Chapter 887 - 264: Soul Suppressing Lamp (2)
After a brief contemplation, Chen Yan nodded: "No matter what, let’s sit down and talk first."
"Alright."
Since Shen Shiqi came to visit, he was naturally prepared to have a conversation with Chen Yan.
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"The principal mother’s life has indeed been too bitter." After sitting down, Shen Shiqi’s opening line was unexpectedly such a sentence.
Chen Yan remained expressionless, showing no emotion.
He was naturally indifferent, so if someone tried to persuade him with compassion or sympathy, it would hardly be effective—Chen Yan had always scoffed at moral hijackings.
"The principal mother’s calamities are closely related to the already deceased principal father, and things should start from when the couple founded the welfare institute..."
Shen Shiqi’s tone was steady.
Subsequently, under Shen Shiqi’s narration, Chen Yan heard a rather complex and bizarre story.
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The principal of the welfare institute, Ms. Shen Aiping, married a man who ran several factories, her late husband.
Her husband was surnamed Sun, named Sun Changnian.
He was the only son of a wealthy Sun family. The Sun family was well-off, and after he inherited several factories from the family, he was considered a rich man and managed to expand the business substantially.
However, even though he was the heir of the Sun family, he was not actually of the Sun bloodline.
The elderly Sun couple had no offspring, so they adopted him many years ago and named him Sun Changnian.
Sun Changnian himself was an orphan who was later adopted. After growing up and inheriting the family business, he married Shen Aiping, but unfortunately, the couple was unable to bear children due to health reasons.
After discussion, since Sun Changnian himself was an adopted son, they did not hold strong desires for a bloodline, and decided to adopt children themselves.
Eventually, after some consideration and visits to several children’s welfare institutes,
both were kind-hearted individuals. After visiting several welfare institutes, they were moved by benevolence.
Initially planning to adopt one child, their decision evolved into adopting a group of children.
With Sun Changnian’s successful business and considerable wealth, and both having no significant material desires, spending money to do charitable deeds was their mutual wish.
But later on, something happened to Sun Changnian.
The Sun family had a major rival.
Simply put—two words: blood feud.
The rival had grievances with the Sun family since the old society, and accurately speaking, this resentment had extended for nearly a century.
It seems that a grievance caused by business competition among Sun’s ancestors initially led to mutual win and loss through varied measures, but ultimately, the rival family was utterly devastated.
However, surprisingly, the rival family did not entirely die out...
This opposite family produced a cultivator!
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This cultivator was a posthumous child of the rival family, who, following the family’s demise, wandered and hid in some unknown place, going unnoticed for many years.
Suddenly appearing years ago, he had become a cultivator with considerable divine techniques, employing ruthless methods.
The man returned to avenge the Sun family, but after so many years, only Sun Changnian remained.
This cultivator used vicious tactics in darkness, first disrupting Sun Changnian’s business, then causing an accident that burnt down Sun Changnian’s factory.
Leaving Sun Changnian in dire straits, he watched from the shadows.
Until Sun Changnian had a fortuitous encounter, by chance noticing that someone was secretly plotting against him.
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"While alive, the principal father was magnanimous and charitable, often making generous donations to some temples and Taoist monasteries, befriending some people from outside the world, among whom was someone with cultivation and Taoism practice, discerning that the principal father’s misfortunes during that time were not natural disasters, but rather manmade calamities!!"
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About a hundred miles from Hengdian, there used to be a Taoist monastery.
This monastery was quite dilapidated, but in his youth, Sun Changnian had made a few donations there, getting to know the people within the monastery.
Later, the monastery was dismantled, and the monastery’s two Taoists, one old and one young, were dispersed.
The old Taoist was fine, but when the monastery was dispersed, the young Taoist was just a teenager, raised by the old Taoist from a young age. The old Taoist couldn’t bear to see the kid left without a future, so he asked Sun Changnian for help.
Sun Changnian made an effort, finding a school near his hometown, arranging for the young Taoist to return to secular life and go to school, eventually supporting him through university, even helping him find a decent job in a big city—a job at one of his business partners’ companies.
Because of this favor, the old Taoist always remembered Sun Changnian’s kindness.
After the monastery’s demolition, the old Taoist preserved his Taoist registry but wandered the world, seldom returning, visiting old acquaintances only once every one or two years.
During a visit, he encountered Sun Changnian when problems arose in Sun Changnian’s factory—fires broke out, killing and injuring people. Sun Changnian faced enormous business problems and had to compensate a substantial amount...
Just then, the old Taoist returned from his travels to see Sun Changnian.
At that moment, Sun Changnian was already bedridden with illness.
The old Taoist, after observing Sun Changnian and making a few calculations, told him that a foe had come for revenge!
The enemy was a cultivator with Tao practice, and judging by the methods, he was likely an evil cultivator.