I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 538 The Wicked Woman Seeks Immortality - Part 1 (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Jiang Yi tried to communicate with Zhu Xin in her dream, and surprisingly, she was not hindered by the dream. She could even pull Zhu Xin into the dream.

However, the flow of time in dreams is different from that in reality, so it's safer to leave Zhu Xin outside to take care of things.

Zhu Xin had previously investigated Ji Ning's past, and Jiang Yi asked him a few questions.

Ji Ning's dream was indeed one of the most profound memories of her childhood, and it even influenced her entire life afterward.

Zhu Xin said she indiscriminately killed innocent people, and the first innocent people she killed were everyone in this fishing village.

On the surface, Ji Ning's parents seemed to treat him equally, and most of the time they even took care of Ji Ning's feelings, putting him first in terms of food, clothing and other necessities.

But what they were taking advantage of was Ji Ning's strong sense of emotion, gratitude, and willingness to reciprocate.

When Ji Ning has pancakes to eat, but sees her mother giving her younger brother seaweed soup, Ji Ning feels guilty and will give her own pancakes to her brother and willingly drink the seaweed soup.

At times like these, his parents would always say they were sorry to the family for not taking good care of him and his siblings, and that they had wronged Ji Ning.

The next time her parents brought her something delicious, they would still give it to Ji Ning first. Although it would eventually end up in her younger brother's stomach, Ji Ning always felt that her parents loved her very much, and she would treat her younger brother even better because of this.

If this love hadn't been mixed with calculation and pretense, Ji Ning would actually be quite happy, and she would be easily satisfied.

However, ever since her younger brother Ji An was sent to cultivate immortality, Ji Ning's parents no longer needed to pretend.

A year after Ji An left, her parents' attitude suddenly turned cold. Ji Ning comforted herself by saying that it was because her younger brother had left and her parents were sad, so they neglected her for a while.

When Ji Ning was thirteen, someone suddenly came to his family. His parents said they had asked him to use their connections to take him to work for a cultivation family on another large island, where he could have the opportunity to cultivate immortality.

Ji Ning was moved to tears. Before leaving, she kowtowed three times to her parents to express her gratitude for their upbringing and vowed that she would return to repay them in the future.

But when Ji Ning arrived at that cultivation family, she learned that her parents had sold her to an old man as his fifth concubine.

This is indeed a family of cultivators, but the patriarch, who has the highest cultivation level in the family, is only at the peak of Qi Refining. His aptitude is not good enough to establish his foundation. In order to continue the family line, he looks for young girls with spiritual roots in the fishing villages of the surrounding islands, marries them to continue the family line, and hopes that his descendants will have a girl with good spiritual root aptitude.

In those dark and hopeless days, Ji Ning refused to believe that her parents didn't care about her. She gritted her teeth, held on to her last breath, and tried her best to live, wanting to go back and ask them for an explanation.

Ji Ning seized every opportunity he could, compromising, maneuvering, and scheming.

She obtained the Qi cultivation manual and secretly practiced it, learning martial arts techniques.

Finally, when Ji Ning was seventeen, she escaped from the cultivation family and returned to her fishing village. But before she could even get home to ask her parents why, she saw them chatting with someone at the village entrance.

They said things like "send her off to enjoy a life of luxury," "she's a worthless little girl who'll lose money," and "she's just someone who's easy to fool."

Ji Ning's parents also shared their experience with other villagers, teaching them how to manage their maids so they would willingly give their all.

The harsh words shattered Ji Ning's last illusions.

Those people laughed too loudly, their laughter was too jarring.

At that time, Ji Ning was already a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining. After four years of humiliation and the complete collapse of her beliefs, she was corrupted by inner demons and went into a state of demonic possession, killing her parents and slaughtering the entire fishing village.

Later, while evading the pursuit of that immortal cultivation family, Ji Ning continued to cultivate. As long as she could live and continue cultivating, she was willing to do anything.

After enduring countless hardships and finally reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, she annihilated that cultivation family, ending everything.

She even found her younger brother, Ji An, and killed him without hesitation.

Jiang Yi felt that Ji Ning was practically born with the script of a beautiful, strong, and tragic villain. It was truly impressive that she could cultivate to the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

Moreover, when Jiang Yi was capturing her and another male cultivator, Ji Ning was the first to realize something was wrong and tried to escape.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yi, whom she encountered, was at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, leaving her with no chance of escape.

Jiang Yi intends to try to change Ji Ning's life in his dream, and then steal the dream to create a Dream Butterfly clone, to see if everything Ji Ning learned in the dream can be used in reality.

Island fishing village.

Twelve-year-old Ji Ning stood on the shallows, gazing in the direction where the merchant ship had disappeared. She stood there for a long time, until all the children playing on the shallows had gone home for dinner, until there was no one around and the setting sun had turned the entire sky red.

She longed for this opportunity to cultivate immortality on the island, yet she didn't regret giving it to her younger brother. "One day, I too will leave this place and become a powerful cultivator!"

"Little girl, do you want to cultivate immortality?"

Ji Ning turned around abruptly and saw a woman in a plain white dress standing on the rocks not far away.

Despite the howling sea breeze, she remained as steadfast as a rock, enveloped in a hazy, ethereal glow that seemed to shield her from the wind and rain, exuding a languid yet breathtakingly lofty aura.

Ji Ning was stunned, his mouth agape, unable to utter a single word.

Jiang Yi's gaze did not linger on her for long, and he slowly turned his head to look at the mountain peak on the island that appeared particularly steep in the twilight.

"If you can reach the top of that mountain before dawn, I will teach you the cultivation techniques for immortality."

As soon as Jiang Yi finished speaking, her figure vanished like ripples on water.

When Ji Ning came to his senses, the reef was empty, as if what he had just seen was just a mirage at sea.

"Immortal...Immortal Master!" Ji Ning exclaimed in shock, then quickly covered his mouth.

Overjoyed, she felt a surge of happiness that overshadowed her disappointment at having given the opportunity to her younger brother.

Rumble!
A pale white bolt of lightning suddenly tore through the twilight sky, followed by a deafening rumble of thunder.

The sea breeze suddenly became violent, whipping up salty, icy water vapor that slapped against our faces. In the distance, where the sea met the sky, the inky blackness was visibly swallowing up the last rays of the sunset.

The storm is coming!
Climbing a mountain at this time, especially that rugged and steep peak that even the hunters in the village dare not venture into in groups, is simply courting death!

Ji Ning's pupils contracted sharply in the lightning. Knowing the danger, she didn't hesitate at all. As if whipped, she turned and ran wildly towards home.

Ji Ning rushed into his simple courtyard, still catching his breath.

Her mother came out of the kitchen carrying freshly made vegetable dumplings, and saw Ji Ning rush by like a gust of wind, grabbing the tattered raincoat and straw hat hanging behind the door and putting them on, and then deftly hanging several pairs of old non-slip straw sandals around her neck.

Immediately afterwards, Ji Ning rushed to her mother, and without caring that the dumplings were too hot to handle, quickly grabbed all the steaming hot vegetable dumplings and stuffed them into her arms.

Finally, she grabbed a machete from the corner of the wall, turned around, and rushed outside.

"Hey! Where are you going? A storm is coming, why are you running around like that?!" her mother shouted from behind.

Ji Ning didn't stop walking, nor did he turn his head.

"I have something to do! Don't wait for me!"

As darkness fell completely, the gale, like a runaway beast, roared and raged along the narrow mountain path, whipping up sand, gravel, and dry branches that stung our faces.

The icy rain poured down, quickly gathering into a muddy stream on the muddy mountain road.

Wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat, Ji Ning brandished a machete and struggled to clear away the thorns and low bushes blocking his way. He slipped several times, barely managing to steady himself only by piercing the slightly more stable soil and rocks beside him with the machete.

A strong gust of wind suddenly blew her straw hat off, and the rain instantly soaked her hair, chilling her to the bone.

She seemed oblivious, her eyes shining brightly in the inky darkness, fixed on the mountain path ahead, blurred by wind and rain.

Click!

Another blinding bolt of lightning struck a tree not far away, almost grazing his scalp. The loud noise made Ji Ning's eardrums ring, his mind trembled, and he stumbled, tumbling down the slippery, steep slope!
A sharp pain shot through her shoulder and back, and she barely managed to stop after crashing into a protruding rock.

Ji Ning gritted his teeth, endured the excruciating pain, sat up, tore off the relatively clean lining of his undergarment, and haphazardly bandaged the deepest wounds on his arms and legs with the rainwater.

The vegetable dumplings in her arms had been flattened and cooled. She swallowed a few whole, then scooped up some rainwater and drank a few mouthfuls. The cold water and food barely suppressed her hunger and exhaustion.

Looking at his heavy raincoat, covered in mud and water, a resolute glint flashed in Ji Ning's eyes.

She ripped off her raincoat and threw it into the muddy water, ready to face the challenge unburdened.

"As long as I don't die on the way today, I will definitely climb up the mountain!"

(End of this chapter)