NOVPUBCelestial Master Guiyuan felt as if he hadn’t fully woken up.
Before being trapped in the box, he had been the Ancestor of the Seek Dao Sect, the oldest among them.
How had his seniority dropped after he came out of the box?
How had Daoist Xiantian appeared?
"Wait, how come I remember that Daoist Xiantian died? I’ve been paying respects at his tomb every year, and both his appearance and cultivation level don’t match!" Celestial Master Guiyuan had a belly full of questions.
Initially, he had felt sad, thinking that there was no one he recognized in the Seek Dao Sect anymore, but lo and behold, the founder himself popped up, leaving no room for sadness.
"Daoist Xiantian faked his death. He just woke up not long ago and had to Start Over after Disbanding Cultivation to escape being pursued due to some special circumstances," Lu Yang explained, being the first to discover Daoist Xiantian.
"Hello, I am Qi Tongtian." Daoist Xiantian greeted him honestly. Celestial Master Guiyuan’s statue was still on display in the Sect’s grand hall, so without any introduction, Qi Tongtian knew this was Celestial Master Guiyuan.
"I’ve seen Ancestor Xiantian. I’m Wang Daoyi; just call me Xiao Wang from now on." Although Celestial Master Guiyuan liked proving his strength and challenging stronger opponents recklessly, he was also a cultivator who knew his etiquette.
"I heard you disappeared for eighty thousand years, where did you go?" Daoist Xiantian was very curious about Celestial Master Guiyuan’s past, after all, he was the one who truly brought the Seek Dao Sect into the ranks of the Five Great Immortal Sects.
"Uh—" Celestial Master Guiyuan felt that bragging about barging into a Secret Realm, triggering a restriction and being locked up for over two hundred years was not exactly something to be proud of.
Especially when mentioning it in front of an Ancestor.
Lu Yang saw Celestial Master Guiyuan’s awkward situation and stepped forward to explain:
"Eighty thousand years ago, Senior Guiyuan broke into an Immortal’s Secret Realm and was accidentally trapped in a rift in time. However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise since he did not have to worry about his lifespan running out. He reappeared in the modern era, fought the Si Lei God Lord of the Great Qian Dynasty after escaping, and saved the Mountain Moving and Sea Filling Sect from disaster. It was a heroic act indeed, but unfortunately, he was severely injured afterward and fell into a coma. We brought him back to the Sect and he has just woken up."
"Ah, right, right, that’s exactly it." Celestial Master Guiyuan nodded vigorously, thinking that the young Lu Yang was truly commendable.
"The person who struck me was the Si Lei God Lord of the Great Qian?" On hearing Lu Yang, it was only then that Celestial Master Guiyuan knew the identity of Si Lei God Lord. He had only wanted Si Lei God Lord to apologize to him when they fought.
When Celestial Master Guiyuan was blasted, Si Lei God Lord had also fallen into a coma, though he did not escape the fate of being blown up either. His physical condition was no match for Celestial Master Guiyuan, and he was still in a comatose state.
"You just mentioned that there are a few people in the Sect that I know, aside from Ancestor Xiantian. Who else is there?"
"Would you like to meet Senior River Spirit?"
"Let’s go." He and River Spirit could be considered old friends with a deep friendship.
...
"Senior River Spirit, we brothers haven’t seen each other in a while, huh." Celestial Master Guiyuan felt a warm familiarity on seeing an old acquaintance, and even the axes in River Spirit’s hands looked endearing.
River Spirit treaded over the waves, stepping out of the stream, swinging a gold and silver axe straight at him.
"Disappearing for eighty thousand years without a word, you’ve got some nerve!"
Celestial Master Guiyuan, knowing he was at fault, did not dare to fight back but only dodged the axes with an apologetic smile.
After chopping for a while and knowing he could not hit him, River Spirit simply stopped.
Seeing Celestial Master Guiyuan again, River Spirit didn’t quite know how to feel.
If anyone in the Seek Dao Sect had the best relationship with River Spirit, it had to be the third Ancestor. He had opened his Spiritual Wisdom thanks to Daoist Xiantian’s help. Celestial Master Guiyuan had been active for twenty thousand years, and Vast Sea Daoist Lord for fifty thousand years, making their interaction times quite lengthy.
He saw Daoist Xiantian steadfastly alive, Celestial Master Guiyuan disappear; although he didn’t show much outwardly, deep inside he felt melancholic, a sense of the long road of longevity with old friends departing one after another — perhaps an inescapable fate for immortals.
But lo and behold, the two who disappeared had popped up again, and now his sadness seemed unnecessary.
Seeing that Celestial Master Guiyuan and River Spirit were about to have a merry old time with drinks, not planning to leave until drunk, Lu Yang softly reminded from the side, "Senior, you haven’t met everyone yet?"
"There’s more people?" Celestial Master Guiyuan was somewhat surprised. How could there be more acquaintances of his in the Seek Dao Sect?
... 𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙥𝒖𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝒎
"Vast Sea, it’s not that I want to say anything, but giving your Dao companion Spirit Stones as a festival gift, what kind of idea is that?" On the Great Snow Mountain, Chasing Moon True Person sighed, shaking her head helplessly, as Vast Sea Daoist Lord still wondered why his Dao companion was upset.
"I just didn’t know what to buy, and considering that the Long Clan loves wealth, I thought I’d just give Xiao Ya some spirit stones directly. If she wants to buy anything, she can use these spirit stones; it saves trouble and serves multiple purposes," Lu Yang said.
After being kicked out of the Dragon Palace, Vast Sea Daoist Lord ran to seek guidance from Chasing Moon True Person, who, as a female cultivator and possessing the outline of the Seven Emotions Dao Fruit, should have some insights in this regard.
Chasing Moon True Person rolled her eyes, wondering what Ao Ya initially saw in Vast Sea Daoist Lord.
"That definitely won’t do, your gift needs to be creative..."
Suddenly, Chasing Moon True Person froze and stared blankly behind Vast Sea Daoist Lord.
"Chasing Moon fellow Daoist, what’s wrong?"
"Damn, I see your ancestor."
"What?"
"Haha, Chasing Moon, why have you turned into a tiny tot?" Celestial Master Guiyuan burst into laughter upon seeing Chasing Moon True Person sitting on a chair, unable to reach the floor with her feet.
"Guiyuan, from which graveyard did you crawl out!"
"Never mind where I crawled out from. First, tell me how you turned so small?"
Chasing Moon True Person hated this topic most and promptly activated the outline of her Seven Emotions Dao Fruit, "You talk too much—cry!"
Celestial Master Guiyuan immediately burst into a torrent of tears, kneeling on the ground and pounding it: "Chasing Moon, how did you get so tiny— I feel so bad for you—"
Chasing Moon True Person got goosebumps from listening and quickly canceled the power of her Seven Emotions Dao Fruit Embryo, and Celestial Master Guiyuan returned to normal.
"You used the Seven Emotions Dao Fruit Embryo on me again!" Celestial Master Guiyuan was furious. Who attacks like this upon meeting?
"Hah, even your anger now is my doing."
"I don’t believe it!"
"Then try not being angry now."
"Okay."
Celestial Master Guiyuan took a couple of deep breaths, taking in quite a chill, and his anger dissipated, leaving him quite pleased.
"I knew you were tricking me, see I’m not angry now."
"As long as you’re not angry."
Meng Jingzhou and Lu Yang watched from the side, feeling that their Ancestor was not at the same level as Chasing Moon True Person.
"Ancestor Guiyuan?"
Seeing Celestial Master Guiyuan, Vast Sea Daoist Lord was a bit startled, and then noticing Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, he roughly guessed that Celestial Master Guiyuan’s appearance was somehow connected to these two.
"Junior Fang Wuya, I’ve seen Ancestor Guiyuan."
"Are you Vast Sea Daoist Lord whom Little Lu mentioned, the revitalizing figure of our Seek Dao Sect?"
"Indeed."
"Not bad, not bad, who would have thought that our Seek Dao Sect has three semi-immortals? It’s destined to thrive, now, aside from Jiang Pingan and Meng Junzi, our Seek Dao Sect is the strongest in Great Xia!"
"Three semi-immortals?" Vast Sea Daoist Lord heard this term for the first time. Aren’t the Sect’s semi-immortals just him and Ancestor Guiyuan?
"Yes, you, me, her." Celestial Master Guiyuan pointed at Yun Mengmeng and said.
Yun Mengmeng raised her hand to clarify her position: "Senior, you are mistaken, although I listen to the Second-in-command, I’m not from the Seek Dao Sect."
"Then who are you?" This time it was Celestial Master Guiyuan’s turn to be stunned.
"I’m here visiting relatives."
