Chapter 1 - Ruined
Chapter 1: Ruined
The news that Tianxuan Sect’s Eldest Senior Brother, Jiang Huai, had his cultivation destroyed by an evil cultivator spread throughout the entire Eastern Region within three days, coinciding with the sudden blizzard in the Eastern Region.
Jiang Huai is the youngest Golden Core cultivator in the history of Tianxuan Sect and the only direct disciple of the Eastern Region’s number one female sword immortal.
At the age of sixteen, Jiang Huai’s usually aloof and detached Master personally arranged a marriage for him. The wedding was set for when he turned twenty, and he was to marry Luo Qingyu, the only daughter of the Qingxuan Sect’s sect master from Yuelan Continent in the Eastern Region.
Rumors had it that Luo Qingyu, the daughter of the Qingxuan Sect’s sect master, inherited her mother’s stunning beauty. When she made her first appearance at the Eastern Region competition at the age of fifteen, she dazzled all the young disciples present with her inscrutable swordsmanship. With a thin sword, she defeated a group of proud geniuses, only to be bested by Tianxuan Sect’s Jiang Huai.
Once upon a time, everyone believed that it was inevitable for Jiang Huai to become another Ninth Realm Immortal Venerable of the Eastern Region.
Countless young cultivators were extremely envious of his fortune.
At the age of six, he was picked up by a wandering female sword immortal and brought back to the sect. Once he started cultivating, he was discovered to have a once-in-a-millennium Innate Dao Body. What made people even more resentful was that this guy had an excellent reputation among most disciples. It was said that Tianxuan Sect’s Eldest Senior Brother Jiang Huai was amiable and generous, often personally teaching his junior brothers and sisters swordsmanship and cultivation and even standing up for servant disciples who were bullied in the sect, upholding justice.
At sixteen, just as his master had mentioned finding him a Dao companion, countless female disciples sent paper kites to his mountain peak. Jiang Huai spent an entire night replying to each one, politely refusing. Each rejection letter was handwritten by him, and many female disciples still treasure them to this day.
At seventeen, Jiang Huai obtained the only portion of heavenly dao spiritual energy in a secret realm that opened once every five hundred years, successfully forming a Golden Core and turning countless disciples green with envy.
Some speculated that he would become an elder of the sect in the near future, and there were rumors that the sect master intended to groom him as the next sect master of Tianxuan Sect.
Jiang Huai spent his teenage years under the envious gazes of countless ordinary disciples until his nineteenth birthday.