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“Take a deep breath in…. now breathe out…”
Sun Fuyu quietly used his wind qi to help spread Wen-ge’s voice far and wide.
Nearby junior cultivators swayed on their feet as a sleepy feeling struck them. The cats yawned unashamedly and cozied up to Wen Zhihao.
The calming stones, scattered across the plain and in the possession of humans and cats alike, resonated with the calming aura. The calming aura’s range was boosted from the righteous cultivators’ side all the way to the demonic cultivators’ side.
Zhou Sheng and Lin Yijun halted their movements, as did their opponents.
The demonic pets of various cultivators succumbed next. The feeling made them want to roll over and sleep. In this qi environment, fighting was the last thing on their minds.
Despite being quite individualistic, cultivators still had a sense of peer pressure. When the others around them stopped fighting and shouting and jumping, they too reconsidered their actions.
The Heavens above realised what was wrong. Who is that cultivator? This soul is not from this world! The lightning that had gathered in the clouds had nowhere to go.
“Cease that nonsense,” Elder Wang spat out. His cultivation was far beyond the little aura that Disciple Wen put out. “This is a war. Do your duty and fight!”
“But I don’t want to,” Wen Zhihao said calmly. “Elder Wang wants to fight. If any demonic cultivators consent to fighting, then you can all amuse yourselves. However, I have more important things to do. Leave the rest of us in peace.” Wen Zhihao glanced at Zhou Sheng. “If any cultivator has been unlawful, enslaving or killing or assaulting others, then those crimes need to be brought to light and the individual cultivators dealt with in a proper manner.”
Zhou Sheng smirked slightly. “Indeed. I won’t even kill you or hurt you.” Any ‘hurt’ you feel would be your own doing.
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“Stop preaching your stupid hypocritical peace!” a senior demonic cultivator sneered. “We haven’t had a war in hundreds of years, it’s time to see who really is the strongest!”
“Tch, we righteous cultivators have won every war,” a senior righteous cultivator retorted.
“Ah, if that is what you want…” Wen Zhihao rubbed his hairless chin. His eyes brightened as he found a solution. “To truly determine who is strongest, you must hold a tournament. The winner of the tournament will be the most powerful and skilled champion cultivator.”
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But a war was messy, and survival was affected by luck. It also adversely affected everyone’s quality of life. In contrast, a tournament had economic benefits, was orderly, and didn’t require Wen Zhihao’s participation.
It was time to lay it thick to these big bosses.
“Fellow Cultivators, consider this little one’s words,” Wen Zhihao began. “In a war, your beautiful skills and powerful moves will be forgotten, and in the end, only the survivors will be remembered. But in a tournament, you can showcase your compelling, impressive, domineering power. Use your skills and your treasures to overwhelm your opponent in a fair fight, and gain the recognition of peers, righteous and demonic alike. Why, if you believe so much in your own strength, the tournament can even be open to rogue cultivators. The winner’s name will be known across the entire cultivation world.”
“To judge, we can have a representative from each Sect. There will be multiple streams, for each cultivation-level bracket,” Lin Yijun said. Having previously helped organise the Intra-Sect competition in the Golden Sun Sect, Lin Yijun had tournament administration experience.
“And those who win can definitively say that they are the best, the top of the peak of all other fellow cultivators in their class,” Zhou Sheng said. “Though, I’m obviously the best among Nascent Soul cultivators, so there is no need to hold that competition—”
“Suck eggs, Zhou Sheng!” a Blood Sect cultivator yelled. “Hold the damn tournament, and we’ll show you who’s best!”
“That’s right, hold it!”
“Tournament to show who is the top immortal!”
“Hold the tournament! Who’s scared of fighting one-on-one? NOT ME!”
“Tournament! Tournament! Tournament!”
Lin Yijun looked over the crowds of cultivators. How different it was from his past life. Instead of the ravaged flowers and pockmarked landscape caused by fighting, there was this.
And most importantly, there was Zhou Sheng standing by his side. Lin Yijun was glad for this second chance at life.
The lightning under the dark clouds disappeared. This wasn’t why Lin Yijun was given a second chance..! There was supposed to be a bloody war! But without any death, there couldn’t be rebirth. Teeth could only be gritted, feet walking away in frustration.
The air over the plain suddenly lightened as the Heavenly pressure disappeared.
Lin Yijun raised his voice above the chanting. “In that case, each sect, please send a representative and we may start planning the tournament immediately.”
Rowdy cultivators cheered.
Wen Zhihao secretly let out a sigh of relief. He was glad that Lin Yijun decided to take charge and organise the tournament, because Wen Zhihao sure didn’t. He turned to Sun Fuyu.
“It looks like Senior Lin has everything under control. We can return back home.”
Sun Fuyu hesitated. “But all your calming stones…”
Wen Zhihao rubbed Sun Fuyu’s hair. “I’ll make you some more, it’s easy.”
Thankfully, none of the cultivators who had scrambled so desperately for a special heart-soothing treasure heard Wen Zhihao’s words, or else they’ll be coughing up blood.
Hu Jingyan felt a heavy stone in her heart drop. Her shoulders lightened. “Yes, let’s go back. Sun-shidi, your Wen-ge has interesting ideas.”
Sun Fuyu straightened proudly. “En!”
Wen Zhihao smiled sheepishly. “Thank you, Hu-shijie.” He nudged the cats sprawled around him. “Come on, let’s go home, ba. After all this business, I think it’s time for lunch…”
Meanwhile, the senior cultivators in the Golden Sun Sect gathered to discuss their next steps.
“I say, Elder Wang, a tournament is not a bad idea.” The senior Golden Sun Sect cultivator who spoke was not of anyone’s faction, but still held a lot of sway in the sect.
Elder Wang’s heart burned with anger, but when the other righteous sects started to agree to a tournament too, there was nothing he could do to stop it. He hated to admit it, but without the support of others, he could not wipe out the demonic cultivators alone. This…this was all the fault of that Disciple Wen! And that, in turn, made it Elder Liu Ru’s fault!
Fighting Elder Liu Ru was not possible, but as for Disciple Wen—damn it, curse him! For Disciple Wen was leading a crowd of disciples away, and he was surrounded by the demonic beasts…And that accursed sword too! When did it escape?!
Sun Fuyu secretly praised Wen-ge’s sword for its fast and amazing actions. If the sword had a tail, it would be wagging proudly. And later, when Wen Zhihao was not looking, the sword sneakily returned to the spatial ring where it rested, Elder Wang none-the-wiser.
Another work that I’ve been reading on Chrysanthemum Garden is Life is a Game. I even made some fanart for it for the CG 10k event 🤣
The Daily Eggplant has more and more novels! And there is now a tagged list that should be easier to navigate and pick what you like, too~
Wen Zhihao why are you so smart?
Thanks for the chapter!
phew, I’m glad you find him smart!! Thank you for reading (≧▽≦)
Why do I feel like there’s someone scheming behind the curtain?
Nice twist of events 👍
Thank you for the hard work
cough cough maybe because there is…? |▽//)
Thank youuuu
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Thank you for the chapter~ good, good, a tournament is good too, very good, as a peace loving reader, I very much support this! <3 ^^
Yay!! Thank you for your support!!!
war? what war? its lunchtime!! oh well…🤭
thank you for the chapter 💛
LUNCH TIME IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!
Why do I feel like rewatching mortal kombat suddenly?
I was thinking Yu Yu Hakusho myself…
👀 I don’t know mortal kombat, what’s the connection? 👀
Video game that became movie. Cheesy.
Fighting to save the fate of the world! Netflix it. Or: https://youtu.be/79b_Un9UO60
…not that Wen Zhihao does much fighting at all 😂😂😂😂
It’s so… innocently. Very Thx for the chapter ~
🤭🤭 that’s the whole vibe of this novel, though!
I love this so much- He is going to break through to the higher realms just- napping and enjoying the tournament. crying
🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 thank you, thank you!
I’m starting to think the estimated total chapters of around 100-110(?) will not happen… 🤣
with the mystery of the heavenly tribulation pov, the story might be longer! lol
!!!! Let me go and update the estimated total chapters again 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ahh yes, I need to write a scene about this mysterious heavenly party….
200 chapters was a small estimate on my part. cackles Also this story is far too good to let it be stopped too soon- it makes me smile and feels warm in a hard time with not many smiles.
author cries thinking about writing that many chapters 😂😂
we need to find our fishy author a nice Sun to work with. Fishies seem happiest when working with their Sun after all. :3
oh, a nice Sun to work with sounds nice ; _ ;
Well, I was close 😀
But the Heavens are SUSPISIOUS. I don’t like them. They may hurt fishy! 🏹
ahh, the power of Wen Zhihao’s luck! Truly OP!
hehehe the Heavens are a bit suspicious~~
Thanks for the chapter! I’m going to go with the assumption that when certain powers began meddling with rebirth and all that, that caused a ripple effect that led to transmigrators slipping in… either because natural laws were tampered with and this was a side effect, or because while one force appears to push for war, another wants to stop it. Elder Wang needs a heavier smack across the nose with his warmongering…
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cough cough no comment….
Thanks for reading!!!
So there’s a higher being (or beings?) that makes LYJ and ZS reincarnate? From the look of it, they seem to have malicious intent. Hmmmmmmmmmm………
hmmmm, well, in xianxia, there are always higher beings, aren’t there? 🤭
Pero, en todo ese asunto apareció un dios malvado desconcertante … que colocó a un pescado salado para dar terapias de gatos a estos malvados.
salted fish giving cat therapy is a good thing though!
10,000 years from now, 2 sects have broke off all possible relationships with each other and thus had no choice to use a method that was created by their ancestor.
THE WAR TOURNAMENT – THE ULTIMATE PK. 3 Strikes = 3 Lives and bets must be placed before the game starts. The 2 contestants must sign a liability waiver before hand. So let us begin, the competition of this generation.
Thanks for the chapter!!
😂😂😂😂😂 WELL, that’s definitely really orderly!
Wen Zhihao so relieved when they take the bait and leave him alone 🤣.
He’s lucky for the Zhou Shengs and Li YiJuns of the world picking up the slack and planning the tournament. Now he can go nap in the sun 😊
Life is a Game sounds so cute. Thanks for the rec and for the website!
Wen Zhihao was very, VERY relieved 😂 the work is now all pushed onto the seniors~
And thank you for reading the end of my authors note about the rec and website!
I’m always happy for good recs, even if my to-read list is already so long 😅. So, thank you 😊
🤗🤗🤗🤗 and maybe you could join the (whispers) discord server too?
Oh yeah, I forgot about the discord server. Probably because I don’t really use discord 😅, but I could check it out. Thanks for the invite!
ahh, yes, I myself should use discord less hahaha. No pressure to join!
Now deal with it!
thanks for the chapter~
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Heavenly pressure dudes plans were thwarted by a tournament 😂…. I think WZ’s sword deserves a name
ah yes, I should indeed give Wen Zhihao’s sword a name 🤭
What war? Lunchtime!
exactly! lunch time is very important!
Waaait~ sword-chan can come in/out in wzh’s spatial ring!? WHAT!?? 😂 😂
And that is definitely a flag wzh when you said you wouldn’t be involved in the tournament…. 😂
HAHA 😂😂😂 he’s gonna try hard not to be involved lol
yep! unlike Sun Fuyu who might carry his sword at his hip sometimes, Wen Zhihao keeps his sword in storage…spatial storage 😂
And sword chan has acess~ w/o it’s Master’s awareness ~~
*That’s one dope sword!
yep, the sword is pretty smart 🤭🤭🤭
Hahaha Weng ge is so brilliant!
Thanks for the chapter author-sama
I’m glad you think he’s brilliant! Thank you for reading!
He reminded me of the saying ” if you want to find the more efficient way to handle something, give it to the laziest person and they will find an easy solution” 😂
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This was great, I loved this chapter!!!
Thank you!
Thanks for the chapter! A tournament is a lot more fun, lol. I love the “don’t wanna” attitude. War, meh, it’s time for lunch, a much better use of his time…
I’m glad you agree that a tournament is a lot more fun than a war lol!!! Priorities!
Even the sword can defeacted😂😂😂
Wen Zhihao’s sword is very amazing!
By far makes the most sense.. bravo
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jajaja al final el que tiene el corazón oscuro es el anciano Want… pero… te deseo suerte, entre el qi de Wen He, los gatos “esclavizadores” de su humano durmiente y SY, ah, también el lobo… creo que… recibirás terapia de gatos jajaja
heheheh Elder Wang can’t win~
Heavens…who the hell are they. I’m suddenly curious about their identities…
just some random gods loll
OMG I’M A GENIU–cough
Thank you for your hard work , author-sama!
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hehehehehe, thank you, lovely reader~!
As expected there are blood thirsty elders in “righteous sect” like Elder Wang. This kind of leader is what makes a sect fall and innocent lives lost because of his need to kill people he “deemed unrighteous”.
Yeah :(((
What a great sword! It begun the end of the war!! A praise worth sword!
It’s a very good sword!
praise our mischievous sword 😍😘
it’s a very good sword! ^_^
This is definitely Hobbit mentality! 😄 “Adventures? Hm, okay, but not if they make you miss supper…”
Who is that mysterious entity pulling strings (or trying to) behind the scenes, I wonder? 🤔
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, those hobbits have their priorities in the right order!
This reminds me of a 1968 movie starring Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard called, “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” A toucan spreads a virus that makes everybody feel good – no illness, just happiness – euphoria. The world’s governments are in a tizzy because nobody wants to fight anymore. It’s the kind of idea that can make a person feel really hopeful about the possibility of human beings at peace. A simple idea that can carry such a strong feeling of yearning.
Awww a neat virus! Peace is the ultimate wish fulfillment…
I’m super duper late buttttt the sword is the highlight of this chapter lmaooo
NEVER LATE! 😏😏😏😏 I’m glad you liked the sword!!!!
Thank you for the chapter!
Thank you for reading!