Book 2 Chapter 17.1 – Accepting Disciple
“Right, martial nephew, isn’t your surname Li? Why did you change your name and enter the Underground Boxing Arena as ‘Mu Yi’?” Only now did w.a.n.g Tong remember to ask this.
Li Yang immediately replied, “Master w.a.n.g, my original name is Li Yang. You can just think of this ‘Mu Yi’ as my other name!” When Li Yang said the name ‘Mu Yi’, he immediately thought of Jiang Xue who used to shout ‘big brother Mu Yi’ all day. He couldn’t help but reveal a bleak expression, however, Li Yang immediately hid away those emotions. Facing w.a.n.g Tong, he continued, “As for why I changed my name to ‘Mu Yi’ and for why I came to the Underground Boxing Arena, I will have to bring up the Holy Forest Group.”
“Forget it, let’s not talk about the past. Master does not need to worry about disciple’s small matters.” It was clear that Li Yang did not want to talk about old matters anymore.
When w.a.n.g Tong heard Li Yang play the ‘b.u.t.terfly Lovers’ song, he already knew that his disciple was deeply emotionally wounded. Moreover, the fact that he was able to realize the Three Great Heavenly Realms meant that his termperament was greatly affected. w.a.n.g Tong knew that these things were better off not asking about, and so he immediately decided not to further pursue the topic any further.
w.a.n.g Tong smiled and said, “Disciple, how do you feel about the ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes?”
When Li Yang heard this, the adoration he kept within his heart for his grandfather Li Xunhuan couldn’t be suppressed. He excitedly said, “Ancestor Daoist Xunhuan is a heaven warping genius. This ‘Sevel Astral Heavenly Extremes’ is definitely an incredibly amazing sacred canon. Just the ‘shatter the golden dan to create heavenly bodies’ alone makes me admire him endlessly. Countless cultivators consider themselves truth cultivators after reaching the Golden Dan stage, so how many of them would actually dare to shatter that Golden Dan? Moreover, perfecting the blade radiance is a tedious task, and making the seven astral bodies follow the trajectory of the heavenly world is also exceedingly difficult. There are simply too many possible routes! I truly cannot imagine exactly how martial grandfather created such a thing.”
“Truly! Martial Grandfather’s way of thinking is not something us disciples can conceive.” w.a.n.g Tong’s voice was full of reverence towards his ancestral master.
TL: Ancestral master or grandfather refers to Li Xunhuan
Li Yang suddenly furrowed his brows. “Right, this ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Bodies’ requires one to be at the Golden Dan stage to cultivate. Currently, I am only at the Xiantian Paragon stage, and a considerable distance away from reaching the Golden Dan stage. How can I cultivate this ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Realms’ then?” To have the ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes’ yet no way to cultivate it made Li Yang feel somewhat depressed.
w.a.n.g Tong began to laugh heartily on the spot. “Disciple, you don’t need to worry. The most important part of this ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes’ is the method of refining the true primordial force into blade radiance. In fact, our ancestral grandfather already reached the Golden Dan stage, and naturally did not know that a Xiantian expert could already cultivate this portion. The only difference is that a Xiantian expert can only use Xiantian qi, so the refined blade radiance will be lower quality in power.”
When Li Yang heard this, a smile immediately appeared on his face.
“Li Yang, you foolish youngster. Overlord could tell with a glance that this ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes’ could be cultivated while still in the Xiantian stage. This blade radiance refining technique is amazing after all, and that whatever Li Xunhuan guy is pretty formidable.” To Xiang Yu, who was a devil king within the Devil Realm, Li Xunhuan was definitely someone from the younger generation. However, he still felt admiration towards Li Xunhuan.
“Right, martial nephew, this ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Realms’ is divided into seven stages. THe first stage is equivalent to the Golden Dan stage, the second Nascent Soul stage, the third Tribulation stage, and the fourth the Supreme stage. As for the three stages after that, based on my ancestral grandfather’s suspicions, it should be comparable to the Immortal Realm’s Immortal, Celestial Immortal, and Golden Immortal stages. However, that is only what the ancestral grandfather thinks, because the last three stages are useless within the Mortal Realm. As a result, only disciples that pa.s.sed tribulation within the Great Heavenly Schol are allowed to find out about this. Master merely knows the first four stages of the ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes’, and what I pa.s.sed on to you were those four stages. As for the last three stages, it’s better if you study it when you return to the Great Heavenly School in the future!” w.a.n.g Tong told Li Yang.
When Li Yang heard this, he couldn’t help but become confused. “How could ancestral grandfather know about Immortals, Celestial Immortals, and Golden Immortals? Could it be that there are immortals that came into the Mortal Realm?”
When w.a.n.g Tong heard this, even though there was a restriction set up, he still spoke in a softer voice. “Disciple, immortals have indeed entered the Mortal Realm in the past. Rumor has it that the two most powerful schools within the Kunlun Paradise, ‘Upper Clear Palace’ and ‘Shushan Sword School’, are hosting immortals. The cultivation stages of immortals were also slowly leaked out from there.”
Suddenly, w.a.n.g Tong sighed. “Ai, it was for the Great Heavenly School that master allowed disciples to cultivate the ‘Three Great Heavenly Realms’. Our Great Heavenly School’s disciples are few, and our foundation is shallow. Other schools have been established for over ten thousand years, and even the short ones have a few thousand years of history. In addition, they even have older generations within the Immortal Realm helping them out from behind the scenes! Only my Great Heavenly School has a measly couple hundred years of history, and not really any older generation within the Immortal Realm to help us. Our master could only let us cultivate the ‘Three Great Heavenly Realms’ to increase our cultivation speed and allow our Great Heavenly School to increase in experts. Only by doing this did our school avoid being humiliated by other schools.”
After hearing this, Li Yang began to understand the Great Heavenly School’s situation within the Kunlun Paradise.
The Great Heavenly School disiciples’ offensive power was high, but their disciples were few in number. They could only depend on the ‘Three Great Heavenly Realms’ to increase their cultivation speed, allowing their Great Heavenly School to have more disciples and have some status within the Kunlun Paradise.
“En, you should go back and cultivate for now. After a short period of time, I will look for you. Don’t worry about when I will contact you, haha, as long as you are in New York, I can use my spiritual awareness to find you.” While speaking, w.a.n.g Tong was about to turn around to leave. Li Yang immediately got up to send him off.
Only when w.a.n.g Tong left Taibai Restaurant did Ge Pu walk over and ask Li Yang, “Brother Mu Yi, that older man is an acquaintance of yours?”
Li Yang nodded and said, “He is an senior teacher of mine.”
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After receiving the ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes’, Li Yang immediately returned to his villa to cultivate.
However, when Li Yang arrived outside his villa, he encountered the… Lovey dovey Tian Gang and Lily. Lily was currently sending off Tian Gang, and after spending two hours ‘interacting’ with each other, the previously already interested Tian Gang’s defenses were finally shattered by miss Lily.
“Ah, Mu Yi!” Tian Gang’s face immediately became thoroughly red. Such a big muscular man acting like this truly was rather embarra.s.sing. Meanwhile, Miss Lily didn’t have the appearance of a housekeeper either, and looked like someone whose affair had just been revealed.
“Haha… Tian Gang ah, your movements are truly fast, capturing Miss Lily’s heart in one go, admirable, admirable!” Li Yang laughed as he spoke and immediately said, “You guys continue, I’ll go back first!”
Li Yang left the embarra.s.sed couple and entered the villa.
After Li Yang entered the villa, Miss Lily remembered something. “I clearly saw Mister Mu Yi go up the stairs, so why did we see him outside? Could it be that my eyesight was blurred or I remembered wrong?” Li Yang originally wanted to use the Evasion Technique after arriving at the villa to enter, but never thought that he would meet the two people here.
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Within Li Yang’s bedroom.
Li Yang closed his eyes and sat with his legs crossed. Above the bed, strands of green qi streams naturally entered his body, and the blade radiance refinement method within the ‘Seven Astral Heavenly Extremes’ began to flow in Li Yang’s mind. He immediately began to control the Xiantian qi within the dantian’s ‘nebula’ started cultivating…