Taiyi Zhenren had a terrible headache over the matter.
At Chentang Pass, Li Jing and Yin Shiniang had also become embroiled in endless arguments.
As a Chan Sect disciple, Li Jing naturally wanted his third son to enter the Chan Sect. He had no fondness whatsoever for the Interception Sect.
Yin Shiniang, however, was different. Wuyun Xian had already persuaded her.
She liked the Interception Sect's ways. Not only did she want her third son to join, she even wanted Wuyun Xian to take back her first two children, Jin Zha and Mu Zha.
Ordinarily, she would naturally have deferred to Li Jing in everything.
But this time, for the sake of her children, she argued with Li Jing for the first time.
Her stance was firm: it had to be the Interception Sect.
"I used to listen to you about everything, but can't you listen to me just this once?"
"I only want to spend our three children's childhoods with them. I don't want them growing up without even knowing who their parents are."
"Look at Jin Zha and Mu Zha. When those two children came home, they treated us like strangers. There wasn't the slightest trace of familial affection."
"Is this what you wanted to see, Li Jing?"
Yin Shiniang's expression was grave. Her whole body trembled slightly with anger, and tears misted the corners of her eyes.
Seeing Yin Shiniang like this only made Li Jing's headache worse.
This was the first time Yin Shiniang had ever argued with him. He dearly missed the gentle, refined wife she used to be.
Yet when it came to their children, she suddenly seemed like an entirely different person.
Though he was so angry he nearly spat blood, Li Jing forced himself to take a deep breath and tried to explain.
"Shiniang, calm down. The Interception Sect is full of creatures born of wetness and eggs. They know nothing of hierarchy or propriety."
"Do you want our children to become such ill-bred creatures?"
"The Chan Sect is an orthodox Daoist lineage, and I'm a member myself. Can't you trust that? Would I ever harm my own children?"
But Yin Shiniang had no desire even to listen to Li Jing's explanation.
Before Wuyun Xian appeared, she certainly would not have lost her temper like this. After all, she too had known that Yuanshi's lineage was orthodox.
But after hearing Wuyun Xian's earlier words, she had learned that the Chan Sect wanted her children as disciples only to have them face calamity in their masters' stead.
That stripped away all the goodwill she had once held toward Yuanshi's orthodox lineage.
What was more, Wuyun Xian had promised that everything in the Interception Sect followed one's own wishes. They could enter the Investiture Calamity if they wanted, but if they did not, that was fine too.
Golden Ao Island was right there. If they wanted peace and freedom, he would take their whole family there.
Use them to ward off calamity?
To the Interception Sect's members, that was simply a joke.
Once they entered the Interception Sect, everyone was a brother or sister. Such a thing would never happen.
"How ridiculous. The Chan Sect is an orthodox Daoist lineage, but does that mean the Interception Sect isn't?"
"Li Jing, you should know that Saint Tongtian and Saint Yuanshi are brothers by blood. Why shouldn't our children join either sect?"
"Great Immortal Wuyun is also a Saint's disciple. Didn't you see that Taiyi Zhenren couldn't withstand even one move from him?"
"Following someone strong is better than following someone weak, isn't it?"
"Besides, Great Immortal Wuyun promised that our child could grow up right here in our home. He would stay by his disciple's side until the child completed his apprenticeship."
"Li Jing, I'm begging you to listen to me just once. Can't you spare a thought for me as their mother?"
But how could Li Jing possibly agree to such a thing?
The Chan Sect had long since brainwashed him. On a matter like this, no one could persuade him.
"In any case, I, their father, am a member of the Chan Sect, so my children must join the Chan Sect," Li Jing said coldly.
Yin Shiniang answered without yielding an inch. "I, Yin Shiniang, am a Nuwa disciple. Why don't you write a letter of divorce and cast me out too?"
Hearing that, Li Jing nearly spat out a mouthful of blood in anger.
In the end, neither could persuade the other, and they parted on bitter terms.
All of this.
Wuyun Xian had naturally sensed it all, but he did not intervene. He could not even be bothered to pay it any heed.
It was certainly not because he felt awkward. He simply had a one-track mind.
His thinking was straightforward. The sect master sent me to take a disciple, so I only need to keep my eyes fixed on that one task.
Everything else has nothing to do with me.
Never mind your marriage falling apart-even if you divorce your wife, what does that have to do with me?
I, Wuyun Xian, am here to take a disciple!
As long as he succeeded in taking a disciple, he did not care even if the couple came to blows.
He was unlike Daoist Duobao, a born leader who handled people smoothly and had plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
Wuyun Xian's mind was simple, and that was also why his cultivation was so high.
His principle was singular: come at him by a thousand paths, and he would follow just one.
He roamed the Primordial World by a single word: charge!
The crucial thing was that he was powerful, too. Even Guangchengzi, the foremost of the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect, would have to kneel before him.
Golden Ao Island, Biyou Palace.
Because Tongtian placed such importance on Nezha, he naturally kept a strand of divine sense at Chentang Pass over the long term.
Watching this scene, he could not help laughing. It felt immensely satisfying.
After all, he had transmigrated here and did not know much about the personalities of the various Interception Sect members.
Only now did he discover, for the first time, that Wuyun Xian had such a temperament.
Interesting!
As long as the Chan Sect suffered a setback, he was happy!
Still, Tongtian knew perfectly well that this was only the beginning. It was far from over.
Tongtian knew his second elder brother, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, all too well.
Other Saints might have cared about preserving their dignity and given up out of embarrassment.
But Yuanshi absolutely would not.
Thus, he had to keep watch.
At his level of cultivation, however, keeping watch would not interfere with his secluded cultivation in the slightest.
And that was exactly how things unfolded.
About half a year later, twelve streaks of light crossed the sky and came to a silent halt above Chentang Pass.
"Wuyun Xian, get out here!"
"You Interception Sect creatures, born of wetness and eggs, dare steal disciples from our Chan Sect? You truly don't know whether to live or die!"
"If you cannot give our Chan Sect an explanation today, this will be the day you die, Wuyun Xian!"
At the Chan Sect members' shouted insults, Wuyun Xian instantly opened his eyes in the midst of secluded cultivation. With a cold shout, he appeared high in the air.
Facing the Twelve Golden Immortals, his expression remained calm, without the slightest fear.
Still, he sent a message requesting reinforcements. Fearless he might be, but he was no fool.
Perhaps he feared none of them in single combat, and even two or three joining forces would be no problem.
But if all twelve joined forces, even Daoist Duobao would have to kneel.
"A bunch of useless fools. Why waste so much breath yapping?"
Holding the Hunyuan Hammer, Wuyun Xian spoke coldly. "Who dares come forward to meet his death?"
"As if I'm afraid of you!"
True Person Huang Long was the first to charge out. With a wave of his hand, the Heaven-Opening Pearl, Earth-Opening Pearl, Limitless Pearl, and Creation Pearl radiated boundless light and bore down directly on Wuyun Xian.
Wuyun Xian merely sneered and swung the Hunyuan Hammer straight at them.
Boom!
In a single exchange, the four pearls went flying. True Person Huang Long let out a miserable scream as his physical body collapsed.
But just as Wuyun Xian prepared to strike again and send True Person Huang Long straight to the Investiture of the Gods List, the other Golden Immortals could no longer stand by. They all charged forward.
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