Chapter 253: Hope for the future! Yuan Lingguan of Qi Yun Mountain

The Thousand-Year-Old Demon was even more unfathomable than Zhang Fan had imagined.

He had once been a great enemy, blocking the path of the Three Corpses Daoist; Chu Chaoran, who would later prove the Pure Yang Limitless, almost lost his life at his hands in childhood; and the Yan King, now known as the number one demon in the world, had also been like a stray dog before him.

The Thousand-Year-Old Demon was like a heavenly monument, blocking the three great figures who would later shake the world.

Fate is mysterious, and the human heart is hard to fathom.

Number one in the world, Pure Yang Limitless, King among demons... these three were all earth-shattering figures, yet they suffered miserable defeats on their rise to power; that person, with a condescending posture and a heart of compassion, let them go.

He stood at the peak, waiting for those who would come later...

"Thousand-Year-Old Demon... he was actually a person of the same era as the Three Corpses Daoist? Is it true or false? Is it the same person? If he lived until now, wouldn't his seniority and age be greater than Chaoran Zhenren?"

At this moment, countless questions arose in Zhang Fan's heart; immediately after, the light and shadows before him dissipated like bubbles.

He could not care about more; his soul-aspect launched its nature-light, like a long rainbow, returning to his body.

Hu...

Zhang Fan opened his eyes and let out a long breath; an endless sense of fatigue surged like a tide, occupying his body.

"How is it? Why are you so tired after one soul-aspect out-of-body?" Fang Changle walked up, feeling the weakness of Zhang Fan's body, and could not help but frown.

The soul-aspect cannot leave the body, just as a fish cannot leave the water.

This is also the reason why Daoism emphasizes the dual cultivation of nature and life.

However, the more powerful the soul-aspect, the smaller the constraints it receives, and the process is further influenced by time, distance, environment, etc.

In the Great Being Realm, the soul-aspect produces nature-light; even if it leaves the body for ten days or half a month, or leaves the physical body for a hundred miles, it will not be greatly affected.

With Zhang Fan's cultivation, having been out of the body for only half an hour, with his range of activity within the Qin family mansion, how could he become so weak?

"It's a long story." Zhang Fan waved his hand; naturally, he would not expose the secret of having the Three Corpses Yuan Dan hidden in his body.

No matter how close the relationship, this kind of secret can only rot in one's stomach; even one's own parents cannot be told.

Immediately, Zhang Fan changed the subject, telling the story of meeting the man lying in the crystal coffin in the side hall, while hiding everything about the Thousand-Year-Old Demon and the Three Corpses Yuan Dan.

"A living dead person?" Fang Changle pondered for a moment before saying, "According to your description, this person is very likely the most stunning existence among the previous generation of Qin family disciples..."

"Qin Wangsun!"

"Qin Wangsun!?" Zhang Fan was lost in thought; he vaguely remembered someone mentioning this name when he was at the Jiangnan Province Daoist Alliance.

"I heard from the elders in the sect that the Qin family's Wangsun back then had heavenly talent; at a young age, he was called the 'Little Three Tian Shi', and his talent was peerless across half of Jiangnan..." Fang Changle said in a deep voice.

"He once visited our Maoshan on behalf of Qi Yun Mountain, and also came to Jiangnan Province for work exchanges as a member of the Huizhou Province Daoist Alliance..."

"Many elders of our Maoshan had an extremely high evaluation of him, saying that he had the bearing of a Three Tian Shi, perhaps he could restore the style of the Qin family ancestors and prove the Three Tian Shi throne again in this generation."

The bearing of a Three Tian Shi is an extremely high praise for any practitioner of the Dao.

After all, for those who truly practice, 99% cannot condense emptiness into stillness, awaken the soul-aspect, and the remaining 1%, most of them can only spin around in Qi-work for their whole lives.

The High Merit Realm is already a rare and great expert.

As for a Three Tian Shi, looking across the Daoist sects of the world, it is also a legendary level.

"It's just that later I heard there was a mishap..."

Speaking to this point, Fang Changle paused slightly.

"A mishap!?" Zhang Fan's heart stirred slightly, as if he had guessed something.

"Over twenty years ago, a woman came to Huizhou Province; her methods were strong, she stirred up the wind and clouds, killed many disciples of Qi Yun Mountain, and the Qin family was also implicated." Fang Changle told a past event.

"Later, Qin Wangsun took action and fought several battles with that woman; although he held the upper hand, he could not take her down for a long time. Later, the two agreed to fight another battle at Fangya Mountain..."

"The Qin family heard about it and, hiding it from Qin Wangsun, invited experts from Qi Yun Mountain to set up a net at Fangya Mountain. Just as the two were fighting to the death, they suddenly took action, intending to take that woman down."

Speaking to this point, Fang Changle's gaze condensed slightly: "Just at this moment, a helper suddenly appeared behind that woman; with one move, he slaughtered everyone, killing all the experts of the Qin family and Qi Yun Mountain..."

"Qin Wangsun also became a living dead person from then on."

"Do you say it was ruthless or not?" Fang Changle asked casually.

"Ruthless... truly ruthless..." Zhang Fan laughed dryly twice.

Naturally, he knew that the woman Fang Changle spoke of was his mother, and the helper who was ruthless and left no survivors was his father.

"After this battle, the Qin family's vitality was greatly damaged, and the Qin family head at the time, who was Qin Wangdu's father, also died in that great disaster."

The Qin family was left without a leader and fell into a period of internal strife.

At that time, Qin Wangdu first lost his father, and his stunning younger brother became a living dead person; their lineage fell completely. He endured for many years, sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall, before finally regaining the throne.

The Qin family at that time, having first experienced a great calamity and then internal strife, could no longer be compared to its peak.

Fortunately, protected by the founder and the remaining shade of the ancestors, Qin Ming appeared among this generation of disciples; he is considered a figure, becoming a descendant of Qi Yun Mountain at a young age, and has an extremely deep relationship with the Bai He Temple in Shangjing.

"So there was such love and hate." Zhang Fan sighed.

As early as over twenty years ago, his father and mother had formed such a grudge with the Qin family.

"Where is the love? Where is the affection? It's all hatred, all resentment, okay." Fang Changle said indifferently.

The Qin family views that pair of man and woman as an irreconcilable enemy, wishing they could eat their flesh and drink their blood.

"In this way, what Qin Ming said about the previous generation's Human Xiao is true... it has a relationship with Mom..." Zhang Fan was lost in thought.

At this time, he instead calmed down and was not in a hurry to slip away.

"Let's sleep first." Zhang Fan shook his head; the fatigue surged like a tide, and his eyelids could no longer support him.

This is only him; if it were someone else, exploring the Three Corpses Yuan Dan like this, the soul-aspect would have been exhausted long ago.

"Not running anymore?" Fang Changle asked.

"Let's wait and see." Zhang Fan waved his hand weakly, and in the blink of an eye, he fell into a dream.

The next morning.

Zhang Fan woke up and took a deep breath; the world became clear again in his eyes.

Every time after being tired, once he recovered, Zhang Fan would be full of vigor, even better than before.

He vaguely discovered that the Three Corpses Yuan Dan seemed to be able to train his soul-aspect.

Walking out of the room and coming to the courtyard, Zhang Fan looked up and saw Fang Changle's figure.

"What are you looking at?"

Zhang Fan walked over, following Fang Changle's gaze, and saw a child, about eight or nine years old, standing under a big tree, looking up, not knowing what he was looking at.

"That kid has been standing there since after six o'clock; I finished practicing, finished gathering Qi, and he is still standing there, for over an hour already." Fang Changle said indifferently.

"Who is he?"

"Heard from the servants, he is also of the Qin family, a generation younger than Qin Ming, considered the third generation, but not of their branch. His parents died early, and he has been raised in the clan..."

"Heard this kid's brain is not good; he only learned to walk after two, and only learned to speak after three..." Fang Changle shook his head.

With such aptitude, he is not even as good as an ordinary person, let alone practicing the Dao.

And precisely because of this, in the Qin family, he basically belongs to a state where no one asks, and no one cares about this child who has no father, no mother, and no talent.

"Born into a family of the Profound Gate, with neither talent nor reliance, his fate is likely even more miserable than that of an ordinary person." Fang Changle said indifferently. He knew very well that the fate of such a kid is destined to be miserable and withered.

"Hahaha..."

Just at this moment, the child suddenly laughed, dancing with joy, as if crazy.

"What are you laughing at?"

Fang Changle walked over and asked with interest.

"The leaf fell..."

The child seemed not to see Fang Changle, pointed to the bare treetop, and immediately bent down, picking up the last leaf that had just fallen.

"In spring, the tree was full of leaves; in winter, they finally all fell off..."

"But next spring, they will all grow back..."

"Sometimes there is, sometimes there is not, neither increasing nor decreasing, as if nothing happened..."

"Hehe... interesting... truly interesting..."

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The child looked foolishly at the leaf in his hand, letting out a strange laugh, his behavior crazy, his words not at all like a seven or eight-year-old child, looking completely foolish.

"What is your name?"

Just at this moment, a slow voice came from behind.

Zhang Fan turned around and saw Zhang Wang walking over, looking at the strange child.

"Qin Daoyuan!"

The child reported his name, holding the leaf in both hands as if it were an extremely precious object, and turned to leave.

"The one who can restore the Qin family's lifeblood in the future is likely this person." Zhang Wang suddenly said.

"Hmm!?"

Zhang Fan and Fang Changle looked at each other, both stunned for a moment.

"What are you saying?"

"Don't believe me; I not only practice the Dao, I also know how to tell fortunes, a family craft..." Zhang Wang said mysteriously.

"Walking into this mansion yesterday, I saw it; the Qin family's luck is about to end, a great disaster is imminent, right before our eyes."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Fang Changle laughed dumbly.

The Qin family is a family of the Profound Gate, Qin Ming is a descendant of Qi Yun Mountain, and now he has also latched onto the Bai He lineage, and even experts from the Divine Ability Association are guests in his home; it can be said to be at its peak, a sign of great prosperity, and it is a far cry from a great disaster being imminent.

"When the extreme is reached, the opposite happens; a flash of brilliance before death." Zhang Wang shook his head.

"This is like a pot burned dry on the stove; on the surface, it is steam boiling, a sign of great prosperity, but the water is boiled dry, and the stove is about to explode..."

Speaking to this point, Zhang Wang looked in the direction where Qin Daoyuan left.

"Under a collapsed nest, are there any complete eggs? But this child is an anomaly, his face is red, he can find life in death, and in the future, he might become an expert who shakes the world, continuing the Qin family's incense..."

"Heavenly Dao is ruthless, yet there is still a glimmer of life... wonderful, wonderful..." Zhang Wang nodded repeatedly, clicking his tongue in wonder.

Fang Changle looked on and could not help but laugh.

A mere Qi-work realm, actually daring to speak of Heavenly Fate and Luck in front of him and Zhang Fan!?

"Your family craft is so powerful, why don't you calculate what the lottery winning numbers are? Why are you still struggling every day to earn that incense money?" Fang Changle teased.

"Eh? How did you know? I calculated it before, and I won twenty thousand yuan..." Zhang Wang's eyes shone.

"You really won?"

"I got into a car accident that day, and the hospital stay cost twenty-three thousand."

"..."

"Everything is destined by Heaven; forcing it will surely lead to loss." Zhang Wang murmured softly, his gaze sweeping over Zhang Fan intentionally or unintentionally.

"Brother Daoist Zhang!"

Just at this moment, a call came from afar.

Zhang Fan looked up and saw Qin Ming standing in the distance, waving at him.

"The main event is here; let's go."

Zhang Fan greeted Fang Changle and walked over.

"My father and the people from the Divine Ability Association are already waiting; the two of you happened to be here, so let's go together." Qin Ming invited.

Zhang Fan understood, knowing that what the other party was talking about was the matter concerning the previous generation's Human Xiao, and immediately followed.

In the main hall, a middle-aged man full of majesty sat in the upper seat; Zhang Fan only looked once and knew that this was the current head of the Qin family, Qin Wangdu.

"Head of the Qin family!"

Zhang Fan and Fang Changle bowed and performed a salute.

"Hmm!?"

Qin Wangdu raised an eyebrow, his sharp gaze falling on Zhang Fan; his expression was somewhat dazed, always feeling that this young man looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

"Father, this is a rising star of Zhenwu Mountain, Zhang Fan."

"This is a descendant of Maoshan, Fang Changle."

Qin Ming introduced them one by one.

"Truly, the younger generation is to be feared; I am old." Qin Wangdu said indifferently.

"Head of the Qin family, since everyone is here, let's start the main topic."

Song Yunqi spoke; he and Ji Huanshan had been staring at Zhang Fan since he entered the door, as if they regarded him as prey.

"Actually, it's simple; over twenty years ago, the previous generation's Human Xiao of the Wu Wei Sect went into seclusion at Fangya Mountain to practice. That place of seclusion was extremely secret, yet extremely important; this time, we want to find that place." Qin Ming was open and honest, finally clarifying the origin of the matter.

"The place where Mom went into seclusion?" Zhang Fan's eye twitched.

"The two brothers happened to be here; you wouldn't mind contributing, would you?" Qin Ming said indifferently.

"We..." Fang Changle knew the other party's intentions, raised an eyebrow, and was about to refuse.

"Don't mind, of course we don't mind." Zhang Fan raised a hand, pressed him down, and laughed lightly.

"As long as you don't mind, the specific matters have already been arranged; as soon as my uncle arrives, we can explore Fangya Mountain together." Qin Ming said calmly.

"Uncle?" Zhang Fan's heart stirred slightly.

Qin Ming's uncle, wouldn't that be an expert from Qi Yun Mountain!?

"Scolding people without bringing in their mother, the injury is like scraping sand; let me subdue demons and devils, I will give his mother a big slap, slapping her until she bursts into flowers."

Just at this moment, a rhythmic sound came from outside the door.

Zhang Fan's heart skipped a beat; he looked at Fang Changle, only feeling that this voice and this emphasis were incomparably familiar.

"Uncle is here."

Qin Ming was overjoyed and stood up to welcome him; just at this moment, a man walked in from outside the door, and it was none other than Yuan Lingguan.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 254 =====