Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Soon after Song Zichen went out, he met Miss Aqing who insisted on returning to her residence, and Jiang Cheng who was accompanying her. Song Zichen recognized Miss Aqing. After all, he seemed to have seen this girl's eyes in the bushes before he died. He could also see that she seemed to know Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang.

Miss Aqing saw with her own eyes that Xue Yang did not know what tricks he used to make Xiao Xingchen mistake the Taoist priest with a pale face and black eyes and lips for an evil spirit and kill him with a single sword. However, Song Zichen was later refined by Xue Yang into a corpse and used as a puppet. He kept harassing the people around him at night, so Miss Aqing was a little afraid of him.

Jiang Cheng recognized the man as Song Zichen. Although he didn't know what had happened to Song Zichen, he had now turned into a corpse, so it was hard for him not to guess that Xue Yang was responsible.

After protecting Miss Aqing behind him, Jiang Cheng bowed to Song Zichen and said, "Master, I am polite. My surname is Jiang, and I am a casual cultivator. I wonder if you know the girl behind me?"

Song Zichen was also a little ashamed of himself for being overly excited and scaring the girl, but his body was already dead. Although he could move freely, he had no breathing or heartbeat, and naturally there was no blush on his face.

Without time to think, Song Zichen returned the greeting somewhat embarrassedly: "I am Song Zichen from Baixue Temple, Master Jiang is polite. I have met the girl behind you once, and I want to ask her about an old friend."

As soon as Miss Aqing heard this, she knew that Song Zichen wanted to inquire about Xiao Xingchen, and tears immediately fell, "Master Song, you are too late. Master Xiao Xingchen exposed Xue Yang today, killed him and then committed suicide!"

This is what Song Zichen is worried about!

He and Xiao Xingchen have similar interests and a close relationship. Of course, this is also because one of them seems gentle while the other appears cold and arrogant, but in fact they both have upright personalities. So Song Zichen went to find Xiao Xingchen as soon as he regained consciousness, because he was worried that Xiao Xingchen's Taoism would be damaged if he knew the truth. Unexpectedly, he was really one step too late.

Jiang Cheng bowed to Song Zichen again with deep guilt, "Master Song, I am to blame for Master Xiao Xingchen's death. It was my rashness today that I secretly followed Miss Aqing to their residence. After discovering Xue Yang's existence, I also revealed Xue Yang's identity. When Xue Yang was dying, he made a desperate attempt and told him that he had tricked Master Xiao Xingchen into killing many innocent people. Master Xiao Xingchen was a man of strong character. He beheaded Xue Yang and then committed suicide..."

Miss A-Qing grabbed Jiang Cheng's arm and tried to excuse him: "How could today's incident be your fault, Master Jiang? In fact, I think the Taoist priest has probably noticed something is wrong, because Xue Yang has been looking at me with displeasure recently. There were times when I even felt that Xue Yang wanted to kill me."

Song Zichen's grief and anger for Xiao Xingchen were slightly alleviated by Jiang Cheng and Miss Aqing's interruption. Although he did not think that Xiao Xingchen's death was related to Jiang Cheng, he just wanted to see Xiao Xingchen's body at the moment, so he asked Miss Aqing and Jiang Cheng to take him to see it.

So Miss Aqing walked in front and took Song Zichen to Xiao Xingchen's grave, which had just been cleaned up during the day.

With the bright moonlight, Song Zichen could see the words "Tomb of the old friend Xiao Xingchen" written on the bright white tombstone, and next to it were four small characters "Friend Chen Jingli". He could smell the smell of the soil from the slightly raised grave mound behind the tombstone, but it was a pity that Song Zichen was no longer a living person, and could only smell the deathly aura emanating from Xiao Xingchen in the coffin under the tomb.

Song Zichen knelt down in front of Xiao Xingchen's grave and cried two lines of blood and tears, but his face was stiff and there was no difference whether he was crying or smiling. However, the huge sadness revealed from his whole body could be easily felt.

Jiang Cheng stood not far away awkwardly, and waited for Song Zichen and Miss Aqing to say goodbye to Xiao Xingchen before he went to meet them. Unexpectedly, the first thing Song Zichen did was to ask for the last bit of Xiao Xingchen's spiritual consciousness.

Song Zichen said, "Master Jiang, I heard from Miss Aqing that you took Xiao Xingchen's last spiritual consciousness, and said that if someone could lead him to help the weak and fight against the strong, then he would be able to return to the world one day. If this is true, Master Jiang, I hope you can give me your spiritual consciousness."

Miss Aqing also advised: "Master Jiang, the Taoist's death cannot be blamed on you. If you hadn't exposed Xue Yang's identity first, you and I would have been used by Xue Yang to frame Taoist like Taoist Song."

Although Jiang Cheng felt that he had more opportunities to do good deeds than Song Zichen and Miss Aqing, seeing how they were, he still handed the soul-locking bag containing Xiao Xingchen's consciousness to Song Zichen. After all, he had plenty of ways to accumulate merits for Xiao Xingchen without carrying Xiao Xingchen's consciousness.

Jiang Cheng has already discussed this with Miss Aqing and Song Zichen. Song Zichen will take Xiao Xingchen's body back to Baixue Temple for reburial to prevent Xiao Xingchen's body from being affected by the negative energy and resentment of the mass grave and turning into a corpse. Tomorrow morning, Jiang Cheng will treat Miss Aqing's eyes. When Miss Aqing's eyes are completely healed, she will follow Song Zichen and be protected by Baixue Temple in the future.

On the other side, Wei Wuxian and a group of young people finally finished reading Xue Yang's life. Although he couldn't help but feel sympathy for Xue Yang's experience of being deceived and having his fingers cut off in Chang's family in Liyang when he was young, after that incident, Xue Yang also took revenge on the Chang family and later harmed many innocent people. This was not something that could be explained by a temporary experience in childhood.

Especially since Xiao Xingchen is Wei Wuxian's uncle in terms of seniority. After seeing how Xue Yang played tricks on Xiao Xingchen, Wei Wuxian couldn't stop his anger.

Although the younger generation thought that Wei Wuxian could be a little crazy at times, he was actually quite serious in doing things. Now, seeing that he couldn't suppress his violent temper, they could only frantically protect him while trying to find ways to sober him up.

When Wei Wuxian was getting angry, Song Zichen, who was not far away, immediately sensed it, and soon Jiang Cheng also sensed it. The two looked at each other and decided that Song Zichen would stay to take care of Miss Aqing, while Jiang Cheng went to check the situation.

Jiang Cheng originally thought that Xue Yang's body was infected by negative energy and resentment and turned into a vicious corpse, but he didn't know that the evil spirit actually came from Wei Wuxian. His eyes were bloodshot and he was about to lose his mind. Jiang Cheng hurried forward to stop him, and when he saw the familiar Qingxin Bell out of the corner of his eye, he took it and cast a spell to help Wei Wuxian regain his sanity.

Although Jin Ling was a little unhappy about having his Qingxin Bell taken away, the person who came was trying to save people. He had nothing to say except humming a few times. He just couldn't help but feel a little strange that he didn't know the person, but he always felt a little familiar.

While Jiang Cheng silently recited the "Ice Heart Sutra" to help Wei Wuxian regain his sanity, he couldn't help but scold Wei Wuxian in his heart for being so audacious as to directly absorb resentment to practice. Unfortunately, his own mind was not firm enough, and he didn't have a complete method to refine the resentment. He could only absorb the resentment superficially and let it wander around his body, damaging his meridians and eroding his mind.

After a while, Jiang Cheng saw that Wei Wuxian had finally calmed down. While returning the Qingxin Bell to Jin Ling, he couldn't help but persuade Wei Wuxian: "Resentment entering the body will damage your body and your mind. If there is no better way to refine the resentment, don't use this method lightly."

Wei Wuxian recognized the person as the one who was suspected to be a cultivator from the Yunmeng Jiang Clan whom he had just seen in Mo Village after returning from being sacrificed by Mo Xuanyu. However, he had heard in recent days that there was no such person in the Yunmeng Jiang Clan, so he helped to conceal it together with Lan Jingyi and Lan Sizhui.

After hearing this, he could only nod in agreement, close his eyes and concentrate on regulating his breathing.