Chapter 320 143: A Third Life as a Human

This middle-aged male servant and another, thinner middle-aged man boarded the carriage together.

They had Xu Lei's mother hostage as they drove the carriage, making a swift getaway.

Quite a few constables had arrived at the scene.

But at this moment, they didn't dare to intervene.

Xu Lei listened to the discussions of the people around him and pieced together what had happened.

It turned out that these two servants of the Xu family had been lining their own pockets, embezzling a significant amount of the family's wealth.

However, because their indenture contracts belonged to the Xu family, they were bound to them.

So after their crime was discovered, they felt the family would never let them off.

Thus, they decided to act ruthlessly and kidnapped Xu Lei's mother.

They wanted to score big and then disappear for good.

The carriage made its way out of the city.

It arrived in a forested mountain area.

"Can't you let me go now?!"

At this point, Xu Lei's mother said to the two middle-aged men, "The gold, you can take it all!

We promise we won't come after you!"

However, the two middle-aged men exchanged a look but made no move to untie the ropes on Xu Lei's mother.

Their faces turned vicious, and one of them even got a lecherous look in his eye.

"I've never had a pregnant woman before."

The man said, "We have to kill her anyway, so why not have some fun before we do?"

"Fun, my ass."

The other man cursed, "Look at the situation we're in! And you're still thinking about that?"

Their conversation made Xu Lei's mother's face turn pale.

She never imagined these two servants could be so ruthless.

They took the gold, but they were still going to kill the hostage!

Xu Lei hadn't expected this either.

'Initially, I had no intention of interfering,' Xu Lei thought. 'I didn't want to waste my Magical Power on something like this.'

'After all, my family seems quite wealthy. Losing this bit of money is no big deal.'

'Father could just use the constables to hunt them down later.'

But now, it was clear these two scoundrels had no intention of letting his mother go.

Xu Lei had no choice but to channel his Magical Power, projecting it out from his mother's body.

He telekinetically plucked the two hairpins from his mother's hair.

He reversed their direction and sent them flying, stabbing them directly into the two men's carotid arteries.

Blood immediately gushed from both men's necks.

A moment later, they collapsed to the ground, dead.

Xu Lei's mother was stunned. In disbelief, she looked left and right.

After all, her hands and feet had been tied the entire time; she was completely unable to fight back.

Xu Lei quickly withdrew his Magical Power into his body, not helping his mother untie the ropes on her hands and feet.

「Some time later.」

The people from the city finally caught up.

The constables surrounded the area, and Xu Lei's father rushed forward.

The curtain of the carriage was thrown open.

Everyone was shocked to see the two wicked servants dead.

"My dear, what happened?"

Xu Lei's father couldn't help but ask, "Who killed these two men?"

"I don't know either."

Xu Lei's mother was still a bit dazed. "They just… suddenly died."

The surrounding constables were also dumbfounded.

"Could an expert in Hidden Weapons have intervened?"

"Are there really Hidden Weapon masters this skilled in the martial world?"

"A single, fatal strike?"

The constables discussed among themselves.

Of course, none of them suspected an Extraordinary was involved.

Instead, it was on the way back.

"Could it have been the Divine Nun who acted?" his mother said to his father.

"My dear, you mean the Divine Nun you saved?" his father asked.

"Yes. She gave me a bracelet of Buddhist Beads," his mother said. "I've been wearing it this whole time!"

"Could it really be the power of those Buddhist Beads?" Xu Lei's father was impressed, though he didn't fully understand.

From inside the womb, Xu Lei sensed the dark-yellow bracelet on his mother's wrist.

Some simple Arrays were carved into it.

Wearing it for a long time could improve one's Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

For example, it would help one sleep better, among other things.

'A Divine Nun?'

Xu Lei couldn't help but wonder, 'Mother actually saved a Cultivator?'

Of course, his parents' conversation on the matter ended there, so Xu Lei learned no more information about the Divine Nun.

「In the blink of an eye, more than a year passed.」

A year had passed since Xu Lei's smooth delivery.

He was now one year old!

Over the past year, Xu Lei had gathered more information.

His father and mother were a monogamous couple.

His mother had been married once before.

However, her first husband had died, leaving her a widow.

She only married Xu Lei's father afterward.

In his younger years, his father had suffered a series of business failures and hadn't married.

It was only after he got together with Xu Lei's mother that his business began to flourish.

The two of them were deeply in love.

Xu Lei's father had never once spoken of taking a concubine.

They had previously wanted two children.

Now that Xu Lei was born, he was perfectly content.

For the past year, Xu Lei had been growing up just like an ordinary child.

He didn't display any special traits.

He was still too small, after all.

Therefore, Xu Lei hadn't gone to retrieve the Magical Artifacts, Demon Cores, and other things he had left behind from his previous life.

After all, they were still some distance away.

It was very inconvenient to travel when he was this small.

Xu Lei had thought he would be able to continue growing up in peace.

But unexpectedly, that year, the earth dragon turned over—an earthquake struck.

His father and mother were holding him while inspecting their family's furniture store.

That's right, they didn't just own the carriage shop; they had also opened a furniture store and various other businesses.

Suddenly, the earthquake hit.

A massive crossbeam came crashing down toward his father, his mother, and Xu Lei.

Even Xu Lei was a bit stunned.

'I can't believe I'm running into this kind of thing again,' he thought.

Of course, at a time like this, Xu Lei couldn't just watch the beam crush him and his parents.

Instantly, Xu Lei's invisible Magical Power flowed out, giving the beam a slight push and deflecting its path.

However, in the instant Xu Lei's Magical Power resisted the falling beam, it caused the massive piece of wood to freeze in mid-air for the span of a single breath.