My Master Knows It All

452: Chapter 172: If you don’t accept it, then let’s fight_6 452: Chapter 172: If you don’t accept it, then let’s fight_6 This…

She didn’t particularly dislike Cao Zhen, in fact, she even found him quite interesting.

But to become Dao companions, she had never even considered that.

“What should I do?

I can’t really become Dao companions with Cao Zhen, right?

Or maybe, I should talk to Cao Zhen about it, have him propose that Four Treasures Peak enter the Upper Fifty Peaks before we become Dao companions?

Yes, let Cao Zhen speak to my master.

Once it’s said out loud, it has to be honored.”

Then, by the time of the next Hundred Peaks competition, if necessary, they could let Four Treasures Peak lose on purpose again.”

Capital City.

When Cao Zhen heard the news of the Martial Arts Tournament among the Immortals, he too was a bit stunned.

Wasn’t the position of the State Preceptor pre-determined?

Why had it turned into a competition?

If he couldn’t claim the first place in the competition, what would that mean?

After pondering for a moment, Cao Zhen quickly left the Immortal Reception House and made his way to the Grand Preceptor’s residence.

Under the grape arbor of the Grand Preceptor’s old mansion, Cao Zhen once again saw the Grand Preceptor.

He realized the Grand Preceptor truly loved drinking tea.

As the Grand Preceptor personally brewed kung fu tea, he looked up at Cao Zhen and said, “What brings you here?

Come, have a seat first, drink some tea.”

Cao Zhen didn’t stand on ceremony, sitting across from the Grand Preceptor.

He picked up the teacup, took a gentle sip, and savored the lingering aftertaste in his mouth before looking up and asking, “Grand Preceptor, I heard there will be a Martial Arts Tournament among the Immortals.

As you know, I am at the stage of having formed seven cores.

However, the tournament is to be held in a month, and I am afraid I won’t be able to break through to the Perfect Completion Golden Core in this one month.

Alternatively, while I could force myself to reach Perfect Completion Golden Core if I really wanted to, it wouldn’t be the Perfect Completion Golden Core that I envisage.

If I were to form the Golden Cores according to my plan, then by that time, at best, I could only succeed in forming four or five cores.

When the time comes for the tournament, if I fail to win first place, then what?”

Before, they had agreed that he would become the State Preceptor—and in return, when the Grand Preceptor went into his deep slumber, and when the Guardian Immortal Dynasty encountered danger, he would help watch over the Guardian Immortal Dynasty.

If he could not become the State Preceptor, the entire plan would be at risk.

“You won’t be first?” The Grand Preceptor suddenly laughed, “If you can’t secure the first place, I’ll be the first to execute you.”

Although the words of the Grand Preceptor were said with a smile, Cao Zhen suddenly felt a chill in the air around him plummet with the Grand Preceptor’s words.

The Grand Preceptor was not joking.

The Grand Preceptor would not allow his plan to be interrupted.

But the issue was, within this one month, there was no way he could, just to forcefully break through to Perfect Completion Golden Core, actually go through with it.

Once a Golden Core was solidified, it could never be altered, and the loss would outweigh the gain.

Yet, following the method he envisaged, let alone the four or five Golden Cores he just mentioned, he wouldn’t even be able to break through to the Golden Core Stage.

Unless, he could possess the formidable materials needed.

Then, he would have a chance to spur the Pill to maturity with strong ingredients and break through to form a Golden Core before then!

Besides that, he needed various materials to enhance his Heretical Golden Core!

Currently, he had only refined one layer of his Heretical Golden Core using medicinal herbs.

He needed other materials to advance his Heretical Golden Core to the second layer.

Only then, at the Martial Arts Tournament among the Immortals, would he have a chance to compete for the first place against the mightiest beneath the Earth Immortals of the entire Guardian Immortal Dynasty!

He had no materials at hand, so he could only ask the Grand Preceptor for them again.

The materials previously given by the Grand Preceptor were abundant, but still not enough to mature the Pill within a month!

Also, he needed materials for the Heretical Golden Core.

“Even if I haven’t reached Perfect Completion Golden Core, I could still take first place.

However, I need materials—various materials,” said Cao Zhen, looking at the Grand Preceptor.

Feeling the confidence in Cao Zhen’s eyes, an unexpected smile appeared on the Grand Preceptor’s face as he said, “Interesting, very interesting.

You are about to face all the experts below the Earth Immortals of the entire Guardian Immortal Dynasty, yet you have the confidence that, without reaching Perfect Completion Golden Core, you could take the top spot.

Your confidence, it very much resembles my younger self.

As I’ve said before, you caused me to have an Enlightenment, making Heavenly Dao take notice of me, you owe me one.

But at the same time, you enabled me to resonate with heaven and earth, for which I must thank you, and so I owe you one as well.

Owe each other mutually, but they do not offset one another.

So you will serve as the State Preceptor to repay me, and I will provide you with materials to repay you.

Speak, what materials do you require?”

Cao Zhen had been waiting for the Grand Preceptor to say just this.

He hadn’t prepared a list of materials beforehand, so he could only verbally list the materials he needed, “I need the Ten Thousand Year Heavenly Bitter Beans and also…”

“Ten Thousand Year Heavenly Bitter Beans, Cloud Mountain Crystal…” The Grand Preceptor gently shook his head, “Most of the materials you require I have here, but I don’t have those few you mentioned.”

“Grand Preceptor, even you don’t have them?” Cao Zhen’s heart sank.

If even the Grand Preceptor didn’t possess them, it was likely that the entire Guardian Immortal Dynasty wouldn’t either.

Without these items, the Pills couldn’t be matured ahead of time, nor could the Heretical Golden Core advance further.

How could he then secure the first place?

“Indeed, I don’t have them.

These materials aren’t produced by the Guardian Immortal Dynasty…

but just because I don’t have them doesn’t mean others don’t.

Come, I’ll take you to the Great Jin Dynasty.

Those materials are all possessions of the Great Jin Dynasty.”

“The Great Jin Dynasty?”

Cao Zhen felt perplexed.

He hardly understood the situation within the Guardian Immortal Dynasty, let alone how far away the Great Jin Dynasty was from the Capital City of the Guardian Immortal Dynasty.

However, considering the size of the Guardian Immortal Dynasty, if he had to pilot a Flying Boat to the Great Jin Dynasty, it would likely take at least half a month to a month, or maybe even longer.

If the Grand Preceptor went to the Great Jin Dynasty, the Guardian Immortal Dynasty would be left without its guardian.

If it were just a day or two, it would be alright, but if more time passed, wasn’t the Grand Preceptor afraid that the Guardian Immortal Dynasty would encounter problems?

Soon, he realized he was wrong.

The Grand Preceptor’s mode of travel was not by a Flying Boat, but by direct Gold Light Across the Land, Sword Flight.

The Grand Preceptor took him along, flying by Sword Flight at an astonishing pace, a speed that with his current Cultivation Base, he couldn’t even bear.

The Grand Preceptor had to cast a Body-protecting Golden Light for him.

In less than half a day, while in Sword Flight, the Grand Preceptor spoke, “Now, we have arrived at the Great Jin Dynasty.”

“We’re already here?”

Cao Zhen looked down below, hardly believing that without leaving his mountain, here he was not only in the Capital City but also abroad, and all this while accompanied by the number one expert of the Guardian Immortal Dynasty.

His purpose for leaving the country was to find materials, but he didn’t know how the Grand Preceptor planned to procure them.