Ascending, Do Not Disturb!

Chapter 6: Splendid Cloud Sect

Harmonious City was one of the provinces in Lingyou World. Splendid Cloud Sect was the only cultivation sect that was completely local to Harmonious City. The other sects appeared in Harmonious City and opened all kinds of shops, but their primary force was not here.

Harmonious City had fertile lands, and the four seasons were all distinct from each other. It could be considered one of the best places in Lingyou World. Maybe because the climate here was especially nurturing, the local people mostly had a slow personality, and were slow to act. Even their cultivators were not as ambitious as the cultivators of other provinces. Several thousand years ago, when the cultivation world was more closed-off and backward, Harmonious City had been called the city of degeneracy as many cultivations “lost their ambition” when they came here and only wanted to live out easy days.

Over time, as the systems in the cultivation world grew clearer, and the cultivators interacted more, Harmonious City finally lost its nickname. However, for young people with genuine cultivation dreams, their first choice for a sect would never be Splendid Cloud Sect. Splendid Cloud Sect felt helpless about this, and made a lot of advertisements. But the results were not significant. After a long time, Splendid Cloud Sect gradually became calm and let everything flow naturally.

But the sect master of Splendid Cloud Sect, who was usually serene—he wasn’t serene at all today. The ones even less calm than he were the peak masters sitting with him.

Splendid Cloud Sect had five peak masters, and three elders in seclusion. These three elders were not in charge of any matters. Unless it was a matter of life and death, no one would put their hopes on the three elders to do anything.

“Sect Master, Wang Tong is really… returning?” Daybreak Cloud Peak’s peak master carried one last thread of hope as he made his last struggle.

“Just now, Wang Tong’s eldest apprentice sent a message saying that Wang Tong has already returned from the mortal world.” The sect master saw Qing Yuan acting like this and couldn’t help but say, “Why did you provoke him back then? Now that he’s back, if he doesn’t have a fight with you, he will tear down half of the cave residences on your Daybreak Cloud Peak. When news of this spreads, all of Lingyou World will be laughing at us.”

“Lingyou World has laughed at us for several millennia, so this is nothing major,” Pei Huai, the peak master of Midday Sun Peak, said in a small voice. “There is nothing special—be open-minded.”

“If you don’t speak, I will be in a better mood and more open-minded.” The sect master Heng Yan glared at Pei Huai. What dastardly things had he done in his last life to end up the sect master of such a sect?! Each person was not good at anything, but they were good at eating until nothing was left. He had to worry for all of them.

Pei Huai and Qing Yuan exchanged a look and didn’t dare to speak. The other two peak masters appeared unconcerned as though they were just here to buff up the numbers.

Boom, boom, boom.

The bell of the sect rang three times. This was the ceremony for when an important person in the sect was returning, to show how the disciples of the sect missed and respected their elders.

After the bell rang, Qing Yuan changed sitting postures several times, and used his actions to show what it meant to sit restlessly.

Splendid Cloud Sect was situated on top of a tall mountain. The stone stairs reached up to the immortal doors. When one stepped onto this path, it meant that they separated from the mortal world and were stepping onto the way of cultivation.

Kong Hou stood on the flying sword, Cheng Yi holding her hand. She looked at the snowy-white stone stairs curving under her which stretched out endlessly. Her eyes were full of curiosity. She had never seen such a long staircase before.