Shengda Magazine, Issue One, "Hot Novels Tracking": "Dust Along the Immortal Road"
by Jialan
The government troops sent to suppress the sorcerers scattered beneath their evil spells. At that critical moment, Zhang Xingyan played the Four Rivers Divine Spell's "Wind and Water Invocation" and "Water Dragon's Chant," awing ten thousand beasts and summoning wind and rain from all directions. Thunder and lightning clashed, dispersing the sorcery in a single stroke. The troops of Nanhai Commandery were saved, and Zhang Xingyan single-handedly captured the sorcerer Li Yangya. The bandit chief Mo Chian was wounded by Xing Yan's little sister Qiong Tong, who even seized his pair of Vermilion Bird Divine Sabers, displaying the formidable might of Shangqing Palace's Daoist Arts before their fellow practitioners.
After returning to Highest Clarity, Xing Yan resumed his quiet cultivation of Daoist Arts on Thousand Birds Cliff. He drove away Zhao Wuchen, a disciple of Virtue-Venerating Hall who coveted Xueyi's beauty and sought to use her identity as a monster to coerce her. The next day, he climbed Flying Cloud Summit again, only to encounter someone he had never imagined would appear there.
Ju Ying, the girl who had once boated on the lake with him and joined him in playing tricks on corrupt officials, had actually come to Shangqing Palace to cultivate the Dao, and specifically requested to live in his Four Seas Hall. The two drifted together in a lotus boat, reminiscing about those days, their conversation brimming with laughter, their hearts utterly at ease. Ju Ying got along harmoniously with Xueyi and Qiong Tong, while Lingyi, far away in the Dragon Palace, lingered in wistful thought, brooding endlessly.
Leaning against the railing before the cliff and gazing at his sword, Zhang Xingyan drifted into a dream, then startled awake from a journey of