NFBE Chapter 527 Life and Death on Two Sides, Both People I Want to See
Chapter 527 Life and Death on Two Sides, Both People I Want to See
As the sun sets in the west, an orange-yellow orb hangs atop the black tower, evoking an indescribable sense of desolation and sorrow.
Xue Lan and Shen Suan Zhenren walked side by side toward the center of Xie Cui City, the setting sun casting long shadows of the two.
Shen Suan Zhenren glanced at Xue Lan beside him and keenly noticed a trace of Ling Yuanzi's sword aura emanating from him.
The old man spoke, his tone both helpless and gentle:
"Don't keep provoking your master."
Xue Lan kicked a small pebble that appeared at her feet: "I didn't provoke him!"
Shen Suan Zhenren watched as the tiny pebble rolled a long way from Xue Lan's toes:
"You two!"
"They clearly have the same personality."
The old man smiled and shook his head, then looked at Xue Lan's grayish-white eyes:
"Lanlan, your senior uncle has something to ask you."
Xue Lan suddenly stopped in her tracks. Just then, the two of them arrived at the entrance to the city's market.
Above them stood a century-old peach tree, just beginning to sprout new buds. The constant, year-round sound of Xie Cuicheng's hammer striking echoed in their ears.
Xue Lan heard the gentle and calm voice of the True Man of Diligence:
“I heard from your master that you will be setting off for the desolate region to find Fusang in the East Sea.”
"Could you take your senior master with you on this trip to the desolate region?"
Xue Lan blinked, then smiled and said:
"Is my senior brother worried about me?"
“I have a very capable senior accompanying me, so please don’t worry, Master.”
Shen Suan Zhenren did not immediately respond to Xue Lan's words, but instead raised his hand and touched the top of the woman's head:
"Of course I trust you."
"My master wants to go deep into the desolate region to find my child."
Xue Lan's body trembled slightly, and she looked up in disbelief:
"Is Senior Brother Gong going to see Senior Brother Gong?"
"Yes!" Master Shen Suan nodded with a smile:
"I need you to take me to find Yuan'er."
He was going to find his child and complete that earth-shattering divination.
"Senior Uncle..." Xue Lan called out to Master Shen Suan, but after starting to speak, she didn't know how to continue. In the end, she could only turn her head away and speak hoarsely:
"Didn't my senior master say before that it wasn't the right time yet?"
Shen Suan Zhenren gently patted Xue Lan's head twice:
"It's enough to lie to your master, how come you're even lying to your uncle now? If there's anyone in this world who can have a karmic connection with Yuan'er, it's probably just you and me."
Shen Suan Zhenren slowly began to move, continuing to walk forward, his voice like the bleak autumn wind:
“When your master first took you in, I did a divination for you.”
"The flame of life has been extinguished; this life is full of misfortunes."
“I told your master that this is a clear sign of an early death; if he is destined to live, he will not live past the age of seven.”
But Ling Yuanzi didn't believe it.
He watched as Xue Lan spoke to the Calculating Immortal:
“The fate of mortals cannot control those who cultivate. My senior brother said she wouldn’t live past seven years old; that’s the fate of mortals.”
"I am an immortal, and we are bound by fate."
"I'll ferry her across!"
Recalling Ling Yuanzi's appearance at that time, Master Shen Suan couldn't help but laugh out loud:
“Your master did not believe in your fate and used all kinds of rare and precious materials to keep you alive for a whole year until you embarked on the path of cultivation and escaped the fate of a mortal.”
Xue Lan spoke softly:
"I know that my master is good to me."
Shen Suanzhen withdrew his hand:
"If you know he's good to you, just tell him yourself. What's the point of telling me?"
The old man flicked his sleeves and put his hands behind his back:
Do you know why your senior uncle told you this?
Xue Lan skillfully feigned ignorance, her face full of bewilderment:
"Wasn't it to make me grateful to my master?"
Shen Suan Zhenren looked at the bewildered woman and smiled:
"wrong!"
“After you embarked on the path of cultivation, I even secretly divined your destiny. The destiny that was supposed to change because of cultivation remained unchanged.”
Xue Lan's heart skipped a beat, and she froze on the spot.
Then she heard Shen Suanzhen's exceptionally gentle voice:
"At that time, I thought to myself, someone who should have died at the age of seven couldn't escape this fate."
“Lanlan, you’ve had a secret from the very beginning.”
Xue Lan couldn't utter a single word. Her mind was racing, but she couldn't speak. She could only passively listen to Master Shen Suan continue.
"My senior brother has seen your causal lines."
"Shortly after Mingqiu and the others left, you came to Suandao Peak to have tea with me, and I saw the karmic entanglements you were involved in."
The old man looked at Xue Lan with a gentle expression:
"Such a heavy entanglement of cause and effect is something I've never seen before in my life. Lanlan, aren't you very tired?"
Xue Lan shook her head: "Xue Lan isn't tired!"
The old man looked at Xue Lan and spoke solemnly:
"But my master is tired!"
The Suandao Peak, now only occupied by him and Zeng Xiaoshan, was so deserted that he could hardly stand it anymore.
Xue Lan bit her lip and looked up at Shen Suan Zhenren:
"Does my senior brother believe me?"
Shen Suan Zhenren nodded: "Of course I believe it."
"Then Master Uncle, please stay in Duanshui Pass. Xue Lan will bring Senior Brother Gong here."
She will resolve Gong Yuan's alienation before the two meet.
She couldn't believe how heartbroken Shen Suanzhen would be if he saw Gong Yuan in his current state.
However, Shen Suan Zhenren rejected Xue Lan's suggestion.
"Lanlan, you still don't understand."
An elderly man in a thin blue robe stood in the chilly spring breeze of Xie Cui City, resembling a slender green bamboo.
"There are two kinds of fates in a person's life."
"One is destiny or fate, and the other is destiny or fate that you create yourself."
"We cultivators defy the heavens, yet destiny can no longer be broken or altered."
"If something happens that I must die, then I will have to get through it myself."
He and Gong Yuan were originally unable to meet because of that earth-shattering divination, but a few days ago, while observing the celestial phenomena at night, he suddenly had a feeling.
The glimmer of hope that the master and apprentice had been searching for for many years had unexpectedly appeared, shining on the star chart in the old man's hand, waiting for him to explore its true identity.
The moment the divination result first appeared, the divination master knew he should be happy, but in reality he was very calm.
As calmly as placing a chess piece in the center of a chessboard, a gentle sense of relief spread through the old man's heart, as if another self was whispering in his ear:
"it is finally over!"
A trickle of blood appeared on Xue Lan's tightly bitten lips:
"Senior Uncle, is it really necessary to do this?"
“Even without this divination, I still have a way to save Yuanmingjie.”
"I know……"
Shen Suan Zhenren smiled and looked at Xue Lan:
"Uncle Master doesn't feel guilty towards Mingqiu and the other children, nor does he blame himself, and it's not that he doesn't believe in you..."
"I just miss them a little."
"Lanlan, after witnessing so much life and death, one's judgment of death becomes blurred. In my master's eyes, death is a door..."
The old man's gentle smile, tinged with dampness, enveloped Xue Lan completely.
"Both life and death are people my master wants to see!"
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