novelaction Chapter 152 He didn't want his master to pity him; he wanted his master to love him.
Chapter 152 He didn't want his master to pity him; he wanted his master to love him.
"But if it's something you don't want to remember, you don't have to say it."
Hanluo gently rubbed her fingertips against Jingshu and Yuanying's faces.
"I love you, and this 'you' encompasses everything about you."
If you want to talk about your past, I'll listen; I want to know everything about you...
But if doing so would reopen old wounds, then don't say anything.
Anyway, your future includes me and them. Don't dwell on the past; the past will eventually pass.
Han Luo still remembers that after taking Jing Shu as his disciple, on their way back to the Yunzang Sect, Jing Shu smiled and told him that he had been abandoned by his parents.
Jing Shu's smile at that moment wasn't pretty at all, but for some reason, it evoked pity...
Han Luo was not unfamiliar with children abandoned by their parents, nor was he unfamiliar with those even more tragic than Jing Shu—his eldest disciple, Shi Chuan, had personally witnessed his parents being killed by evil cultivators.
What did he say to Shi Chuan back then? Right, he told Shi Chuan that no one would stay by his side forever. Only when he became stronger would he be truly strong and able to protect the people he wanted to protect.
Hanluo couldn't offer any profound advice to Jingshu at that time; she simply reached out and placed her hand on Jingshu's head, offering a stiff attempt to comfort him.
Now, he couldn't bear to let Jing Shu relive that terrible past.
But Jing Shu and Yuan Ying laughed at the same time.
Jing Shu raised his hand and covered his face with it, tilting his head to the side.
"Master said he wanted to know everything about me, and I'm very happy... As for the past, as Master said, it's all in the past, so naturally there's nothing I can't say. Besides..."
“This is also the reason why ‘I’ was separated.” Yuan Ying continued Jing Shu’s words, then held Han Luo’s hand and kissed it gently.
"Master, please listen."
Han Luo stopped talking and listened attentively to what Jing Shu had to say.
Jing Shu took a deep breath. "Master, I don't actually belong to this world."
I come from another world. There are cultivators in that world too, but unlike here, they are not widely known. The spiritual energy in that world is very thin, so there are very few cultivators. Only a few cultivation families continue to cultivate and pass down their own cultivation systems.
And I come from a branch of the Jing family, a family renowned for cultivation.
Seeing Han Luo's shocked expression, the Nascent Soul chuckled, "Master, don't disbelieve me, it's true. We do indeed come from another world."
Jing Shu continued, "Before I was six, I lived a life like any other person. I was the only child in my family and was very much loved by my parents. But when I turned six, according to the rules of the main family, my parents took me to the main family to awaken my spiritual root, and then everything changed..."
I awakened dual spiritual roots of light and darkness, as well as a spirit-gathering body, which triggered a surge of spiritual energy…
The nascent soul lowered its head, concealing the emotions in its eyes, and continued Jing Shu's words.
"But the spiritual energy in that world was so thin that I wasn't overwhelmed by it. Plus, the Jing family patriarch used an ancient jade heirloom passed down through the Jing family to suppress my constitution. Therefore, I survived..."
Speaking of which, does Master know what a Spirit Gathering Body is?
The nascent soul raised its head and the corners of its mouth curled up slightly, but there was no trace of a smile.
Han Luo released Yuan Ying's hand and pressed down the corner of Yuan Ying's slightly upturned lips with two fingers.
"If you don't want to laugh, then don't. It's okay... I know that once a Spirit Gathering Body awakens, it will uncontrollably gather spiritual energy, and will eventually explode and die..."
This is something Han Luo saw in an ancient book; it was described in just a few strokes, yet it was incredibly tragic. At the time, Han Luo could only lament, why would such a constitution, destined to die, exist?
But now, the person who possesses this constitution is Jing Shu…
"Master, don't worry, I won't die," Jing Shu said quickly, sensing Han Luo's emotions.
Han Luo breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this and withdrew her hand. "Go on."
"Later, I was left in the master's house, where I lived and cultivated..." Jing Shu's memories returned to the past.
"I was only six years old then, and naturally I missed home terribly. Then one day, I ran away home, only to find out that they didn't want me anymore..."
Little Jing Shu returned to his old home based on his memory, but his family was gone. He asked the neighbors, who said that his parents had moved away a long time ago, and that the time was the second day after he arrived at the host's house.
"They moved to a new house, and I... I know nothing about it..."
Because of my escape attempt, my master's family was furious. They caught me and brought me back, exposing their hypocrisy. They even told me that they had bought me from my parents for a sum of money, and that I shouldn't even think about escaping.
His parents not only agreed, but also wanted to ask for an extra price, trying to squeeze every last drop of value out of him.
At that time, the owner's family trampled him underfoot and recounted the buying and selling process with a grin. They also talked about how his parents were greedy and asked for an exorbitant price.
Jing Shu's face remained expressionless, as if the person he was talking about wasn't him at all. "The master wants me, naturally, for the sake of the Spirit Gathering Body. They have a way to use my physique to gather spiritual energy for themselves. However, this method isn't very friendly to me..."
The Nascent Soul's silent, cold laugh was more than just unfriendly; it was a clear intention to condemn him to eternal damnation, to trap him forever within his master's household!
But there's no need for Master to know these things; Master is already very distressed for him.
He didn't want his master to pity him; he wanted his master to love him.
"As for why this method wasn't implemented from the beginning, it's because this method requires me to have cultivation, at least to the Golden Core stage."
So I had a chance to catch my breath, and finally, I killed them all. All the damned members of the master's family were dead..."
"So how did you get here?" Han Luo asked in a low voice after listening to Jing Shu's story.
Jing Shu paused for a moment. After he killed them all, he didn't know where he could go or what else he could do, so he didn't want to live anymore...
Jing Shu didn't say anything, yet it seemed like he said everything.
Han Luo felt a tightness in his chest, as if something was pressing down on it, making it hard for him to breathe.
“I crushed the ancient jade and chose to end my life by jumping off a cliff. But it seems that God didn’t want me to die, and brought me here,” Jing Shu continued.
"But without the ancient jade, and with the spiritual energy here so abundant, I was forced to advance my cultivation level, from Golden Core to Nascent Soul..."
In the end, it was the ancient jade that somehow entered my body that saved me, but the side effect was that my cultivation was also absorbed, and my body became the way my master looked when he first saw me.
The Master knew what happened after that...