[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body":3,"chapter-starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-78":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting with the Wasteland Sacred Body",{"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},2340885,4576,"Chapter 78: The Ji Clan","starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-78",78,"\u003Cp>Within Nantian City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the matter of the Yuan Tian Secret Treasury concluded, the various powerful figures gathered in the city prepared to depart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jun Xiaoyao was returning to the Jun Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Shengyi was also preparing to set off for the Jiang Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jun Zhangjian and the others sensed the atmosphere and wisely withdrew to a distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Shengyi wore a snow-white robe of peerless elegance, her figure tall and graceful, like a solitary snow lotus standing apart from the world, untainted by dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her exquisitely beautiful immortal face was pale and luminous, as if glowing with light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to her innate Dao Body constitution, she radiated an otherworldly aura, giving the impression of imminent transcendence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if standing beside Jiang Shengyi could grant one enlightenment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister Shengyi, your constitution is truly enviable—I feel like I’m about to attain enlightenment and ascend the heavens just by being near you,” Jun Xiaoyao said with a casual smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone else standing before Jiang Shengyi would surely feel inferior and ashamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jun Xiaoyao was entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His transcendent aura was not inferior to Jiang Shengyi’s—indeed, it surpassed hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then if I stay by your side every day, won’t you attain enlightenment every day?” Jiang Shengyi teased with a faint smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she suddenly realized the double meaning, and her cheeks flushed red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She recalled the intimate fusion of their sacred bodies within the secret treasury, and her jade cheeks warmed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jun Xiaoyao, however, seemed oblivious, smiling faintly: “Inside the secret treasury, I owe you greatly—without you, I could never have subdued the demonic corpse alone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where are you going? I merely assisted.” Jiang Shengyi gently shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, as if changing the subject, she said: “That little Luoli is missing you terribly—she’s been shouting every day that she wants to come out and find you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jiang Luoli… ah, minimum three years, maximum death penalty…” Jun Xiaoyao sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Shengyi looked puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jun Xiaoyao occasionally uttered phrases she couldn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some casual chat, Jun Xiaoyao bid farewell to Jiang Shengyi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Jiang Shengyi returned to the Jiang Clan’s group, a Jiang Clan Elder stepped forward and said: “Shengyi, our Jiang Clan must deepen our ties with the Divine Son—could you perhaps arrange for Luoli to…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jiang Clan Elder gestured, clearly hoping to matchmake them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jiang Clan would surely agree to this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Shengyi’s expression froze slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long pause, she forced a smile: “Of course—perhaps I can act as a matchmaker if an opportunity arises.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah, that’s good!” the Jiang Clan Elder laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Jun Xiaoyao returned to the Jun Clan’s group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had absolutely no interest in political marriages or Dao companions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, his goal was to suppress this era and stand atop the pinnacle of the Nine Heavens and Ten Realms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandfather, let’s return,” Jun Xiaoyao said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could hardly wait to see what fortune lay inside the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Very well,” Jun Zhantian nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Jun Clan group set off for Huangzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the Three Thousand Dao States: Xuan State.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This state is the ancestral seat of the ancient Ji Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ji Clan, as an ancient family, may not rank among the Three Imperial Clans, but its depth and strength are not to be underestimated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could any ancient family be weak?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Bangyin returned to the Ji Clan, dragging Ji Xuan behind him—a man hollowed out, listless, like a walking corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the Ji Clan erupted in turmoil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clan elders of Ji Xuan’s lineage were furious, eager to storm the Jun Clan’s mountain gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other lineages, though angered, remained calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in the end, the Ji Clan took no action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the Ji Clan could not wage war against the Jun Clan over a single, already-deposed Ji Xuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A war between two ancient families would be an immortal conflict—shaking the entire Immortal Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, Ji Xuan was truly and fairly defeated by Jun Xiaoyao—not through treachery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the young generation, rivalry and combat, life and death—it’s only natural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ji Clan had no valid reason to retaliate against the Jun Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, they could only swallow their anger and bite their tongues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ji Bangyin could not bear this humiliation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made a decision, and went deep into the Ji Clan, to the edge of a valley brimming with immortal aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire valley seemed shrouded in immortal light, spring-like all year round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Bangyin spoke: “Is Miss Qingyi present?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was hard to imagine a Saint speaking to a junior in such a gentle tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could only guess how exalted this junior’s status must be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, a voice as melodious as a nightingale emerging from a valley, pearls falling upon jade plates, echoed forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qingyi is here. What does Elder wish?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sight of her—only her voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even that voice alone was enough to linger in the heart forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Miss Qingyi, please restore the Ji Clan’s honor and reclaim justice for Ji Xuan,” Ji Bangyin said solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one he was pleading with was none other than the Ji Clan’s most outstanding heavenly daughter of this generation: Ji Qingyi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was also the Holy Maiden of the Immortal Cult, the Eternal Immortal Teaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With these dual identities, Ji Qingyi’s status was utterly transcendent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Bangyin then recounted the events of the Yuan Tian Secret Treasury to Ji Qingyi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long while, her voice, like a clear spring cascading down a waterfall, finally came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Qingyi understands. But afterward, I must return to the Eternal Immortal Teaching to venerate the relics of the Fallen Immortal. I shall keep this matter in mind.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good, good—your affairs come first,” Ji Bangyin nodded, then departed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Jun Clan’s Divine Son… seems like an interesting figure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I wonder… how much surprise can he bring me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several days later, Jun Xiaoyao and the others returned to the Huangzhou Jun Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, a minor incident occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine-Headed Lion Clan’s elder, Jiuling Yuansheng, arrived at the Jun Clan’s mountain gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jun Xiaoyao appeared riding the Nine-Headed Lion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to see whether this Nine-Headed Lion Clan elder would be as foolish as the You Dragon Sovereign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some onlookers outside, seeing Jun Xiaoyao riding the Nine-Headed Lion, were utterly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Riding the descendant of Jiuling Yuansheng right before his face? It was blatant provocation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the outside world expected Jiuling Yuansheng to cause chaos at the Jun Clan…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiuling Yuansheng, with a solemn expression, said to the Nine-Headed Lion: “Gou Sheng, being chosen by the Jun Clan’s Divine Son is your fortune. Follow him—you’ll never suffer for it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words turned the entire scene to stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this really the mighty Jiuling Yuansheng?” many cultivators stared blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why did Jiuling Yuansheng turn into a dog the moment he faced the Jun Clan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grandfather, you…” The Nine-Headed Lion was frozen, stiff, fur standing on end, tail rigid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had thought Jiuling Yuansheng came to rescue her—only to hear this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he’d exposed her shameful birth name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So your real name is Gou Sheng?” Jun Xiaoyao said with a playful smirk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah, Divine Son, you jest. Our Nine-Headed Lion line has low survival rates—we give our young humble names to ensure they thrive,” Jiuling Yuansheng chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine-Headed Lion wanted to cry, wishing she could dig a hole and bury herself like an ostrich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too humiliating—what kind of self-isolation challenge was this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This incident gave many a vivid understanding of the Jun Clan’s intimidating power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the mighty Jiuling Yuansheng dared not act recklessly before the Jun Clan’s mountain gate—he even willingly urged his descendant to follow the Jun Clan’s Divine Son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this matter concluded, Jun Xiaoyao returned peacefully to the Heavenly Emperor Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s time to uncover the mystery of this wooden box,” Jun Xiaoyao said, his eyes filled with anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>",1308,"2026-06-20T23:29:44.332Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","decc1b65249395e36cdb77530f3fdd951672f68293cfcfeea49113a58b56096e","starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-79","starting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-chapter-77",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-with-the-wasteland-sacred-body-cover.jpg"]