Wen Xuan quietly walked from the door into the room. With a wave of his hand, he floated that infant into his arms.
“Shixiong……” Jian Yi wanted to open his mouth and explain something, but he felt like his head was completely blank.
In front of Wen Xuan, what revenge, what hatred, what Qin niangzi. Everything was thrown to the back of his mind. Afterall, those animosity and vengeance all belonged to the original. The only thing that was his was his dedication to Wen Xuan.
He wanted to put this all behind him, but Qin niangzi wouldn’t remain quiet.
As soon as Qin niangzi saw Wen Xuan appear and observed his actions, as well as Jian Yi’s response, she believed there was a chance to turn things around. Instantly viewing Wen Xuan as her savior, she threw herself on the floor and crawled her way to Wen Xuan’s foot, crying pitifully: “Cultivator sir, cultivator sir, please save me! Please save me and my son!”
Seeing this scene, Jian Yi felt as disgusted as if he ate a fly.
Qin niangzi reached out a hand and wanted to touch the infant in Wen Xuan’s arms. At the same time, her other hand practically went to hug Wen Xuan’s feet. Combined with that pretty appearance and faceful of tears, she looked quite pitiful.
“Shixiong!” Jian Yi couldn’t hold back from warning: “This woman……”
He didn’t finish speaking when Wen Xuan already took a step back. Qin niangzi didn’t even touch the hem of his robes. Instantly she froze.
“I know.” Wen Xuan said coolly as he spared Jian Yi a sideways glance: “If I didn’t know, do you think I would have waited until now to step forward?”
It was because he knew the cause and effect that he was able to just watch everything that had happened, until this point.
Jian Yi recalled those expressions he made just now. His complexion inevitably became even more unsightly.
“No matter what, the child is innocent.” Wen Xuan stated this in a quiet voice, then turned his gaze towards Qin niangzi: “And the reason why I stepped forth was to ask about this matter more clearly.”
Qin niangzi finally discovered that Wen Xuan wasn’t here to save her as she originally thought. Her tears froze on her face.
“The Deity of Fortune is a demon.” Wen Xuan asked her: “Did you know that?”
Qin niangzi’s face color instantly returned to the pale white it was before. She looked at the baby in Wen Xuan’s arms, then looked at the unfriendly looking Jian Yi to the side. Letting out a wretched laugh, it didn’t take her long to answer honestly: “I did… I knew it.”
Wen Xuan’s brows furrowed.
“So what if it’s a demon?” Qin niangzi explained: “Cultivator sir, you should understand. As long as we could obtain what we wanted, what’s the difference between gods and demons?”
“But you collaborated with that demon and let a strange illness run rampant throughout Jiufeng City: “Finishing these words, Wen Xuan pressed his lips together: “You brought disaster to everyone in the city.”
In the end, Qin niangzi couldn’t even argue, and only prostrated on the floor weeping.
“One more thing, I found the remnants of an area that was dug out in the backyard of Yunling Shop.” Wen Xuan continued to say: “After you took over ownership of Yunling Shop, did you dig something up from there?”
This was the first time Jian Yi heard of this matter. His face froze as his expression couldn’t help but dim more.
When Qin niangzi heard these words, her expression became somewhat odd. The corner of her mouth twisted as she gave a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes. With a hint of anguish, she said: “What do you think it was, cultivator sir?”
Wen Xuan couldn’t figure it out, but assumed it was something belonging to Jian Yi’s family.
Qin Niangzi, however, suddenly laughed loudly: “That was a heirloom my grandmother left me. A green jade pendant for me to pass down to my future daughter! That was originally my possession! I buried it there myself!”
Wen Xuan and Jian Yi were both stunned. Clearly neither of them thought this would be the answer.
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“However, when I was about to be married and wanted to dig this pendant back out, mom and dad stopped me relentlessly! Even after I got married and came back to visit, they were unwilling to give the pendant to me. They even said that didn’t belong to me at all! After that, Yunling Shop was built over this place so it completely became my little brother’s possession! I couldn’t even go near it!”
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This wasn’t a hard to predict answer.
The reason why this woman did all of those malicious things was actually completely unrelated to power or fortune. It all originated from her internal conflict with her parents over those many years.
Wen Xuan fell silent for a moment and couldn’t help but sigh: “So it’s like that…… you’re also a rather pitiful person.”
Qin niangzi trembled all over, almost believing once again that she’d be saved.
“Shixiong!” Jian Yi said even more anxiously.
However, Wen Xuan only shook his head and calmly stated to Qin niangzi: “A life for a life. You should end it yourself.”
Wen Xuan was a benevolent person, no doubt. But for people like Qin niangzi, this was the limit to his kindness.
After that, Wen Xuan carried the infant in his arms and walked outside, step by step.
Qin niangzi looked stunned at his back, finally feeling complete despair. This kind of despair was the same as when she faced Jian Yi before. It also made her feel suffocated. Wen Xuan’s appearance once gave her a slight hope, but considering what kind of things she’d done before, in the end, this hope didn’t belong to her.
Seeing Wen Xuan about to turn at the door and disappear out of sight, Qin niangzi cried out in the end: “Cultivator sir! Please pity my child! All of the wrongs were my doing, it has nothing to do with him! Please let him grow up safely!”
Saying these words, she struggled no more. Abruptly getting up, she slammed herself violently into the corner of a table.
Although the corner of the table was made of wood, it was sturdy and sharp. When Qin niangzi slammed into it, a bloody hole instantly appeared on the side of her head. In a flash, blood spurted all over. Jian Yi stepped back to avoid the blood splatters as he watched with a cold eye. Qin niangzi fell over to the floor, the fresh blood pouring out nonstop from her injury, mixing together with the blood from Landlord Li that was spilled on the floor from before.
As she lay dying, the light from her eyes faded as she let out odd noises from her throat.
It was unclear if she had regretted it in the end, or if she felt guilty towards those people who died in her hands. But in the end, one part of her heart was at peace because at the very least, her child managed to live……
“Oh right.” Just at this time, Jian Yi suddenly smiled maliciously: “Are you still thinking that this child was born from you and your husband?”
Clearly she only had a few breaths left, but when Qin niangzi heard these words, her original faded pupils suddenly constricted.
“You and your husband haven’t had a child after all these years, yet as soon as you got mixed in with a demon, you suddenly got pregnant. Did you never think about why?” Jian Yi said: “Did you believe that demon was a child blessing Guanyin? Ha ha. Clearly, it was your husband who didn’t have the ability. Even if the real child blessing Guanyin came, what would be the point?”
Qin niangzi heard the meaning within these words. Her already dying body actually started to struggle and tremble faintly.
“You probably don’t even remember how this child came to be, right? That demon said it himself, your taste wasn’t bad.” Jian Yi smiled: “That’s how it made you have the child– that halfbreed.”
A child that was half demon, half human.
These words were like a hammer to Qin niangzi’s heart. In an instant, even her strength to struggle faintly was gone.
In the end, she wasn’t able to carry on the bloodline for her husband at all. What made her feel even colder was that, a halfbreed. How could a child like this survive?
Qin niangzi finally drew her last breath in the midst of her deepest anguish.
At the very end, Jian Yi destroyed the last hope in Qin niangzi’s heart and completed his revenge.
Taking a deep breath, he squeezed his fists.
When Jian Yi walked out of the room, he saw Wen Xuan standing there in the hallway. He wasn’t far from the door so everything Jian Yi said just now, he naturally heard.
“So this is actually a halfbreed?” Wen Xuan looked at the infant in his arms, mumbling to himself.
At this time, the infant already got tired from crying and quieted down. He only restlessly tossed and turned in Wen Xuan’s arms, exposing his white chubby arms, like a tender piece of lotus root.
How similar to a regular human infant. However, when Wen Xuan deliberately probed, he was really able to sense a hint of demonic energy. Although this aura was very light, even lighter than the energy on the wooden sculptures of the Deity of Fortune, and practically unnoticeable without careful examination, it was unmistakenly demonic energy.
Jian Yi walked step by step to Wen Xuan’s side. Head lowered, he waited for Wen Xuan’s interrogation.
“Jian shidi,” However, the first thing Wen Xuan said was: “Should I have not saved this child?”
Jian Yi was stunned.
“Originally I planned to find a childless mortal family, hide the truth about this child’s origins, and let them adopt him.” Wen Xuan sighed slowly and said: “But since he’s a halfbreed, this plan no longer works. Maybe I should give him directly to the Sect.”
“Give him to the sect?” Jian Yi said in opposition: “Are you trying to kill him?”
“Didn’t you want to kill him first?” Wen Xuan gave Jian Yi a sideways glance.
Jian Yi choked. After a long while, he finally replied awkwardly: “That was then, this is now……”
He wanted to kill this child before because he wanted Qin niangzi to suffer. Now that Qin niangzi died, naturally he lost all interest in killing this child.
On the contrary, since Wen Xuan now knew that this child was a halfbreed, Jian Yi felt he couldn’t just let the child die like this. At the very least, not for the sake of fulfilling a cultivation sect’s righteous mission to kill demons and eradicate evil.
“A halfbreed is still a person.” Jian Yi expressed seriously and earnestly: “He still has the right to exist like everyone else.
“Is that right?” Wen Xuan looked at him puzzled, clearly not understanding why Jian yi was suddenly expressing himself so diligently.
“In any case, we can’t give him to the sect!” Under Wen Xuan’s gaze, Jian Yi actually felt somewhat embarrassed: “If worst comes to worst, we can throw him to Cerulean Feathers and have that Zhao guy raise him!”
“That’s a pretty good idea.” Wen Xuan couldn’t help but smile.
As they conversed, Wen Xuan walked around in the living room and stopped in front of a table. This was Qin niangzi’s house. Naturally, it wouldn’t lack that item– the wooden sculpture of the Deity of Fortune. It was currently placed on this table top.
In comparison to the other sculptures seen elsewhere, the demonic energy revolving around this wooden sculpture was extremely thick. It seemed like this was the center source.
“Hearing what you said just now, you sound like you’ve seen that demon.” Wen Xuan said.
Jian Yi didn’t dare to conceal anything at this time and honestly narrated how he snuck into the demonic gathering with the help of Zhao Feiyu, not fabricating even a single word.
Wen Xuan finished listening, he fell silent for quite a while. Then he pressed his lips together: “So you purposely sent me away……”
Jian Yi didn’t refute at all. He only lowered his head like a child that did something wrong.
Wen Xuan couldn’t bear seeing him like this the most. Instantly, he opened his mouth to say something. Yet in the end, he closed his mouth again.
Bracing himself, Jian Yi waited. He knew Wen Xuan would definitely ask some things. Wen Xuan found out many things today, he couldn’t possibly not ask anything.
However, Wen Xuan looked at him for a long time before sighing and withdrawing his gaze again. Then Wen Xuan asked: “How strong was that demon, were you able to tell?”
Only this? Jian Yi didn’t know if he should be surprised or happy.
“Around foundation building strength.” Then Jian Yi answered in detail: “A little weaker than you were before. But to deal with him, we’re not strong enough right now.”
“Really?” Wen Xuan declined to comment, then asked: “How about through this wooden sculpture, how much of his strength can he use through it?”
Jian Yi was just about to answer when his expression suddenly changed. This question that Wen Xuan asked made him feel a sudden unease.
Wen Xuan didn’t wait for his answer. He just stood there.
As he stood there, his cultivation gradually rose little by little. Although it was rising very slowly, it was definitely rising no doubt.
“Shixiong! What are you trying to do?” Jian Yi said quickly: “Through this wooden sculpture, he can transport his real body over! Even if he loses strength during the trip, he’ll still have 70% left and that’s not something we can deal with!”
“Don’t you know?” Wen Xuan expressed with a smile: “Since you know my things so clearly, you should know.”
When he first broke through to foundation building, he once obtained three mystical abilities. One of the skills was that offensive Ice Blade skill. One of the two skills that were left can ignite his potential and forcibly increase his strength.
The extent of this increase all depended on his current strength. Back then when he was in foundation building, he was able to increase his strength by 30% at most. After he became yuan gathering, because his cultivation method was too terrible, this skill pretty much lost its effect. But now that he’s fallen down from yuan gathering and received a new cultivation method, his mentality and energy was in peak condition. Using this skill again, his power naturally increased even higher than before.
This increase was also one of the weaknesses of this skill. The larger the increase in power, the longer it took to prepare. It can only be used in a well planned battle. That’s why he couldn’t use it when they were ambushed previously. However, in face of their current situation. This was extremely suitable.
A few moments later, Wen Xuan’s strength actually faintly reached yuan gathering level.
“Shixiong!” Jian Yi was even more anxious: “Why the rush!”
There’s no way a skill like this didn’t have a price. The better the effectiveness, the higher the price. Jian Yi wanted to stop him desperately, but was helpless.
“Why the rush?” Wen Xuan asked back, as if he was telling a joke.
Although his expression looked calm, and since he appeared, he’s been looking this unperturbed, but internally, he’s been suppressing an overflowing fury all this time.
For the dimwitted child who was viewed as a calamity star by everyone in the city. For the youth that he lamented sincerely for up until now.
Why the rush? That’s right. This person beside him can detach himself clearly and adhere to a revenge plan. He even knew who can be dealt with immediately and who can wait. In the end, this person beside him right now wasn’t that dimwitted child. In the end, he wasn’t the person that Wen Xuan felt lament for just now.
What’s humorous, on the contrary, was that Wen Xuan couldn’t hate with that same kind of calmness.
His cultivation finally rose to its peak, hanging around the boundaries of yuan gathering. Wen Xuan handed the baby in his arms into Jian Yi’s hands and gathered his spiritual energy layer by layer. Then, waving with force, he abruptly swung at that wooden sculpture.
His sword hit the wood and made a sound like gold and jade colliding.
The wooden sculpture endured for a second, then ended up splitting cleanly in half and falling onto the floor.
A strand of black smoke instantly emerged out of the cracks of the wooden sculpture, condensing into a large demonic shape. With a deep resounding voice, it yelled: “Who– is so audacious—!”
Wen Xuan laughed coldly. Without a word, he swung his sword again.
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I have decided I hate nearly everyone in the OG Jian family except Jian Yi. The OG Jian Yi is the one I really feel sorry for. Poor boy!
His dad seems innocent. It’s not his fault his parents were overly partial to him causing his sister to be so angry.
I guess you’re right in someway…
But he did know what they did right? He couldn’t be that oblivious. I don’t like it bcz people in my family do this a lot (favouring men our women) and the men know it and enjoy it.
Not that I care much about it they can like who they want I don’t need them but still I dislike how my male relatives take advantage of it.
If he knew and relished it, sure, butbas kids we tend to be rather powerless to the whims of our parents. I get the feeling that it was their way or the highway. Even if he could’ve done something to help his sister but chose not to, his child is innocent and she specifically targeted the child with the calamity business.
Of course I hate her too. Like I said don’t like anyone other than JY. What her parents and others did was not enough of a reason to kill them.
Like she said the shop was supposed to belong to them both. And her brother should know that. He was supposed to be a grown up by that time. Maybe he wasn’t bad but I after my personal experience just don’t consider men like this blameless.
If he wanted to he could’ve stopped his parents. They doted on him after all …
It’s never really that simple though. Is he blameless? We can’t know but I wont immediately assume he has any major blame in all of that enough to be hated whether that be bc of past experience or anything of the sort.
Well you can keep that opinion and I will keep mine. It’s not like we’ll ever know.
My opinion is that he’s to blame too not so much that he deserved to die. But certainly not blameless…
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I was stating a fact, not an opinion and it’s a fact that we dont know the full extent of the dynamics in their family so carelessly placing blame is unfair in this situation. I too doubt he was unaware of the favoritism but we still only got a surface look at one side of the situation from his upset sister and that’s always gonna be biased. He has no chance to tell his experiences basically. That’s why I empathize with him so much.
Maybe his parents lied to him or something. BUT even in that case he could’ve asked his sister. He was a good father but that doesn’t free him of what he did just like his sister was a good mother but a horrible person.
If the Author even hinted on his innocence I wouldn’t comment this but they didn’t. Which means that According to everything we know about the situation he was wrong.
At last, the fact that you believe he is innocent IS your Opinion. Because we don’t know the situation…..
Yes we only know what the author was willing to tell is but this was all still through the eyes of his sister. Lastly, comparing him to her isnt remotely reasonable. At most, he received too much favor from his parents while she knowingly murdered or involved innocent people in her personal familial matters. Shes beyond immature so I felt no sympathy for her despite how her parents treated her. Just like how you said he could’ve asked his parents, so too could she have confronted him but from what we see she just took it upon herself to decide to ruin his family instead.
And they gave everything to one child that is not just “too much favor”. Maybe you’ve never felt it so you don’t know what it’s like. So let me tell you that it still makes me hate my family sometimes. To someone who never was in my place it’ll just seem like “too much favor”. But if you hear everyone telling you you’re worthless and your brother’s better you will start hating them. I have been in the same condition so I know how much her brother could’ve done to stop all of it.
If for most of your life people keep telling you that the only purpose in your life is to have children and get married what will you feel?
No one is sympathizing with her but everything has a reason. Just bcz she was evil murderer doesn’t mean that the people she killed should be innocent. Not bad enough to deserve to die but they weren’t blameless.
I hate her and I just gave an example that you like JY’s father bcz he was a good father. Then you should like her too since she was a good mother.
Okay! let’s end this discussion. I’ve realized these days due to different situations that people’s minds work really differently. In my mind what I’m saying makes perfect sense and maybe in your mind what you’re saying makes perfect sense. We’re two different people with different experiences and thoughts looking at an incomplete problem. I had really fun chatting. Made me less lazy…
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Nice chat!!
So, good luck for you. You’re really strong. If I were you I won’t know how to go on. I’m way too emotional and suicidal, my sisters and friends being the thing that keeps me going. So, you are strong if you can stand alone. (I’m really bad at this (─.─||）)
Strangely, I don’t hate that Qin person. I just pity her… kinda
So the baby was actually a half-demon💀 LMAO