Chapter 167: Master

The circumstances surrounding the master’s departure are basically clear here.

He didn’t just leave with a group of people recklessly, but he spent all these years collecting clues… and these clues are just like all the clues I collected along his footsteps.

If I were to collect clues about my master in this way, I would not be able to do so… because my master was the one who grew up by my side, while I grew up by my master’s side. Life cannot cover up all traces.

This long period of time spent collecting… combined with Uncle Li’s final calculations, is the only way to be sure that Master is on the right path…

Compared to my recklessness, Master was very cautious in his preparations. For so many years… I think he never forgot to look for Grandmaster. Even when he was taking me with him, when I was a little older, he wasn’t “disappearing” for a few years every now and then?

Now it seems that some of the mysteries of the years have been solved. With such preparation, it makes sense that Master would eventually find Penglai and the strongest remnant soul left behind by the Grand Master.

As for the other mysteries, Master is also answering them one by one with me.

“In fact, the older generation underestimated the younger generation. I was worried that you wouldn’t be able to understand the subtle hints in the film. I didn’t expect you to really notice. Those places were the ones I deliberately wanted you to notice, but in order to prevent outsiders from seeing them, I had to… In fact, if you ask me what those places are, I can answer you now. There are some legacies and artifacts left by your master.” Master licked his lips and said this to me very calmly.

“Ah?” I didn’t expect such an answer, but I was also puzzled. I looked at the master and said, “Isn’t the inheritance of the master left to us? Why did he…?”

“Before, I didn’t know the answer either, but after going to those places, I finally got the answer… Those artifacts were left behind by your master to suppress the artifacts, and they can’t be moved at all… And the so-called inheritance is actually only for cultivators, and ordinary people who find them are useless. The inheritance explains the role of formations and artifacts. If anyone discovers them by accident, please continue to protect them.” The master smiled wryly.

“Those places are where the remnants of the Kunlun disaster appeared, right?” I immediately got the answer to my question about my master’s actions.

“Yes, it can be said that your master did everything perfectly. The suppression will eventually eliminate the remnants of the disaster over time… because he cannot kill them himself, because he is from Kunlun, and the rule of Kunlun is that in places other than Kunlun, everything in Kunlun must not kill each other. This includes everything, just like the purple plants you see.” The master explained to me.

Actually, I already knew all of this… I also knew how difficult it was for my master to return this fruit, so difficult that he could not complete it in his entire life, and in the end, he had to strip away his own soul… In the end, the descendants of our heritage will continue…

Master also took a lot of detours, and finally grasped the clue of Penglai, and finally… When Master was just telling me, he already told me that the dragon that turned into a dragon was the last effort that Uncle Li brought to them… It was the dragon that turned into a dragon that Uncle Li deduced.

At this point, all doubts are explained… Master told me to pay attention to these places, which is also a continuation of what the ancestors did. If they are no longer here, we will definitely find the artifacts and heritage left by the ancestors when we go to those places, and then protect those places. What is more reliable than the protection of the descendants?

“But Master, you haven’t told me why you’re so secretive…” This is the biggest doubt in my mind.

“It’s simple. I chose to cooperate with the department on that operation… In fact, at that time, Jiang Yi had already been in the department for a long time. I said that I was cooperating with the department, but in the end I found out that I was basically cooperating with Jiang Yi… The people who were sent to follow us were all Jiang Yi’s henchmen… But Jiang Yi did not expect that among these confidants, there would be someone who had a good relationship with us. After a long period of observation, I also knew that he was a person of truly excellent character. He used various methods to remind us to be careful of Jiangyi… and let me know that in fact, all the information about our journey had secretly flowed to Jiangyi. The master frowned, and there was a hint of uncertainty in his eyes.

“Jiang Yi? He…” I expected this answer, but I didn’t expect it to be this one… Ever since the influence of my master left me with a problem, I have been guarding against Jiang Yi, but I am so perceptive that I haven’t felt anything from him.

But at this moment, I remembered an old memory… It was the closest I’ve ever been to death. I was shot several times by Jiang Yi and kicked into the water… But after that, I learned that Jiang Yi was protecting me and had arranged for me to escape all the way…

If so, what was Jiang Yi’s purpose?

I couldn’t think of an answer, so I looked to my master for help… and my master looked at me and shook his head, saying, “There are two possibilities. The first is that the person I thought had excellent character had a prejudice against Jiangyi. After all, Jiangyi is a person who doesn’t care much about human feelings, and he can do anything for the department! Just like a policeman who is determined to catch a criminal, but the criminal is too cunning, so the policeman uses methods outside the law to catch the criminal. So, the person misunderstood! The second is that Jiang Yi hid it too deeply, so deeply that he may have even deceived himself.

“But Master, if it’s the second one, what is Jiang Yi’s goal?” I can’t figure this out… In this situation, where things are getting worse and worse and the various forces are beginning to collide, Jiang Yi’s department is showing unprecedented weakness… This weakness is not just now, it was like this before. As long as it doesn’t alarm ordinary people or affect the department, he doesn’t care. He even feels protective of me, but he’s so careful that it feels like he’s living in a crack.

I really can’t feel his purpose… So, I can’t figure it out. What is he hiding so deeply for?

“I don’t know either,” Master shook his head… Obviously, he knows Jiangyi even less than I do… The only person who knows a little about Jiangyi is Jenny, but Jenny has never given me any hint to be careful of Jiangyi.

This question, when I discussed it with my master, was obviously meaningless… because in the present, in the midst of a great war, my life may stop after tonight, and my master… when I think about it, I feel very sad.

However, at this time, I still remembered a question, and I couldn’t help but ask my master who the person with impeccable character was… I was comparing all the details, and I actually found that the person who followed my master and was trusted by my master was actually Baima’s father.

What a coincidence!

It seems that the appearance of Lushan and Tao Bai in my life is not a coincidence at all, because the intersection is still the same, and it still began in the previous generation.

Here, I remembered the inexplicable diary… I still vaguely remember the content of the diary. Since Master was in front of me, I couldn’t help but tell him about the diary, because the diary was written so inexplicably that I didn’t understand its meaning.

After listening to the diary, Master was speechless for a long time. After a long time, he looked at me and said, “This is what Tao Ran wrote. Because he wrote the diary, I have read the content of one of the paragraphs you mentioned… He never avoided writing in my presence. In fact, what else could he write? After all, he was so wary of Jiang Yi. In his words, everything was monitored by Jiang Yi.”

“But, Master, you haven’t been to Penglai either… He also said at the end of his diary that he didn’t follow, so where is he? I don’t think Lu Shan has ever seen Tao Ran by Jiang Yi’s side… And seeing Jiang Yi send Lu Shan and Tao Bai to follow us, it means that Lu Shan and Tao Bai are also…” I didn’t say the rest, I wanted to say that Lu Shan and Tao Bai are also trusted people, right?

Judging from his attitude, Lu Shan was not very loyal to Jiang Yi. Instead, he chose to stand on our side at the critical moment without hesitation. His attitude was at least the same as mine, neither too close to Jiang Yi nor too far away from him… Anyway, he didn’t seem to care much.

After Lushan “betrayed” us, it was obvious that he had betrayed us, because Lushan had already completely become one of us, and Jiangyi didn’t ask too much… I couldn’t figure it out anymore. What was Jiangyi’s game? Or did he feel that he didn’t want to get involved in these disputes?

After all, he was looking for Kunlun, and now that the master has reappeared… it doesn’t matter if he finds Kunlun, does he just not bother to care?

I didn’t expect there to be so many mysteries, but… maybe these mysteries have nothing to do with me? I thought to myself, and my outstanding spiritual awareness couldn’t feel anything about the Jiangyi incident.

And Master shook his head at my question. Obviously, he didn’t know Tao Ran’s whereabouts either. After a moment of silence, he continued, “Actually, the rest is simple. After finding your ancestor’s remnant soul, you can communicate with him… Even if it’s a remnant soul, he will still tell us what we should do. For example, finding other remnant souls, like Kunlun’s legacy… Over the years, while you were clearing Kunlun’s legacy, I was also… just because…”

At this point, the master stopped talking, and I looked into his eyes, but he smiled at me.

He said to me, “Only because Master said that you are the one who should fulfill the prophecy, and that his spirit will eventually rest in you. Even if you avoid the Kunlun disaster, fate will still come back to you… I just thought that if we could clear some of it for you, you would be less in danger.”

“Master!” I couldn’t hold back any longer, and suddenly looked at my master, with two tears rolling down my cheeks.

Before, I thought that my master had abandoned me, but I also felt that he had always been there, protecting me… It turns out that he really was protecting me, even though we were thousands of miles apart. It turns out that he never abandoned me…