self-cultivation separation

Xu Qingxiu's stepfather, Master Ning, the current head of the Ning family, invited him into the mansion, and prepared drinks and meals for him.

Master Ning was very thin and looked more like a scholar than a businessman.After Xu Qingxiu's mother left, he didn't remarry, and he didn't have a son and a half daughter beside him, so the huge Ning Mansion seemed a little deserted.He is now in his fifties, and he is still in good health and in good spirits.

Xu Qingxiu was still immersed in the news that his mother had passed away, but he didn't recover.Counting her age, his mother should be about the same age as Master Ning now, why did she already go?

He originally wanted to come back to visit when the disciples of the lower realm of Xianmen were accepted this time, but now because of something on his mind, he came back so long in advance, but he got such news.

Master Ning personally poured him a glass of wine, took out a sandalwood box, handed it to Xu Qingxiu as a treasure, and said with a sigh: "This is what your mother left when she left, let me I will hand over the opportunity to you, if there is no opportunity, I will melt it. I have been waiting for you all these years, and you are finally back."

Xu Qingxiu opened the sandalwood box in a daze, and inside was something he was very familiar with——his mother's hairpin, but this hairpin was extremely unique. The crescent moon is embellished with pearl wreaths.In his memory, Niang seemed to be wearing this hairpin all the time.

Master Ning sighed again, looked at Xu Qingxiu, and seemed to be looking at someone through him: "... I was negligent back then, and I married your mother back, but I have been busy with business outside, and I didn't take care of your mother. Two. I only heard later that because of my mother and the others, you didn’t have a good time in those two years.”

Xu Qingxiu shook his head: "No, I'm fine."

Master Ning looked at him and smiled: "You are more like Xinyue now, but when you were young, you looked very much like your father. You obviously looked more like your mother, but your demeanor was more like your father. Back then, I was a little I dare not see you, but when I see you, I will think of your father, feel ashamed, and think of how humble I am, like a thief who has taken possession of a treasure for no reason."

Xu Qingxiu was a little stunned, no matter what, he never expected Master Ning to say that.Although he suddenly recalled the scene of his father's death, he felt more gloom and suspicion, but his mother was indeed an ordinary woman with no fairy roots in his memory.Even after his mother married into the Ning family, because he was orphaned and widowed and had no background, he was often bullied by the children of the Ning family's relatives as a "oil bottle".

Master Ning smiled when he saw him like this, but there was some bitterness in his eyes: "Silly boy, you were too young back then, your mother didn't tell you anything, and I don't know if Xinyue deliberately hid it from you or just didn't have time to wait for you to grow up." Let me tell you, should I tell you these things... If you were mediocre, I might have put these words into the coffin; Let Xinyue go for nothing."

"The first time I saw your mother was in the upper realm of cultivation."

"All living beings in the mortal world want to be able to enter the upper realm, cultivate into immortals, and enjoy the joy of longevity. But except for a few ordinary people who are very lucky and can enter the upper realm to practice through various opportunities, and a few like you who have the aptitude of immortal roots In addition to the excellent children being able to be taken away by the fairy elders who came to accept apprentices, most mortals still have difficulty seeing the threshold of the upper realm. Mortals hope to enter the upper realm, and some people in the upper realm have found huge benefits from these mortals. As a result, a kind of person appeared secretly, called 'stowaway'."

"Smugglers are mortals who smuggle to the lower realm with the dream of cultivation in mind. I was one of them back then. When I went out to study, I met a cultivator. He said that he was destined to be with me, and I was destined to be immortal in this life." He can extradite me to the Upper Realm, but only if I sign a soul contract with him, and as a reward, I will be driven by him for ten years after arriving in the Upper Realm."

"At that time, I was just a young man who was not as weak as the crown, and I was arrogant, and I also knew that there is no free lunch in the world, and I had no objection to the conditions that made him drive him for ten years-after all, if you can live forever, ten years is nothing. What. I stopped reading the memo, packed up my luggage and went with him. Only then did I realize that he was not the only one who came to the lower realm with him to "pick up" someone with a predestined relationship, and I was not the only one with a "destined relationship". I faintly felt that something was wrong, but first, I was unwilling to give up this opportunity to enter the upper realm, and second, there was no turning back at that time, so I gritted my teeth and insisted on entering the upper realm through the gap between the two realms with everyone."