The Dao... died?

"You charlatan! How can you be Dao, you are just a newbie who has no idea what its doing!" I yelled.

"What do you mean by newbie? I have been doing this job for 5 millenia! Do you know how exasperating it was to finally come up with a way to train someone that could get revenge for mom!" PS2D argued back.

"Revenge for mom?" I was really confused at this point.

"What? Did you think that I just randomly came into existence at some arbitrary point in time? I'm a living thing too okay! Ofcourse I have a mom!" Dao was really irritated at this point.

"Wait… wtf?!?!" I was hopelessly confused now. The Dao of the Martial Universe… has a mom? Then where the hell did the mom come from? Daos… mate?

"Where the hell are your crooked thoughts going to. We Dao's are Asexual creatures. If we were to identify with a gender then we would all be female," Dao snorted.

"No wonder I landed up in a female xianxia storyline," I muttered. Things were finally starting to make sense. Well, except for one thing.

"So why do you need to get revenge for your mom? Like, who or what could possibly offend her?" I inquired.

"Those bastards," I imagined PS2D grinding her teeth, "Mom gave them her blessings but they turned on her".

"Who?" My curiosity was killing me.

"Those bastards. Most people call them the 4 demon kings of the mountains and the 4 demon queens of the valleys. Other than them, no one else received powers from a Dao so how could they possibly kill my mother?" PS2D was really infuriated, however she seemed to be… sobbing?

"Aren't there supposed to be 5 demon kings?" I asked. According to what I remembered, there were a total of 9 creatures that received the blessings of the Dao. They were all mighty figures and frequently squabbled amongst themselves. In my past life as the 2 million year old Supreme Blizzard Pine I was cut up and shaped into a staff which was gifted to the Ice Demon King, who was one of the 5 demon kings blessed by the Dao, who was apparently NS2D's (Newbie Stage Director Dao) mom.

"The Ice Demon King was in love with my mom. That's why the others teamed up against him and, after breaking his staff, threw him into the barrel zone between Universes," NS2D sighed. Well, she was basically crying at this point. I guess she didn't have many friends she could talk to.

However, I also knew her pain. I just never knew that the reason why I was unable to reach the 5 million year age requirement for a weapon to take human form was because of the greed of the other 8 demons. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the day after the Ice Demon King gave me to his son, the hoe, to use and I rejected his power. That's why the stupid hoe went to find a crystal of Supreme Yang which was able to destroy me sending me back to yama. However, it does make sense that after losing me, that youth obsessed old fellow would lose a fight against those 8 buffoons. Having been the only 4,999,999 years 11 months and 30.9 days old weapon before being destroyed, I was the most powerful non-human shaped weapon in existence. If that crystal of Supreme Yang hadn't been refined from the blood of a 20 million year old human shaped weapon's blood essence, I would definitely not have suffered a single scratch. Just thinking about it made me indignant and I so wanted to go back and smack that idiot to death.

However, finding out about the death of the fate of the old Ice Demon was indeed troubling. Seeing how straightforward and kind hearted he had been, I had assumed that all those who were blessed by the Dao were such individuals. Guess I was terribly wrong.

"So how about giving me a Dao blessing? I can avenge my old friend and help you deal with those fellows," I requested. This was probably the only time I took something seriously since becoming human.

"No way! You will probably just kill me after I give you that. Right now those 8 codgers are unable to do anything to me precisely because they don't have my dao blessing," NS2D gave me a suspicious glare. Even though I couldn't see her eyes, I knew she was glaring at me.

"Honestly, I want to get rid of those fellows just as much as you do. Perhaps my human name is Lin Ye, but before I was given this body, I was the supreme 4,999,999 years 11 months and 30.9 day old artifact weapon, the Snow and Ice Staff which was wielded by the old Ice Demon King," I explained.

"Really? You're that stupid stick?" NS2D clearly didn't believe me which made me feel rather indignant.

"Have you ever known anyone that couldn't be frozen in time by you?" I asked.

"You can be frozen in time by me. I just didn't do that because freezing and resetting time on you would be pointless cuz you would just do the same thing out of your script again if I didn't warn you," NS2D explained matter of factly.

"Uh..." I was dumbfounded.

"Yeah, you really aren't all that great. Now, if you would please follow the script and let me continue developing the characters of my little lovebirds that make even the heavens jealou, I would greatly appreciate it".

And with that the demon I summoned was sent back and I once again found myself in the same courtyard with the general about to rush in.