The Legend of Futian

Ye Futian trained alone in the inn.

He had been training in isolation right after he returned from the Domain Chief’s Manor. He was seen sitting cross-legged at the moment. Great Path rumbling was heard from his body like a tsunami.

The terrifying power of the Great Path howled within the world of his Life Palace, causing divine light of the Great Path to keep seeping out of his body. The power of the Great Path tempered his body over and over, growing his physical body stronger and stronger as the will of the Great Path became increasingly intense.

It took quite a while before he stopped training. The divine light of the Great Path surged all over his body, causing his body to seem to have developed into a body of the Great Path. His eyes were filled with the intense will of the Great Path when he opened them again.

Voom! The light swept all over his body, and a formless fluctuation appeared, spreading everywhere around him. It caused the others from the inn to look where he was training. It was apparent that they had all sensed the will of the Great Path, which emanated from his body.

He got up and opened the door, seeing several people standing right outside. Someone walked to his room, and it was none other than Duan Qiong. He glanced at Ye Futian and sensed that Ye Futian’s bearing seemed to have changed somewhat. He then grinned and said, “I knew that you were probably about to finish training when I sensed your aura. Your level has gotten somewhat deeper, and I’d say that you wouldn’t take long to make it to level six of Renhuang Realm.”

“I’ve made some progress.” Ye Futian nodded. Furthermore, the progress he made was not that of some kind of path or that of the Divine Wheel of the Great Path. The progress he made was overarching, and he made a comprehensive leap forward. His understanding of the Great Path became more profound, and his level got even deeper. With the powers of Great Path which he had developed so far becoming more powerful, so was his Divine Wheel of the Great Path.”

“I’d say that even I, at level six perfection of the Great Path, wouldn’t able to win against you as you are right now. If you were to be able to make it to level six of Renhuang Realm, even those at level seven perfection of the realm wouldn’t be able to beat you. By then, I’m afraid that only the likes of Muyun Lan could contend.” Duan Qiong felt rather impressed. He was naturally able to tell that Ye Futian was still very young, yet his combat prowess was already above that of countless supreme ones of the previous generation.

If he were to make even further progress, he would possibly be able to touch the peak of combat prowess, excluding those who were deemed the titans. Judging from his rate of progress at cultivation, he probably wouldn’t need many years, so much so that he might only need a dozen to 20 years, to achieve such a goal.

Ye Futian might actually stand a chance at reaching the levels of the titans before he turned 100 years old, and that would have been rather harrowing.

“I’ve managed to learn something watching the sacred remains of the Great Emperor Shenjia in that casket,” he added. That was the whole truth. He would come back with considerable gains every time he observed the sacred remains. Despite being repeatedly injured, every single injury was, nonetheless, a temperance of sorts to him, enabling him to grow stronger every time.

He was even able to vaguely sense the deepest secrets of Great Emperor Shenjia and just how terrifying said great emperor was. Even just a single look would have brought about a surreal amount of learning. Yet, those titans were unable to observe the sacred remains.

“Right.” Duan Qiong nodded. “I’m somewhat jealous of you. At present, I’ve only taken one look, and I’ve never been more miserable before. It would seem that I’d have no hope of learning through the sacred remains. When the divine mausoleum is completed, you could train at the Shangqing Continent for a period of time, learning as you stay in the divine mausoleum often.”

“That’s what I’m thinking,” Ye Futian grinned as he replied. When the divine mausoleum was completed and the divine casket placed within, he would stay around and train for a period of time there.

All that he had learned so far, other than furthering his training in the Great Path, he had also vaguely sensed something mystical, so mystical that he was still unable to place it. He deemed that he might need more time to learn from it.

He looked outside and saw a good number of people gathering around. Chen Yi took a look at him and said, “You’re about to make a breakthrough?”

“I’m getting such a feeling. It probably won’t take long. I should be able to make a breakthrough within a year,” he replied. Cultivators were very perceptive of their own progress, and he already had such a feeling about himself. One year was actually a conservative estimation. In actual fact, he vaguely sensed that he was mere steps away from making a breakthrough, and he had probably lacked some kind of catalyst.

“You plan on training like how you did before?” A grumbling voice was heard. Ye Futian saw Xia Qingyuan looking at him, and she was feeling rather displeased. The way she looked at it, the way he trained was practically self-torture, inflicting severe damage on himself as he trained.

Given his talents and powers, he would still be able to make a breakthrough without training like that.

“Qingyuan, you don’t understand what I feel every time I look at the sacred remains. If you knew, you wouldn’t have thought much of it.” Ye Futian said to her, “Every time I look at the sacred remains in the casket, every attack was actually a process of tempering on my path. What I’ve accumulated would bring about further change in me, which was why I felt that it wouldn’t take me long to make my next breakthrough. Such opportunities were hard to come by, and they are now right before my eyes. How could I pass up the offer?”

“I know that you’re worried, but you know what kind of powers I’m good at. The injuries were hardly more than mere pain to me, and none of it would affect my foundations. Such injuries are utterly beneath mentioning when compared to the growth of my powers, don’t you think?” Ye Futian explained.

Xia Qingyuan naturally was able to understand what he said. In actual fact, he was able to comprehend it all, yet when she saw him undergo such a torturous process of temperance over and over, she felt awful for him nonetheless.

While she was going through all that on her own, she was still able to sense just how intense the pain was as he was being tempered by the sacred remains. He wouldn’t have ended up with severe injuries every time otherwise.

“Relax.” Ye Futian clapped on her shoulder and added, “Compared to what we’ve been through before, this is nothing.”

She naturally knew how much he had been through throughout his journey. She lowered her head and nodded. “But still, don’t push yourself too far. Don’t get the kind of injuries that you won’t recover from.”

That was the sacred remains of Great Emperor Shenjia, and any lapse of judgment could have come with severe repercussions. There had been times when he had been so anxious to make progress that he had been even more severely injured than before. Thanks to his ridiculous healing powers, he was able to make it without any serious repercussions.

“Seems like it’s getting increasingly rowdy outside.” He cast his glance outside and was able to see many people in the air heading towards the area where the Domain Chief’s Manor was.

The Domain Chief’s Manor intended to construct the divine mausoleum to house the divine casket, which naturally caught the cities’ attention. That divine mausoleum would most probably become yet another important landmark of the Shangqing Domain.

But then again, that was only if the sacred remains of Great Emperor Shenjia were still inside.

He continued training in the inn for the next several days, and the commotion outside remained. Many top-notch figures in the Domain Chief’s Manor would definitely need to build the place to be extraordinarily sturdy. There were even pinnacle Renhuang figures laying down arrays in the divine mausoleum so as to build a foundation of the Great Path with it.

If the divine mausoleum was any less sturdy, any commotion that it could encounter in the future could probably bring the entire place down right away.

However, none of that had anything to do with him. He simply shut himself in to train and cared about nothing else.

That remained until one day when the divine mausoleum’s construction was completed. Those from the Domain Chief’s Manor went out to inform the titans of the supreme forces to have them head to the Domain Chief’s Manor.

A supremely majestic building was erected somewhere nearby the Domain Chief’s Manor. The place was huge and looked very tall and mighty. Furthermore, it had truly been constructed in the form of a mausoleum, a mausoleum fitting for a god.

Other than that, they had indeed placed the divine casket containing the sacred remains of Great Emperor Shenjia inside, thus truly making it a divine mausoleum. The order which the chief gave was considered an act of respect towards that great emperor.

They had been very insolent before for interrupting the rest of the sacred remains of the great emperor, yet there was no way around it. There was just no way the physical body of an ancient god, when unearthed, would be able to rest in peace, as countless would certainly fight to get their hands on it.

The very reason why such a thing never happened with that sacred remains was that Ye Futian had brought the divine casket there. Furthermore, given how difficult it was to even take a look at the remains, claiming and taking it away was anything but easy. As such, there was probably no cultivation force capable of just hauling the divine casket away from where it was.

The center of the mausoleum was very tall, and it was built in the form of a spire. The divine casket was moved inside, with this spot serving as its resting place. Countless formidable ones arrived outside the divine mausoleum en masse. The news spread for several days, and many cultivators from the city showed up.

Other than the completion of the divine mausoleum, that was also the day which the Domain Chief’s Manor summoned the forces from all corners. There was just no way they wouldn’t have showed up.

A group of people took to the air. Those people were none other than Ye Futian and those with him.