Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

As Xuan Hao made his presence known to Qin Hao, it didn’t take long before the two of them began a peaceful conversation about cultivation.

Given Qin Hao had originally decided on joining the Star Shattering Sect because he still wanted to potentially reach the Celestial Immortal Realm in the future, he was more than happy at the opportunity to personally get taught by a person he viewed as a senior cultivator even above that of the Celestial Immortal Realm cultivators he had thought to be the pinnacle of cultivation before becoming part of the Star Shattering Sect.

Because of this, it was also rather simple for Xuan Hao to convince the other party to help teach the younger generation of the sect. Allowing him to focus on whatever subject he felt comfortable teaching in, something that Qin Hao seemed rather excited about, as he had never had the opportunity to teach someone before. Having spent most of his time as a wandering cultivator searching for opportunities to grow his own strength.

Although this was something common among wandering cultivators, most wandering cultivators who reached the Soul Ascension Realm or above would have taught a few people during their long lives, either because of past sentiments or because they wanted to help a younger wandering cultivator whom they saw their younger struggling self in.

In that way, Qin Hao was a bit special even among wandering cultivators for not ever having even casual taught someone in his long life. At the same time, it was also a testament to his dedication when it came to cultivation and increasing his own strength, as he didn’t allow anything to cloud his mind or slow him down.

Unsurprisingly, this also meant that Qin Hao was a rather rare cultivator whose primordial yang was still intact, something that was far rarer than him not having taught anyone before at his age…

As his conversation with Qin Hao and later helping him with his questions regarding cultivation ended up not encountering any problems, Xuan Hao soon found himself leaving the rather enthusiastic Qin Hao behind as he met up with his disciples and caught up with what they had been up to while he had been away from the sect… And rather unsurprisingly, Bai Ning had been honing his blacksmithing skills, while he already knew what Qing Yi and Chun Hua had been up to from talking with them on their way back to the sect, both having spent their time either focused on cultivation or alchemy.

By far, the most interesting one to learnt about was Chu Yang, as he had been away from the sect for a long period of time and had experienced a lot during his time away from the sect. Especially so inside the secret realm that Qing Yi and Chun Hua had rescued him from before they had to call for him and have him rescue the three of them.

However, unexpectedly- or maybe not that unexpectedly, Mui had also been up to something during the time he had been missing from the sect.

Working together with Song Jia to build something.

Even though it was still not clear what it was that they were attempting to build even after he personally saw the amalgamation of different materials they had gathered, the problems they had caused throughout the sect while gathering the materials needed for whatever it was that the two of them were attempting to build, was by no means small.

If not for Elder Song helping the two of them out, they would have likely already started a riot among the elders from the Blacksmithing Hall, who turned out to be the ones to suffer from Mui’s antics that now also included Song Jia.

Of course, Elder Song wouldn’t just cover for Mui for no reason, even if she was his disciple.

The reason why he had decided to do so was because Mui did create a lot of useful things in the process of the trouble, she ended up causing. Turning the trouble into a kind of requirement for her to create useful artifacts and objects for the sect in Elder Song’s eyes.

And… If it could be used to strengthen the sect, Elder Song didn’t mind dealing with a few angry elders every now and then whenever the two of them ended up getting in trouble. Although, he was rather shocked upon learning that his normally docile and harmless little granddaughter had seemingly turned into delinquent under Mui’s wings.

At first, he wanted to jump in and stop her, but seeing how much fun she was having playing around with Mui, Elder Song had ended up deciding against his better judgement to allow Song Jia to continue playing around with Mui. By now, even if he wanted to do something, it was already far too late.

Learning about all of this from none other than the person in question, Elder Song, and later a more colorful explanation from his little disciple, Mui, Xuan Hao had no idea how to respond to this kind of situation and ended up just following in Elder Song’s footsteps of just observing and seeing how the situation would develop. After all, it hadn’t had a negative effect on the sect so far and even had a somewhat positive effect on the sect with all the artifacts Mui ended up creating following the mischief she created.

Speaking of those artifacts, there were indeed a few interesting ones among them that caught his attention. The main one being an artifact that could essentially take in the surrounding qi and refine it into a purer state and directly condense spirit stones from the ambient spiritual qi.

Though there were clear limits to this artifact, it still managed to produce one top grade spirit stone every month for the sect. Essentially becoming the sect’s main production for top grade spirit stones, as the spirit stone mines currently under the Star Shattering Sect didn’t have the ability to naturally produce top grade spirit stones. At most they could pray to be lucky and find one that had formed over hundreds of thousands of years and had somehow avoided discovery by the past owners of the spirit stone mines now under the sect’s control.

Finished with everything and not really having much to do any longer outside of teaching his disciples whenever they needed his help, Xuan Hao ended up finding himself back inside his cultivation room and for some reason, he couldn’t help feeling that it felt a bit lonely inside the empty room with nothing more than a cultivation mat and spares furniture.

Whoosh~

However, these thoughts only lasted for an instant before his mind calmed down and he sat down on the cultivation mat to focus on his cultivation.

Now that his Dao of Space had broken through to the Perfection Realm, he needed to figure out what Dao he would be focusing on next, as there were quite a few potential Daos for him to choose from to focus on reaching the Perfection Realm.

The Dao of Ice, Dao of the Sword, Dao of Illusions, Dao of Formations, Dao of Alchemy, Dao of Blacksmithing.

He had reached the Large Success Realm in all these Daos and to be honest, he couldn’t really make up his mind on which of them to focus on now.

Out of all of them, The Dao of Ice was the main one he was thinking about focusing on. The reason for this being that he could make use of the divine stones on the Second Star Peak for his comprehension of the Dao of Ice.

Even if it was somewhat dangerous, he felt confident in his current strength. Not to mention, part of him was curious if increased contact with those divine stones would cause some kind of reaction from the small flame imprint with an even smaller phoenix inside of it that had hidden itself between his brows.

His next choice being the Dao of the Sword, as it was the main dao he used for combat.

Thinking about it more deeply, Xuan Hao realized that he didn’t really have that many doubts on what dao to focus on next as he had first believed.

Not just the second one he wanted to reach the Perfection Realm, but he even had the third one lined up.

One of them being due to his inherent curiosity towards the flame imprint and wanting to find out more by potentially increasing his cultivation of said dao, while the second was for his own protection and for him to remain as strong as possible.

The rest of the daos he had comprehended up to the Large Success Realm were mostly supportive and didn’t really give him a significant increase in strength like reaching the Perfection Realm in the Dao of the Sword would, while none of them could help him in trying to figure out anything new about the flame imprint outside of absorbing the divine energy from the divine stones on the Second Star Peak that would in turn help him comprehend the Dao of Ice…