Chapter 4: Learning from Tan Wan, Cai Er's Reincarnation Ceremony
Although Tan Wan is much older than Xingyuan, she is just a girl in her early teens. Even if her mind is a little more mature, it is not much more than Cai'er.

Xingyuan was sure that she would never reject him, so he took advantage of the situation and wanted to use her connections to get in touch with her teacher.

As expected, looking at Xingyuan's pitiful and aggrieved appearance, Tan Wan felt like his heart was about to break.

Especially when she didn't keep her word, the guilt in my heart became even stronger.

"Sister, I promise you."

Just as Xingyuan had expected, Tan Wan was simply unable to handle the cute, shota-like boy's coquettish attack and was instantly defeated. He agreed to his request in a fit of excitement.

"Do not worry."

However, Tan Wan did not agree to Xingyuan's request entirely on impulse. Instead, she had a certain degree of confidence in her abilities and level, and the worst that could happen was that she would just put in more effort.

After all, she couldn't possibly fail to teach a magic apprentice who had just graduated from the magic class at the academy, right?

"My sister's teacher is the best magic instructor in the entire temple."

Tan Wan grabbed Xingyuan's hand, as if to reassure him, "So just leave the matter of guiding you to become a magician to me."

Your teacher is Li Zhengzhi. I am confident in your work.

"Well, thank you sister."

Xingyuan nodded heavily, and his tearful smile made Tan Wan dazed for a moment, and his heart seemed to skip a beat.

Brother Xingyuan, you look too weird!

If Lan Yanyu hadn't been there, she would have been unable to take her eyes off him.

"Your sister Tan Wan is one of the few geniuses in our Exorcist City branch hall who has been personally invited by the headquarters to receive guidance over the years since it opened."

Lan Yanyu naturally agreed to let Tan Wan guide the early repairs of Xingyuan. Her eyes were full of joy. "You know, even I, your aunt, didn't get such an opportunity back then. If you learn from her, you will definitely make a big splash when you go there."

Xingyuan was able to graduate from the preparatory magic class at his current age. Both Lan Yanyu and Tan Wan had no doubt that he would be transferred from here by the Temple Headquarters and listed as a key training target.

……

After it was decided that Xingyuan would go to the Magic Temple headquarters for training, he was handed over to Tan Wan for guidance. He also moved out of Cai'er's home and lived in the apprentice dormitory of the Magic Temple.

Lan Yanyu, who could be considered half his mother in name, naturally was reluctant to let her "son" Xingyuan move out, but after all, she could see him every day when she went to work, so she reluctantly agreed.

However, she asked Xingyuan to have dinner at her house every night, and to remember to tell her if he couldn't go due to something.

Obviously, with Cai'er and Xingyuan moving away one after another, and her husband Sheng Lingxin not being able to come home for a month or so, Lan Yanyu, a beautiful woman in her twenties, would feel lonely staying at home alone.

However, this has nothing to do with Xingyuan. It is something that her husband Sheng Lingxin should be concerned about.

Speaking of which, Xingyuan just found out that Tan Wan was born in Exorcist City. Because he went home on vacation, he appeared here at this point in time and became his instructor by accident.

According to Tan Wan's idea, Xingyuan should move in and live with her. This way, she wouldn't have to run back and forth between the two places every day, and it would also be more convenient for her to guide Xingyuan.

However, Xingyuan refused to agree to anything and insisted on living in the dormitory of the branch hall, which made Tan Wan think that he was shy and embarrassed to live with him.

Then he felt that his apprentice brother was becoming more and more adorable, and he liked him more and more. But for Xingyuan, he simply didn't want Cai'er to see him moving in with other girls immediately after she left.

Although Cai'er might not be jealous at this time, Xingyuan just felt it was necessary.

Meanwhile, at the Assassin's Temple headquarters.

In the dark cave without sunlight, Cai'er, with wounds all over her body and a pale face, had only despair in her heart. She fell to the ground, without even the strength to move a finger.

Pain, unbearable pain.

Cold, bone-chillingly cold.

"Great, great-grandfather, Dad, why did you do this to me?"

Cai'er didn't know what she had done wrong to be thrown here and tortured.

When she was brought here for the awakening ceremony, both her great-grandfather, whom she rarely saw, and her stern father were overjoyed and excited, praising her as the future hope of the Assassin's Temple...

Then he forcefully stuffed a small tripod the size of a fist, which emitted an unsettling aura, into her dantian through her lower abdomen, and threw an ancient long sword that was taller than her into the air with her.

“Swoosh—swoosh”

Several sharp sword energies that were difficult to detect with the naked eye flew around in the cave, first breaking the originally smooth stone wall into pieces, and then slashing across Cai'er's fair and delicate calves, drawing a line of blood and leaving a long and narrow wound on her body.

My chest hurts...

What caused Cai'er more pain than the external injuries was the gray-white small tripod that was wreaking havoc on her veins.

The tendons and veins in his body were all shattered to pieces, and the spiritual energy that he had cultivated with great difficulty and concentrated in his dantian was completely wiped out.

Although Cai'er's theoretical performance is not as good as Xingyuan's, she is not so ignorant of what the destruction of her dantian, which stores spiritual power, means.

But Cai Er couldn't care about this anymore. She hadn't been able to close her eyes and rest for several days. She was exhausted both physically and mentally. She was hanging on by one breath. She didn't know how long she could hold on...

Outside the cave.

Although seemingly expressionless, Sheng Lingxin's body was actually trembling slightly under the cloak. He crouched down, silently staying beside his grandfather, Sheng Yue, the current leader of the Assassin's Temple.

Feeling that his daughter's breath in the cave was so weak that it was almost as if she was just a thread away, Sheng Lingxin finally couldn't help but speak softly.

“Grandfather, Cai’er can’t hold on any longer, we…”

However, he was stopped in his tracks by a look from the other party.

"Look again."

The old man with white hair and beard was silent for a moment, "If you interrupt the ceremony rashly, all the suffering Cai'er has endured these days will be in vain, and you will be a useless person for the rest of your life.

But if she can survive the test of the Samsara Soul Furnace and the Samsara Sword, reshape her Dantian, and be reborn in Nirvana, she will become the most powerful Samsara Saint in our Assassin's Temple throughout history..."

(End of this chapter)