Who taught him to practice swordsmanship like this?

Chapter 155 Where is Mother?

Su Baichen returned to Su Family Village once again.

He didn't rush into the village, but instead went to the cemetery on the hill behind the village and found his mother's grave.

He noticed that a small bouquet of flowers had been placed in front of the tombstone, and even the surrounding weeds had been cleared away.

This surprised Su Baichen quite a bit. Could it be that someone had come to pay respects to his mother?

Su Baichen immediately thought of his immortal father—then shook his head and denied it. Su Yang was obviously a bit dim-witted, and seemed to be clueless about human relationships. How could he possibly come to sweep the graves of the dead?

To put it bluntly, this place is just where my mother's body is buried. Her soul has already left—and has now been reincarnated; this place should have no connection to her anymore.

Su Baichen stood by the tombstone for a while.

The next moment, Su Yang appeared beside him.

"You've finally come to see your mother."

Su Yang revealed a smug look.

Su Baichen shook his head and said, "I'm just here to pay my respects to my mother before returning to the sect. Even if she is reincarnated, she will have a different life."

Su Yang simply said, "Your mother's reincarnation is still in this village; she has been waiting for us to return."

"Don't you really want to go and see?"

Su Baichen paused for a moment, then got up and walked towards the village.

Su Yangle: "I knew it, you still wanted to go and see it."

Su Baichen asked, "I just feel like something's not right."

Su Yang asked, "Is something wrong?"

When was your mother reincarnated?

Su Yang replied, "Six years ago, when you were about seven years old."

Su Baichen's expression tightened even more: "Then that's even more wrong. I hadn't left the village at that time, and I even came back once in between. I never felt my mother's presence from beginning to end."

Su Yang asked doubtfully, "A feeling? It's just that my calculations are never wrong."

Su Baichen said, "That's the problem."

He hurried back to the village, where he found a group of children playing under a large tree.

One little girl stood out, her features exquisitely carved like a porcelain doll.

She watched her friends play quietly, looking aloof and detached from the world.

Su Yang said, "It's her. It's normal that you haven't met her before, since she wasn't even a year old when you left the village."

"And she was my wife in her past life, and she also has an extraordinary destiny in this life—"

As he spoke, he realized something was wrong, and his voice suddenly lowered, as if he had noticed something amiss.

Su Baichen clenched his fist tightly.

He suddenly took out the Formless Banner and shook it at the little girl—

Su Yang hesitated, then watched quietly.

The girl's soul was suddenly extracted, revealing a chaotic mass.

Formless Soul!

Su Baichen felt a chill run through his body. He never imagined that his hometown would also be affected by such a thing.

Moreover, this formless soul actually took over the mother's original destiny and lived the life that the mother should have had in her new life!

The children over there cried out in alarm, not knowing why the girl had suddenly collapsed.

Su Baichen and Su Yang stood still, and no matter how panicked an ordinary person was, they would not be able to spot them.

Su Yang reached out and grabbed the chaotic soul, preventing it from falling into the Formless Banner.

Then a strong blue light appeared in his eyes—

"The Realm of No Form? I can't believe there are such troubling things in the mortal world."

He held the formless soul in his hand and began to deduce its origin and cause.

Then he angrily said, "What a Formless Realm! It can actually replace the fate of an ordinary person without being involved in karma. It is simply a parasite of the Three Realms!"

He turned to look at Su Baichen and said, "It seems you already knew about this?"

Su Baichen said somewhat dejectedly, "I've already cleaned up the entire Liang Kingdom, and I thought that even if there were any who escaped, there wouldn't be many. Who would have thought that right here in Su Family Village, a person without form would take my mother's reincarnation destiny—"

"All I want to know now is, where did my mother's soul reincarnate to?"

Su Yang was starting to lose his composure. He frantically calculated with his fingers, muttering to himself, "No, my destiny has been altered, even the cause and effect have been disrupted. It's a complete mess—"

"Wait a minute, I'll go ask in the underworld, I'll be right back."

As he spoke, he disappeared again.

As Su Baichen watched his father disappear once again, a faint hope flickered in his heart—now all he could do was wait and see what happened to this immortal father.

He was indeed very worried about his mother, but what could he do?

At this moment, he could do nothing but sigh and return to sit by his mother's grave.

Time passed unnoticed, and even as night fell, cries could still be heard from the village.

This is the tragedy of ordinary people; even if their own child dies, they don't know exactly how they died.

Even Su Baichen, as the murderer, not only felt no guilt, but instead felt he had helped them.

This is ironic.

As dawn broke, Su Baichen saw some elderly people from the village heading towards the back mountain.

He knew they were all there to chop firewood.

To his surprise, however, there was a little boy of about six years old among the woodcutters.

The little boy was too young to chop firewood like an adult; he could only pick up some dry branches from the ground.

A moment later, the little boy arrived in front of Su Baichen.

The little boy couldn't see Su Baichen, but he went to Su Baichen's mother's grave on his own. He quickly cleared away the weeds growing on the grave mound and then placed a handful of white flowers on the tombstone.

He stood silently in front of the tombstone for a while before preparing to leave.

Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him: "What's your relationship with the owner of this tomb?"

The little boy turned his head in surprise, his face showing a wariness that shouldn't be there for someone his age.

Su Baichen was able to sense from the Xuan Yin Heart Mirror where the little boy's wariness came from—although he was young, he seemed to have already endured a lot of hardship in life.

So he changed his perspective and said, "I'm also from this village, but I moved away before. I'm just passing through my hometown and came back to visit—I'm curious why you came here to pay your respects. You shouldn't have any connection with the person whose grave is being visited."

Upon hearing this, the little boy replied, "Because the house we live in now originally belonged to this old lady, that's why I give her a flower every time I pass by."

It's truly remarkable that a five-year-old can express himself so clearly.

Su Baichen then asked, "And what about your parents?"

The little boy said sadly, "They died. They all died on the way to escape. It was the kind old man, the village chief, who took us in and temporarily settled us in this old woman's empty house."

"We were able to survive thanks to the help of our neighbors, the uncles and aunties."

Upon hearing this, Su Baichen finally understood: "I see."

The little boy asked curiously, "Big brother, what's your relationship with this old lady?"

Su Baichen chuckled and said, "This is my mother. This must be my original home."

The little boy's expression froze upon hearing this, then he quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't know—I'll move out with my sister right away—"

Su Baichen waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I've already moved out."

The little boy then said, "Then—big brother, come sit at my house for a while, after all, it's your home too."

The little boy said in an expectant tone.

Su Baichen hesitated for a moment, then said, "Okay, you go first, I'll be there in a bit."

After watching the little boy leave, Su Baichen flew to the town on his sword, bought a bundle of braised meat and several pancakes, and then headed back to Su Family Village.

For some reason, looking at the little boy's stubborn yet hardworking expression, he felt a surge of desire to make his life more comfortable and wanted to offer him help.

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