Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Over there, after Wei Wuxian had gone through a series of events at Mount Dafan, including being recognized by Lan Zhan and Jiang Wanyin one after another, and being taken back to the Cloud Recesses by Lan Zhan and causing a scene again, Jiang Cheng had already searched the mass grave thoroughly.

The situation of the mass graves in this world is indeed getting worse year by year. The villages and towns where he and the disciples of the hundreds of immortal families had temporarily stayed have been eroded by yin and resentment to the point where no living creatures can survive. The nearest inhabited place is a place called Yicheng.

This place sounds like a town. In fact, the name Yicheng was changed only in recent years. It used to be a prosperous place, but the negative energy from the mass graves was serious, causing the deaths of many people in the surrounding areas. This place buried so many dead bodies that everyone called it Yicheng, and the real name was forgotten.

Over the years, thanks to Wei Wuxian's creation of the ghost way and his legacy of many uses of talismans and formations, many independent cultivators have come to respect Wei Wuxian, the Yiling ancestor, very much. There are even waves of cultivators who come to the mass grave to hunt at night every year, which has supported the small city of Yicheng. Although Yicheng is a place that others avoid, there are still many mortals and cultivators coming and going, making it look somewhat prosperous.

Jiang Cheng had already changed out of all his clothes with nine-petal lotus patterns on them, and acted like an ordinary casual cultivator with some wealth hanging around in Yicheng. As expected, apart from his outstanding appearance that attracted attention, people around him just treated him as an ordinary person.

However, he did not expect that after a brief glimpse at Mojiazhuang that day, his reputation as a senior master from the Yunmeng Jiang family had already been spread to the ears of Jiang Wanyin of the Yunmeng Jiang family through the mouths of Lan Jingyi and Lan Sizhui.

However, Jiang Wanyin temporarily put this matter aside for Wei Wuxian's sake. After confirming that Wei Wuxian had really returned to the world of the living, he was so preoccupied that he completely forgot about the sudden appearance of a person who might be the senior from the Yunmeng Jiang Clan.

There is a small village not far from Yicheng City. There are not many people in the village, but there is a girl named Ajing who has poor eyesight living there.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect that there was also a girl named Ajing with poor eyesight here. When he came out of the mass grave that day and met Ajing, who was dressed in rags and carrying a broken vegetable basket, he found that her eyes were the same as Ajing's he had seen before. There was a thin film blocking some of the vision, making her look like she was blind.

After observing Miss Ajing for a few days, Jiang Cheng found an excuse to go to her house to ask for some water to drink, hoping to take this opportunity to ask her to help cure her eyes. However, he did not expect Miss Ajing to strongly refuse him to go to her house.

Jiang Cheng was there to help others solve their problems and had no intention of creating any. Since Miss Jing felt that it was not appropriate and he noticed that there was something wrong, then hiding aside and following quietly was the best option.

The closer Miss Ajing got to the house where she lived, the more nervous she seemed to become. She even stopped to take a deep breath as if to cheer herself up. This made Jiang Cheng feel that her situation was more and more dangerous. However, after hearing the noise that Miss Ajing deliberately made, the person who came out was actually Xue Yang.

Even though Jiang Cheng had long realized that this world was not the world he was familiar with, when he suddenly saw Xue Yang, who was surrounded by gloom and resentment, he could not help but tighten the Three Poison Sword in his hand.

Xue Yang looked at Miss Ajing with a very unfriendly look, but his tone was full of laughter: "Ajing, you came back a little late today. You didn't go to join in the fun again, did you?"

Miss Ajing seemed to be unaware of it, and even blushed. She said with a bit of embarrassment: "No, it's just that another cultivator came to Yicheng today..."

As she spoke, Miss Ajing's aura seemed to have been shaved off by half, and even her shoulders slumped a little, with the word "lonely" written all over her body. Xue Yang then put away his gloomy expression and spoke more sincerely, "Little fool, you are good-looking, but unfortunately your eyes are not good. Those so-called disciples of immortal families are mostly petty thieves. Don't fall into their trap just because of a few nice words."

As he spoke, Xue Yang took the basket from Miss Ajing's hand, and casually complained about the vegetables again, waiting for Miss Ajing to come in together.

After a while, the sound of another person talking was heard in the room. It seemed that Xue Yang complained to the other party about Miss Ajing's contact with strangers. The gentler voice spoke up and said a few words for Miss Ajing. The more Jiang Cheng listened outside, the more familiar the voice seemed to be, but he couldn't remember it for a while. When Miss Ajing called out "Master Taoist", he suddenly realized that the other party seemed to be Master Xiao Xingchen, a disciple of Baoshan Sanren.

Jiang Cheng walked into the house in stealth. Xiao Xingchen immediately noticed that there was a stranger in the house. He quietly pulled Miss Ajing's sleeve to signal her to be alert. However, Xue Yang, who was busy in the kitchen at the back, didn't notice it at all.

Jiang Cheng sent a message to Xiao Xingchen: "Master Xiao Xingchen, why are your eyes like this?"

Xiao Xingchen couldn't help but change his expression, but he really couldn't remember who the other person was, so he also sent a voice message: "Daoyou, why did you come here privately? There is nothing valuable here, only two blind men and a person who is recovering from injuries."

At this moment, Miss Aqing regretted very much that she had approached someone on the road. Although she couldn't see or feel where Jiang Cheng was, she intuitively felt that the person was the one who had spoken to her on the road.

Jiang Cheng didn't say much, and directly transmitted his voice: "Master Xiao Xingchen, the person who is cooking for you in the room is Xue Yang and Xue Chengmei."

"Impossible!" When Xiao Xingchen stood up in a panic, he bumped into a wooden stick next to him. It was the same stick that Miss Aqing had. Miss Aqing didn't know the whole story and was so scared that she went over and hugged Xiao Xingchen's arm.

Xue Yang, who was cooking in the back, heard the noise and rushed out to check the situation. He just happened to see Jiang Cheng appear next to Xiao Xingchen and Miss Ajing, so he drew his sword and greeted him.

Jiang Cheng simply blocked Xue Yang's sword with his hand and was not in a hurry to explain himself. After he exchanged a few moves with Xue Yang, Xiao Xingchen would probably be able to confirm his guess.

Sure enough, Jiang Cheng led Xue Yang in a few moves. Xue Yang saw that his skills were not enough, and he became anxious. He used a series of killing moves. Jiang Cheng was not interested in continuing the performance. He snatched Xue Yang's sword and stabbed him in the foot, first crippling one of his feet and then crushing one of his wrists.

Xiao Xingchen wanted to go forward to help after hearing Xue Yang's muffled groan, but Miss Aqing held him tightly and said in a trembling voice: "Master, don't go. That young master is right. We really saved a bad guy!"

Miss Ajing had never heard of Xue Yang's bad reputation, but she had increasingly felt that Xue Yang had ill intentions towards her these days, especially when Xiao Xingchen began to suspect that he was not a good person. He seemed to want to attack Xiao Xingchen, but she didn't know why he hadn't taken action. However, his occasional murderous intent still made her frightened.

Xiao Xingchen was still young, and even though he claimed to have had a lot of experience since he came out of seclusion, he was still not wary of the wickedness of human nature. That was why he let Xue Yang escape with the help of him and Song Zichen, and later let Xue Yang scheme to cause one of them to lose his life and the other to lose an eye.