Zhu Tian: A journey of spiritual practice starting from Joy of Life

Chapter 253 He Became an Infant
"Hello, Fourth Sister!"

Haitang Duoduo was the first to stand up and greet them. Qin Hongmian looked at the three women in front of her and couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?"

Haitang Duoduo stretched and pointed at Sang Wen and Si Lili, saying, "Let me introduce you. I'm your eldest sister, and these two are your second and third sisters!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Hongmian realized something, and a look of surprise flashed across her face. "Could you be the three wives of my husband who died of the plague? Did you also choose to stay and be with my husband forever?"

As soon as these words were spoken, a strange look flashed across the faces of Haitang Duoduo and the other two girls, before they all burst into laughter.

Qin Hongmian was stunned by the sight of the three of them until Haitang Duoduo told her all about how they came from another world.

Qin Hongmian found it unbelievable until Haitang Duoduo gestured for her to look at the light screen behind her.

Upon hearing this, Qin Hongmian turned around and saw Leng Feibai entering a room filled with hot springs.

At this moment, a new body has appeared in the pool in the room.

"Wait!"

Leng Feibai said calmly, "Once I've mastered the first volume, it will be time for us to reunite. At that time..."

At this point, Leng Feibai paused, then said self-deprecatingly, "When the time comes, Duoduo will probably give me a piece of her mind. As for Hongmian, she'll probably scold me for lying to her."

Hearing Leng Feibai's words, Qin Hongmian's expression also became somewhat strange.

Seeing this, the most understanding Si Lili quickly stood up and said, "Fourth Sister, don't blame your husband. If he told you the truth, would you believe him?"

Qin Hongmian shook her head after hearing this and sighed, "I'm afraid I'll think that's just an excuse he made up because he doesn't want to marry me. I'll also think he's out of his mind, making up such an excuse to coax me."

After saying that, Qin Hongmian found a place to sit down next to the three women and asked, "What can we do here?"

"Eat and drink as you please!"

As Haitang Duoduo spoke, she picked up two oranges and tossed them to Qin Hongmian, saying, "Once we've finished comprehending the crystals we have, we can go back to the outside world and have some fun with that bastard Leng Feibai. But we can also stay here and watch what he's doing out there."

Qin Hongmian became interested upon hearing this and asked curiously, "Does your husband know about us...?"

Qin Hongmian stopped talking halfway through her sentence, as she was very familiar with Leng Feibai's personality.

If he knew that his deceased wife had been watching him all along, he would never have messed around with other women again!
Leng Feibai stayed in the hot spring room for a while, then went to his room in the Qunfangyuan Garden to take a bath. After changing into a coarse cloth garment worn by ordinary people during the Warring States period, he arrived at the Gate of All Heavens on the first floor.

"This life is so ordinary, not as interesting as the one in Joy of Life!"

After saying that, Leng Feibai leaped into the Gate of All Heavens.

The Gate of All Heavens shone brightly for a moment before falling silent again.

In the northern desert, snow is falling heavily, and a bright moon hangs upside down in the sky!

A cold wind howled, and snowflakes danced in the gale. The evergreen pine branches along the roadside swayed violently, and clumps of snow that had gathered on the branches fell to the ground as they swayed.

But just then, the snow on the ground began to tremble slightly.

Because on the official road not far away, a troop of cavalry clad in black armor charged towards them.

This group of cavalry marched north, carrying the banners of the Yan state, so they must have been the Yan cavalry force.

In the middle of the cavalry, a beautifully decorated four-wheeled carriage, escorted by the cavalry, hurried towards Yan.

On the carriage, a young man, no more than twenty years old, wearing a mink cloak, held a three-foot-long sword in his hand, his eyes closed as if he were thinking about something.

"call"

A sound of surging true energy rose out of nowhere, and the next moment, the entire landscape turned black and white.

The moment the carriages and cavalry were covered in black and white, they all stopped in their tracks, as if frozen in place.

But the young man on the carriage seemed unaffected. He jumped down from the carriage and shouted in one direction, sword in hand, "Master, your disciple has decided to return to the Yan Kingdom. Why do you need to stop me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a blue light drifted from afar and condensed into an old man with an air of otherworldly grace and a flowing beard.

The old man looked at the young man below, then teleported in front of him in a few flashes, and said in a stern tone, "Ji Yan, are you really determined to return to the Yan Kingdom?"

The man called Ji Yan didn't say a word, he just nodded.

The old man's expression remained unchanged as he said, "If you stay in the Heavenly Sect, you can be assured of your safety for the rest of your life. But if you return to the Yan Kingdom, you will likely meet your end on the battlefield. Even so, do you still want to return to the Yan Kingdom?"

"Master!"

A look of pain flashed across Ji Yan's face. "My father served the country, but was assassinated on the road and died tragically. As his son, how could I not return to find out the truth? Therefore..."

As the two were talking, the sky not far away suddenly changed color, and a beam of light descended from the sky with a thunderous roar.

In an instant, a slight reaction appeared on the old man's usually calm face, and his fingers, hidden under his sleeves, began to clench.

After a few short breaths, the old man calmly said, "Come with me?"

As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them used their lightness skills to fly towards the place where the pillar of light had fallen.

Before long, the two arrived at the place where the pillar of light had appeared. There, they saw a set of clothes worn by ordinary people, with a bulge in one part of the clothes.

Upon seeing this, the old man stepped forward and rummaged through the clothes, pulling out a baby who had just turned one year old.

Upon seeing this, Ji Yan's eyes flashed with surprise, and he said angrily, "Who is so cruel as to abandon a perfectly healthy child here?"

After saying that, Ji Yan took off his mink cloak and wrapped it around the child in the old man's arms.

"Weird!"

The old man moved his hands slightly, stroked his beard, and said, "I can't even figure out this child's origins, but..."

The old man paused, then turned to Ji Yan and said, "Ji Yan, I just calculated that this child can bring you a glimmer of hope. If you are going back to Yan, take this child with you."

Ji Yan's lips twitched upon hearing this, but when he saw the chubby face of the child in his arms, he calmly nodded.

"When the time comes, you can bring him back to the Heavenly Sect."

The old man departed gracefully, leaving behind only his last words: "At that time, he will be my last disciple, Danyangzi. He will be your junior brother! You can also teach him some basic techniques of the Heavenly Sect."

As soon as Danyangzi left, Ji Yan glanced at the baby in his arms, then rummaged through the clothes on the ground and found an ordinary-looking jade pendant. On the pendant were three crooked characters.

Ji Yan barely managed to decipher it, only managing to make out that the last two characters meant 'Fei Bai'.

Is this your name?

Ji Yan looked at the jade pendant, then at the child in his arms, and said calmly, "From today onwards, you are my younger brother. Ji Feibai!" With that, Ji Yan carried the child back to the carriage.

At the same time, the surrounding black and white state disappeared.

The cavalry and wagons were restored to normal and continued their charge towards the capital of Yan.

Fifteen years later, at the beginning of winter, in Jicheng, the capital of Yan, at the residence of the Marquis of Pingnan in the east of the city.

At this moment, in the training ground in the backyard of the Marquis's mansion, there was a large figure and a small figure. The large figure was already close to middle age, while the small one was a boy who was only fifteen years old.

Both men were wearing blue robes. Because the Yan state was located in the north, it revered the virtue of water, so the people of Yan usually wore blue robes.

At this moment, a middle-aged man stood to one side holding a wooden sword, while the boy also held a wooden sword, looking at the middle-aged man opposite him with a serious expression.

A gentle breeze stirred, carrying a few withered yellow leaves into the air. In an instant, the boy's figure burst forth, using the breeze to rush towards the middle-aged man.

With a wooden sword raised, one dazzling and ruthless move after another was unleashed by this boy who was only about fifteen years old.

Sword energy swirled around the wooden sword, flowing smoothly and naturally like water.

With a longsword in hand, the young man moved with the speed of the wind, his swordsmanship as fierce as thunder, his ruthless and deadly sword moves attacking the middle-aged man one after another.

Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man smiled slightly, wielding his wooden sword to resist the boy's sword techniques while simultaneously unleashing a sword move identical to the one used by the boy, launching a counterattack.

Upon seeing this, the boy suddenly changed his sword style. The way he used the wooden sword was like a fine, torrential rain, transforming into a flawless sword net that completely blocked the man's sword moves.

As the middle-aged man finished his move, the boy's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he suddenly struck out with his wooden sword, striking the flaw in the man's sword move.

The wooden sword went straight and pressed against the man's chest.

"Brother, I won!"

After the boy finished speaking, he suddenly turned his hand, and a burst of energy erupted directly from behind the middle-aged man.

A thick cloud of air gushed out, blowing away all the fallen leaves from the low tree behind the middle-aged man.

"Good boy!"

The middle-aged man sheathed his sword and said, "Alright, tonight, I'll take you to Feixue Pavilion to enjoy the Snow Maiden's dance."

"Um... okay. I'll go wash up and change my clothes!"

After finishing his sentence, the boy put down his wooden sword and quickly left the training ground.

Inside the room, the boy left and immediately closed the door, a look of exhaustion in his eyes.

"We finally got away with it!"

The boy thought to himself, "It's really not easy to go through all this trouble to beat someone who's just a weakling to me."

This young man was none other than Leng Feibai.

Fifteen years ago, when Leng Feibai passed through the time tunnel after the Gate of All Heavens, he was compressed back to the state of being just one year old, and he fainted during the compression process.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself taken to the State of Yan.

Leng Feibai didn't think much about it and could only wait for his body to grow, treating it as a temporary rest.

So over the next fifteen years, Leng Feibai quietly grew up while also identifying the identities of those around him.

The person who picked him up was named Ji Yan, the nephew of Prince Xi of Yan and the cousin of Crown Prince Yan Dan.

As far as he knew, when Ji Yan was eight years old, his father Ji Hui sent him to the Taoist Tianzong sect to cultivate. Because of his good aptitude, he was accepted as a disciple by Danyangzi, an elder of the same generation as Chisongzi.

Many years ago, after his father was murdered, Prince Yan ordered him to be brought back to inherit his title. On the way, he encountered Leng Feibai, who had turned into an infant, and took him back with him.

Over the past fifteen years, Ji Yan has taken very good care of Leng Feibai. Although the two are not related by blood, their relationship transcends that of blood brothers.

However, the only drawback is that Ji Yan's Pingnan Marquis's mansion is not particularly stable. In recent years, Leng Feibai has secretly helped him eliminate countless spies who have infiltrated the mansion.

The origins of those undercover agents are quite complex, including those from within the Yan state, such as Lord Yanchun, Yan Yi, and even King Xi of Yan.

As for those outside the Yan Kingdom, they were only assassins sent by the Luo Wang organization.

But without exception, all of these people died at the hands of Leng Feibai's talisman clones.

As Leng Feibai changed his clothes, his mind was in turmoil. If he remembered correctly, it was 229 BC, the 26th year of King Xi of Yan's reign.

In the original drama, Yan Chunjun went to Feixue Pavilion to cause trouble that year, and ended up losing his life as a result.

I just don't know if that scene will happen tonight.

After changing his clothes, Leng Feibai quickly ran to the door, afraid that Ji Yan would be waiting for him for too long.

The two of them rode in the carriage and headed towards Feixue Pavilion.

Although the State of Yan was not powerful, Ji City was, after all, the capital of Yan, and its prosperity was in no way inferior to that of ordinary second-tier cities in later generations.

Inside the carriage, Ji Yan glanced out the window every now and then, a shadow falling over his face.

"Brother, is something wrong?"

As soon as Leng Feibai finished speaking, Ji Yan couldn't help but sigh and said, "Half a month ago, Qin general Wang Jian led a large army to attack Zhao for the second time. The King of Zhao ordered the military genius Li Mu and Sima Shang to lead troops to resist. I wonder if General Li Mu can stop Wang Jian's attack this time."

After hearing this, Leng Feibai sighed and said, "If King Zhao is still thinking straight, as long as he doesn't do something as absurd as changing generals on the eve of battle, General Li should be able to find an opportunity to defeat Wang Jian."

Although he said that, Leng Feibai knew in his heart that soon, Qin would use Wei Liao's scheme to launch a counter-espionage campaign and bribe Guo Kai, a favorite minister of the King of Zhao.

This led to the capture of Li Mu and Sima Shang, ultimately resulting in the complete collapse of the Zhao army.

A year later, the Qin army captured Handan, took King Qian of Zhao prisoner, and took the opportunity to garrison Zhongshan, thus intimidating the Yan state.

After that, "Qin general Wang Jian defeated Zhao, captured the King of Zhao, seized all of its territory, and advanced north to conquer more land, reaching the southern border of Yan. Crown Prince Dan was terrified and thus requested the assistance of Jing Ke..."

This is the first paragraph of "Jing Ke's Assassination of Qin," a classical Chinese text that Leng Feibai had to memorize in his high school Chinese textbook. What follows is the story of Prince Dan of Yan proposing the age-old fallacy of assassinating Ying Zheng to delay the crisis for the State of Yan.

The assassination attempt on the King of Qin failed, giving Qin the perfect opportunity to launch an attack on Yan, resulting in Qin occupying all of Yan's territory except for Liaodong.

If it weren't for King Xi of Yan strangling King Dan of Yan, he would have been able to survive for a few more years, delaying the day he would become the last ruler of the country.

(End of this chapter)