Chapter 52: She Seeks Longevity Equal to the Heavens, the Path to Immortality is Long!

Standing near the west gate of Wanren City, Ji Cunxi was still unaware that danger was approaching.

He and Qin Yuan had only met once; now, not only was Qin Yuan disguised, but he had also used a Secret Technique to alter his aura and energy signature, so barring any accidents, it was basically impossible for anyone to recognize him.

Otherwise, how else could he have managed to sneak into Wanren City?

He smiled with a gentle and honest expression, "Yuan Qin? That really is a good name."

Qin Yuan smiled faintly.

"Cunxi, your name is also quite good; I imagine it carries the expectations of your family."

It was meant to be mutual flattery, but this sentence still struck a nerve with Ji Cunxi, who couldn't help but reveal a look of helplessness and difficulty on his face, shaking his head gently.

"How could it be as good as you say? Forget it... this isn't an important matter anyway. Brother Yuan is also here in Wanren City to attend the auction, right? Then I won't disturb you further."

His expression was somewhat hurried.

Qin Yuan spoke up immediately: "It's no trouble, the auction hasn't started yet. Why does Brother Ji look so anxious? Is there anything I can help you with?"

"The two of us can be considered to have become friends through a misunderstanding; if a friend is in trouble, I will certainly help."

Qin Yuan spoke with great bravado, patting his own chest, and successfully gained Ji Cunxi's favor; if not for the fact that Ji Cunxi was still mindful in his mind that this was a secret matter of the Qingyun Sect that could not be disclosed, he might have really spilled the beans.

He spoke haphazardly: "It's nothing, I just want to find one of my relatives."

He thought that by saying this, there wouldn't be any problems, but Ji Cunxi had grown up entirely in a greenhouse and had no idea how sinister human hearts could be.

Even though he thought he had acted thoroughly enough, Qin Yuan heard the problem the moment he spoke.

When they first met, Qin Yuan had already noticed that Ji Cunxi had very low defenses against people, clearly having grown up in a honey pot.

Furthermore, he did not understand the principle that one should not reveal their wealth.

If he hadn't secretly warned those few people just now, Ji Cunxi would likely have been targeted by others.

Regarding this, Qin Yuan was naturally unhappy.

Ji Cunxi was, after all, the prey he had set his sights on now.

And the mention of a relative was even stranger.

The Sect Master of the Qingyun Sect was a lone man, with no wife, no lover, and no other children; he only had Ji Cunxi to inherit his mantle.

Where would Family Head Ji Han, who had no relatives at all, find a relative for Ji Cunxi? Moreover, to address someone as a "relative" must surely imply a person with a close relationship.

A flicker of deep thought crossed Qin Yuan's eyes.

Either Ji Cunxi was lying... but was someone like Ji Cunxi the type to tell lies? Or.

There was something he didn't know about, perhaps even something unknown to all of Dongzhou!

There was profit to be made.

These four words flashed through Qin Yuan's mind, and his lips immediately curled upward as he enthusiastically said to Ji Cunxi: "Since you are looking for someone, there is strength in numbers; let me help you look together."

"Aren't we friends?"

"This..." Ji Cunxi hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded hesitantly and agreed.

"Alright, then many thanks, Brother Yuan."

"Don't mention it."

Qin Yuan chuckled.

Just by looking at Ji Cunxi's attitude, he could already conclude that Ji Cunxi was not lying, and that the identity of this relative truly had a problem.

This was really... too good.

The fangs hidden beneath his smile slowly emerged, hissing as they dripped with viscous venom, hiding in the shadows, waiting only for the right moment to strike a fatal blow, inject the venom, and thereby reap the profit.

Qin Yuan walked away together with Ji Cunxi.

However, there was one point he was wrong about.

He thought he was the hunter hiding in the back.

Little did he know, while the mantis stalks the cicada, the Vermilion Bird is behind it.

Not far behind him, at a wonton stall, a woman stirred the wontons in her bowl unhurriedly. A few drops of sesame oil, a few stalks of green vegetables, and inside the white flour wontons were wrapped pork, each one thin-skinned with a large filling, along with some small sea shrimp to garnish the flavor.

On the long bench where she sat, there was another extra bowl of wontons; that wonton bowl was buried into by a large white dog, and the walls of the bowl had been licked smooth.

Passersby who saw the white dog all revealed expressions of realization in their eyes.

What white dog? It was clearly a mimetic white wolf.

But it was truly a pity; this white wolf looked to have a rich bloodline, yet it had lost one eye...

Since it was a cripple, there was nothing worth paying attention to.

Yu Ruowei stirred the wontons in her bowl, a look of nostalgia appearing in her eyes.

She remembered that the Family Head used to love taking her and her brother to eat wontons at this kind of small wonton stall.

One bowl of wontons had twelve.

She would eat fourteen, with the Family Head giving her one and her brother giving her one.

In her pupils, two similar eyes rotated; both were amber-brown, extremely lively.

But if a master artifact refiner were present, they would discover that one eye was covered by a thin lens, while the other eye was an extremely exquisite artifact creation.

After finishing the wontons in its own bowl, the white wolf pawed at the edge of the bowl with its two claws and whimpered softly.

The next second, two wontons dropped into the small bowl.

Yu Ruowei looked down at the dazed white wolf, smiled softly, and reached out to stroke the white wolf's head.

"Eat."

She said in a soft whisper, a sharp light flashing in her eyes, "Only when we are full will we have the strength to get to work."

When she crawled out of the ruined temple, unable to distinguish east from west or north from south, unable to tell day from night, she thought she was going to die at that time; who would have known that her fate was not meant to end, that she would reverse her destiny and be reborn from a desperate situation, and while harboring the last shred of kindness, save the white wolf, only to receive one eye that the white wolf had voluntarily gouged out for her.

From then on, their lives were bound together.

However...

Yu Ruowei was unwilling.

She unhurriedly placed a Low-grade Crystal Stone on the tabletop and left the wonton stall with the White Wolf, her eyes filled with a deep obsession that had almost turned into substance.

She was unwilling to have a lifespan of only two hundred and fifty years.

The White Wolf had shared half of its five-hundred-year lifespan with her.

She did not want that! She wanted to live as long as the heavens!

She wanted the path to immortality to be long and endless!

She wanted a Life-Extending Pill, and she also wanted a Demon Pill.

Yu Ruowei stroked the White Wolf's neck, the persistence in her eyes growing ever more resolute.

Because she was not strong enough, she had allowed others to bully her before.

She had to become strong, become the supreme powerhouse, take back her own Immortal Bone, and make her brother and the Family Head look at her with new eyes!!

"Woo—"

The White Wolf seemed to sense its master's turbulent state of mind and could not help but whimper softly.

It rubbed its furry head gently against Yu Ruowei's leg, its only remaining ice-blue eye flickering with endless worry.

Yu Ruowei snapped out of her thoughts and gently stroked the White Wolf's head.

She suddenly smiled.

"It's alright, don't worry about me; we still have a tough battle to fight next."

"If we succeed, then we can possess a longer life, but if we don't..."

"You are willing to face death with me, right?"

(End of chapter)