EBE Chapter 230: I’m a Good Master
Chapter 230: I’m a Good Master
Chapter 230: I’m a Good Master
Shiya, that was her name, and it meant stone brat. To be more accurate, Shiya wasn’t a name but something her parents called her. Her parents desperately wished for a boy, but Shiya was their ninth daughter.
Her second elder sister to her eight elder were all drowned by her parents for not being a boy. Had it not been for her eldest sister growing up and vowing to take care of Shiya, she would have been drowned too.
Shiya sighed. Her parents were going to marry her eldest sister, Daya, which literally meant the eldest brat, away. Rather than marrying away, it was closer to selling. The only person who treated her well was Daya, so Shiya was unwilling, and she heard that her husband’s family didn’t have a good reputation. She was only six years old, but Shiya knew that marrying into that kind of family was a calamity for Daya.
Because of this matter, Shiya argued with her parents and was even beaten for it. Shiya’s father was a poor and aging man, and he could no longer support his family at his age, but he still wanted a son to inherit his lineage. Shiya’s mother wasn’t much better, this would be her last child to have a child, but fetuses could be easily lost. With the money from Daya’s marriage, her parents planned to nourish the fetus and not allow Shiya’s mother to work.
Luckily for Shiya, her parents weren’t able to heavily injure her, and after a few bruises, she ran away. Since birth, Shiya had an unnaturally strong body, which only made her parents despise her more. Why does a girl have such a strong body? If she was only born a boy. Such were the thoughts of her parents.
When she left, the local bullies found her and teased her. Shiya would usually ignore them since she was long used to it, but this time her heart wasn’t balanced, so how could she let them off? First, she led them to a location outside the village before picking up a large club-like stick and beating them black and blue.
Shiya sighed, “I wonder if anyone can save my eldest sister?”
At this time, a foreign but pleasant voice was heard behind Shiya.
“Little girl, I sensed that there is an amount of fate linking us. It just so happens I am looking for a disciple. Are you willing to be my disciple?”
Shiya stared suspiciously at Tianyi. There were two other people behind him, but they were not as eye-catching compared to Tianyi. She had never seen a person like Tianyi, and there was a sense of dissociation between him and the surroundings as if he was not a member of the mortal world.
“Big Brother, who are you?” Shiya asked.
Tianyi revealed a mysterious smile. “This one’s family name is Xi, given name Tianyi. Born the exalted son of the Immortal Sword Empress, one of the three grand elders of the Buzhou Immortal Sect. I am Xi Tianyi.”
Shiya just gave a blank look before finally saying, “Big Brother has a family name. Big Brother must be amazing.”
Tianyi’s smile stiffened. ‘She’s a child, Tianyi. She doesn’t understand. Don’t quibble with her for not understanding your awesome intro.’
“Yeah, you could say that.” Tianyi sighed as he rubbed Shiya’s head.
Shiya wanted to move, but she discovered that she couldn’t escape Tianyi’s clutches. Still, she soon stopped and narrowed her eyes in enjoyment. Not even her sister rubbed her head like this, mainly because her parents worked her like a mule.UppTodated from nô/v/e/lb(i)n.c(o)/m
“Little girl, if I save your elder sister, will you become my disciple?” Tianyi suddenly asked.
“What’s a disciple?” Shiya asked while tilting her head, looking adorable with her large doe-like eyes.
“A disciple is the student of a master. The relationship between disciple and master is even more important than parent and child.” Tianyi explained.
“Master, please give my eldest sister a name too!” Ming Xingyun said as she kowtowed, slamming her head onto the ground.
Daya’s face immediately paled. She rushed next to her sister and bowed, slamming her head into the ground. Unlike her ninth sister, Daya knows the reality of the world. If Ming Xingyun annoys Tianyi, then her lucky chance could be severed.
Contrary to Daya’s fears, Tianyi smiled. The more sentimental Ming Xingyun was, the better Tianyi felt. This meant she wouldn’t turn into an ungrateful bastard, a white-eyed wolf. Or at least, the chances of her being so will be reduced.
“En, since you two are sisters, it is not right to have different surnames. Your elder will also be surnamed Ming, and I bequeath the given name Yayun.” Tianyi majestically said.
The newly named Ming Yayun froze in place, stunned. Once she recovered her processing capabilities, she kowtowed three times. “This grace, Yayun will never forget.”
Tianyi lightly smiled as he saw Ming Xingyun and Yayun hug each other in joy and happiness.
After accepting and naming his disciple, Tianyi didn’t immediately leave and instead stayed a bit. He wasn’t in a hurry to return to the sect, and he wanted to finish some matters first.
His first goal was to purify Ming Xingyun’s body from all impurities. Although she has a Condensed Mountain Physique, years of eating mortal food have contaminated her body, but the good thing was that she was still young.
Tianyi didn’t have any Cleansing Pills, so he forced Ba Shifang to refine them. Neither Tianyi nor Ba Shifang were true alchemists, but Tianyi had dabbled in alchemy before losing his ability to use qi, so the duty naturally fell on Ba Shifang. Tianyi discovered that for some reason, Ba Shifang was extremely talented in alchemy, even more than him!
This caused Tianyi to scratch his head in confusion. Ba Shifang was his clone, and Tianyi didn’t modify Ba Shifang to have any talents he didn’t have. If there were any differences, it would be that Ba Shifang didn’t have tribulation essence and cultivated the sixth grade Eight Symbolic Cores, Four Directions Souls. Still, Tianyi didn’t look at a gift horse in the mouth and accepted the happy discovery.
In comparison to the Cleansing Pill, Tianyi also had Ming Xingyun in medicinal baths. It was true that she possessed the Condensed Mountain Physique, but that didn’t mean her body couldn’t be improved. Like Tianyi, who had soaked in medicinal baths for years before he started cultivating. Although his body’s strength wasn’t as powerful, it cleared many detours in Tianyi’s cultivation path.
However, this wasn’t the main reason Tianyi camped near Ming Xingyun’s village. The other reason was to observe her parents using an artifact.
Ming Xingyun personally witnessed how their parents lived in luxury after acquiring all that wealth and even thought of moving to a nearby town or city, but they forgot that harboring a jade ring becomes a crime. In other words, having treasures invites disaster due to the greed of others.
A few days before Ming Xingyun’s parents planned to move, their home was broken in by thieves. These thieves were naturally the villagers, and they stole all the wealth, causing Ming Xingyun’s parents to be even poorer than before.
The next day, they pleaded with the village chief to bring the criminals to justice; however, the village chief also participated, so how could he wholeheartedly help Ming Xingyun’s parents.
After some time passed, Ming Xingyun’s parents also discovered some clues and were maddened by the conclusion they came to. They raved and shouted at the villagers, calling them bastards and thieves. The villagers silently endured their criticisms. After all, they committed a wrong first.
This all changed when Ming Xingyun’s parents forcibly entered a family’s house to reclaim their wealth. The house’s owners broke one of Ming Xingyun’s father’s legs in retaliation and immediately regretted it. He didn’t regret breaking his legs, but feared the punishment from Ming Xingyun’s master.
However, as time passed, the villagers came to discover that no one sought justice for Ming Xingyun’s parents anymore, and so, they were even more unscrupulous in their actions. Eventually, it reached the point where Ming Xingyun’s parents had to beg for food in order to survive, living a life worse than death.
They no longer had any dignity and even began to blame each other for the situation, blame the world, and even blame their two daughters, calling them unfilial bastards. In truth, had Tianyi not taken action, they would have long died of starvation, but after he fed the two Longevity Peach Leaf Pills, in a hundred years, they would not die due to sickness or hunger.
Ming Xingyun watched all this. Her gaze towards her parents was complicated, but she did not move in to help. As long as they did not die and live a long life, she was satisfied. They treated their daughters like trash, and now everyone treated them like trash, but they never changed. She didn’t even care that her parents didn’t learn what they did wrong, but that was fine as well.
After experiencing this, Ming Xingyun’s aura changed. She wasn’t as naive nor clueless and even matured a bit.
Tianyi nodded with satisfaction before thinking, ‘I’m a good master. Not only did I help cleanse her body of all impurities, but I taught her a life lesson without killing her parents. Am I not the textbook good master?’