[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness":3,"chapter-cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-2132":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cultivating In Secret Beside A Demoness",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1124784,1453,"Chapter 2132 - 1621: 1000 Years Later","cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-2132",2132,"\u003Cp>ps: It takes twenty minutes to check for typos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The statue shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light belonging to the Dao Ancestor disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sudden change was difficult for Mr. Tao to accept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t panic, and immediately sealed the area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he asked Tang Ya to check other places to see if they were the same as here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Tang Ya checked three areas, and the Dao Ancestor statues were still intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the shattering of the Dao Ancestor statue is definitely no small matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, no one should possess such strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even those from the Dark Path besieging it, the Dao Ancestor statue wouldn’t be easily shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, Mr. Tao found the Ancestral Dragon and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Golden Dragon frowned, \"The Dao Ancestor statue shattered?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Tao explained the situation, and everyone felt a sense of foreboding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancestral Dragon pondered for a moment and said, \"It could be that the Dao Ancestor himself has a problem. We should only monitor the other statues to see if the same occurs soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not, then it’s fine. If so.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It indicates that the Dao Ancestor’s situation might not be good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao Ancestor vanished between heaven and earth, but everyone knew what he went to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his situation is dire, it means that being will return with a vengeance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there was some worry and fear in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet no matter how worried, it was futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could only continue to wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To see if the statue would encounter more problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five years passed after that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Tower recorded that the statues hadn’t shown any issues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, they breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been twenty-five years since the Dao Ancestor left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at it now, things seemed alright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another statue in the Heavenly Tower’s area shattered and collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then news came that a statue had shattered in the Shangguan family’s area as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two shattered in one day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The news was suppressed, but rumors of the Dao Ancestor’s impending defeat began to spread regardless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dark Path grew bolder in their pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skies remained devoid of sunlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon race, Heavenly Tower, Heavenly Saint Sect, and Saint Bandits banded together to fight against the Dark Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unforeseen events continued to happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the thirtieth year since the Dao Ancestor’s disappearance, three more statues collapsed and shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation became difficult to suppress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet people comforted themselves, insisting everything was fine, all was still well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the thirty-fifth year since the Dao Ancestor’s disappearance, no statues shattered this year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone believed their worries were indeed overblown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the fortieth year since the Dao Ancestor disappeared, ten Dao Ancestor statues simultaneously shattered and disintegrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear spread rapidly in people’s hearts, and the Dark Path became even more rampant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the fiftieth year, fifty more statues shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the seventieth year, another hundred statues shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hundredth year, seventy percent of the Dao Ancestor statues in the sea area shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shattering of these statues intensified the panic in the hearts of those in the sea area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In facing the Dark Path, they no longer had their previous confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Tao did many efforts, but his strength was insufficient to reverse the trend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it continued, the sea area would disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hundred and thirtieth year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All nine Dao Ancestor statues had shattered, and the entire sea area was oppressed by the Dark Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although sunlight could be seen in the southern region, the sea area remained pitch black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, but the seawater below was also pitch black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even coffins floated, with ominous forces corroding the sea area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fewer and fewer people could resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hundred and fiftieth year, the last Dao Ancestor statue shattered above the Mobile Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, they seemed to have lost the Dao Ancestor’s protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despair spread throughout the sea area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hundred and seventieth year, the sea area retreated step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until that day, a beam of light cut through the sky, letting light penetrate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That brilliant light, falling on the sea surface, was reminiscent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hundred years of darkness, a single light expels it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are not Cheng Yun; without the Dao Ancestor’s protection, are they no match for them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A figure stood in the light, speaking calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The light has always been there, but you simply aren’t willing to cut through to it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing forward, the figure said, \"If you wish to sink in darkness, stay where you are; if you wish to head toward the light, come and fight with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that year, after losing the Dao Ancestor, the sea area began its counterattack anew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the two-hundredth year after the Dao Ancestor left, Bright Island finally emerged in the sea area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless people began to gather, initiating a counter-attack to drive out the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the two-hundredth fiftieth year, the influence of the Dao Ancestor statue completely dissipated. They began to take root anew, surviving and resisting the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the five-hundredth year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light occupied forty percent of the sea area; countless people lived in the light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new generation of fellow disciples didn’t even know of the Dao Ancestor’s existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if they did, it was only through hearsay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the thousandth year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dao Ancestor became a thing of the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness only occupied fifty percent of the sea area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything had returned more or less to how it was before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one mentioned the Dao Ancestor anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Tao’s lifeblood was grand, deep as the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to resolve the remaining dark areas, where numerous strong entities were hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those were people who had merged with the Dark Path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their consciousness had become unclear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally they could come to their senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But were unable to launch an attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus many considered them no longer a threat, besides the emperor being far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one was willing to go clean up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were, it would be a matter for the Supreme Immortal Court and the immortal sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They certainly wouldn’t send themselves to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On this, Mr. Tao was quite sentimental:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The pitch-black sea area still spreads, yet no one worries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Know that the Corpse Realm Flower water still irrigates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the blackness isn’t extinguished, one must find a way to block the Corpse Sea’s waters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to his idea, it would be best to use the remaining Dark Path to block the Corpse Sea waters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, progress had already stalled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though people would send some to cooperate, they were no longer useful strongmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only a thousand years, and your people let the Dark Path be?\" Ancestral Dragon remarked, \"Completely different from the people under the Human Emperor’s reign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, even if it took ten thousand years, such things wouldn’t occur.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause, Ancestral Dragon asked, \"Is there any news of the Dao Ancestor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Tao shook his head, \"Cannot know, though some search for Saints; once Saints are found, there should be some news.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancestral Dragon was curious, \"Other regions should be better than the sea area, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Tao sighed, \"The sea area’s relatively intact, though mostly invaded by the Corpse Sea’s water, it’s not much different from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But other regions of the land are greatly diminished; reconstructing the land is troublesome, their situations aren’t much better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then Zhu Shen entered and said, \"Mr. Tao, something happened in the Mobile Dynasty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it?\" Mr. Tao was slightly surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Shen quickly replied, \"People from the Heavenly Note Sect came and took away the leaders of the Mobile Dynasty, especially that one spirit beast rabbit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Mr. Tao was slightly surprised, for the rabbit’s reputation in the sea area wasn’t low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that, the Dynasty was at its peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, the Heavenly Note Sect said they’d come and actually came to capture someone, \"Who came?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re said to be the legendary Saint Bandit and Holy Master.\" Zhu Shen said helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Tao: \"....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two Daluos arrived personally; who could direct the two?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to ask, it must be the Dao Ancestor’s wife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why capture the rabbit?\u003C\u002Fp>",1369,"2026-06-03T11:46:54.602Z","2026-06-03T11:47:01.399Z",1,"novelbin.me","52ae0af60576cef86b1d9b78173f3957dd42f88dbb8f14ec373f069daab7be15","cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-2133","cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-2131",2139,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-cover.jpg"]