Ancestor Shen and Luo Shui
[You, along with Ancestor Shen and Li Wentian, leave Thousand Gold City and arrive at a lakeside outside the city.]
[There's a small courtyard by the lake, filled with bamboo.]
[You scanned the courtyard with your Divine Sense and found only a masked woman.]
[This woman is Human Race, with a graceful figure, flowing long hair, and an air of nobility.]
[But beneath her veil emanated a Sha Qi, an Sha Qi that constantly eroded her skin and clashed with the Divine Power within her, leaving her face perpetually in a state of semi-rotten disfigurement.]
[Having read this far, you might have guessed what happened, but I still managed to make a sarcastic remark about Ancestor Shen.]
["Shen Yang, you're using my Third Sister -law's body right now. I allow you to have emotional affairs, but don't have physical affairs."]
"Ancestor Shen knows you saw the woman in the courtyard," he said with a smile.
"Brother Chen Yi, you've misunderstood. Miss Luo Shui and I are just confidants, not lovers."
[You have this Trigrams look on your face, your mouth stretching all the way to your ears.]
"Don't give me that. There's no such thing as pure friendship between men and women. You insisted on participating in the competition to get that Pill just because of the Sha Qi on her face, right?"
"It's a long story."
"Then get to the point."
[As the three of you walked towards the courtyard, you listened to Ancestor Shen recount his experiences.]
[Even Ancestor Shen couldn't remember how he chose those nine hundred and ninety-nine paths of life and death.]
[After all, not everyone has Eidetic Memory like you; if they don't consciously try to remember, they naturally won't recall it.]
[The place where Ancestor Shen landed was neither the Fortune Star nor the Tiandou Star, but a Second-Class Star called the Tianmang Star.]
The situation on Tianmang Star is somewhat unusual; the Human Race race there is quite powerful, almost on par with the Alien Race.
[However, the Human Race forces there are not united; they are not working together as a cohesive unit, and are constantly fighting amongst themselves.]
[This may be why they weren't suppressed by the Holy Dragon Society.]
[Furthermore, it's only Second-Class Star; the strongest among them is merely at the Heaven-Reaching Realm, and their numbers are few, so they don't pose much of a threat in essence.]
[Ancestor Shen was very unlucky; he landed not in the territory controlled by the Human Race, but in the territory occupied by the Alien Race.]
[Ancestor Shen, being new to the world, was unaware of the situation in the Real Realm and knew nothing of the Human Race's plight, thus inadvertently revealing his talent.]
[A guy who knows a little bit about everything and is quite Mastery everything, and he's Human Race that everyone can bully—shouldn't we arrest him, lock him in a dark room, and turn him into a nuclear-powered donkey?]
[Thus began Ancestor Shen's miserable days of being hunted by various forces.]
[He was like a mink with rare fur, hunted by countless hunters in the dark jungle.]
Finally, he saw a light.
[A powerful Human Race force, the Luo Lineage, one of the top clans on Tianmang Star, extended a helping hand to him, shielding him from all pursuers.]
[Ancestor Shen initially wanted to express his gratitude, but the light quickly revealed its true nature.]
[The Luo Lineage placed him under house arrest, demanding that he refine high-level Law Artifact, Pill, formations, Talisman, Puppetry, and so on day and night, or they would withhold his food.]
[He was also asked to pass on this knowledge to the Luo Lineage.]
[If he did anything slightly wrong, the Luo Lineage Cultivator watching over him would beat and scold him.]
[At that time, Ancestor Shen had just ascended from the Human World, possessing only the cultivation of the Late Qi Condensation realm, and was penniless. How could he possibly contend with the vast Luo Lineage?]
"You're really in a bad situation! You misjudged people! Just because we're Human Race doesn't mean Human Race are good to us. There are plenty of traitors and heartless wolves in this world. Good person like us are a minority."
[Li Wentian didn't speak, but glanced at you with a complicated look in his eyes.]
[They probably've never seen such a shameless person before.]
[Ancestor Shen smiled wryly.]
"Even if I hadn't fallen into the Luo Lineage's trap back then, I would have been captured by those Alien Race anyway; it would have been the same."
"And then what?"
[After that, Ancestor Shen was imprisoned by the Luo Lineage for twenty years.]
He endured humiliation and hardship, constantly searching for a way to escape, but each time he failed, only to be subjected to repeated beatings.
[In those twenty years, only one little girl ever cared about this outsider who was being held captive by the Luo Lineage.]
She often stole food for him from the kitchen, and when she saw he was injured, she would steal medicine for him from the Alchemy Chamber.
[She would also drag Ancestor Shen along to play, allowing a sliver of humanity to see into his life, which had been reduced to that of Ancestor Shen tool.]
[During the darkest years of Ancestor Shen's life, this little girl truly brought Ancestor Shen light.]
[She is Luo Shui, the youngest daughter of the Luo Lineage head, and one of the disciples that Ancestor Shen was responsible for teaching at the Luo Lineage.]
[During those twenty years, because Ancestor Shen was teaching the Luo Lineage the ways of cultivation, he saw her almost every day, and their relationship was both that of teacher and friend, very close.]
[When Luo Shui grew up, she learned that Ancestor Shen wasn't a teaching master at all; he was trapped there by his Lineage, forced to do those things, and had no freedom whatsoever.]
[Luo Shui, unable to bear seeing Ancestor Shen suffer, began plotting to help him escape from the Luo Lineage.]
This process was naturally tortuous and arduous.
[As a result, Luo Shui and Ancestor Shen fled the Luo Lineage together, for which she became a criminal against the Luo Lineage and was wanted by the authorities.]
[The two had no choice but to decide to leave Tianmang Star.]
[While piloting the Star Boat from the Star Harbor, Luo Shui was recognized, and the Luo Lineage army gave chase.]
[The two fought desperately and managed to escape.]
[But the Luo Lineage patriarch's Secret Technique caused a layer of Sha Qi to cover Luo Shui's face, constantly corroding her skin.]
[Women all love beauty, and this Sha Qi has tormented the Luo Shui for over a century; the devastation it has caused her is unimaginable.]
"To dispel this Sha Qi, I traveled the universe with Luo Shui, searching for miraculous elixirs. In the end, I discovered that there was no other way but to research it myself. Now I have made considerable progress, but I am only missing this one ingredient."
[After hearing the story of Ancestor Shen and the Luo Shui, you couldn't help but flick away the small tears from the corner of your eye.]
"Sorry, that was too sexy."
[Ancestor Shen laughed.]
"Once I remove the Sha Qi from Luo Shui's face, she will regain her former clever and mischievous charm."
[You've noticed that Ancestor Shen is still only at the Core Formation Realm.]
[Among the four most talented individuals in the Human World — the Great Demon, Li Wentian, Ancestor Shen, and the Sword Master — Ancestor Shen is now clearly lagging behind.]
[This is definitely due to his focus on saving Luo Shui over the years, leaving him no time for cultivation.]
[Back in the courtyard, Luo Shui opened the door to greet them. Seeing the guests, she reached out and touched the veil on her face, as if afraid of startling them.]
"Master, who are these guests?"
"They are old friends of mine in the Human World."
[Luo Shui looked surprised, her large eyes sparkling.]
"You're also powerful beings who ascended from the Void Realm? My goodness, the universe is so vast, it's amazing that you could meet here!"
[Upon first glimpse of Luo Shui, your "Human Body Detector" picked up on something noteworthy...]