Edited by Elanor
In the cultivation world, the name Esteemed Lord Lianhua was basically synonymous with God.
Not to mention that his core disciples were revered as the Three Saints. Nor that his grand-disciples and great-grand-disciples controlled the entire cultivation world’s Six Great Sects. Even the humblest servants who had swept his courtyard were now all the brightest and best leaders of their own sects.
Anything the Esteemed Lord Lianhua touched, even a single flower or blade of grass, would be extraordinarily blessed with good fortune and the ability to enter the Dao.
Okay, that’s enough, you could now see how supreme this Esteemed Lord’s existence really was.
And right now, this Esteemed Lord Lianhua who could shake the three realms with the movement of a single finger… was troubled.
After a hundred years of closed-door cultivation, he had finally spied upon the Dao of Heavens. He originally thought ascending to the Heavens was in sight, but he could never have imagined the scene that actually greeted him…
Amongst the clouds, the brilliant rays of the setting sun flooded the sky. The collapsed Heavenly Staircase transformed into stars, scattering and falling in all directions. Their dim twinkling light, like forest fireflies, was so weak and faint that it chilled one’s heart.
Upon closer inspection, the outline of the Heavenly Staircase was still visible. But with its foundation gone, there was no way to advance a single step.
For thousands of years, not a single person in the cultivation world had ascended.
Shen Qingxian had believed it was because the previous Sages’ Daoist hearts were insincere and hence they could not pass the Heavenly Abyss. He had not thought of the possibility that the path to the heavens had crumbled, cutting off the road to ascension.
In the end, Could he only go this far?
After his Shifu ascended, was his generation destined to stop here?
It didn’t only affect him——after the collapse of the Heavenly Staircase, those after him would also be only able to reach till this step.
Bitterly cultivating, painstakingly pursuing the Dao… and finally only reaching this end, without a road to the Heavens.
How could he willingly accept this?
Shen Qingxian closed his eyes and clasped his hands together. All of a sudden, a wave of dazzling light rose from the ground which was an extremely magnificent radiance. Even in this windless, soundless, and intangible world, the brilliance set off a majestic force like the oceans reaching the sky!
The radiance swelled and expanded. It covered the heavens and earth with its overwhelming power, as if the midday sun had descended into a pitch-black night, illuminating the world in an instant.
Shen Qingxian had used this method once before, six hundred years ago.
At that time, a feud between two of his disciples had expanded into a fierce battle which resulted in living beings getting burnt into charcoal, and which turned several cities into ashes.
Shen Qingxian had used this method to pull back the lives of a hundred thousand living beings, returning everything to its original appearance.
And this powerful restoration method… did not even stir up a ripple on the Heavenly Staircase.
Was restoring the Heavenly Staircase… actually just a delusion?
Shen Qingxian was just thinking this when an unexpected scarlet bolt rose towards the sky. Immediately afterwards, a jade-colored beam of light appeared, suspended on the outline of the collapsed Heavenly Staircase.
This was…
Shen Qingxian stared intently, managing to make out an object within that brilliant red radiance.
A scroll of jade strips.
Shen Qingxian cautiously approached. He extended his hand to touch it, and a whiff of unfamiliar yet extremely strong spiritual energy flowed into his palm.
The radiance dissipated and the jade scroll unfurled. With forceful brushstrokes, a line of text appeared on its surface: “The Path of the Heavens has fallen, there is no gateway to ascension. If you desire to restore it, you can act according to the directions of this jade scroll.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
“Efrabgf la?” Vtfc Hlcuzljc rboais ktlrqfgfv, “Pr la qbrrlyif ab gfrabgf la?”
Cr lo la kjr gfqislcu ab tlr kbgvr, jcbatfg rwjii ilcf bo afza jqqfjgfv bc atf pjvf rmgbii: “Mlgra, wffa klat Xe Aljcrtfc.”
Gu Jianshen?
Vtfc Hlcuzljc atbeuta obg j wbwfca. Ktf oluegf bo j wjc kfjglcu mglwrbc gbyfr, olfgmfis raeyybgc jcv jggbujca, jqqfjgfv lc tlr wlcv.
The Heart Domain’s Demon Emperor Jiuyuan?
The cold wind rustled, the snow and frost covered the whole sky. Stretching a hundred li, the towering Wanxiu Mountain reached the clouds, as if it could touch the heavens themselves.
Shrouded in clouds and mist nestled a great hall with blue tiles and high walls, cold and desolate in its quiet seclusion, like an immortal island in the ocean.
No one had set foot in this great hall for many centuries, yet today it was abnormally lively and bustling. Outside, countless disciples bowed. Inside the hall, incense burners were lit and spiritual tea were steeped. Amongst the ethereal misty fragrance, several cultivators in full regalia sat facing each other.
On the left upper side, a man in green slapped the table and stood up: “Discuss the Dao with demonic cultivators? Fourth Elder, are you crazy?!”
Below him, a comely man said: “Shixiong, do not be impatient. For now, listen until Ziliang finishes talking.”
Although Zeng Ziliang was the Shidi of these two men, he looked obviously older than them. His appearance was also more grave and steady: “The Only Heart Palace sent an invitation, you can all see it for yourselves.”
The green-clothed male became enraged: “When this kind of Demon Palace sends letters over, just directly throw them into the fire!”
Zeng Ziliang looked at him and spoke with deep meaning: “It is in Imperial red color.”
The green-clothed man abruptly paused.
The comely man with ink-black hair took over the invitation. After glancing it over, his pupils suddenly contracted: “Demon Lord Jiuyuan personally wrote this?”
Zeng Ziliang sighed heavily.
With this, even the irascible green-clothed man calmed down.
You could hear a needle drop in the complete silence that filled the hall.
These six people were all disciples of the same master, alongside the Three Saints. Although each one led their own sect, they all cultivated the Dao of the Heavens and were all proteges of the Esteemed Lord Lianhua. As a result, they had inseparable relationships and rapport with each other. In the case of a large-scale event, they would all gather at Wanxiu Mountain, conferring and deciding together.
Zeng Ziliang spoke first: “Shizun is wandering the earth and has not been seen in the last hundred years. We have no way to consult him. We must receive Demon Lord Jiuyuan’s scarlet invitation in one way or another.”
Like a hot potato, the invitation before their eyes ended up on the warm jade table, as if it burned with blazing flames.
Where the Path of the Heavens had the Esteemed Lord Lianhua, Demonic cultivation had the Venerable Emperor Jiuyuan.
Not to mention these six people——even if the Three Saints were present, they would furrow their brows in worry at seeing this invitation.
Go? How could the dignified and orthodox Path of the Heavens go discuss the Dao with those demonic cultivators that deceived and defied the natural order?!
Don’t go? That Demon Lord Jiuyuan might use this as an excuse to cause trouble, stirring up a reign of terror and carnage!
The green-clothed man Ye Zhan said: “You’re all cowards! If you want to go, then go ahead. In any case, I, Ye Zhan, am definitely not attending this meeting!”
Zeng Ziliang said: “Ye Zhan Shixiong, do not let your emotions affect your decisions. That Demon Lord has a sly and treacherous disposition. This is his personally written invitation, if we don’t go…”
Ye Zhan interrupted him: “If it comes to killing or cutting off his flesh in punishment, I would definitely not hang back. But you want me to cater to that devil? Impossible!”
“Speaking of which….” the comely man Cheng Jing murmured for a moment: “….why is Gu Jiuyuan sending us an invitation?”
“Might as well go….” a lazy voice sounded from the man with hetero-chromatic eyes sitting in the corner, “in the past few years, the Heart Domain has grown considerably more powerful. If we go check this out, we can know ourselves and know the enemy.”
Ye Zhan sneered: “You’re going to the meeting? Are you going to seek refuge from that devil?!”
The man with hetero-chromatic eyes smiled idly, declining to answer.
Zeng Ziliang: “The old regulations——majority rules.”
After his words fell, Zeng Ziliang took the lead: “I’m going.”
The man with hetero-chromatic eyes waved a lily-white hand: “I’m going too.”
The beautiful woman to his lower right also softly murmured agreement.
Ye Zhan looked at Cheng Jing right beside him.
Cheng Jing’s eyelashes lowered. He paused for a moment and then said: “I’m also going.”
With these four people, there was a majority agreeing to attend. Having maintained his refusal to go, Ye Zhan didn’t say another word and stormed out.
The instant he exited the door, a ray of brilliant sunlight rose towards the sky. In an instant, the harmonious songs of magical birds and beasts sounded all over Wanxiu Mountain
The other five people within the hall abruptly stood up and hurried to the door of the hall.
The scene outside was one of mind-blowing and breathtaking supreme beauty!
In the blink of an eye, the original icy winter environment had returned to a flourishing spring. In that shroud of radiance, the lonely cold had dissipated, replaced by mild warmth. The grasses and trees swayed in the welcoming wind, ten thousand flowers stretched their branches to bloom and blossom. It was as if the entire mountain had come alive, assuming its most graceful posture to welcome the return of its master.
Ye Zhan, Zeng Ziliang, Cheng Jing… these six mighty powers of the world all bowed over in the great salute of disciples.
The disciples standing outside had not yet recovered from their shocked daze. They stared ahead blankly, their lines of sight attracted to that figure in white.
In that extremely bright light, the pale figure in white had become the most dazzling existence.
He wore the most ordinary of white robes, his hair drawn up in the commonest of buns, without even a hint of extra ornamentation. Yet that air of clear ripples pressed down on everything under the heavens.
All hearts beat as one.
When they came back to their senses, every single person was already kneeling on the ground.
——Their bodies were not controlled, it was all freely done from the heart.
In that instant, the only thing that could be felt was sincere devotion and childlike admiration, as well as a flood of indescribable and unspeakable emotion filling the entire chest.
The man at the pinnacle of the Path of the Heavens, the Esteemed Lord Lianhua, the supreme “god” of all cultivators.
“All rise.” Accompanying this voice as clear and bright as the moon, a wave of warm and gentle wind unfurled. All the kneeling people stood up, everyone feeling the same purifying clarity within their bodies. Any areas of pent-up mental stagnation in the past were now flowing unimpeded, and their cultivations improved a lot!
Joy appeared on the faces of the crowd of disciples, and they bowed again in gratitude.
Ye Zhan took a step forward. This sect master, so widely known for his severity and rigidity, was at this moment excited to the point where his thin lips quavered. The sound of his voice was extremely soft and mild: “Esteemed Lord!”
Shen Qingxian raised his hand towards them: “Inside.”
He walked in the front. The other six people followed behind, each one as docile and obedient as the lowest disciples that had just entered a sect.
The younger generations outside were even more stunned, not daring to take a breath. They didn’t even dare to look at the faces of the sect masters, out of fear of offending this superior.
Upon entering the Heavenly Listening Hall, Zeng Ziliang remembered the Demon Lord’s invitation. His heart skipped a beat, and beads of sweat immediately rose to his forehead.
It wasn’t only him——Cheng Jing, the young woman, and the slovenly hetero-chromatic man… At this moment, all of them were anxiously clenching their fists.
The Path of the Heavens and the Heart Domain had had irreconcilable differences and standpoints for the past ten thousand years, with numerous crusades against each other. A thousand years ago, the Esteemed Lord Lianhua had exterminated the malevolent Fallen Corpse clan, badly injuring the strength of the Heart Domain.
The Ideal Heart Palace had sent the Four Death Crossing Generals, whose cultivation ability rivaled the Three Saints. Yet in the end, the Esteemed Lord Lianhua made them yield with ease. That battle had become legend in the cultivation world, passed down to this day.
The Esteemed Lord Lianhua represented the Path of the Heavens. Without a doubt, he surely loathed the Heart Domain to the extreme.
But that scarlet invitation to discuss the Dao was still placed on the table…..
Zeng Ziliang regretted everything. If he had known the Esteemed Lord would come out of his seclusion today, he would have rather died than receive that invitation!
Shen Qingxian sat in the middle of the hall and pressed his hand down: “Why are you all gathered here? Is there some matter that requires deliberation?”
He had not appeared in the past hundred years, but he still understood the rules and regulations of today.
These grand-disciples all led their own sects. They would not gather here if it wasn’t for some large-scale event.
Though he had not concealed the motions of his coming-out of seclusion, he had not notified them ahead of time either. For these six people to all appear here within this short period of time, they must have had previous arrangements.
All the six people did not speak a word.
Shen Qingxian’s gaze shifted slightly, and he caught sight of the scarlet invitation on the table.
The invitation flickered both light and dark. In flamboyant cursive calligraphy was the vivid and eye-popping word “Heart”.
Zeng Ziliang was afraid Ye Zhan would screw him over. He directly knelt down and spoke out loud: “Esteemed Lord, this disciple is guilty!”
Once he knelt, the four people who had previously raised their hands in agreement to attend also knelt at the same time.
Shen Qingxian picked up the invitation letter. He opened it up and looked it over: “Discuss the Dao with the Ideal Heart Sect at the Astral Sea?”
Zeng Ziliang’s sweat had soaked his back from nervousness, but he could only honestly admit it: “Yes.”
It’s over, it’s over….the Esteemed Lord detested demonic cultivation to the bone. Upon knowing they wanted to attend, he will definitely fly into a terrible rage!
As he was about to open his mouth to confess and apologize, Shen Qingxian asked: “Is Gu Jianshen going?”
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The author has something to say:
Zeng Ziliang: This is terrifying. I’m going to be killed by the big boss!
Ye Zhan: You cowards, die!
Shen Qingxian: Well … I can see Gu Jianshen as soon as I come out, which saves me the trouble.
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Zaki~~ It’s me again lovely readers. Thank you for all your support on RSCB, WCSP, N1PB and TUES. Once again I hope you’ll stay with me till we finish this one. Get on CG discord now and grab the tag WAFL and join me as we go through this beautiful and funny novel only here on our favorite site Chrysanthemum Garden. (I haven’t really read it LOL, coz I read as I translate).. I am not a native speaker nor English is my main language, but I will do my very best to translate this for all of you… and as always per rule… Corrections are under your brilliant care… just let me know in the comments, your thoughts, suggestions and corrections 🙂 Thank you and Happy Reading!!
VERY INTERESTING AND PROMISING FIRST CHAPTER! CAN’T WAIT FOR MORE… ESP THEIR MEETING! it must not be the first, right… hm. Thank you for translating!
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Just a heads-up, but the Page for the Novel Description and Chapter List is missing~
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