"When I met him, he did say he was a Taoist priest in a Taoist temple..." Li Jiayi's mother recounted those past events to Jiang Wen.
The story was very ordinary, just a farm girl meeting a Taoist uncle who was performing rituals.
They fell in love at first sight, like dry wood meeting a blazing fire, and eventually eloped regardless of everything.
However, love needs material sustenance. After Li Jiayi was conceived, the Taoist uncle resolutely decided to venture out.
After all, in that era, staying in the countryside was a stable livelihood, but venturing out was the trend.
Li Jiayi's mother naturally supported the Taoist uncle's decision to venture out and told him not to worry about the family.
For the sake of being with the Taoist uncle, she had abandoned everything: family, relatives, and her future life.
However, the Taoist uncle ultimately let her down. In the first few years after he left, he would still write letters, but later, there was no news at all.
She said that she wasn't without regrets, but those regrets had long been worn away by the years.
"What's the use of regretting? It's better to be optimistic and focus on the future. The road must continue to be walked, and I still have Jiayi to take care of," Li Jiayi's mother reminisced.
"As for that man, I don't have any feelings for him now. It's just that when I was a girl, I still had some memories of him."
"Sister-in-law is really open-minded," Jiang Wen exclaimed.
He thought of the news he had learned about the Taoist uncle, and after a moment of hesitation, he decided to tell her.
"Actually, I also have some news about the Taoist uncle in Yun Du," Jiang Wen told the sister-in-law about the Taoist uncle having several houses in Yun Du. After hearing this news, she was silent for a long, long time.
The house prices in Yun Du are not cheap, even in the old city, they are very expensive. As a world-class commercial capital, house prices have always been criticized by the people of Yun Du.
Now, hearing that her man actually has a villa in Yun Du, anyone would have some thoughts in their heart.
After all, Li Jiayi is also the first heir to this property.
"Is that so? So he also came to Yun Du," Li Jiayi's mother's voice trembled slightly. She seemed to be trying to calm her emotions.
The previous pretense had a flaw this time, after all, emotions are still very difficult to suppress.
If she hadn't heard the news about the Taoist uncle, she might have been able to live optimistically. Because there was always a hard but fragile protective wall blocking emotions. But when new information, like a sharp sword, broke a corner of the wall, the flood of emotions would also gush out.
"I didn't expect, I didn't expect that he would buy a house in Yun Du. I've been here for almost twenty years. Didn't he even want to come and see me?" Li Jiayi's mother said in a trembling voice, her face, which already had crow's feet, looked even older.
"How could his heart be so cruel?"
"...Auntie, don't be sad. Perhaps the Taoist uncle has some unspeakable secrets?" Jiang Wen made an excuse to soothe the sister-in-law's emotions.
"I know, I know. I'm just sad," the sister-in-law said, and then got up and went into the bathroom. Jiang Wen sat on the sofa watching TV for a long time before she came out with red eyes.
After seeing the sister-in-law and talking a lot with her, Jiang Wen bid her farewell when he saw that it was almost midnight.
Li Jiayi's mother tried hard to persuade him to stay, saying that it was too late and he might as well rest at her house. But Jiang Wen still refused.
Seeing that the sister-in-law was a little disappointed, Jiang Wen also said some nice words. He told the sister-in-law to come to the Jingxu Temple when she had time in the future, and he would be able to entertain her well.
After all, in this world, he didn't have many close people.
Finally, with the sister-in-law's reluctance, Jiang Wen left the residential area.
Returning to the rented house, Jiang Wen took out the giant's corpse to examine it.
This giant corpse was three meters tall, with a ferocious face. It could use frost, so it could be considered to have some strength.
Looking at the giant's head, there was still sword energy remaining on it. Presumably, it was during the battle of Happy Workshop that a cultivator used a flying sword to cut off its head. It's unknown why it ended up in the present world and was modified after being picked up by someone.
Exploring the giant's corpse, Jiang Wen probed a small worm from the giant's body.
This worm was like a morning glory, with fine teeth all over its mouth. Jiang Wen erased its consciousness with magic, and now only a small body remained.
Jiang Wen didn't know what this thing was called. He sent it to Jiang Zhi, but Jiang Zhi also didn't know what it was.
In the end, Jiang Wen could only make a video call to Bai Jing, who was far away in the Taoist temple. Bai Jing received and checked it, and told Jiang Wen that this demon was called a Symbiotic Worm, which was a kind of demon that could parasitize in living organisms.
As long as the mother worm was held, the Symbiotic Worm could be controlled.
"This thing is also disliked by demons, I don't know how the temple master encountered it," Bai Jing asked with a smile in the video.
"Then I'll be waiting for the official," Bai Jing said charmingly, with several tails swaying on her fair shoulders, looking particularly seductive.
It was just that this charm didn't last long before many little foxes涌 came out, all clamoring to see their benefactor.
In the end, it ended in a lively scene, and Jiang Wen hung up the video.
He looked at the corpse on the ground and tapped his hand lightly on the corpse.
Wiping his forehead, the third eye slowly opened.
"Heaven and earth are boundless, tracing thousands of miles."
The golden light penetrated the room and reached a strange place. Jiang Wen couldn't help but smile when he saw the young man named Chen Dong in his vision.
"I found you."
......
In a certain residential area, Chen Dong stared intently at the meat worm on the table, which was as big as his arm.
He looked at the blurry picture on the computer and typed rapidly on the keyboard with both hands.
Various information flashed on the screen, and various surveillance images were presented.
"Why hasn't the Savage Demon returned yet? Could it be that it encountered some situation?"
"Impossible, even if it's an armored vehicle or a tank, the Savage Demon can easily destroy it, how could there be an accident!"
"What exactly is going on!"
Chen Dong scratched his hair irritably.
In order to retaliate against Jiang Wen, he used all the trump cards he had obtained not long ago. That was a tall giant corpse. When Chen Dong encountered the giant, he also happened to encounter a worm.
By chance, he signed a contract with the worm, and then he learned that this worm was actually some kind of monster. It could produce Symbiotic Worms and parasitize in anyone's body.
Chen Dong then parasitized the Symbiotic Worm into the giant's body, becoming his most powerful trump card.
Chen Dong had learned about the giant's abilities, not only was it invulnerable to knives and guns, but it was also incredibly strong. Because of this, he was overjoyed and felt that he was the chosen one.
He didn't expect to encounter this incident today, which really made him lose a lot of face.
How could Chen Dong endure this, so he decided to let the giant properly finish off Jiang Wen.
After all, with a sharp weapon in hand, the desire to kill arises.
The giant made the move, who would be able to find out about him?
Originally, he thought it was a sure thing, but he didn't expect that the giant would never return after going out.
He is now trying to look at the situation through surveillance in various places, but there is no clue at all.
"There must be something wrong with that giant, definitely."
Just as he was thinking, his phone rang.
"Hello, is this Mr. Chen Dong? Your takeout has arrived."
"Okay, I'll come out right away."
Chen Dong put down the phone. He looked at the takeout guy on the surveillance screen and, after observing that there were no problems, got up to open the door.
"Click."
The door was opened.
Chen Dong's pupils suddenly shrank as he looked at the scene outside the door.
At the doorway, the person he wanted to kill was smiling at him, and on the ground was a familiar giant corpse.
"We meet again, friend," Jiang Wen said as he walked to his side.
