Chapter 18: The Mystery of One's Life!

  "I didn't handle it, because this is Shi Qianshan's specialty. You two are also stupid! It's useless to say." Meng Chaoran said calmly: "Cunning and treacherous, with a sweet mouth and a sword in the belly, although it's despicable and lowly, but this is also a skill. And it's a necessary condition for success in traveling the world. Shi Qianshan still didn't do it secretly enough, and was discovered by you."

  Meng Chaoran paused for a moment before saying: "Shi Qianshan, still so insincere."

  Chu Yang quietly followed him for a while before softly saying: "I understand."

  Meng Chaoran didn't even turn his head, he slowly raised his foot, and his tone was still as calm as ever: "If you haven't noticed, I will continue to indulge Shi Qianshan until he no longer needs me to indulge him. In my sect, although there are only three of you brothers, this is also a Jianghu! Life and death are your own affairs, your own choices!"

  When he said "Life and death are your own choices, your own affairs", Meng Chaoran's face remained unchanged, but his voice suddenly became heavy.

  This sentence seems ruthless, but Chuyang let out a deep sigh. The master is just a guide, and the path to one's own future must ultimately be walked by oneself. Meng Chaoran's current inaction may seem heartless, but it is actually allowing his disciple to experience the Jianghu for himself. Even if it's late, he will still take an earlier step than other disciples.

  Moreover, this is one's own realization. It is completely different from what others teach! Although it is cruel, such cruelty is something that everyone will experience sooner or later. The earlier you realize it, the more grasp you have on survival!

  It wasn't until after his sect was destroyed in his past life that he gradually came to appreciate Master's painstaking efforts!

  "If you continue to be so stupid, when you go out in the future, you will eventually die at someone else's hands. So, I won't have much hope for you. Don't blame me for being heartless, our Tianwai Building needs strong people, not idiots."

  "Shi Qianshan is sinister and treacherous, with a ruthless heart. He's not a good person." Meng Chaoran finally stopped, and Chu Yang only then realized they had arrived at the back mountain stone cliff. All he heard was Meng Chaoran saying: "But Shi Qianshan can get things done. His talent is also good. That's why I tolerate him and suppress you all. You were all too mediocre before, too simple-minded, with smaller achievements meaning a greater chance of survival. Even if you're bullied by others, you'll still be able to survive."

  "I want my disciples to live on, I won't care which path you take." Meng Chaoran said: "All things are predetermined by heaven; if it weren't for your sudden enlightenment, I wouldn't have told you anything. As a master, whether qualified or not, since Shi Qianshan first deceived you and you didn't realize it but instead were grateful to him, I decided the path of life for you."

  He turned his head and gazed deeply into Chu Yang's eyes: "Until that day, you started to test me."

  "I understand." Meng Chaoran's words were spoken in a calm and emotionless tone, but Chu Yang felt a wave of gratitude. If he and Tan Lang had continued to be ignorant, Meng Chaoran's revelation of the true nature of Shi Qian Shan would have made their lives even more difficult.

  "These past few days, although I declared seclusion, I've been secretly watching you all." Meng Chaoran sighed with a smile: "Only to discover that I, Meng Chaoran, have once again misjudged. You, Chu Yang, are greatly beyond my expectations, which is why I'm starting to change my original intentions."

  Chu Yang's face was covered in sweat.

  It's not that I made Master lose his way, in fact, I've been stupid like this since my previous life...

  However, Master said "walked eyes again", this sentence seems to have a deep meaning, did he walk eyes once before?...

  "However, your personality needs to change." Meng Chaoran seemed to ponder for a moment, and said solemnly: "In the world of Jianghu, killing is inevitable. But your words today are too heavy-handed. And now you also know that with effort, your future achievements may not be inferior to mine. That's why I'm worried... If one day you find those parents who abandoned you... That's why I wanted to talk to you today."

  "Haha......" Chu Yang's icy laughter began to rise, with a strong hatred flashing in his eyes. For two lifetimes as a human, this was the greatest demon in his heart!

  Chu Yang was an orphan, or rather, a discarded child! When Meng Chaoran picked him up, he was still in his swaddling clothes, abandoned at the door of a broken temple on a cold winter's night.

  After Chu Yang learned about this matter, the anger in his heart could no longer be restrained! You gave birth to me, why did you abandon me? Even if you threw me into a commoner family, I could have survived. But you abandoned me on a cold winter night at the gate of a deserted temple!

  Even if it's thrown into a deserted temple, it can still breathe a few more times than at the entrance.

  That was clearly intended to be my death, but he couldn't bear to kill his own newborn child with his own hands, so he chose a despicable trick. But for a child less than a year old... if not met with kind people, wouldn't that be a dead end?

  Is there such a cruel father and mother in this world?!

  Looking at the deep hatred on Chu Yang's face, Meng Chaoran sighed deeply: "Master has three words to advise you, and you must remember them firmly in your heart: First, without them, you would have lived too. Second, all things have cause and effect, there are no parents in the world who do not love their children! Third, the heavenly way is moral, your life, after all, was given by your parents."

  "What Master taught is." Chu Yang said calmly and quietly.

  Meng Chaoran let out a sigh in his heart, knowing that Chu Yang's words were insincere. This knot in his heart was probably impossible to untie. He said "Master's teachings are" instead of saying "Disciple remembers", which can be seen as ordinary.

  It's no wonder, among the 800 disciples of Tianwai Building, there are not a few orphans, but most of them have lost both parents. Only two children were truly abandoned by their parents: Chu Yang and Tan Tang.

  The feeling of being abandoned by others, and even more so by one's own parents, is a desolation that cannot be put into words. As the years go by and after having seen all sorts of things in life, it will only make one even angrier.

  Especially, Chuyang is also a person with very strong self-esteem!

  Chu Yang's introverted personality was formed after he understood human relationships and learned about his own life experience, from then on he became silent and taciturn, and over time, it developed into what it is now.

  The hatred in his heart has been accumulating for sixteen years!

  Meng Chaoran sighed in his heart, looking at this disciple with pity. Under Chu Yang's calm face, Meng Chaoran could feel that surging and turbulent sorrowful anger, if it were to be ignited, he was afraid that even he himself would be burned to ashes!

  Meng Chaoran only knew that Chu Yang's anger had been accumulating for 16 years, but he never thought that this anger had been accumulating for far more than 16 years! This is the accumulation of resentment and poison over two lifetimes...

  "You already know all the techniques and moves, including fist, foot, knife, and sword. Except for a few core techniques of Tianwai Tower, you have mastered everything." Meng Chaoran said in a low voice: "From now on, it's up to you. The remaining core techniques of Tianwai Tower can only be taught to the top ten disciples. Everything depends on yourself."

  "Yes." Chu Yang nodded.

  The two stood at the top of the mountain peak. At this moment, a burst of light appeared in the east, and a sun suddenly jumped out from the horizon.

  Meng Chao Ran's gaze, tightly fixed on the east, suddenly contracted, and in his eyes, countless dazzling rainbows seemed to be rendered, emitting an inexplicable radiance. Slowly, it condensed into a strand of brilliant essence!

  The sky is bright!

  Chu Yang suddenly felt that Master Meng Chaoran's back at this moment was so desolate and lonely.

  The sun that had just risen cast a slanting beam of light, stretching Meng Chao Ran's figure into a long shadow that extended between the mountains and forests.

  After a long while, Meng Chaoran said in a low tone: "Chu Yang, you were the first child I picked up. When I held you on that snowy night, I knew a tragic human drama would unfold. At that time, I once thought... of abandoning you! Not wanting to be entangled in this karma..."

  Chu Yang's body shook, and he suddenly raised his head, looking at Meng Chaoran's back, his lips moving slightly, but saying nothing.

  "But there's one thing that changed my mind." Meng Chaoran turned his back to Chu Yang, but stretched out his hand, his fist slowly opening up, inside was only a small piece of jade pendant the size of a little finger.

  Today is the third update! Tomorrow at midnight, there will be another update to rush the rankings, and I hope everyone can give their full support. Tomorrow morning, I have a flight to Shanghai... probably won't be back until the afternoon of the 25th. Hmm, tomorrow afternoon will still have an update, that's for sure.