Chapter 659: Chapter 196: Rescue Qiulong County! Entering the Great Yan Dynasty! (10,000-word Mega Chapter for Subscriptions)_4

He felt that a Heavenly Master who could mentor someone like Daoist Priest Fan must be no ordinary figure.

Unfortunately, there was no opportunity to meet him.

"This is the grave of Daoist Priest Fan’s master, doesn’t that mean it’s the grave of my maternal grandfather, too?" Yun Jiuqing exclaimed, her eyes wide.

"If we consider the familial hierarchy, it indeed is your maternal grandfather," Fan Wu replied.

Hearing such a response from Daoist Priest Fan, Yun Jiuqing felt a complex mix of emotions.

This was, after all, her own grandfather.

Part of her family, wasn’t it?

Yet from childhood to adulthood, she had never met this grandfather of hers. She only knew of him through her father’s words, which painted him as a rather unreliable person.

Yun Jiuqing believed that her father must be deceiving her.

If her already deceased grandfather was truly unreliable, how could he have nurtured a cultivator like Daoist Priest Fan?

It simply made no sense!

At this moment, Liu Feng stood silently behind Fan Wu and the others, feeling as though he was an outsider.

Regardless of what the others were thinking, Fan Wu was, at that moment, gazing at a tombstone.

"You’re back, eh!" Fan Wu whispered to himself in a voice only he could hear: "In my eyes, at first, you were nothing but a swindler bluffing and deceiving. By virtue of your exceptional art of deception, you managed to fool everyone in Qiulong County."

"It was only after the trip to the Imperial City that I realized you weren’t as simple as I had imagined. At the very least, you weren’t just a plain swindler, but one who possibly knew quite a bit of the art of cultivation."

In Fan Wu’s eyes, his master could never be disassociated from the word "swindler."

"You had me retrieve that jade pendant in the Imperial City, and I indeed successfully retrieved it," he continued.

Fan Wu took out the jade pendant from his chest and spoke to himself again: "I can see the text that appears on the jade pendant, and I can also see the relief that emerges on it.

"The text seems to reveal my origins, while the relief shows the design of Qiulong Temple. If I remember correctly, you built Qiulong Temple after you pawned off the jade pendant, didn’t you?"

"That is to say, you had long planned how to construct Qiulong Temple and how to come here and swindle a group of people."

"You might have even thought ahead about how to deceive me once more before your death."

"Tsk."

Fan Wu casually tossed the jade pendant in his hand. The not-so-large pendant arced through the air and landed before the grave of his swindler master.

Crack!

The sound of the jade pendant shattering echoed; the pendant, now broken into pieces on the ground, was emitting a faint radiance.

And the radiance grew brighter and brighter.

Especially in the darkness of night, the light emitted by the shattered pendant was strikingly dazzling.

It drew the gaze of everyone present.

Under the watchful eyes of all, the light emitted from the jade pendant converged into the shape of a person. And such a figure was becoming incredibly lifelike and vivid at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If it weren’t for Fan Wu’s ability to sense that this figure lacked any sign of life...

He might have thought, his swindler master had come back from the dead.

Indeed!

The light from the jade pendant had formed an apparition that looked remarkably like his swindler master!

This figure, slightly hunched, with a face full of age wrinkles, and eyes that were shrewd and cunning, was profoundly memorable at a single glance.

Frankly speaking, Fan Wu’s master, with such an appearance, did not look like a distinguished sage.

Even less so a Taoist.

Yet paradoxically, everyone in Qiulong Temple believed he was a Taoist Priest, and moreover, a Heavenly Master with incredible mana.

"What is this?" Xing Fengzi, standing behind Fan Wu, widened his eyes and couldn’t help asking: "What’s going on here? This... who is this venerated elder?"

"He’s my master." Fan Wu answered Xing Fengzi’s question quite straightforwardly.

"Hiss!"

Whether it was Xing Fengzi, Yun Jiuqing, or Liu Feng, all of them couldn’t help but inhale sharply in unison.

Their faces were filled with shock.

Liu Feng, in particular, stared dumbfounded at the glowing figure and swallowed hard, blurting out in astonishment: "Could it be that this is the soul of Daoist Priest Fan’s master?"

"It’s just an apparition," Fan Wu said. "His soul, I reckon, has long since been reincarnated."

Yun Jiuqing was dumbstruck.

Because, just moments ago, she had been thinking that she felt regrettable for never having met this grandfather of hers.

And now, at this moment.

It seemed that she had.

Although Daoist Priest Fan said it was just an apparition and not truly her grandfather, at least she now knew what her grandfather looked like, didn’t she?

But returning to the matter at hand.

Yun Jiuqing’s expression turned rather odd; if her grandfather looked so unprepossessing, why was her mother so beautiful? Could it be because her grandmother was beautiful and her mother took after her grandmother’s looks?