Rong Zhishui turned his face to look at Yan Tianhen and suddenly laughed. He spoke with a bit of self-depreciation and indifference, “Do you think I am an unfilial son?”
Yan Tianhen stared at him. “Zhishui, if your mother’s death was not cleared, but you chose to ignore it in order to accommodate the status of the young master of the Rong family, you’re really unfilial, but in fact, I don’t believe you truly gave up on the truth.”
Otherwise, why would Rong Zhishui hide his identity and come to Myriad Dao Academy to study?
However, it’s just that even if he cultivated the Daoist techniques of his clan, it would still be hard for him to surpass the elders in the clan in a short time. But once he entered Myriad Dao Academy, he could find another way. Maybe in the next decade and a half, he could become a cultivator to be reckoned with.
He has never forgotten his hatred.
Rong Zhishui sighed softly and clenched the quilt under his hand. “One day, I will make those people pay the price. What in the world is a family? Not only do they fear the strong and bully the weak, but families are also full of political intrigues — it’s so messy? Just like Rong Chaoxi’s story back then, if you count it, I don’t know which is worse.”
Yan Tianhen asked, “I’ve been curious for a long time. Why did Rong Chaoxi kill so many people in the Rong family after entering the Dao overnight? I could never guess what his deep hatred was, and it shouldn’t be entirely his fault, otherwise Myriad Dao Academy wouldn’t risk offending the Rong family by accepting Rong Chaoxi into the sect.”
Rong Zhishui was silent for a while before he said, “The former Patriach position of the Rong family absolutely wouldn’t have fallen on my father, who married eighteen concubines. Fifty years ago, the Rong family had a heavenly prodigy named Rong Chi. Some people say that he was the reincarnation of the Spirit Emperor. He could understand the voices of all living beings and plants as soon as he was born, and he could also control the plant spirits. Everyone believed that he could lead the Rong family to new glory.”
“If you count the age and generation, Rong Chaoxi should call him uncle, but Rong Chi was about the same age as my father.”
There were geniuses and fools, and Rong Chaoxi was the latter.
After he was born, he couldn’t learn to walk for three years, and he couldn’t learn to speak for five years, let alone cultivate and enter the Dao. His whole person looked stupid. When placed in a Divine Clan, any such idiot was regarded as a humiliating existence in the clan, and the parents would be ridiculed by others. Rong Chaoxi grew up under this kind of ridicule.
His parents were truly cruel. When he was 7, food would fall from his mouth when eating. In the winter of that year, his parents threw him down from the cliff to die. However, fortune favors fools. After falling off the cliff, Rong Chaoxi was picked up by Rong Chi, the young master of the Rong family, who was cultivating at the bottom of the cliff, and was saved easily.
Rong Chi was only about sixteen or seventeen years old, but he seemed to have the aura of a family head. When he found out about this, he was furious. First, he punished the couple severely, and then he announced that he would take Rong Chaoxi under his wing and support him personally. Because when he saw Rong Chaoxi, he thought of his brother who fell off the cliff and died when he was seven years old.
Rong Chi was very patient. In less than a year, he taught Rong Chaoxi how to walk and talk. At least it was no problem to take care of himself. The Rong family disciples despised and envied Rong Chaoxi, and some people even said, “To think we’re even inferior to a fool.”
However, the good thing didn’t last long. One day, ten years later, something went wrong with Rong Chi’s cultivation, which led to a temporary loss of cultivation, and he was betrayed by the disciples around him. Rong Zhishui spoke about this time.
When Rong Chaoxi left school and returned home, he found that Rong Chi, who had sent him to school in the morning, had already bled to death.
“How could he have died?” Yan Tianhen frowned and asked, “Even if you lose all your cultivation, most of the time it won’t be permanent. In most cases, it will come back in a few days. What exactly happened?”
“Yes, Rong Chi was at the critical point of breaking through. In fact, he just needed to recuperate for a while. However, there was more than one person who had malicious thoughts.” Rong Zhishui showed an extremely mocking smile. “Do you know that the Rong family’s ancestor had a beautiful face? That Rong Chi who was truly blessed by the ancestor. When I saw his portrait, I just felt that I was a firefly compared to him. Compared with the morning sun, I am dimmer.”
Yan Tianhen felt his heart skip a beat. Suddenly bringing up his appearance was not a good sign.
“That face that could bring about the downfall of a country was naturally good when he was strong enough to protect himself, but when he suddenly lost his cultivation and was unable to protect himself, it became his greatest disaster. Those disciples, at that time, led by the young master of a main branch elder, were so jealous and dominated by their desires. They took advantage of the time when Rong Chi was recuperating in seclusion. They broke into the secret cultivation room and tried to treat him unfairly.”
“You could imagine what a person whose cultivation no longer existed would suffer when he met these enemies who had coveted and hated him for a long time.”
Yan Tianhen felt cold at the bottom of his heart. He couldn’t help wrapping himself tighter in the quilt. “It can’t be, right? They’re from the same clan. They are blood related. How can they do such things even lower than animals? What’s more, didn’t they use their heads to think that Rong Chi just lost his cultivation temporarily, and the elders of the clan can’t give up on him. If they make a move on Rong Chi, they will be punished.”
“But, the law doesn’t punish a crowd of people.” Rong Zhishui sneered, “At that time, the disciples who went there were all from the Rong family’s main branch. They just relied on the fact that their parents were reluctant to punish them all, so they swarmed on. Only one timid main branch member didn’t follow them and was ridiculed.”
No one knew what Rong Chi had experienced, but when Rong Chaoxi came back to the Rong residence, what he saw was already a corpse.
They caused such a major event. How could it be hidden? And those people completely regarded Rong Chaoxi as a fool who couldn’t even speak well, and discussed the event without any fear that he would overhear them, “It’s a shame that he died. Those main branch disciples are really extremely daring.”
“When the elder saw Rong Chi’s corpse, he didn’t say anything. He punished a few unfavored disciples and settled the matter. Which of the remaining main branch disciples were punished? It’s just a matter of calming things.”
“Poor Rong Chi. He was such a noble person, but his clothes didn’t even cover his body when he left the world. It was really pitiful. If the elder hadn’t arrived in time, even his corpse would have been desecrated.”
“How can the inside of the Rong family be like this?”
Rong Chaoxi stood stupidly, listening to these gossiping people rushing to piece together the truth. He just felt that the pain in his heart made it hard to breathe, and he couldn’t wait to die.
He laid on Rong Chi’s corpse, bawling, clinging to Rong Chi’s body.
“At this time, maybe my uncle didn’t have the idea of killing people yet.” Rong Zhishui’s face was a little sad and said, “However, later those who killed Rong Chi still wanted to bully him–”
“Stupid pig, from now on, no one will protect you. I tell you, this young master has long been unhappy with you. Didn’t he protect you from being cursed at? Honourable me wants to see if he can jump up from the grave and curse even if I beat you now… Hahaha!”
“Although he looked cold and indifferent all day long and despised his family’s disciples, his body was very warm and had a good taste. If you were also there that day, I would have reluctantly also given you a taste of him. You are so loyal to him, so you probably also have those dirty thoughts about him.”
“It’s a pity that he had a strong personality, but he died like that.”
Rong Zhishui couldn’t help but click his tongue a few times. “That night, Rong Chaoxi entered the Dao overnight and killed all those involved in this matter. He even wanted to kill the elders, but his cultivation level was not enough, and he was beaten. After being seriously injured, he fled in the direction of Jade Ocean City. You should have heard of what happened next.”
Next, Rong Chaoxi entered Myriad Dao Academy and the Rong family came to ask for him; the elders of Myriad Dao Academy refused to hand him over. The Rong family was really angry, and they recalled all the Rong family disciples who were studying in the sect, and completely cut off relations with the Academy from then on.
The name Rong Chaoxi was hung on the bounty list, and his head was worth ten thousand gold.
After Yan Tianhen heard this story, he felt a lot of emotions in his heart. He felt that Rong Chi’s luck was really bad, and he felt that Rong Chaoxi’s life was full of frustrations. He finally had a person who loved him and protected him, but he died like that. If it was him, let alone enter the Dao overnight, it was extremely possible he would enter the demonic path overnight.
And how can this be the only matter that the family covered up?
It was just that Rong Chaoxi made the matter bigger.
The two were speechless for a moment, and then Rong Zhishui said, “The elder of the Rong family ordered no one to mention this matter again. My father told me the truth.”
But Rong Zhishui’s father, who was now the head of the family, told Rong Zhishui about it not to ask him what was right or wrong, nor to let him know that the Rong family, which had been independent of the world for tens of thousands of years, was rotten to the core, but to ask him–
“If you were the one who was allowed to make a judgment for the family, how would you make a decision in such a case?” Rong Zhishui asked Yan Tianhen again.
Yan Tianhen thought for a while. “All of them should be executed, or kept alive, but their cultivation base should be abolished and they would be forced into the clan prison for the rest of their lives, so that they will never come out.”
Rong Zhishui said: “What I said at that time was basically the same. But my father later said that each of the disciples involved in the incident were all deeply rooted in the Rong family. More or less behind them are the elders of the Rong family and the main branch as a backer. If you really put a heavy hand on them, the Rong family probably wouldn’t be far away from falling apart.”
A clan was a big ship.
The ship was strong and powerful, and could withstand the stormy seas. However, due to its heavy weight and massive size, it was difficult for the captain to turn the direction, and it would only be more and more difficult to move forward. It’s easy to say that we want to get justice back for innocent people, but how difficult is it when we’re really trying to do it?”
It was impossible to allow the entire clan to fall apart just because of one person, and he had already passed away. The surface reputation of the clan still needed to be maintained.
Yan Tianhen also thought deeply. “Things in this world are just like this, but if I were Rong Chaoxi, I would also make those people pay with their lives.”
Rong Zhishui nodded, pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, “I recounted the Rong family’s affairs, so how about you? Have you ever come across such a thing? ”
Yan Tianhen thought for a while. “I have never encountered anything that I will do, even if I regret. But I once did something that made me regret. If I had been given a choice, I would never do that again.”
Rong Zhishui curiously asked, “What did you do?”
After a pause, Yan Tianhen answered, “I hurt the person who loves me most in this world.”
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Zaki~ the Rong family is so rotten to the core ughhhh… Tianshu and Zhishui are better off without them…
Ea: Just horrible…
