Steadily becoming a saint, the immortal officials hired me to tend the horses

Chapter 1036: Chapter 1024: Shattered by a Single Sword

Qin Chuang was born into the Mortal World, in the Human World to a farming family. His life was supposed to be ordinary, but at the age of fifteen, while chopping wood on the mountain, he encountered an elderly Daoist.

The elderly Daoist was severely injured. Out of compassion, Qin Chuang offered his dry food and water to the Daoist, who accepted them silently without saying a word.

By the time he descended the mountain, the elderly Daoist had vanished.

Though puzzled, Qin Chuang didn’t dwell on it.

A month later, however, the Daoist returned to the village where Qin Chuang lived, intending to take him as a disciple and guide him in Immortal Cultivation.

That was the happiest moment in Qin Chuang’s life. His family was proud of him, the villagers envied him, and everyone hoped he would succeed in Immortal Cultivation, bringing glory to them all.

Yet the Cultivation Path was far from simple, as Qin Chuang soon discovered. On the way to the Sect with the Daoist, they were ambushed multiple times. Ultimately, the Daoist sacrificed himself one tragic night to save Qin Chuang, leaving the young man with the Daoist’s belongings and a harrowing journey to reach the Sect at Qingshan Cliff.

Though Qingshan Cliff accepted him, Qin Chuang was not given importance, nor was there any pursuit of justice for the Daoist’s death. He could only suppress his hatred.

Thirty years of Immortal Cultivation passed before he barely qualified to enter. On returning to his hometown, he found his village abandoned. It turned out that it was massacred thirty years ago, with no survivors.

Qin Chuang suspected that it was the work of his master’s enemies. Grief overwhelmed him, leaving him unsure whether to resent or be grateful to his master.

Saving the Daoist gave him the chance for Immortal Cultivation, yet it also cost him his family.

Regardless, he had to continue living, for his master’s and family’s vengeance still loomed. He must avenge them!

However, the path of Immortal Cultivation is brutally harsh, limited by Talent that mortals can barely break through in a lifetime.

Close to his two hundredth year, Qin Chuang still lacked the strength to exact vengeance. Nonetheless, over the years, he had unraveled the identity of his enemies, understanding their power and the daunting gap between them.

As he grew older, his desire for revenge intensified, becoming an obsession.

Then, one year, a meteor fell from the heavens, landing precisely within the forest where Qin Chuang lived in seclusion. He cautiously went to investigate, discovering a half-human tall tripod.

He sensed that this tripod was not ordinary, so he recognized it with a blood sacrifice, and it worked.

This tripod was named the Heaven-Reaching Tripod, a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

Qin Chuang did not understand what a Chaos Spiritual Treasure was, but he gained many memories in his mind, realizing that the Heaven-Reaching Tripod could restore everything to its most flourishing state.

From then on, he began to acquire discarded low-priced Medicinal Herbs in large quantities, restoring their lost value using the Heaven-Reaching Tripod. Additionally, the tripod helped him with Bone Marrow Cleansing, and when heavily injured, he could rapidly recover via the tripod.

The Heaven-Reaching Tripod transformed Qin Chuang’s life.

With only a hundred years, he cultivated to the pinnacle of his era, ultimately achieving revenge. Though he initially intended to eradicate the enemies’ whole clan, seeing a baby softened his heart, and he ended up only killing the direct perpetrator.

With his obsession resolved, he left his birthplace, moving to distant lands to cultivate anew in anonymity, amassing discarded and cheaply sold Cultivation Resources.

A thousand years later, Qin Chuang broke through to a Realm of Crossing Void unknown to the world, no longer remaining lowkey, basking in Human World’s utmost pleasures.

Yet good times didn’t last. One day, the Celestial Gate opened, and a group of Upper Realm cultivators descended, chasing a mysterious cultivator. Their unparalleled power astounded Qin Chuang.

He felt fortunate that he had yet to become famous, evading the Upper Realm cultivators’ search relying on the Heaven-Reaching Tripod.

Knowing there were wider worlds, Qin Chuang again focused on cultivation.

Vast Sea and changing epochs.

Three thousand years later, Qin Chuang’s Realm reached levels beyond this world’s capacity, forcing him to ascend.

He arrived in an even vaster world, named the Earth Origin Realm, a gathering place of countless worlds.

As the most formidable being from his world, Qin Chuang found his Cultivation Level insignificant upon entering the Earth Origin Realm, realizing the Path of the Great Dao was endless.

Over the following years, Qin Chuang discovered numerous uses for the Heaven-Reaching Tripod—assets unmatched even in the Earth Origin Realm, continuing cultivation akin to his past methodology.

Thirty thousand years later, Qin Chuang advanced to the pinnacle realm within the Earth Origin Realm. During a Dao Debate Conference, he realized an even vaster domain existed beyond the Earth Origin Realm.

Thus, Qin Chuang diligently cultivated, ever pursuing higher realms, higher worlds.

Relying on the Heaven-Reaching Tripod, Qin Chuang ultimately transcended the Earth Origin Realm, reaching an even higher world, known as Taoliang Immortal Realm.

After enduring such numerous tribulations, Qin Chuang’s Dao Heart had stabilized. Upon arriving in Taoliang Immortal Realm, he was no longer surprised, smoothly integrating.

Millions of years later, Qin Chuang became the Taoliang Immortal Ancestor.

His Realm surpassed all beings, controlling past and future, countless worlds and cosmos witnessed by his eyes.

Even so, he could still progress; given enough resources, the Heaven-Reaching Tripod could heighten his Talent continuously, even allowing Dao Enlightenment during cultivation within the tripod.

His Dao Practice grew increasingly profound, becoming a legendary figure. He even revisited the past, altering his family’s fate, but such a Cultivation Level ultimately left him feeling empty, for he was no longer the wood-chopping youth of yesteryears, his family incapable of maintaining their previous demeanor toward him.

He severed the Cause and Effect with his family, becoming the Immortal Dao Master revered by all.

Through endless time, forgetful of the years, he concentrated on Enlightenment of the Dao, with ever-deeper understanding of the Great Dao, even approaching the Tao Origin.

The Tao Origin transformed into Cangming, Cangming became a tree, the tree unfolded the cosmos, and the Taoliang Immortal Realm where he resided was merely a branch of this Creation Tree. This revelation did not dismay him but rather invigorated him, providing an even grander cultivation goal.

Until one day, Cangming summoned him through the Great Dao, warning of an overwhelmingly evil force intending to destroy the Great Dao, calling forth great powers from various immortal realms to defend it. Hesitant for a moment, he agreed.

Upon stepping into the Great Dao, he saw the figures of past great powers and also glimpsed a disciple from the future, one whose prowess rivaled his present self.

Endless figures appeared within the Great Dao, all heading toward the same direction as him.

Qin Chuang entered a powerful light, arriving in a dark red void, where he saw an incomparably colossal divine tree, immediately recognizing it as the Cangming Creation Tree.

Before he could think further, he witnessed a white-clothed figure wielding a sword and dashing forward, an unstoppable force beyond all Divine Skills.

He drew out the Heaven-Reaching Tripod, preparing for defense.

Suddenly.

The white-clothed figure appeared before him out of thin air, striking with a sword.

Too fast!

Qin Chuang had never faced such an opponent, and what made it unbearable was seeing his most trusted Heaven-Reaching Tripod shattered by a single sword stroke. The scene in his eyes splintered into countless fragments, and in his dying moments, he could not accept—how could his Heaven-Reaching Tripod be shattered like this.