Chapter 128: The Key to the Light Gate

The key landed in the woman's hand; she took it steadily, then reached out and placed it in front of Qintai He.

"This is...?" Qintai He was puzzled.

The woman coughed lightly, tears in her eyes, her voice somewhat choked: "Do you know how your parents died?"

Qintai He silently clenched his fist tightly and said: "I know, it was because of a clan dispute, and they were killed by Qintai Mo, who faked a secret order."

"That's right. The favor I want to ask of you has to do with this. Your mother's master, Guangyou Xianjun, originally exhausted his Spiritual Power to save your mother, but he was unable to bring back your father's body. So, he sent us this key. This key can allow you to pinpoint the location and teleport there to bring your father's body back. However, that place is extremely dangerous; do not activate this key until you reach the Transformation Stage."

The woman gently stroked Qintai He's head and said lovingly: "This key is just a thought. Whether you go or not is for you to decide. Now that the key is passed to you, I consider my worries settled. Keeping this frail body is useless. Qintai Mo and his mother are obstacles to you; before I leave, I will take them with me. You have never lived in the Qintai Family, so I presume the Clan Leader will not deliberately make things difficult for a junior like you. Just stay here. Your grandmother's final wish is for you to live well, to live a long, long life, and to safely cultivate to the Transformation Stage."

Qintai He was silent for a while, seemingly digesting the information his grandmother had left behind.

He said slowly: "Grandmother, Qintai Mo has already been killed by me, but he was merely a blade. There is someone else who truly caused the deaths of Father and Grandfather."

The woman was stunned, "Killed? That is fine too..."

She paused, then shook her head, her expression grave, "He'er, promise me, do not seek revenge. The matters of the previous generation are in the past. Cultivators struggle against Heaven for their lives, and clan struggles are merely for seizing more resources for oneself; there is no deep-seated hatred between us. When your grandfather died, he was simply unwilling to accept his loss. If you seek revenge, the cycle will continue endlessly through the generations, which is what will truly cause the Qintai Family to decline. In the future, once you reach the Transformation Stage, the Qintai Family will naturally have a place for you, and becoming the next Clan Leader will be as easy as turning over one's hand."

The woman repeated this over and over for a long time, imposing the obsession of Qintai He's grandfather—who had failed to break through to the Transformation Stage—onto Qintai He, but Qintai He did not feel repulsed; instead, his heart felt heavy.

He took the key, and the woman rubbed her brow with some fatigue.

Cang Lin spoke up: "Madam, please rest for a while. Later, I will help the Young Master clarify the things the old master left behind."

"Very well, you may go." The woman nodded, took off a ring from her hand, and stuffed it into Qintai He's hand as well, "A greeting gift for my grandson, or you can consider it an inheritance left by your grandparents."

The style of this storage ring was very similar to the one left by his father that Qintai He held in his hand. Qintai He silently put this ring on a nearby finger.

The three of them came out of the room. The white wolf waiting outside the door eagerly came up to lick Qintai He's hand, rubbing against him with the soft fur under its neck.

Qintai He's heart softened, and he said softly: "Alright, Yinfeng, no need to comfort me."

"This is the white wolf left by the eldest young master, right? It was only a cub when it was taken away." Cang Lin changed the subject, not letting Qintai He sink into that sorrowful atmosphere.

"So Yinfeng is also from Xizhou." Qintai He stroked Yinfeng's head.

"Naturally, this white wolf was obtained by the eldest young master only after great effort," Cang Lin said with a smile, "Besides the storage ring Madam just gave the Young Master, there are some things that were openly seized by the second young master that should rightfully belong to you. I will help you get them back."

"Thank you, sorry to trouble you."

"From now on, I am your Dao Protector; you need not be so polite with me."

Upon hearing this, Qintai He's expression showed some hesitation.

Ruan Xing hurriedly advised him, "The most important thing for you right now is to follow your grandmother's dying wish: live well, live until the Transformation Stage, and don't think about anything else."

Qintai He, who was already rich, had suddenly inherited a fortune, becoming even richer. Ruan Xing was already tired of being envious, but after all, it was someone else's heirloom, and Qintai He's background was quite tragic, so she wouldn't be greedy in that regard. However, she really wanted that key.

When the grandmother was giving instructions earlier, she hadn't avoided them. The grandmother herself didn't know where the key pointed to; she only knew that after activating the key, one would be teleported to that place.

She couldn't guarantee that this key could teleport multiple people at once, nor could she guarantee that Qintai He would be with her when he activated the key, so she could only worry in vain.

Fortunately, Qintai He likely wouldn't use the key before reaching the Transformation Stage, so she still had time to plan. Less than half a stick of incense after the group left.

A commotion came from the southeast corner of the courtyard, and several mortal servants ran out in a panic.

"It's bad!"

"The Madam is dead! The First Madam beat the Madam to death!"

Hearing this, Qintai He intended to walk in that direction, but was stopped by Cang Lin.

"You cannot go," Cang Lin said, "Do not get involved in this. I will handle this matter. Once the clan finishes dealing with it, you can just say that I found you and brought you back because I didn't want to return to the clan for redistribution. They won't look into such matters in detail."

In this way, the responsibility would lie entirely with the grandmother and Cang Lin, leaving Qintai He completely clean and innocent, and the Clan Leader would have even less reason to make things difficult for him over old grievances.

Even if he stayed in the clan to continue cultivating, the resources he would enjoy would be no worse than those at the Xuanbing Sect.

Qintai He stopped his footsteps, and Cang Lin hurried away.

His gaze was dark, and he whispered: "Because I came to Xizhou, they died. Is this a good thing?"

"Of course it's a good thing," Ruan Xing said, "Don't look at what others have lost, look at what you have gained. If you didn't come to Xizhou, you would never know the truth about your relatives' deaths for your entire life; would you feel better or worse? And if you didn't come, would your grandmother have died with regrets, unable to close her eyes? You helped her fulfill her dying wish, and you also obtained the property that rightfully belonged to you. You also have the motivation and goal to live on yourself. It's a triple win!"

Qintai He said blankly: "You are right."

He turned to look at Ruan Xing, "But you accompanied me on this trip and not only can you no longer return to the sect openly, but you also helped me so much, yet you gained nothing. I truly feel ashamed in my heart. You should stay too; the resources in my storage ring are enough for both of us to cultivate to the Nascent Soul Stage."

Hiss—he's sharing his inheritance with her just like that? That doesn't seem right.

But she could make use of it in the next Simulation.

Ruan Xing said with emotion: "That is something your family left for you, how could I have the nerve to use it? Senior Brother, if you really want to thank me, let me see that key. I really want to admire something left behind by Gui Xu Xianjun."

The place this key led to was extremely dangerous, and the only thing to be gained was the corpse of Qintai He's father. Qintai He did not suspect anything and trustingly took out the key to show Ruan Xing.

Ruan Xing took it and played with it. It felt cold to the touch, but there was no chill, and there wasn't a trace of Spirit Qi in the middle. Apart from the material looking relatively mysterious and unrecognizable, she couldn't see anything special about it.

Although the grandmother said that Guangyou Xianjun left this key only to make it convenient for the Qintai Family to retrieve Qintai Gu's remains, and didn't say he left behind a legacy or a Magic Art that could bring the dead back to life, he was, after all, Gui Xu Xianjun. If he explained everything clearly, where would the cold aloofness of a Xianjun be? The Qintai Family were outsiders, not his disciples; the Xianjun might not have left anything precious, but since he left that book of Magic Art, it couldn't possibly be just a book of Magic Art. So, this trip still had to be made, but Ruan Xing's expectations for the legacy at that location were lowered quite a bit.

But waiting until the Transformation Stage... that was too long, and she didn't know what kind of danger the Xianjun was referring to.

Ruan Xing's heart stirred, and she channeled her entire Spiritual Power into the key in her hand. A layer of ice-blue Runes appeared on the surface of the key, almost draining all the Spiritual Power from Ruan Xing's body, until finally, the Runes expanded into a blue Light Gate.

Qintai He looked at her in shock, "Are you crazy? It's extremely dangerous in there; Grandmother said not to activate it until the Transformation Stage!"

Ruan Xing shrugged and flipped her wrist, letting the key hover in her palm, "But the key didn't disappear; it's not a one-time item."

"So what? How do you close this door?" Qintai He frowned. With such a large blue Light Gate placed here, if a mortal servant in the residence accidentally entered, they would lose their life for nothing.

"This door is opened with Spiritual Power; it probably won't exist for very long before it closes automatically. As for now, I want to go in and take a look."

Under Qintai He's incredulous gaze, Ruan Xing stepped into the Light Gate.

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