“A saintly child is not destined from birth.”

"Wu Xuan Ku will recruit a large number of talented young children in the southern region, and from the time they are weaned, they will all be thrown into an extremely dangerous place in the sect - Yanwang Valley."

"There are poisonous insects and poisonous weeds everywhere. Even an adult might not survive for more than a month."

"Those young children who have no ability to survive are thrown there and left alone."

"…until someone can get out of it on their own."

Chen Yin frowned slightly.

“Isn’t this too anti-human?”

Nan Xiaoxiang also slowly closed her eyes.

The slight rise and fall of her chest showed her inner turmoil at the moment.

"It sounds like the gods are angry and the people are resentful."

"But in the eyes of the monks, they don't care."

As many earthly babies as you want.

If there is one who can become a saint child, he will reach heaven in one step.

"This is no different from the devil's way, right?" Chen Yin asked suspiciously, "Does Wuxuanku really dare to do this and risk the world's disapproval?"

"Mr. Chen, you will know once you go to the Shiwan Mountains."

Nan Xiaoxiang said in a light tone with a hint of coldness: "Wu Xuan Ku is absolutely supreme in the Shiwan Mountains. All the ordinary people there worship Wu Xuan Ku as a god and dare not disobey him in the slightest."

"Besides, Wuxuan Cave is mysterious and isolated from the outside world. Few immortal cultivation sects in the world have any contact with it."

"They don't seek quantity, only quality. They will only open the Yama Valley once they have gathered fifty children with sufficient talent."

"If we can't gather enough people, we won't open it. It doesn't matter even if everyone dies. The last time the valley was opened was hundreds of years ago."

Chen Yin listened for a long time, still a little confused: "Wait, you are not the holy child, why do you know so much?"

Nan Xiaoxiang bit her red lips slightly, her eyes filled with scattered light.

“…I am not a holy child.”

"But I was one of those fifty kids."

"It's just... I escaped from that hell."

"But according to what you said, isn't the person who escaped the holy child?" Chen Yin became more and more confused.

"It's very simple."

Nan Xiaoxiang stared into his eyes and said seriously:

"Besides me, there is someone who is more qualified than me."

“… also escaped.”

164. Nan Xiaoxiang’s Wish

Those who can come out of that hellish place are all chosen ones who feed on poisonous insects and plants and have high resistance to poison.

Nan Xiaoxiang stayed there for two years before leaving.

She couldn't remember how she got here.

Anyway, it's a lingering nightmare.

But even so, she was not the only one who escaped.

The other one who escaped was a little girl of the same age as her.

"There has never been a situation where two people escaped before," Nan Xiaoxiang said slowly, "but according to the inheritance of Wuxuan Cave, there can only be one holy child."

"Finally, according to the agreement within the Wuxuanku Sect, the two of us will fight to the death again, and the one who survives will become the Holy Child."

"…But I know that I will be the one who dies." Her brows drooped.

That girl was much more terrifying than he had imagined.

If I say that I am just lucky, I was able to survive from countless poisons.

That girl could really be the boss of Yama Valley.

Chen Yin thought for a moment and asked, "Then how did you survive in the end?"

"I told her that I was willing to give her the position of Saint Child, as long as I could survive."

Nan Xiaoxiang stared into the distance in a daze, "At that time, all the elders in Wuxuan Cave disagreed. They felt that if I survived, the secret of the Holy Child might be exposed."

…but the little girl agreed.

Nan Xiaoxiang can't forget her arrogant and contemptuous look at that time.

"You can go if you want."

"If your foundation is destroyed and you become a mortal who can never practice cultivation in your lifetime, I will let you go." Her smile was innocent, but her words were chilling.

But this is the only way to survive.

If she disagreed, Nan Xiaoxiang knew that her fate would be worse than death.

So she agreed.

Finally, with her foundation destroyed and thrown out of the Ten Thousand Mountains, she lay in the grass and was picked up by an old doctor who passed by.

In southern Xiaoxiang, there is the Xiaoxiang Medical Clinic in Yanxia Prefecture.

"My foundation has been destroyed, and there is no hope for me to practice for the rest of my life."

She murmured to herself, "But I can't forget what happened in Wuxuan Cave. I will never forget it for the rest of my life."

Chen Yin was enjoying the story and couldn't help asking, "So, you want revenge when you go back?"

Nan Xiaoxiang shook his head.

“Perhaps, I once had this thought.”

When I was first picked up by the old doctor, I was still a little girl, lying motionless in the hospital bed all day, with the little girl's innocent yet vicious smile in my mind.

At that time, she wished she could tear that smiling face into pieces.

But the old man who picked her up was a very good person.

"Little girl, do you know?"

"Countless people die in this world every day. Countless people are also born every day."

"It's easy to die. It's hard to survive."

"If you really have a grudge in your heart, then become someone more powerful than her."

"But, I can't practice, how can I become more powerful than her?" Nan Xiaoxiang, who was still a little girl, asked with blinking eyes.

The old man just smiled cheerfully and touched her hair kindly.

"She'll kill. You'll save."

"Then you are already a better person than her."

Nan Xiaoxiang still remembers this sentence.

So she began to learn medicine from the old man, traveling northwards, curing illnesses and saving lives along the way, and practicing medicine countless times.

Until the time when she was in Guyan Town, Yanxia Prefecture, her grandfather passed away. She settled down here and opened this Xiaoxiang Medical Clinic.

"After so many years, I no longer hate her that much."

"On the contrary," she whispered, "I feel sorry for her."

After practicing medicine for so many years, Nan Xiaoxiang has seen countless young girls.

Wearing a green dress and silk skirt, she catches fireflies with a silk fan. She is in love with her sweetheart, enjoying the lanterns and flowers.

The little girl had never experienced any of these.

At such a young and beautiful age, she was trapped in a cave without sunlight all day long, accompanied by poisonous insects and weeds.

It's really pitiful to say.

"I don't have any desire for revenge this time when I go back."

"She should have become the chief witch of Wuxuan Cave by now." Nan Xiaoxiang whispered, "If possible, I just want to persuade her to change the rules of Wuxuan Cave and not use such a cruel method to select holy children in the future."

Chen Yin nodded in understanding.

"I see. Is there anything else you want to add?"

Nan Xiaoxiang was stunned for a moment.

"If you really don't want revenge, why did you go to the Cang Zhe Ancient Territory to look for the Heavenly Dao Dust?"

The word "let" made Nan Xiaoxiang fall into silence again.

"I say, it's better for girls to be less scheming."

Chen Yin was not moved by her story at all. Instead, he said nonchalantly, "You might as well be more straightforward."

"You said you couldn't swallow this, and you wanted to take the Heavenly Dao Dust back for revenge, to get back everything you lost."

"Maybe, I can look at you with a higher opinion of you." After saying that, he continued to look at Nan Xiaoxiang with a half-smile.

Nan Xiaoxiang's beautiful eyes dimmed. She just raised them slightly to look at Chen Yin, then lowered them silently.

"... In Mr. Chen's mind, am I this kind of person?"

"It's not that bad, but it's hard to cut down the beams once they're planted." He spread his hands.

Once you are used as a gun, you will be afraid of bad women for ten years.

That's it.

"Perhaps Master Chen is right." Nan Xiaoxiang said in a normal tone, "Perhaps I am really a scheming bad woman by nature."

"But looking for the Heavenly Dao's shavings is definitely not for revenge."

"…It's because Wuxuanku is also looking for the Heavenly Dao Dust."

Chen Yin's expression gradually became serious.

"The selection of the Saint Child is a secret written in the Wuxuan Cave sect's classics. It records more than just the selection of the Saint Child."

"In other words, the selection of the Holy Child is not the end. It is only half done."

She said word by word: "And the other half is to merge the Holy Child with the Dust of Heaven."

"Thus, the holy child has obtained the supreme fruit of the Tao. Given time, he will surely ascend to heaven in broad daylight, and bring eternal blessings to the Wuxuan Cave."

"But the Heavenly Dao Dust only exists in legends, and no one has ever seen its true appearance."

"I just heard that there are Heavenly Dao Dust in the secret realm of Cangzhe Ancient Domain, so I want to try my luck."

"So?" Chen Yin asked curiously, "Even if you get the Heavenly Dao Dust, what can you do? Aren't you no longer a Saint Child?"

"But she is."

Nan Xiaoxiang said seriously: "I want to save her."

"Mr. Chen, you don't know that once the Holy Child is selected, he will be parasitic on the mother body of all the secret poisonous insects in Wuxuan Cave, and his body will be corroded and transformed by thousands of toxins."

"If you don't obtain the Great Dao of Immortality, your life span will only be a dozen years."

“So saintly children often make a desperate effort, and either become immortal or die a martyr.”

"Unless there is help from the Heavenly Dao, she can prolong her life until she enters Dao through poison."

"I have saved many people." There was an indescribable emotion in her eyes, "but I have never forgotten what my grandfather told me."

"She is the one I want to save the most."

Chen Yin pinched his chin and pondered.

...At this point, there is basically no possibility of lying.

In fact, Nan Xiaoxiang always gave him a very contradictory feeling.

She was graceful and elegant, dressed in white, like a goddess descending to earth. She was also gentle and kind, with a skilled doctor and a kind heart. Everyone in Yanxiazhou knew the name of the divine doctor Nan.

But Chen Yin, who had seen her other side, also knew that although she appeared to be a fragile, delicate and pitiful weak woman, she was actually meticulous and scheming. Even Chen Yin was once deceived by her weak appearance.

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