Mutual Forbearance for Zong Jian Yuanjie

In fact, I, Jian Yuanjie, am not a bad person at all. I can even say that I have been very tolerant and dedicated too much for the Dao Sword Sect. Unfortunately, those mediocrities, ordinary disciples, chief seats, elders, and even the sect leader of Dao Sword Sect, they would not understand me.

When I was ten years old, I entered Dao Sword Sect. At that time, I was only one step away from becoming one of the top ten prodigies of that generation. I cultivated diligently and eventually succeeded in forming a golden core when I was twenty.

Unfortunately, at that time I was impatient, arrogant and aggressive. I did not pay attention to accumulation, precipitation and foundation. As a result, I stayed in the golden core stage for more than three hundred years after not spending enough years building my foundation in the training period.

Here, I want to advise my juniors that the foundation building period is the most important stage among all realms. It is really the basis of cultivation. Do not seek quick success and risk your cultivation.

The thickness of foundation built during the foundation building period determines the height of cultivation attainment.

After paying respect at the mountain gate, my generation left the sect. I traveled around the Lingnan Region to cultivate.

At the furthest point, I went to the Lingnan Immortal Sect. To be honest, only after seeing the Lingnan Immortal Sect did I know what a real immortal sect looks like. It was a paradise on earth.

Upon entering the Lingnan Immortal Sect, looking forward there was a boundless ocean; looking up there were islands floating in the sky, one after another. Each of those islands was a small world. Every small world was dozens of times bigger than the Northern Chu Kingdom.

There were islands in the sky, dense and covering the firmament. Straining to look up, I could not even see the highest island.

Here, I want to advise my juniors that if there is any chance, you must enter the Lingnan Immortal Sect. That is the real blessed land for cultivation.

... Even if there is no chance to join the Lingnan Immortal Sect, you should try to visit and see it.

When I was eighty years old I returned to the Dao Sword Sect, and then joined the Butler Hall as an ordinary butler. After over a hundred years of struggling in the Butler Hall, I finally became an elder. After another hundred years, I became the Chief of Medicine.

Originally, the Chief of Medicine was the oiliest position in the Butler Hall. I could have enjoyed all the resources in this position and formed a Yuan Ying with pills.

Unexpectedly, it was as if I was cursed. Right after I took the position of Chief of Medicine, disasters befell the Dan Peak, the pill concocting branch of Dao Sword Sect, continuously.

The disciples and elders of Dan Peak either died from tribulations or accidents, generation after generation, becoming worse and worse. In the end, a once prosperous peak declined until there was only one disciple inheriting the legacy.

I always felt that it was my fortune affecting Dan Peak, but I could not find solid evidence.

Here, I want to warn my juniors not to place hope in others’ hands. If you have poor aptitude and cannot build a thick foundation, then do not hold fantasies and just learn pill concocting earnestly. This way, you can go further on the path of cultivation.

Until Dan Peak could no longer provide pills for Dao Sword Sect, I still did not form my Yuan Ying with pills.

Yet I did not resent Dan Peak, just felt anxious that my time was running out. Because I was injured during my travels, I probably only had a lifespan of five hundred years left.

Then in my three hundred and forty eighth year, the sect finally decided to purchase pills from Zhican Valley to resolve the problem... and I was put in charge of this matter.

At that time, I was overwhelmed and did not dare believe that such a major event was arranged to me. I also did not dare believe the sect trusted me so much. As we know, pills are the lifeline of a sect.

Pills are to a sect like food is to a country.

So for this matter, I was very attentive, responsible, and hardworking. For the sake of the sect’s pill concocting business, I worked diligently for over a hundred years.

Soon after, another big incident happened.

The last pill master of Dao Sword Sect, the Chief of Dan Peak, died under heavenly tribulation!

Dan Peak only had one ignorant, honest and naive disciple in his early twenties who was still building his foundation.

I cried for Dao Sword Sect and mourned for Dan Peak... I thought, perhaps, Dao Sword Sect's Dan Peak would become extinct from then on.

And it was right at this moment that people from Zhican Valley and Boundless Sword Sect came looking for me.

When I learned of their plan to seize Dao Sword Sect, I drew my sword in anger and fought to the death. Unfortunately, I was eventually overpowered and captured, unable to win or die.

Thinking back now, I probably chose to endure humiliation in order to survive for the sake of Dao Sword Sect!

I knew deeply that although Dao Sword Sect had lost Dan Peak, it still had formidable strength. But I also knew that Dao Sword Sect absolutely could not withstand two sects alone.

In order for Dao Sword Sect to avoid extermination, I agreed to their conditions...

But honestly, everything a cultivator does is for the sake of cultivation. Sometimes, for the sake of achievement, longevity, enduring a little humiliation can be tolerated.

I guess no one knows that I alone shielded Dao Sword Sect, maneuvering between two powerful sects.

When I stood at the highest point of the main peak looking down at Dao Sword Sect, this bunch of mediocre, ignorant lowly creatures must not know that I am the hidden hero protecting Dao Sword Sect.

In order for Dao Sword Sect to avoid destruction, to mollify Zhican Valley, I thought that in the end I still had to get rid of Dao Sword Sect's pill master... After all, Dan Peak was finished, with only one pill master left, eliminating him would end it!

After all, a sect like Dao Sword Sect should not have pill masters.

But recently that nephew seems to be on guard, forcibly forming his core and urgently setting up formations, making things difficult.

Looks like I have to wait until after the mountain gate ceremony... Absolutely cannot make a move during the mountain gate ceremony, because this period is too sensitive, too likely to draw the sect leaders' attention.

Moreover, I am still in charge of security as a butler. Therefore, this is the Chief of Medicine of Dao Sword Sect? Reduced to doing rough security work for the mountain gate ceremony... This kind of rough work really should not fall to me.

"With this information, we can accurately predict who your next opponents will be!"

Hm? That sounded like someone from Dan Peak ahead? I raise my vigilance and pretend to casually walk over.

That snake demon is holding a thick stack of papers, talking to Li Shiyin and Tian Wenjin. Ah! Both are gifted talents blessed by the heavens with good looks... Dao Sword Sect seems to be on the rise.

"But it's not complete yet, some places are wrong and some people are not recorded. We still have to keep collecting information today."

The snake demon speaks again. Connecting it with her previous words puts me on alert. I circle around, flying a bit higher. My vision is still decent. I can see clearly that what the snake demon is holding is...

What?! That's actually the complete information on this generation's disciples! They are actually collecting information on Dao Sword Sect's disciples?! What are their intentions?

But if I get this information into my hands... and gift it to Zhican Valley... I feel my Core Formation Pill has a destination...

No!!

I mean, such important information absolutely cannot fall into the hands of ordinary disciples! Who knows if they have the capability to protect it, who knows if they harbor ill intentions toward Dao Sword Sect?

I must confiscate these things!

Of course not now, have to wait until they've collected more complete information... I mean... hmm...

Also must choose the right opportunity to make a move, to avoid too much impact...

Wait a bit longer, I've already waited three hundred years, no hurry to form my core in another day or two...