Since Master Ren would not agree, Ren Tingting had to resort to the classic tactic of crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide. She coupled this with the claim that her grandfather's grave had been sabotaged by bad Feng Shui, which was the reason their family had fallen into such a state...
Through her persistent efforts and her promise that her pursuit of cultivation would not let the Ren family line end, Master Ren finally agreed to let her apprentice under Auntie Zhe. With her father convinced, the next hurdle was Auntie Zhe herself.
Women who practiced cultivation were rare enough as it was, so finding a student with decent aptitude who came right to her door was a stroke of luck. Though she was a bit old to start,
Auntie Zhe was a Heavenly Master and could help refine her constitution. Thus, Auntie Zhe accepted Ren Tingting as her disciple without a hint of hesitationand it certainly wasn't because she was blinded by the sight of those hundreds of silver dollars. After all, she was a Heavenly Master!
After becoming Auntie Zhe's disciple, Ren Tingting followed her everywhere, day and night. In the process, she learned about some of the changes to the plot. The two she had been worried about, Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai,
had already broken through to become Earth Masters and been dispatched by Uncle Jiu to other Taoist halls. Aside from them, Uncle Jiu had a genius young disciple who was currently away on a training journey.
Hearing about these changes to the story, Ren Tingting felt a deep sense of worry. Was that genius junior disciple a transmigrator? If he was, how would he treat her? Would he harm her? Because of this, after joining Auntie Zhe, she first reported the situation of her family's ancestral grave. She then had Uncle Jiu, Auntie Zhe, and her father lead men to the graveyard to investigate.
Upon arriving at the grave, they found that the Dragonfly Touching Water spot had been sabotaged exactly as it was in the original story. However, the remains inside had been turned to powder, burned incredibly clean. One could say not a single speck of residue was left behind; even a layman could tell that Old Master Ren had been cremated into ash.
Seeing this, Master Ren flew into a rage, searching all of Ren Family Town for the culprit. Ren Tingting, looking at her zombie grandfather reduced to cinders, had her own suspicions. Was this really her zombie grandfather?
Had someone taken him away to refine him into a corpse? But if someone had taken the body, they could have just thrown in some random bones from a mass grave to fake it. Why go through the trouble of burning it to ash?
And who exactly did this? Was it that Feng Shui master from before, or that mysterious genius junior brother? If it was the former, she had the protection of a Heavenly Master like Auntie Zhe and shouldn't have any issues.
But if it was the latter, the man was hard to judge. Had he left this world, or was he out grinding mobs to level up? When he returned, would he try to pursue her? If she rejected him, would he cause her trouble? After all, many transmigrators were the arrogant types like Long Aotian or Ye Liangchen.
Wrapped in this uneasy mood, Ren Tingting cultivated for half a year. During those six months, she also learned that Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai had nearly been killed after being seduced by a female ghost and a fox spirit.
Even though they were already Earth Masters, they were still so incompetent; Auntie Zhe scolded those two idiots in front of Ren Tingting several times. Once she knew those two failures were already Earth Masters, Ren Tingting was even more certain it was the work of that transmigrator.
Even though he seemed to treat his masters and senior brothers well, she couldn't guarantee he would be kind to her. They had no grudge, but Ren Tingting was a transmigrator herselfwho knew what that guy would think? Would he decide to eliminate her?
And even if he didn't kill her, what if he tried to possess her? After all, Uncle Jiu was hailed as the Holy Teacher for Newbies in Myriad Realms, while she was the known as The Wife of the Myriad Realms.
It was said that anyone coming to Uncle Jiu's world who didn't apprentice under him or marry her had made a wasted trip. Since he had already apprenticed under Uncle Jiu, would his next step be to come for her?
Ren Tingting worried for a long time until she finally met Qiu Chou in person. Only after hearing his words did the knot in her heart unravel. Qiu Chou wouldn't lift a finger against her. Furthermore, he only looked to be about twelve or thirteen years
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