Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

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It didn't take long before nearly everyone in Kunlun knew the illustrious name of Wei Dongliu, the newly appointed leader of the Mortal Life Path of the Demon Cult.

Not only that, everyone was feverishly speculating about Wei Dongliu's strength and realm, like whether he was at the Nascent Soul Realm or the Immortal Realm... or, if he was an Immortal, whether he was a Golden Immortal or a Daluo Golden Immortal.

After all, during Wei Dongliu's unification of Mount Wutai, he was said to have displayed very profound demonic techniques in the process of exterminating countless heterodox practitioners and numerous Buddhist temples.

Some cultivators swore with absolute certainty that, when Wei Dongliu exterminated the Buddhist temples, one could see within a radius of ten thousand miles, gusts of sinister wind, layers of evil clouds, gods and demons giving way, the sun and moon darkened, akin to a seasoned demon, an unsurpassed fiend.

Other cultivators seriously analyzed, saying that Wei Dongliu had always been hiding his true strength. In the past, no one had paid attention to his existence, and now he had suddenly emerged with a fearsome reputation, which must certainly imply a tremendous conspiracy behind him.

There were even Kunlun cultivators who firmly claimed that this was a grand scheme laid by the Hell Path, intending to use heaven and earth as the chessboard, all living beings as chess pieces, with Wei Dongliu as the most crucial general, aiming at the Three Pure Orthodox Sect to turn the mortal world into purgatory.

Faced with these conjectures, Qiu Changtian could only think that as long as everyone was happy, it was fine.

He was actually very curious about logging into Wei Dongliu's account to see what was actually going on.

However, this raised a question:

When exactly was the Myriad Avatar Absolute Immortal Sword obtained?

Clearly, according to the law of the timeline, after he loaded the file for Wei Dongliu, he must have already obtained the Myriad Avatar Absolute Immortal Sword at some point.

If it was Wei Dongliu who acquired the sword, that would be fine, but if it could only be obtained by Ling Yunpo, Luo Yan, or even Long Long, then the Time-Space Path would ensure to maintain the historical loop, causing him to encounter some serious incidents while playing Wei Dongliu. This would force him to switch to the corresponding character's save file to acquire the Myriad Avatar Absolute Immortal Sword, as recorded in history.

Therefore, it went without saying that the safer course of action was to switch to another character first to see if he could get the sword.

If he managed to obtain it smoothly, naturally he could comfortably load Wei Dongliu's file — rather than being pushed onto the stage prematurely by the Time-Space Path.

"Ah Jing," Qiu Changtian ordered, "load Ling Yunpo's file."

"Okay," the Kunlun Mirror began to cast the spell.

[Location Two: Qingluo Peak of the Shushan Shangqing Faction.]

[Character Identity: Ling Yunpo.]

[Mirror Flower Water Moon Template overlay in progress, time-space traveling initiated.]

Soon after arriving at Shushan, Ling Yunpo received another piece of unfortunate news.

As the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, the higher-ups at Shushan, in celebration of the festival, planned to hold a grand competition.

What kind of thought process led to celebrating a festival with a Sect event that would likely lead to a bloodbath? Ling Yunpo couldn't comprehend it.

In any case, ever since he was promoted to Golden Core True Person, Lin Duanshan and others visited him much less frequently.

Ling Yunpo, of course, understood their mindset: even though they were his senior brothers and sisters, it was he, the junior brother, who formed his Golden Core and ascended to True Person first. Calling him junior brother felt embarrassing, and addressing him as "Qing Heng True Person"... suddenly made them feel a generation younger, which was all the more awkward.

It was better to just seclude themselves in their peaks and devote to cultivation.

Without the company of Lin Duanshan and others, the source of news at Qingluo Peak was largely cut off.

Ling Yunpo didn't have a better solution and could only take time during his usual sparring sessions with his senior sister to go out and visit other Shushan Sect disciples, casually chatting to gather some information.

One day, he received yet another invitation from Sima Changyan to a feast and a swordsmanship gathering.

The so-called "swordsmanship gathering," akin to the "poetry gathering" of the literati, was a private event among the Shushan Sword Immortals.

The gatherings were divided into literary and martial events. The literary event was about the discussion of the experiences in swordsmanship, like when the old ancestor of the Guan Family gave lectures at the Guan household and then answered questions for the attendees, which was a typical literary event.

The martial event, on the other hand, was about sparring and competing. It was relatively more violent, but it still followed the principle of stopping at the first strike; it wasn't like fighting the Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal to the death, where one's sword artifact was easily broken, cultivation stagnated, and blood was vomited uncontrollably.

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This sword gathering hosted by Sima Changyan is said to have invited many cultivators of the Golden Core Realm, making it an unadulterated literary gathering—after all, with his own Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation level, he was not qualified to preside over a martial tournament.

Ling Yunpo had just arrived at the venue when he overheard several sword-carrying senior brothers drinking and chatting with sighs:

"Why must there be a grand competition during the good Dragon Boat Festival?"

"I had only managed to form my Golden Core, thinking I could rest for a few decades, but who would have thought that person would follow suit!"

"I heard that after Senior Brother Yu learned that the Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal had achieved Core Formation, he was eager to go out for experience. Only after being caught by Master did he reveal the truth. It turned out he had an old grudge with the Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal, and now that the Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal had formed a Golden Core, and even a Second Grade one, he feared that the other party would take advantage of this Dragon Boat Festival competition to beat him to death!"

"Heh, but I heard that this Dragon Boat Festival competition is not the usual one-on-one duel, but rather..."

Ling Yunpo was listening to a "but rather" when someone interrupted and said:

"Shh, Ling Poyun has arrived, stop talking, stop talking."

The sword-bearing senior brothers all straightened up and sat upright, calmly sipping their wine, while Ling Yunpo was burning with anger but could only forcefully calm himself down.

To stop talking halfway through, just because they saw me, what does that mean?

Even if you're afraid of me, you should at least address me by my title "Qing Heng True Person." What do you mean by calling me Ling Poyun?

Nevermind that you addressed me so informally, you even got my name backwards. I think you're all sick of living, aow!

He entered the venue with an emotionless face and a gloomy expression, which quieted the chatter around him. Everyone instinctively ceased their conversations, merely drinking to mask the awkwardness, with a hint of guilt within.

Hosting the sword gathering was a headache even for Sima Changyan.

He, of course, knew that An Zhisu had formed a Second Grade Golden Core, making almost every Golden Core True Person in Shushan apprehensive about their safety... Well, to say every person was being alarmist, it was mainly the newly promoted Golden Core True Persons of the Soul Storing Rank who felt a strong sense of crisis.

As for those of the Root Seeking Rank and Obscure Weave Rank, they didn't regard her too highly since she was of a different generation and had not fought with many of them, hence they only had some negative impressions of her.

However, Sima Changyan did not know those older generation senior brothers and sisters very well either.

The Golden Core True Persons he was familiar with were almost all promoted from the Foundation Establishment Realm within the last century, and had not yet developed the feeling of superiority that comes with being an elder to Foundation Establishment disciples.

Therefore, upon seeing Ling Yunpo step into the venue, everyone immediately remembered that he was the junior brother of the Second Grade Golden Core Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal, causing the atmosphere to drop rapidly, as if suddenly jumping from the peak of summer to December, leaving them with no interest to chat.

Ling Yunpo glanced around and then nodded to Sima Changyan.

Sima Changyan, always adept at socializing, quickly approached with a wine cup and said with a smile:

"Ah, Junior Brother Ling has finally arrived... no, I should call you 'Qing Heng True Person' now. Congratulations on your successful Core Formation, haha!"

"It's nothing, just good fortune." Ling Yunpo also picked up his cup and accepted the toast.

Seeing that Ling Yunpo's attitude was decent, and he wasn't arrogant because his senior sister was a Second Grade Golden Core, nor furious because Sima Changyan called him "Junior Brother Ling," everyone collectively breathed a sigh of relief and resumed their quiet chatter.

"Speaking of which." Ling Yunpo thought to himself that Sima Changyan was well-informed and asked, "Is there any news about this Dragon Boat Festival competition?"

"It's like this," Sima Changyan also intended to be on good terms with him and thus whispered, "I heard that for this competition, Foundation Establishment Realm disciples will still contest within their Sects, while Golden Core True Persons will organize an expedition to the Tibetan Plateau in the west, to ambush the monks of the Asura Path, judging the competition by how many heads they claim."

"Oh?" Ling Yunpo nodded, "But why start a conflict with the Asura Path out of nowhere?"

"Who knows." Sima Changyan chuckled, "Recently, the Asura Path went mad for some reason, sending people around Sichuan Shu to intercept and kill our Shushan disciples, even claiming that our Shushan Sect disciples stole their sect's sacred treasure."

"It seems the leaders are unsatisfied because of this and intend to retaliate against the Asura Path, to severely kill off their fighting spirit."

So it's about a lost item... Ling Yunpo suddenly realized in his heart.

Alas, who knows which careless one accidentally picked up the Blood Saber of the Asura Path, leading to such a conflict between the two sects—it's really an endless cycle of troubles!