Volume 1 Rebirth Return Chapter 12 Master's Past

  Tianji's ability made Su Rui involuntarily give him thirty-two thumbs up in her heart. It was simply a big killer, good and bad people were obvious at a glance, but what other functions it had needed to be discovered by herself.

  It doesn't matter what kind of special abilities she has, there's plenty of time to explore them later. But for now, it's a good opportunity to test Master out.

  Su Rui opened the door and found that it was almost dark outside. It turned out that the transmission had taken up half a day, and she thought it would only take a short while.

  Suddenly, a wave of food aroma came, Su Rui hurriedly ran to the kitchen, just in time to see Liu Qingyun stir-fry the last dish, immediately taking it over and carrying it to the dining hall.

  Su Rui ate with a guilty conscience. Liu Qingyun saw the situation and said, "Get up at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning to practice with me, study calligraphy in the afternoon, and you arrange your own schedule."

  "The disciple understands." Su Rui felt relieved.

  Suddenly, Su Rui thought of using her own master to experiment. She secretly operated the magic formula, and a purple-golden gas was emitted from her heart to her eyes. In Su Rui's mind, one picture after another appeared, showing Liu Qingyun's life from birth to now, like a movie. It made Su Rui extremely surprised.

  What's even more astonishing is that this silver-haired, yet youthful and spirited old man is almost a hundred years old?! If others were to find out, they might think that Liu Qingyun had eaten some kind of magical elixir, after all, living for a hundred years is something everyone desires. However, Su Rui knew that it was the effect of that cultivation method.

  The manual given by Master to her was far inferior to Su Rui's humanoid cultivation machine, but for others it was a real treasure.

  Because absorbing the heaven and earth's original energy has the effect of eliminating impurities in the body, with fewer impurities, people naturally get sick less often. Every cell, after being cleansed by the heaven and earth's original energy, even at over a hundred years old, is still very lively, and the body's functions naturally remain at their peak state.

  Originally, Liu Qingyun was born into a rural gentry family with some reputation in the local area. His father particularly wanted a son, but his first wife gave birth to three children, all daughters. His wife died of severe postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to their third daughter.

  So he married several concubines again, wanting them to give birth to a son for him. And promised that whoever could give birth to a son for him would be made his wife, and the son born would inherit all his property.

  Heaven rewards those who are diligent, and finally someone is pregnant, and it's two people. Moreover, the experienced midwife says they're having a son.

  The rural gentry are delighted, the son they have been waiting for many years has finally arrived, and there are two of them. How can this not be delightful? However, some people are unhappy, who is unhappy? Of course, it's those two concubines. The ducks that were already in hand are about to fly away, how can they bear it. So these two people are always vying with each other.

  Although it's a proud thing for men to have women jealous for them, these two women are carrying his precious sons. What if they get into a fight over jealousy and end up hurting his children?

  So, this rural gentry promised his two concubines that if they both gave birth to sons, he would make them both his wives.

  The two women stopped arguing, because they also knew that to get the position of wife, they had to rely on the son in their belly. If there was no son, it would be a waste of effort, so it's better to focus on nurturing the fetus instead.

  However, this was what Liu Qingyun's mother thought. Another concubine was not willing to give up like that. After all, there was only one property, and the two sons still had to divide it in half. It should have been her son's, why did she have to share it with others.

  So she bribed the maid and midwife beside Liu Qingyun's mother, and they switched the baby with a girl bought from outside. As a result, her son became a daughter.

  As for Liu Qingyun, he should have been silenced by the servant girl, but she still had some conscience and left him on the official road. Whether he could survive depended on his fate.

  Liu Qingyun's life was indeed good because he met his master Liu Mingzhi, who is also Su Rui's master.

  At that time, Liu Mingzhi felt the guidance of heaven and picked up a male infant. Seeing this infant, he knew that this was his apprentice. Liu Mingzhi was previously a Taoist priest, and as Taoist priests do not have wives or children, he gave him his surname and named him Liu Qingyun, hoping that he would "not fall from the blue clouds" and be a man of ambition.

  Liu Mingzhi raised him, taught him knowledge, and let him learn the heart method of Tianji Gate. To improve Liu Qingyun's temperament and vision, Liu Mingzhi took him on a journey around the world. From the bright lights and bustling streets of Shanghai, to the vast and sparsely populated highlands. From the picturesque Yunnan Dali, to the industrially developed European countries. Wherever they went, the customs were different, with poor people struggling to survive, as well as noble and elegant aristocrats. After traveling, they returned to the capital city. Finally settled in the capital city, devoted himself to studying various knowledge. It was also at that time that Liu Mingzhi ordered Liu Qingyun to donate the Gongqin Wangfu.

  Until Liu Mingzhi's death, Liu Qingyun never left him.

  After the death of Liu Mingzhi at the age of 124, Liu Qingyun went westward and stopped in Lao Shu Village to wait for his fate. Then he met Su Rui and accepted her as a disciple.

  Su Rui couldn't see a clear future for Liu Qingyun because the bond between them was too deep, their master-disciple relationship second only to that of parent and child.

  Su Rui is also open-minded, if she can't see it then so be it. Her master is only 94 years old now, and her mistress passed away at over 120 years old, so her master will probably live for several more decades, she's not worried at all.

  Although Liu Qingyun's past was over 90 years, Su Rui finished reading it in just a few seconds, so Liu Qingyun didn't notice anything when he saw his apprentice staring blankly.

  The next morning, Su Rui got up early and came to the front yard. She saw her master already sitting cross-legged on a cushion, with another cushion beside him, probably prepared for her. She walked over quickly, imitated her master's posture, sat cross-legged on the cushion, and placed her hands on her abdomen, moving them up and down.

  At the moment when the sun rises, without Su Rui urging the Gongfa, the purple gold gas rushes in from all sides, rushes into Su Rui's body, and automatically operates.

  Feeling the surge in the air, Liu Qingyun couldn't help but feel proud of himself. He thought to himself, "Not bad for my disciple, his talent is quite impressive."

  After having breakfast, Su Rui and Liu Qingyun came to the study room. Liu Qingyun threw a copybook at Su Rui, asking her to practice calligraphy and ordered her to write 1,000 characters every day before leaving the study room with her hands behind her back. Su Rui could only start her arduous journey of writing big characters. However, when she discovered that writing big characters allowed her to absorb a hint of purple-golden gas, she no longer had any complaints about writing big characters. After all, even a mosquito is still meat.

  Digression

  I'd say I wrote from 6 pm to after 9 pm and only managed to write these two thousand words. I definitely won't say that, (‵′）glare

  I'm dying! Look at how pitiful I am, won't you give me a collect, everyone?