Chapter 440

Chapter 440: Could You Be Little Ice Block’s Daughter?
“What, what, what! Who did you say you are?”

The white-bearded old man stared wide-eyed, so shocked he almost threw the dagger in his hand.

“This junior is a disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect. This is my identity token.”

As Yu Zhao introduced herself, she took out an item from her storage space to prove her identity.

When Ancestor Sui Bian saw Yu Zhao’s identity token, he hooked his fingers and snatched it over in one move.

As he looked it over, his fingers stroked the patterns on the token. In an instant, his tears poured out like a spring.

“Five Elements Dao Sect… you really are a disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect…”

His voice was choked, like a traveler who had been away from home for many years finally receiving a message from his hometown.

“Wuwuwu! Five Elements Dao Sect! It is the Five Elements Dao Sect!”

Ancestor Sui Bian cried harder and harder. Tears and snot ran down his face, yet his voice boomed like a great bell.

Yu Zhao’s heart jumped. She quickly glanced around. Seeing no one nearby, she stepped up and quietly urged: “Ancestor, please keep your voice down.”

Ancestor Sui Bian looked up at her and wanted to cry even more, but in the end he held it back.

“You… hic!”

“Ancestor, this isn’t a good place to talk. Let’s first find a quiet spot and then talk in detail.”

“Alright, hic, come with me.”

Ancestor Sui Bian sniffled as he led the way ahead, wiping his tears from time to time. To Yu Zhao, the sight was both funny and a little heartbreaking.

He had ascended more than a thousand years ago. The depth of his longing was something others could hardly understand, but she, who had left the Cultivation World, could feel it too.

Ancestor Sui Bian was indeed very familiar with this area. He easily led Yu Zhao to an abandoned cave residence.

As soon as the two of them went inside, Ancestor Sui Bian could not wait any longer and asked: “When did you ascend? What is the name of the star you ascended from? Besides you, has anyone else ascended?”

He fired off several questions in a row like a string of firecrackers.

Yu Zhao answered them one by one: “I did not ascend. I…”

“What? You didn’t ascend? Then how did you get here? Could it be you are pretending to be a disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect just to trick this old geezer?”

Ancestor Sui Bian exploded the moment he heard that.

Unlike going from the Middle World to the Great World, where there are other methods, people from the Cultivation World can only reach the Middle World through ascension.

He began to doubt Yu Zhao, and without meaning to, he released a terrifying pressure.

Yu Zhao’s breathing grew rapid. Her face flushed red as she forced out: “It was the Ancient Dao Arena.”

“The Ancient Dao Arena?”

Ancestor Sui Bian was stunned. At once he remembered the legends about the Ancient Dao Arena. He wanted to ask more, but when he saw Yu Zhao almost unable to breathe, he hurriedly pulled back his pressure and said in embarrassment: “Ah, this old geezer was too suspicious. Little Yu Zhao, are you alright?”

Yu Zhao waved her hand and rested for a good while before clearing her throat and asking: “Ancestor, have you met someone before who used the identity of a Five Elements Dao Sect disciple to trick you?”

Ancestor Sui Bian sighed: “Yes. Someone once heard I was asking around everywhere for news of the Five Elements Dao Sect, so they made up a fake identity to fool me. But I saw through them in the end, and they didn’t get their way.”

From his tone, Yu Zhao could hear the unspoken bitterness behind it.

He had not been fooled, but having his hopes dashed must have felt terrible.

“Enough about me. Let’s keep talking about you. The Ancient Dao Arena has not opened for many years. How did you enter it?”

So Yu Zhao told him everything.

The Heavenly Ladder had broken, and no one had ascended for many years. In the end, everyone pinned their hopes on the Ancient Dao Arena. She entered the Ancient Dao Arena, gained the favor of Dao Lord Tai Wei, but due to a mistake ended up in the Middle World.

Ancestor Sui Bian had never expected Yu Zhao’s experiences to be so stormy and grand. As she spoke, his mood rose and fell along with her story.

When he heard that Yu Zhao had seen him on the docks of Sacred Wood Star, recognized him as Ancestor Sui Bian from the painting in the Five Elements Dao Sect’s Ancestral Spirit Hall, and decided to acknowledge him, he slapped his thigh hard.

“Ah, ah! Back then I felt someone watching me. I thought it was some enemy I offended before, so I ran away in a hurry. I never thought it was you. If I had known, I wouldn’t have hidden!”

“Ancestor, there is no need to mind it. Even if I had recognized you back then, I still wouldn’t have been able to acknowledge you openly.”

“That’s true. You were still following those young heirs at the time. It really would not have been good to come see me.”

Ancestor Sui Bian was relieved.

“Ancestor, can you tell me about your own experiences?”

Yu Zhao was very curious about what a senior who ascended using the Heavenly Ladder would go through.

Ancestor Sui Bian straightened up a little: “Our encounters were much better than yours. The Small World connected to the Cultivation World is the Qi Lan Realm. Seniors who had previously ascended from the Cultivation World were stationed there. With their guidance, we quickly blended into the Qi Lan Realm.

“Later, I waited in Qi Lan Realm for a hundred years and still did not see any disciples of the Five Elements Dao Sect ascend, so I started going out to temper myself, coming back to Qi Lan Realm every hundred years to check.”

He continued: “But after that old peacock Bai Ling ascended to the upper realm, no one from the Cultivation World ascended again.

“When we old fellows finally realized something was wrong, the teleportation channel between Qi Lan Realm and the Cultivation World had long been destroyed.

“Without the coordinates of the Cultivation World, we had no way to contact people there.

“After that, everyone tried to find a way to reconnect the channel, but we could never find the exact coordinates.

“So we could only search for the coordinates while collecting materials everywhere to rebuild the teleportation channel.”

Yu Zhao suddenly understood.

Ancestor Sui Bian had appeared in Godsfall Land most likely to look for materials.

She could not help feeling moved.

So it was not only the people in the Cultivation World who were working hard. The seniors who had ascended were also spending their effort on this.

“Sigh.” Ancestor Sui Bian let out a long sigh. “When I saw you, I thought the teleportation channel had been restored. It turns out it was still a false hope.”

“Ancestor, we now know how to build a teleportation channel. The materials are already being gathered. We are only one step away from success.”

“You are right. We have held on for so many years. We will definitely succeed.”

Just from his own dao title, one could tell Ancestor Sui Bian was not the type of person to sink into gloom for long. He quickly cheered up again.

He stared at Yu Zhao for a good while, then suddenly burst out laughing.

“Hahahaha! If those old fellows find out that the first to come up is a disciple of our Five Elements Dao Sect, their eyes will turn red with jealousy!

“I always said the Five Elements Dao Sect is number one in the Cultivation World. They refused to admit it. Now they will have nothing to say!”

Ancestor Sui Bian was truly happy. His wrinkled old face bloomed into a bright smile.

“Right, earlier you only said you are a disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect. You didn’t say who your master is.”

Seeing Yu Zhao about to speak, he hurried to cut her off: “Don’t say it yet. Let me guess. Lan Yu? Or Bi Xiao? Or maybe Heng Nan?”

Yu Zhao’s eye twitched.

“Ancestor, I am a disciple of the forty-eighth generation. The ones you named are all seniors of the forty-sixth generation.”

He had the wrong generation.

“Oh, oh, this old man remembered wrong. When I ascended, the forty-seventh generation disciples had just entered the sect. Let me think. The one among them with the most promise, what was his name again… something Yu? No, his surname was Yu. Right, his surname is Yu, given name Huai Jin, Yu Huai Jin!

“Hey, your surname is also Yu. Could you be that little ice block’s daughter?”