Chapter 516 - 457: Dao Ancestor’s Master?

The cat demon got a brutal beating.

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The young Daoist, fearless like a newborn calf, decisively chose to obey once he realized he couldn’t deal with this Divine Soul.

Mainly because he couldn’t beat it.

Throughout the process, Chu Huaixu wasn’t intentionally trying to show off in front of the newbie-level Dao Ancestor.

He attacked the cat demon’s Sea of Consciousness purely for personal revenge!

Not a hint of showing off, purely driven by a vengeful psyche.

"Cool!"

Chu Huaixu didn’t care that the one who bullied him before wasn’t the current cat demon.

Who cares! As long as he’s happy!

The future you won’t be you?

Besides, it bared its teeth at me first.

"I’ll teach you to bare your teeth! I’ll teach you to bare your teeth! I’ll teach you to bare your teeth—!"

"Still baring your teeth?"

"Hmm!? Still baring your teeth—!"

No way, he’s the type who’d give a corpse a slap when he first time traveled.

Under the dual trauma of physical and Sea of Consciousness attacks, the wildness of the cat demon was completely dissipated, beaten to a state of stress response.

These demon beasts, having grown up in the wild, have long been used to suffering in the flesh.

But the severe damage to the Sea of Consciousness was a fear from the depths of the soul!

Imagine that!

By the end, as soon as Chu Huaixu’s Divine Soul floated near, it would retract.

He was extremely satisfied with this result.

But once the "important matters" were done, Chu Huaixu quickly fell into confusion.

He didn’t know why he was in the form of a Divine Soul 1111 years ago.

He didn’t know how he could return either.

He didn’t even know what to do next.

The current Dao Ancestor was terribly weak, only at the Second Realm Great Perfection cultivation.

Chu Huaixu could easily eliminate him with the Power of the Divine Soul.

Asking this little Daoist about the Great Calamity seemed utterly useless.

And just as he was fretting, he suddenly felt very weak.

Instinct told him he should dive back into the Black Bead.

Sure enough, once Chu Huaixu entered the Black Pearl, that feeling of weakness vanished.

Obviously, he couldn’t stay in the outside world as a Divine Soul for too long.

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....

Several days later.

"So, I became the Dao Ancestor’s [Personal Grandpa] like this?"

Inside the Black Pearl, Chu Huaixu was somewhat bewildered.

He loved reading online literature since he was young, and had long become accustomed to the "Grandpa" type of golden finger.

Curiously, the young Daoist quickly accepted this too.

He seems quite carefree...

The only one unhappy now was the cat demon.

Cats are naturally sensitive.

It could always keenly sense that this wild ghost that popped up from nowhere always had a faint hostility towards it.

Whenever there was a chance to target it, this wild ghost would go crazy targeting it.

This cat’s life was a complete mess!

What to do? Just get by!

If given a chance to switch allegiances, the cat demon would definitely choose to run off with someone else at the first opportunity.

Now, with Chu Huaixu becoming the Dao Ancestor’s personal grandpa, he started having some ideas.

Like guiding the Dao Ancestor to leave more precious legacy for his future self.

But for some reason, this young Daoist was stubborn as a mule.

He seemed very clear about what he should do, which path to take.

This made Chu Huaixu feel a bit strange.

Because he had witnessed the entire process of the Dao Ancestor learning the sword in the Inheritance Secret Realm.

And now it seemed as if he was walking along that predetermined path.

"Isn’t there supposed to be a butterfly effect or something?"

"Why hasn’t anything changed because of my arrival?" Chu Huaixu was full of questions.

But at the same time, he also had some bold speculations.

But this speculation was so outrageous.

To the extent he felt the need to carefully verify.

...

...

Somehow, time flew by quickly.

But with the passing of time, Chu Huaixu grew quite anxious.

He didn’t know what was happening in the Profound Yellow Realm.

Nor did he know what method to use to return.

So much so that the little Daoist would often ask him: "Senior, what are you thinking about?"

"Nothing much," Chu Huaixu would only reply faintly.

But he once added half-jokingly, half-seriously: "I do not belong here, and I am thinking of a place I know not if I can return to."

Hearing this, the young Daoist was momentarily stunned, unable to speak.

Chu Huaixu didn’t know if he was mystified or if it was for some other reason.

But he always felt the young Daoist’s gaze was slightly avoiding.

Time continued to pass.

Chu Huaixu had grown accustomed to his role as the grandpa.

He would occasionally lend a hand to help the little Daoist through tough spots.

Inside the Black Pearl, he tried every possible way to ask the Time Spirit Pearl to send him back to the Profound Yellow Realm, to over a thousand years later.

There were people he cared about over there.

But everything was in vain.

This made him start to feel quite afraid.

"Am I going to have to live until over a thousand years later?" Chu Huaixu thought.

Over a thousand years trapped in the Black Pearl... what kind of concept is that?

Just imagining it made him feel a bit of despair.

"I’m not like that old monster Snow Venerable, who has lived for who knows how many years and has no concept of time."

His life, so far, had been rather short.

But for now, there was nothing he could do.

So, he accompanied the little Daoist on his cultivation journey.

Soon, they met the female ancestor of Spring and Autumn Mountain.

When she sought the little Daoist for that cat demon, Chu Huaixu noticed the gleam in the cat’s eyes.

Its once proud and unruly wildness had long been tortured out of it by Chu Huaixu.

But at least it was still proud in its bones.

But now, to change allegiances, it obviously became a simp despite being a cat.

It desperately tried to act cute for that woman.

——Begging you, really begging you!

Please take me away from this devil, meow!

My Lifebound Divine Technique Nightmare was even inspired by him, meow!

"So, is that how it became the Cat Guardian of Spring and Autumn Mountain?" Chu Huaixu thought.

But some things seemed to be connecting...

This made Chu Huaixu’s anxiety grow stronger.

Years passed in a blink.

He followed the little Daoist all the way.

And as the little Daoist’s strength grew, the role he could play as the "grandpa" actually diminished.

He was essentially witnessing the Dao Ancestor practicing the sword for the second time.

His Sword Dao path was no different from what was seen in the Secret Realm.

But for some reason, Chu Huaixu always felt like he was walking a road arranged by someone else.

Just like how his cultivation path in the Profound Yellow Realm had many arrangements by the Dao Ancestor.

And from bits of evidence, the person who arranged all this for the young Daoist was likely....

——The First Sword Venerable!

The night deepened gradually.

Chu Huaixu came out of the Black Pearl to catch some fresh air.

He gazed at the moon in the sky, somewhat absent-minded.

The young Daoist had long since gotten used to this.

After years of living together, the two were like teacher and friend.

He couldn’t help but speak up: "Senior, are you missing that place you can’t return to again?"

Chu Huaixu nodded.

The young Daoist looked at him, smiled wryly, and said meaningfully yet with some reservations: "Actually, sometimes I also often feel like I don’t belong here."

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