The Legends: The Tale of Immortality
Chapter 80: Consciousness

After settling the matter of the group of children that little Yue Qing Ye met halfway through, the two of them finally returned.

Little Yue Qing Ye was left to bathe and get dressed. As usual the bath water had been prepared by the nanny, after which little Yue Qing Ye would enter the low tub to bathe herself and dress herself afterwards.

After finishing her bath, little Yue Qing Ye came out, yet she did not see her nanny who was supposed to be standing in front of the door as usual. The little boy frowned and asked about the whereabouts of his nanny to the other clan members.

But the information he got actually said that his caregiver was in his mother's place.

Little Yue Qing Ye was a little thoughtful when she heard that information. Could it be that her nanny was punished by her mother after learning of the transgression? But he was sure that no one else but the two of them knew what was happening, so there was no way his mother could find out.

Unless. unless his own nanny mentions his offence to his mother.

Little Yue Qing Ye returned to her room and opened one of the books that was in the small library collection inside her room. The boy forced himself to ignore the thought of his nanny. She tried to turn her attention to the book she was reading, but soon little Yue Qing Ye closed the book and bit her inner cheek to reflect her infrequent frustration. Right now he was only alone in the room, so he did not dampen his emotions too much.

Little Yue Qing Ye could not stop thinking about what was going on with her nanny. What if the mother severely punished her nanny and found another clan member to be her new nanny. As soon as this idea appeared, unhappiness invaded the little heart of Yue Qing Ye.

He doesn't want a new babysitter. She preferred to be with her long-observed nanny. If the caregiver is replaced, it means that he should pay more attention to his own safety. What if a new person has malicious intent to harm him?

Little Yue Qing Ye created various logic to convince her mother to withdraw the decision of replacing the new nanny for her. He took a deep breath before ready to depart for his mother's place, but before he got off his bed the familiar aura went into the reach of his spiritual senses.

Yue Qing Ye immediately became relieved and the child calmly sat on her bed to wait for the arrival of the nanny. Usually her nanny would go straight to her after leaving her without any excuse, so Yue Qing Ye was sure that she would soon get an explanation of the nanny's absence.

As the door was knocked, Yue Qing Ye allowed her nanny into her personal space in a serious tone. When the door opened, a faint scent of blood flowed into the child's sense of smell. Little Yue Qing Ye immediately sounded her subconscious alarm and she got up from her bed.

The scene he saw was the face of his nanny who was much paler than usual.

Her nanny girl gave a formal salute as usual before standing up with an upright posture as usual, yet the little Yue Qing Ye who was only two years old could see an awkwardness in the person in front of her. Before he asked, the nanny girl in front of him spoke first.

"Young Master, from tomorrow we will visit Madam for two hours every day."

Little Yue Qing Ye froze. The stiff face he had always maintained suddenly broke. There were emotions of shock, disbelief, and a glimpse of happiness that he was not even aware of.

The nanny smiled broadly and said, "Mistress is the one who told me this. Young Master doesn't need to dress as neatly as ever when meeting Madam, but we can only come to Madam's place after a martial arts training session."

Little Yue Qing Ye looked at the smiling face of her nanny and for the first time she came smiling even though that smile only lasted a second.

Ever since that day, Yue Qing Ye's mood seemed to be happier than before even though she did not show any emotions in public. Every day little Yue Qing Ye visited her mother regularly, even though she had been asked not to be too formal, yet little Yue Qing Ye still maintained proper manners despite being met by her own mother. At the same time the relationship between the little Yue Qing Ye and her nanny girl was also getting closer.

In two years two-year-old Yue Qing Ye had grown into a four-year-old child who had been admired by children her age and even adults. For two years Yue Qing Ye developed rapidly. Her teenage babysitter has also grown a little taller and more mature.

The relationship between the nanny girl and Yue Qing Ye was not very conspicuous and still maintained a normal line as usual, the girl had even switched roles from the nanny identity to the guard Yue Qing Ye.

Only Yue Qing Ye and her own nanny knew that they considered each other an important member of their lives. Yue Qing Ye did not care about the status and identity of her nanny girl, nor would she ask. She only knew that her nanny was her confidant, the one who was able to protect her with all her heart without betraying her. By the time Yue Qing Ye was 3 years old, she had already let go of her suspicions and had secretly given her trust to her nanny girl.

This is a dangerous step.

Everything went smoothly, when little Yue Qing Ye childishly kept a small wishful thinking in her soft heart, that was when her nightmare happened.

At the age of four, on a supposedly peaceful night, a group of assassins somehow managed to break into Yue Qing Ye's room.

The little Yue Qing Ye who at that moment had become a cultivator, swiftly faced the enemy who stepped into her room. The four-year-old pulled the sharp sword hidden behind his pillow and stabbed the unprepared enemy. Two people entered his room through a window.

From his height and body shape, his enemy was an adult man. The two of them were not very strong, from the spiritual power emitted at a glance by the two enemies, Yue Qing could guess their cultivation status at that very instant.

Only level 2 cultivators.

Although the four-year-old little Yue Qing Ye had only entered the path of cultivation not long ago, she was able to easily kill her enemies. His hands were undaunted even when it was his first experience in taking the lives of others. Yue Qing Ye could hear the chaos outside with the noise of battle that did not stop through the open window.

Right at this moment, a familiar voice came from outside the room door.

"Young Master, are you awake?"

Her slow and flat babysitter girl voice carried a hint of urgency in her serious tone.

"Yes, what's going on outside?" yue Qing Ye asked calmly as she swung her bloody sword swiftly and inserted another pair of daggers in each of the slits of her shoes before opening the door.

When the door opened, the sight that entered his eyes made the child's heart sink to the bottom. There was a fire outside, the clan members were fighting with strangers wearing black robes from head to toe. He could sense from the aura of the enemies coming, they were not very strong. There were only level 2 to level 3 cultivators present.

Yue Qing Ye clenched her sword tightly and followed her nanny to avoid the incoming enemies. Everything went smoothly, they only met a group of level 3 cultivators along the way. Doubt rose in Yue Qing Ye's heart, the number of her enemies was too much, yet at the same time this group of strangers was not very strong.

So how could they barge in and be so rampant in his clan's territory?

Suddenly Yue Qing Ye's spiritual senses caught a line of foreign aura entering her radar. His heart sank to the bottom. As he looked to the side, the sight that entered his eyes instantly horrified him.

His nanny girl stood before him with a terrifying sword energy piercing through her body.

As her nurturing girl's body fell, her eyes caught the dark-robed stranger emitting spiritual pressure like a savage beast.

And it was at this time that Yue Qing Ye realized how weak she was. He who was rumored to be a rare genius in his generation, could not even fight against assassins who wanted to take his life. Because of her weakness, the nanny girl who had opened up part of her heart finally died for her.

Before the deadly attack hit Yue Qing Ye, a far more domineering spiritual barrier directly surrounded Yue Qing Ye.

One of the clan elders fell from the sky and cut the enemy into a bloody corpse.

Yue Qing Ye was small who was faced with the terrible death of the enemy who had just become her predator, staring at the corpse of the nanny girl who would never wake up again finally understood what her parents had meant all along. This is his destiny. If she was not strong enough to protect herself, then the end that would await her would be the fate of her nanny girl.

The 4-year-old's young soul is forced to grow much more mature and face this cruel reality. An already cold heart, slowly grew more and more closed as the traces of childish hope flames were blown out.