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Chapter 26 - Interlude: Rèn Chāngmíng's Training

Chapter 26 - Interlude: Rèn Chāngmíng's Training

In the weeks that Yu Quan was focused on cultivation, he didn’t know where Rèn Chāngmíng had gone. He didn’t worry because he had gone with Yàn Lìqín but forgot to ask about him while in Yàn Lìqín’s office.

Yàn Lìqín had taken Rèn Chāngmíng and registered him. While registering him, he naturally learned about Rèn Chāngmíng’s cultivation, including his enlightenment. Upon learning of his experiences and red and black core, Yàn Lìqín thought of a plan to help him cultivate quickly. He gave Rèn Chāngmíng a mask and helped him create an urban legend. If you went into the woods, you would find a cave. If you write who you want revenge on and what they did that was worthy of death and left it at the foot of the cave, the person would die.

Rèn Chāngmíng had initially been opposed to the plan, as he wasn’t so used to killing people. But when had anyone been easy on him? He could even argue that what he got was worse than death. Being a bastard son to an evil father who sent his mistress and son into slavery under bandits who bullied and abused him daily, he knew better than anyone that this world could be ugly. If he could make it a slightly better place, even if it were just in town, by killing some deserving people, why shouldn’t he?

Now, Rèn Chāngmíng was waiting for his first request. Many were privy to doubt urban legends, so no one was coming. But Yàn Lìqín had assured him that eventually, someone desperate enough would go and test it out.

Funnily enough, after a week, someone had arrived. A mortal man walked towards the cave, holding a piece of paper. He seemed jittery and wide-eyed; he looked almost traumatized. He walked to the cave, held the paper to his face, placed it, and walked away. As he was walking, Rèn Chāngmíng could see tears falling.

Yàn Lìqín had warned him about this. Revenge usually comes with stories that could be anger-inducing or tear-jerking. He said Rèn Chāngmíng would have to control his emotions to complete the task successfully.

Rèn Chāngmíng hopped down from the tree he was in and grabbed the paper. He waited until he was back in another tree before reading it so that no one would find him standing before the cave. Then he began reading. As he read, his jaw clenched, and he balled his fists.

“...Horrible.”

This man had suffered. Maybe even more than he did. A cultivator kidnaped his wife to be one of his concubines. His kids had been killed so that she could only be the mother of the kids the cultivator gave her, and he had lost everything. No one wanted to risk angering the cultivator by helping him. Even though the cultivator probably wouldn’t care about the mortal man anymore, other mortals didn’t want to risk it. The lust of a random cultivator ruined his life, and he could do nothing about it.

Rèn Chāngmíng reeled his emotions in. He was very empathetic, and right now, he was holding back an outburst of rage for this man and his family. Even without him coming to terms with killing, he would have wanted to kill this cultivator regardless. The revenge intent in his core began churning. Rèn Chāngmíng put on an elephant mask given to him by Yàn Lìqín and jumped to the next tree.

Jin Meili was sitting in a gazebo. It was in a beautiful yard, with a garden and a fountain. She was drinking expensive and fragrant tea from ornate china. She was living the life.

“Meimei~!”

“Caicai~!”

Jin Meili looked up to see an average-looking man. She jumped up to embrace him. They spun around and then shared a passionate kiss.

“How is it here, my love?”

Jin Meili smiled. “It’s more than I can ask for. I can’t thank you enough for saving me from my old life.”

Lai Cai turned red and scratched the back of his head. “Well, I would do anything you asked Meimei.”

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Lai Cai was an itinerant cultivator. He didn’t belong to any forces but traveled and cultivated as he did. While he would travel, his home had always been Blossom Falls. Although in their vast lands, Lai Cai’s strength wasn’t even a drop in a bucket of water, in Blossom Falls among mortals, being in the Core Formation Stage was enough. With his earnings, he had bought a lovely manor, where he would return to rest after an adventure.

Recently, he had come home and met a beautiful mortal that he just had to make his wife. He had never thought much of women since he had begun cultivating, but Jin Meili was different. She was everything he wanted in a woman that he didn’t even know he wanted.

“You’re so sweet, Caicai.”

“It’s nothing… but are you sure I should leave that man alive?”

Jin Meili nodded. “Although he may be dead to me, you could still say we have some history. I don’t want to see him die.”

“Meimei, you are too kind.” Lai Cai said before embracing once again. Then, they passionately kissed once again. Kissing turned into touching, and then things went further.

About an hour later…

“Fwoo~ Meimei, I love you.”

“I love you, too, Caicai.”

Lai Cai stood up and got dressed. “Well, my love, I have some things to attend to, so I must go for now. But as soon as I finish, I’ll come back to you.”

“I’ll be waiting, dear.”

They shared one last embrace before Lai Cai went back into the house. When he was out of sight, Jin Meimei returned to her tea gleefully.

“Ah~ the tea is cold. I’ll have to make more.” Jin Meili looked around the scenery and sighed.

“What a great life. If I didn’t take that chance to be with a cultivator, I would have never had this.”

Jin Meili gasped after what she said. “When did I become so cold?” she asked before giggling.

“That poor loser, he must be wallowing in his own pity right now. Losing me must have torn him apart. The kids, too. It hurt to know that they had to die, but how could I let Lai Cai be with a woman who has kids with another man?”

“So much for kidnapping.”

Jin Meili jumped and screamed in surprise. She dropped the china set and spilled the tea all over the floor. When she turned, she saw a man hanging upside down from the ceiling of the gazebo. She could only see his head, covered in an elephant mask.

“Who are you? I’m warning you, my husband is Lai Cai the cultivator! He will kill you if you even lay a finger on me?”

The man in the mask cocked his head to the side, seemingly in confusion. “Husband? So soon? Didn’t you just lose your children and get taken away from your last husband?”

Jin Meili felt a chill down her spine. “You were listening, weren’t you?! If you tell anybody, I will tell my husband that you slandered my name and he will come after you!”

“This husband?” The man in the mask said before taking something from the roof and dropping it before Jin Meili. It rolled a few times before the face of Lai Cai stared at her.

Jin Meili was speechless and terrified. She keeled over and threw up. “W- what have you done?!”

“You must have lied to your husband. Concocted this ruse to help you save face with the rest of town. You were never kidnapped, you were cheating. You even allowed him to murder your children. Some wife and mother you are.”

“What do you want from me?”

“Well, I was sent to get revenge on this man for your husband. But, seeing as you were behind it all, I believe I should do something about you as well.”

Rèn Chāngmíng watched as the man opened his door and found the box with a letter on the top. When the man was reading the letter, his eyes widened, and his jaw dropped. He threw open the box and looked inside. Rèn Chāngmíng expected the man to be sad and begin crying, but surprisingly, the man was angry. He grabbed his wife and the cultivator’s heads from the box and threw them onto the ground. Then he spit on them and left them in front of his house. Rèn Chāngmíng guessed it was to show the townspeople what had happened and that it was safe to interact with him again.

Rèn Chāngmíng felt oddly content and even relieved at the sight of this. He sat in lotus and began circulating the revenge intent he had received within his core. Deciding it wasn’t the time to cultivate, he got up and jumped to the next tree. He jumped from tree to tree in the direction of the forest. He had more work to do.

Over the next several weeks, people were claiming they had seen a Mammoth of Vengeance leaving scenes where the people whom others had asked to be killed resided.