[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pure-yang":3,"chapter-pure-yang-pure-yang-chapter-438":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Pure Yang!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2267538,4427,"Chapter 438","pure-yang-chapter-438",438,"\u003Cp>The long night stretches endlessly, clouds surging like waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mount Luyin, Five Elders Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A waterfall hanging from the heavens resembles a white ribbon, descending from the sky to earth, its splashing spray like pearls scattered upon the deep emerald pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can we forget old friends? How can our hearts not recall them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old friends, how could we ever forget? Friendship lasts forever.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the crashing waves, a melodious tune echoed, reverberating across Five Elders Peak and sinking into the silent, endless night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the peak’s summit, a slender figure stood alone, clad in white robes, her demeanor pure and icy as jade, no more than thirty, unadorned yet radiating unmatched beauty; beneath the bright moon, she seemed a celestial immortal descended to earth, gazing at the roiling sea of clouds, her ethereal gaze drifting far, far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We too once endured hardship, wandering day and night.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Long live friendship, long live the bond of friends.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Raise our cups, drink together, sing in unison.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Long live friendship, friendship lasts forever.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the slender figure’s hand lay a portable cassette player, common in the last century, its tape slowly turning, releasing the melodious music.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister Xiangling is alone again over there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far off, a young girl in a Daoist robe stared fixedly at the slender figure atop Five Elders Peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister, I heard Sister Xiangling is waiting for someone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, the girl turned to look at Zhuang Yumian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who told you that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All the senior disciples in the sect say so in private,” the girl whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You never focus on your cultivation—why are you so fond of gossip?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuang Yumian turned, flicking the girl’s forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, Sister, that really hurts!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please, He Zhiyu, can you stop speaking like such a brat?” Zhuang Yumian said coolly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Zhiyu pouted but kept her gaze fixed on the distant figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister, who is Sister Xiangling waiting for?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuang Yumian shook her head, her gaze sharpening slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the day she joined the sect, she had often seen that slender figure standing alone through the long night, listening to the same song over and over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That portable player seemed an object of great importance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When one meets someone dazzling in youth, they are bound to be trapped by them for life,” Zhuang Yumian suddenly mused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Xiangling was the most gifted disciple Mount Luyin had produced in a hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been stuck for years beyond the Observer Realm; had it not been for that one stubborn attachment, she might long ago have shattered through to the Tianshi Realm and realized the ultimate mystery of the Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So Sister Xiangling is truly bound by love?” He Zhiyu’s eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuang Yumian shot her a sharp glance from the corner of her eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If heaven had feelings, heaven would grow old; mortals must feel to cultivate,” Zhuang Yumian murmured softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister, I don’t understand—if one feels, won’t desire and delusion become obstacles to cultivation?” He Zhiyu asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Desire and emotion are manifestations of the Great Dao’s function, like images reflected in a mirror.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cultivation means using the false to cultivate the true, seeing delusion as truth, using those reflected images to perceive the boundless, empty mirror,” Zhuang Yumian murmured softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To feel is to awaken; go one step further, and you reach the Supreme Detachment—close to the Dao.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuang Yumian’s words plunged He Zhiyu into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like how more thoughts actually aid cultivation—the best moment to subdue the conscious mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Desire and delusion are illusory; seeing delusion as illusion, Supreme Detachment means delusion is truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Affliction is Bodhi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Illusion is the Whole Truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Doesn’t Sister Xiangling know this?” He Zhiyu couldn’t help asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course she knows,” Zhuang Yumian sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But the truth of this world is easy to know, hard to practice—knowing is one thing, doing is another.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Supreme Detachment, the Dao of Whole Truth… How many in history have ever grasped this level?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuang Yumian gazed at the solitary figure atop Five Elders Peak, her eyes growing distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was at the height of her brilliance, yet had not yet felt the lethal power of “emotion,” nor met anyone who had dazzled her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of person could make Sister Xiangling, someone like her, yearn so deeply, turn over and over in her heart?” He Zhiyu wondered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know,” Zhuang Yumian said, shaking her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I only heard it was a chance encounter from her youth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Back then, she was still in full bloom, and he, too, was young—he came from afar to the mountain seeking a sword!” Zhuang Yumian whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seeking a sword?” He Zhiyu’s heart stirred, unable to help asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could it be…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes—it’s the ‘Three-Inch Spiritual Light’ in the Immortal Cave. He sought that sword,” Zhuang Yumian’s eyes gleamed with unusual light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within Mount Luyin lay an Immortal Cave, said to be where Lu Zu once secluded himself in profound cultivation before ascending to heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, the sect’s founder discovered within the cave a perpetual cloud of mist and radiant light, strange and unchanging, and erected an altar to worship and refine it with incense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over centuries, the mist and light transformed, condensing into essence, sharpening into blade-like radiance, and the sect’s ancestors deemed it a rare treasure, naming it the Three-Inch Spiritual Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s our sect’s treasure!” He Zhiyu’s expression changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had heard of its fame since joining—fickle as wind, formless as cloud, its edge like a sword, its radiance boundless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had trained for years without ever seeing it—never imagining it was no longer in Mount Luyin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who was he, that he could take away this treasure!?” He Zhiyu grew even more curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To take the Three-Inch Spiritual Light—and to make young Su Xiangling fall for him at first sight, dooming her for life—he must have been extraordinary, of immense lineage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know,” Zhuang Yumian whispered, shaking her head. “Later, he came to Mount Luyin many times, cultivating the Three-Inch Spiritual Light.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those past events are many years gone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mountain winds howled, the sea of clouds swayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Five Elders Peak, Su Xiangling’s robes fluttered; amid the melodious song, her gaze slowly blurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Past images flickered before her eyes—she seemed to see again that young man, before the Immortal Cave, leaping and swinging his sword in flight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ten thousand miles, demon-slaying lightning coils, a white dragon soars through the sky. Once I held this sword to slay demons; now I give it to you to sever your troubles.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Long ago, Lu Zu met the Fire Dragon Immortal here and received the inner alchemy and flying sword techniques of Discharge Fire.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Azong, your Three-Inch Spiritual Light dance has grown even more beautiful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiangling, this will be my last time coming to Mount Luyin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re leaving?” the girl cried urgently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I got a letter from home—my elder brother had a son. I must go see him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re so young—you’re already an uncle?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, my brother’s son is no ordinary child. Grandpa said he’s already named him Zhang Sheng—I must hurry back to take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Will you come back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I probably will… Oh, I’ll leave this player with you. The mountain’s boring—listen to it when you’re idle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Past images scattered like clouds before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could have imagined that parting would change their lives forever?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one imagined that his return home would bring ruin—his family destroyed, the great calamity of the Zhang clan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Azong…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Five Elders Peak, the bright moonlight spilled down, casting the slender figure in even softer, lonelier beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>",1261,"2026-06-19T21:05:46.332Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b08e82c2cd6431eb7608a3426a14d0dd1d31ae748cdd3d9a964ed601c1747e79","pure-yang-chapter-439","pure-yang-chapter-437",520,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpure-yang-cover.jpg"]