Chapter 46: Story Time
"There are thousands of upper realms. I don’t know about other places, but the one I was in wasn’t really good. On the surface, everything seems beautiful. When I ascended to the upper realm, I thought I would be unstoppable and the world would welcome me."
"I was wrong. I was just being delusional. I wasn’t any special one who ascended and changed their destiny. I was just a frog in the well who jumped from one well to a bigger one. When the reality hit me, it didn’t break me. Instead, it made my resolve to strive to shine again, even in the immortal realm, even stronger."
"At that time, I thought if I could be number one in the lower realm, why not in the immortal realm. So, I joined the Illusionary Palace, becoming one of their inner disciples in just 3 years. Breaking through to the true immortal realm."
"I continued to persevere for hundreds of years. Wandering through the secret realm, inheritance ground and fighting for opportunities, striving to become an immortal emperor one day. I even hoped to surpass the immortal realm, because there are rumours in the upper realm about a world stronger than the upper realm that exists in the sky."
"In less than 800 years, I ascended to the immortal king realm. But it wasn’t my final destination. I continued to struggle for 3000 years. When I got the information about the Immortal Emperor’s inheritance ground."
"This event wasn’t limited to me; multiple Immortal kings were fighting for this immortal inheritance. I didn’t really have any advantage compared to those immortal kings backed by Immortal emperors."
"So, I decided to form a team with another Immortal emperor’s child. He was the strongest Immortal king who had actually killed a Quashi Emperor alone. That partner wasn’t like what we expected; both of us had our own schemes."
"When the immortal trial began, we worked together to get the inheritance. Though it cost more than I had imagined, while he hadn’t exposed his true power yet, he was already at the Quahi emperor realm. So, in the end, things were already decided. I was thinking of using him without even understanding his true power."
"At the last moment, he got everything that I struggled for, but I wasn’t completely hopeless. I also got my own opportunity to restart. It’s just now the gap between us is tremendous."
"After that I my soul got into this kid’s body since I had been teaching and helping him cultivate so he can help me to revive completely."
I had been listening to her boring story for almost 5 minutes. Finally, it ended
"Waah..."
"Well, I will rate this story 0.1 star out of 5. You called it backstory. Even my dog had an interesting story than yours."
I pointed at Little Black, helping her to understand how boring her story was.
"I am sorry, senior." She quickly apologised.
Looking at her humble behaviour, I decided to give her another chance.
"Now, tell me this kid’s story. It has to be entertaining or you’re done for."
"Senior..."
"What..."
"I will start now."
"Good"
"Five years ago, when my soul awoke. He was just a 6-stage Qi refining cultivator, bullied by his peers. His everyday life was filled with suffering. He works harder and harder cultivating for weeks, but never gets any benefit. It only increases his suffering."
"After watching him struggle yet not giving up, I decided to help him. I gave him the strongest cultivation technique I had on my hand, also guiding his cultivation progress. With his hard work and my guidance, his cultivation increased quickly, breaking through to the foundation establishment realm in less than a year."
"Then came a clan tournament, where everyone was mocking him again, but this time he beat up everyone, shocking the whole clan. From that day, his fame spread far and wide whole city knowing the Chen clan had given birth to a prodigy."
"The next day City lord proposed his daughter’s marriage proposal to him. The clan was ecstatic, making him their future hope. In the next few months, he even got an invitation from the Ancient Sword Sect."
"After joining the sect, his cultivation resources increased tremendously with many new opportunities. He was still working hard, but without suffering any setback, his character was becoming more and more arrogant."
"In the next 2 years, he had another major realm breakthrough, forming his golden core. Which caused the chaos in the Whole ancient sword sect. Because in the history of the ancient sword sect, only a handful of people had formed the perfect golden core, and he became one of those few geniuses."
"This fame made him even more arrogant, and he started to challenge other prodigies, with why guidance on the techniques he had been practising being quite high level, which always gave him the upper hand in all battles."
"But recently, the city lord’s daughter actually tried to break the engagement."
"Hey, stop!" Till now story had been going according to script, why this sudden U-turn?
"Wasn’t he was shining star? Why would she want to leave him? He wasn’t even a hidden genius. Everyone knows about so-called achievements.
"Um, senior, I don’t know much about what happened, but that girl liked and person even more talented than him." She replied.
"Oh... continued the story, then."
"After learning about her betrayal, this kid became furious and went to teach that guy a lesson. But stopped by the city lord’s daughter. In all this chaos, the City Lord’s mansion and the Chen family also came and decided to kill that kid. Because both want this marriage to be successful."
"Actually, the city lord’s daughter was born with a pure yin body, and with Chen Zhenyu’s true yang body, they were the match made in heaven."
’Typical xianxia trash, I can say in next most likely that boy turned out to be some hidden cultivator killing these 2 families.’
"When everyone was ready, kill that girl, knowing what others are planning, decided to marry Chen Zhenyu. And that other guy simply turned around, leaving the city, but Chen Zhenyu attacked him from behind, not wanting him to leave that easily."