Chapter 389 - 161: Xu Lei’s Identity Reveal

You could be taking it easy, yet you insist on living this incredibly austere life! If your master were still alive, he wouldn’t want to see you like this either.

Bai Ling, the chances of successfully attaining the Dao aren’t high. And even if you did, I suspect it would be nearly impossible to reverse time! Let alone save someone who died hundreds of years ago!

’After all, this so-called master was me in my past life.’

’So,’ Xu Lei thought, ’shattering this halo around my past self isn’t really a big deal.’

’It’ll keep Bai Ling from being trapped by this and continuing to treat herself so harshly.’

Yes, at that moment, Xu Lei’s heart softened again.

"Don’t you dare insult my master!" Bai Ling froze for a moment. Then, her lovely face turned grim. "What do you know?"

She was furious. "Master did ask me for a small favor back then, but compared to everything he gave me, it was utterly insignificant!

I won’t let a despicable villain like you tarnish his name! I’m not working with you anymore! I don’t want to hunt Demons with you! Get out!

A despicable villain like you could never understand the kind of person my master was! He... he was the best person in the world!"

"What kind of person was this master of yours? I know him better than you do!"

Xu Lei said, cutting straight to the point, "Because I *am* your master!"

Bai Ling froze.

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting?"

Bai Ling’s expression turned ugly. "What wicked scheme are you plotting now? Are you so desperate to have me that you’d pretend to be my master? Isn’t having Qing Lian enough for you? How did a despicable villain like you ever get your hands on Master’s legacy?! You’re defiling it!"

"You’re right. I’m not a good person."

Xu Lei nodded. "But I wasn’t lying when I said I’m your master. And it’s not an act.

I won’t hide it from you any longer. The truth is, I am the reincarnation of the Ancient Spirit Immortal. Though I was killed by those two Enchantresses back then, I didn’t truly die. I was reincarnated.

Because for me, death isn’t final. That’s why I had to send you away back then, when you insisted on staying by my side before I ’died.’

As for why I didn’t tell you before? I didn’t want too many people to know that I am the Ancient Spirit Immortal, or that I can reincarnate.

What else do I have to say to make you believe me? Back then, during the Lantern Festival, we ran into your parents, and I bought you a rattle-drum.

That’s not something I would have specifically recorded as part of my legacy, is it? And you’ve never told anyone else about that, have you?

And think about this—why has Qing Lian been by my side all these years, ever since I was a child, always calling me ’Senior’? Is it really just because my standing in the Buddhist Sect is higher than hers?

Also, why didn’t this master of yours pass down his techniques—the powerful attacks that don’t consume any Magical Power—to you? Why did he leave them for me instead?

If your master was truly so good to you, holding nothing back, why wouldn’t he have passed those techniques on? Why else would you need to come to me for help now, just to hunt a few Demons?

Think about any of it, any of the details, and you’ll know whether I’m telling the truth or not.

The truth is, I *am* the master you speak of. That’s why I never passed those techniques, that legacy, on to you. I kept them for myself."

Bai Ling stood dumbfounded amidst the swirling sand, her beautiful eyes staring blankly at Xu Lei.

"So, Bai Ling, your master wasn’t as good as you think he was. He wasn’t a good person. Or, to use your own words, he was actually a despicable villain."

Xu Lei looked at her again. "You don’t owe him anything. When he took you as his disciple, it was only because he wanted to use your Creepy Spirit ability to get a map of the Eastern Wilderness Marsh.

So you don’t have to live this austere life trying to save him. You don’t have to chase this fantasy of attaining the Dao, ascending, and then turning back time.

Because he doesn’t need saving. He’s been alive this whole time, standing right in front of you."