Yijun who was knocked unconscious by the feedback from Zheng Jie's Inner Steel Heart manual suddenly woke up. However in front of her is the person she doesn't want to meet the most right now.

Her "senior" within the sect, in charge of the new disciple.

The woman was a beautiful woman once, but because of her beauty, she was defiled by the vice sect master.

After that day, she hated every beautiful female disciple under her, she hated the vice sect master too, but what could she do? She is a lone woman, insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Ever since Fang Yijun got accepted by being a girl, the woman's temper has changed for the worse, especially since she was admitted by both the sect master and the vice sect master.

Sweeping is the least of Yijun's problem, the woman humiliates Yijun with various tasks like cleaning the toilet, washing dishes, etc, just to show that Yijun is not accepted here. It was only thank to Yijun's scar that the woman finally relented.

But now... all the scars from the vice sect master's jealous lovers are gone.

"You-"

Suddenly, that angry woman says.

But instead of anger, what comes next was understanding.

"It was fake?...Ha ha ha. To think someone under me was smarter than me. Faking her scar so that that hateful man does not come for her."

Suddenly, the woman turns away.

"I will pretend that I did not see anything. Put that back on."

Yijun wanted to question her own luck, but luckily today the great she devil has let her go!

However, that luck did not last.

"Put what back?"

The cultivation of the person saying those words was so great that even Yijun with her earth sense and her "senior" within the sect did not detect his coming at all. They did not detect that he was suddenly standing behind Yijun's "senior" either. But the most important part is that, this surprise has a quality of its own, if it was anyone else, they would just be surprise, not absolutely frightened, fearful for their life, but currently they are actually that frightened.

It was because the person standing next to them was the infamous sect master of the Heavenly Sword Sect's branch sect, Ren Cheng.

This is the second time Yijun was frightened to half death by that man.

The first time was when he suddenly appeared, cover in blood, and now, appearing suddenly without notice in this place of all place, overhearing the discussion about his second in command of all thing.

It was a great surprise.

"Ha. Yes. That face, that expression, I knew I made the right choice letting you enter the sect after that little stunt. I know you would not fail to amuse me."

Ren Cheng was a sickly looking old man, but he was powerful. His choice in clothing is green, but soon enough they will be cover in red. Everything about his appearance is a deception.

At first glance, people always thought Ren Cheng to be a tricky person to fight, underestimating his sheer brutality.

However, when he fights, the man always goes with the hard form of the sword, there are no tricks, no reasons, only brutal strength and agility.

That was at the start of his career, at current time however, Ren Cheng has added a bit of variety to his repertoire of skill, adding a few more layers of deception to his sword. And yet all of those deception are predictable. All of them are covered with a great killing intent.

Ren Cheng always looks to kill his opponent when he fights, and in every stroke, his sword reflects that. It is a blood covered sword, filled with killing intent. Every stroke is a killing stroke.

No matter what deception he has, Ren Cheng would always look to kill his opponent, that is a fact. It is predictable in that way, but even if it is predictable, not many really survive.

Ren Cheng was a genius. A person fear by other sword users of the Heavenly Sword Sect from the higher continent. After his accident, his skill only gets deadlier, not less. Outside of a certain someone who completely outclass him, this continent is too small for someone like Ren Cheng.

And that scary looking old man is standing here, scaring Yijun and her female senior.

At that moment, there was many thing in the mind of the female senior. Throwing Yijun out to the wolf was considered, but it was discarded because she really didn't know what the sect master is doing here today. Glancing at Yijun again, the senior decides to cover for her, the sect master seems to like the girl.

Yijun on the other hand did not think at all. She was like a deer in front of a drooling, starving wolf. She is fearful to make a single move.

"Ah sect master. It was a miracle, sister Yijun while cultivating suddenly achieves a small success and cure all of her injuries."

She makes a lie on the premise that Yijun was lying about the scars and that they were disguises. However, she was completely spot on. The Earth Reborn Technique is an extreme rejuvenating technique coming from an unknown source. Yijun does not know it yet, but the extreme rejuvenation has many more use than she even knows what to do with.

It is because the Earth Reborn Technique (with some modification) is the only absolute technique in the world right now.

Becoming like the heaven and striking down like the heaven itself has fallen may seem absolute but it is not quite there yet.

The law of "I" turning everything into "I" consuming all of existence is close to being absolute but it is not quite there yet.

Both of those great achievements are near absolution, but both of them have a flaw.

How could they be absolute when the other exist?

The "I" is an all-consuming force while the heaven blade is an all-powerful sword capable of cutting everything. But like in the case of Zheng Jie vs Yan Yu, the absoluteness of the art was put to the test, and it was not that absolute after all.

The heaven blade could not cut through the all-consuming "I" immediately just as the "I" could not consume the blade. The blade needs to strike down countless time just to finally cut through the body of Yan Yu.

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Both of them have failing in asserting themselves as absolute while affecting an external factor.

The blade strikes something on the outside. The "I" consume something else. However what would happen if they face something stronger than them?

It may not seem possible when reaching that state, but there would always be someone stronger as Zheng Jie and Yan Yu experience. Therefore, their art would fail them when meeting someone stronger, invalidating their claim to absolution.

The Earth Reborn Technique (with modifications) on the other hand was a true absolute.

It does not contest with something stronger than it out there, the only thing it affects are the body.

The Earth Reborn Technique true form is an absolute rejuvenation from anything, even if they were crippled, even if they only have a single breath left before dying, even if they fail in their cultivation method and face internal damage. Everything is meaningless in the face of absolute rejuvenation.

On that thought, on the surface, it seems the Earth Reborn Technique only rejuvenates Fang Yijun, giving back her youth, but how could an absolute technique be that simple?

In this world, just as countless lives that have come before as will the countless lives that come after, Birth, Old age, Sickness and Death is an unavoidable truth. Only by cultivation could one escape the truth of life, but on that path of cultivation, most will die and fall into the four sufferings again.

If something happy happen, it is better that nothing has happened at all in the first place.

Being birth is entering the world of interconnecting fate, experiencing sorrow, joy, sadness. Coming into the world itself will bring sorrow as that is the fact of life.

When life grows older, the hardship of life start taking its toll on the body. Even a great domineering general is reduced to nothing more but a sad old man on his death bed

In sickness, you suffer. But not only you suffer as the people surrounding you will suffer too, your friend, your family, the people who care about you.

Being birth and growing old too, was also like that. When you are born, you come into this life. Your are alive now. With your life, some may be happy, some will be sad. But that is just the fact of life, this is the world of interconnecting fate, everyone's life has an effect on each other.

Isn't it then, if something happy happen, it is better that nothing has happened at all in the first place?

And yet we still come to the world anyway. It is a fact that cannot be avoided.

A wise man once said, accepting that to live is to suffer is the first step to lessening the pain.

No matter what, Birth, Old Age, Sickness and Death are still a fact of lie that cannot be avoided.

The Earth Reborn Technique (with modifications) is an absolute technique, with the first act, Yijun has entirely erased the concept of Old Age, what other cultivators have to strive to achieve.

The next step is then to erase Birth, Sickness and Death from the person too, but it is not like Yijun has figured out yet.

Meanwhile, Ren Cheng has a look of not-understanding.

"What injuries?"

Suddenly he prods Yijun's senior with the handle of his sword, causing the woman to fear for her life

"Don't tell me you treat someone I personally accept so badly that she horribly wound herself in the first month?"

There was an edge underlining his voice, but all the people on the scene know Ren Cheng is always looking for an excuse to shed blood.

Ren Cheng knows it, Yijun's senior knows it, Yijun knows it.

"No no sect master-"

"It is that Yuan Wuying bastard!"

Suddenly, Yijun who has had enough yells out at the sight of her senior shaking in her boot.

Yijun senior looks at her with a fearful gaze. That was what she was afraid of the most, tarnishing Yuan Wuying's reputation, the vice sect master of the sect, they are either going to die by Yuan Wuying's hand or Ren Cheng's hand.

"Is that so?" Ren Cheng continues with a curious look.

But Yijun continues

"You are crazy. That bastard is a rapey bastard. All the sisters here in the outer sects live in fear of that guy! I have to let some crazy chick cut me up so that guy does not lust after me anymore."

"Huh?"

Ren Cheng has a look of confusion on his face.

The boat has already set, seeing the situation, Yijun's senior follows suit too, going through with it, whether Ren Cheng is going to kill her or not. She starts recounting the sins that Yuan Wuying has done on the sisters of the sect.

While this is happening, the old looking Ren Cheng continues to have a look of interest.

After they finish recounting their tales, Yuan Wuying appears at that moment.

"Huh? Sect Master, what are you doing here?"

Yuan Wuying who has been looking for Ren Cheng was surprised to see the man in the women quarter, he was also surprise to see that the little beauty has healed up... but that is all for the future.

"I have found an exquisite wine that-"

Suddenly acting dramatic, Ren Cheng, the blood thirsty bastard draws his sword and points it at his vice sect master

"Yuan Wuying you bastard, you have dishonored the sect's name."

Without even investigating whether it was true or not, he just pulls out his blade like that.

"Wh-"

In the next moment, Yuan Wuying suddenly has double vision. It was because currently, his body is now in two places, cut in half.

Ren Cheng is always looking for a reason for bloodshed, Yuan Wuying knows that, Yijun's senior knows that, Yijun knows that, even Ren Cheng knows that.

But knowing did not prepare Yuan Wuying for what happened.

His final thought at that moment was...

"A mad dog really could not be trusted. You don't know when it is going to bit you..."

Yijun inadvertently saves the branch sect of the Heavenly Sword Sect without knowing that the sect was in danger in the first place.