San Shao and the monk spoke up to this point, raised his head to gaze at the sky as if savoring the memories of the past. Qing Chen thought he had finished speaking and couldn't help but ask: "Master, I now know about Mr. Mei and Shang Yunfei's origins. You just mentioned three great masters, apart from that living Buddha, what happened to the other two?"

  San Shao and the monk came back to their senses, withdrawing their gaze from the sky with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "Thinking of Wang Qing's past, I inadvertently got distracted. When I was young, I often ran into him while strolling in the streets, and several times he even bought me food."

  "What did you say? A great master of a generation wandering around on the streets all day?"

  San Shao Monk: "Many cultivators blend in with the mortal world, no different from ordinary people. Among the three great masters, the Forgetting Youth is the youngest, even younger than the Guardian of Righteousness by over a hundred years. What's more interesting is that during his youth, he was classmates with Mei Ye Shi and Shang Yun Fei at the same school... They all came from Wu Cheng, Zhixu Country, and I also came from the Jiulin Chan Temple in Wu Cheng. It's not surprising that I saw him when I was young. Unfortunately, by the time I met him, he had already forgotten that he was a great master of his generation and no longer paid attention to cultivation matters."

  "What's going on? What happened?"

  San Shao Monk: "My story is almost over, but first let me tell you something. The Forgetting Son will also be at tonight's banquet, and only he can unintentionally break through Shang Yunfei's spell with ease. His secular name is Feng Junzi, and he now resides in Wuyou City. As for why Mr. Feng is like this, it's a complicated story..."

  Among the new generation of disciples in the cultivation world, the most outstanding figure is not Mei Ye Shi or Shang Yun Fei, but a Jianghu wanderer who betrayed his sect, Qi Ye. Qi Ye has exceptional talent and stunning appearance, and is also ruthless and ambitious. He was originally a disciple of the Zhongnan Sect, cultivating the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir Direct Pointing Technique. His sect once forced him to choose between continuing to cultivate the Taoist way and a demon girl he secretly loved. To stay in the sect and continue his cultivation, he personally pushed the demon girl off a cliff. The demon girl survived her fall from the cliff and was later taken in by Mei Ye Shi.

  After Daofa Xiu Xing's great success, Qī Yè had no more opponents in the Zhōngnán school and immediately left his master's door to wander the world. He went to the mortal world to find the demon girl, but unexpectedly, the demon girl already belonged to Méi Yě Shí. In a fit of rage, Qī Yè sought an opportunity to kill Méi Yě Shí to prove that he could conquer everything. At that time, Méi Yě Shí was not Qī Yè's opponent, but Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ intervened and accidentally fought to a draw, resulting in two injuries, thus forming a grudge.

  After that, Qi Ye's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and he was unmatched in the world. Even Fa Hai, the renowned monk of Jiulian Chan Yuan, was defeated by him. Qi Ye used all his cunning and means to establish his prestige and reputation in the cultivation world, killing off inferior cultivators, seizing their territories, and establishing his own sect. He also broke with convention and openly recruited wandering martial artists to join his sect, regardless of their character or talent. In a short period of time, he gathered a massive following, and his influence quietly surpassed that of the traditional sects which had been passed down for thousands of years.

  Qīyè's ambition is vast, his first goal is to dominate the entire cultivation world, and his second goal is to lead the cultivation world's powers into the mortal realm, ruling supreme over all living beings. Of course, to achieve these two goals, the first obstacle to overcome is the opposition of other powerful cultivators with great divine abilities. Qīyè plans to rally support at the Three Mountains Gathering, where representatives from various cultivation sects will convene, and propose a revision of the cultivation code, using his divine powers to shock the world and free all people. If he can achieve this goal, it will prove that he has already become a leader in the cultivation world with real power, and can act without restraint.

  Qī Yè's ambition may have originated from the suppressed explosion after his early setbacks, as well as his self-confidence in his own abilities. However, at this Three Mountains Gathering, he suffered the greatest humiliation since he started wandering Jianghu. In the performance conference where representatives of the world's top experts demonstrated their skills, Qī Yè had the best opportunity to stir up the crowd, but Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ voluntarily agreed to take the stage and engage in a debate with him. Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ came prepared, and after a round of debating and demonstrating their skills, not only did Qī Yè fail to gain any advantage, but Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ severely humiliated him instead.

  With a heart of seven leaves, he was not willing to be defeated in front of everyone, and on the spot, he made an appointment with the Forgetful Young Master to have a real duel at the top of Zhao Ting Mountain half a year later to determine the winner. The Forgetful Young Master's cultivation is high, known as one of the three great masters, but his age is very young, not yet as old as Seven Leaves, so this battle between the two also symbolizes the future direction of the entire Kunlun.

  Seven Leaves closed the door for half a year to further his cultivation, and his alchemy practice had reached the realm of the indestructible Yang Shen's transformation. The first thing he did after leaving seclusion was to find his fellow disciple and sister, Seven Hearts, who was also a woman deeply in love with the Forgetful Young Master, to challenge her ultimate technique "Seven Emotions Combined Attack". Under the Seven Emotions Combined Attack, no one could resist without counterattacking, and only the Forgetful Young Master had ever successfully broken the technique by sitting still. Before the battle, Seven Leaves sought a must-win conviction, and found Seven Hearts' fighting method, but Seven Hearts was willing to die for her beloved and keep the bell ringing continuously.

  After Qī Xīn's death, the battle between Zhāo Tíng Shān and Diǎo Fǎ became a life-and-death duel. Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ vowed to kill Qī Yè to avenge Qī Xīn, while Qī Yè was determined to defeat his opponent to reach the pinnacle of the world. This battle shook heaven and earth, not just figuratively, but literally! Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ borrowed the divine artifact Qingmíng Jìng from Méi Shì, channeling the power of 9,000 miles of Kūn Lún mountains and rivers to subdue Qī Yè. He also employed a celestial technique that could borrow any divine power in the world, astonishingly shattering the Buddhist Five Declines, forcing Qī Yè, who had achieved immortality through his cultivation, into reincarnation. At the same time, Wàng Qíng Gōngzǐ used his immortal magic to lock away Qī Yè's primordial spirit with the Heart-Sealing Lock, condemning him to be reborn as a donkey for eternity!

  This battle also exposed a major secret of the Forgetful Young Master - he is not human! He mistakenly entered the mortal world and was born as an immortal, no matter how high his cultivation was in the mortal world, he had no magical powers at all, but he could borrow any divine power from the world. In the past, when he fought with others, he always borrowed the power of the two thousand-year-old dragon souls sealed in a black Ruyi in his hand, and this time, Qiye took drastic measures. This battle was too intense, and it actually triggered the Heavenly Punishment Thunderbolt from the Ninth Heaven, but the heavenly thunderbolt did not strike the mortal immortal Forgetful Young Master, instead, it struck the mountain god of Zhao Ting Mountain, Lüxue - the woman deeply loved by the Forgetful Young Master.

  This story is complicated, it's really hard for the three monks to explain clearly. Qingchen couldn't help but interrupt and ask: "Master, did I hear that wrong? You just mentioned a mountain god?"

  Three monks were telling stories and were interrupted, somewhat unhappy, replied: "It's just the mountain god! If a fairy can emerge in the mortal world, why can't there be a mountain god? Even if it didn't exist before, we can build a temple and make one!"

  Qing Chen: "What's going on with the immortal? You said that the Forgetful Young Master is a worldly immortal, so how can he not have any magical powers?"

  San Shao Monk: "You ask me, I ask who? I'm a monk but not a god, so it's probably because he came to the wrong place. The God that Western monks with crosses worship, if He were to manifest in the mortal world, would probably also need to borrow the faith of His followers to have divine power. These are my Fourth Master's speculations, I don't know if they're right or not... Anyway, that's what happened, do you want to say it or should I?"

  Qing Chen: "Sorry, I spoke too much, Master, please continue."

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