the villain has something to say

ch 6 to ch 10

Chapter 6

He worked his cultivation methods, absorbed universal qi, and completed a microcosmic orbit (1) along the direction of the veins, muscles, and bones in his body, then completed a macrocosmic orbit. He repeated this 81 times, a common routine for cultivators.

The day Luo Jianqing reincarnated, on the way back to Tai Hua Mountain, he discovered that he was unable to inhale the universal qi as he once habitually did. If the universal qi was compared to an innocent yet powerful child, it would've been happy to play with the superior level const.i.tution Luo Jianqing before, and now it was too late to go back.

No matter how Luo Jianqing worked his cultivation methods, nowhere within three zhang of his body had even a single drop of universal qi.

What Luo Jianqing was practicing was Yu Xiao Peak's unique cultivation method, the True Nine-Petaled Lotus Record, that was always kept hidden. This was Tai Hua Mountain's most protected secret. It was said that in those years what Tai Hua Mountain's grandmasters studied was that very cultivation method, and relied on them to levitate heavenwards and achieve immortality.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the True Nine-Petaled Lotus Record, but this spiritual influence was unwilling to get close to him.

For a long time, Luo Jianqing sat on the praying mat, thinking about this issue, but in the end he still couldn't come up with an answer. When he had just reincarnated, he was already firmly in the middle stage of Core Formation, and now he had fallen to the beginning of the middle stage. If he fell down like this again, he was afraid that in one year he could drop to the early stage of Core Formation.

After meditating inside his bamboo house for a month, Luo Jianqing got up to face the vast blue sky, and suddenly he had a thought...

"Could it be that the heavens cannot tolerate me any longer?"

Naturally, the heavens had no way to answer him, but the inside of his body couldn't grow any more. Besides, the still slowly dropping boundaries was enough answer for Luo Jianqing.

But Luo Jianqing did not get angry. He already resented the unjust will of the heavens, and although he knew his world was merely a book, being a cultivator was something he truly wanted. Cultivation was his ident.i.ty. So what if it was just a book? He was still Luo Jianqing, and there was no way he was "a disciple who had one appearance, in reality a filthy, dark, and jealous person", or so it was written in that book.

...Cough cough, maybe he was a little jealous.

He didn't think about it too long, as the time for the new disciples' first practice experience was approaching. Luo Jianqing packed some essential materials in his storage ring, then went to find the elder who was in charge of leading practice to receive his token.

After he took the Tai Hua Mountain's leader token, Luo Jianqing had just barely come down from Cang Shuang Peak when he glimpsed a distant ball of fire coming from the sky. His immediate reaction was to turn around and run, but he hadn't taken two steps when he heard a hurt voice behind his back. "Senior brother, do you have to turn and run whenever you see me?"

Luo Jianqing forced out two laughs and helplessly turned back around, looking at his little junior sister.

From head to foot, she was covered in a fire-red cotton skirt. She had a very small face that had big round eyes with slender tightly knitted eyebrows. She looked extremely sweet and charming, but her arrogant and willful personality set her far apart from the gentleness of women. Instead, she was high-spirited and reckless like the blazing sun above, bursting into thousands of rays of light.

The seven great disciples of Tai Hua Mountain's seven peaks, the celebrated and famous young generation of the cultivation world, the Seven Children of Tai Hua Mountain.