1: Chapter 1 A Holy Maiden Descends from Heaven and Calls Me Father

In the spacious main hall of the Yuntian Sword Sect.

Sect Master Su Manyun, with an exquisitely beautiful appearance and a proud, statuesque figure, sat upright in the main seat.

She looked at Xie Wushang in the hall with a look of disgust, and with a wave of her jade hand, a brocade marriage certificate materialized in the air.

"Xie Wushang, your Dantian is shattered, and you have been reduced to a Mortal. Today, this seat annuls the engagement with you."

Sect Master Su Manyun's ice-cold and indifferent voice resounded through the main hall, sparking a wave of discussions.

"Good heavens! Sect Master is actually going to annul the engagement with Xie Wushang!"

"Before, Sect Master disregarded the Revered Master-Disciple hierarchy just to set an engagement with Xie Wushang, and now she is actually going back on her word!?"

"Xie Wushang is no longer the past number one Prodigy of the Sect, but has been reduced to good-for-nothing trash. How could Sect Master still think highly of him!"

The Disciples in the main hall looked at Xie Wushang, who had a handsome face, a tall and slender physique, a heroic bearing, but looked somewhat haggard.

Some were shocked, while others wore looks of mockery.

"Xie Wushang really doesn't know what's good for him. With a shattered Dantian, he didn't proactively annul the engagement with Revered Master, and actually made Revered Master speak up!"

"Exactly! He doesn't even think about how a mere Mortal like him is still worthy of Revered Master!"

Standing to the left and right of Sect Master Su Manyun with exquisite appearances, Senior Sister Su Lingyu and Senior Sister Yao Chuqing sneered with schadenfreude.

Xie Wushang's gaze condensed as he looked at Sect Master Su Manyun on the high seat.

That was his Revered Master, and also his fiancée.

Back then, he underwent Awakening of the High Grade Pure Yang King Body, becoming a Prodigy rarely seen in the Sect in a century.

That very night, Revered Master Su Manyun kept him behind to confess that she had been fond of him for a long time.

Even if she were spurned by everyone in the world, she would disregard worldly etiquette to be with him.

He was moved by Sect Master Su Manyun's infatuation, and the two set an engagement.

...

Nine years ago, Xie Wushang represented the Sect to head to the Disaster Battlefield, slaughtering countless extraterritorial Evil Spirits and winning praise for the Sect from the Heavenly Dao Alliance, which was to bestow a High Grade Spiritual Vein and advance them to a quasi-Holy Land. On the day of his return, everyone in the Sect praised Xie Wushang as a contributor and a hero.

Sect Master Su Manyun even actively threw herself into his arms, saying that the day the Sect advanced to a quasi-Holy Land would be the day of their wedding.

However! Only a month later, after everyone in the Sect discovered that his Dantian was shattered and he had been reduced to a Mortal, everything changed!

Everyone's true colors were revealed...

The sweet words and sworn oaths of the past turned into smoke and dissipated.

Those flattering words turned into sharp swords, constantly stabbing into Xie Wushang's body and mind.

Those admiring gazes turned into vicious blades, continually wounding his soul.

"Quite good..."

"If I hadn't destroyed my own Dantian and recultivated the Immortal Golden Body Formula to prepare for forging an Emperor Foundation, I wouldn't have been able to see your true faces clearly." Xie Wushang whispered inwardly, looked at Sect Master Su Manyun, and slowly said, "I... agree to annul the engagement."

"As long as you agree, I can protect the rest of your life?—What! You agree to annul the engagement?" Sect Master Su Manyun instinctively thought that Xie Wushang would refuse, but as soon as those words left her mouth, she realized something was wrong, and immediately widened her eyes, looking at Xie Wushang with utter disbelief.

He...

Actually agreed so readily to annul the engagement!

Senior Sister Su Lingyu and Senior Sister Yao Chuqing also looked at Xie Wushang in shock.

Obviously, they didn't expect him to agree so straightforwardly.

And with such a calm tone.

Without a shred of anger out of embarrassment or impotent rage.

Senior Sister Su Lingyu sneered: "Consider him self-aware! He didn't pester Revered Master relentlessly!"

Senior Sister Yao Chuqing said with disdain: "Seeing how sensible he is, when the time comes, I'll let him guard the medicinal garden for me and reward him with a bite to eat!"

Sect Master Su Manyun reined in her look of shock, nodded slightly to Xie Wushang with quite a bit of satisfaction, and said, "Very good."

"Next, you only need to hand over the saint bead obtained in the Disaster Battlefield."

Sect Master Su Manyun said.

"Hand over the saint bead?" A trace of coldness welled up in Xie Wushang's eyes.

"What, you are unwilling?" Seeing Xie Wushang hesitate, Sect Master Su Manyun's gaze turned cold.

"My belongings, why should I give them to you?" Xie Wushang's gaze was as cold and sharp as a knife.

A saint bead?

That was his greatest secret, his companion supreme treasure.

Because it could refine extraterritorial disaster Evil Spirits, Xie Wushang called it the disaster prison bead.

Over the past nine years, relying on the disaster prison bead, Xie Wushang had refined countless Disaster King-level Evil Spirits that were enough to destroy the Yuntian Sword Sect.

Just them, and they dared to covet it?

Senior Sister Su Lingyu looked chillingly at Xie Wushang. "You are already a good-for-nothing. What use do you have for the saint bead?"

Senior Sister Yao Chuqing said, "Xie Wushang, I advise you to honestly hand over the saint bead. Otherwise, possessing a treasure becomes a crime. Without anyone to protect you, with your current strength, even a Cultivator of the Second Realm could easily execute you."

Sect Master Su Manyun looked down from above and said in an indifferent tone, "Wushang, handing over the saint bead is good for both you and me. Now that our Yuntian Sword Sect is about to advance to a quasi-Holy Land, this precious bead can serve as the supreme treasure of the Sect to deter petty villains for our Yuntian Sword Sect. You can also peacefully spend the rest of your life here."

"Su Manyun, how can you treat Wushang like this?" Right at this moment, an angry voice came from outside the main hall.

An old man wearing coarse cloth garments and with withered beard could be seen walking over while leaning on a cane.

The person who came was none other than Xie Wushang's grandfather, Xie Jingde.

"Xie Jingde!" Sect Master Su Manyun furrowed her brows.

Xie Jingde raised his cane, pointed at Sect Master Su Manyun, and shouted angrily: "Back then, you coveted Wushang's resources, first taking him as a Disciple and then setting an engagement with him, and ultimately relying on the precious medicine left behind by his father to break through your realm, becoming a Sixth Realm mighty figure and ascending to the position of Sect Master."

"Now that his Dantian is shattered and he has no value left for utilization, it would be one thing for you to annul the engagement, but you actually want to seize his treasure as well?"

"Audacious! How dare you slander Sect Master!" On the right side of the main hall's main seat, Senior Sister Su Lingyu waved her hand forward, and a majestic surge of Dantian's power erupted, transforming into a blue sparrow that roared outward and directly impacted Xie Jingde, sending him flying backward.

"Grandfather..." Xie Wushang took a step forward, about to rush toward the flying-backward Xie Jingde, when he suddenly felt as if the vault of heaven was pressing down upon him. A majestic Aura suppressed downward, and True Qi impacted his body like a waterfall, causing his body to tremble and almost kneel to the ground.

Supporting his body, Xie Wushang gritted his teeth and looked toward the main seat of the main hall.

"Showing disrespect to Sect Master deserves punishment!" Beside the main seat, Senior Sister Yao Chuqing guided a hand incantation, and True Qi surged around her body, condensing into thousands of Qi swords that flew toward Xie Wushang.

The Qi swords were like a river, unstoppable, causing the Void Realm to whistle and snap with fierce winds.

On the dais, Sect Master Su Manyun not only did not stop her, but instead looked coldly at Xie Wushang.

"Xie Wushang, don't blame this seat, only blame your bad luck!" Sect Master Su Manyun whispered.

"Wushang..." Just as Xie Jingde was knocked flying to the ground and spat a mouthful of fresh blood, he saw the sky-full of Qi swords resembling a sword river attacking his own grandson. Immediately, his eyes split open from anger, and he let out a great cry as True Qi surged around his body, erupting with the Aura of the Fifth Realm.

His body arched like an erupting leopard, and he lunged forward, intending to block that sword river.

"Humph..." Sect Master Su Manyun let out a cold snort, lifting her jade hand as a terrifying power descended from the sky, striking Xie Jingde down.

"My grandson..." Xie Jingde landed on the ground, his eyes splitting open with blood overflowing from them.

"It is Grandfather who is incompetent!" He was filled with grief and indignation, looking with utter despair at the sword river that had already touched his grandson's flesh and blood.

Seeing this, the people inside the hall sneered and mocked.

"Xie Wushang truly doesn't know what is good for him. When asked to hand over the saint bead, he actually dared to refuse. Now it's fine; he'll most likely end up disabled!"

"As a Mortal, handing over the saint bead would still allow him to receive the Sect's protection for a lifetime, yet he is still not satisfied! Serves him right!"

"Bullying my daddy is a crime that cannot be pardoned!" Right at this moment, a somewhat childish yet majestic girl's voice resounded across the heavens and earth.

At the same time, a wave of cold Qi swept over, filling the entire main hall.

Inside the main hall, frost covered the ground, and the clothes of all the Cultivators in the hall froze, with frost forming on their brows and eyes.

Those aggressive thousands of Qi swords, resembling a sword river that was about to annihilate Xie Wushang, were directly frozen in midair.

By this time, that Sword Qi had already pulverized all of Xie Wushang's clothes into fine dust.

If it were even a split second later, he would have been pierced through and annihilated.

Simultaneously.

That cold Qi rolled forward, transforming into sharp swords that seized the momentum to attack the three people on the main seat: Senior Sister Su Lingyu, Senior Sister Yao Chuqing, and Sect Master Su Manyun.

"So cold!" Sect Master Su Manyun shivered. She guided a hand incantation, causing True Qi to roll out from within her body, condensing a light shield to block in front of her. At the same time, her body flashed as she retreated to the side. In just an instant, the light shield she condensed was shattered.

"Not good!" Senior Sister Su Lingyu and Senior Sister Yao Chuqing reacted a step too slowly and hurriedly flashed backward.

However, no sooner had they flashed backward than their bodies were frozen in midair by the cold Qi.

Afterward, wave after wave of glacial Qi swords swept over, piercing through the bodies of the two women and nailing them to the walls of the main hall. Senior Sister Yao Chuqing and Senior Sister Su Lingyu wanted to burn their Dantian's power to resolve the ice, but they were completely unable to circulate their Dantian's power, leaving their bodies nailed to the wall.

"This is the legendary Qi of Taiyin!" The two looked at each other, both of their eyes revealing deep looks of apprehension.

Inside the main hall, countless Disciples felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave. They widened their eyes, looking at the scene before them in utter disbelief.

"So strong! Even Sect Master cannot withstand her sharp edge! Could it be an expert of the Seventh Realm making a move?"

"It must be an expert of the Seventh Realm! Otherwise, how could she casually shatter Sect Master's defense?"

Aside from being shocked, the crowd raised their heads to look outside the hall with faces full of apprehension.

A pretty seven-year-old girl dressed in a colorful skirt, exquisitely carved like jade, stepped on a long river of Taiyin, walking toward the main hall with a blooming ice lotus at every step. Covering a hundred meters with a single step, she looked with a cold and fierce gaze at Senior Sister Su Lingyu and Senior Sister Yao Chuqing who had just attacked inside the main hall.

"Just the likes of you, and you dare to bully my daddy!"

The little girl's voice was childish, yet filled with an arrogant majesty of someone in a superior position.

Within the long river beneath her feet, a majestic surge of Qi of Taiyin swept toward the main hall.

As the cold Qi swept past, Sect Master Su Manyun also felt her Divine Soul turn ice-cold, and her Divine Sense power began to find it difficult to circulate.

"She... is a Seventh Realm Cultivator?" Sect Master Su Manyun felt panic in her heart, looking at the girl outside the hall with utter disbelief.

Xie Jingde and Xie Wushang also looked toward the little girl coming from outside the hall, stepping on the river of cold Qi.

The little girl had bright eyes. She blinked her long eyelashes, fluttering them, and locked her gaze onto Xie Wushang at a single glance.

"Daddy!" A brilliant light instantly flashed in the little girl's eyes, her face full of joy, completely abandoning her previous cold and noble demeanor.

She opened her tiny arms and flew straight toward Xie Wushang down below.

"Daddy?" Xie Wushang looked at the flying-toward-him little girl with a stunned expression, his heart jolting.

"Is she calling me daddy?"

"I have been in the Disaster Battlefield for nine years, constantly hunting disaster spirits. How could I possibly have a daughter?"