Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Having left Mui to continue exploring the forest close to the entrance of the mystic realm on her own, Mui didn’t waste any time as she happily made her way through the forest in search of more Nascent Soul Realm demon beast to hunt down and spiritual fruits for her to eat. Having grown fond of this kind of lifestyle of fighting and eating delicious spiritual fruits after the few weeks she had spent training with her master inside the mystic realm.

At the very least, for the foreseeable future, Xuan Hao wouldn’t have to worry about Mui using her time on something other than training.

The only thing he had to worry about after leaving Mui on her own to explore the forest at the edge of the mystic realm was when she finished exploring the forest and began moving deeper into the mystic realm.

Even if he had informed her about the dangers involved in going too far into the mystic realm where the more powerful demon beasts at the Domain Lord Realm and above resided, he had a feeling that this wouldn’t stop her for long, as her curiosity would ultimately end up winning with enough time

To stop this from happening, he would have to return before she could finish up the demon beasts inside the forest four times the size of the old Heavenly Sky Kingdom… And although this seemed large and there were countless demon beasts present inside this forest, Xuan Hao guessed that he would at most have half a year to a year before Mui finished up the demon beasts inside the forest.

The main reason for this fast clearance being the fact that some of the metal balls she carried along with her could be used for flying at a speed comparable to someone in the Domain Lord Realm if she focused her full strength on it.

With that in mind, the normally large size of the forest to someone in the Nascent Soul Realm became something that could easily be traversed in a short period of time.

Luckily, outside of just the Nascent Soul Realm demon beast that had been left alive before leaving Mui on her own, Xuan Hao had also made sure that there were a few demon beasts in the Half Step Domain Lord Realm that the current Mui couldn’t defeat even with the help of her strange artifacts. Making sure that she wouldn’t be able to steamroll over all of the demon beasts left in the forest and start making her way into the more dangerous inner parts of the mystic realm.

Of course, even though Mui wouldn’t be able to kill these demon beasts half a step into the Domain Lord Realm, she should be more than capable of escaping from them and keeping herself safe without triggering or using any of the safety measures he had left for her.

The only flaw in this plan was that the Half Step Domain Lord Realm demon beast might break through to the Domain Lord Realm, posing a real deadly threat to Mui, while other stronger demon beasts could also show up during his absence.

All things considered, Xuan Hao had done his best in making a good training environment for Mui before leaving and left a few safety measures for her to use in case something ended up going wrong.

”I really do hope nothing ends up happening…” Muttering this to himself as Mui left the coverage of his divine sense, Xuan Hao turned his full attention towards the inner region of the mystic realm. Showing a somewhat cautious expression as he glanced across the different powerful demon beast ahead.

Although not a single one of them had reached the Dao Seed Realm, they were still far stronger on average than back when he had first entered the mystic realm with most of them having reached the Nascent Soul Realm with no small number of Domain Lord Realm demon beasts hidden among them.

Even the occasional Soul Ascension Realm demon beast wasn’t that hard to spot. Essentially confirming that the strength of the demon beasts in the outer parts of the mystic realm had indeed increased.

The only problem was the reason for this sudden increase in strength among the demon beasts.

First, it could be what he suspected when he first noticed the increased number of Nascent Soul Realm demon beasts inside the forest that Mui was now exploring on her own, a powerful demon beast had emerged in the inner parts of the mystic realm and had caused the weaker demon beasts to escape into the outer parts of the mystic realm.

Though this could explain the movement of the demon beasts, it was also a rather worrying thing considering that a Dao Seed Realm demon beast shouldn’t be able to create such a large disturbance. Possibly pointing at the birth of a Celestial Immortal Realm demon beast.

However, he had already seen what had happened to the cloud demon beast when it revealed its strength at the Dao Seed Realm and was discovered by the guardian formation.

If not for the fact that he had been lucky enough to escape from the blast range of the guardian formation by jumping into one of the celestial trials, he doubted that he would have been able to make it out alive.

With that in mind, it led him to a second idea of what might have happened… And that conclusion was that a demon beast inside the inner parts of the mystic realm had somehow managed to trigger the guardian formation of the mystic realm into attacking.

This could either have happened because the demon beast was already in the Dao Seed Realm and accidentally revealed its aura or perhaps because a new demon beast had broken through to the Dao Seed Realm and ended up triggering the guardian formation in this way.

Of course, there was also the possibility that one of the demon beasts already in the Dao Seed Realm that had somehow managed to hide from the guardian formation of the mystic realm in a similar way as the cloud demon beast had done, decided to try and break through to the Celestial Immortal Realm. Triggering a possibly even stronger response from the guardian formation.

If one of these three things had happened, it would make sense why all of the demon beasts that normally resided deeper inside of the mystic realm had decided to venture out and showed no signs of returning from where they had come.

As for a demon beast successfully breaking through to the Celestial Immortal Realm or perhaps even the Profound Immortal Realm… Xuan Hao didn’t think that this was possible, as he could clearly still feel that the guardian formation of the mystic realm was intact and full of energy.

The only reason why it hadn’t descended to kill him with his cultivation reaching a level comparable to someone in the Dao Seed Realm was because he had the robe of the Mirage Sect Elder on.

If not for that, Xuan Hao had a feeling that he wouldn’t be able to hide his true strength from the formation after entering the mystic realm without seriously restraining his own strength like the cloud demon beast back then. Ultimately ending up in a similar way as the cloud demon beast had after it had revealed its strength at the Dao Seed Realm.

At the very least, he didn’t feel any real danger inside of the mystic realm knowing that the strongest opponent he would encounter would be in the Soul Ascension Realm, with those above being reduced to ashes by the guardian formation the moment they revealed their strength.

The only real threat he could think of left inside the mystic realm would be the celestial trials, ancient formations like the one that had trapped him inside the misty mountains for a period of time and remnant of the terrifying power that had attacked the mystic realm and the Mirage Sect in the past.

Although he hadn’t encountered a lot from the battle that should have taken place inside the mystic realm in the past, he had a feeling that he would soon end up encountering more scars from the terrifying battle that should have taken place back then as he continued moving deeper inside the mystic realm.

At the same time, he also looked forward to encountering more of the celestial trials, as they had been useful in both increasing his strength and triggering a rare quest from the system.

In a sense, his main reason for going to the mystic realm was to try and find more of the celestial trials that had been left behind by the Mirage Sect for training the younger generation. Especially so because he was still considered part of the younger generation in the eyes of a terrifying ancient sect like the Mirage Sect and could gain a lot from the celestial trials outside of just increasing his strength.