Cultivator In Control Chapter 9

Ethan Xiao entered a world of nothingness. There was nothing here except himself. There was not even light, and it was pitch dark when one stretched out one's hand.

In a trance, a door appeared in front of me. With an indifferent attitude towards life and death, I walked into the door without any worries.

After walking a few dozen steps, the view suddenly became clear.

A familiar scene came into view: a small wooden house standing on the top of a mountain. It was the small house where Ethan Xiao and his master lived in seclusion in their previous lives.

This is just an ordinary place for the master to stay while traveling around the world.

It's just a simple wooden house built by the master. It can even be said to be a bargain. The master found it in this forest. In order to save a weak me from running around, the master simply lived in this temporary house for a long time. He lived there for ten years.

But it is such a small house that carries all of Ethan Xiao’s childhood memories, all the beauty and all the happiness.

There is my own little bench outside the door, the "painting" I carved on the wooden door, the swing built by the master in the yard, and the small bed I have slept on since I was a child and has been pieced together several times. They are all the same as I remember.

Ethan Xiao looked at the shabby little wooden house that had been eroded by wind and rain for many years, and thought of the huge building complex of the Xiao family...

In the end, everything changed.

The master in this world will not know himself and his secret hut, and will not have these beautiful memories. He will only have memories of Xiao, but that is not her home.

After all, they are just substitutes for each other.

The master in this world is a substitute for the original master, and I am just a substitute for "Ethan Xiao" in this world.

A huge sadness swept over him, and Ethan Xiao couldn't help crying softly.

Ethan Xiao seldom cries, except for the time when her master left. The second time, Ethan Xiao cried so hard that she was out of breath. Her face was tearful and her eyes were red, making people unable to help but comfort her.

"Master, Master..."

"I want my master, master..."

"Wuwuwu..."

Ethan Xiao cried and cried until the sky was dark and the mountains and rivers were shattered.

Until a voice came, "Hey, why are you crying? You are taking an exam, you..."

"No more exams."

"Why?" Blake asked hastily.

"No reason. He is not my master. This is not my home. I don't want to take the test anymore."

"No, wake up. We are in an illusion. This illusion can confuse your mind and bring out the people or things you care about most in your heart, making you indulge in your own fantasy forever and stay here forever."

"I'm awake. I've never been so awake before."

"I was bewildered at the beginning and wanted the master to come back to me, but it was all fake. He was not the master, not the master, not..." Ethan Xiao shouted excitedly and crazily.

"No, he is, he is!!!"

"He is your master. The difference between this world and the original world is only due to the difference in time and space. People, objects, and even personalities remain unchanged. Even if your master no longer has the good memories of you, his love for you will never change. Think about this master. What will happen to him if you are gone?"

"To tell you the truth, the soul of this body is long gone and will never come back. It's up to you to decide what to do!" After saying that, Blake disappeared.

Ethan Xiao knelt in a daze at the door of the cabin, looking at the furniture inside the house that was so familiar that it was engraved in his bones, and the master who seemed to be sitting on the chair. If he took a few more steps forward, he would be able to touch him.

"Xiao Xiao, why don't you come in?" I heard the master calling me in a trance.

"Hurry up and go in, go in, the master is inside." Ethan Xiao's heart was also urging her.

But for some reason, Ethan Xiao couldn't move.

"Heh... I'm really too greedy."

"Greedily gave up the two hours of companionship of the "real" master, wanting the long-term companionship of the "substitute" master."

Ethan Xiao understood his own heart, and finally took a deep look at his "master". After saying "goodbye" to his master, everything in his eyes quickly collapsed and vanished, including his "master".

"Master, goodbye. I will live with your twin brother and my uncle from now on, so don't worry!"

...

"What a shame, she got over her demons so quickly? The girl has a bright future ahead of her!"

Ethan Xiao, who had just stood up, understood everything when he heard the words of the weapon spirit, "So, that was my inner demon!"

"Once you overcome your inner demons, your soul power will surely reach a higher level." Ethan Xiao's mood improved slightly after receiving this good news, and he grudgingly gave the weapon spirit a good look.

"I passed the test, didn't I?"

"Passed, passed. Alas, hundreds of years have passed, and I didn't expect that such an astonishing little genius would appear. She's a little girl, but it's a pity that she is not of the Xiao family's bloodline." The spirit of the weapon said regretfully.

"What's there to pity? I don't care about the bloodline of your Xiao family. Look at the current Xiao family. Apart from my master, there is only one other person worth looking at, and that is the Patrick Leader. It is rare to see someone who treats the Patrick Leader as cowardly as he does." Ethan Xiao laughed sarcastically, looking at the wall where the spirit of the weapon was in front of him, and sneered.

"As the saying goes, kindness cannot lead an army, and gentleness cannot govern a country. An indecisive old man like him only thinks about his flesh and blood relatives all day long, and spoils those side branches and children to the point of tearing down the roof. He doesn't have the demeanor of a head of a family at all."

"That is..."

"What is that? Because the Xiao family's bloodline is declining, no matter what the side branches do, they cannot be punished?"

"Let me ask you, how did the other members of the direct lineage, that is, my master's parents, die?" Ethan Xiao said.

"this..."

"I think you should tell the truth. After all, I am the heir of the Xiao family now, right?" Ethan Xiao "threatened" coldly.

"Huh... It's just what you think. Your master's father is dead, and your master is a waste. The only ones who can inherit the Xiao family are those two side branches. There is no other way..."

"How foolish! How foolish! Do you think that if you let them go, they will mend their ways and revitalize the Xiao family?" Ethan Xiao roared.

"No, they will only become more outrageous. Now they are killing brothers and sisters-in-law. Will they kill fathers and mothers in the future? Then all the people in the Xiao family must be killed, and no one can hinder them from inheriting the Xiao family. Only then will they give up? Is this what you want to see?..." Ethan Xiao pointed at the weapon spirit's nose and cursed, and he kept talking, shocking the weapon spirit.

The weapon spirit was speechless. It had no blood relatives, so it didn't agree with this kind of behavior of swallowing one's anger and helping the evil, but...

It is just a spiritual weapon passed down from generation to generation. It is also a means of protecting the Xiao family. But after all, it is not a human being. How can it have such high wisdom?

Besides, I am not the patriarch.

Don't blame me for everything, okay?