Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

The leader looked at the swaddling clothes several meters away and sneered.

Although Ji Lingyun was unable to comprehend the rapidly changing situation at that time, she knew that her parents had met with misfortune, and she immediately burst into tears in her cradle.

The crying made the "leader" upset.

The latter snorted coldly and strode forward, wanting to bend down, grab her, and take her back.

At this moment——

An obscure breath streaked across the night sky, like a dazzling meteor rushing towards you.

then……

A red sword light fell from the sky!

The leader's perception was quite sharp. The moment he sensed the presence of the enemy, he drew his sword and swung it high into the sky, sending a flash of blood-red light.

However, when the blade light was halfway through, it suddenly dispersed with a "bang", and then a line of blood appeared in the middle of the long sword, extending all the way to the leader's neck. There, the blood-colored line gradually became clearer from being blurry.

The latter opened his eyes wide in astonishment and wanted to say something, but his head tilted and he rolled over. His wide, angry eyes were full of disbelief.

"……who?!"

"What a fast sword!"

It was not until the "leader" fell to the ground with his head and body separated that his accomplices nearby reacted one after another. They shouted and showed a posture of being ready for battle.

Opposite them.

A beautiful girl fell from the sky, holding a baby in one hand and a long sword in the other. As she spun around, she wiped away the blood on the blade, and her red dress fluttered like phoenix wings in the blood.

She opened her red lips slightly, and with a voice as clear as a bell, uttered the mournful toll of a death knell:

"You don't need to know my name, you just need to know that you are going to die."

"For people like you, perhaps only death can change you."

Things are simple after that.

The strongest of the attackers was the leader, who had reached the seventh stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. However, upon contact, Bai Yuan easily dispatched him, beheading him. Of the remaining attackers, the strongest were only at the third or fourth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, making them even less capable of resisting Bai Yuan.

As Bai Yuan swung his sword, they all lay in a pool of blood, looking like they were dying, breathing more than they were breathing in.

but……

Bai Yuan was obviously not satisfied with the result: "For trash like you, death seems a little too light a punishment."

"Why not just disappear more cleanly?"

Having said this, Bai Yuan loosened his grip on the sword, letting it float in mid-air. He then spread out his slender white fingers, facing the attackers with his palms, and whispered a single word: "Destroy."

next moment.

A ball of faint blue flame burst forth, transforming into a massive arc that swept forward! Everything in its path was devoured, crushed, and vanished... The entire process occurred in a split second, shorter than the blink of an eye. In the end, only an absolute void remained, even the air being annihilated!

As for the attackers...

From the body to the soul, and even to the blood and hair scattered around, all were destroyed by the power of the law called "destruction", and no trace of their existence could be seen anymore.

The real meaning of "disappearing from the face of the earth".

After doing all this, Bai Yuan looked at Ji Lingyun again, and the body of Ji's mother on the ground, who had died before she killed the "leader", and sighed softly.

"Unfortunately, I'm a step too late."

"But at least I saved a member of the Ji family, so I can repay a favor from the past."

That’s right, I’m talking about the favor done by the ancestors of the Ji family.

Back then, when Bai Yuan I had not yet returned to the void, he had been saved by the Ji family ancestor three times - to be precise, two and a half times, because he was not completely saved the third time. However, if the favor of the other party giving him the "Ancient Tea Tree of Enlightenment" was counted, that would be three and a half times.

In the battle of "Burial Immortal Cave", Bai Yuan paid his due, but not completely.

When Bai Yuan II came out, the ancestor of the Ji family had already died.

and so……

Now this favor can only fall on the descendants of the Ji family.

Originally, Bai Yuan planned to send Ji Lingyun back to the Ji family.

After all, she had dealt with the Ji family several times between the second and fourteenth generations and knew the approximate location of their clan territory. As long as she explained the whole story clearly, and considering the Ji family bloodline that existed in Ji Lingyun's body, she thought the Ji family would accept her and settle her down well.

but……

At this moment, Bai Yuan accidentally discovered something -

That is the child named "Ji Lingyun", whose aptitude seems to be a little better.

Although she was born not long ago, her physique was unprecedented in Bai Yuan's 15th lifetime. Even if all the geniuses she had encountered in her previous dozen lifetimes were included, she would still be ranked in the top 20.

This is no easy task.

You have to know that in the experience of Bai Yuan's first and second lives, he had seen those great celestial beings from ancient times. If you exclude the ancestors of a few ancient clans and the few peerless geniuses who transcended their time in the past two thousand years, there would be very few people left.

In other words, Ji Lingyun's guaranteed upper limit is returning to the void, and there is a chance of cultivating to the heavenly realm!

"I see... Is this child the 'destined protagonist' of this generation?"

Hmm... Parents' sacrifice to heaven is indeed the standard feature of the "destined protagonist." And my appearance seems to be some kind of divine will, allowing Ji Lingyun to survive in a situation where she was originally doomed. Both conditions are met.

After realizing this.

Bai Yuan began to have another thought: "What if I were to guide this child into Taoism..."

Speaking of which, Bai Yuan did accept disciples.

In her fourth life, she had passed on the philosophy of [The Way of Time] to a younger generation whom she liked.

In her seventh life, she even founded a sect and taught dozens of disciples to practice cultivation.

Unfortunately, during the three millennia of reincarnation battles between her and the Shentu Ancestor, nearly all of these things related to her were wiped out from the world by the other party. Most of her former disciples also met with utter destruction.

Therefore, Bai Yuan gradually got used to being alone. At most, he would keep some slaves to do things for him, driving them to do things based on pure profit, without any personal feelings. This way, when they died, or when he died himself, he would have fewer ties and could enter the cycle of reincarnation lightly.

Of course……

There is actually another reason why Bai Yuan sealed his heart and locked up his love, and was unwilling to develop his strength anymore.

Ever since the two millennia that Bai Yuan I and II lived through, the aptitude of cultivators in the world of "Asking the Immortal" has seemingly declined, with few reaching the Celestial Realm. Even cultivators in the late Return to Void stage, nearing the Celestial Realm, are few and far between.

Facing an enemy like Ancestor Shentu, cultivators below the Spiritual Transformation stage were completely useless; Spiritual Transformation could be somewhat helpful, but not much. To help her, one had to be at least a cultivator in the late Spiritual Transformation stage, one who had mastered the "power of law," or one who had reached the Return to Void stage.

Just like Bai Yuan I, even if he leads thousands of troops, he will inevitably fight alone in the end.

and so.

Bai Yuan had given up on the idea of ​​recruiting disciples and cultivating his power, and instead spent all his time on himself. He planned to try to master a few more laws of power, integrate them, and then enter the realm of heaven and kill the Shentu ancestor who had been languishing in the depths of the wilderness for many years.

And now...

The appearance of Ji Lingyun gave Bai Yuan the idea of ​​making a change.

After all, she had never tried to accept a "protagonist of destiny" as her disciple.

If Ji Lingyun could be cultivated to the Heavenly Man Realm, then the Ji family's ancestors' life-saving graces would be repaid in one go. Moreover, Bai Yuan's long-held goal would have hope of being realized!

"Perhaps... this child will be an opportunity."

"An opportunity to end all grudges in this life."

Bai Yuan was thinking in his mind.

She could feel that the power of ancestor Shentu seemed to be reviving.

The evidence was that starting from Bai Yuan's tenth life, the Shentu family had been finding her faster and faster. Especially in her previous life, she hadn't even had time to cultivate to the Spiritual Transformation Realm. Before she was even forty years old, she was killed by the masterminds who came to her door.

This is not a good sign.

Because if Bai Yuan's guess is correct, then this phenomenon means that the seal that Bai Yuan I constructed at the cost of his own life to imprison the Shentu ancestor is gradually weakening. This is why the Shentu ancestor is able to exert more and more influence on the outside world and expand his ambitions.

If by the time Ancestor Shentu breaks the seal, Bai Yuan hasn't accumulated enough power to kill him, then...

She might really die.

then.

Bai Yuan temporarily gave up the idea of ​​sending Ji Lingyun back, and instead kept the child and traveled with him.

Although they were said to be "traveling together", Ji Lingyun at that time could hardly speak. Sometimes she would even wet her pants or engage in embarrassing situations because she could not express her intentions clearly.

Fortunately, Bai Yuan had experience in taking care of children in her previous fourteen lives - of course, they were not her own children, but younger brothers and sisters from some of her previous lives. So this time, she was temporarily playing the role of "mother" and taking care of the young Ji Lingyun, which was quite easy for her.

Wait until Ji Lingyun is a little older.

Bai Yuan began to teach her knowledge about cultivation, and used a set of methods he had figured out to test the method that was suitable for her.

It doesn't matter if you try it this time.

The result surprised Bai Yuan -

"Hey, this child's most talented technique is actually the [Way of Time]?"

"followed by……"

"[Hehuan Dao]?"

Ah? ?

Chapter 256 Loli Mom?

Bai Yuan was not surprised that Ji Lingyun was suitable for practicing the [Way of Time].

After all, the Ji family's strongest principle of power is "life," which has some similarities with the "cycle of life and death" of the [Path of Time]. Furthermore, as the "protagonist of destiny," Ji Lingyun's aptitude is close to that of the Ji family's ancestors. In theory, any method should be able to successfully enter the Dao, so having the aptitude of the [Path of Time] is also normal.

Like Bai Yuan himself, he had changed his method of practice three times.

Although it took her two lifetimes to complete these three times.

but……

What the hell is [Hehuan Dao]?

Could it be that it was inherited from the mother's side?

But the sect that Ji Mu originally belonged to was the "Blood Moon Demon Sect" which was good at "Demon Disintegration" and "Blood Essence Heart Meteorite Art", not the "Hehuan Sect"?

A child who is still in swaddling clothes, and is also the destined protagonist, and is good at practicing the [Hehuan Dao]... Is this reasonable?

What innate succubus holy body...

Although it's a bit confusing.

But Bai Yuan didn't take this result too seriously.

After all, her testing method was based on her experience from previous lives. While its success rate was higher than conventional methods, it wasn't 100% and there was a possibility of error. Furthermore, even if the test results were accurate, they couldn't be used to represent the testee's lifetime achievements.

Taking Bai Yuan’s example again, it is logically feasible to change to other methods in the middle of the process.

As the "protagonist of destiny," Ji Lingyun possessed higher aptitude than Bai Yuan had back then. Besides the [Path of Time] and [Path of Joy], even if she cultivated the [Path of Ruthlessness], [Path of Ghosts], [Path of Compassion]... she would likely be able to achieve similarly high accomplishments. So there was no need to dwell on this.

then.

Bai Yuan began to try to guide Ji Lingyun to comprehend the "Way of Time".

This process is easier than you think.

Because Ji Lingyun's talent and understanding were a bit absurd, even when she was just learning to speak, she had already shown some signs. When she was a little older, she would often guess the second half of Bai Yuan's words when he was halfway through, and then draw inferences from one thing to another, integrating the knowledge into her mind.

Normally, she would often enter a state of enlightenment. Even squatting under a tree and watching ants moving, she would gain insights. This made Bai Yuan wonder if Father Ji had broken off a branch from the "Ancient Tea Tree of Enlightenment" and inserted it into his daughter's body when he left the clan's secret realm. Otherwise, this talent was truly terrifying...

Four years.

It only took four years for Ji Lingyun to achieve the Golden Elixir stage and enter the Nascent Soul stage.

- In comparison, Xue Yuan entered the Nascent Soul stage at the age of twenty-seven, having spent twenty years there. Meanwhile, Jiang Rao, also a "protagonist of destiny," took fourteen years.

Of course, Jiang Rao spent a considerable portion of those fourteen years on undercover missions, which doesn't fully support his cultivation aptitude. However, even if we exclude this factor, it's unlikely that Jiang Rao would reach the Nascent Soul stage within four years, though six or seven years is possible.

then.

Ji Lingyun spent another five years or so to cultivate to the ninth level of Nascent Soul.

At this time, she had just turned thirteen.

A thirteen-year-old Yuanying is at the eighth level, and he is still practicing normally, instead of forcing things like the "Gu Ling Du Ti"!

If this speed of cultivation were to be spread out, it would probably scare a lot of people to death.