Chapter 2102 The Resentful Young Lady 38

Xuanling has been searching for Su Yan for many years, but to no avail.

Xuanqing takes care of Tianxing for ten, twenty, fifty, or even a hundred years...

From initial enjoyment to increasing frustration, dislike, resentment, and regret...

He thought he could take care of her and stay with her forever.

However, when his fellow disciples surpassed him in cultivation and gained longer lifespans, he was left to spend his days and nights with a fool.

He began to tire of this kind of life and felt it wasn't worth it.

Many times he wondered what he would do if Tianxing died.

He can cultivate with undivided attention and thus prolong his lifespan.

But now he has inner demons, and his cultivation has not improved at all over the years.

He knew that his inner demon was Tianxing, and perhaps only when Tianxing died would his inner demon disappear.

A hundred years have passed, and Zhongli has reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Now she has encountered a bottleneck and cannot break through to the Divine Transformation stage.

Su Yan advised her to look for opportunities in the secret realm, since the Chaotic Heaven Secret Realm was about to open again, and Peach Blossom Spring was nearby.

Being in a prime location, she could easily slip into the secret realm unnoticed.

Zhong Li was somewhat embarrassed: "Senior Sister, I'm already at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, do I really have to go in and compete with those junior disciples for opportunities?"

Su Yan smiled and said, "The Nascent Soul stage is only barely enough to enter the ranks of cultivation masters. You are still far from it, so naturally you need to go in and continue to seek opportunities."

Zhong Li nodded; she was indeed far inferior to her junior sister.

Even though she is now at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, she still can't see through her junior sister's strength.

Many times, she had the illusion that her junior sister was a celestial being, otherwise how could her cultivation be so simple, as natural as breathing and sleeping?

No one saw her work hard at cultivation, yet her cultivation level was constantly increasing.

She was so fortunate to have chosen to stay by her junior sister's side from the very beginning.

As she was lost in thought, she suddenly sensed someone approaching outside Peach Blossom Lodge.

Zhong Li looked at Su Yan, who was still lying calmly in the rattan chair.

Ignoring her white hair and old-woman appearance, Zhongli saw no surprise or wariness on her face.

"Go open the door, an old friend has come."

Without saying a word, Zhongli stood up and walked towards the courtyard gate.

When the door to Peach Blossom Abode opened, Zhong Li's pupils contracted; she had almost forgotten the person at the door was there.

"Zhong...Li?"

Xuanling originally came to see the Hun Tian Secret Realm, but then discovered a peach orchard nearby and just wanted to visit it. Unexpectedly, the person who opened the door was Zhongli, who had been missing for more than a hundred years.

"Your cultivation level...you've actually reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage..."

It should be noted that when he emerged from seclusion, he was at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. More than a hundred years have passed, and he is still stuck at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. In all these years, in order to find a disciple, his cultivation has not improved at all. It seems that finding a disciple has become his obsession.

But to everyone's surprise, a former outer disciple of Tianwai Mountain, who had only cultivated for a little over a hundred years with five spiritual roots, had actually reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

This speed is faster than even the most brilliant geniuses of the past.

When I first heard that she had defected from the sect, she was already at the Golden Core stage. I didn't quite believe it. I wondered how someone with five spiritual roots could cultivate so quickly.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I am shocked to find that her cultivation speed is a hundred times faster than I had imagined.

"Master."

"What are you doing here? Where is Su Yan?"

Zhong Li recalled her junior sister's confident tone just now; it seemed she already knew that the person outside the door was their master.

"It's inside, please follow me."

Xuanling followed Zhongli inside with a complicated expression. When he saw his white-haired disciple under the peach tree, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes.

Over the past few centuries, he had long forgotten what it felt like to cry, but at this moment, seeing his disciple so old, even worse than an outer disciple, his heart felt as if it were being torn apart and ravaged.

How could this be? Could he have been injured by lightning?

I remember my senior brother saying that when she fled the sect, she was struck by dozens of bolts of lightning.

Even though she had already formed her core at that time, she was injured by heavenly lightning, causing her cultivation to regress, which is why her lifespan was nearing its end.

Xuanling felt extremely guilty, wondering why he hadn't been able to protect his disciple.

He accepted her as his disciple, but failed to fulfill any of his responsibilities as a master.

If he had known this would happen, why did he take her as his disciple in the first place? He left her all alone and helpless, with no one to rely on when she was bullied.

"Is her injury serious?" Xuanling asked with a bitter expression.

Zhongli was taken aback, and Xuanji smiled and said, "Junior Sister is not injured, she is perfectly fine."

"You don't need to comfort me anymore. She's already showing signs of decay, what good is that?"

"Huh? No, she just likes it this way..."

“I’m sorry to her, it’s all my fault. If I hadn’t gone into seclusion back then, she wouldn’t have been bullied by the sect and suffered so much. It’s all my fault. I’ve never been anyone’s master before. I thought I could come out in time, but I never expected what would happen later.”

"No, Master, this has nothing to do with you. Junior Sister has never blamed you."

Su Yan, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.

Zhongli looked at her somewhat awkwardly and quickly said, "Master, Junior Sister is over there, let's go over there."

Xuanling suppressed her sadness and followed Zhongli.

Seeing that Su Yan was about to stand up, he quickly said with concern, "If you're not feeling well, just sit down. There's no need for such formalities between us, master and disciple."

"?" Su Yan was confused about his thought process. She couldn't tell what was wrong with him.

"Master, you've arrived."

Su Yan's tone was calm, neither flattering nor resentful, as if there had been no more than a hundred years between them.

It seems that when they were still at Tianwai Mountain, her respect for him was only that of a master.

"You've suffered these past years. Don't worry, with the opening of this secret realm, I will definitely help you find rare and precious herbs to refine elixirs, to help you... to help you..."

Helping you to be reborn.

But he couldn't bring himself to say it, nor could he guarantee it.

"No need, disciple is doing very well now, master doesn't need to do anything for me."

“I already know what happened back then. It was the sect that wronged you, and it was your master who wronged you. I am willing to make amends.”

Su Yan smiled faintly and said, "You have not wronged me. The sect has wronged me and has already been punished. We are even now."

"How can we be even? Do you resent your master? I promise I will teach you well in the future and help you return to the path of immortality."

"No... Master, are you misunderstanding something? Junior Sister is really alright." Zhong Li became more and more confused. Couldn't Master see that Junior Sister's cultivation was higher than theirs?

Zhongli is now at the same cultivation level as Xuanling. Although she can't see through her junior sister's cultivation level, she knows that she must be a hundred times more powerful than herself.

Even his master couldn't see it; he should know much more.