"Hey, why are these two fighting? Could it be because of what happened during their Mortal World Trial?"
"I've heard of the Youmiao Sect Witch, but who is Bai Qianqian?"
"You do not know?"
The person who asked the question paused for a moment, then said, "Should I know?"
"The Wushi Sect was a brilliant sect that represented an entire era. Unfortunately, thousands of years have passed, and the sect has come to an end because of the death of their master," another person sighed.
"What's there to lament? Everything has its peak and its decline. Even the number one person in the Immortal Throne wouldn't dare say they're unparalleled throughout the ages, let alone a sect. Pshaw," someone said dismissively.
"You didn't experience that era, you don't understand."
"Brother, you're mistaken. If you had lived through that era, would you be sitting in this teahouse drinking tea with us? You would have been occupying some sacred mountain and monopolizing resources by now," the man said with utter disdain.
"What you said makes sense," the person replied with a light laugh, offering no further rebuttal.
The person who answered glanced at the sky outside and said, "It's time to go back and take a look. It seems that my junior brother has returned. I wonder if he is really in the process of Combine with Dao. Alas, what a foolish junior brother."
The topic quickly shifted back to Lin Xier and Bai Qianqian.
After all, the Witch of the Youmiao Sect is quite active, and there are many rumors about her in the streets.
Sometimes there are rumors that she killed someone's family, sometimes that she likes to eat human flesh, roast human hearts, and drink human hearts, and sometimes that she likes to capture handsome men and drain their life essence, and so on.
Although people are used to demonic practices, such as eating human flesh and refining human bones, it is rare to see Witch as powerful as Lin Xier.
The main reason is that no righteous people have been sent to punish her, which is why her fearsome reputation has spread so far.
If Lin Xier were there, she definitely wouldn't approve of such a vulgar name.
She hadn't done anything wrong; all she did was occasionally drag her senior brother back to Youmiao Mountain. How come the rumors outside were getting more and more outrageous? She didn't understand.
Su Xi felt like she was having a dream.
It was a very ordinary dream.
She dreamt that she became an ordinary little boy, growing up in a small fishing village by the sea, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, living an ordinary life every day.
Beside the little boy were two girls, one lively and active, Lin Xier, and the other quiet and reserved, Bai Qianqian.
The two girls were the daughters of other fishermen. They were the only children in the small fishing village, and they all knew each other and played together.
In fact, in these isolated fishing villages, the villagers rarely interact with outsiders.
Therefore, the little boy knew that his future wife would either be Lin Xier or Bai Qianqian, because only these two people's parents had a good relationship with his parents.
As the old saying goes, children from poor families learn to be independent early.
Therefore, Lin Xier and Bai Qianqian both roughly knew who they would marry in the future. After all, mortals have short lifespans, and many people get married at the age of fifteen.
Moreover, in a small fishing village like this, the age would only be earlier.
In this small fishing village lived an old teacher who had reportedly lost his entire family and had come here to escape an Immortal Calamity caused by immortals. The village didn't like outsiders, but the old teacher said he could teach and educate, so the village chief let him stay.
The children of this generation were all named by the older teachers, and the little boy also received a name.
Not long after he was born, the old teacher named him Su Xinghe.
The same applies to Lin Xier and Bai Qianqian.
The old teacher treated Su Xinghe and the other children very well. Unfortunately, he was old and had suffered from hidden injuries from fleeing for his life. He passed away after teaching Su Xinghe and the others for only a short time.
The little boy, Su Xinghe, always remembered the old teacher's sighs before he died.
"Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs. We mortals exhaust all our strength just to make a living, while those high and mighty immortals can sit securely in all directions, treating the world as their own, and looking down on mortals... Alas, Xinghe, if I have the chance in the future, I must become an immortal... Otherwise, I will only be a short-lived mayfly for the rest of my life..."
"Teacher, how do I cultivate immortality?" The little boy didn't understand, but he listened to his teacher.
The old teacher shook his head. "I don't know either. How can mortals like us come into contact with the matter of cultivating immortality? But cultivating immortality depends on fate. I'm too old to have that fate, so I hope you can. I hope you can become the Xinghe in the sky, so that even immortals can experience what it's like to be regarded as worthless grass."
After saying that, the old teacher gave the boy a booklet.
The contents recorded there were very complicated, and the little boy couldn't understand them. He could only ask the old teacher questions day and night until the old teacher died with regret.
The old teacher was the kindest person to him besides his parents, so the little boy cried for a long time.
I asked my dad a question, "Does becoming an immortal mean you won't die?"
The father simply patted his head, telling the little boy not to think too much and to learn more fishing skills to help him catch fish.
Time flies like an arrow, and the little boy's desire to cultivate immortality was worn down by the mundane days.
When the boy reached marriageable age, the matchmaker asked him to choose between Lin Xier and Bai Qianqian. Both girls had feelings for him and hoped that Su Xinghe would choose them.
However, before the little boy could even state his choice...
Huge waves surged up on the beach, and the small fishing village was powerless against such force.
Su Xinghe only heard two curses that seemed to come from nowhere before he was swept up by the giant wave, and everything was reduced to shattered pieces in that instant.
The small fishing village was swallowed up by the waves.
The entire fishing village, with over a hundred inhabitants, all perished.
Only he and the two girls remained, barely clinging to life.
The little boy woke up in pain and struggled to cough up the water from his lungs.
Then I looked and realized that he had been washed up by the waves and was stuck in a tree. His clothes were caught on the branches, which prevented him from being sucked back into the waves.
Bai Qianqian and Lin Xier were both hanging from the tree, unconscious.
Just moments ago he was envisioning his future life, but the next moment he was struck by this disaster, leaving Su Xinghe bewildered.
"Huh? I didn't expect my three apprentices to be hanging from a tree..."
An old man appeared in front of Su Xinghe.
At this moment, Lin Xier and Bai Qianqian had just recovered and were startled to see themselves hanging on the tree.
Then, the three of them were taken back to the sect by the old man in a daze.
With the help of their senior classmates, the three of them quickly settled in.
Only then did Su Xinghe feel a surge of grief.
His home is gone, and so are his parents.