my grandparents. He always believed that my grandparents were biased, which is why my father became the clan leader."
"Later, because of my resentment, I had no choice but to be reincarnated. I went to the place my parents told me was where the Kun Tian Yin Manual was hidden. The Kun Tian Yin Manual was just a small jade slip. The accident happened when I picked up that jade slip. Suddenly, I felt the world spinning around me. When I woke up again, I found that I had returned to the appearance of a five-year-old.
Standing in a dark, cold cave, I thought everything had returned to where it all began, back to the day I was five years old. But when I left the cave, I realized that I was the only one who had been reborn; time continued on, and my parents would never return.
"At that time, I only had one thought: revenge."
"But I had no resources. Although my reborn body had good spiritual roots, it was full of impurities. For several months, I couldn't even get enough to eat, let alone cultivate."
Fortunately, I don't know which teleportation array I accidentally entered, and I ended up in the Northern Spirit Continent. But being such a little kid, I naturally didn't dare to go towards the center of the Northern Spirit Continent. In the end, I ended up in the Great Liang Kingdom. You know what happened after that, sister."
After hearing Yun Qiheng's words, Yun Qingrou scoffed, "I thought you were just a little kid, but it turns out you were just pretending to be young."
Xie Xiyan gave a forced smile and clicked his tongue lightly: "Combined before and after this rebirth, you must be over thirty, right?"
Yun Qiheng snorted coldly and said smugly, "That's none of your business. Anyway, I'm only fourteen now~"
Yun Qingyi ignored the bickering among the group and instead pondered Yun Qiheng's words.
“But I heard that the Ye family changed its head of the family a few years ago, and it was not made public. Many people went to investigate but returned empty-handed. The affairs of the family are also managed by his subordinates.” As Yun Qingyi said this, her eyes never left Yun Qiheng.
Yun Qiheng smiled slightly: "Sister, you are really well-informed. I didn't expect you to know about things in the Southern Spirit Continent even in the Northern Spirit Continent."
"Has Qi Heng heard of the Wenji Pavilion?" Yun Qingyi looked at him with a half-smile.
Looking at that smile, Yun Qiheng always felt as if that person could see right through him.
When the Wenji Pavilion was mentioned, Yun Qingrou and Xie Xiyan stared intently at Yun Qiheng.
Yun Qingrou: "Now that you mention it, I remember that Senior Brother Gu mentioned Yizhui Wenji Pavilion back in Laizhou."
Although Xie Xiyan was not involved in what happened to Yun Qingyi in Laizhou, he knew something about Wenji Pavilion. He pondered and said, "I heard that it is an organization unique to the Arctic Region, specializing in intelligence trading and hiring hitmen."
Yun Qiheng's eyes flickered subtly. "Why would you ask about this, sister?"
Yun Qingyi smiled and said, "Because I heard that Wenji Pavilion also has some influence in the Southern Spirit Continent. According to rumors, it is the Ye family."
Yun Qiheng: "Really? What a coincidence."
Seeing that Yun Qiheng did not give a direct answer, Yun Qingyi did not press him further. After all, it was best for him to say some things if he was willing to, but she already had a guess in her heart.
"Alright, let's put this matter aside for now."
Just then, Xingyan and Xingyu returned. They had indeed gone to take care of the demons, and were carrying empty medicine bottles. "Uncle-Master! Senior! Weren't you supposed to be attending the disciple recruitment conference? Why are you back so soon?"
The two jogged over happily, then noticed Yun Qiheng and exclaimed in surprise, "Hey? This young man is so handsome! Who is he?"
"Yun Qiheng," Yun Qiheng said indifferently. He had no interest in interacting with anyone other than Yun Qingyi.