Fantasy: I'm Really Not A Supreme Master!

Seeing Nan Feng and the others return, Li Fan rose in quite a cheerful mood.

"Master, we've returned."

Nan Feng and the others stepped forward to pay their respects.

"It's good you're back, how did it go? Did it go smoothly?"

"Did you find that lunatic?"

Nan Feng reported,

"Master, everything went smoothly. We've already brought the lunatic with us, she's just outside the courtyard. She dares not come in."

Upon hearing this, Li Fan couldn't help but feel delighted!

Found her, that's great.

This way, I'm another step closer to achieving the Golden Core.

"Come, let's go out and have a look."

Everyone promptly followed Li Fan out of the small courtyard.

Outside the small courtyard,

Qingcheng stared blankly at Wu'er Xianting!

She was shocked beyond measure, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"How could such a place exist?"

"It transcends everything in this world; this is the core of The Taboo Village..."

She murmured.

It was unimaginable what kind of being could reside there?

But in the next instant, the door was pushed open.

Qingcheng looked up and saw a refined and elegant young man stepping out. He appeared to be about twenty years old, ethereal and unworldly, yet completely devoid of arrogance. All that was present was an air of serene tranquility, like a scholar from the mortal world.

Yet, upon seeing him, Qingcheng shuddered!

No...

How could such a being appear in the Primordial Ancestral World?!

How could such a being possibly come from that road?

This... defied all common sense!

She hurriedly lowered her head, cold sweat pouring down her forehead at that moment.

"Must not look directly... must not look directly..."

She murmured, her heart filled with immense fear.

She knew that just one look from such a being could cause inexplicable and bizarre changes to occur.

Because that road represented true eeriness and ominousness.

The beings that came from that road were essentially the incarnations of eeriness and ominousness, belonging to the taboo of taboos!

But upon seeing this, Li Fan couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

This girl... such a pity.

Such long hair, and in such cold weather, she is wearing only thin mourning clothes, and her face is densely covered with centipede-like scars!

Looking at her waist and figure, she must have once been a beautiful woman, but now she has become this unsightly... How could she not go mad?

He felt, this girl must have endured many painful experiences!

At that moment, beside Li Fan, Yun Xi also came out, seeing Qingcheng, her big eyes slightly surprised, she said:

"Her face..."

Hearing these words, Qingcheng, despite her fear, couldn't help but look up.

Seeing Yun Xi, she was even more startled and exclaimed,

"You... are here?"

She was shocked.

In past years, the woman known as The End of Myriad Paths who had captured them to guard the Evil Corpse, hadn't she embarked on that road?

Qingcheng remembered that the woman had mentioned she was going to find someone on the other side of that road!

She couldn't help but look at Li Fan.

Could this young man...

Be the person she was looking for?

While she pondered, a sudden pain surged in her sea of consciousness as if it was about to split.

"Ah..."

She cried out in agony, almost collapsing to the ground.

At the same time, she felt a fragment of jade floating in her sea of consciousness.

That piece of jade mysteriously appeared in her palm.

This is...

"The thing left in my sea of consciousness by The End of Myriad Paths?"

Qingcheng was even more terrified.

Throughout the ages, she had been utterly unaware of it!

The End of Myriad Paths had not only tasked her with guarding the Evil Corpse but also made her the vessel for this piece of jade.

"Her... safeguard left behind?"

At this moment, Qingcheng thought of many things!

Seeing this, Yun Xi, however, was slightly pleased and said,

"Great Demon King, look, Red Dust Jade!"

She immediately walked over and picked up the piece of Red Dust Jade.

"Found another piece... just like in my dreams."

She gazed at the Red Dust Jade, overwhelmed with joy.

Li Fan also smiled slightly, then turned to Qingcheng and couldn't help but sigh and said,

"Miss, have you suffered a lot?"

Hearing this, Qingcheng's trembling heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

This supreme being is asking me...

What does he mean?

Such beings never ask meaningless questions!

The other party asking her if she had suffered a lot...

Could it be, he has seen through her heartache?!

Yes, that must be it!

—Her life had been tumultuous and displaced!

Starting from when she was six, her life had turned incredibly dark.

The hardships she endured and the evils she witnessed... filled her with hatred!

It was that hatred that allowed her to progress rapidly in her cultivation of Sound Dao.

But it also caused her Sound Dao to become extremely constricted.

It could be said, fueled by hatred, hindered by hatred!

Now, this figure asked if she had suffered a lot...

Was he intending to help resolve her inner conflicts and clear her Sound Dao?

She felt... it must be so.

With this thought, she suddenly became excited.

To receive guidance from such a world-forbidding being, what a fortune!

She immediately nodded and said:

"Thank you for the guidance, Qingcheng, I am immensely grateful!"

After saying this, she abruptly grabbed her own hair!

She started to play right then and there!

Upon seeing this, the group of Disciples was shocked.

They distinctly felt Qingcheng's hair strands turn into terrifying strings, with invisible sound waves flowing through them, and musical notes of the Dao flowing like water.

Melodious yet heartbreakingly sorrowful, the sounds made people feel despair!

However, this invisible harp music... Li Fan was completely unaware.

He looked at the woman before him, utterly astonished.

This woman... truly a madwoman.

Using her hair as strings?

Unheard of, unseen before!

Indeed, a madwoman beyond understanding!

He couldn't help but shake his head.

Nan Feng then whispered,

"Master, although Qingcheng behaves oddly, there is a reason behind her actions. When she was six, she was defiled, and later sold by her kin to a brothel to live by performing arts, even her face was self-mutilated..."

"She loves the guqin, it's just unfortunate that she took the wrong path."

Being a fellow practitioner of the guqin, Nan Feng felt a sense of empathy for Qingcheng.

Seeing the Master shaking his head, fearing he disliked Qingcheng for her excessive murderous intent, she spoke in her defense.

Upon hearing this, Li Fan felt a surge of compassion.

He hadn't realized how pitiful this girl was...

"Very well,"

Li Fan spoke up immediately,

"Come with me."

"I shall play you a piece to soothe your heart."

Hearing this, Qingcheng dared not refuse and followed the others into the courtyard.

The moment she stepped into the courtyard, her mind thundered.

For a moment, she felt as if she had been glanced by countless terrifying beings...

She subconsciously looked towards the chickens pecking at grain...

No, they weren't chickens at all, but...

Phoenixes, legendary creatures unseen even in the Grey Mist Sea?!

Then she glanced at the fish in the pond...

Heaven, they weren't fish, but all were dormant Ancient True Dragons!

And that Peach Tree...

There was a rumor in the Grey Mist Sea that eons ago, a branch of a Peach Tree reached out across the road, repressing the entire Grey Mist Sea, could it be linked to this very Peach Tree?

She immediately kneeled down!

This courtyard... was too terrifying!

Even when she kneeled, she was startled, as she nearly touched a spider crawling on the ground.

That spider clearly emitted a towering forbidden might!

She felt it could easily annihilate her!

At this moment, a formidable Sound Dao master herself, she did not dare to move an inch!

Meanwhile, Li Fan had already seated himself calmly.

Instantly, Nan Feng took down an ancient guqin and placed it in front of Li Fan.

Li Fan calmly played the guqin.

As the melody began,

Everyone present was startled.

Li Fan's piece was like no other!

It wasn't the fierce attacking Emperor's Breakthrough Melody, nor the ethereal and detached Oblivion Melody, nor the supreme melody of the Ten Eternal Sounds...

Instead, it was like an old guqin sound coming out amidst the chaotic secular fireworks, sounding like a mother's lullaby to her baby, like childhood playmates quarreling and playing, like congratulations when newlyweds worship the heavens and earth, like old women and men whispering about their late days...

This melody was the worldly fireworks, the sound of the living, the encompassing tune of life and death, sorrow and joy, bitter sweet across the countless beings!

Everyone was moved.

They all felt a pang of empathy, as one melody seemed to show them the myriad aspects of life and myriad human experiences!

"Red Dust refines the heart, only then one knows the path ahead... Master has observed all life."

Nan Feng murmured, in just that instant, she felt her understanding of the guqin Dao ascend a significant step.

"Even the most ordinary life has extraordinary emotions... There's so much falsehood in this world, but it also contains much truth."

Zi Ling enlightened in her wide eyes.

"People are not chess pieces, they are themselves because no one can strip away their emotions."

In Jiang Li's heart, a certain barrier... instantly shattered!

Kneeling before Li Fan, Qingcheng now had tears streaming down her face!

With the melody from Li Fan, she saw clearly the countless lives she had extinguished.

She saw the newborn babies who had not even seen the world once before dying by her hatred.

She saw the elderly who did righteous deeds throughout life, who could not die a natural death, but perished by her fury.

She saw lovers in love who had not yet held hands but died embracing regret in her resentment...

"I was wrong..."

"My hatred blinded my eyes, preventing me from seeing the warmth of this world, the truth and kindness that exist."

Her eyes brimmed with tears.

She bowed deeply to Li Fan.

In that moment, she completely awakened!

Indeed, in her countless years of cultivation, someone had told her, although she harbored hatred, innocents were blameless.

However, her hatred was like layers of cocoon, tightly wrapping around her, and no matter how much reasoning she heard, she could not turn away from her resentment.

But today, Li Fan's supreme guqin music directly touched her wrapped-up heart.

She felt as if returning to before she was six years old, carefree, seeing again the beauty of this world, feeling the warmth of humanity.

She knew, the Red Dust Melody she heard today, completely saved her imprisoned soul!

On this day, her once-lost path in the guqin finally became clear!

"Thank you, senior!"

She gave her thanks while kneeling!

Li Fan then slowly lowered his hands.

He looked at Qingcheng, couldn't help but nod, and said,

"From now on, stay in the village."

"Da De, call Ming Tianbei to lead people."

...

Simultaneously.

The Martial Clan fleet.

Was already outside the Martial Desolate Realm!

They directly descended into the Martial Desolate Realm.

...

Peace.