Chapter 200: Chapter 200: The Brother in Memory
Now that she knew Lin Chunju was afflicted by a curse technique, Yue Qingqing naturally wanted to find a way to break the curse.
It was different from the initial version of the curse technique.
This curse, which could only be released through bloodlines, was vicious yet did not require a high cultivation base.
However, to lift the curse, it had to be done by a cultivator whose cultivation base was many times higher.
Yue Qingqing and her grandmother had agreed, so she specifically picked a day and sent everyone in the family out.
Yue Qingqing took out the prepared grains—millet, sorghum, wheat, beans, and hemp.
She arranged them one by one according to the directions of the hexagrams around Lin Chunju.
Spiritual power floated in the air, transforming into the five different energies of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and lightly descended above the grains.
Lin Chunju, following Qingqing’s instructions, sat cross-legged in the middle like an old monk in meditation, with long breaths.
Images inexplicably emerged in her mind.
All were scenes of her childhood spent with her brother, many of which she had even forgotten.
In these memories, her brother was gentle, patient, and brave.
He would wipe away her tears and give her pretty handkerchiefs.
He would say, “My little sister is so delicate, I must find you a husband who will cherish you.”
When trouble came to the family, it was her brother who shielded her behind him and fiercely told those people,
“If you dare touch a hair on my sister’s head, I will take your lives!”
And there was the sorrow of parting.
Even though boys shouldn’t easily shed tears, her brother cried like a fool.
He kept begging Yue Dashan, “You must take good care of my sister, she is the only one I have.”
How could a brother like that possibly do something so vicious?
Lin Chunju wanted to cry, but her body was uncontrollably rigid, and the tears simply couldn’t fall.
Yue Qingqing gripped the mutton-fat jade, using the spiritual power nurtured within the jade to lift the curse and avoid being backfired upon.
Yet, the entire process went unbelievably smoothly.
The grains were quickly consumed by the spiritual power.
A faint stench lingered in the air.
With a raise of her hand, Yue Qingqing caused the window to be pushed open by an invisible force.
The odor was quickly dispersed by the wind that rushed in.
Lin Chunju’s tears finally began to fall.
She could clearly feel the weight that had been shackling her gradually lifting from her body.
A sense of relief she had never felt before enveloped her whole being.
Looking at the translucent jade in her palm, Yue Qingqing was filled with doubts.
The caster’s spiritual energy… was way too weak.
At most, they were but a fledgling at the Qi Refinement Realm.
And they dared to be an evil cultivator?
But Yue Qingqing quickly realized that this world could not be measured by the same rules as the old one.
To have a cultivator in the first place was already extraordinary, and who knew where this person had acquired their legacy.
Moreover, their cultivation level was already a disaster for ordinary people.
If she had not come to the Yue Family, it’s likely their fortune would have continued to decline until total ruin.
From this perspective, her grandmother must have been someone with profound blessings.
To have withstood thirty years of borrowed luck and survived until now.
It was partly due to the caster’s feeble mana, but it also showed that the people of the Yue Family were quite remarkable.
Lin Chunju made Qingqing promise her, “If there’s ever a chance in the future, Qingqing, you must help Grandma find that person.”
Before the truth of the matter was clear, she was even unwilling to call that person ‘brother.’
The person who was so good in her memories but caused several children of the Yue Family to suffer for so many years.
Yue Qingqing nodded, “Okay!”
Lin Chunju also cautioned, “But be careful yourself, don’t let any accidents happen, your safety is of utmost importance.”
Yue Qingqing laughed, “Heh, if it were before today, she might have been a bit worried.
But after discovering the true strength of the other party, Yue Qingqing rather hoped they would take the initiative to come to her.”
However, before that, she also sent the caster a small gift…
As “repayment” for the past years.