This story happened 5000 years ago.

While Yan Yu was still a cultivator, he strived to be the paragon so that all other could look up to. The world could only look up, no one could look down.

For that purpose, the people itself has to be improved.

The paragon has to strive to make the world a better place. He could not tolerate any aspect of ugliness in the world.

5000 years ago, there was no Hell dimension. Powerful Demonic cultivator roamed the world. But even with all those horrible things around, it was alright because there was the paragon around.

It has to be said that the Yan Yu now is only a pale reflection of his former self, however his former self has many lackings that cannot be compensated no matter how much power he has. One of the thing he lacks was the understanding of the nature of man, human and desire. Now that he is trapped in the Hell dimension where emotion run rampant, Yan Yu finally understands now. Sometime, his thoughts wonder, wonder back to the event that started his downfall.

A paragon has to uphold the rule, no matter who it is, no matter how small it is. No matter if it was a small participle world without much cultivation.

The entire world falls into one fold. The chaotic ten thousand worlds was all made to obey the rule. The Heaven sect has managed to do something no other sect could have done, they united the world under one paradigm. The branch sect of the Heaven sect is everywhere in the lower world.

The purpose is to teach the correct way of cultivating and upholding the law of the world, eradicating demons.

No more do cultivators stray away from the correct path, not knowing what to do.

It is to provide a support base for them after they ascend.

Perhaps it was a fool thoughts. The world was born in chaos, trying to enforce order on such a scale is only bound for failure.

When the Heaven sect falls, the entire world fall into disarray, all the support base was cut, all the communications between world stopped. Could anyone imagine what would happen to the weaker participle worlds at that time? No one. Everything just spiral down, especially after Yan Yu, as the paragon fell.

Perhaps things are just going in a circle.

If this Yan Yu was living during the time of the Heaven sect, he would try to destroy the sect too.

It is living but not living, those sanctimonious self-righteous cultivators, every generations, there are a bunch of them.

And while the meaning of standing straight as a sword under the heaven means standing tall, there is another meaning.

Being straight as a sword is impossible, and a sword could not stand under the heaven alone. It has to bend, grow root, straying a little from the path to make a base before reaching upward. A rod that stand straight under the heaven is also a rod that would fall with a straight gust of wind.

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The meaning is that, when a paragon falls, they fall hard.

If this Yan Yu was a demon under the reign of the Heaven sect, he would try to destroy the order too, just because it is too suffocating for him. And that act of sabotage would cause the paragon to fall, creating another Yan Yu.

It is a vicious cycle, the relation between the demon path cultivators and the heaven path cultivators.

However, now that Yan Yu remembers, it was something grand that did him in. It started as something smaller.

As the paragon, Yan Yu descended on the mortal participle world below to take care of some unproperness he detected after scanning the world with his Divine Sense. To a paragon, that is as easy as breathing, seeing everything, hearing everything, looking at the entire world as a whole, expanding your soul to cover the entire countless worlds.

That was what Yan Yu was like as his height, but it is not like he still has his Divine Sense after falling into Hell. However back then, just like a good boy, the paragon keeps getting into other business, no matter how small it is. A business in the participle world was supposed to be below him, but it is not. Yan Yu descended, and took care of the business, eradicating improperness.

When he came back to the world of the immortal suddenly, a fortune teller appear in front of him.

How could a fortune teller in the world of the immortal be normal. They are someone who could actually read the fate of the universe and foretell what was to come.

However, how could someone like that tell Yan Yu anything, he who already had the whole in the palm of his hand.

And yet when he met him, there was a tear in the aged fortune teller's eyes. Slowly, with emotions, the greatest fortune teller of the time told Yan Yu

"It is all coming to an end. This glorious era is ending. Your actions have inadvertently lead to the creation of the Heavenly Demon."

His actions in a small participle world lead to the creation of the Heavenly Demon? Even if he was the paragon who listens to everyone and consider everything properly, that was too improbable to believe. And with that skeptism, Yan Yu dismissed the future telling as nothing more than a dream.

However, later actions would prove the old man's words correct.

The golden age of cultivation come to and end and the Heaven sect destroyed.

And to think it all started with a woman in red...

Karma would always return, and so if you live, you have to take care to remove all of your karma. That was what Yan Yu has determined after once upon a time.