A Max-Level Demon Lord Starts An Alt Account [Rebirth] - Chapter 1

“The Cangyun Sect is the greatest sect under heaven. If you can become a disciple of the Cangyun Sect, then even a useless waste with five spiritual roots can be sent up the Stairway to Heaven!”

“Whoa! The Cangyun Sect is actually that powerful? May I ask, elder, where is this Cangyun Sect? We must truly be ignorant and poorly informed. We have walked the path of cultivation for fifty years, yet we have never even heard of it.”

The old man in the teahouse stroked his beard and spoke with a rather nostalgic air. “That was a matter from one hundred thousand years ago. The Cangyun Sect of today… sigh.”

“One hundred thousand years ago?”

“That’s right. One hundred thousand years ago, even the outer sect disciples responsible for sweeping and cleaning in the Cangyun Sect were Nascent Soul masters. The Cangyun Sect back then was truly the number one sect of Tianyan! It was far beyond anything the present Four Great Sects could compare to.”

The listeners immediately burst into an uproar. “Is that really true?! Even the outer sect sweeping disciples were Nascent Soul Venerables? Then what realm was the sect leader in? And what sort of immortals must the Grand Elders have been?”

“Heavens. Such a powerful great sect, and I’ve never even heard of it. Old sir, please tell us more. What happened after that?”

“That’s right, that’s right. Please tell us in more detail. What happened later to that number one sect under heaven?”

The old man shook his head. “There was no later. The Cangyun Sect is gone. These days, however, there is a direct disciple of the Cangyun Sect who established a sect of their own, called Cangyun Gate. If you are interested, you may very well go and learn about it.”

The three words “Cangyun Sect” quickly spread, and Cangyun Gate also appeared before the eyes of the world.

Inside a small inn, the old man tore off his disguise mask and then removed the body-mimicking talisman. The staggering, unsteady old man transformed into an agile, otherworldly young girl. Smiling brightly, she poured a cup of tea and spoke to the woman in the room who was surrounded by the scent of medicine.

“The Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects is about to begin, and only sects with at least one hundred members can sign up to participate. Our Cangyun Gate has Eldest Sister, Second Sister, me, Little Sister, Master, and Sister Zhao. Altogether, that’s only six people. Even if we want to compete, we can’t register.”

The young girl drank some tea and sat on the chair, quickly crossing her legs. “Second Sister, do you think this method of mine is good? Very soon, everyone under heaven will know about our Cangyun Gate. As long as we accept another ninety-four disciples, we’ll be able to compete.”

The medicine-scented woman sighed. The expression on her face, as though she wanted to speak but stopped herself, already expressed her disapproval.

“Shang’er, Master dislikes noise and bustle, and she also dislikes leaving the mountain. If we make such a commotion, what if we disturb Master’s quiet cultivation?”

The young girl, Xu Shang, stepped onto the chair and stood up, planting one foot on the table.

“Second Sister! The Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects will update the rankings of spiritual cultivators. Aren’t you curious what your true cultivation level ranks among the people of this world?” Xu Shang drew her bonded sword, Liuguang, and pointed it toward the roof beam. “This time, I’m going to seize the top spot, make my name known throughout the world, and become the foremost Sword Venerable through all ages!”

“Master is the first Eternal Sword Venerable. You’re still far from defeating Master.” Xu Liang sighed and reached out to tug at her. “Get down from the table first. We’re away from home. Making such a racket and jumping around like this—what kind of propriety is that?”

Looking at her high-spirited junior sister, she suddenly thought of something Master had said a very long time ago. Third Sister looked a little seriously ill. It seemed to be called something like chuunibyou.

Master said there was no medicine or stone that could cure this illness. Only time could decide whether it would heal on its own or descend into utter madness.

Oh, right. Master had also said this illness was contagious. They had to be careful and avoid being infected by Shang’er’s state of mind.

Over the next few days, Xu Liang accompanied Xu Shang as they spread news of “Cangyun Gate” throughout Chuanqi City, attempting to attract more people to join Cangyun Gate.

Seven days passed in a row. It was not until they received Master’s voice transmission that they finally left Chuanqi City by flying sword.

Cang Mountain.

From the foot of the mountain all the way to its peak, the entire area belonged to Cangyun Gate. For thousands of li in every direction, there was not a single human habitation. The spiritual energy here was rich and dense, but it was concealed by a great array. From the outside, this place looked completely worthless. Even demonic beasts were too lazy to come here to forage.

Xu Liang and Xu Shang descended straight from the clouds and put away their wind-riding swords at the foot of Cang Mountain.

The great array began to operate. Beside the stone platform at the mountain foot, ripples of spiritual power appeared. The two hurriedly stepped over.

After a sudden dizzying whirl of the array’s operation, the two of them had already been transported to the mountain peak through the formation.

Without this formation, any cultivator below the Great Vehicle stage would be directly detained and trapped by the array. Unless they were released by the sect leader of Cangyun Gate, any intruder left inside the formation would gradually lose themselves within the great array, eventually becoming a guardian of the array.

They arrived at the mountain peak.

Cang Mountain was completely under the sect leader’s control. Every blade of grass and every tree here was watered by the sect leader’s spiritual power. Even the flowers, birds, insects, fish, flying creatures, and beasts of Cang Mountain were bathed in the spiritual power that had been purified by the sect leader.

There were no changes of the four seasons here, but there were seven main peaks. Four of them had been divided into the Four Seasons Peaks, where the same season remained all year round. The place where they lived was on Spring Peak, where birds sang, flowers bloomed, and everything was filled with the vibrant feeling of spring.

Xu Shang ran into the small courtyard in high spirits and pushed open the wooden gate. “Master! Master! We’re back!”

Under a peach tree in the courtyard stood a young girl with an immortal, transcendent air. Her expression was solemn, her posture straight and upright, and she was facing the peach tree in deep thought.

The instant Xu Shang pushed open the courtyard gate and barged in, a long sword burst out from within the young girl’s body and came straight for Xu Shang’s face.

Xu Shang hurriedly drew her own bonded sword to block it. Move after move, each technique countered the other, yet she was always one step short.

It was not until twenty-seven moves later that Xu Shang shouted, “Enough!”

Only then did the long sword turn into spiritual light and disappear.

Drenched in sweat, Xu Shang leaned against the courtyard wall. She panted, using her spiritual power to regulate her body, then quickly recalled the sword moves from a moment ago.

The young girl walked to her side and looked over the disheveled Xu Shang. “Three moves fewer than last time. Have you been neglecting your practice recently?”

“Hmph!” Xu Shang refused to speak. She put away her sword and was about to leave.

The young girl placed a hand on her shoulder. “I heard from Liangliang that you want to participate in the Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects? You can’t even withstand a hundred moves from me. The Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects is filled with talented people. I advise you to keep practicing for a few more years.”

The Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects was held once every thousand years. If she missed this one, she would have to wait another thousand years. A thousand years from now, she might be very strong, but she could not endure waiting for a thousand years.

“I only just formed my core, while you’re already at the peak of the Golden Core stage. Comparing yourself to me is bullying to begin with.” Xu Shang was unconvinced. “Besides, there’s still half a year before the Grand Tournament of Ten Thousand Sects begins. I still have plenty of room to improve.”

“Suit yourself.” Xu Yi turned and left. Before leaving, she said as she walked, “Master has gone to the Rogue Cultivators’ Alliance to discuss important matters. I’m going to Guangyang Kingdom to investigate demonic cultivators. Master called you and Liangliang back to take care of Little Sister.”

“What?” Xu Shang bristled. “Why should I take care of a child?! I’m only one hundred and twenty years old. I’m still very young too, all right?”

“Little Sister is only seventeen. She isn’t even a fraction of your age. Isn’t it only right for you to take care of her?” Xu Yi had already taken out her flying artifact. Before leaving, she instructed, “You and Liangliang are not to go down the mountain for the time being. Stay home and take good care of Little Sister. If I come back and find that you secretly ran down the mountain again, I’ll snap your Liuguang Sword.”

Xu Shang’s heart jumped. Liuguang Sword was her bonded artifact. Snapping her sword would be no different from taking half her life.

“I, I know.” Xu Shang spoke with her neck stiff. After seeing her senior sister leave, she muttered quietly behind her back, “Once I defeat you, I’m going to make you kneel down and call me Senior Sister, then kowtow to me twice so loudly your head rings!”

After Xu Yi left, Xu Liang finally hurried back in from outside.

“Shang’er, you ran too fast. Hah… I’m exhausted. I’m a medical cultivator. I can’t compare to how powerful your cultivation is. Be a little considerate of your sister.”

Xu Shang felt somewhat guilty and went over to support her. “Sister, are you all right?”

Xu Liang shook her head. “I’m fine.”

She had taken medicine the whole way while climbing up from the foot of Spring Peak. Although she was tired, her medicine truly was powerful. After resting for a little while, she would be completely healed.

“Where’s Master?” Xu Liang looked around the house. In the past, whenever she came back, Master would always come out to see her. Why had she not seen Master this time?

Xu Liang asked in puzzlement, “Why isn’t Eldest Sister here either?”

Xu Shang explained, “Master went to the Rogue Cultivators’ Alliance. Eldest Sister went to Guangyang Kingdom to investigate demonic cultivators and only just left. They called us back so we can carry Cangyun Gate forward and make it flourish, and take care of Little Sister while we’re at it.”

“I understand.” Xu Liang nodded. “Master asked us to come back and take care of Little Sister.”

Xu Shang grew anxious. “And to carry Cangyun Gate forward and make it flourish.”

“Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I know.” Xu Liang nodded perfunctorily. She understood every person in this small courtyard far too well. Master’s temperament was indifferent and cold; she would absolutely never say something like that. Shang’er was falsely passing on Master’s orders again.

Xu Shang was still chattering beside her ear about carrying Cangyun Gate forward and making it flourish. Xu Liang answered absentmindedly, then said, “Then you go discuss it with Sister Zhao. I’ll go look at Little Sister and examine her body while I’m there.”

Seeing that Second Sister did not intend to reject her idea, Xu Shang left in high spirits.

Xu Liang pushed open the door. Inside the room, a little girl dressed neatly and cleanly sat there, staring blankly and foolishly at a pot of peonies.

“Little Sister?” Xu Liang sat down beside her.

The little girl slowly turned her head to look at her. “S-Second Sister. Eat, eat, eat…”

Xu Liang’s heart softened completely. From her storage ring, she took out candied hawthorns she had brought back from the mortal world. “I bought you lots of tasty things. They’re all things you like to eat. When we went down the mountain this time, we also made a trip to the mortal world and saw the mortal emperor and empress. They are your father and mother. They are both doing very well. Your mother misses you very much. I showed her your image-retention stone, and she made some clothes for me to bring back.”

Xu Liang knew that Little Sister was missing a wisp of her soul and fundamentally could not understand her words, but she still carefully told her these things.

“I recorded an image of your mother for you. How about you watch it while you eat?” Xu Liang wiped the sugar coating from the corner of her lips. “Your mother is a very good person. She loves you very much.”

Xu Liang took out the image-retention stone. After she poured spiritual power into it, the image that had long since been recorded inside began to play.

Within the image-retention stone appeared a splendid palace in the mortal world. Inside the palace was a gentle and dignified woman. She wore the luxurious garments of an empress, but on her face was the soft, tender smile of a loving mother.

The loving mother did not say much. She only told her to take good care of herself, to obediently listen to the immortals, and not to make the immortals angry.

The image-retention stone finished playing.

Xu Liang took out a storage pouch. She pulled Ye Ming’s hand over and placed it in her palm. “These are clothes, food, and some toys your mother prepared for you. Keep them safe and don’t lose them. Do you understand?”

Ye Ming stared at those things in confusion.

Xu Liang reached out and pointed at the ring she wore on her index finger. “Little Sister, do you still remember the spell Sister taught you? Put the storage pouch away inside here. This is a storage ring. Do you still remember the incantation?”

Ye Ming stumbled through the incantation and stored the storage pouch away.

Xu Liang smiled in great relief and stroked her head. “So good. Our Ming’er is truly clever. You don’t forget anything you’ve learned.”

“All right. Ming’er, keep looking at the flowers. Give me your hand, and Sister will examine your body.” Xu Liang was about to pull over her wrist when Ye Ming suddenly shrank back.

Xu Liang found it a little strange, but did not think much of it and was about to continue checking her pulse. Just then, Xu Shang’s noisy, flustered voice came from outside.

“Second Sister! Come quickly! One of the Tianshan lotuses Master brought back from the Southern Region is missing!”

Xu Liang knew how precious the Tianshan lotus was. Whether it was used for refining pills or making medicine, it was an excellent treasure. After hearing Xu Shang’s words, she hurriedly got up and went out to take a look.

After she left, the room fell quiet.

Ye Ming opened her hand and took out the storage pouch she had put away earlier from the storage ring. She checked the things inside. It was filled with a dazzling array of mortal treasures, little hills piled high with gold, women’s clothing sewn with fine, dense stitches, and all kinds of food and chilled drinks.

This was something this body’s mother in the human realm had prepared for her.

Unfortunately, now that Ye Ming had seized this body, all of it belonged to her.

She was Ming Ye, Supreme Lord of the Demon Realm. Ten thousand years ago, she had been killed by the Light of the Righteous Path, Xu Xianqing, with a single strike of the sword. She had never expected that instead of her body perishing and her Dao disappearing, she would arrive ten thousand years in the future and seize the body of this foolish child.

Only, she did not know what sort of place this was, nor what identity she currently possessed.

She hated spiritual cultivators, because in her memories, most spiritual cultivators were hypocritical gentlemen of false virtue. They waved the banner of heavenly justice and righteousness while seeking profit for their own selfish desires.

Moreover, she was a Demon Lord, and spiritual cultivators were her natural mortal enemies.

However, she did not dislike the woman from just now.

Perhaps it was because the woman carried the scent of medicine all over her body. Whether immortal or demon, everyone had a little tolerance for healers.

On the battlefield between immortals and demons, both sides rarely attacked the other side’s medical cultivators.

She sensed the condition of her body. There was a dense demonic energy within it, as though it were the consequence of her seizing this body.

She did not know the background of that woman just now, and she dared not let her easily examine her pulse. If the woman discovered the demonic energy in this body, even that gentle and soft woman would probably turn into a rakshasa who would not rest until the demon race was dead.

Right now, Ye Ming was only in the Qi Refining stage. She had no way to stand against anyone.

The only thing she could do was preserve her own life and cultivate as quickly as possible until she reached the peak of her Demon Lord days. When that time came, she would seek out Xu Xianqing and take revenge for that sword strike that had stolen her life!