The surprise came so suddenly that Qin Moyu was so dizzy that he didn't even have time to think about such incredible things as "the old Taoist priest is Xuanjing Zhenren", just like a drowning man grabbing the last straw, desperately telling himself that this is all real.

When Shen Mo took Qin Moyu to the real person's residence in Xuanjing, Qin Moyu felt that every step he took was like walking on clouds, and he lost his sense of reality in a daze.

Master Xuanjing was arranged in a remote palace in the palace. Entry and exit were very secretive. If Shen Mo hadn't led the way, no one would have thought that this seemingly idle palace actually lived in this seemingly idle palace. Master Xuanjing, who was famous in four continents.

Perhaps it was due to his timidity of being close to home, but when Qin Moyu arrived at the palace, he didn't have the courage to go in.

Qin Moyu put his hand on the door, so nervous that his fingertips were trembling. The person he thought about day and night was right in front of him, but it felt like his heart and soul had been taken away, and he didn't even have the strength to push the door open.

"Don't be afraid."

Shen Mo's deep voice rang in his ears. He put his hand on Qin Moyu's and whispered, "I'll accompany you."

Three simple words, but they make people feel at ease.

Qin Moyu felt a sore nose. From the moment he returned and found that the sect had been destroyed until now, there was always someone by his side to accompany him. No matter he was happy or sad, it was his strongest retreat.

He closed his eyes, suppressed all his emotions, took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

"squeak--"

The slightly old door made a low, sour sound. The pale-faced Xuanjing Zhenren sat under the tree and raised his head when he heard the sound.

"Mo Yu!"

Master Xuanjing stood up abruptly, but his body swayed unconsciously due to weakness. He could only support the stone table with one hand and asked in an urgent tone: "Why are you here? Have you returned to the sect? Are they there? Hurt you?"

Even though he was so injured that he couldn't even stand still, he was still worried about whether he was injured when he saw him for the first time.

If he had doubts about Xuan Jing being his master before, then when he saw his heartfelt worry and the same tone as his master, Qin Moyu was 100% sure that he was his master.

Qin Moyu finally couldn't help it and flew towards Master Xuanjing.

"Master——"

He hugged Xuanjing Zhenren's thin body tightly and cried like a child.

"I, I miss you so much..."

"I thought, I thought... I thought you..."

Qin Moyu was so choked that he couldn't say a complete sentence. Only in front of the master, he was the child who would never grow up, showing his soft self in full.

"Idiot." Master Xuanjing's eyes were red, but he still said stiffly, "How could I, your master, be so powerful and die so easily, brat..."

Despite his harsh words, Master Xuanjing still caressed Qin Moyu's back gently, just like the little Qin Moyu who made him cry a long time ago. His love for Qin Moyu was never expressed in words, but in actions again and again.

Shen Mo watched them reunite and knew that now was not the time for him to appear, so he quietly closed the door and retreated.

He leaned against the closed door, Qin Moyu's cries were like an awl digging into his heart, enduring the heartache.

"Shen Yebai...you are such a bastard..."

He whispered in a low voice, and he didn't know who he was talking to, and then disappeared into the wind.

…………

Qin Moyu cried for a while before he stopped. When he let go of Master Xuanjing, the tears were still rolling in his eyes, as if he was afraid that he would disappear again. Qin Moyu still held the corner of Master Xuanjing's clothes tightly and stubbornly wiped them away before they fell. tears.

Qin Moyu, who was worried about gains and losses, made Master Xuanjing sad for a while.

"sorry."

Master Xuanjing touched Qin Moyu's head and said with great regret: "I shouldn't have told you my identity, otherwise you wouldn't have..."

In Qin Moyu's previous understanding, the master was a monk with low strength. Although he could always find a lot of strange things, the strength he had always shown did not surpass Qin Moyu's understanding of him. That's why Qin Moyu believed it at that time. The master died instead of escaping.

The reason why Master Xuanjing concealed his identity and strength was also related to his original plan.

After repeatedly confirming that Qin Moyu was really healthy, able to run and jump, Xuanjing Zhenzhen explained to Qin Moyu what happened that year.

Qin Moyu already knew that he came from an extremely cold place, but what he didn't know was that that day, his subordinate tried his best to protect him and died in a ruined temple. The baby's cry attracted an old Taoist priest who lived in the ruined temple.

Qin Moyu, who was still a baby, was simply wrapped in cloth. There was a piece of paper with his name stuck in the gap of the cloth bag. Seeing that his men were covered with scars, the old Taoist guessed that his men were being hunted and thought that Qin Moyu would definitely have trouble if he stayed in the ruined temple. It was dangerous, so he hurriedly hugged Qin Moyu and left the ruined temple.

And it was such a coincidence that after he took Qin Moyu away, Fen Qi's men followed the traces to the ruined temple. After searching for a long time in the ruined temple, they returned without finding the child.

The old Taoist priest was a Taoist priest with a low level of cultivation. He was usually kind-hearted. Even if he had no clothes to wear, he would do his best to help people who were in more difficulty than himself. In addition, he had no wife or children, so he adopted Qin Moyu after taking him away. .

The old Taoist priest returned to the ruined temple the next day to bury his body alive, and then devoted himself to raising Qin Moyu.

When you are hungry, cook some rice soup to feed you. When you are cold, wrap yourself in the only good clothes you have. When you are sick, go to someone you know to borrow some money to see a doctor.

The old Taoist priest tried his best to raise Qin Moyu, but after all, he was too old and unable to cope with it. After a serious illness, he felt that he was about to die, so he asked people everywhere to find out if there was anyone who could adopt Qin Moyu.

When he finally found a suitable family, Xuanjing's fight with others accidentally affected the old Taoist priest. Although he did not really hurt the old Taoist priest, the strong fright made the old Taoist priest who was already relying on his breath even weaker.

The old Taoist priest saw that Master Xuanjing's identity was unusual. He knew that Qin Moyu's identity was not simple. Instead of handing it over to the ordinary family he had found before, it would be better to hand it over to this person with high cultivation level as his apprentice, so that if Qin Moyu was in danger in the future, he would be safe. Something to rely on.

Thinking that he accidentally injured the old Taoist priest, Xuanjing felt very guilty and agreed to the old Taoist priest's request for him to be left alone before he died.

"You don't even know how seductive you were when you were little. It's not that the old Taoist priests didn't hug you, but you still had to wear those clothes."

Master Xuanjing couldn't help but smile when he thought of the fair and tender Qin Moyu in his infancy.

Xuanjing Zhenren, who had never raised a child before, became worried after agreeing to the old Taoist priest's care, because no matter how he coaxed Qin Moyu, Qin Moyu kept crying. In the end, he had no choice but to turn into the old Taoist priest and put on his clothes. The tattered Taoist uniform prevented Qin Moyu from crying.

It’s not that Master Xuanjing has never tried to make Qin Moyu remember him, but Qin Moyu is young and has a very bad temper. No matter how fast he changes, Qin Moyu can accurately detect it, and then cry heartbreakingly, making Xuan Jing Zhenren has one head and two heads.

"Stop crying, stop crying." Master Xuanjing just knelt down in front of the infant Qin Moyu. No matter how high he was, he couldn't do anything to the little kid.

Qin Moyu didn't care how broken he was, he still cried so hard that his voice became hoarse from crying.

In desperation, he could only turn into the old Taoist priest again and put on that tattered Taoist robe, but he didn't want to wear it for more than ten years.

The swaddled baby grew up little by little under the watchful eye of Master Xuanjing. From the beginning, he was cared for sincerely. Master Xuanjing had never thought of bringing Qin Moyu back to the Guanlan Sect to raise him.

The plan to bring Qin Moyu back was destined to be impossible the moment Qin Moyu revealed the red lotus karma fire.

"Master, what is this?" Qin Moyu still had some baby fat on his face, his big eyes were as if he could talk, and his voice was young and innocent, "It's so strange."

With the last glimmer of hope, Master Xuanjing touched the thing that resembled the legendary red lotus karma fire.

In just an instant, a layer of ice formed on his fingers, making them lose feeling almost instantly.

"well?"

Qin Moyu looked at Honglian Yehuo in surprise, and imitated Xuanjing Zhenren and poked the Red Lotus Yehuo in the palm of his hand, but there was no reaction at all.

It is unjustifiable for Master Xuanjing to deceive himself and others at this stage, but precisely because this is the real Red Lotus Karma Fire is the most troublesome.

The red lotus karma fire is related to the extremely cold place, so Qin Moyu's life experience is about to come out. No matter what happened in the extreme cold place, relying on the scene where the old Taoist priest told him that he picked up Qin Moyu, Xuanjing knew that he must be related to someone alive. It is inseparable from the great power of being in the tribulation period.

If he takes Qin Moyu back to the Guanlan Sect now, the people in the sect will be overly cautious and will be afraid of anything less than ten thousand. If the news that Qin Moyu possesses the Red Lotus Industry Fire gets out, the consequences will be disastrous.

In a few breaths, Master Xuanjing thought about a lot of things. He grew up in the Guanlan Sect since he was a child. Naturally, he didn't want to bring disaster to the Guanlan Sect, so he couldn't even tell Qin Moyu his true identity now.

In fact, the best way is to completely cut off contact with Qin Moyu. As long as he is handed over to a good family - it is not difficult with Qin Moyu's appearance - and he is completely ignored, even if Qin Moyu's life experience attracts people in the tribulation period in the future. He could pay attention, but no matter what happened, it would not involve Master Xuanjing.

But……

Master Xuanjing looked at Qin Moyu who was carefree, smiling brightly, and calling his master again and again, and he couldn't be cruel no matter what.

A little later, I will leave when he grows up a little.

Master Xuanjing told himself this, but whose heart is not made of flesh? In getting along year after year, he and Qin Moyu said they were master and apprentice, but they were more like father and son.

He broke his own bottom line time and time again, from eating an extra bite of pastry for small things to letting him go down the mountain when he couldn't resist Qin Moyu's longing eyes for big things. All his persistence was wiped out by Qin Moyu.

The reason why he "drove" Qin Moyu down the mountain that day was partly because the sect kept urging him to go back due to Shen Mo's letter; partly because he was determined not to escape anymore and to tell Qin Moyu his identity.

It was just fate. Unexpectedly, he did not tell Qin Moyu's identity immediately because of anger, which actually became the beginning of all the tragedies that followed.

He was defeated by Fen Qi that day, and when he was dying, he was still thinking of Qin Moyu.

he thinks.

——You have to eat well even if you leave me, you brat.