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I am Qi Jue, a very lucky child.

I was born into the Shen family in Youyun City and grew up under the cold eyes of others.

But I was not alone on my journey of growth.

I have a sword that will never abandon me no matter what, and Shen Tingsong, who, even though he himself is not doing well, still extends warmth to me.

As far back as I can remember, I lived in the most remote courtyard of the Shen family. There was a large, crooked tree in the courtyard that almost blocked out all the light. The room was cold and damp, and even the servants rarely visited it.

Looking back now, it must have taken a lot of effort for Shen Zhang to find me such a house.

But this is good, this is good...

Unlike the rest of the Shen family, who had to squeeze into a courtyard with their siblings and parents, with space for servants and constantly being looked after and supervised—it was noisy, crowded, and with absolutely no privacy—I… I'm not envious at all!

An ordinary child like me, having a private courtyard at a young age and enjoying my own space, is definitely happier than other children in every way except for not having enough to eat or wear every day.

Whenever Shen Fenghua brought those disciples from the collateral branches of the Shen family to mock and bully me, he would always call me "an unwanted child".

Living under someone else's roof, Du'e taught me not to argue with outsiders about right and wrong. I was very obedient and well-behaved, not arguing verbally, but silently complaining in my heart.

Hmph, I'm not going to bother with them.

Shen Fenghua's father had several concubines and many children. He couldn't even remember his son's name. The relationship between father and son was also very distant. They could only see each other a few times a month. Shen Fenghua had to share a father with his other siblings. Sometimes they would fight each other in private, sometimes even to the point of bloodshed.

Unlike me, I can simply beckon and possess a sword of salvation that belongs only to me.

Every day of my life has been accompanied by the help of the savior.

The Sword of Salvation is both a teacher and a friend to me. As a child, I was not yet enlightened. The other children in the Shen family had teachers to guide them, but I could barely read a few characters.

Du'e can't speak, but it likes to rub its gleaming blade against the wall, drawing many crooked little pictures. It plays a little game of charades with me, communicating with me through drawings and gestures.

I am not alone and helpless.

Shen Qingqing really likes my Du'e Sword, and she also wants to snatch it from me.

Over the years, the Shen family has used every means imaginable, from coercion and bribery to poisoning and threats.

But crossing the calamity

No matter what we have been through, it will, like its name suggests, transcend all suffering and come for me.

My childhood companions, besides the Du'e Sword that accompanied me as I grew up, included a child born out of wedlock in the Shen family named Shen Tingsong.

He was a bit older than me. His birth mother died early, and he was not favored in the Shen family. I overheard servants chatting as they passed by, saying that Shen Tingsong's birth mother was once a very excellent alchemist and was Shen Zhang's lover when he was young.

Later, Shen Zhang married his current mistress, Shen Tingsong's birth mother, whom she regarded as her most feared rival. On ordinary days, the mother and son were often bullied.

After Shen Tingsong's birth mother passed away, he was left all alone and destitute.

Of course, he was treated better in the Shen family than I was. No matter what happened, he was still the rightful young master of the Shen family. Servants would bring him warm meals, and although his room was a bit small, sunlight could stream in.

Is he happy? I think he's very unhappy.

Sometimes, his life was even harder than mine.

When I have nothing to do, I always like to sneak into Shen Tingsong's room with the Crossing the Calamity Sword in my arms.

Although the room was small, he always kept it spotless, with hardly any dust even under the bed.

If Shen Tingsong isn't home, I'll hide under the bed and wait for him to come back, then come out and give him a scare.

But for some reason, Shen Tingsong always found me beforehand.

As soon as he pushes open the door, he places the pastries he brought back from the kitchen on the table and taps the rim of the bowl with his hand: "If you don't come out, I'll eat them all~"

I crawled out using both my hands and feet, shook off the dirt, wiped my hands clean on him, and then picked up a piece of pastry and stuffed it into my mouth.

I once stole Shen Qingqing's pastries; they were crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, melting in my mouth, and even the plating was exquisite.

The pastries that Shen Tingsong brought back were just ordinary chestnut cakes, with a dull luster and several pieces that were broken and tattered, indicating that they were either leftovers from the previous day or had been picked over by the servants.

The servants in the Shen family were snobbish and liked to treat people differently based on their status.

Shen Tingsong seemed to be used to it. After pushing the pastries towards me, he obediently opened a book on alchemy.

I quietly peeked over and saw crumbs of chestnut cake fall onto the book.

He simply raised his hand and gently brushed it down. Although he wasn't much older than me, he seemed much more mature. Suddenly, he looked up at me, pushed the book between us, and asked softly, "Do you want to learn some words?"

Yes, my first formal enlightenment lesson in life was taught by Shen Tingsong.

He doesn't actually know much; he only has a superficial understanding of most things.

At that time, both he and I were like ants, rotting and helpless pawns in the Shen family.

I don't like the Shen family, except for Shen Tingsong.

The scenes of being bullied as a child are still vivid in my mind. I have a severe case of hemophobia. After Shen Fenghua and his friends discovered this, they would always throw bloody things like dead chickens and ducks into my room.

Only Shen Tingsong,

They would quietly clean up those things while I was scared, and throw the chickens and ducks into the fire.

The one that left the deepest impression on me was one night long afterward.

As usual, Shen Tingsong inspected the inanimate objects and then lit the fire.

The firelight flickered and swayed violently.

He put all the rotten books into a small package and held the package in his arms.

Perhaps sensing a different atmosphere, we both remained silent for a long time.

I do not know how long it has been,

Shen Tingsong pursed his lips and said to me in a very soft voice, "I'm leaving here..."

He looked up towards the northwest, a glimmer of light in his eyes.

"Go to the Medicine King Sect."

Shen Tingsong hugged the small package tightly and said, word by word, "I heard that the Medicine King Sect's next enrollment is in half a year. I've saved up some spirit stones, just enough for me to make a flying boat."

He only prepared enough money for the journey there, leaving himself no way out.

I stood there stunned for a long time, seemingly without saying anything.

The aroma of roast chicken wafted through the air, and for the first time, I lost interest in food.

After wandering around the Shen family for so many years, I have a little bit of savings.

It was stolen or found.

I hid those tiny spirit stones in the mouse hole behind the woodshed.

That night, I took out all the spirit stones I had and counted them several times, but I only had about three hundred.

I secretly slipped those spirit stones into Shen Tingsong's small package.

He only notified me before he left.

Shen Tingsong left all alone, and I saw him off all alone.

The moon and stars are scarce,

The path to immortality is fraught with peril.

Shen Tingsong was much braver than I was back then.

……

Later, I stayed with the Shen family, but intentionally or unintentionally, I began to try to get involved in cultivation.

Perhaps it was because of Shen Tingsong,

For the first time, I had a glimpse of the future.

Later, the young man left home to embark on the path of immortality and was noticed by the sect leader of the Medicine King Sect, becoming the sect's chief disciple.

Five masters, chief disciple, personal disciple...

These words, which were originally unfamiliar, have become increasingly clear in my world.

I saw Shen Tingsong again after I entered the Lingxiao Sect.

That day, a strange, drab-looking, and sleazy-looking uncle came to the Shen family.

later……

He took me home.

At first, when Cheng Jiangui left, I thought I had been sold by Shen Zhang, and I struggled all the way, always thinking of resisting.

Throughout the journey, Cheng Jiangui tried to persuade me with food and meat.

They even tried to coax me by showing me the personal disciple token of the Lingxiao Sect.

By then, I already had a deep impression of the Five Sects, and naturally I had heard of the Lingxiao Sect.

In the end, I entered the sect with some skepticism.

On the day he became an apprentice, Shen Tingsong voluntarily entered the mountain gate.

The skinny child from back then has grown into a handsome young man. The moment he saw me, Shen Tingsong's shoulders visibly relaxed. He smiled gently at me, his eyes moist and red.

He said, "Now that you're here, there's no need for me to go back to the Shen family..."

For both of us, the Shen family was a nightmare from our youth, a confinement we spent half our lives trying to break free from.

We looked at each other for a long time that day. Although we didn't say anything, we both shared the same belief in our hearts.

We will eventually venture out.

Lingxiao Sect is a large mountain stronghold, and Cheng Jiangui is like a bandit leader, abducting all sorts of children from various places and happily taking them all under his own control.

When I became an apprentice, there were already two senior brothers and one senior sister in the sect.

The eldest sister doesn't like to go out, and the second brother can't leave the house.

The one who impressed me the most was my third senior brother. He was as handsome as a celestial being, and when he smiled, he had a bright little tiger tooth. He looked both handsome and cute.

Yet this is the kind of person...

The moment he saw me, he chuckled and set a fire behind my back.

"..."

Instead, I was provoked by Shen Fenghua so much that when I first met Ye Jin, I thought he was provoking me, so I obediently backed down as before. Whenever I saw him again, I would run away for hundreds of meters. Even though we lived in the same mountain, I always maintained a sense of mystery with them.

Shen Qingqing from the Shen family, like me, entered one of the Five Sects, specifically the Qingyun Sect, which is very close to the Lingxiao Sect.

At the time, I didn't know that I was forced to make this choice after Cheng Jiangui was abandoned by Shen Qingqing. I just thought it was a coincidence and that I always took the initiative to back down.

But over time, all sorts of rumors about me began to circulate in Tianshui City.

There are three sects under Tianshui City: Lingxiao Sect, Qingyun Sect, and Yaowang Sect. When the disciples of those five sects see me, they run far away, thinking I am some kind of man-eating demon, wishing they could beat me to death.

At that time, I could only suffer in silence, like Du'e Sword.

Later, Shen Tingsong went to Lingxiao Sect again.

Shen Qingqing was his half-sister. Since she came to Tianshui City, he always took care of her and sent her a lot of pills during this time.

When he came back again, his brows were furrowed, and he had suffered a great injustice.

After another long conversation with me, Shen Tingsong left a few photo stones as a memento.

From then on, I carried the photo stone with me every day, afraid that I might be framed by Shen Qingqing if I wasn't careful.

As rumors spread, they somehow evolved to an absurd degree.

Those junior brothers and sisters from both the inner and outer sects looked at me as if they had seen a demonic child or monster, keeping their distance from me for fear of being tainted by any misfortune.

but……

My senior classmates never seemed to treat me differently.

And there's also my junior sister...

That was the child my master brought back two years after I joined the sect.

When we first met, my junior sister was very well-behaved. She would hold my hand and lie next to me, and we would secretly watch our third senior brother undergo his tribulation.

My junior sister really enjoys eating.

Because I was treated coldly when I was young, even after I entered the world of cultivation, I always felt that I was not full and not warm enough. After each meal, I would habitually buy an extra portion to keep in my storage bag, for fear that one day I would not be able to eat again.

When I eat in the sect's dining hall, both inner and outer disciples keep their distance from me.

Only my junior sister would carelessly hop over to my side and steal a bite of my half-eaten wonton with her little paws.

The rumors from the outside world didn't seem to matter that much to her or me.

My junior sister is a very cheerful girl. She loves to eat and can eat a lot. She will even eat with me. The Red Bull pills she developed prevent me from fainting from blood and keep me excited for several days in a row.

She possesses an indescribable charm, one that defies easy description...

All I know is that spending time with my junior sister makes the whole world seem brighter.

The relationship between those three senior brothers and sisters with whom I rarely interacted gradually became very strained.

Senior Sister is a very powerful and capable person.

The second senior brother is also a man.

The third senior brother is the most powerful; he can cook delicious food and fight the most formidable battles.

I have a long-standing problem with being afraid of blood. After joining the sect, my master and Shen Tingsong both wanted to help me solve it, but after reading through various alchemical books, they still couldn't find a perfect solution.

Until the junior sister appeared,

This little girl simply used a single rune, and my world was completely transformed.

All those terrifying images from the past have been transformed into colorful flowers.

Perhaps it's because the world has become so beautiful.

I no longer faint at the sight of blood, nor am I afraid of spiritual practice.

They made new friends, including a little stone monster.

After the Five Sects Competition, Shen Tingsong contacted me and invited me to return to the Shen family in Youyun City, which had trapped us for many years.

I would also like to take this opportunity to learn about my background.

As a child, I often asked Dubhujā, "Where are my parents?"

After much deliberation, Du'e...

It drew a thin little man and a sword on the wall.

I didn't understand back then.

However, after Youyun City was saved and the Shen family was defeated,

I had a very long dream.

In my dreams, I vaguely recalled my parents.

With the war over, the second senior brother is about to succeed as sect leader.

When I have nothing to do, I will lie on the hillside alone with the Sword of Salvation and the Sword of All Living Beings to watch the sunrise and sunset.

one day,

The tattered and worn-out Sword of All Living Beings finally shone brightly once more.

The blade of the Sword of Salvation shone brightly, merging with the light of the Sword of All Living Beings.

Lovers who were once separated are reunited at this moment and will never be separated again.

I was holding a bag of round pastries made by my third senior brother, which were even more beautiful than the pastries Shen Qingqing made back then.

Looking up at the sky in the distance, it's as if I can see the past.

It turns out that what Du'e painted back then was myself.

What it wanted to tell me was very simple.

What I long for, what I dream of—

It has always been by my side and has never left.

I am Qi Jue.

I'm not some little bitter gourd,

From beginning to end, I have always been an incredibly lucky child.