Immortality begins with raising apprentices

Chapter 195 Chen Ye dislikes yanderes
For Chen Ye, apologizing was not a difficult task.

Not to mention his disciples, he could be humble even towards outsiders.

Therefore, there is even less reason to treat close relatives coldly or put on airs.

During his month-long seclusion, his mind became clear and he gradually broke through the illusions.

The flourishing and withering of plants all follow the laws of nature.

People should be the same.

Qingjun's mischievousness stems from her childlike nature, while Lin Jin's gloom is born from her will to survive.

Zhiwei's attachment was like a vine yearning for the morning sun.

Forcibly pruning will only damage its foundation; only by following its natural instincts and guiding it can it thrive and continue to grow.

His ten blows with the bone-scraping whip did not sever the desire to spy, but rather the disciple's longing for his master.

"This time... I was indeed too impetuous."

Chen Ye sighed.

Perhaps it was anxiety about the potential dangers of demonic cultivators, or unease at having his secrets exposed... In any case, he was too hasty and his methods were too radical in dealing with Zhiwei.

"Actually... actually Qingjun doesn't hate Master, Master, please don't blame yourself..."

Hearing her master sigh, Qingjun quickly tugged at his sleeve and whispered,

"Moreover... Qingjun knows that Senior Sister was also wrong in this matter. In fact, Qingjun doesn't like being watched either."

Ok?
Judging from the little girl's tone, she seemed to know the whole story.

So Zhiwei wasn't secretly eavesdropping on him alone; she was with Qingjun.

Chen Ye asked suspiciously, "How do you know about your senior sister's mistake?"

The little girl was horrified: "Master, don't talk nonsense! Qingjun didn't eavesdrop on you!"

As she spoke, she quickly put her little hands inside her pockets, afraid that her master would also hit her.

She was in so much pain!
"Silly girl, you've confessed without being asked." Chen Ye couldn't help but chuckle and casually tapped Qingjun on the head.

But after this incident, he had no intention of arguing with the little girl any further, and his voice immediately turned cold.

"Considering that your senior sister is the main culprit, I will spare your life for now. I will settle the score with you another day."

"What! Master is going to hold a grudge against Qingjun? Master is so petty..."

The little girl was even more frightened; what her master said sounded like he wanted her dead…

But Qingjun is no pushover!
The little girl's eyes darted around, and she sighed like a little adult.
"Alright, alright, since Master wants to torment me, then I'll do as you say, okay? Go find my senior sister!"

"Uh……"

Chen Ye was speechless.

Qingjun appeared to be admitting defeat, but in reality, she was using a retreat as a tactic to advance.

He actually said he wanted to be sadistic!! He was just trying to teach her a lesson…

Furthermore, with the young girl invoked the banner of her senior sister, Chen Ye truly had no way to cause her trouble at this point.
"Hmph, Xu Qingjun, you've gotten smarter. Fine, I'm ignoring you."

Since he couldn't do anything with the little girl, Chen Ye simply quickened his pace and arrived at Zhiwei's residence.

After a month of seclusion, his mind became clear, and many illusions gradually dissipated. However, only by pushing open this door and truly facing the girl he had punished could he verify whether the vague epiphany in his heart was genuine.

Qingjun watched him walk away, then slowly squatted down and scribbled randomly with her little hands.

He muttered to himself, "Stupid master, you don't really think Qingjun is stupid, do you...?"

Fine, since Master looks so depressed anyway, I'll reluctantly do something silly to appease him.

There's really nothing I can do with my master.

This guy is so old, why does he need a little girl to cheer him up?!

……

The door opened.

There was no wary or surprised look from the girl as expected.

A sliver of light shone through the window, making the dim interior of the room vaguely visible.

In the corner, the little girl with black hair sat cross-legged, calmly cultivating herself.

as always?

Not really.

She was no longer wearing a neat dress, but instead a wrinkled, plain white undergarment. Her usually meticulously combed, jet-black hair was now disheveled, draped over her shoulders and face.

In the shadows, it was like an abandoned young animal, or a white flower being violently crushed by itself, utterly shattered.

"cough……"

Chen Ye's cough broke the silence.

"Master."

Zhiwei suddenly looked up, and beneath her disheveled, raven-feather-like black hair, a breathtakingly beautiful face was revealed.

Even with pale lips and bluish-gray under-eyes, her exquisite beauty cannot be concealed.

The natural, slightly upturned curve at the corner of the eye should have given it a cool and aloof air, but now, because the long eyelashes are filled with moisture, they appear broken and fragile.

She staggered to her feet and mechanically bowed: "Disciple greets Master, congratulations on your successful breakthrough..."

"..."

Chen Ye fell silent.

How is this going? !
Unexpected, heartbroken, annoyed, regretful...

He never expected this to happen.

For Zhiwei, whose body is like a flawless crystal, the bone-scraping whip is neither painful nor itchy.

Ke Zhiwei, how could you have become so haggard?
Unconsciously, Chen Ye's voice became hoarse:

“Zhiwei, I shouldn’t have hit you, and I shouldn’t have… said those words about expelling you from the sect.”

"Master...Master, what are you saying?"

"I apologize to you."

"apologize?"

"……Um."

"What wrong has Master done?"

"As a teacher..."

"What wrong has Master done!"

The tone suddenly rose.

Zhiwei's dark pupils were fixed on Chen Ye's face, and what surged within them was not resentment, but a piety that Chen Ye was even less willing to see.
"Your disciple deserves to die! Your disciple's mind was filthy, daring to spy on your master's whereabouts and disobey your teachings! Your master's flogging is to cleanse your disciple of filth! Your master's words of expulsion from the sect... are a warning to your disciple never to overstep the bounds again!"

Her words were incoherent and illogical, but every word revealed her absolute faith in her master.

The intense emotions made her already weak body sway, almost unable to stand.

Instead of yielding, she forcefully straightened her slender, fragile back and slammed her knees heavily onto the cold ground.

"Master, please punish me again! Punish me even more severely! So that I will never forget this lesson!"

The faint light from the window fell precisely on her kneeling figure.

Her messy black hair hung down to her waist, obscuring her slender body.

Chen Ye closed his eyes.

His disciple shouldn't be like this.

She shouldn't have become a "yandere" from her past life.

He only hoped that his apprentice could grow up mentally healthy and happily.

But... where exactly did the problem lie?

Zhiwei's current state is not something that happened overnight. The beating with the bone-scraping whip was just the fuse that ignited the darkness in her heart.

As the saying goes, those who are good at eliminating harm will find its root cause, and those who are good at treating disease will cut off its source.

Chen Ye opened his eyes and looked at the girl on the ground.

"Zhiwei, what is this?"

He whispered, and under the girl's expectant gaze, he tightened his grip on the cold, bone-scraping whip.

This whip holds extraordinary significance for the three masters and disciples. From its very beginning, it has symbolized "rules" and "punishment."

He exerted force with his palm, and the spiritual power of the ninth level of Qi Refining surged into this low-grade first-order magic weapon.

In an instant, the dimly lit hut was blindingly illuminated.

"No..." Zhiwei subconsciously tried to stand up.

But Chen Ye ignored her fear, and his boundless spiritual power continued to violently assault the magical artifact.

"boom!"

The sustained spiritual power finally became too much for the Bone-Scraping Whip to handle!

It immediately shattered into pieces.

Have you ever heard the story of Chaos?

Chen Ye's voice softened, carrying a hint of distant vicissitudes.

"In ancient times, there was a primordial chaos, born without any orifices and unaware of the seven emotions. The two emperors of the South Sea and the North Sea, grateful for his kindness, forcibly opened seven orifices for him. They carved one orifice each day, and after seven days, Chaos died."

"What I have done for you is like what the two emperors did for Chaos."

His gaze was fixed on Zhiwei's suddenly dilated pupils.

"When I saw your nature, I felt it was an incurable disease, and I was eager to get rid of it with swift and decisive measures. Spying was a crime, so I forcibly forbade it! Attachment was a desire, so I whipped and drove it away! But I forgot that human nature is like grass and trees; forcibly breaking its shape will only damage its root."

"Master... means..."

The girl was always clever, and she immediately guessed the meaning behind her master's words, but she was not sure.

"Actually, Master doesn't dislike Zhiwei's prying... he's just worried that it's a stubborn problem."

Chen Ye sighed.

This is a lie.

I just had to say it.

Chen Ye suddenly realized that Zhiwei had always held him in extremely high esteem, and that spying on him was one of the few... or even the only, acts of disrespect she had ever committed.

When he forcefully extinguished Zhiwei's last act of disrespect, what remained was her now wholehearted, almost distorted, submission.

"Master, you're deceiving Zhiwei."

"Actually, I really enjoy being taken care of by Zhiwei. Master has already taken care of enough people, but only Zhiwei takes such good care of Master."

"..."

"Sometimes when Zhiwei has a stern face and scolds her master, she looks quite cute."

"Master..."

"If Zhiwei dares not disobey her master in the future and unconditionally trusts him... would Zhiwei still dare to take care of her master then?"

"me……"

Chen Ye smiled, extended his hand, and stopped steadily in front of Zhiwei:

"Let's go, let's go out with Master."

Zhiwei lowered her head, looking at her kneeling knees, at the scattered whip fragments on the ground, and at her master's warm hand.

At this point, whether the master was lying or not was no longer important.

Her small, slender, and slightly trembling hands finally rested cautiously on her master's hands.

Amidst her disheveled hair, her once-obsessive eyes now held only the bewilderment of someone who had just been pulled from the drowning water.

"After you get out, take a good shower."

"Well, Zhiwei can be a black fluffy dumpling or a snow dumpling, but Master doesn't want her to become a dirty dumpling."

Listening to her master's incessant nagging, she finally couldn't help but whisper:
“Zhiwei is not dirty! Master used to say that Zhiwei smells nice.”

"Even if I don't shower for a month, I still smell nice? Wow..."

"Master!!"

In short, Chen Ye dislikes yanderes, but he likes his disciple.

Outside the room, the little girl had been waiting eagerly for a long time.

Seeing their master leading their senior sister out, they immediately cheered and rushed forward: "Master is so amazing, you actually caught your senior sister!"

"You brat, what do you mean by 'grab'? Can't you speak properly?" Chen Ye was displeased with the little girl; this girl was truly a rebellious disciple!

"Why not arrest them?"

The little girl frowned, squinted, and looked disgusted.
"Master is tall and strong, just like a bandit! I've heard before that bad guys like pretty girls like Senior Sister and Qingjun! Besides, birds of a feather flock together! Master used to be neighbors with Old Taoist Zhang!"

That damned old Taoist Zhang!

Being his neighbor has become a stain on my life; Qingjun constantly mocks him...

Chen Ye wasn't angry.

Qingjun was indeed too unruly today, but Chen Ye knew that Qingjun was just trying to liven up the atmosphere in her own way and deliberately offend him so that Zhiwei would let go of her fear of her.

"Hmm... why don't you take your senior sister to take a bath?" Chen Ye's eyes flickered as he sensed a powerful aura approaching, but his expression remained calm and gentle.

"Master isn't sincere! Master is bullying Senior Sister. It should be Master helping Senior Sister take a bath!" The little girl was always eager to stir up trouble.

At this moment, Zhiwei couldn't help herself anymore, her face turning red: "Qingjun, don't talk nonsense!"

"Ok?"

The little girl squinted her eyes again and smiled mischievously.
"That's right, it should be the senior sister helping the master take a bath..."

"Xu Qingjun!"

In the end, the little girl successfully won a mixed doubles match against her senior sister and master.

……

at this time.

In the outer valley.

A flying boat, pulled by two magnificent blue phoenixes, landed at the entrance of Linsong Valley amidst a clear and melodious cry of the phoenixes.

On the flying boat, spiritual light flowed and auspicious energy wafted, displaying the grandeur of a great master.

Duan Ling was already alarmed by the immense spiritual pressure. He quickly stepped forward and stood respectfully to the side, not daring to even breathe loudly.

The boat door opened.

The leader was a handsome young man dressed in a white robe.

Cultivation level: Qi Refining Stage 9!

Judging from his appearance, he is even younger than Chairman Ji Yueze of the Shijing Association, which shows that he is exceptionally talented!
Behind him followed several young men and women with equally extraordinary auras, all of whom were at the late stage of Qi Refining and had similar appearances.

"May I ask, fellow Daoist, from whom do you come?"

Duan Lingqiang suppressed his shock and respectfully clasped his hands in a salute.

The young man in white robes at the head of the group didn't even glance at Duan Ling upon hearing this.

A young man in blue behind him stepped forward, his expression arrogant, and said coldly:

"We are from the Xu family of Moon Rhinoceros Lake! This is our young master! Where is Chen Ye, the manager of Lin Song Valley? Quickly summon him to greet us!"

Moon Rhinoceros Lake, the Xu family!

No wonder he had no impression of these cultivators. He was only familiar with the cultivators from Peach Mountain and Cloud Creek, as well as the well-known rogue cultivators from Moon Rhinoceros Lake.

They were naturally unfamiliar with these young cultivators who were still cultivating in their families or sects.

Most importantly... they're up to no good!
When a normal cultivator goes out, who would deliberately act arrogantly and offend others? Unless they came specifically to humiliate others.

Duan Ling's heart jolted, his mind racing, but he dared not show the slightest negligence. He quickly bowed and said, "Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. This matter is of great importance, and I cannot make the decision myself. I will go and inform the person in charge of the valley!"

"Hmph, trash!" The young man in blue snorted coldly, and was about to say something more when Xu Qingsong, who was in the lead, finally slowly raised his eyes.

His indifferent eyes swept lightly over Duan Ling.
"Go quickly."

He uttered only two words before falling silent, turning his gaze to the depths of the misty Linsong Valley.

Ah……

After half a year, I finally met this person again!
Xu Qingsong rubbed the ring on his hand, a cold smile curling at the corner of his lips.

He couldn't wait to see his lovely sister.

as well as……

Ask them properly.
Why would the eldest daughter of the Mao family and the matriarch of the Xu family be having an affair with a man?
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