Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Our eldest senior brother had broken his sword for a demoness from the Joyous Union Sect!

The news flew across Mount Ji as if it had sprouted wings. Horrified, I whipped out my jade token, hoping for firsthand gossip.

[Second Senior Brother: Noted.]

[Third Senior Sister: What’s so good about people? Can they compare to my sword?]

[Fifth Junior Brother: Eldest Senior Brother is incredible! He actually dared to speak to a woman from outside the sect!]

Me: […]

Me: [Come on. He’s our very own eldest senior brother. Don’t any of you have something else to say?]

Master: [I do.]

Me: [Please, Master. Go ahead!]

Master fell silent for a long time.

So long that I thought the jade token had stopped working and knocked it twice against a tree trunk.

Then an enraged roar swept across the entire mountain, bringing a shower of rustling leaves down with it.

“Cultivate, cultivate, cultivate—what’s the damned point of cultivating the Way of Heartlessness?

“From this day forward, the entire sect will cultivate the Carefree Way!”

Me: “…”

Excellent. This sect had finally gone mad in exactly the way I wanted.

My name was Ying Ruge, fourth disciple of the master of Sword One Sect.

I had not started out ranked fourth. There had once been fourteen brilliant senior brothers and sisters above me, every one of them a prodigy of Sword One Sect’s Heartless Sword.

But everyone knew that the Way of Heartlessness was one of the hardest among the Three Thousand Great Ways to master.

My eleven senior brothers and sisters were no exception. One after another, love shattered their cultivation paths.

Some left the sect with their beloveds. Some died for them. A few were devoured by their inner demons and fell to the demonic path.

…Oh. Correction. The number was twelve now.

My eldest senior brother—a genius the Sword One Sect saw perhaps once in a century—

had broken his sword yesterday for a female disciple of the Joyous Union Sect.