GB Chapter 33
by VolareBefore Qian Ren grew up and took over the affairs of the palace, the Bliss Palace had only one rule: if the Palace Master was happy, he would reward them; if the Palace Master disliked someone, he would kill them. Everything depended on He Huan’s mood.
According to the statistics of the people of the martial world, in the eighty years that He Huan was in the demonic path, half of the sects in both the righteous and demonic paths were destroyed. Apart from the forces that spontaneously besieged him and were counter-killed, the reasons given by the Bliss Palace were either “the Palace Master is in a bad mood today” or “the stones in front of their gate bumped into the Palace Master’s foot.” Even more outrageous was that one sect received the reason, “Your gatekeeper is too ugly, so the Palace Master has decided to destroy you.” They truly died with grievances.
Although everyone in the martial world knew that He Huan could not possibly be so frivolous in his actions, and that he eliminated those forces that were quite active in the righteous-demonic war, this blatant attitude of trying to disgust people still made a group of elders so angry that they blew their beards and glared. From then on, scolding He Huan when nothing happened and offering bounties for He Huan when something happened became the trend in the martial world, and it has not changed to this day.
It was precisely because of this that, although the Bliss Palace had no major problems apart from the disciples being a bit too enthusiastic about dual cultivation, it steadily became the most evil sect in the world just by virtue of one Palace Master.
These past events, though they seem like jokes now, only the old people who had experienced the righteous-demonic war knew the dangers involved. At that time, the Bliss Palace was a thorn in the side of both the righteous and demonic paths. They had to go to war with other sects every now and then. He Huan would also occasionally abandon the territory of the Bliss Palace and take his disciples to fight guerilla warfare with the attacking enemies, and only go back to rebuild the mountain gate after destroying the enemy.
Later, the people of the martial world carefully investigated and discovered that although the Bliss Palace was the strongest sect in the demonic path during those years, the buildings in the palace had been rebuilt no less than twenty times, which showed how fierce the battles were in the past.
In that kind of era, He Huan went to the place where the Demon Lord fell in the overseas lands by himself, actually wanting to find some magic treasures for assistance. Who knew that in the end he didn’t find any treasures but picked up a disciple?
With He Huan’s nature, how could he calm down and take care of a child? In fact, this guy even believed that it was too abnormal for a little demon like Qian Ren to still need to drink milk and be coaxed to sleep by his master every day.
At that time, there were countless powerful cultivators who wanted to take He Huan’s head, and it was inconvenient for him to have a child by his side, so the heavy responsibility of taking care of Qian Ren was handed over to Gou Xing, a female disciple in charge of medical knowledge in the palace at the time.
Gou Xing still remembers that it was a sunny day with a gentle breeze. The Palace Master, who was regarded as a great scourge by the people of the martial world, solemnly handed a baby to her, “Gou Xing, the arduous task of feeding this child milk is entrusted to you.”
Qian Ren was born with demonic energy. At the time, Gou Xing, who was only in the early Nascent Soul stage, was the only one in the Bliss Palace who could come into contact with him. At that time, she did not know what a terrifying figure this baby would become in the future, and only frowned and replied, “But Palace Master, I am still a maiden, I have no milk to feed him at all!”
However, the terrible thing about He Huan was that no matter how unreliable an idea was, he could force it to be realized. He opened his mouth and solved her worries, “Don’t worry, this Palace has refined a Seven Treasures Glazed Milk Bottle overnight, and also abducted the Heavenly Master Mansion’s hundred-year-old Snow Kirin. You just need to regularly squeeze the Kirin milk to feed him.”
Gou Xing never expected that even feeding a child milk required such a big undertaking as refining magic treasures and raising celestial beasts. However, before she could react, the gatekeeper rushed to report, “Palace Master, something bad has happened! The Heavenly Master Mansion said that you stole their house-guarding celestial beast and they have already come to our door!”
“Isn’t it just borrowing their Kirin to squeeze some milk? Where is the love? This Palace will go distract them, Gou Xing, the future of the demonic path is entrusted to you!”
The Heavenly Master Mansion was on good terms with the Xuan Sect. He Huan was not unfamiliar with Ling Sui Daoren in the past. So, he flew away to deal with his old friend, leaving Gou Xing, who was still a young girl at the time, staring blankly at the baby in her hands, feeling her hands trembling for a moment—was what she was holding actually the future of the demonic path? Who could tell her how to feed milk to the future of the demonic path?
Of course, the hidden meaning in He Huan’s words was that if this child kept crying, you were going to lose the Palace Master who could save the demonic path. However, there were really not many people in this world who could understand his roundabout thoughts. So, Gou Xing only took out the determination to save the demonic path and started her journey as a wet nurse.
She stayed up all night reading all the books on childcare, and self-taught herself a series of skills that were as difficult as reaching the sky for an unmarried woman, such as squeezing Kirin milk, changing diapers for the child, and singing lullabies to coax the child to sleep. Finally, she managed to raise Qian Ren with some near escapes.
Before joining the Bliss Palace, Gou Xing was a famous poison master in the martial world. Because of her enchanting appearance and the fact that she had dealt with poisons all year round, she was rejected by orthodox medical cultivators. Several of her top-grade medicine formulas were questioned by her peers as to their origin, and whenever she treated a male cultivator, rumors would spread, saying that she was not a proper woman and her reputation was only due to her bewitching looks. She was in the prime of her pride and anger, so in a fit of anger, she joined the demonic path and entered the Bliss Palace, and from then on, the medical woman no longer treated men.
Since she was a child, Gou Xing had been learning to use poison and deal with different people with her master. The road of the martial world was not smooth either, and it was not until she took care of Qian Ren that she found some daily pleasures. Looking at this child growing up little by little, she felt even more satisfied than when she had been famous in the martial world in the past.
In the past, she never understood why mortal women always wanted to get married, but now she understood a little. Being able to personally raise a child she liked to grow up was indeed a very happy thing.
Gou Xing also remembered that when Qian Ren was seven years old, he was extremely naughty. After learning to use poison with her, he loved to wander around in the kitchen. Even though he didn’t do anything, he still scared a group of disciples so much that they had to use silver needles to test their water three times before drinking it.
At that time, Qian Ren’s identity had not been revealed, but He Huan knew how dangerous it was for his disciple to come into contact with other people’s food and drinks. In order not to harm his disciples, he instructed him, “Qian Ren, as your master I have appointed you as the Great Protector of the Bliss Palace. You must be strict with yourself and set an example for the palace. You cannot cause trouble, understand?”
In young Qian Ren’s eyes, his master was the most powerful person in the world. Although he liked to run around, he was obedient to his master’s words. When he heard that he had obtained such an important position, he immediately stopped thinking about playing and instead put on a serious look like a steward of the sect, “Okay, Master, I will definitely manage the disciples in the palace well!”
He Huan had always been a willful person by nature. Suddenly, he appointed his seven-year-old disciple as a protector. Everyone only thought that he was coaxing his disciple to play, so they usually laughed and pinched Qian Ren’s cheek while calling him Great Protector.
A seven-year-old boy already had his own ambitions. Little Qian Ren always felt that everyone’s attitude towards him was different from the mighty protectors in the stories. Thinking that perhaps it was because he had not done anything major yet, he worriedly asked his closest wet nurse, “Gou Xing, you have to make medicine, the cook has to cook, and Xiu Niang has to teach everyone to dance. What should the Great Protector do?”
When he was young, Qian Ren wanted to become a powerful person, so he already had a bit of a steady demeanor in his daily life. However, a pink and tender child putting on that mature look was not intimidating at all, but rather made people feel cute. Therefore, Gou Xing also smiled and put down the medicine hoe, using her fingertips, which still had the fragrance of medicine, to scratch his nose, “We will take care of these little things ourselves. Great Protector, you just need to protect the disciples of the Bliss Palace.”
Seemingly not expecting that he was actually such a great person, little Qian Ren’s eyes widened, and he immediately nodded solemnly to her, “Okay, I will become as powerful as Master. With me here, no one can bully you.”
At that time, Gou Xing always thought that she could watch this child grow up step by step and shoulder the future of the demonic path, and also thought that the peaceful days of the Bliss Palace could last forever.
Until the day of Qian Ren’s coming-of-age ceremony, He Huan, covered in blood, returned to the Bliss Palace with his disciple, who was entwined with demonic energy, in his arms. She had never seen the Palace Master suffer such serious injuries, nor had she ever seen the young man shrink into his master’s arms and cry silently like that. She only knew that from then on, Qian Ren went into seclusion for two years and never saw anyone again. When he reappeared, the young man of the past was no longer there. The Bliss Palace only had the cold and ruthless top assassin in the world, Bi Qianren.
Fair ladies’ hair turns grey, young disciples become old in the martial world. Sixty years had passed. The Bliss Palace had long been reduced to a barren ruin, and the demonic path was no longer a topic of conversation among people of the martial world. He Huan, who once wantonly provoked cultivators all over the world, had become a gentle elder who now smiled at everything in time, and the child who once worried He Huan had grown into a Demonic Cult Protector who could handle things on his own.
The world only knew that Bi Qianren was a born demon, cold-blooded and ruthless, avoided by both humans and ghosts. Those old friends who had once pinched the child’s cheeks and laughed, calling him Great Protector, had either been buried on the battlefield or had retreated from the martial world. Few people remembered these old stories. And Gou Xing, who was the only one who still occasionally recalled the past, had changed from the purple-clothed girl who stood in the medicine field and spoke with a smile into a miserable Summer Bird trapped in this place.
After Qian Ren came out of seclusion, he no longer became close to others, and his personality also became completely cold. Even Gou Xing rarely saw him again. When she became accustomed to a lively life and suddenly returned to the quiet of being alone, she realized that time was really hard to pass.
The medical books that once allowed her to immerse herself for a whole day without knowing that it had turned dark had become bland, and messing with the medicine field seemed to be nothing more than a way to pass the time. She suddenly began to yearn for a life with company. She thought that if she raised another child, it would probably be better.
In the loneliest time, a righteous path disciple walked into Gou Xing’s life. She liked to walk on the street and chat with this person, and she also liked the serious look on his face when he drew her eyebrows. So, she gave up the prominent reputation of the poison master and washed away her worldly appearance, left the Bliss Palace, and went into seclusion in the mountains and forests. She also became pregnant with her own child.
She thought that this was the beginning of a new life, but she did not expect the ending to be so tragic that even after dying for so many years, she still could not dispel her resentment and could not forget it.
The author has something to say: He Huan: Disciple, remember, if you can beat them, then beat them. If you can’t beat them, then run while beating them. Even if you lose, you must talk back until your opponent vomits blood. The most important thing when walking the martial world is one word—live it up!
Little Qian Ren: Master, I will work hard!
Sixty years later
Qian Ren: Disciple, do you know what is the most important thing when walking the martial world?
Zhuge Qingtian: Finding a cultivation partner?
Qian Ren: Take life and death lightly, and do it if you don’t agree.
Zhuge Qingtian: Do it? Is it that explosive?
Qian Ren: Get out, go pour three jin of stain remover on yourself!
Zhuge Qingtian: Squatting in the laundry basin and spitting bubbles.jpg
Don’t panic, although the author likes to add glass shards in the past chapters, the present is basically not a mess. Recently, I am fascinated by the mode of old players leading small accounts to do missions.
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