A Three Thousand Realms (GL) - Chapter 1

“Guo’er…”

Tian Yue’s slender fingers gently caressed the Soul-Concentrating Pearl hanging on her chest. Having endured eighty-one heavenly lightning tribulations, she looked up at the seemingly endless Ascending Immortal Stairway. Even someone as cold and aloof as her couldn’t help but feel her heart surge with emotion. She held the Soul-Concentrating Pearl gently in her palm and whispered softly,

“Guo’er, Sister has done it. Once I ascend to the immortal realm, I will definitely cultivate immortal techniques to help you reconstruct your divine soul.”

Step by step, she climbed the immortal stairway. Tian Yue turned back for one last look. The disciples of the sect had already suppressed their initial amazement at the appearance of the stairway and were now sitting cross-legged in meditation, bathing in the profound and mysterious immortal light, hoping to gain some insight and advance further in their cultivation.

With no lingering attachments left, Tian Yue stepped onto the stairway and climbed with full momentum, one step after another. When she finally reached the last step, she didn’t expect an immortal guide to already be waiting beside her.

The immortal guide was slightly surprised to see how effortlessly Tian Yue had ascended the stairway, but he kept his composure and simply said:

“Congratulations, Immortal Lady, on ascending and proving your Dao. I am the gate-guarding immortal general, specially here to welcome you. Please follow me.”

“Thank you for your trouble.”

Tian Yue nodded in thanks and was about to follow the immortal general through the immortal gate when she was suddenly blocked by a barrier.

Seeing this, the immortal general looked slightly surprised. His gaze lingered for a moment on the Soul-Concentrating Pearl hanging around Tian Yue’s neck, then he suddenly understood and smiled:

“Only those who have attained the Dao and ascended as immortals may enter this gate. A scattered soul from the lower realm cannot.”

Upon hearing these words, Tian Yue felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave. After a long silence, she stammered:

“Immortal General, please don’t joke. I once received guidance from Immortal Wuxia. To reconstruct a primordial soul, the only way is to bring Guo’er’s soul with me when ascending to the upper realm and cultivate immortal techniques there before it can be done…”

The immortal general shook his head and laughed:

“I suppose Immortal Wuxia and you belong to the same sect. Her deep protective love for you is truly evident.”

“You mean… Immortal Wuxia deceived me…”

Tian Yue gripped the Soul-Concentrating Pearl tightly in her hand. “No, it can’t be… it absolutely can’t be…”

“Sister, don’t be sad. Once you ascend and become an immortal, you can reconstruct my soul for me. Then we can still be together.”

That was what Guo’er had said when her soul was about to scatter. Tears streamed down her cheeks, soaking her nearly transparent soul body. Her gaze turned gently toward Yue Wuxia as she pleaded earnestly:

“Immortal Wuxia, isn’t that right?”

Yue Wuxia felt a pang of reluctance, but she still gritted her teeth, took out the Soul-Concentrating Pearl, and nodded:

“Yes, it is.”

She then turned to Tian Yue, who was about to exhaust all her spiritual power to preserve Guo’er’s soul:

“Tian Yue, quickly withdraw your spiritual power and let me store Guo’er’s soul into the Soul-Concentrating Pearl.”

“Sister, you promised me… you must ascend to the upper realm, prove the great Dao… promise me…”

“Sister promises you, Guo…”

Before she could finish speaking, Tian Yue had completely exhausted her spiritual power and fainted.

“Sister…”

A soft call seemed to echo beside her ear.

“Impossible… impossible!”

Tian Yue’s voice was filled with blood and tears. She could not accept the fact that her younger sister would eventually scatter into nothingness. She ripped off the Soul-Concentrating Pearl that had hung around her neck for a thousand years, clenched it tightly in her hand, and said resolutely:

“Guo’er, Sister is coming down to accompany you!”

She turned around and jumped off the immortal stairway. Endless astral winds assaulted her from all directions. The bone-piercing, soul-destroying pain was nothing compared to the heartbreak Tian Yue felt at that moment.

“This…”

The sudden turn of events left the immortal general completely unprepared. Seeing the immortal stairway vanish instantly the moment the immortal lady jumped off, he couldn’t help but sigh in heartache:

“What a foolish child! What a foolish child!”

To fall from ascension after only a moment and be destroyed by the astral winds, ending up with her soul completely scattered — how foolish!

“Wuxia, hurry!”

Yue Xingyun urgently urged upon seeing Tian Yue fall from the stairway.

“Go!”

Yue Wuxia quickly activated an immortal treasure. A beam of immortal light shot out, closely chasing after Tian Yue.

“Immortal Wuxia, Immortal Xingyun…”

The immortal general hurriedly stepped forward to greet the two upper immortals, but was met with cold glares instead.

“Hmph!”

Yue Wuxia coldly snorted, “You talk too much!”

She then formed hand seals and focused on casting her spell, no longer paying attention to him.

“My senior sister is anxious to save her disciple. Please don’t take offense, Immortal General,” Yue Xingyun said.

“I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare.”

The immortal general smiled awkwardly and retreated to the side.

A moment later, Yue Wuxia finished her spell and stored the palm-sized mirror-shaped immortal treasure back into her hand.

“How is it?” Yue Xingyun asked hurriedly.

“She’s lucky. The immortal treasure managed to catch up with her in time and pulled her inside.”

Yue Xingyun breathed a long sigh of relief and asked again:

“What about Guo’er…”

Yue Wuxia patted the back of her junior sister’s hand reassuringly:

“Don’t worry. Although she was injured by the astral winds and her soul has scattered and broken, I managed to collect her in time into this immortal treasure. However, her soul fragments have been scattered across the Three Thousand Minor Worlds inside the treasure.”

Hearing this, Yue Xingyun felt greatly relieved. With her senior sister’s immortal treasure nourishing Guo’er’s soul, she was sure Guo’er would turn misfortune into fortune and be safe. She couldn’t help but hook her arm around her senior sister’s and said affectionately:

“Senior sister has worked hard.”

“Since you know your senior sister has worked hard, you must reward me properly.”

Yue Wuxia rubbed her nose against her junior sister’s and laughed playfully.

Even as a powerful upper immortal, Yue Xingyun could only use her delicate fists in front of her improper senior sister. She lightly punched her senior sister’s shoulder and scolded with feigned anger:

“You have no sense of decency! Hurry up and let’s go home. Release Tian Yue. I don’t know if she was injured by the astral winds or if she’s seriously hurt…”

“Yes, yes, yes. Let’s go home, let’s go home…”

Yue Wuxia’s words carried a suggestive tone. As expected, she received a few more light punches from her junior sister. After enduring the hits, she suddenly straightened her expression and said thoughtfully:

“However… Tian Yue, this child, is far too reckless and doesn’t cherish herself at all. She should go through some trials and tempering in the Three Thousand Worlds.”

Yue Xingyun thought for a moment and nodded in agreement:

“Since Tian Yue cares so deeply about Guo’er, we might as well fulfill her wish and let her accompany Guo’er through the Three Thousand Minor Worlds.”

Having received her junior sister’s approval, Yue Wuxia secretly rejoiced in her heart.

She had spent a thousand years being urged by her junior sister to refine immortal treasures every day, with no time to properly enjoy intimate moments together. She definitely couldn’t let her junior sister’s little disciple out to get in the way again!

With that thought, she eagerly took her junior sister’s hand and headed home.

The gate guard overheard the conversation between the two upper immortals and muttered to himself:

“I wonder what kind of immortal treasure Immortal Wuxia refined… Could it really reconstruct a soul?”

The immortal treasure refined by Yue Wuxia was called “Three Thousand Realms.” Inside the treasure, three thousand minor worlds were naturally formed. It could collect scattered souls and broken spirits, allowing them to undergo the trials of reincarnation before reconstructing their souls. It was a peerless treasure that even immortals would fight over.

Fortunately, Yue Wuxia had spent nearly a thousand years refining it and finally completed it on the day of Tian Yue’s ascension. Otherwise, the lovesick Tian Yue would have truly ended up with her soul scattered and her body and Dao destroyed.