Translator: Tamon
Translation Checker: Silavin
It went exactly like he suspected. The Lower Realm’s Heavenly Dao Protector was made for Upper Realm geniuses, and only they could earn its approval.
Why? Because not all of the Upper Realm’s cultivators had the right to recultivate.
Across the endless Immortal Domains, each had one person who was the strongest: the Domain Lord. They dominated the Immortal Domain, not unlike what Heavenly Dao Protector did for the Nine Province Continent.
On top of that, each Immortal Domain had a genius board with stringent requirements. Only those geniuses gaining the Immortal Domain’s Dao’s approval could appear on it.
Many Immortal Domains had very few people on their genius board, with some as few as just one. For those worse Immortal Domains, their genius board lay barren, devoid of even a single name.
It led to an ownerless Immortal Domain, a scattered herd, that was fated to become another, stronger, Immortal Domain’s target for occupation.
What got Chen Changan so surprised was how the Black Tortoise Immortal Domain had nine geniuses, each with plenty of status and import.
Mei Niang’s charge was Black Tortoise Immortal Domain’s 7th genius on the board, the Seventh Princess, who had reincarnated on the Nine Province Continent to recultivate.
Chen Changan was amazed to find that he knew this Seventh Princess, Bai Yue of the Heavenly Fox Clan.
[What a small world.] He had a reincarnated Upper Realm genius by his side all along.
One other thing Chen Changan found was that the Nine Province Continent’s Nine Province Cauldron offering the Heavenly Dao Protector position was all for the Upper Realm geniuses.
[That’s why Ling Bao’er and Foxy’s amazing talents didn’t cut it. None got the Dao’s approval.]
To get Nine Province Cauldron’s approval, high talent was a must, but not enough. One needed the Upper Realm Immortal Domain’s Dao’s approval.
Chen Changan squinted, taking a dislike to Nine Province’s Dao. [The Dao sounds like a snob. Does that bastard find Lower Realm geniuses beneath it?]
Chen Changan was thankful for all the information Mei Niang provided. Since she was Bai Yue’s Dao Protector, and he was close to Bai Yue, Chen Changan found her pleasing.
He sighed. [Now I know I won’t get to sleep with her.]
One did not take a dump where he ate. With how close the two women were, it was no different than being just outside his plate.
Chen Changan was curious about one thing: “Mei Niang, in your opinion, what makes you so sure I’m a Dao Saint?”
“Senior’s performance with the zither has reached perfection. Your every note contains Dao Rhythm, which is majestic and boundless. As I also happened to cultivate the zither, hearing Senior’s performance and absorbing the Dao Rhythm within its music allowed my cultivation to advance a Layer. No one else can do that but a Dao Saint.”
Chen Changan exclaimed, “You seem to know a lot about them.”
Mei Niang sighed. “Please don’t joke, Senior. It’s my first time meeting one. Even in the Immortal Domains, there are only rumours of Dao Saints.”
“Why?”
Mei Niang wrote off his odd question as a Dao Saint’s quirky character. “Saints are paramount and obscure. There’s a legend going throughout the untold Immortal Domains. The Immortal Dao is a part of Dao. Of the infinite Dao, there’s the Slaughter Dao, Eternal Life Dao, Love Dao. There are even Daos of zither, books, and painting… Each cultivator walks a different path towards Dao. The Zither Dao is no different.”
“Singing, writing, and painting can reach Dao?” Chen Changan gapped.
Mei Niang nodded. “Yes, Senior.”
“With Senior’s Mastery of zither, it must be the Zither Dao. Once one walks their path to the very end, as Senior did, one could give others impressions of Dao, helping their cultivation, as such they’re called Dao Saints.”
Mei Niang felt conflicted. The Senior before her was a Dao Saint, so he should know this better than most. But what she felt was that he was more like a newbie.
Of course, Mei Niang never doubted for a second that Chen Changan was not a Saint. How else could he use music to defeat Immortal Lord Xie Bo? How else could he have helped her cultivation?
She was an Immortal Lord and not the staple Immortal General or Immortal Soldier kind.
Plus, Chen Changan’s Dao Rhythm was boundless, beyond what her path could handle, surrendering on the spot. This was why Mei Niang believed he was a Dao Saint, beyond any shadow of a doubt!