Enter the Realm Within One Night

When Ye Xiaowei woke up in a daze, he opened his eyes to find Jade was not in the room as usual.

Sitting up, he realized they were in a cave mansion; they had gone up the mountain yesterday.

Jade opened the door with food.

"Living in the immortal's residence is really good; we don't have to cook ourselves. They send it over for us."

Jade seemed extremely happy, and Ye Xiaowei's eyes carried a smile too.

"You have entered the realm?"

Jade was taken aback but nodded. "Yes."

"How do you feel?"

"To be honest, I really don't feel anything. I just fell asleep last night and found that I’ve made it when I woke up."

"That's good."

"But, young lord, am I doing it right? Although I haven't seen many immortals, so many people in our courtyard try to break through the realm by looking at that well. I, on the other hand, easily entered. Don't you think it strange?"

Ye Xiaowei shook his head, wrung out a towel from the basin nearby, and washed his face.

"It’s just Body Forging."

Jade opened her mouth but didn't say anything, picked up the meal, and handed it to Ye Xiaowei.

"I find that I can see inside my body now."

"What can you see?"

Ye Xiaowei spoke lightly.

"There's a small world with a river, a round moon, and a tree."

The smile in Ye Xiaowei's eyes deepened.

"It’s the second realm."

"This is too..."

"Cultivating the heart and nature. Although the ice poison in your body harmed you, it also shaped you. In terms of physical refining and mentality, you could have entered the realm long ago. You just lacked the final step. With this little world, it means you've started Spirit Awakening. The river is your spirit vein, the moon is your unusual phenomenon, and the tree is the Tao fruit tree."

Jade became more puzzled as she listened.

"Spirit vein, unusual phenomenon, Tao fruit?"

Ye Xiaowei nodded.

"Ask the elder about it. He brought you into the sect, so he should be the one to tell you. Just don't reveal our secret. Understand? Eat first."

Although Jade was nominally Ye Xiaowei's maid, Ye Xiaowei had never treated her as a servant.

Otherwise, on so many nights, he wouldn't have exposed his arm, offering his blood and flesh to her.

However, reaching the second realm in one night would likely cause a sensation.

After finishing the meal, Ye Xiaowei continued to doze off, and Jade closed her eyes, seemingly sensing that world.

Chen Dao suddenly appeared.

He didn't sleep much last night, so he got up late today.

The first thing he did was come here.

He shook his head when saw Ye Xiaowei still looked lazy.

He looked at Jade, who was also closing her eyes just like her young lord.

Just as he was about to speak, he was dumbfounded.

"It’s the second realm... How is that possible?"

He saw that world and the round moon.

Astonishment turned into fear.

"You actually manifested an unusual phenomenon! What a terrifying talent!"

Jade opened her eyes and looked at Chen Dao, and Ye Xiaowei knocked on the table, signaling him to be quiet.

"You have to tell me, how did you enter the realm and then break through?"

Chen Dao's face was full of enthusiasm.

He grabbed Jade's hand, but she managed to break free.

Only then did he realize that his actions were a bit too aggressive, so he smiled awkwardly.

"I don't know. When I woke up, it was like this."

"Are you sure you haven't practiced before?"

Jade shook her head.

Chen Dao showed a smile as if thanking the heavens.

"Blessings from the Eternal Sect. Later, I'll take you to meet someone."

"Who?"

"My senior brother, your future master."

Jade nodded and looked at Ye Xiaowei.

Chen Dao saw his expression and felt somewhat embarrassed.

"My senior brother is very upright, it might be difficult."

"If he doesn't go, then I won't go either."

"Well, let me plead for you. He might agree because of your status as his disciple. If not, the outside fraction is also a good place. Inside the internal fraction, those geniuses are extremely competitive and might not be suitable for your young lord. In the outside fraction, though resources are scarce, with me around, your young lord will like a duck to water, freely living his life."

Jade shook her head.

"You go. I'll be here."

"But..."

Jade was interrupted by Ye Xiaowei.

"You come to find me every fifteenth of the month."

Seeing that Ye Xiaowei had spoken, Jade didn't insist further.

Chen Dao passed a confirming glance.

"I think within ten years, you'll become the new genius of the Eternal Sect. Perhaps Zhao Shisan will feel threatened."

"Who is she?"

"A genius of the sect. At seventeen, she reached the fourth realm—Mount Moving."

Jade thought for a moment. "I'm only fifteen, and I'm already in the second realm. Is it difficult to reach the fourth realm in two years?"

Chen Dao nodded.

"It’s difficult. Otherwise, I wouldn't have spent three hundred years and still be stuck in Spirit Slaying."

"Is that the sixth realm?"

"Yes, it’s the sixth realm, also known as the realm of life and death. It’s a bottleneck everyone will face. Countless people get stuck at this checkpoint and can't make progress."

Chen Dao's thoughts moved slightly, and he smiled at Jade.

"He's here."

A rainbow light swept across the entrance, and a middle-aged man descended, with a spiritual radiance emanating from his Taoist robe.

However, in an instant, the spiritual radiance retracted, and he appeared like an ordinary mortal.

He looked at Chen Dao, nodded, then turned his gaze to Jade.

"You are in the second realm? Young girl, how old are you?"

Jade looked a bit shy. "Fifteen."

After Jade entered the realm, she had only seen two cultivators—one was Chen Dao, and the other was the middle-aged man before her.

Chen Dao gave her the impression of a small mountain peak, tall but not too imposing.

However, the man in front of her was like the sky itself, giving her an intangible sense of oppression.

"Indeed, it's the Jade Body. Great, great! I have a successor now."

"Senior brother, she had entered the realm and made the breakthrough in just one night without any prior cultivation before coming up the mountain," Chen Dao explained.

The man, seemed several decades younger than Chen Dao, was taken aback.

"Broke through the second realm in one night?"

Chen Dao nodded, and the man's expression became extremely serious as he looked at Jade.

"You can only be the disciple of me, Tian Xuanzi."

He then looked at Ye Xiaowei and asked, "And him?"

"He is Jade's young lord down the mountain. They have a deep master-servant relationship, so I brought them up together."

Seeing Ye Xiaowei, who had no foundation or talent, Tian Xuanzi didn't bother looking at him.

"In cultivating, remember to sever the roots below the mountain. You must wholeheartedly cultivate, and it's even more inappropriate to serve someone as a maid. Give him some money later and let him leave the mountain."

Chen Dao showed a troubled expression, and Jade's face also displayed some stubbornness.

"If young lord leaves, then I won't cultivate either."

Tian Xuanzi was slightly stunned, and his expression turned somewhat annoyed.

"Do you know that he will harm your Tao heart?"

"I don't know," Jade insisted.

"Ah, senior brother, there's no need to argue with him. Why not let him stay in the outside fraction? This way, you can have peace of mind in accepting a disciple."

Tian Xuanzi was only slightly angered and didn't dare to vent his anger on Jade.

As Chen Dao said, they had been waiting for such a disciple for a hundred years, and they couldn't let her slip away.

"Well, well, today, you'll come with me to Tianxuan Peak for cultivation. I will impart all my knowledge to you. You shouldn't be too attached to the mortal world. Remember, between the mountain above and below, it seems to be just one word apart, but in reality, it's separated by life and death. This is for your own good and for his as well."

Chen Dao nodded, acknowledging the truth.

Once cultivation began, it meant leaving the mortal realm, and lifespan grew with the advancement of realms.

Since Ye Xiaowei was destined to be unable to cultivate, it meant that he could only live like an ordinary person, with sixty or seventy years being the end of his life.

For cultivators, sixty or seventy years were just a blink of an eye.

Most cultivators would go into seclusion, closing themselves off for several decades or even hundreds of years.

"Let's go. Follow me to the Tianxuan Peak."

Jade looked at Ye Xiaowei, who gave her an encouraging look and didn't bother to look at Chen Dao and Tian Xuanzi.

She disappeared in a beam of light.

Ye Xiaowei knew that there would be no one to serve him now, and he felt a bit empty inside.

Chen Dao looked at him.

"This is Entering Realm. Whether you can succeed or not depends on your destiny. Here's a Body Forging Pill. Oh, and your bamboo chair. Take care of yourself."

Ye Xiaowei, however, didn't even glance at the book and pill.

He picked up his bamboo chair and placed it by the bedside.

Today, he was in a bad mood—Jade had left and, well, just because he was not in a good mood.

So Ye Xiaowei decided to go out for a walk and take a look around.