After being reborn, I took my childhood sweetheart to cultivate immortality.

The couple exerted tremendous effort and finally killed the wolves.

Strangely, not long after killing the wolves and leaving the area, the two encountered a den of wild boars, and then a black bear.

It seems that no matter where they go, the couple is like they have been tagged by wild animals, and they can always be found immediately.

If they still don't realize they've been sabotaged by someone by this point, then all the centuries they've lived have been for nothing.

After suspecting Cheng Yu-sheng, the couple had been waiting for him to make a move.

More than a month passed, but Zheng Yusheng continued to act normally, making the couple almost think that they had suspected the wrong person and that this was what was waiting for them.

They hadn't offended him, so why did he target them?

Fortunately, the Xu family members were always prepared when they went out, and they always carried small items such as pills with them.

It's just a sedative, right? One sedative will do the trick.

Perhaps thinking that the two were doomed, when Xu Qingman and her companion sneaked into Zheng Yusheng's room in the middle of the night, he was fast asleep, snoring loudly, showing no awareness whatsoever of being caught for doing something wrong.

As they emerged from the forest, the couple casually picked some herbs for making sleeping potions.

They weren't that careless, and they weren't familiar with Cheng Yu-sheng. Who knew if he had profound martial arts skills? It would be safer to use sleeping pills.

After drugging the man, Yu Jinchen broke his hands.

"Ouch! That hurts like hell!"

Zheng Yusheng was jolted awake by the pain. When he saw Xu Qingman and the other person, he was startled and felt a little guilty.

"Fellow Daoist Yu, Fellow Daoist Xu, what are you trying to do? I am Xu Qinghe's senior brother. How can you attack me without asking any questions?"

Yu Jinchen looked at him coldly and said, "Heh, you don't even bother to find out the truth? Then why don't you tell us what you did to us?"

Zheng Yusheng shook his head. "I don't know what you mean. You two suddenly disappeared when we were hunting together this morning. I searched for you on the mountain for a long time."

I was the one who received you when you first arrived here and told you so much. Instead of thanking me, you repay kindness with enmity and try to kill me.

"Are you after this storage ring I have? Take it, I promise I won't pursue this matter after we get out."

"Storage ring? So you attacked my husband and me just for our storage ring?"

So it seems that the people you said had left this place were probably all victims of your evil deeds?

As a disciple of a major sect, it's unbelievable that he would be so greedy, willing to kill people at will for a mere few storage rings.

How are you any different from those heretical cultivators and demons?

Upon hearing Xu Qingman's words, Zheng Yusheng suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

"Hahahaha, how could you people understand the difficulties of someone like me? Do you think everyone has your luck and can get so many resources at will?"

Someone like me, with mediocre spiritual roots, no one in my family to help me, and not particularly good-looking, how long will it take for me to cultivate into an immortal if I don't find a way myself?

You will never understand the difficulties we face. Fine, since we've chosen this path, we'll all face our retribution someday. Go ahead and do it.”

After saying that, Zheng Yusheng closed his eyes in silence and stopped talking.

Having learned the reason, Xu Qingman and her husband went straight back to their room.

They didn't want to fight him; his hand was already broken, so whether he lived or died was up to him.

Time is a cruel mistress; in just over two hundred years, the once sunny and cheerful young man has become so ruthless.

For the next two days, the couple did not see Zheng Yusheng come out, and they were too lazy to check whether he was alive or dead.

It wasn't until seven or eight days later that they smelled a faint stench coming from where Zheng Yusheng lived. When they went in to check, they found that he had been dead for several days.

Judging from the way he fell, he must have used his feet to clamp the sword and stab himself in the chest to die.

Seeing that the man was dead, Xu Qingman and her husband set fire to him and the house he lived in.

As for his own storage rings and the few he had stolen, Xu Qingman and the other woman didn't want them either.

If someone finds it later, that's their business; they don't want it anyway.

Furthermore, I don't plan to tell Xu Qinghe about this. It's all in the past, and there's no need to add to Xu Qinghe's psychological burden by letting him know.

After that, the couple officially began living their own world here, spending their days either hunting and chopping wood in the mountains or learning to tend to their few plots of land.

"Jinchen, shall we go mushroom picking in the mountains today? It rained all night last night, there must be lots of mushrooms."

"Okay, let's hunt a pheasant then. Pheasant stewed with mushrooms is really delicious." After saying that, Yu Jinchen smacked his lips.

Seeing his greedy look, Xu Qingman immediately laughed.

"Haha, look at how greedy you are. If someone saw you, they would definitely laugh at you. A dignified master of the Void Realm, what good things haven't you eaten? How could you be craving a pheasant and mushroom soup?"

"There's no one here, who would laugh at me? Could it be you, hmm?"

"No, how could I laugh at you? I love eating it myself."

Seeing her husband looking at her with a dangerous gaze, Xu Qingman immediately cowered. If she didn't appease him now, he might make her unable to leave the house until dark, just like a few days ago.

Perhaps because there was no one else around, Yu Jinchen became increasingly unrestrained in his actions.

Each of them carried a basket on their back and tucked their swords into their waistbands, and then they went into a pine forest.

Both of them grew up in the city before they started cultivating immortality, and now that they have no spiritual power to use, they only dare to pick some common ones. There are many pine mushrooms and termite mushrooms in this pine forest, and the two of them have picked them a few times before.

Xu Qingman's eyes lit up when she saw the clusters of small yellow umbrellas under the tree.

"Wow, we definitely made the right choice coming today! There are so many pine mushrooms. Let's pick a lot to take home. If we can't finish them, we can dry them and save them for winter."

"Okay, let's sun-dry more so we don't run out of vegetables in winter."

Yu Jinchen looked at his wife with affection and responded.

Then, I heard Xu Qingman muttering to herself.

"I need to go to the salt lake to dry some salt in a few days, and we don't have much salt left at home. I need to prepare more during this period this year, so that I won't have to go out to find food on snowy days like last year because I wasn't prepared enough."

"It's all those little brats' fault! They didn't tell us that this secluded place has four distinct seasons, and it even snows in winter."

"Yes, it's all their fault. I'll beat them up for you when we get home."

Hearing her husband say he was going to discipline the children, Xu Qingman quickly spoke up to stop him.

"No need for that, we also have our own responsibility. Staying in the cultivation world, where it's spring all year round, for too long, we've forgotten that the mortal world should actually have four seasons."

She couldn't bear to blame her own children, Shuyi and Shuyin, for being so well-behaved and obedient.

Sigh, she's starting to miss the children. Before, she would contact them every month or two using a communication talisman, but this time it's been over a year since they last spoke. She wonders if the children are worried.