Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 158

Li Jin’an’s bedtime stories used to be either ancient legends or tales of extraordinary individuals in the cultivation world. She could already recite the deeds of Dao Venerable and Jingting Dao Lord by heart. However, for a long time, she couldn’t reconcile the Jingting Dao Lord before her with the tyrannical and unruly cultivation world tyrant from the stories, and firmly believed that Jingting Dao Lord’s only tyrannical act was falsifying historical records.
But towards Dao Venerable, she was still extremely respectful. She used to fuss about wanting to see the Dao Venerable when she was still Little An’an.
Long before Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue were born, the Dao Venerable had already entered secluded cultivation and slumbered in the Dao Sect’s forbidden ground. Jingting Dao Lord wouldn’t go so far as to wake her slumbering master for a few of her childish clamors; that would truly be highly disrespectful.
Thus, although they were both on the Dao Sect’s territory, Li Jin’an and Xie Huaixue had never seen the Dao Venerable.
Li Jin’an was still a little nervous, chattering nonsense to Xie Huaixue. “Oh dear, is it not quite proper for me, a sword cultivator, to go to your Dao Sect’s forbidden ground? Really, how can I bypass the Dao Sect people and go to pay respects to the Dao Venerable first?”
This is how someone who gains an advantage and then pretends to be humble acts.
Xie Huaixue was helping her adjust her collar. Upon hearing her words, she smiled faintly. Before she could say anything, Jingting Dao Lord over there couldn’t help but speak.
“If you truly don’t want to go, then go back and wait. What kind of person is the Dao Venerable? She certainly won’t quibble with a junior like you.”
Li Jin’an snorted coldly. “When I see the Dao Venerable, I’ll complain to him and tell him you, old one, blocked me from seeing him!”
Finally, there was someone with a higher seniority than Jingting Dao Lord, someone who could control her. If she didn’t make a scene, she wouldn’t be Li Jin’an.
Li Jin’an’s logic was simple: she, Xie Huaixue, and Yinyue Monarch were family, considered half-members of the Dao Sect. So naturally, there was no need to be formal with Dao Venerable, this esteemed elder, or treat him as an outsider.
Isn’t it only right and proper for a junior to complain to an elder!
Jingting Dao Lord sneered without speaking, not breaking Li Jin’an’s daydream.
If such an overly lively junior were chattering around him in the past, the Dao Venerable would absolutely have liked her very much and might even have kept her by her side to teach her often.
The reason why the world fanatically revered and admired the Dao Venerable was because the Dao Venerable truly taught without discrimination and according to aptitude, not caring about sectarian origin. Seemingly gentle and warm-hearted, she in reality showed indifferent impartiality to everyone; truly, the Great Dao is without sentiment.
Just as those who followed the Dao Venerable actually didn’t like Jingting Dao Lord, this overly aggressive and invasive successor, thinking that Jingting Dao Lord’s style was completely contrary to the Dao Venerable’s, and that the disciple was unlike the master, the Dao Venerable still firmly abdicated and let Jingting Dao Lord act freely.
Unfortunately, it’s not possible now. The secluded slumber of a Tribulation Transcendent grand cultivator was not so easily broken, especially since the Dao Venerable had just made a move.
Heaven and Earth have limits, rules have flaws.
The existence of Tribulation Transcendent cultivators was more terrifying to the Lancang Continent than gold-eating beasts. The spiritual energy consumed for one cultivation cycle was hundreds of times that of Mahayana cultivators. It would also impact the rules and cause turmoil. Thus, the Heavenly Dao would precisely suppress these Tribulation Transcendent cultivators.
If one couldn’t ascend and didn’t want to be suppressed by the Heavenly Dao, one had to slumber.
Or choose to integrate one’s body with the Dao, to complete the rules.
And the cost Jingting Dao Lord spoke of was the latter. In the Heavenly Dao’s eyes, she was no different from a panacea.
If the Heavenly Dao were a little more ruthless, it wouldn’t be impossible to harvest these Tribulation Transcendent cultivators as little fat sheep. Of course, at that time, Tribulation Transcendent cultivators would certainly rise up in resistance.
Speaking of this, Jingting Dao Lord couldn’t help but say more. “The Heavenly Dao and cultivators have different stances. Even if there has been cooperation, it’s only temporary. You must not listen to biased opinions…”
It was clear she was truly afraid that the Dao Venerable would be deceived by the Heavenly Dao into integrating her body with the Dao, and she didn’t know why the Dao Venerable appeared in this form before her.
Li Jin’an, who had been standing properly, gradually relaxed under Jingting Dao Lord’s long speech and leaned crookedly against Xie Huaixue.
The true direct grand-disciple Yun Liuguang lowered her brows and eyes and was extremely quiet.
After Jingting Dao Lord finished speaking, the Dao Venerable only then spoke with a light laugh. “Luozheng speaks truly, but Master has already promised the Heavenly Dao and cannot break that trust. Otherwise, if the rules are flawed, it would be difficult to bring back the departed ones.”
Not counting Jingting Dao Lord, the Dao Venerable’s meeting with the other three present was their first, and also their last and only meeting.
Li Jin’an’s heart pounded like a drum. In a trance, she thought of something and suddenly looked at Xie Huaixue.
Xie Huaixue was also quietly looking at her.
This time, Jingting Dao Lord was silent for a long time before speaking in a hoarse voice, “It was my incompetence…”
The Dao Venerable rarely interrupted her. The light and shadows reflecting on the wall flowed mottledly. “What has it to do with you? It’s a joint decision between me and the Heavenly Dao. Moreover, why so heavy-hearted? My integration with the Dao is not about erasing all consciousness. Compared to now, I will be much freer.”
“I didn’t call you here today to make you sad. I heard that nowadays in the cultivation world, one needs to prepare gifts when meeting juniors?”
“Fortunately, I prepared in advance, otherwise it would have been impolite.”
Li Jin’an only felt that blurring sensation again. In an instant, there was an item in her hand, and then she appeared outside the forbidden ground.
Before her eyes, the light figure was gone. Only one sentence remained.
“We shall meet again another day.”
Li Jin’an, Xie Huaixue, and Yun Liuguang looked at each other. Rarely, all were a little bewildered.
Jingting Dao Lord sighed deeply. “Whatever you’ve been given, keep it well.”
“Who exactly are the departed ones you and the Dao Venerable spoke of?” Li Jin’an eagerly pressed for an answer.
“Ask your Dao companion!”