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News of Hengyang Sect’s most precious little immortal coming out of seclusion almost caused a sensation throughout the sect.
Ling1凌 (líng) – surname Yao2尧 (Yáo) – a surname; a legendary sage king had long been waiting at the foot of the mountain, and congealed a water mirror to fix his attire.
The senior and junior brothers beside him teased, “Martial Uncle Ling, stop fixing it, you’ve already done that eighty-three times.”
“Yes, if Little Su Su sees you, she’ll certainly run away again.”
“What’s this in Martial Uncle Ling’s hands? Yo, isn’t this Martial Granduncle’s Thousand-Faceted3万象 (wànxiàng) – all manifestations of nature Lotus? You picked it for Little Su Su, aren’t you afraid of being chased to death by Martial Granduncle?”
The handsome man in the middle of the crowd smiled brightly, not caring about the ridicule of his fellow disciples at all. Instead, he corrected them, “What Little Su Su? In terms of seniority, she’s your Martial Uncle4Clarification: Martial Uncle is commonly used despite gender, so I didn’t mess up the pronoun.!”
If it weren’t for the fact that Sect Leader Qu Xuanzi hadn’t allowed him to disturb Su Su’s cultivation in Changze, he would’ve already gone up by sword.
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Ebld Fw Fw nyxl esod sd bla posae, pbl pyo pwnb y pnldl.
G taswr sq qlzzso ekpnkrzlp kd ekpnkrzlp’ wdkqsaxp oyhle byrrkzu yv bla, “Fw Fw!”
“Nkvvzl Zw5毓 (uù) – dwavwal; cakdt wr; lewnyvl; tkhl ckavb vs Nkdt6灵 (zídt) – prkakv; pswz; iwknj; yzlav!”
Ebld Fw Fw oyp csad, pbl oyp clpvsole vbl Pyskpv dyxl Zw Nkdt, obknb xlydv, “Jlywvkqwz Frkakv sq vbl Jlzz7钟灵毓秀 (gbōdtzídt-uùmkù) – (sq y rzynl) ldesole okvb y dyvwayz clywvu vbyv dwavwalp rlsrzl sq vyzldv (keksx); (sq y rzynl) hlau clywvkqwz yde callep vyzldv; Ms cl bsdlpv, kq ywvbsa wplp vbkp keksx qsa kvp qktwayvkhl xlydkdt, kv’p dsv pwkvyczl vs wpl kv vs elpnakcl y rlapsd yp vbkp keksx kp wple vs elpnakcl y rzynl”.
G qlxyzl ekpnkrzl yzps pyke lmnkvlezu, “Zsw’hl nsxl swv sq plnzwpksd, nsxl yde pll obyv tkqv Fldksa Fkpvla byp ralryale qsa usw.”
Fw Fw rwv yoyu bla kxxsavyz posae yde lhlausdl kdpvydvzu pwaaswdele bla.
Fbl zsolale bla blye, bla yaxp pvwqqle okvb valypwalp zkjl clqsal.
“Nkvvzl Fw Fw, vbkp kp vbl rlyaz R caswtbv cynj qasx xu zypv vakr vs Vldtzyk vs nlzlcayvl uswa rastalpp kd nwzvkhyvksd.”
“This is the tanghulu8sugar-coated haws I promised you. Little Su Su hasn’t been to the mortal realm, right? Have a try.”
“Junior Sister, have a look at the tail of the Dream-Making Beast! It can be used for self-defense.”
Even a blooming Thousand-Faceted Flower was stuffed into her arms.
A Thousand-Faceted Flower could be used to block the tribulation thunder three times, which was a rare treasure Martial Uncle Qing Wu had grown for two hundred years.
Su Su raised her eyes and looked at her fellow disciples in front of her. Most of them…… would’ve already died at the hands of the demons that had come along with the birth of the Devil God this year, but now, everyone was still alive.
She’d returned to five hundred years in the future, the time when she’d left. However, because of the changes she brought, they were still here.
Su Su looked at the showy9骚包 (sāobāo) – (slang) alluring; flashy and enticing person Ling Yao and couldn’t help but laugh.
For the first time, she didn’t fearfully avoid this overly enthusiastic person and softly called, “Senior Brother Ling.”
I’m not Ye Xi Wu…… I’m Li Su Su.
Although she didn’t know why she’d come back to life, she felt warmth and happiness that she’d never known before.
People crowded around her and told her about the recent gossip in Hengyang.
Floating in the air were towering immortal mountains and countless pavilions10亭台楼阁 (tíngtáilóugé) – all kinds of buildings; Actually, it should be pavilions and kiosks, but they are used almost alternatively, so the difference is just the size.
Something like this, but they are in the air: 
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It turned out that Hengyang, when it wasn’t suppressed by demons and devils, was so powerful and beautiful.
Su Su turned her head and saw the place where she’d learned to travel by sword, the main hall where she’d first learned spells, and the field where the disciples had their morning lessons and sword practice.
Su Su paused in her steps and stepped onto the Ten Thousand Step Heart Cultivating Stairs.
Gongye Jiwu gently spoke, “Junior Sister, the Heart Cultivating Stairs are for people who’ve returned from the mortal realm to walk on. You don’t need to……”
The young girl looked back, and her lips pursed into a faint smile.
The dot of cinnabar between her eyebrows was fiery red. The moment she stepped onto the Heart Cultivating Stairs, they faintly rippled like water, and transparent flowers bloomed under her feet.
Gongye Jiwu looked at her and went silent.
What’s changed in Junior Sister’s heart? It seems like she quietly grew up in a place where we couldn’t see.
Yue Fuya hugged his sword and watched the young girl’s back disappear behind the Heart Cultivating Stairs. He opened his mouth, but remembering Gongye Jiwu’s advice, he remained silent.
After all these years, I’m the one who’s unwilling to give up.
Senior Sister Li and that person, they just share the same name.
How can a little girl of the immortal realm who’d just come of age be related to that person from five hundred years ago?
The Ten Thousand Steps Heart Cultivating Stairs washed away the panic and anxiety in her heart.
Step by step, Su Su finally felt like the past five hundred years ago was far away from her, and at the end of the stairs, a green-robed Immortal Senior turned around.
“Dad!” She ran over.
Qu Xuanzi stroked her hair. He lowered his gaze, and seeing her teary eyes, he let out a deep sigh.
“It’s just seclusion. Why are you so sad? Who bullied Su Su again?”
Su Su was choked with sobs.
She wasn’t even this vulnerable when her soul was scattered11魂飞魄散 (húnfēi-pòsàn) – lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom). People are so strange. When the people around you don’t dote on you, you can put on the toughest battle armor, but when you meet people who love you dearly, your battle armor will be slowly peeled away.
Just like a small beast returning home with a body full of wounds, it finally had someone to talk to about all its sadness.
“Let Dad have a look at your cultivation progress,” Qu Xuanzi said.
He motioned for Su Su to put her hand on the Spirit-Appraising Stone.
Su Su hesitated for a moment. She woke up in her own body, but wasn’t sure what her current cultivation level was.
Facing Qu Xuanzi, she’d unexpectedly felt torn after returning home12近乡情怯 (Jìn xiāngqíng qiè) – Looking forward to home with emotional holdbacks; Returning to the unfamiliar environment that was once one’s home; Returning home with complicated feelings; Someone who leaves their hometown for a long time without leaving any message. Once they return, the closer they get to their hometown, the more unsettling they feel, fearing that something unfortunate has happened there..
After a long while, Su Su placed her hand on it. The Spirit-Appraising Stone flashed, and a green light appeared.
Qu Xuanzi frowned.
Cultivation is divided into seven levels, namely, Qi Condensing13炼气 (liànqì), Foundation Establishment14筑基 (zhùjī), Golden Core15金丹 (jīndān), Nascent Soul16元婴 (yuányīng), Immortalization17化神 (huàshén), Ascension18渡劫 (dùjié), and Great Vehicle19大乘 (dàchéng) – Mahayana; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond . Above that, is becoming a god20成神 (chéngshén) – also known as God Ascension.
Each level is further divided into three small stages- early, middle, and late.
A light green light indicates the middle stage of Foundation Establishment level.
“I……” She opened her mouth, but didn’t know where to start. Su Su remembered that before she went back to the past, she was already in the middle stage of Gold Core. But now, she was only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and even showed faint signs of regressing back to the early stage of it.
How could this happen?
Qu Xuanzi didn’t look disappointed. Instead, his finger lightly tapped the spot in between her eyebrows, and a moment later, he opened his eyes with a complicated expression.
“Su Su, you…… went through nirvana21涅槃 (nièpán) – rebirth (Buddhism)?”
Su Su raised her eyes to look at Qu Xuanzi, who didn’t look surprised.
“Dad?”
Qu Xuanzi said, “Don’t be afraid. When you were born, I knew that this day would come. Dad doesn’t know where you’ve been, and what you’ve experienced.”
He patted the cushion22蒲团 (pútuán)
Might look something like this:
beside him and motioned for Su Su to sit.
Su Su sat beside him.
Qu Xuanzi’s gaze was gentle, “Dad rarely tells you about your mother, she…… didn’t really want me to mention her in front of you, but she also hoped for you to be an ordinary and happy little girl. But, your bloodline was still awakened.”
Su Su actually had a hunch, “Is it phoenix?”
Qu Xuanzi nodded.
Among the bloodlines of the ancient gods, only this lineage could be reborn in the karmic fire. Su Su lowered her eyes. It turned out that Curved Jade had long known about this, so it had always been so stingy with expending its spiritual power only because of the thought that one day, it would use all its spiritual power to send her home.
It had succeeded, but it had also disappeared from this world forever.
A gentle hand patted her shoulder.
“Once your bloodline is awakened, your Great Dao will be a thoroughfare in the future,” Qu Xuanzi said, although in his heart, he held regrets and preferred for Su Su to never grow up.
“Su Su, look at your spiritual core.”
At his reminder, Su Su noticed that there was an extra white water droplet-like thing on her spiritual core.
It was only the size of a fingernail, looking weak and tiny, resting gently on her spiritual core.
“What’s this?” Su Su asked.
“Ancient Heartless Dao,” Qu Xuanzi said.
Edited by: Gaze
Translator’s Note: F in the comment section for our fallen Curved Jade 🥀🥀🥀
Curved Jade is a hero. Thank you for sending our Susu back home. ToT
This was a wonderful chapter and I love that this update coincides with the latest drama episode since we’re already at the Immortal Realm arc now too!
I feel for Susu as well. It feels surreal for her to finally be back home and there’s certainly a lot of trauma from her experience. I am excited for her to meet Tantai Jin as Cang Jiumin tho hehe. Thanks for your hard work Bee! <3
Thank you for reading!!! ❤❤❤
Sorry it’s just…. *crying*
No long comments, only crying 😭
🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
I am so heart broken, my poor curved jade. I’m so glad that Su Su is home, but I also want to know if we will see Tantai Jin again, lol. The show turned him into a puppy, tbh, but I love this one more.
OFC we will see him again 🤭 them meeting again will be in chapter 81 tho
HAHAHA DARK TTJ RULES xD
Oh, *looks at the calendar*
We’ll be waiting 🔥🔥🔥
I agree. I like him and their relationship better in the novel. I loved her response to him a lot of time. It’s so funny.
I was wondering about a couple of parts here…
1) shouldn’t it be Martial Aunt since SuSu is a girl?
2) when Fuya is thinking about stuff – shouldn’t it say FACE, instead of name, since they do not share the same name at all.
Hello,
1. Martial Uncle is commonly used despite gender (but yeah good question, I should probably add it to the translation note).
2. I’m translating it according to the original text, and in chapter 1.2 you can see that the author didn’t mention YXW and LSS look alike, so yeah. (You’ll see the answer to this question in upcoming chapters.)
Susu deserved her own peaceful and joyous days after all the catastrophe she went through. Ummm… that arrogant girl from previous isn’t Ye Bingshang right? Thank you for the double updates these days!
HAHAHAHA NOPE DON’T WORRY NO MORE YBS. YBS only has slight resemblance to Yao Guang, aka Susu’s Senior Sister but it’s not her reincarnation or whatsoever
No probs! Thank you for reading!!! ❤❤❤
I though he., the year old boy she saved, knew her as YXW, why does he say that Li Susu and the girl who saved him have the same name?
FFFF😭 Poor thing!💔
Sometimes, we as readers could only accept what the author gives, though we wished the author could have written differently. But in this story, there’s nothing to complain about. Thank you again.
You never know what you have until it’s gone. I miss Curved Jade so much. So glad that she had someone like it during her tough time. CJ was a real hero 😭