A Divorce Reversed

Wang Xian held a wolf-hair brush, its tip dipped in cinnabar, while he had yet to finish drawing a Peace Talisman.

Hearing this, he froze. "Master, I only have you and Senior Sister. Where would a marriage contract come from?"

The Old Daoist rolled his eyes.

The expression on his face changed again and again before he suddenly remembered something.

He looked at Wang Xian and chuckled. "Good disciple, if you ever met a wicked wife who wanted to divorce you, what would you do?"

Wang Xian let out an "Oh!"

Looking at the wolf-hair brush in his hand, he asked without a second thought, "This disciple does not know. What would Master do?"

The Old Daoist chuckled. "If it were your master, naturally I would divorce her first!"

After hearing his master's words, Wang Xian took out a sheet of yellow paper. His brush moved like a sword as he wrote a huge character: "Divorce"!

He handed it to the dumbfounded Old Daoist before him. "Master, this is the character you wanted!"

The moment the Old Daoist saw it, he went numb.

He blinked, and a strange smile appeared on his face.

With a chuckle, he said, "That is not enough. You must bite your finger and drip blood onto this 'divorce' character. Only then will it possess spiritual power!"

"Oh, but that will hurt!"

Wang Xian resisted inwardly, yet he could not refuse the master before him. He could only bite his finger...

A drop of golden blood slowly fell, seeping downward along the left-side radical of the character.

"Haha! Excellent!"

The Old Daoist took the bloodstained yellow paper from Wang Xian and held it over the incense candles on the offering table, setting it alight.

Pinching the burning talisman between his fingers, he walked out of the main hall and raised his voice to the heavens as though proclaiming an imperial decree.

"Evil exists; all know goodness as good, and thus evil exists!"

With a "Whoosh!"

The burning talisman in the Old Daoist's hand became a bolt of lightning, like a sword gleam piercing the vault of heaven, and slashed toward the horizon in an instant.

He pulled Wang Xian out of the hall and barked coldly.

"Remember: you are the disciple of Jin Wuliang. Under all heaven, no one may bully you!"

Wang Xian tilted his head and pondered for a long while, yet could not think of a single response.

He could only say, "Master is mighty!"

Whooo!

The freezing wind howled across the sky!

Just as Sima Xuantian and Duanmu Yunqian, together with their respective wives and children, were about to descend Phoenix Terrace and prepare for the engagement banquet!

One, two, three bolts of lightning streaked in from the heavens.

In no more than the time it took for a spark to flash from flint, several bolts of lightning suddenly crashed down upon the square below Phoenix Terrace.

When the Academy heard the Law Enforcement Elder announce Duanmu Xi's divorce letter to the heavens, countless elders and disciples had already come outside.

Their divine senses were still fixed upon Phoenix Terrace.

Yet in the blink of an eye, they were met by lightning from the sky!

"Boom! Rumble!"

The lightning descending from the heavens was like Divine Swords slashing down, and also like a brush of heaven and earth writing upon the square beneath Phoenix Terrace.

After the flashes and thunder, no one knew where the wind and snow across the several-hundred-zhang square had been scattered.

The smooth bluestone floor was revealed.

Under the gazes of everyone's divine senses, those bolts of lightning had carved crisscrossing ravines across the square...

The countless elders and disciples could not see clearly, so they sent their divine senses soaring into the sky and looked down upon the Academy's vast square.

Snowflakes drifted slowly down.

After the thunder passed, the ravines left upon the square formed one enormous character: "Divorce"!

Holy shit! Was this the will of heaven?

Holy shit! Had immortals above the Ninth Heaven become enraged?

Holy shit! Or could it be that Junior Brother Wang Xian had not died?

On the day of the Winter Solstice.

Just as Duanmu Xi wrote the divorce letter and the Law Enforcement Elder respectfully announced it to heaven and earth, everyone was struck by a reversal kill!

All the elders and disciples.

Other than the group atop Phoenix Terrace, were sending voice transmissions to one another. This was simply too damn absurd...

Under all heaven, among all the heavens!

This was the first time they had seen an Academy senior sister try to divorce her husband, only to be divorced in return by the heavens!

Damn it, this was the will of heaven!

"Ah..."

Standing atop Phoenix Terrace, dozens of zhang high, Duanmu Xi naturally saw the scene in the square with perfect clarity.

At a single glance, she cried out and fainted into her mother Yun Yiluo's arms.

Sima Jue looked toward the sky and roared in fury, "Can you even be heaven? That bastard was the one who harmed my brother!"

"Boom!"

A winter thunderclap answered him, striking heavily upon the heads of the group on Phoenix Terrace.

The wind and snow continued, and thunder rumbled on!

Heaven was enraged!

Shangguan Feilong was startled and saw that things had gone wrong, so he could only step forward to smooth things over.

He chuckled. "Everyone, there is no need to get angry over this. No matter who divorced whom, Little Xi's marriage contract with Wang Xian has finally been settled today. That can be considered a joyous occasion."

Wang Ruofei could not help cursing inwardly.

Turning a funeral into a celebration—damn it, you really were the greatest talent under all heaven!

After descending Phoenix Terrace, the group returned to the reception hall and took their seats.

Sima Xuantian glanced at Duanmu Yunqian, who shook his head helplessly.

After this incident, not only Duanmu Yunqian, but even Sima Xuantian had lost his earlier enthusiasm.

The two were in much the same state of mind. With only one exchanged glance, they understood each other's meaning.

As the Law Enforcement Elder, Sima Xuantian looked at the others and said, "The Academy cannot be utterly ruthless. That would bring you little benefit when you enter the Kunlun Sword Sect in the future."

The Kunlun Sword Sect!

One of the Four Great Sects under heaven today.

Countless students racked their brains, hoping to travel to the Northern Slope of Kunlun to cultivate at the Sword Sect.

So long as one could become a member of the Kunlun Sword Sect, even if one began as a menial disciple.

In the eyes of the world, it was still a place beyond reach.

Even Phoenix Academy had only one quota every five years. Today, they had made an exceptional concession and added one more.

Who knew how many Academy disciples wished to go, only to realize in the end that this year, they likely could not compete against Sima Jue and Duanmu Xi.

There was no helping it. The Academy Head had been away for three years, and at present, the Law Enforcement Elder acted in the Academy Head's place.

Thinking of this, Sima Xuantian said quietly, "Once you reach the Kunlun Sword Sect in spring, we can discuss this matter again."

Duanmu Yunqian also looked at Duanmu Xi and sighed. "Cultivation is what matters. You are both still young. You can become engaged after going to Kunlun."

Seeing that his father had made his decision, Sima Jue could only reply, "Your son understands!"

Though he said so aloud, he hated Wang Xian, who had vanished from Phoenix Terrace, to the marrow at that moment.

If the two met again, if Wang Xian had not died, Sima Jue would likely fly into a rage and draw his sword to kill him.

After thinking it over, Yun Yiluo said, "The New Year is approaching. Little Xi will return home with us and come back to the Academy after spring begins!"

Shangguan Feilong glanced at Wang Ruofei.

Wang Ruofei smiled faintly. "That would be excellent. Kunlun is a fine place indeed!"

That day, All Under Heaven was shaken.

First, Phoenix Academy's favored daughter of heaven used a talismanic letter to divorce her fiancé, Wang Xian.

Yet mere moments later, countless bolts of lightning descended from above the Ninth Heaven.

Before they even fell, they wrote a golden character for "Divorce" across the vault of heaven!

The Academy was too small, and the sky too vast.

Thus, the Academy elders failed to see the divorce character in the sky. Only at the final moment did they witness the "Divorce" character carved into the square by rampant Sword Qi.

That single "Divorce" character had been formed from Sword Qi condensed with the power of heaven and earth.

Not even Law Enforcement Elder Sima Xuantian, nor Duanmu Yunqian and his wife working together, could leave such terrifying ravines upon the Academy square.

In the eyes of the elders and students, they had no idea how much effort it would take.

To smooth away those ravines.

Southern Slope of Kunlun.

Wang Xian looked at the streak of golden light on the horizon and said, "Master, I want to learn the sword!"