"Shi Xiang!"
"Shi Xiang!"
Two voice could be heard calling out for Shi Xiang, one male, one female. The male's voice was nothing special, but the other...
The elegance can be felt just from hearing, as if a cooling sensation is emitted with the sound. One could even mistaken this with the voice of a fairy, descending from the heaven.
This person is Shi Xiang's master, Shao Jingyi. Her past is mysterious, not related to any of the known sect, yet her cultivation is extremely high. When beating Shi Xiang senseless, even the mighty cultivators from house Hu has reservation about killing the young man for fear of his master. Even if Shi Xiang is a dog, you have to look at who his owner is. It is just that, at that moment Shi Xiang was too stubborn.
"Was I too late?" Shao Jingyi mutters.
"This debt, I will not forget." She looks at the burnt remain of Shi Xiang's home with hatred. Even she could not afford to offend the house of Hu due to their backing, but if she...
"Master was weak." The voice she used was filled with emotion.
It has been 5 years, she remembers instructing the young boy into the path of the Dao clearly. He was just a young boy then, now he is a fine young man, fighting for what is dear to him. If only she could have provided assistance... but the boy did not want to involve his master and take matter into his own hand.
"Senior! Here. I found him."
The fairy immediately steps toward the direction of the voice. The footwork was so mysterious that it did not resemble any of the Eight Sanctum continent's martial art. In the Eight Sanctum continent, Martial Dao rules over all. Men are expected to be man, standing strong under the heaven. Each of their martial art technique was extremely violent, emphasizing strength above all. The subtle and quiet footwork of Shao Jingyi was almost unheard of.
When she found Shi Xiang, her heart almost jumps with worry.
"His cultivation is rapidly dropping?"
Dropping.
After the conversation with two great masters, how could his cultivation stays normal? Each word was almost equal to a heavenly law, shaking Shi Xiang's being to the very core. How could it not react?
The problem is the conflicting instruction.
"The Hu family is too merciless! They beat him so much that his cultivation has dropped. Combined with the shock of seeing his home being burnt down, I'm afraid it will have consequences. His future-"
The male approaches Shi Xiang with the intention of helping the injured young man, whose injuries was so bad that three days later it still didn't heal, but Shao Jingyi raises a hand to stop him.
"Don't disturb him. He is cultivating. I don't know how this come about, but if we interfere now, I feel the consequences will be far greater."
"Cultivating? In the middle of the road?"
Indeed now that he looks at Shi Xiang, it looks like he is cultivating, he is sitting on the ground with his center stable and both eyes closed.
"It seems he instinctively cultivates to stabilize his realm after the trauma. But the trauma was too deep that even that is not enough, his cultivation will drop. But at least he will keep his cultivation..."
Even with her mysterious background, even Shao Jingyi could not see through what is happening and has a misunderstanding. The entirety of the Eight Sanctum continent practice Martial Dao, so how could they understand the Spiritual Dao? Even if they understand the Spiritual Dao, without profound spiritual sense, even masters would be baffle by what is happening.
Shao Jingyi has one mistaken assumption, the drop in cultivation will not stop. Effectively, Shi Xiang's entire cultivation base will be absolve.
Of course it will be absolved! How could such normal base stand in the face of the profound Dao of two masters one step beneath the heaven?
It's like a man who has been eating sand and rock his whole life suddenly eating high class cuisine for the first time. He will realize everything that he has eaten before was just shit in front of the real thing and reject it. In this case, Shi Xiang's entire being is rejecting the cultivation base he has gained over the years. It is the self realizing everything is wrong, that its cultivation base was just waste, polluting his body.
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And for the waste, it has to be rejected by the body. After everything has been ejected out, the body will rebuild itself, to better fit the true path of the Dao. So great was the law of Zheng Jie and the Black Devil that even a one in trillion event, unheard of under the heaven like that can happen.
Of course both of them didn't know that.
"The Hu family may come again in pursuit of Shi Xiang."
"I would like to see them try. This fairy is here, who dare to harm my disciple? Until he finishes his cultivation, I will be standing here."
Three days.
After three days, Shi Xiang will finish rebuilding his body.
And when that happens, his future will be limitless.
"System Notice:
Mission: Advice a young man on the path of the Heavenly Dao. (Complete)
Description: Overturned the Heaven and Earth to perform a miracle, you have joint force to give a young man a balance education on the path of the Dao!"
Sect Master Zheng Jie almost spits out blood. Join force? Who would join force with a devil path cultivator? If anyone read the words, his reputation would be dragged through the dirt, the shame would be so great that even a thousand death would not be enough. And worst of all...
Devil Path Ancestor Yan Yu on the screen was taking the opportunity to type down some profound Devil path cultivation techniques. Shi Xiang did not see it because he was deep in cultivation, but Zheng Jie did. And the more he did, the angrier he became. So angry he was that he did not notice the System Notice about the reward.
"You despicable Devil. Just wait! Just wait, after three days this sect master will have a word with you."
"System Notice:
Mission: Advice a young man on the path of the Heavenly Dao.
Reward: The many path of Reincarnation (limited) unlocked (Sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Zheng Jie; Shi Xiang)
Mini map unlocked (Devil Path Ancestor, Yan Yu)"
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"Saving life from entering the Devil path is more important than a banquet?" A masked figure mutters.
"How did he know?" The figure stays silent after that, as if reminiscing. On his hand, he is holding a jade tablet. He is looking at it with fondness, but then, the atmosphere around him turns ugly.
"That hateful man! We have to accelerate our plan. He may have known of our presence, but he couldn't have known about our plan. Else, with Zheng Jie's temperament he would have personally come and kill us all, that hypocrite."
"But how would we do that lord?" Other figures in the shadow ask.
"We will continue with the banquet plan... Pressure Lang Li into attending, the sole disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect's Sect master... If Zheng Jie didn't come, and Lang Li also didn't come, wouldn't it be like slapping the face of the Zhang family? She will come... And when that happen, give the wine meant for Zheng Jie to her!"
A shrill laugh can be heard from behind the mask. The stranger is a... female!
"That talentless girl will no doubt fall. I refuse to believe that there isn't a trait of doubt inside those hypocrites' heart. Practicing celibacy their entire life, detaching themselves from emotion their entire life...
That girl will be a good victim. And then we will have a personal love slave with direct access to Zheng Jie."
The mad laughter continues.
With a wave of her hand, the masked figure dismisses the subordinates present.
She continues to hold the jade tablet with care.
"This is what you wanted isn't it... master?"
On the tablet, a prophecy was carved a long time ago.
"Standing under the heaven, straight and firm.
Karma returning, the heavenly saint turn into...
The heavenly devil."
The female figure starts dancing, holding the jade tablet close to her heart.
"His karma will catch up to him... that hypocrite."
What she is thinking, perhaps only she knows.