Chapter 156: The Ignoble Heart of Yesteryear
"Alright, I've answered so many of your questions, now it's your turn to answer mine," Xu Xing said.
"Ask away."
"Did you... truly return to your homeland?"
"I don't know," Yuan answered very directly. "At the time I left behind this wisp of Divine Soul, I did indeed have a way to leave the Tai Xuan Realm, but whether or not I succeeded, this wisp of my Divine Soul is not aware."
"Clear Ruins?"
"Yes," Yuan nodded. "Speaking of which, I have to thank Senior Yuan Jun for previously sending Wanzhu and me to Clear Ruins to search for molin flower. Otherwise, I wouldn't have discovered the weak point at the Tai Xuan Realm's boundary."
Wanzhu was the Disciple of Ling Zu who had walked through a thousand years with him.
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"However, that trip to Clear Ruins was truly not easy. I also don't know what Senior Yuan Jun ultimately did with the molin flower we brought back."
At that time, there wasn't even time to ask, Senior Yuan Jun just left directly.
Xu Xing: "..."
Forget it, it's better not to tell him what Yuan Jun did with that molin flower.
"Alright, you can continue asking."
Yuan paused, then in a tone with unclear meaning, he asked, "What about you... don't you want to go home?"
In fact, this was the question he cared about the most.
"Since I could manage to leave the Tai Xuan Realm, if you want to go back, it should definitely be easier for you."
Then he probed, asking, "Or are you the type who..."
Xu Xing understood what he wanted to ask: "Before I came to this world, both my parents were alive and well, and my friends and family were also in good health."
Most Transmigration protagonists are set up as lone wolves or orphans before transmigrating, but he wasn't.
"Could you be?"
"Of course not!" Yuan quickly denied. "You haven't answered me yet, don't you want to go home?"
Xu Xing still didn't answer, instead asking, "Do you want to know what happened between the Cang Clan and the Human Clan during the ancient era of the Tai Xuan Realm?"
Yuan was startled upon hearing this. Could this be related to going home or not?
"Tell me."
Immediately, he heard Xu Xing speak in a calm and gentle tone: "The Cang Clan, a race favored by Heaven's Will, was the overlord of the Tai Xuan Realm in the ancient era."
Yuan nodded slightly; he was aware of all this.
"All living beings were like cattle and sheep under their shepherding, and our Human Clan was naturally no exception. In fact, on their menu, our Human Clan ranked quite high."
"..." Yuan remained silent.
"Although there was no lack of resisters among the Human Clan at that time, the Human Clan was too weak, to the extent that even resistance became a drama for them before their meals."
"Countless ancestors followed one after another, seeking ways to change the fate of the Human Clan, but all had very little effect."
"Until one time, a famous 'gourmet' among the Cang Clan discovered that after soaking and marinating the Human Clan with Yangjing Danxi and Supo Zhenhua, their meat would become more delicious."
"The vast majority of the Human Clan died in this process, but a small portion survived and gained strength no less than that of a newborn infant of the Cang Clan."
"Because of this change, the surviving Human Clan did not immediately become delicacies on the Cang Clan's dining table but were instead thrown into hunting grounds for the Cang Clan to hunt for amusement."
"Afterward, this business became increasingly popular, and more and more of the Human Clan were captured for experiments. The Human Clan became a popular item in the Cang Clan's hunting grounds."
"But the Cang Clan didn't pay much attention to the weak Human Clan."
"So, on a chance occasion, a conflict occurred between two lords of the Cang Clan, causing a riot in the hunting grounds. Finally, someone escaped from the hunting grounds."
"Those who escaped... were the first batch of cultivators of the Human Clan in the Tai Xuan Realm."
Xu Xing looked at Yuan: "And among them, there was the Master who saved me after I arrived in this world."
The reality was this cruel and fantastical: the first batch of cultivators of the Human Clan was born from a dish of the Cang Clan.
"But the Human Clan in that period was truly too difficult to bear. Every day upon opening one's eyes, one would face pursuit from the Cang Clan and other races. So, even after being saved by Master, I constantly wanted to go back."
"After all, one more of me wasn't much, and one less of me wasn't little. What could I alone change?"
"But thinking about it now, I was really quite selfish and ignoble at that time."
The majority of the Human Clan during that period were kept in captivity by the Cang Clan or some powerful races. Every free member of the Human Clan was a beacon of hope.
"It's human nature... actually understandable," Yuan said.
Xu Xing nodded: "Yes, that's how I comforted myself in my heart."
At that time, Senior Sister was still a little girl who usually liked to squat beside him and listen to stories, often mumbled while holding her sword at night, and appeared very aloof to outsiders.
But she was never afraid and never had the thought of escaping.
Master thus took the two of them, dodging the pursuit of the Cang Clan and other races while traveling around the Central Continent creating cultivation methods.
It was also then that he met the current ones, as well as some Dao Friends who had already passed away.
They each had their own minor flaws, more or less, but they all displayed the courage to face death without fear.
When interacting with them at that time, although Xu Xing appeared at ease, he knew very well in his heart that he was nothing more than an ignoble clown hidden among them.
"But selfishness is selfishness. Even if adorned with various reasons, the essence remains ignoble."
Yuan shook his head slightly: "But in the end, you gained the ability to leave, yet didn't you stay? As the saying goes, a gentleman is judged by his actions, not his heart; if judged by heart, there are no perfect people in the world."
No matter what he thought at the time, or how the process went, this Old friend ultimately stayed.
Just this point alone is very admirable.
"..." Xu Xing was silent for a few seconds. "Are you really not studying Chinese language? Or perhaps demoted?"
Yuan almost couldn't hold back: "I'm really not!"
What is all this about?
"I just usually like to read some miscellaneous books."
Xu Xing nodded.
These few sentences broke the rhythm but also made the somewhat heavy atmosphere much lighter.
Yuan even suspected whether the Old friend said this on purpose.
"These are all the questions I have to ask."
Yuan prepared to end the conversation and disperse this wisp of Divine Soul.
"Old friend, I don't know what you will choose to do afterward, but in Clear Ruins, I left a few things and some world coordinates that I deduced. If you have time, you can go and retrieve them."
"Wanzhu knows the specific location. You can go to Lingyin Workshop."
"Old friend, you are so awesome, meeting her shouldn't be a problem."
"Finally, I'll trouble you to help me say something to her..."
"I'm sorry."
If asked who he was most sorry for in the Tai Xuan Realm, it would probably only be Wanzhu.
Since the Dragon Elephant Soaring Sky Sect, Wanzhu had been following him. Without her help, he might have had an even harder time in the Tai Xuan Realm.
Sigh~
"But I think it would be better if you told her yourself," Xu Xing said.
"I am just a wisp of Divine Soul about to dissipate, unable to last..."
He suddenly froze mid-sentence, clearly realizing something.
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