After I Died, My Disciple Forgot Me

[Note: The story is being revised.] Xi Changyou was easygoing by nature. After unexpectedly transmigrating into a cultivation novel, he quickly adapted to life in the book. Every day, he drank immortal dew, meditated, and taught his disciple swordsmanship. Later, he even got with the times and started dating his disciple. One day, reclining on a lounge chair, he casually said to his disciple, "When the number changes, check whether it's odd or even. For the sign, look at the quadrant. It's a corny little thing, but it's a universal secret code. Remember it." His disciple listened with a serious expression and nodded obediently. Later, the barrier around the immortal realm collapsed. Xi Changyou died by accident while repairing it, and when he woke again, a thousand years had passed. The Daoist friends who had been his peers had either passed on or ascended long ago. Only a handful of people in the cultivation world still recognized Xi Changyou. And his once-obedient, well-behaved disciple had become the new sect leader of the Qingshan Sect: cold and unfeeling, with a ruthless hand that had kept the demon clan suppressed and out of sight for hundreds of years. Xi Changyou was surprised by this. But what surprised him even more was that his disciple had forgotten him. The other's gaze was unfamiliar and cold. He couldn't remember a single thing about their past affection or the time they'd spent together, as if he'd never known Xi Changyou at all. His disciple had seduced him and then abandoned him. Xi Changyou was so furious he couldn't sleep, so he decided to sneak into the sect in the middle of the night and see just how comfortably his heartless disciple was living now. The night was cool and still. A figure landed silently outside the sect leader's sleeping quarters. Xi Changyou concealed his presence and saw that his former disciple was still awake, setting up a huge summoning array inside. The array was immense, and a chilling aura filled the area. Who knew what the man was up to? Xi Changyou was too curious to resist. He focused his spiritual sense and saw the new sect leader, the most respected figure in the cultivation world, surrounded by flying talismans, his aura in complete disarray and his state a sorry one. The man looked grave. His spiritual consciousness had already fallen into chaos, yet he kept solemnly repeating the incantation: "When the number changes, check whether it's odd or even. For the sign, look at the quadrant..." Xi Changyou: "?" Theme: Believe that hope will eventually reveal the dawn.