Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Leaving his palace after thinking things through, Xuan Hao soon arrived in front of a relatively small courtyard located next to the Qi Spring Lake at the center of the Seventh Star Peak. Enjoying the rich spiritual qi that had transformed into a thin mist surrounding the lake.

Although the spiritual qi between heaven and earth was already far above the outside world inside the Shattered Star Peaks due to the chaotic qi formation transforming the chaotic qi into spiritual qi and transferring the spiritual qi into the formation where the Shattered Star Peaks were located, the environment around the Qi Spring Lake was even better due to the qi springs located inside the Qi Spring Lake constantly spewing out spiritual water filled to the brim with pure qi.

In a sense, there wasn't a better location for someone like Pei Yang to recover. Even a powerful force like the Blue Sea Empire might find it difficult to replicate the environment around the Qi Spring Lake without having to waste a large quantity of their resources in the process.

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Fully absorbed in absorbing the endless qi present around the Qi Spring Lake to repair the damage he had caused when forcibly using several forbidden pills and techniques to forcibly increase his strength, Pei Yang felt overjoyed at his choice to join the Star Shattering Sect back when he had encountered Xuan Hao.

At this point in time, a part of him already felt attached to the Star Shattering Sect. Understanding very well how beneficial it would be to cultivate next to Qi Spring Lake.

After all, even if he didn't need to absorb that much qi and mainly needed to comprehend the dao to increase his strength at the Earth Immortal Realm, the dense qi present around the Qi Spring Lake made the dao easier to sense and comprehend. Allowing him to progress faster in the Earth Immortal Realm compared to the outside world.

The only thing that would make his comprehension increase faster would be if he managed to enter a place where the dao he had comprehended was concentrated, a place similar to the Valley of Illusory Beasts, Sea of Mist, or the Ephemeral Forest.

Of course, places like that were hard to come by and came with all sorts of dangers involved. Especially given that most of the safe places had already been seized by the more powerful forces like the Blue Sea Empire.

With all of this in mind, staying in the Star Shattering Sect was indeed a great option, as the place was safe and also allowed him to progress through the Earth Immortal Realm more easily.

Whoosh~

It was also for this reason that Pei Yang didn't notice Xuan Hao when he landed on the ground a few meters away from him. Remaining fully absorbed in recovering his injuries with the help of the thin mist of qi that drifted off from the Qi Spring Lake before entering his courtyard.

"Pei Yang-"

"Ah!? Senior Xuan!?"

Suddenly jumping up upon hearing someone behind him, Pei Yang turned around to see Xuan Hao standing behind him with a surprised expression plastered all over his face. Not having expected Xuan Hao to suddenly appear only a day after he had settled down. After all, there was still some time before he would hold his first lecture and he couldn't think of any reason why Xuan Hao would find him at this point in time.

"No need to look so worried, I only came because I wanted to ask you about something…" Smiling a bit upon seeing the shocked expression on Pei Yang's face, Xuan Hao could not help feeling amused at the reaction from Pei Yang.

"Ask about something? What is it?" Calming himself down and returning to an appearance befitting of someone in the Earth Immortal Realm, Pei Yang curiously asked. Wondering what Xuan Hao wanted to know from him.

"Nothing much, I just wanted to ask about the different professions and what you know about them. More specifically if you know anything about the Pseudo Saint Realm…"

"Professions? And… The Pseudo Saint Realm? Hm… I do know a bit, as I'm a Grandmaster Realm Alchemist. Although my knowledge on the Pseudo Saint Realm is rather limited due to information about the realm being restricted by those large powers…" Frowning slightly as he said this, Pei Yang could not help shaking his head as he mentioned the information on the Pseudo Saint Realm being restricted.

Even without him saying anything more, it was clear that he didn't appreciate the information on the realm being restricted by those larger powers. After all, it would be the same as forcing any aspiring alchemist, blacksmith, or other skilled cultivator in the Grandmaster Realm to join one of these large powers if they wanted to reach the Pseudo Saint Realm.

"That doesn't matter, anything you know is fine." Not caring too much about the information being restricted, Xuan Hao just wanted to know more about the different realms so he could start improving his blacksmithing as fast as possible. Even ignoring the fact that Pei Yang turned out to be a Grandmaster Alchemist.

"Fine… I guess you should know the basic about the earlier stages so let's start from the Master Relam. In the Master Realm you need to gain a basic understanding of the dao of the profession you follow. In my case it was the Dao of Alchemy. The understanding of the dao does not have to reach the Elementary Realm, but at least has to be enough for you to establish a domain…

The main difference between a domain established through something like the Dao of Alchemy and a normal domain that might have been established through the Dao of Fire, is the fact that the domain established by the Dao of Alchemy can't be used for fighting and is far weaker than a normal domain. The only use of the domain in the Master Realm is to help you create pills or whatever your profession is related to.

You can think of it as a sort of unique domain unrelated to the domain established while breaking through to the Domain Lord Realm… And because of this, the domain can also be used before the Domain Lord Realm. Although, it's rare for someone to comprehend one before reaching the Domain Lord Realm. Next, the Grandmaster Relam…"

Listening to Pei Yang as he began talking about the Master, Grandmaster and Pseudo Saint Realm, Xuan Hao could not help feeling pessimistic about his ability to reach the Pseudo Saint Realm in three short months.

First of all, even though the Master Realm wasn't that hard to reach given his current cultivation realm and comprehension ability, the Grandmaster Realm would require him to comprehend the Dao of Blacksmithing to the Elementary Realm… And although he didn't know a lot about how to reach the Pseudo Saint Realm, Pei Yang told him that he and some of his friends not related to any of the large powers had speculated that one would have to reach the Small Success Realm and fulfill some kind of requirement that the large powers had hidden from them.

The condition in question was not anything that Pei Yang knew anything about, and he and his friends could only speculate. For instant, one of the reasons he had ended up falling out with the Earth Immortal from the Blue Sea Empire was related to the fact that he had tried to gain access to this information and the Earth Immortal from the Blue Sea Empire had blocked him from gaining this information. Baring him from finding out how he could breakthrough to the Pseudo Saint Realm.

Of course, this was not the only reason he had ended up fighting to the death with the man. From what Xuan Hao observed, it was clear that the enmity between Pei Yang and the Earth Immortal from the Blue Sea Empire also involved another story.

Even though he felt interested, Xuan Hao decided not to ask and instead focused his attention on learning as much as he could from Pei Yang before taking his leave to start his journey to become a Pseudo Saint Realm blacksmith. Feeling some pity that Pei Yang was not a Grandmaster Realm Blacksmith, as he would have been able to help him out if that was the case.

At the very least, he managed to get the location of one of his friends who was a Grandmaster Blacksmith. The only problem was that the person lived quite far away from the Star Shattering Sect and would take at least two weeks to reach travelling on his own.

But… Considering that he had no other clue as to how to rapidly reach the Pseudo Saint Realm, he could only tell Feng Chen about him leaving again before disappearing towards the location of Pei Yang's friend.

At least this time around, he would at most be gone for a few weeks and be back before his disciples even noticed he was gone…