Chapter 76 It’s Really Bitter

The warm sunshine spread on the Divine Sword Peak, making the courtyard warm.

Sitting quietly on the wooden bench at the door, Ziyuan looked at Li Chuyi who was dancing with the long sword in the courtyard, and from time to time sent warning eyes to the five white and chubby little kids next to him. Several little kids surrounded Ziyuan, and also looked at Li Chuyi in the field with concentration, showing expressions of surprise or admiration from time to time on their faces. They couldn't help but exclaim and cheer, but in Ziyuan's faint eyes, they swallowed it back.

The five little kids have been with Ziyuan for a long time. They know how painful it is to be slapped on the buttocks by the equally beautiful hands of this beautiful "Sister Ziyuan", and their beloved "Brother Chuyi" is concentrating on practicing at this time, and they don't want to disturb him. Therefore, after being slapped a few times, when Li Chuyi used any wonderful and beautiful sword moves again, even if they wanted to cheer, they could only cover their mouths with their chubby hands desperately, and just cheered silently in their hearts.

Seeing the five little kids covering their mouths with one hand and waving their other hand to cheer themselves up, and occasionally glancing at themselves with the corner of their eyes, Zi Yuan turned her pretty face slightly and smiled warmly in a place where the kids couldn't see.

They have been staying in this yard with Li Chuyi for three months. Originally, only Zi Yuan would occasionally come out when she was tired of practicing, chatting with Li Chuyi and listening to Li Chuyi's bragging. Later, when the ghost bodies of the five little kids were fully condensed and no longer scattered souls, they were eager to walk out of the Demon-Subduing Mirror and pestered Li Chuyi to play with them every day.

It was not until the combined effect of Zi Yuan's strict sister's stick and Li Chuyi's kind brother's carrot that the five little kids understood the importance of Li Chuyi's practice and the importance of their own practice that they calmed down. They finally settled down with Li Chuyi, and practiced with Zi Yuan most of the time, but as long as they had time, they would run out to play with Li Chuyi with Zi Yuan's consent.

Even if Li Chuyi was practicing and had no time to accompany them, they were willing to watch him practice. In their hearts, Li Chuyi was their brother and the best person to them. As long as they could be with him, they would be extremely happy and full of happiness.

Just like at this moment, even if the warm and gentle sunshine made the little kids feel uncomfortable, they were unwilling to return to the Demon-Subduing Mirror. After all, they were ghosts. Although they had cultivated their ghost bodies to become real, they were no longer like wandering ghosts, and their souls would be scattered when exposed to the scorching sun. However, they did not have Ziyuan's cultivation after all. The sunlight still made them feel as if they were constantly baked. Even hiding in this cool place was only slightly better.

The door behind them opened with a creak, and Ye Zhichen, dressed in linen, walked out of the house.

Standing beside Ziyuan, and nodding slightly to Ziyuan who immediately stood up and saluted him, Ye Zhichen looked at Li Chuyi who was practicing sword in the yard, and his satisfied eyes occasionally flashed a few traces of surprise and admiration.

"This kid is really good. His comprehension is so amazing. He has made such progress in just three months. It's really surprising." After watching for a while, Ye Zhichen suddenly said softly.

"Chuyi is indeed a smart kid, and he does have some extraordinary qualities. But he can't make such progress on his own. It's all thanks to Mr. Ye's unremitting guidance and teaching. Ziyuan would like to thank Mr. Ye on behalf of Chuyi." After Ziyuan finished speaking, she bowed slightly.

"Miss Ziyuan, don't be polite."

Ye Zhichen waved his hand and fainted. Ziyuan felt that she couldn't go on for a week. Secretly admiring Ye Zhichen's profound cultivation, she heard Ye Zhichen say:

"Since the ancestor has entrusted Chuyi to me, I will naturally take care of him wholeheartedly. Moreover, I have met his master, Tianyi Daozun, several times. Although he may not care, he is actually a person who has done me a great favor. Now that Senior Tianyi is busy and cannot take care of Chuyi, I will naturally take good care of him and do my best to help him improve his cultivation, so as to live up to his kindness to me."

Zi Yuan had heard Li Chuyi introduce the identity of the Taoist priest before. In addition to having a new understanding of the power of the Taoist priest, she was also deeply shocked by the influence of the Taoist priest. Looking at the huge Taixu Palace, even their ancestors treated the Taoist priest like this, and Ye Zhichen, who was known as the ruthless swordsman, even stated that the Taoist priest had a favor to him, and this favor was probably unintentional, and the Taoist priest himself did not care at all. From this, it can be imagined that the Taoist priest with a ** and not quite normal brain, what kind of a strong man is he.

Looking at Ye Zhichen, who looked like he was not worth mentioning, his words sounded reasonable, but Ziyuan, who was a woman before and is now a female ghost, felt with her delicate mind that things might not be as simple as Ye Zhichen said.

You know, she saw all of Ye Zhichen's teachings to Li Chuyi. The kind of teaching that was generous and even seemed to want to teach everything he had learned made Ziyuan very confused and frightened. This was no longer a kind of instruction. Even ordinary master-disciple teaching was not so diligent. It was estimated that only biological fathers and sons or the first disciple among the disciples of the sect could receive such treatment.

If Ziyuan had not secretly observed and compared Li Chuyi and Ye Zhichen and found that there was no similarity between them, she would almost think that Ye Zhichen might be Li Chuyi's long-lost biological father. After several attempts, and after asking Xueqing who came to visit Li Chuyi from time to time, Ziyuan finally confirmed that Ye Zhichen and Li Chuyi were indeed not related by blood, and even Ye Zhichen was not married, and he was not even close to women.

Although she was confused, Ziyuan was very sure that Ye Zhichen had absolutely no bad intentions or selfishness towards Li Chuyi. As long as he was good to Li Chuyi, that would be enough, and Xueqing did not pursue it any further.

Looking at Ziyuan with a calm face, Ye Zhichen's eyes flashed with admiration.

I remember that when I first saw this beautiful female ghost, even he, an experienced old man, was a little speechless. You should know that ghost cultivators are the transformation of living people after death, and they are born to be enemies of all living people. In this human world dominated by living people, they constantly compete with living people including cultivators in the mainland for the luck of heaven and earth, and try to ascend to immortality and live forever.

In the human world, although human cultivators and demon cultivators are hostile to each other, they can still control each other and even interact with each other because they are all living people. However, the cultivators of these two races are almost 100% mortal enemies with the cultivators of the ghost clan. When the living and the dead meet, except for a very few neutral sects like Taixu Palace and even rarer pro-ghost cultivators, the rest basically have no choice but to go to war, and the fight will not end until death.

Even these neutral sects, such as Taixu Palace, only have a neutral attitude of "I will not offend others if they do not offend me", and they do not offend or make friends. For example, Ye Zhichen. Although he is not like other cultivators who must kill ghost cultivators, he still has a faint aversion to these aliens who are obviously dead but unwilling to return. Even if they were neutral, there were more than a hundred ghost cultivators who fell under Ye Zhichen's sword. It is conceivable how much hatred there was between other cultivators and ghost cultivators.

Under Li Chuyi's introduction, Ye Zhichen began to slowly understand the deep brother-sister relationship between this beautiful female ghost cultivator and Li Chuyi. Through these days of getting along, Ye Zhichen was surprised by Zi Yuan, who was smart and had good cultivation, and her delicate mind and calmness made Ye Zhichen secretly admire her. In particular, the deep feelings between her and Li Chuyi, which were silent but revealed all the time, made Ye Zhichen have a great liking for Zi Yuan.

He found that ghost cultivators were not as evil as he thought in the past, and hated the living. It turned out that if both sides put aside their grudges, human cultivators and ghost cultivators could actually live in harmony. Zi Yuan and Li Chuyi in front of them were the best proof.

This discovery made Ye Zhichen's state of mind, which had not improved for a long time, slightly loosen up. Not only did his cultivation level increase a little, but he also felt that his horizons had broadened a lot, and many ways of looking at things had changed.

He could feel that his Tao had taken another step forward.

While feeling a little happy about the improvement of his cultivation, Ye Zhichen couldn't help but secretly pity him. He felt sorry for Li Chuyi, a child who had no parents to take care of him since childhood. Except for his master, he didn't even have a friend. In his life, the closest people except the Taoist priest were not even living beings, but a female ghost and five little ghosts.

Ye Zhichen didn't have any opinion on Ziyuan and the five little kids, he just felt sorry for Li Chuyi.

Li Chuyi was really miserable without even a normal friend.