Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

According to this trend, Ji Lingyun will most likely reach the Spiritual Transformation Realm when she is fourteen or fifteen years old, and then touch the threshold of Return to Void Realm before she is thirty years old.

at the same time.

The little girl who had once cried in her cradle had grown into a graceful young woman. With bright eyes, white teeth, picturesque features, and a naturally pure and elegant demeanor, she looked like a goddess descended into the mortal world, and at first glance, one could only instinctively feel pity for her.

Well...from this perspective, he is indeed a good candidate for practicing the [Hehuan Dao].

Fortunately, Bai Yuan is a relatively decent person and not the kind of evil cultivator who practices dual cultivation techniques, otherwise Ji Lingyun's end would have been very tragic.

About ten years had also passed.

Bai Yuan's appearance hasn't changed much. In fact, because of her reverse practice of the [Way of Time], she looks a little younger than before, a bit closer to her original loli form.

When standing next to Ji Lingyun, she actually looked more like the younger sister.

However, because he has been a human for fifteen lifetimes, Bai Yuan's character and experience far exceed Ji Lingyun's, and he has a calm mentality that can remain calm even when facing a crisis. Therefore, if you observe them more carefully, you will be able to tell who is the dominant one from the way they get along.

If I had to use a label to describe Bai Yuan, it would probably be...

"Lolita mom"?

all in all.

Until Ji Lingyun entered the Nascent Soul stage.

Bai Yuan finally spoke and told her about the "Shentu Ancestor" and the various deeds of the Shentu family.

People in the Shentu family seem to be born with the ability to disguise themselves and are very good at playing tricks.

As early as Bai Yuan I, when he and the ancestor Shentu "died together", this clan quickly made the move to cut ties with their ancestors, packaging themselves as victims coerced by the clan leader, and then used secret techniques to tamper with their own memories to avoid being exposed; at the same time, they took the initiative to show weakness and apologize to the ancestors of the Ji family and the Xiao family, and did a very good job of gesture.

Therefore, the ancestors of several families did not wipe out the enemy completely, but decided to give the other party a chance.

Over the next thousand years.

The Shentu family really behaved with dignity and never participated in anything that was harmful to the world. This operation successfully deceived the ancestors of the Ji family and others, making them think that they had truly changed their ways.

Then they waited until several celestial beings died, and then they returned to their old ways and showed their sharp claws to the cultivation world.

Even then, they maintained their superficial efforts, keeping their evil deeds secret. They often resorted to tactics like driving the tiger out to devour the wolf and diverting the trouble to other places, recruiting some and attacking others, especially instigating a conflict between the righteous and the evil, to profit for themselves, achieving their goals without giving others leverage.

Just like what happened to Ji’s father and mother back then.

If Bai Yuan hadn't arrived in time, Ji Lingyun would have fallen into the hands of the Shentu family and become a puppet controlled by them. Furthermore, this action would most likely be carefully covered up by the Shentu family, unknown to the outside world.

——As for that world line, whether Ji Lingyun will perform a "The Orphan of Zhao" drama as the destined protagonist is another matter.

"……I see.

"Are Yuan's enemies those guys with the surname Shentu?"

Ji Lingyun tilted her head and said thoughtfully.

"No, not my enemy, but our common enemy."

Bai Yuan corrected him, "Although I didn't keep any evidence, what happened to your parents back then was also their doing."

"Yuan" is what Ji Lingyun has called Bai Yuan since she was a toddler.

Theoretically, considering Bai Yuan's kindness in raising her since she was a child, it would not be excessive for Ji Lingyun to call her "Mom".

Taking a step back, "Master" should be a title that both parties can accept. Bai Yuan has taught her for so many years and led her on the path of cultivation, so he deserves this title.

But for some reason, this girl only seemed to like calling her by her first name, without even her last name.

Bai Yuan corrected him a few times at the beginning, but after a long time, he just let it go.

Anyway, this little girl performed well in other aspects, and her attitude towards her was generally respectful and obedient. It was just a matter of address, not a big deal.

Considering that Ji Lingyun grew up in the outside world and had no sense of belonging to the Ji family, Bai Yuan did not tell her much about the "ancestors of the Ji family". He only told her that there was a ferocious demon who wreaked havoc on the world and that all the ancient clans had been harmed by him, and that this demon might reappear in the world.

If you want to deal with him, you must at least reach the Return to Void Realm.

The best is a celestial being.

"Was Yuan also a celestial being before?" Ji Lingyun asked again with a little curiosity.

"...I guess so. I've repaired it once."

Bai Yuan said this.

"Only once?"

"Well, only once."

As previously mentioned, ever since the first wave of Celestial Realm cultivators perished, the aptitude of cultivators in the world of "Asking the Immortal" has seemingly dropped a notch, making it increasingly difficult to find Celestial Realm cultivators. Even cultivators in the late Return to Void stage are few and far between.

Among these people with "downgraded qualifications" are Bai Yuan's previous dozen lives, as well as the destined protagonists who have appeared one after another in the past few thousand years.

Bai Yuan herself could explain the pressure from the Shentu family. After all, she had died young in many of her past lives, never reaching her peak, and perished in the roundups initiated by the Shentu ancestors.

However, the "protagonists of destiny" can only cultivate to the Return to Void Realm, and on average only one celestial being appears in a thousand years. This is quite understandable.

Bai Yuan had a vague judgment about this——

I'm afraid that what has really declined is not the qualifications of the practitioners.

But it’s the richness of the spiritual energy in this world!

In ancient times, the separation of pure and turbid elements had not yet occurred, leading to the coexistence of humans and ghosts, but also to the abundance of spiritual energy in the world. Furthermore, the number of cultivators at that time was also very limited, with an average of only one per several hundred kilometers. With exclusive access to the spiritual energy within their area, their cultivation speed naturally increased significantly.

However, with the end of the ancient times, especially the war between heaven and man started by the ancestors Bai Yuan and Shentu, the world's environment changed drastically. "Dahuang" became a forbidden land of death where nothing existed, "Cangwu" and "Youming Bitter Sea" were separated from the world of the living, and the concentration of spiritual energy in the cultivation world therefore regressed a level.

On the other hand, the total human population has skyrocketed at an almost exponential rate, and the number of people engaging in spiritual practice has also increased accordingly.

There are too many monks and too little porridge, so it is naturally difficult to recreate the grand scene of several celestial beings existing in the world at the same time.

As for the revival of the Shentu ancestor...

It is most likely related to the "Ancestor of the Spiritual Veins of Heaven and Earth" in the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land, which was once the largest in the world.

This guy had likely, during his years of being sealed, somehow opened up a passage between the "Burial Immortal Cave" and the "Heavenly Spiritual Vein," then absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy into the "Burial Immortal Cave" to cultivate, hence his unusually high strength. He even showed signs of completely suppressing Bai Yuan and breaking the seal.

If we can't get rid of this guy within the limited time, then once he breaks the seal, his strength will likely be even greater than in ancient times.

By that time, it would probably be the end of the entire cultivation world.

Emotionally speaking, Bai Yuan really wants to end all these grudges in this life.

But rationally, she also knew that this kind of thing could not be done one-sidedly.

In order to avoid the worst-case scenario, she made some backup plans in advance, just like she had done in her previous dozen lives.

In particular, she found a way to test her latest creation, the "soul separation technique".

Over the past dozen lives, Bai Yuan would immediately retrieve her past life's memories and karma each time she was reborn, using this to rapidly improve her strength, then build on her past life's foundation and advance even further. However, this practice also set the stage for Shentu Ancestor to find her reincarnation, allowing him to use this karma to locate her location and strike first.

The premature deaths in the previous two lives were caused by this.

and so.

Bai Yuan plans to change his thinking——

What if we discard this cause and effect?

Since reincarnation was inevitable, she would have to see it through to the end. She truly wanted to be reborn, untainted by karma and fate. Since she had been able to cultivate to the point of returning to the Void and even reaching the Celestial Realm in her first life, there was no reason she couldn't do it again.

With this idea in mind.

Bai Yuan copied his earliest memory, the memory he had just experienced when he traveled from the modern era eight thousand years ago, and placed it in "Cangwu County." He then split a small piece of his soul and placed it there as well, setting up a plan for reincarnation several years later.

Ji Lingyun was also taught this method by Bai Yuan. However, it was not until several years later, when she reached the Return to Void Realm, that she separated a portion of her soul and placed it on the ancient enlightenment tea tree in the Ji family's secret realm.

As for how Ji Lingyun "returned to her roots" and entered the Ji family tea garden...

Then there is nothing more to say.

Among the eight ancient clans, the Ji family was considered relatively compassionate, with various family rules designed to prevent future generations from going astray. Now that a descendant of the Ji family, bearing Ji family blood and possessing the strength of a quasi-God-Transformation Realm, had returned to the clan, they naturally welcomed him with applause.

——If it were the Shentu family next door, they might try to "share the new members of the clan."

It is worth mentioning that the head of the Ji family at that time met Bai Yuan and learned about the existence of "Ancestor Shentu" from her.

Although he was a little skeptical about this information, considering Ji Lingyun and Bai Yuan's powerful strength, the head of the family decided to provide some assistance to Bai Yuan and the others, including some rare treasures in the Ji family tea garden, as well as many various magical weapons, not to mention elixirs and the like.

After all this is ready.

In the fifteenth generation, Bai Yuan and Ji Lingyun embarked on a journey to the Great Wilderness.

Chapter 257 White Kite Sixteenth Generation

The outcome of this trip to the wilderness is naturally no surprise.

after all……

"White Kite XVI" has appeared.

Moreover, Ji Lingyun also reappeared in the world with two souls in one body, and became Ji Lingyun II.

These two points both indicate that their "journey to the wilderness" in their previous life did not achieve the expected results, but instead they were double-killed by the other party.

This defeat caused Bai Yuan to remain silent for a thousand years.

During this time, the Shentu ancestor, assuming the identity of the then-head of the Shentu clan, personally journeyed to the "Cangwu Abyss." He walked all the way to the deepest part of the Yellow Spring, the area near the Jiang family's ancestral land that Bai Yuan, Ye Shuang'er, and the others had previously visited. There, he found the trace of "true spirit" left by Bai Yuan and destroyed it.

——This is exactly what Shentu Hanya mentioned not long ago when he guessed Bai Yuan’s identity.

As one of the few powerful people in the Shentu family who have reached the Return to Void Realm in the past thousand years, Shentu Jackdaw is still qualified to know these secrets about his ancestors.

Of course.

The "true spirit" found by the Shentu family was actually fake.

This is another back-up plan involving Bai Yuan I——

As early as when she left this thing behind, she had anticipated that one day in the future she might be forced into a desperate situation, so she deliberately set up one true and one false thing as a double insurance.

The real "true spirit" among them is kept in the bell tower of [Cangwu County], wrapped in the barrier set up by Bai Yuan I. It will only be opened when it meets the "destined person".

Because Bai Yuan's cultivation level was at the Celestial Realm, and very close to that of Shentu's ancestors, the barrier she personally created was as strong as the Ji and Shentu clan secret realms.

Unless the ancestor Shentu could come out of seclusion and descend to the underworld in the form of a celestial being to find the exact location of that "true spirit" or send a shot towards the direction of "Cangwu County", otherwise, with just an incarnation, it would be impossible for him to even find "Cangwu County".

Not to mention entering and destroying Bai Yuan's "true spirit".

As for the fake "true spirit".

He was placed by Bai Yuan I not far from the Jiang family's ancestral land, and a barrier was also set up for his protection.

——Although this "true spirit" was intended to deceive the enemy, Bai Yuan still performed the whole trick. This way, when the enemy succeeded, he could dispel the enemy's doubts to the greatest extent possible.

Youhuo Diting knew about the latter incident.

Jiang Hengyu, the ancestor of the Jiang family, also knew about it.

- Exactly.

Looking back, Bai Yuan and the Jiang family actually have a long history.

As early as the ancient times, when Bai Yuan I hid in the depths of the underworld, practicing the ghost way and eating like crazy, the Jiang family lived in the undeveloped "Cangwu" area. The two were neighbors separated by a wall.

At that time, Jiang Hengyu was still a young tribal boy who had just started practicing. When he was hunting the Yellow Springs monster, he stepped into Bai Yuan's territory and met her several times.

As for Youhuo Diting, he knew of her existence shortly after Bai Yuan I entered the underworld.

only……

As a native of the depths of Huangquan, Youhuo Diting was displeased with Bai Yuan's frantic eating and destruction of the underworld's ecological environment, and their relationship was not particularly harmonious. Furthermore, Bai Yuan was a complete otaku, having never left the Cangwu region in the thousands of years since his birth, his reclusive nature even bordering on the absurd.

Jiang Hengyu had not yet broken through to the level of a celestial being until Bai Yuan I passed away.

The time of his breakthrough was probably between the first and second generations of Bai Yuan.

That's why Bai Yuan was unable to get these two guys out to help him deal with the ancestor Shentu.

As for a thousand years ago.

During the decade or so that Bai Yuan Fifteenth had raised Ji Lingyun, he had taken her to the Jiang family's ancestral land. This had two main purposes: first, to confirm whether the arrangements made in the First Life were still in effect; second, to allow Ji Lingyun to observe the cycle of life and death up close, hoping to find an opportunity to break through the [Path of Time].

During this process, Bai Yuan met Youhuo Diting, but she did not reveal her true identity, and the latter did not recognize her either.

After all, after fifteen reincarnations, she hadn't done anything to kill a single Shentu ancestor. It was truly embarrassing to say so. Given the already strained relationship between Youhuo Diting and her, she would have laughed out loud with her mouth wide open.

So, it’s better to pretend not to know him.

When I really kill Shentu Ancestor in the future, it won’t be too late to find him to reminisce and show off.

but……