Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

"No response detected from tier three trail participant. Please proceed forward. Grand Elder Li Meng will- No response from Grand Elder Li Meng detected. Grand Elder Li Meng is currently busy. You are allowed to leave as the violation committed doesn't reach the level required for forceful detainment of an elder.

Be aware, Grand Elder Li Meng will be informed of your violation when he returns and will meet out proper punishment then. Escaping the Mirage Sect before Grand Elder Li Meng carries out punishment might result in Grand Elder Li Meng issuing a warrant on behalf of the Mirage Sect to the surrounding sects."

Nervously waiting in front of the preservation golem, Xuan Hao could not help silently breathing a sigh of relief as he heard what it said. Even if it was threatening him, he didn't really care about this, as the Li Meng that it was referring to had most likely already been killed in the attack that destroyed the hall.

The only thing he did care about was whether or not this preservation golem was in control of some kind of formation that might force him into the terrifying void that had been formed where the Grand Elder Li Meng mentioned by the preservation golem should have been.

"Okay, I will make sure to come back the moment Grand Elder Li Meng returns and calls for me."

Even then, he still made sure to nod his head politely in response to the preservation golem. Not intending to find out if it had some way of forcing him to stay in case, he showed any signs of wanting to run away.

"Acknowledged, you may leave. Remember, do not cause any more violations or you will be treated in accordance with the sect laws regarding repeat offenders. Elder status will not protect you much in that case, as the law enforcement elders will be the ones responsible for dealing with you." Nodding its head mechanically without any emotion, the preservation golem plopped down on the ground motionlessly.

Not because it had broken down after delivering the message, but instead because it had finished doing its job and entered some kind of low maintenance mode that allowed it to preserve its energy while also slowing down the inevitable decay that had started taking place after it had suffered a significant amount of damage at some point in the past.

"I will be taking my leave…"

Seeing this, Xuan Hao didn't plan to wait around any longer inside of the destroyed hall that had once been the seat of power for a Grand Elder of the Mirage Sect, as he directly made a beeline for the spatial passage that had taken him there.

Any plans to search through the place for possible treasures or scrolls that might have been left behind had disappeared the moment he happened to look in the direction of where the Grand Elder of the Mirage Sect should have been.

Just looking in the wrong direction had almost cost him his life, there was no way he would dare to search through such a place!

Not to mention, he had a rather easy way to go there in the future, as it seemed like he would just have to cause some kind of violation to be dragged there by the third celestial gate.

Of course, doing so in the future might not result in a similar reaction, as the preservation golem did mention something about the law enforcement elders being the ones to take care of him if he did something similar in the future.

At the very least, if he got stronger and increased his comprehension of the Dao of Space, it shouldn't be that difficult to get back by tracking the different spatial passages connected to the third celestial gate. Not difficult, if he didn't think about how high his comprehension of the Dao of Space needed to be to do something like this.

Looks like I probably won't come back here before reaching the Profound Immortal Realm…

Shaking his head as he thought about this, Xuan Hao took the last step forward and entered the spatial passage that had originally taken him to the destroyed hall-

Whoosh~

Disappearing from the destroyed hall the next second before once again finding himself shuttling through the intact spatial passage back towards the third celestial gate that he had entered through.

…

At the same time her master was in the process of leaving the destroyed grand hall, Mui was busy fighting with two demon beasts at the Nascent Soul Realm, one of them at the Fifth Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, while the second one had reached the Sixth Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

And from the fact that she kept being pushed back by the two monsters that had formed an alliance against her, it was obvious that she wasn't used to fighting more than a single demon beast at the same time.

Not that Mui let this discourage her, as she took the opportunity to grow more familiar with fighting more than a single opponent at the same time. Growing more confident with each passing minute and starting to push back against the two demon beasts that had overwhelmed her at the start.

Of course, this didn't mean that she was anywhere close to winning the battle against the two demon beasts. On the other hand, her starting to push back ended up causing the two demon beasts to fight with even more power and ferocity than before.

Soon enough resulting in Mui being suppressed by the two demon beasts again. The main difference being that they now went all out in trying to kill her after learning how fast she had seemingly adapted to their strength and begun to fight back against them.

Although demon beasts without enough intelligence to communicate through their divine sense, they were still more than smart enough to understand that it would be best for them to kill Mui as fast as possible. Knowing that if she continued to slowly increase her strength during their fight, it would be them who ended up dead.

"How did they suddenly get so much stronger!?" Not understanding how the demon beasts suddenly ended up getting stronger all of a sudden, Mui who hadn't experienced something like that before, as all the demon beasts that had faced her in the past had gone all out from the start when facing her one on one, began to panic.

"Wait! Don't tell me… ARE THEY HIDING THEIR REAL STRENGTH!? No! I can't afford to hold back if they turn out to secretly be at the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm!" In the end, due to her inexperience with such things, Mui couldn't understand that the demon beasts had just held back a little bit of their strength and wasn't hiding their true cultivation realm.

Whoosh~!

As a result of this, to be on the safe side, Mui didn't hesitate to take out her metal balls. Not intending to hold back any of her strength in the face of the two demon beasts that had been hiding Peak Nascent Soul Realm Strength and could attack her with all of their strength at any moment.

R-Roar?

Roar…?

In the end, the two demon beasts could only retreat a few meters with confused expressions on their faces after seeing the metal balls that suddenly flew out of Mui's interspatial ring before floating in the air in front of her menacingly.

Well… As menacing as a floating metal ball could look…

"Hm? They retreated- Ah! They are preparing to unleash their full strength for a single powerful attack! Similar to when master attacks and kills his opponent in a single powerful attack! Hmph! I won't let you!"

However, in the eyes of Mui, who had been observing their every move, the slight retreat from the demon beasts and confused expressions ended up looking like they stepped back and were looking at her filled with contempt for her lower cultivation realm as they prepared to unleash their "full strength" to attack her.

Rumble~!

And so, before the two demon beasts had much time to react, the metal balls around Mui sprung into action, as all kinds of terrifying attacks descended towards the two still confused demon beasts that had no clue what was happening or how Mui had suddenly gotten so powerful-

Whoosh-!

BOOOM!

As the powerful attacks landed the next second, Mui kept her full attention on the two demon beasts. Prepared to continue her attack in case they managed to block her attack.

Roar!?

Roar…

"Tch! Just as I expected! You were indeed hiding your strength!"

Indeed, just like Mui had suspected and under the surprised eyes of the two demon beasts, a large earthen wall had appeared in front of them just before impact. Blocking the damage from Mui's artifacts and saving the two demon beasts in the process, something that both of the demon beasts knew wasn't their work.

As for where this earthen wall had truly come from… The culprit was one of the metal balls Mui had thrown towards the two demon beasts that had ended up malfunctioning and landed on the ground where it ended up creating the earthen wall protecting the two demon beasts…