Chapter 2748: Fate and Coincidence

Lin Wan'er was startled by the name Ye Chen blurted out!

Tonight, it had been Ye Chen who was constantly surprised; she had been very calm from beginning to end, only feeling a bit sad when talking about her late father.

However, when Ye Chen said the three words "Meng Changsheng," Lin Wan'er was instantly horrified!

She exclaimed subconsciously: "How do you know the Grandmaster's name?! It has been over three hundred years since he passed away, and during the thousand years he was alive, he almost always stayed in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains in seclusion. Even when he was alive, very few people knew of him..."

Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "Meng Sheng, courtesy name Changming, born in the first year of Linde of the Great Tang, a native of Chang'an. After practicing cultivation, he called himself the Recluse of Longevity and changed his name to Meng Changsheng..."

Lin Wan'er was even more horrified: "You... how do you know about the Grandmaster so clearly?! My late father once said that the Grandmaster spent almost his whole life seeking the Dao, and the world knew almost nothing about him. Moreover, he has been gone for nearly four hundred years. Where did you hear all this?"

Ye Chen sighed: "This senior surnamed Meng spent his first five hundred years in seclusion in the south of Shu. By chance, he saved the ancestor of the Jiang family in the south of Shu. Because the Jiang ancestor had two phoenix-bone vine bracelets, he kept the Jiang ancestor by his side on the condition of one bracelet;"

"Later, when he was nearly one hundred and sixty years old, he bid farewell to the Jiang ancestor to seek opportunities, presumably because he was reaching the limit of his lifespan and needed to find a way to extend it;"

"Decades later, he did indeed find a way to extend his life. Now, combining the information Miss Lin knows, this senior Meng Changsheng must have refined the Eternal Evergreen Pill during that period;"

"After refining the Eternal Evergreen Pill, his lifespan increased to five hundred years, so he returned to the south of Shu, wanting to fulfill the promise of opportunity he made to the Jiang ancestor back then. But he didn't expect that when he returned to the south of Shu, that Jiang ancestor had just passed away three days prior..."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen murmured again: "If the Jiang ancestor had lived three more days, perhaps he would have been the one to obtain the Eternal Evergreen Pill..."

Lin Wan'er asked in horror: "Who is the Jiang ancestor you speak of?"

Ye Chen said: "He was a nominal disciple taken in by Grandmaster Meng during his first five hundred years of cultivation. But that person had no talent for cultivation and was not a practitioner. In my view, the relationship between the two was more like a combination of master and servant, foster father and son, and friends across generations."

As he spoke, Ye Chen told Lin Wan'er everything, without reservation, about how he accidentally saved Old Mrs. Jiang in Mexico, obtained the phoenix-bone vine, and later visited Old Mrs. Jiang and her son to repay the favor, gradually learning the whole life story of Meng Changsheng.

After listening, Lin Wan'er was so shocked she couldn't speak for a long time!

After a while, she murmured: "There is such a coincidence in the world. Your life's encounters are truly beyond what ordinary people can achieve..."

Ye Chen said at this time: "Now it seems that Grandmaster Meng refining the Eternal Evergreen Pill is beyond doubt, but the Eternal Evergreen Pill alone could only let him live until the Song Dynasty. But you said he lived until 1663 at the end of the Ming and beginning of the Qing, which proves that he later refined the Hundred-Turn Thousand-Return Pill;"

Speaking of this, Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that such a powerful senior ultimately stopped outside the door of a thousand-year lifespan. It seems that wanting to defy the heavens and change one's fate is not so easy."

Lin Wan'er nodded and said: "The Mother Pucha Tree also existed between heaven and earth for over ten thousand years before triggering a heavenly tribulation. According to my late father, although the Grandmaster lived for a thousand years, he ultimately just reached his limit and passed away without illness. I suppose in the eyes of Heaven, even if he lived for a thousand years, he was far from reaching the level required to undergo a heavenly tribulation."

Ye Chen gave a self-deprecating smile and nodded: "In other words, living for a thousand years is nothing in front of Heaven; it's not even worth Heaven sending down a bolt of heavenly thunder."

Lin Wan'er nodded slightly: "I suppose so."

After saying this, she couldn't help but sigh: "However, you and the Grandmaster are indeed connected by fate. Although the Grandmaster had been gone for over three hundred years when you were born, you accidentally formed some connections with both his first five hundred years and his last five hundred years..."

Speaking of this, Lin Wan'er suddenly asked curiously: "May I be so bold as to ask, how did you enter the Dao? Which master led you into the Dao?"

Seeing that Lin Wan'er had laid out all her past and secrets, Ye Chen no longer hid anything and said: "I accidentally obtained an ancient book called the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra,' which contains a vast amount of content related to cultivation. It was through that ancient book that I entered the Dao."

Lin Wan'er frowned: "'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra'? Wan'er seems to have never heard of it."

"Is that so?" Ye Chen said with some disappointment: "I thought this 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra' might have been written by this senior Meng Changsheng..."

Lin Wan'er said: "My late father never mentioned the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra'... I have never seen the Grandmaster either; everything I know about him I heard from my late father."

Ye Chen asked curiously: "You have never seen Meng Changsheng?"

"No." Lin Wan'er said: "The first time my late father returned from leaving the mountains, I heard him talk about Grandmaster Meng. My father also tried to let me master spiritual energy, but I truly lacked that wisdom, so I never entered the gate of a cultivator. If I could have mastered spiritual energy, perhaps I would have had a chance to see Grandmaster Meng and witness his demeanor."

Ye Chen suddenly remembered something and said with a smile: "The portrait Old Mrs. Jiang gave me is hidden in the Champs-Élysées Hot Spring Villa. If you are interested, I will bring it for you to see later."

Lin Wan'er said with longing: "I have never known what the Grandmaster looked like for so many years. Being able to see his portrait can be considered fulfilling a wish."

Ye Chen nodded gently and asked her again: "By the way, although you don't master spiritual energy, you are immune to my means of erasing memories. This should also be the effect of the Eternal Evergreen Pill, right?"

"Yes." Lin Wan'er smiled slightly: "After taking the Eternal Evergreen Pill, although I still cannot master spiritual energy, I possess the ability to perceive it. I can feel the spiritual energy on my father, the spiritual energy on that Mother Pucha Tree back then, and likewise, I can feel the spiritual energy on you, as well as the spiritual energy you used in Northern Europe when you tried to erase my memory. It was also that time I discovered that your means of using spiritual energy for hypnosis and erasing memories are useless against me."

Ever since Lin Wan'er referred to herself as Wan'er in front of him, Ye Chen had guessed that his methods would certainly be ineffective against her.

But what Ye Chen didn't expect was that Lin Wan'er had such a keen ability to perceive spiritual energy.

He asked in surprise: "You just said that the Mother Pucha Tree back then also had spiritual energy. Is that true? How can a tree possess spiritual energy?!"

"It's true." Lin Wan'er said seriously: "The Mother Pucha Tree not only had spiritual energy, but it was also very powerful. It's just a pity that after it was struck to death by heavenly thunder, all the spiritual energy on it dissipated."

Ye Chen was amazed. His peripheral vision couldn't help but look at the piece of lightning-struck wood Lin Wan'er had just taken out. He thought to himself: "The lightning-struck wood Wanting gave me was formed by the heart of a blood-dragon wood being struck by lightning, and when refined into a Thunder Command, its power is astonishing. Lin Wan'er's piece of lightning-struck wood is from a ten-thousand-year-old Pu'er tea tree, and it's a piece that failed its heavenly tribulation and was struck by heavenly thunder. If I could use it to refine a Thunder Command, the power would likely be even stronger, right?" ===== CHAPTER 2749 =====