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  The World that Tao Rules

  Written by Ye Xingye

  Translated by Xi & Zhifeng

  Edited by Lamia & Nin-nin & wisehelm999

  © 2019 by Zenith Novels

  All rights reserved. Published 2019

  Originally published as 道界天下 in Chinese by kujiang

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

  Edition Number: 2. We made 57 edits and corrected about 20 grammatical mistakes. Thanks for reading!

  Table of Contents

  Copyright Page

  Chapter 1: Back For Bathing

  Chapter 2: Be Born With

  Chapter 3: Accepted the Challenge

  Chapter 4: Challenge a Cultivator as a Mortal

  Chapter 5: Neither One Could Live While Another Survived

  Chapter 6: It’s a Treasure

  Chapter 7: The Lucid Dream

  Chapter 8: The Seeking-Tao Five Peaks

  Chapter 9: Three Tests

  Chapter 10: Three Things of Value in Tao Cultivation

  Chapter 11: They Are Showy And Not Substantial

  Chapter 12: The Two-Free Tao Physique

  Chapter 13: The Sixth Peak

  Chapter 14: Long For Saying More

  Chapter 15: The Third Level of Meridians Unclogged Realm

  Chapter 16: Without Extra Effort

  Chapter 17: What is the Meaning of Tao

  Chapter 18: The Stone! It Had Become Water!

  Chapter 19: You Know What I Mean

  Chapter 20: Give Her A Hand

  Chapter 21: The Pen of Indigo Light Wolves

  Chapter 22: A Special Skill

  Chapter 23: Enter The Book Storage Pavilion

  Chapter 24: Find the Answer

  Chapter 25: The Spiritual Energy Transformation

  Chapter 26: The Day For Retesting

  Chapter 27: Two Possibilities

  Chapter 28: A False Mission

  Chapter 29: The Thorn in His Heart

  Chapter 30: You Should Give Up

  Chapter 31: The Lords Of Peaks

  Chapter 32: The Small Competition Participants

  Chapter 33: Ten Outer Disciples

  Chapter 34: Rock-Solid

  Chapter 35: Two-Level Magic Tool

  Chapter 36: Boorish Man From Countryside

  Chapter 37: As A Rich Guy

  Chapter 38: No.1 Among Inner Disciples

  Chapter 39: Jiang Yun Will Not

  Chapter 40: A Vague Figure

  Chapter 41: A Shining Of Sword

  Chapter 42: A Little Vacillate

  Chapter 43: Below Seven-Level

  Chapter 44: It Is Not That Simple

  Chapter 45: Brother Hei

  Chapter 46: It Is A Little Interesting

  Chapter 47: Far From Enough

  Chapter 48: Three Meanings of Tao

  Chapter 49: Four Levels In Nine Grades

  Chapter 50: Calm Down

  Chapter 51: I Am Not A Man

  Chapter 52: I'm Looking For The Pot

  Chapter 53: What Should Be Simplified Is Complex

  Chapter 54: Cloud-Sky While Mist-Earth

  Chapter 55: Controlling Objects By Spiritual Power

  Chapter 56: Increasing The Level

  Chapter 57: The Spiritual Power Flood

  Chapter 58: Harder

  Chapter 59: This Kid Is Really Good

  Chapter 60: One Killing Action

  Chapter 61: He Should Not Be Belittled

  Chapter 62: Evil Mispirit Into A Finger

  Chapter 63: You Must Die

  Chapter 64: The Third-One In Hidden Peak

  Chapter 65: It's Unwise To Offend The Public

  Chapter 66: Outrageous

  Chapter 67: Earning The Reputation

  Chapter 68: Six-Ring Of The Bell

  Chapter 69: Mountain-Sea And Great-Wilderness

  Chapter 70: Ten-Level In MCR

  Chapter 71: Rules In Every Realm

  Chapter 72: Questions And Answers

  Chapter 73: Road Under His Feet

  Chapter 74: Friendship Is Priceless

  Chapter 75: Thick Mist

  Chapter 76: He Has Found His Way

  Chapter 77: The Face Of Tao

  Chapter 78: Do Not Give Up

  Chapter 79: The True Purpose

  Chapter 80: A Gift

  Chapter 81: The Thunderbolt Bead

  About the Publisher

  Chapter 1: Back For Bathing

  Jiang village, one hidden in forest-clad mountains, was a small village with only a population of one hundred people.

  At present, the commanding full moon, high in the night sky, overlooked the world. The world was in total silence, as if it was falling into deep sleep. While in Jiang village, there were a dozen children in different ages sitting cross-legged with their Five Hearts towards the sky. They faced to the moon and did breathing exercises. Looming fog, thick or thin, surrounded their bodies.

  In front of these children was a strong and muscular man covering himself in a hide. He was speaking in a low but strong voice.

  “Moonlight is extremely precious for our cultivation. Especially as it is the Fifteenth of this month, the moonlight during the period from 11 pm to 1 am would be the best. Hence, do not waste any time but absorb as much moonlight as you can to open your meridians in the body and promote your strength.”

  No one responded to the man’s words as all the children were absorbing the moonlight intently.

  However, there was a youth whose age was around fifteen to sixteen, sitting thirty meters away by himself. Lying in front of him were at least hundreds of medicinal herbs and beast bones of various kinds.

  This youth’s handsome face could be seen under the moonlight. His black long hair was braided into several pigtails, and his body was well-developed. He wore a coat made of animal fur, like what the strong and muscular man worn, with scars of varying lengths exposed on his naked skin.

  Though most of the time the youth stared at those herbs, he would sometimes look up toward those children that were sitting cross-legged. At this moment, there was always a look of envy on his little immature face.

  The youth’s name was Jiang Yun. He has already gotten used to such a scene. He knew that his playmates were absorbing the moonlight for cultivation.

  Everyone who did cultivation was to cultivate their body, heart, spirituality, and soul, and finally gain insights into the Tao.

  Although Jiang Yun was eager to join their cultivation, his grandfather told him that his body was different from his playmates, which had determined that he couldn’t cultivate Tao with them.

  Jiang Yun didn’t believe it until he asked several friends quietly and tried the cultivation way he was told and found his body couldn’t absorb the moonlight. As a result, he had to give up.

  “Whatever, to be an alchemist and refine medicinal elixirs that fit my playmates to enhance their strength is not bad.”

  Jiang Yun comforted himself inside and continued to pay attention to those medicinal herbs and beast bones.

  “Yun, is this the last group of herbs and bones to study? How many do you remember now?”

  That strong and muscular man went beside Jiang Yun, with his hands clasped behind his back, and asked with interest.

  Jiang Yun looked up at him and smiled, “Yeah, Uncle Mu. I’ve kept them in mind.”

  “Good!” Jiang Mu nodded without doubting Jiang Yun’s words. A look of admiration crossed his rugged face.

  Jiang Yun may not realize how amazing he was that he could remember the characte
rs of those herbs and bones. But Jiang Mu as an adult knew clearly.

  Refining Dan medicine needed materials. While the most primary materials were flora and fauna. Hence, to be a qualified pharmacist, one should know and master their characters as many as possible.

  These forest-clad mountains, where Jiang village was located in, were called One Hundred Thousand Mang Mountains. Mang Mountains were almost cut off from the rest of the world. And inside of it, over ten thousand of flora and fauna were bred. Therefore, it was pretty difficult to know and remember the characters of every kind of plants and animals very well. Meantime, the process was extremely boring.

  While Jiang Yun, a boy of sixteen, made it within only a dozen years! This needed not only talent but also tenacity and perseverance.

  “Well done!” Jiang Mu couldn’t help praising once more, “Yun, you must become an amazing alchemist someday!”

  Jiang Yun showed no excitement for Jiang Mu’s praise. He just smiled, looking like a mature guy not a youth in his age.

  Jiang Mu knew Jiang Yun’s mind that he would rather be a Tao cultivator than an alchemist.

  Reaching out his hand which was as big as a cattail leaf fan, Jiang Mu rubbed Jiang Yun’s head hard. He wanted to say something but swallowed the words that came to his lips.

  Turning around, Jiang Mu sighed inside and said, “Yun, it is not that we don’t teach you the way to cultivate. It is because that you, actually, are not the one of our Jiang Clan. You are not a Jiang people.”

  The fact was just as Jiang Mu said. Jiang Yun was not the one belonging to Jiang village. He was adopted by the Old Village Head Jiang WanLi who then became his grandfather.

  This was not a secret. Even Jiang Yun knew it.

  Though Jiang Yun was not a Jiang people, nobody in Jiang village took him as an outsider. Living together for sixteen years, everyone in Jiang village treated Jiang Yun as a real Jiang people.

  A moment later, Jiang Mu looked up at the full moon and shouted, “Alright, whelps! Time is up! Cultivation ends now!”

  Instantaneously, all of those children in Lotus Position jumped up. They knew cultivation was important. But it was really a great torment for them to sit still for several hours. After all, they were children.

  A figure rushed at Jiang Yun in a flash, as fast as a wildcat.

  “Brother Yun, are you going outside tomorrow? Could you catch a tricolored finch for me when you get back?”

  It was a little girl, around eight or nine years old. Three little colored marks were in a triangle arrangement between her eyebrows. Her exquisite little face was full of expectation.

  Her name was Jiang Yuerou, Jiang WanLi’s biological granddaughter. Her parents died by accident when hunting in the mountains. This happened shortly after her birth. Therefore, she was raised by her grandfather. And because Jiang Yun grew up with Jiang WanLi as well, it could also be said that Jiang Yun brought her up. As a result, Jiang Yun was the closest one to her.

  There were a lot of dangers in Mang Mountains, and no one under eighteen was allowed to go outside of Jiang village. However, Jiang Yun was an exception.

  For a better understanding of characters of flora and fauna, he would follow grandfather and go into deep Mang Mountains the day after the full moon and stay for over half a month. Every time when he came back, he would bring something like little toys or small animals. So if children in Jiang village wanted something, they would tell Jiang Yun.

  “No problem!” Jiang Yun reached out his hand and pinched Jiang Yuerou’s face fondly, “I will catch a tricolored finch for you by the time I return.”

  “Yun! Back for bathing!”

  Suddenly, an elderly voice came from afar. Following that, Jiang Mu glared and yelled at those children, “Alright, whelps! Go to sleep right now! Yun, I will look after Yuerou. You can go back for bathing now.”

  All of the children broke up in a hubbub then. Jiang Yun stood up, pinched Yuerou’s face, saluted Jiang Mu, and then turned around towards a cottage deep in the village.

  Chapter 2: Be Born With

  The cottage now was like a fairyland, as the steam curled upwards with a fragrance striking the nose. Because in the middle of the room, there was a big wooden tub that was above the fire. It was faintly visible that a heap of medicinal herbs and beast bones were floating in the water.

  Such a bath was not a usual regular bath. It was a medicated bath.

  Beside the wooden tub stood a grey-haired old man. His back was a little hunched. He was squinting at the hot steaming water and holding a stick to stir it.

  Looking at this old man’s figure, Jiang Yun felt a warmth in his heart. This old man was his grandfather Jiang WanLi. Jiang Yun grew up happily because of his grandfather's care and protection.

  “Grandpa!” Jiang Yun greeted Jiang WanLi. Then he took the animal fur coat off and walked towards the wooden tub. Without the coat covering his body, it could be seen clearly that there were over hundreds of scars on his athletic body, which looked extremely terrible.

  Especially as there were several scars on his back, which arranged like a blurry shape of the word “cloud”.

  In the deep Mang Mountains, dangers existed here and there due to countless fierce animals. Therefore, as Jiang Yun stayed in Mang Mountains almost all year round, he always got injured when he fought against those fierce animals. That was why he had so many scars on his body. However, the scars on his back were actually not real scars. These were his birthmark. And Jiang WanLi named him Jiang Yun due to this birthmark’s shape.

  Jiang Yun was used to bathing. He had to take such a medicated bath at intervals for as long as he could remember.

  It sounded like bathing was an enjoyable and comfortable thing. But the fact was just the opposite one.

  A normal person couldn’t bear immersing in boiling water, not to mention the strong property of the medicinal herbs and beast bones which would stimulate one’s body.

  Jiang Yun still remembered the first time when he was taking the bath, he was scared and cried, thinking that grandfather was going to cook him and eat him.

  But he finally did it and kept bathing. Because he knew that grandfather was in good intentions to help him to build a much stronger body.

  Though he couldn’t cultivate together with his playmates, his physical fitness was far better than many of them due to years of bathing.

  Jiang Yun closed his eyes and immersed his entire body including his head into the water, feeling the high temperature of the steaming water and the strong property of the herbs and bones which continued stimulating his body.

  Several hours later, grandfather’s voice sounded, “Yun, do you want to cultivate Tao?”

  Jiang Yun almost jumped out of the water in a flash with a huge sound. Looking at his grandfather, he was so shocked that he couldn’t say a word at once.

  Although Jiang Yun has never left Mang Mountains, he knew that there was a bigger world beyond Mang Mountains. There were ten thousands of ethnic groups such as Humankind, Demon Race, Ghost Race in this vast world, and each of them would advocate cultivation.

  Even in Jiang village, a small village which was almost isolated from the world, people from the young to the old were cultivating hard.

  Cultivation would definitely keep you fit and make you stronger, furthermore give you strength and power to change the world, or even grant you immortality.

  “Do I want to cultivate? Of course!

  “But I have asked grandpa about this more than once, and grandpa always answered that I’m unable to cultivate due to my different physical conditions. Then why will grandpa ask me this question? He should have known it.

  “Maybe grandpa has found my way to cultivate?”

  Jiang Yun was thinking.

  Looking at Jiang Yun’s shocking face, Jiang WanLi’s eyes squinted much narrower, with only a seam left.

  “Of course I do!”

  Following Jiang Yun’s answer, Jiang WanLi asked another question, “Then tell me, what do
you cultivate for?”

  Jiang Yun was in silence.

  Because he didn’t know why he had been obsessed with cultivation. For physical fitness? Or for immortality? It seemed not to be his answer.

  For as long as he could remember, when he even didn’t know what cultivation meant, he seemed to get an idea to cultivate in his mind.

  This idea seemed to be born with him!

  Apparently, Jiang WanLi knew what Jiang Yun was thinking. Not waiting for Jiang Yun’s answer, he smiled benevolently and said, “Alright, Yun, if you really want to cultivate, then...”

  Suddenly, a distant loud thud interrupted his words.

  “People of Feng village come again!”

  Jiang WanLi seemed to know what happened outside. He was in a huff, with a face full of seriousness, two lights flitting past his eyes. He left these words then turned around towards outdoors.

  Jiang Yun showed a grim face at the same time. He was very angry. Not because grandpa’s words were interrupted, but he knew that Feng people were coming for him.

  One Hundred Thousand Mang Mountains covered a pretty large area. In addition to Jiang village, there were a lot of other villages. Though they didn’t live in harmony with each other, they wouldn’t aggress others. There were only small conflicts among them sometimes.

  Feng village was the closest village to Jiang village, and its overall strength was a bit more powerful than Jiang village.

  There were always small conflicts between them because they had frontiers with each other. However, Since Jiang Yun had come into Jiang village, conflicts between these two villages were sharpened.

  When Jiang Yun was young, Feng village always came and made trouble every once in a while, aiming to take Jiang Yun away.

  As for why Feng people wanted to catch him, Jiang Yun had no idea. He just felt that Feng people regarded him as a rare treasure. Because every time when met them, Jiang Yun could see greedy expressions in their eyes clearly.

  Then after Jiang Yun was ten years old, what Jiang WanLi had done was unknown, but no one in Feng village had come since then. However, they came again today.

  Jiang Yun jumped out of the wooden tub in a hurry, put on the coat, and rushed out.

  At this moment, all children and women of Jiang village were required to stay at home. Only about thirty men gathered at the entrance to their village. They glared at a group of strong men from Feng village like ravening tigers.