The Great Calamity Arrives

For Chen Yan, an even greater blow than losing to Qin Qingyu at Heavenly Peak Dao Seeking was being utterly powerless to fight back as he lost to her there.

The strongest genius among the younger generation of Empty Mountain Sect disciples.

That was not a title Chen Yan had given himself. It was a fact acknowledged throughout the cultivation world of Chenping Continent.

Under the gaze of more than twenty thousand cultivators from the five regions and eight wildernesses of Chenping Continent, representing all its cultivation sects, what should have been the "decisive battle" of the younger generation ended in a fashion so swift it was almost comical.

He had been heaven's favored child, his path smooth from the day he began his Path of Immortality, without a single setback.

Yet after suffering such a crushing defeat, he received no sympathy or lamentation. He didn't even hear a single taunt or jeer.

Everyone simply ignored him as if he were air.

All they could see was that bright moon hanging in the sky.

And none of them noticed the star in a corner of the night sky, no more than a speck of dust beside the moon.

The Immortal Path stretched on without end.

A year after Heavenly Peak Dao Seeking, Chen Yan, now at the peak of the Martial Spring Realm, voiced that sentiment for the first time.

He was nineteen now.

Since losing to Qin Qingyu a year ago, Chen Yan had become much more restrained than he had been in the past, when he'd thought himself untouchable.

He had learned not to grow arrogant or impatient.

At his current rate of cultivation, it would take no more than two years for him to break through to the Qi Sea Realm.

That pace had already left