The Legend of Wei Shan

Wei Ren didn't know how to approach his other problem. They looked silently at each other for several minutes.

Wei Tian looked at him without even flinching his eyes. This old man couldn't feel the tension in the air. It was also possible that he was acting to rule up Wei Ren.

Finally Wei Ren broke the unbearable silence.

"Why did you assign me to the Rescue and Support Infantry? I spent six months training just for this competition and now you won't even allow me to take part in the important missions?" He unloaded all his pent up thoughts.

"Don't be a child. You know you are not ready yet. Sending you to the battlefield is suicide. Even River Formation Experts can't fight against the venom that the Golden Crow Kingdom is using. How can a third stage Qi Streams cultivator like yourself can defend himself?" Wei Tian spoke plainly. He had already made up his mind. There was no way he would let Wei Ren throw his life away like that. This was not the time to be impatient.

"I…" Wei Ren was speechless. In his heart he also knew that his talents were best suited for the Rescue and Support Infantry.

"I won't be able to earn enough battle credit if I stay cooped up in the Rescue and Support Infantry. I have to do some dangerous missions." He didn't want to give up. So he tried to persuade the stubborn General.

"Actually, you can. It doesn't matter which infantry you join. As long as you can do a fine job, you will be awarded with battle credit. It all depends on your own hard work. Ren'er, don't try to bite more than you can swallow. This war is going to last for a long time. The last war I fought in lasted for more than a century. Your Grandfather and I fought alongside to conquer the Rose Kingdom. Wars of cultivators are different from the wars of mortal kingdoms." Wei Tian didn't budge from his decision.

"More than a century…" Wei Ren already knew about these things. He had read the history books of the Blue Rose Kingdom. His grandfather, Wei Shan and Wei Tian fought side by side to win the war.

Blue Rose Kingdom was previously called Bright Moon Kingdom.

Young siblings, Wei Shan and Wei Tian also lived in this kingdom. Rules of Bright Moon Kingdom were very strange. Commoners were not allowed to cultivate. Only esteemed members of the Royal families and aristocratic noble families were allowed to cultivate.

So both the siblings left the kingdom. They aspired to become legendary immortals who could fly through the starry sky and crush mountains with their fists. With such grand dreams, they left the kingdom to find their paths on the road of cultivation.

Fifty years later they returned. They both had reached the River Expansion stage. They were sure that their parents must have passed away. but there was their younger sister they dearly loved. They wanted to meet her. With their influence she would be able to lead a peaceful and rich life.

Unfortunately, on their arrival, all they found was a desolate kingdom. The Emperor of Bright Moon Kingdom went insane. He killed and tortured the people of his own kingdom.

Worst of all, he committed a vile sin. He even killed mortals. In the world of cultivation, it is an unspoken rule that cultivators must not interfere with the mortal world.

Although killing a few mortals is fine, but a wide scale genocide was strictly prohibited. Killing mortals causes the Karmic luck of the whole kingdom to diminish. This is something no cultivator wants to do. When the Karmic luck of a kingdom depletes, the Elemental Qi of the whole Kingdom suffers, children are born without any talents for cultivation, gaining insights in training magical techniques and Divine Arts become impossible.

There is one thing that cultivators fear even more than diminished Karmic Luck i.e. Karmic Retribution. Any cultivator that commits too many sins is punished by the Heavens. A Divine Tribulation descends on these kinds of vile cultivators. Surviving Heavenly Divine Tribulation is nearly impossible.

But there have been a few extreme cases where cultivators have survived these Divine Tribulations. All those who survived, ended up becoming even more powerful than before.

The siblings found their ancestral home in the same state as the whole Kingdom. Completely desolate and demolished. Their parents were gone, so was their younger sister.

The kingdom was devoid of any mortal.

Every mortal was executed. Even some cultivation clans were massacred. They found that the Emperor of Bright Moon Kingdom was practicing a Demon Art which required the sacrifice of billions of lives.

Wei Shan and Wei Tian swore on their parents' graves that they would destroy the Bright Moon Kingdom.

But before they could unleash their plans, The Emperor of the Bright Moon Kingdom was killed by the Heavenly Divine Tribulation.

There was nothing they could do. Their plan failed before it could even start.

They still wanted to avenge their sister's death. So, t nohey spent the next hundred years creating an army to conquer the Bright Moon Kingdom. In their conquest, they became even more powerful than before.

During this time, Wei Yan was born. Wei Clan became a powerful force. Wei Tian refused to get married. Wei Yan, Wei Ming and several other children of Wei Shan also participated in the war. Wei Yan's generation was brought up in the war.

By the time they were ready to initiate the final step of their plan to seize the kingdom, Wei Shan became a peak stage Spirit Formation Expert while his brother, Wei Tian reached the early stage of Spirit Formation.

They personally killed all the vile members of the Royal families and the inhuman cultivation clans of the Bright Moon Kingdom.

The war ended after so many years.

Their armies were exhausted after the great battle. Even Wei Shan was injured. They breathed a sigh of relief after the war. Things would become peaceful again.

But the Heavens are not kind to anyone. Something tragic was written in their destinies.

They lowered their guards down for just one moment and it cost everything.

Armies of the Grim Vermillion Kingdom and the Golden Crow Kingdom attacked them from every side. The sky was covered with flying swords. Even the clouds could not be seen because of explosions and sky encompassing magical attacks.

A truly spectacular yet pitiful scene unfolded.

Less than ten percent of their troops remained alive after the war. Wei Shan and Wei Tian watched as the people they had shared the battlefield with, died before their eyes. Their soldiers became their families and sworn brothers. They fought together and bled together.

Wei Tian was captured by the Emperor of the Golden Crow Kingdom.

Wei Shan stood in the middle of the sky with a bloody sword in his hand.

He waited for his death as the warhammer of the Grim Vermillion Kingdom's Emperor approached his head.

Wei Yan was a youngster at the River Formation stage. He watched with teary eyes as his father waited for his death.

But he didn't die.

He made a breakthrough. His Soul underwent metamorphosis. He reached the Soul Transformation stage in the middle of the fight.

The warhammer stopped in mid-air. Not even it's shadow was able to fall on his face.

Everything that happened after this became a legend. Wei Shan sweeped the entire battlefield with his sword. Even the sky was painted red.

The old Ancestors of the Golden Crow Kingdom and the Grim Vermillion Kingdom were forced out of their seclusion.

They were also at the Soul Transformation stage. Wei Shan knew he was at a disadvantage. He used his life-force to ignite his own cultivation to temporarily raise his power.

The fight between three Soul Transformation Experts shook the sky. Gaping holes formed in the fabric of space. It was the fight of the eon.

Not even the corpses of his enemies were left behind.

Wei Shan was the only one left standing at the end. He single handedly changed the course of a war.

The war truly ended.

For the next fifty years, the entire kingdom was reformed. A new era started. Cultivation Sects were established. Schools for learning Alchemy formed under Wei Shan's guidance. He created the kingdom he longed to live in as a child.

But the man who brought all these changes passed away.

Wei Shan died because of his injuries. His life-force was exhausted. In his final moments he abdicated as the Emperor and passed it on to his son, Wei Yan.

The entire Kingdom mourned the loss of the hero who drove away the evil and spread his kindness all over the kingdom.

Grim Vermillion Kingdom never dared to turn it's gaze towards the Blue Rose Kingdom. The Golden Crow Kingdom abandoned some of its own land in the fear of getting wiped out.

Wei Tian's mind was in a trance. The images of his brother flashed before his eyes. He is not an impulsive young man anymore. He has already survived the vicissitudes of life. He had unparalleled wisdom compared to Wei Ren. Although Wei Ren was smart and very intelligent, he still can't compare to Wei Tian in terms of actual experience.

"Royal Elders know about you being the Devil General. Normally, I would have awarded you battle credit for helping me in strategic planning and tactical preparation. But now I can't. They think I will be biased towards you because you are my grand nephew. So you have to help me guide the armies without getting battle credit. Because of this...I will allow you to go on missions. You will be awarded battle credit if you are successful on these missions. But I have one condition." Wei Tian came up with a plan to satisfy Wei Ren and keep him away from danger.

"..." Wei Ren listened with keen interest. Although he was disappointed that he wouldn't earn battle credit for helping in making strategies. He would never run away from his responsibility. Just because there was no return for his efforts doesn't mean he will stop helping his General.

"What condition?" There was no way Wei Tian would have a simple condition. He must have a weird plan to make his life harder.

"You have to survive three strikes from me. If you can, it means you are strong enough to survive on your own." Wei Tian said with a wide smile. This was the first time Wei Ren had seen him smile like this.

"Three... strikes, from you!!" Wei Ren said with a quivering voice.

(This chapter is very close to my heart. The character of Wei Ren's grandfather is something we all hope to see in novels like these. But cruel and evil characters always end up surviving and kind and heroic characters get killed. Wei Shan is a man we can never understand. He was born with a vision and he turned that vision into reality.

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