Chapter Seventy-Six: Inheritance
The man waited for the bear servant to go out, then sat down cross-legged and said in a deep voice, "You have also seen it, I am sick." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info I can't heal myself, so how can I heal others?"
"That's not the reason. Cheng Mo shook his head.
The man smiled, "Indeed, that's not a reason. ā
Cheng Mo was stunned, only to hear the man say slowly: "Boy, I look very young, but in fact, I have been trapped here for more than eight hundred years. I knew that my time was numbered, and with each episode of my illness, my life span was decreasing, and now I had only a few years left, and if I could not find any successors, I am afraid that the master's craft would be interrupted in my place. ā
The man looked no more than thirty years old, and when he said that he had been trapped for eight hundred years, Cheng Mo was so shocked that he couldn't help but shake his head.
The man smiled bitterly, "When you cultivate beyond the transcendent period, you can keep your appearance young, you see that I am only in my thirties, but it is actually because of my cultivation." ā
Cheng Mo nodded first, then shook his head and said loudly: "That's not right." The spiritual seed period is followed by the entry period, followed by the breaking period, and after the breaking period is the transcendent period. If you are a master of the transcendent period, it is impossible for the bear servant to successfully feed you the Forgetfulness Flower. ā
The man smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Very careful boy, I can't hide anything from you." The reason why I have become so weak is because my cultivation has been sealed, and I am now only the strength of the entry period. But in fact, before I was sealed, my cultivation had already surpassed the transcendent stage. Seeing Cheng Mo's face full of disbelief, the man said slowly: "Boy, don't be surprised, the transcendent period is not a great realm. This world is very big, and the Tianshu Continent is just a small continent, with limited masters. ā
Cheng Mo took a deep breath, if it was a transcendent period, it would be quite a top-notch master, and there were only a few dozen people on the Tianshu Continent who could reach this realm. Even the old man Cheng Lu in the Cheng Mansion is just a broken period.
"Boy, you said earlier that your name is Cheng Mo and you are from the Cheng family. Tell me who is in charge of the Cheng family now, or is it that stupid boy of Cheng Lu?" the man asked.
Listening to the man describe his grandfather as a "stupid boy", Cheng Mo couldn't cry or laugh.
"Grandpa treats me very well, you are not allowed to call him 'boy'. Cheng Mo retorted.
"Well, I'm over 800 years old, what is Cheng Lu not a kid?" the man smiled, "It's you, you're about to be older than him." ā
"Senior, what nonsense are you talking about. Cheng Mo was stunned.
The man laughed wildly, causing the chain on his body to tremble, "This is not nonsense. Since the first time you did alchemy with your bare hands, I wanted to take you as an apprentice. And the fact that you just collected the Forget Worry Flower to help me stabilize my condition confirmed my thoughts even more. I am your grandfather's ancestor, if you are my apprentice, you will be much older than your grandfather, after you go out, you can call your grandfather a 'boy', how about it, interesting or not?"
Cheng Mo was so amused that he couldn't help but laugh. Although the old-timer in front of him was joking, it was still very interesting.
"Now our Cheng family, Grandpa Cheng is still in charge. Cheng Mo answered his last question.
The man nodded, and then said, "Although Cheng Lu is stupid, he has given birth to a good son." What about his son Cheng Zixiao?
Hearing the words "Cheng Zixiao", Cheng Mo was stunned for a moment, and then trembled, "You said Cheng Zixiao......? Do you know him?"
Seeing Cheng Mo's reaction so fierce, the man was also stunned for a moment, and then said, "What's the matter? Cheng Zixiao, what trouble did he do? Hearing his name, why did you react so violently." ā
This was the first time he had heard his father's name from someone other than Cheng Mansion, and this person's tone was still full of praise.
"Senior, Cheng Zixiao is my father, I don't know where he is now, can my predecessor tell me?" Cheng Mo said word by word.
The man was stunned, looked at Cheng Mo carefully, and suddenly laughed, "Take a closer look, you are really his son." Look at your little pointed face and high nose, you are carved out of the same mold as your father. ā
Another person said that he looked similar to his father, and Cheng Mo smiled bitterly.
The man sighed: "When I met him, he was about your size, only twelve or thirteen years old. He was a troublemaker, and he secretly ran to the back mountains to spread the wilderness without telling his family, and was chased and killed by monsters and fled to my cave. When he saw that I was trapped here, he had the courage to talk to me, and I only spent two days with him, but I found that he was really talented, and he was kind and generous, and even told jokes to relieve my boredom...... This kid has no conscience, he hasn't come to see me for so many years, I thought that after all these years, he should become the head of the Cheng family. I also want to ask you, where did he go, I didn't expect his babies to be so big. ā
The man sighed as he spoke.
Cheng Mo heard him mention the past, and he looked a little sad. Especially looking at his own eyes, it is as if he has traveled through time and looked at his father many years ago.
"I heard my aunt tell me that my father had gone to a distant place to do penance, and no one knew his whereabouts. Cheng Mo replied a little depressed.
The man nodded, "The first time I saw Zixiao, I felt that he would not be an ordinary person, this kid really has ambition and went to a distant place to cultivate." ā
The two were silent at the same time, looking at each other without saying a word.
Since this man said that he knew his father, the distance between Cheng Mo and him seemed to have narrowed a little closer. At least the people who live in harmony with their fathers will not be great evildoers.
In this man's opinion, Cheng Mo is Cheng Zixiao's son, and it is really a coincidence. In the past 800 years, a total of two people have broken into the place where he was imprisoned, but I didn't expect these two to be a father and son.
Thinking of this, the man only felt that life was extremely interesting, and couldn't help laughing.
Seeing that the man was in a good mood, Cheng Mo asked tentatively, "Senior, who trapped you here, how can I help you get out of here?"
"Hehe," the man turned from a loud laugh to a wry smile, he reached out and touched his nose, and then said, "I trapped myself here, otherwise back then, with my cultivation, it would not have been so simple to imprison me." ā
Hearing that the man imprisoned himself here, Cheng Mo couldn't help but let out an "ah", and the shock in his heart was beyond measure.
"Why, why?" Cheng Mo was surprised.
The man smiled bitterly, "I am originally an alchemist and physician, and my medical skills are the most brilliant in the same sect. At my most complacent age, I moved something I shouldn't have touched, and I fell under the curse of an artifact. This curse is very insidious, and from time to time I will have flare-ups, and I will become unaware of my relatives and kill indiscriminately, and with each attack, my life will be shortened by a few years. What's even more terrifying is that if I save one person with my medical skills, I will lose my mind and kill another person to replace the patient I have healed...... I didn't believe it at first, until one day when my wife was sick, I helped her to make medicine and heal, and after a few days, I suddenly went crazy...... By the time I came to my senses, my wife was lying in a pool of blood. I saved her and killed her with my own hands......
"I wanted to go with my wife at that time, but I was so obsessed with alchemy at that time that I felt that my alchemy skills did not reach the level I wanted, and I couldn't die like this. So I thought of a way, found a master, sealed my cultivation, so that I could only reach the strength of the entry period, and then found a barren mountain and a wild mountain, and locked myself in a cave, so that even if I launched a madness, I would not be able to hurt anyone, my relatives and friends, and they would not be hurt by me. At the same time, I can practice alchemy in peace in this no-man's land......
"I planted all the rare spiritual plants in the world in my hundred grass streams, just to facilitate the use of alchemy. ā
After the man finished speaking, Cheng Mo nodded suddenly in understanding.
No wonder he refused to save anyone before, even if the bear servant was seriously injured, he was unwilling to help, there was such a terrible reason behind it.
Looking at the man's slightly vicissitudes of life, Cheng Mo saw a trace of exhaustion from his pupils. Fell into a desperate curse, killed his wife with his own hands, and was trapped here for 800 years...... Either one is enough to destroy a person's will, but this man is still alive, alone in this cave, studying the technique of alchemy with his bare hands. What a strong willpower this is to support him to live until now, and his obsession with alchemy must be irreplaceable.
Thinking of this, Cheng Mo felt that the man in front of him suddenly became unusually tall, and there was a reason for respect.
"Senior, how can this curse be removed?" Cheng Mo asked.
The man smiled wryly and shook his head, "If I knew, I would have lifted the curse myself, and I still need you to ask me." Cheng Mo, my time is short, are you willing to accept what I have learned all my life? If you are willing, I will pass on all the alchemy skills of this body to you, and if you practice hard, you will definitely achieve great achievements in time. ā
The man was thinking about how to stir up Cheng Mo's emotions and make him quickly promise himself, but Cheng Mo stood up silently and bowed to himself, "Senior, as long as you don't dislike it, I'm very happy." ā
When the man saw Cheng Mo bowing so simply, he couldn't help but laugh, and the laughter shook the cave.
"Good, good, good. He said three "good" words in a row, but he forgot that he was shackled, and rushed forward to help Cheng Mo, but unexpectedly caused the chain to rattle.
Although the lock on his wrist was deeply engulfed into his flesh, he didn't feel any pain, and still laughed with a red face, and said in a loud voice, "Hurry up." ā
Cheng Mo stood up and looked at the man with a smile.
"I didn't expect that I, Li Tianji (GAN), would be able to find such an outstanding successor in my lifetime, which is really happy. The man Li Tianji laughed loudly, "Cheng Mo, from today onwards, I will definitely do my best to teach you." ā