Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

A dead silence.

For a moment, Qin Xiuyun couldn't believe what he saw.

Qin Xiao supported himself on the ground with one hand and couldn't help coughing up a few mouthfuls of blood. He carefully raised half of his eyelids and observed Mang Ling's expression.

"..." Qi Yulang came back to his senses and hurried forward to stop her from getting hurt again, "Not really, you are——?"

Hearing Qi Yulang's voice, Qin Xiuyun finally reacted. He turned his head like a puppet, looking at Mang Ling in disbelief, and was about to say something.

"What are you doing?!!"

Ye Lanshu flew to Qin Xiao's side, holding up her long sleeves and crying, her face half covered by the umbrella, which made people feel sad and miserable.

Qin Xiao panted, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at her with some confusion.

Ye Lanshu forced out a few tears, turned her eyes to meet Qin Xiao's, and blinked smartly.

Qin Xiao suddenly realized: "You are——"

As soon as he said this, he stood up uncontrollably, as if an invisible hand grabbed his collar and pulled him back.

"Stop hitting me--!!" Ye Lanshu threw herself onto Qin Xiao's shoulders recklessly, crying in the falsetto voice that was unique to opera singers.

"If you want to hit me, just hit my old bones! Don't embarrass a poor kid like him--!!"

"..."

Qin Xiuyun, filled with rage, was stunned as he looked at this indescribable scene.

Qin Xiao obviously knew these two people. Did they meet in the mountains? Or...

Qin Xiuyun glanced at the woman in gray and frowned.

Qin Xiao was dragged over. Qin Xiuyun immediately stepped forward to check: "Is the injury serious?"

As he said this, he was about to stretch out his finger to explore.

"No...it's nothing serious." Qin Xiao's voice was hoarse. He was choked by something and coughed a few times heart-wrenchingly.

Qin Xiuyun went through the process and was surprised to find that although it looked like he had dealt a heavy blow, he did not suffer any internal injuries, just some damage to his skin and flesh.

"...I'm glad you're okay." Qin Xiuyun handed Qin Xiao a bottle of pills, "Swallow it."

Seeing that he was still not asking about Mang Ling, Qin Xiao looked at Mang Ling with a guilty conscience. Seeing that Mang Ling had no expression on his face, he hastily withdrew his gaze and took it and swallowed it.

Ye Lanshu had already let go of Qin Xiuyun's hand when he came over. She was slowly turning around with her red umbrella, with an inexplicable smile on her lips.

"You are——?"

Seeing that the woman in gray had not answered yet, Qi Yulang asked again.

"Mang Ling." Mang Ling glanced at him.

Qi Yulang suddenly felt depressed, and he felt a little uncomfortable looking into her silver-gray eyes.

Fortunately, Mang Ling quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to stare at Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao looked back at the wall he had smashed through, and looked at Qi Yulang cautiously: "Teacher, this..."

"Don't worry about it. Someone will come to fix it soon." Qi Yulang waved his hand and turned to look at the others. "Everyone, why don't we go somewhere else to chat?"

Qin Xiuyun naturally had no objection.

Ye Lanshu looked at Mang Ling and nodded in agreement.

Qi Yulang noticed something strange and decided to bring a few people home to let them chat for a while.

When I entered the room, for some reason, the demon dog, which was always "people-loving", was unusually quiet. It lay in the corner as if it was wilted, and looked over here with its eyes rolling around.

Qi Yulang added tea for everyone, and in order to facilitate their communication, he took the initiative to leave the table, saying that he wanted to prepare something.

"You are——?"

Qin Xiuyun glanced at Qin Xiao, who was sitting very well beside him, and turned to Mang Ling.

"I've told you, Mang Ling." Mang Ling frowned slightly, a little displeased.

"Cough!" Ye Lanshu suddenly coughed heavily, looked around, and said something in Mang Ling's ear.

Mang Ling's brows relaxed a little, and he glanced at Qin Xiuyun: "...Oh, you're right, I am indeed his master."

Qin Xiuyun thought to himself that as expected, when he heard Qin Xiao's sister talk about the past, she mentioned the name of Qin Xiao's master - that was Mang Ling.

"Hello, I am--"

Qin Xiuyun got stuck in the middle of his speech.

He suddenly thought, maybe they had already recognized his identity when they met, so that's why -

"Yes." Mang Ling nodded, confirming his idea, and turned to look at Qin Xiao. Thinking of something, the air pressure around him dropped a few degrees, "You useless thing."

Qin Xiao was scolded, but he didn't dare to refute. He could only nod silently and admit his mistake.

Qin Xiuyun frowned slightly when he saw this: "I don't quite understand, Your Excellency scolded my child like this, because -?"

"Do you even need to ask this?" Mang Ling tilted his head slowly, his eyes cold, "If you go to that mountain alone and want to be beaten up, you can just say so. There are people on our mountain, so I can still satisfy you on this point."

"It's not because of--" Qin Xiao wanted to explain.

"How many times has this happened?" Mang Ling remained indifferent.

"...The second time." Qin Xiao lowered his head.

"Wrong. If you are fighting one against many, then even if you count both of your fingers, it still won't make sense." Mang Ling sneered.

"...I know Master was worried, but I was--"

"What? You don't have time? You don't know how to pass on information to others? Why didn't you tell your so-called teacher the day before you plotted your plan? It's not because you don't trust them, but also because you are conceited."

Mang Ling looked at him coldly: "It's because you are too ambitious and think you can get away with it. But if it weren't for Ji Meng's help, you could have been reincarnated again."

"..." Qin Xiao lowered his head and didn't respond.

"...You can't say that--" Ye Lanshu couldn't bear to see him like this, and was about to say something for him.

"Shut up." Mang Ling didn't even look at her, and continued to stare at Qin Xiao, "Also, are the things I gave you for selling? Twice, I was afraid that you would want to redeem yourself again, so I gave you a few pieces of chalcedony. I will naturally help you crush it, what about you?"

"If we didn't have to look for your parents later on, you probably wouldn't even bother to say it, right?" Mang Ling said with a sneer.

"..."

Qin Xiao lowered his head and remained silent, without refutation.

Qin Xiuyun actually wanted to say a few words for Qin Xiao, but he was so angry because Mang Ling had given Xiao something to save his life, but Xiao didn't use it...

That being said, it's indeed worth getting angry about.

Qin Xiuyun had a complicated expression.

"Also, even if you want to show off, you should practice what I taught you. You didn't use it much in the first place. When you feel you can't lose at the critical moment of life and death, what can you do with it?" Mang Ling sneered.

Qin Xiao...

Qin Xiao couldn't remain silent this time: "But that method is not very suitable--"

Qin Xiao looked at Mang Ling's expression and suddenly didn't dare to say anything.

"go on."

"No... isn't it suitable for frequent use?" Qin Xiao said weakly.

"I'm talking about the Mangshan Fate Method."

Mangshan Life Method is a name given by Mang Ling himself. It is also a method he created based on the three elixirs of human meridians. The user has extremely strong vitality. Once it is activated, it is difficult to die during the casting period. Unless the soul is annihilated, even if being cut into pieces, they can still find a way to survive.

Qin Xiao's pupils turned gray before, which was due to the use of this technique.

It was also through the description that Ji Meng gave him that Mang Ling realized that Qin Xiao had actually never practiced it well and was so unfamiliar with its use.

"It's okay. You will just be chopped into minced meat. You will just be cut into a human stick. It's up to you to decide what to do." Mang Ling said sarcastically.

"I've never thought about it." Qin Xiao knew he was speaking in anger, so he didn't panic and continued, "Then I... am fine, right?"

"Nothing?" Mang Ling pointed at his chest, "Here?"

Qin Xiao was stunned. He touched his chest and felt the heart beating vigorously under his skeleton. His heart sank.

"I've told you so many times, but you just don't learn your lesson!" Mang Ling was furious when talking about this matter.

Although there was still no expression on her face, one could sense the madness in her slightly changed tone.

"If you do this again because of him, I may not hold back next time."

They all knew that the force of today's kick was as great as the entire East China Sea, or in other words, Mang Ling didn't use much force at all, it was just equivalent to a light tap on the head.

"...I understand." Qin Xiao said in a deep voice.

Qin Xiuyun looked at Qin Xiao with a frown. He couldn't fully understand what they were saying, but he had his own thoughts while watching from the sidelines.

"You taught Qin Xiao these? Are you a corpse binder?" Qin Xiuyun looked at Mang Ling with a solemn expression, "Although I have tried it a few years ago..."

"Corpse Binder? Those are the definitions of you humans, right? What do they have to do with me?" Mang Ling glanced at him.

"Human?" Qin Xiuyun seized on this word.

"Yes, humans..."

Ye Lanshu suddenly smiled sinisterly, her sweet and soft cheeks suddenly turned pale, two lines of blood and tears flowed from under her dark eyeballs, her long, ghost-like nails were gripping the umbrella handle, and her ordinary clothes turned into a bloody wedding dress.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the cold wind blew through everyone's hair. Qin Xiao was used to it, Qin Xiuyun was startled, but Mang Ling ignored him.

"He, but we——"

Ye Lanshu stretched out her arms, pointed all ten fingers in the direction of Mang Ling, and smiled brilliantly: "The spirit of Mang Mountain."

After the words were spoken, there was silence for a long time.

After being silent for a long time in this dead silence, Ye Lanshu finally couldn't help but said, "Why don't you say anything? Are you going to leave me alone like this?"

"This..." Qin Xiuyun turned his head slightly and looked at Mang Ling, "I don't know whether what you said is true or not, and he didn't say anything."

"I said, I'm not a god." Mang Ling said calmly.

"Oh, oh, it's almost the same." Ye Lanshu laughed.

"Then who are you...?" Qin Xiuyun confirmed that Mang Ling had nothing to say and asked her again.

"Me? I'm a ghost." Ye Lanshu had a blank expression on her face. "There's nothing much to say. I just came here tens of thousands or so years after my death. Anyway, I haven't been reincarnated. I've always been here like this..."

"It's not in vain that I've been dead for so many years. Now I can change my body shape and eat food from the human world." Ye Lanshu clenched her fist and said with a smile.

Qin Xiuyun: ...

Didn’t you say this yourself?

"correct."

Mang Ling suddenly thought of something and looked at Qin Xiuyun: "I want him to drop out of school."

"What did you say?!"

Qin Xiuyun suddenly stopped and frowned.

"I said, let him drop out of school." Mang Ling repeated with a blank expression.

Qin Xiao raised his eyes slightly. Ye Lanshu looked as if she had known this for a long time, and then she turned back into an ordinary person.

"…reason." Qin Xiuyun looked at her seriously.

"It's very simple. You can't ask a snake to blend in with a group of lambs. He is obviously not suitable for such an environment. Can't you see it?" Mang Ling spread his fingers and pointed at Qin Xiao. "He is a man of few words. When he encounters something, the first thing he thinks of is to keep it secret. If the academy hadn't contacted you this time, he would have planned to let me help him solve it..."

Qin Xiuyun frowned. He had also noticed Qin Xiao's problem, but he just didn't know how to solve it.

"I understand malice better than you do, human."

Mang Ling suddenly came closer, and his cold pupils slightly turned up, revealing his pale eyes, so pale that it was almost impossible to tell the difference between the pupil and the white of the eye.

"This kind of prejudice and denial cannot be eliminated, and you can't expect him to eliminate it..." Mang Ling patted Qin Xiao's head. Qin Xiao lowered his head obediently and let him ravage him.

Perhaps it was because his energy was released, a light flashed around Mang Ling and he returned to his male form.

"This idiot has a character that can't be beaten with three sticks. He will only give in and hold back when faced with these things, because he doesn't want you to know that he is in trouble. I don't know how this idiot character was taught in the mountains-"

Mang Ling glanced at Ye Lanshu vaguely.

Ye Lanshu was stunned, and suddenly got angry: "Can you blame us for this? It's you who accepted a disciple without saying a word, and now you blame us, you——"

"No, don't make noise." Qin Xiao tried to stop him.

Ye Lanshu glanced at him, pouted unwillingly, turned her head away in anger and kept silent.

Qin Xiuyun didn't say anything. He glanced at Qin Xiao who looked embarrassed, then looked at Mang Ling who was laughing sarcastically, and pursed his lips.

"please continue."

"She also told you before, asking you to think from a different perspective, and not to always be so obsessed with letting him go to college, or to this college... As far as I know, isn't there another college that accepts people like him?"

"I know what you're talking about." Qin Xiuyun frowned. "I checked it out too. Now the founder of that academy is the only one who is still holding on. There are few students and a shortage of teaching staff. I'm worried—"

"That's better than being here." Mang Ling crossed his arms and began to speak nonchalantly, "Don't you know? When an alien blends into the crowd, or when the crowd discovers the alien, what will happen to the so-called alien?"

"So-called group fights are nothing, right?" Mang Ling sneered, "Like this time, if it happened to those so-called "normal" people, killing so many evil cultivators...? It seems to be this name, what a great achievement that would be, but what about now?"

"Not only did he not get the reward, but he even had to worry about whether his situation was safe. You might say that it's okay, because that's how the world is... But have you ever thought about why he has to keep facing these worldly things?"

Mang Ling looked at Qin Xiuyun calmly, and seeing the surprise in his eyes, he knew that he had heard it, so he continued.

"If you don't pull him out of this environment, he will have to face the strange looks and double-standard treatment from his peers. Those humans are afraid of him, afraid that his abilities will hurt them one day. That's right, after all, the instinct of living things is to seek good and avoid harm."

"But on the other hand, he doesn't have such intentions, but he is still treated differently for various reasons. Is it wrong for him to want to escape from this environment?"

Mang Ling stared at Qin Xiuyun: "I'm not asking for your opinion, understand?"

"Master..."

That's a bit too much.

Qin Xiao couldn't bear to see Qin Xiuyun in such a difficult situation and wanted to say something.

"...I understand what you mean." Qin Xiuyun suddenly spoke, lowering his eyes, his voice calm, "Thank you for telling me this."

"……Ah."

Mang Ling didn't reply, but smiled strangely.