Brain Storage.
Cerebellum Extraction.
(This book has been sent to the small black room three times, battle records can be checked (⋟﹏⋞))
“Master, this is the last time I will call you Master in this life.”
“From this moment on, I, Chu Yanran, withdraw from the Heavenly Azure Sect!”
Watching the red-clothed girl in front of him, her pretty face filled with resolute indifference, Zhou Fan couldn't help but recall how she used to sweetly call him “Master” repeatedly, sticking to him like glue, unable to be shaken off.
“Yanran, you…”
Zhou Fan wanted to question Chu Yanran why.
For so many years, Zhou Fan had meticulously cultivated Chu Yanran as his true successor, giving almost all his resources to this most beloved Disciple of his.
But now, she was going to betray her Master?
“Miss Chu, why waste words with this old geezer?”
Behind Chu Yanran, a frivolous Young Master with yellow hair laughed.
“This old geezer is just a mortal. Once Miss Chu enters the Cultivation World, with your rare Ice Heavenly Spiritual Root, you are sure to become a great figure renowned far and wide.”
“At that time, let alone this old geezer, even the Fan Realm he belongs to won't compare to a single strand of your hair.”
The yellow-haired youth grew more excited as he spoke. He walked directly between Chu Yanran and Zhou Fan, pointing at Zhou Fan and shouting word by word, “Old geezer, from your eyes, you seem quite unconvinced, huh?”
“But what can you do?”
“A mere insect from the Fan Realm, and a crude Martial Dao Grandmaster. If Miss Chu hadn't interceded for you, Young Master I would have crushed you long ago.”
Zhou Fan looked at the arrogant face of the yellow-haired youth before him, feeling his eyes about to split.
But just as he was about to risk his old bones to bite off a piece of this person's flesh, Chu Yanran, who was behind the yellow-haired youth, suddenly spoke.
“Young Master Wang, that's enough!”
“He was my Master after all, and he is old now. Don't provoke him anymore.”
Upon hearing this, the yellow-haired youth smiled, thinking he looked suave, “Since Miss Chu has spoken, I will let this old man off today.”
“Counting the time, this year's Immortal-Mortal Passage will close in three days. Miss Chu, how about we depart now on my Ghost Fire Shuttle?”
“As Young Master Wang wishes.”
Chu Yanran looked at Zhou Fan, who was trembling with anger, feeling a touch of bitterness in her heart, but it was quickly washed away by her yearning for Cultivation.
She took a box from her sleeve and handed it to Zhou Fan, saying, “Master… Zhou Fan, this box contains a Qi Nurturing Pill, which can assist in Qi Refining Stage Cultivation.”
“Although this pill is common in the Cultivation World, in the Fan Realm, it is like an Immortal Pill.”
“If you take it, you might live a few more years. Consider it… compensation for all these years you cultivated me.”
Zhou Fan looked at this unfamiliar Disciple before him, saying nothing, only giving her a cold glance before turning and walking towards his thatched hut.
Chu Yanran's hand, holding the wooden box, instantly froze in mid-air. She watched her Master, who had once doted on her immensely, turn and leave without a word, leaving her only a cold back.
She suddenly felt a little breathless.
But Chu Yanran didn't feel she was wrong. She would surely become an Immortal Lady ascending to the Nine Heavens in the future, so how could she have a mortal old man as her Master?
Even the current Wang Jie was merely a stepping stone for her to enter the Cultivation World.
Once her wings grew strong, the first thing she would do was destroy the Wang Family.
Who told their Young Lord, Wang Jie, to always ogle her lewdly and insult Zhou Fan, who had raised her?
Heh, the Wang Family has already courted death!
As for now, looking at the tightly closed door of the thatched hut, Chu Yanran silently placed the Qi Nurturing Pill at the entrance.
As she left, she thought to herself.
If she could still remember Zhou Fan many years later, she would come and burn two sticks of incense at his grave.
After all, he had no descendants in his life, and this so-called Heavenly Azure Sect was left with only her, a Personal Disciple, and a foolish servant.
With her departure, Zhou Fan would likely have to rely on that foolish servant for survival.
As she thought about it, Chu Yanran felt a pang of heartache.
But she would not avoid this pain, because refining the Heart in the Mortal World was a necessary hurdle in Cultivation.
Hmm, Zhou Fan was still a good person.
Not only did he provide me with so many years of resources, but after we separated, he could also serve as sustenance for my Heart Refining Road as an Immortal Lady.
Hehe~
…
“Xiao Fanzi, has that bad woman finally left?”
As soon as Zhou Fan returned to his room, he saw a cute little head poke out from the wardrobe, looking around nervously while asking him in an anxious tone.
Listening to the soft, sweet voice of the white-haired loli before him, Zhou Fan's previously painful mood immediately eased considerably.
He rubbed the white-haired loli's head and said, “Yes, she's gone.”
“She probably… won't come back either…”
Zhou Fan's tone was a bit desolate. Eighteen whole years, even raising a dog would lead to deep affection.
Back then, Zhou Fan had not yet given up hope of Cultivation. He traveled extensively in the Mortal World, seeking an opportunity for a mortal Body Cultivator to Cultivate.
While passing through a village, Zhou Fan met Chu Yanran, who was still in swaddling clothes.
At that time, she was being placed on a pile of dry firewood by a group of people, and several villagers held torches, seemingly intending to burn her alive.
Zhou Fan, having received nine years of compulsory education on Blue Star, naturally couldn't stand to see such things. He found a villager and asked for the reason, only to learn that Chu Yanran had caused the death of her parents shortly after birth, and not long after, her grandparents as well.
The villagers all believed she was an inauspicious omen and would surely bring disaster upon the entire village in the future, so they decided to act first.
Zhou Fan naturally didn't believe these superstitious claims. He first used his strength as a Martial Dao Grandmaster to successfully reason with and enlighten the villagers.
Then he took Chu Yanran away, intending to entrust her to a princely friend he knew for upbringing.
But on the way to the Kang Wang Residence to deliver Chu Yanran, this little one kept clinging to Zhou Fan, and coupled with Chu Yanran's obedient and adorable nature at the time, Zhou Fan decided to keep her by his side and Cultivate her.
Zhou Fan remembered that at the time, Yaya, the white-haired loli, had strongly objected, saying that Chu Yanran was an inherently evil imp and that Zhou Fan shouldn't take her in.
But Zhou Fan didn't listen, as Yaya's mind was indeed a bit off, always claiming to be a Reincarnation of an Empress and Zhou Fan her chief eunuch, and so on.
In short, Zhou Fan raised Chu Yanran like a daughter for eighteen years, and then she just left like that.
To say he didn't care was false.
However, what's done is done. Thinking about these things was meaningless now.
Zhou Fan was seventy years old. At this age, with one foot in the grave, what was the use of thinking about these things?
No use.
Because I am just a mere mortal.
Zhou Fan thought bitterly.
If I had a Spiritual Root, if I could Cultivate, how could such a thing have happened?
Damn Old Heavens!
You have the ability to make me Transmigrate, you have the ability to give me a Golden Finger!
Zhou Fan recalled his life in this vast Cultivation World; it was truly Peak at birth, and then a continuous fall, fall, fall, fall, fall.
Overwhelmed by anger, the seventy-year-old Zhou Fan actually fainted straight away.
Before losing consciousness, Zhou Fan was still muttering.
“I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled…”
“Ding, detected that the host's Dao-seeking heart has finally reached the activation baseline for the System. The Benefiting the Immortal Realm System is officially activated!”