Chapter 31: He will be a mountain you can never surpass in your lifetime

The cultivation realms of the Tianyuan Continent are divided by the simplest numbers.

There are seven realms in total.

The first realm is the weakest, the seventh realm is the strongest.

As soon as members of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan reach adulthood, they are fourth-realm cultivators; after receiving the clan's inheritance and the blessing of the Emperor Lord's seal, they must reach the seventh realm.

This is also why the Tu Shan Clan has stood firm and unshaken.

After understanding the cultivation realms, you began to practice according to the method given to you by Tu Shan Jiao Jiao.

As one born into the Yuling Master Lineage, you are naturally skilled at spirit control; after stepping onto the path of cultivation, your talent for spirit control techniques gradually reveals itself.

But due to the lack of one soul and one po, you have never been able to possess your own destined spirit.

No spirit is willing to submit to your incomplete soul.

Whether it is the ancient spirits of the human race, the spirits of the demon tribe, or the spirits of other minor clans, none deign to sign a spirit-master contract with you.

Lacking your own destined spirit, the power of all divine skill techniques of the Yuling Master Lineage is greatly reduced.

Even so, your cultivation speed remains extremely fast.

Spring passes, autumn arrives.

In the autumn of the second year of cultivation, you successfully entered the third realm, and at the same time you awakened your unique bloodline talent divine skill.

Its name—True Love Sword.

In the Yuling Master Lineage, sincerity brings forth spirit; the better your destined spirit matches, the greater the strength you can exert.

The so-called True Love refers to the highest realm of heart-mind cultivation for a Spirit Master.

The effect of the True Love Sword is that whenever you slay a living being, you can copy its destined divine skill for your own use.

Furthermore, the True Love Sword carries two additional effects.

The first effect: each time you swing your sword, part of its power can directly strike the opponent's soul.

The second effect: the bloodline talent divine skill possessed by your destined spirit will be bestowed upon you.

You will coexist with your destined spirit.

By virtue of the True Love Sword's ability, you finally have a means of self-protection in this chaotic world.

In truth, you feel nothing for the war between the human race and the demon tribe.

The human race abandoned you; you never enjoyed the warmth of humanity, and the demon tribe will not allow a Spirit Master like you to exist, seeking to kill you.

But your beloved is a Nine-Tailed Fox of the demon tribe.

Even the future Emperor Lord of the Tu Shan Clan.

Occasionally, thinking of this, you feel lost, unsure where to go.

In the winter of the second year of cultivation, on a night of heavy snowfall, you encountered an abandoned infant; seeing her, you thought of your former self.

You brought her back with you.

You discovered she is a mixed-blood child of the demon tribe and human race, belonging to the lowest existence on the Tianyuan Continent; neither the demon tribe nor the human race acknowledges this group, and they regard it with shame.

Once you thought Tu Shan Jiao Jiao was also a mixed-blood half-demon, which gave you the courage to feel affection; otherwise, with your innate inferiority, how could you dare to love a noble Nine-Tailed Fox?

You gave the abandoned infant a name—Ye Xue.

The icy night, the icy snow, like this child, neither crying nor smiling, very aloof.

Another evening of the same year.

While traveling the continent, you were ambushed by the demon tribe; you counterattacked and slew them, using the True Love Sword to seize their bloodline divine skill.

At the demon tribe's stronghold, you discovered corpses piled up like a small mountain.

Those slain were all half-demons like Ye Xue.

You thought: if you and Tu Shan Jiao Jiao eventually ended up together and bore offspring, that child would also be a half-demon, destined to be rejected by both major races.

You asked yourself inwardly, "What would I do then?"

In the autumn of the third year of cultivation, you entered the fourth realm, and a human Sword Cultivator found your small residence.

"Hand her over to me."

The Sword Cultivator's voice was extremely icy; his target was the half-demon Ye Xue.

"Get lost."

Your reply was even simpler.

You feel no fondness for the human race, nor for the demon tribe; you care only for those who accompany you, whether human or demon.

You engaged in a great battle with the Sword Cultivator.

You killed him.

As a human, this was the first time you killed a person, but your heart did not stir much, as if you were slaying those demons.

In the sixth year of cultivation, you entered the fifth realm.

This realm is sufficient to become a regional power on the Tianyuan Continent; the wet nurse who raised you back then was of this realm.

That same year, Ye Xue turned four.

You had no experience raising a child; that Ye Xue could survive alongside you counts as her tenacious vitality.

Little Ye Xue's body shows few demon traits; she merely has two small horns on her head, slightly protruding like newly sprouted spring shoots.

You continued to travel the continent with Ye Xue.

In the tenth year of cultivation, you used the True Love Sword in a battle and were recognized by others.

The True Love Sword is one of the supreme divine skills pursued by the Yuling Master Lineage; its reappearance in the world has shocked the human race.

Not long after, members of the Yuling Master Lineage found you.

The leader was precisely the clan chief who had ordered you abandoned in the wilderness back then.

They excitedly looked at you, but did not recognize that you were the infant they had abandoned back then.

Child, you have suffered!

The Clan Chief looked at you, his voice excited, "I never thought our Yuling Master Lineage still had a child wandering outside; it's our fault, letting you suffer."

The Clan Chief walked over, wanting to hug you; he looked so kind, an old man who had devoted himself selflessly to the tribe.

Get lost!

Your response remained simple.

The Clan Chief was dumbfounded, and the other members of the Yuling Master Lineage were also dumbfounded.

Child, what does this mean?

The Clan Chief did not get angry; he simply looked at you sincerely and asked, "Is there something we did wrong? Have we ever failed you?"

The Clan Chief sighed lamentingly, "Child, I know you harbor resentment in your heart; if you return to the tribe, this old one can dispel all your resentment for you."

You sneered, "What if it's someone born lacking One Soul One Po, who killed their parents and is considered an ominous omen? Would you be willing to dispel his resentment?"

The faces of the Yuling Master Lineage members changed dramatically.

The Clan Chief stepped back thud thud thud three steps, looking at your face in disbelief, "You... you are the ghost infant from back then?"

Ghost Infant, that is what they called you.

Because back then, you were not worthy of having a name in the tribe.

It doesn't matter.

You left a remark, turned and left, "Next time don't appear before me, otherwise I will kill you."

In the dream, within the scenes that Wu You did not see, there was a scene captured by Lin Chuan's subconscious.

Among the Yuling Master Lineage crowd, a youth stared at his back and asked a question.

"Clan Chief, why must we seek from him in the Yuling Master Lineage? I can also comprehend the True Love Sword! I will not be weaker than him!"

The Clan Chief shook his head, speaking bitterly,

"The True Love Sword, this Innate Divine Ability, will never have two wielders in the same era; do not take him as your goal."

"Otherwise you will become an eternally failing Challenger; he will be an insurmountable mountain in your lifetime."