In the spring of year 6823 of the New Calendar, Lu Xuan, an unregistered resident of the Federation, hid outside a high school classroom and secretly learned a Cultivation Skill, embarking on the path of Cultivation.

On the same day, he returned home and had a dream, just as he always did. In the dream, he was in the Guardian Storage Room during the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history（770-481 BCE）, and the current Keeper of the Records was named Li Er, also known as Laozi.

Later, Lu Xuan dreamed that he became the succeeding Keeper of the Records, became Confucius's second teacher, became the senior brother of Zhang Daoling, the Ancestral Celestial Master, and became the honorary father of the First Emperor...

Even later, someone unearthed a roll of bamboo slips from the ground, on which an event was recorded.

[The eighteenth Keeper of the Records, Lu Xuan, his Sword Qi like a waterfall, assassinated Duke Huan of Qi in his bedchamber]

Carrying the little girl who was sound asleep, he walked out of the courtyard. In silence, he returned to the outskirts of the village. The Cyan Bull was prostrated on the ground, and the Eighty-One Armors stood respectfully, silent and unmoving.


The Cyan Bull raised its head, its gaze falling upon the little girl in Lu Xuan's arms. A look of surprise flickered across its face.


"I was entrusted with her care. Besides, she and I are bound by fate."


The Cyan Bull nodded thoughtfully and said in its simple way,


"Then that is a truly great fated bond."


Lu Xuan smiled without another word. He just held the little girl, his gaze sweeping around, piercing through the void. An illusory eye manifested in the Celestial Vault, looking down upon this hundred-thousand-li expanse of ice and snow.


The sight that met his eyes was utterly horrifying.


Chapter 287 - Chapter 93: Summer with a Thought, Spring with a Word, an Encounter on the Road