Origins

Still thinking about the behaviour of Hu Lei, he scratched his head in confusion. "Human feelings sure are complex ah..." Bie Feng thought as his mind drifted to his past life and his origins.

Bie Feng was originally a sword that belonged to Tie Cheng's Grandfather, Yu Dong. Yu Dong was a general in the army and passed away on the battlefield, leaving behind his wife and their 16-year-old daughter, Yu XiuFen.

Bie Feng was returned to the Yu Family after the war along with Yu Dong's personal belongings.

Devastated by the death of her husband, Yu Dong's wife committed suicide using Bie Feng to accompany her husband in the netherworld.

This was also the time when Bie Feng's sword spirit was suddenly awakened from the blood of his master's loved one and it started gaining awareness. Of course, because his form is still very weak, he was dormant most of the time.

Yu Dong's brother, Yu Qiu, took over the Yu Family as the head of the Yu Family and arranged for Yu XiuFen's marriage.

Although it seemed like he was being thoughtful, he was actually eyeing on his late brother's fortune and wanted to marry off Yu XiuFen as soon as possible so that he could swallow his late brother's fortune on his own.

To speed things up, he arranged for Yu XiuFen to marry into the Tie Family as a concubine after knowing that the Tie Family's Elders were looking for a suitable candidate for the Tie Family Head, Tie Guang.

Tie Guang is a free-spirited and popular cultivator that is known since young for his good looks. He enjoys exploring the world and comes home only when he feels like it. In his first marriage, he was forced by his family's elders to marry against his will, but he complied because he felt that it was his responsibility.

Even when he got married to his first wife, Madam Liu, he only stayed for a week before he set off on another journey. However, since the first wife was unable to produce a child after many years, the family elders had once again decided for Tie Guang to take in a concubine for that purpose.

Just so happens Yu XiuFen was a suitable candidate from the reputable Yu family.

Although Tie Guang was not happy, he complied again.

When Yu XiuFen married into the Tie Family, Tie Guang came back with the intention to leave after a week. But on the wedding night, he noticed that Yu XiuFen hung up a blue sword on the wall.

Tie Guang walked towards it and observed the familiar sword, thinking very hard and trying to remember where he had seen it before.

"This sword...where did you get it from?"

"This… this sword, Bie Feng, belongs to my late father."

"Your father?"

"Yes… My father, Yu Dong, Former General of the 4th Jin Army."

Tie Guang went into deep thought before looking carefully at his newly married partner. Although she was a teenage girl and he is probably twice her age, she was not afraid of him and even looked straight into his eyes when conversing.

Her light brown eyes held a little familiarity to someone he had met many years ago when he was still a teenager.

"How old are you this year?"

"XiuFen is 16 this year." she lowered her eyes and thought to herself: "You don't even know your partner's age even after we prayed to the heavens and earth. How much of an ass are you!"

Before she married into the Tie Family. She has heard quite a bit about Tie Guang. The handsome cultivator that doesn't care about anything or anyone ...and his only obsession is exploring the depths of the world. Even his first wife was arranged by the elders!

She didn't think it would be too bad to marry him as she didn't have to deal with him most of the time and she could spend more time plotting to take revenge on her uncle. The uncle who forcefully married her off to usurp her family's fortune.

As Yu XiuFen was grumbling in her heart, a dignified voice broke her train of thoughts.

"I think...your dad saved me 15 years ago when I was a teenage boy. He has a mole on his nose, right?"

They both looked at each other and were speechless for a good 5 minutes before Yu XiuFen broke the silence and pointed her fingers at Tie Guang.

"Yo….you...you're that kid my father saved 15 years ago?!"

Tie Guang nodded in embarrassment. How small can the world be that his new concubine is actually the daughter of his benefactor.

Excited beyond belief, the newly married couple spent the entire night talking about Yu Dong and how he had saved Tie Guang's life until the skies were bright.

Back when Tie Guang was just a teenager, he was young, handsome, and was the only heir of the prestigious Tie Family. He even had a 1st-grade wind spiritual root! He was admired by many - Men want to be like him and women want to marry him.

Tie Guang became full of himself and recklessly challenged reputable members of the cultivation world and embarrassed them with defeat.

Because of this, he offended some very powerful people and was poisoned while on a mission and thrown off a cliff. He was lucky enough to survive the fall but he would still die of the poison if not treated.

Yu Dong, who was training in isolation in the forest, found and saved him.

Although the cure-all antidote was given, the poison was in Tie Guang for too long and it had already coated his spiritual root and he would die very soon.

At first, Yu Dong was unsure if this man was a spy from another city, or was someone with ill intention. However, for someone who had just recently become a father, he was sympathetic as this teenager in front of him was about to die.

To save him, he ended up giving the teenager half of his spiritual power to fight the poison around the teenager's spiritual root. Of course, he did not tell the teenager this.

Tie Guang spent the next 6 months recovering from this incident in an enclosed room. Although he was not able to know where he was, he had found out many things about the respectable middle-aged man in front of him.

When he brings over food everyday, he would sometimes sit down and chat about random things. He enjoyed talking about his newborn daughter and his dreams of uniting the country one day.

He also speaks about hoping to be able to explore more of the world so that he could gain more knowledge that could improve the living hood of the common people...and of course, to also tell his daughter of his exploration stories when she grows up.

However, regardless of how many things they talked about, Yu Dong has never revealed his name or who he was. Tie Guang also respected that decision and decided not to ask further.

After making a full recovery, he was blindfolded and led to a city to prevent him from recognizing the way back to Yu Dong. After the blindfolds were removed, the person who saved his life was no longer found.