“Shouldn’t this question be addressed to Old Man Ying instead? How wouldI know?” Cheng Xiao Xiao was surprised by the question, “I have merely givenhim a snow ginseng and a bottle of mystical water. Why do you ask? Were theretroubles with breaking through to martial monarch?”
And Cheng Xiao Xiao genuinely didn’t understand why that was a question.She looked at those in front of her, perplexed.
Mystical water! Snow ginseng!
Old Man Ying had, indeed, mentioned these two items to them. Except thateveryone there had drank their fair share of mystical water and ingested plentyof precious herbs. Yet they were still suck at the martial emperor level withno end in sight.
The three apex martial emperors exchanged looks; they could tell thatCheng Xiao Xiao genuinely did not see what the problem with. That made thisproblem even trickier to solve.
The main reason they stayed behind at the Cheng’s was to find out whywas it that they were stuck at the apex martial emperor for dozens of yearswithout being able to break through but Cheng Xiao Xiao was able to help OldMan Ying accomplish that. They felt for sure she’d have the answer and hopethat she would be able to enlighten them.
Now, they were disappointed by her response!
The old dean turned his attention to Mo Xuanzun. With a sliver of hopein his eyes, he asked, “genius mathematician, you have been able to become amartial monarch at such young age; pray tell what was your trick in breakingthrough martial emperor to becoming martial monarch?”
“I don’t mind sharing that with you. We cultivate in the ability of theTemple of Divine Plans that was pa.s.sed down for generations within the Templeof Divine Plans. Had I not been able to break through, I would not be able tosucceed the t.i.tle of genius mathematician!”
“…..”
Well, if that was the case, then the outcome was even more grim for therest of them. All of a sudden, everybody there was gravely disappointed!
The one that was. .h.i.t the hardest was the old dean. He seemed quiteenergetic earlier, but now he appeared at loss. Cheng Xiao Xiao frowned whenshe noticed that and said, “Senior Dean, with your vast and c.u.mulatedexperiences, you might be able to break through at any given point. I can askUncle Zhou to sell you extra mystical water. It should be beneficial if youdrink them daily!”
“Thank you for that Xiao Xiao!” The old dean’s smile was bitter. Hesaid, “To be able to break though any further, I am afraid I will have to firstbe able to escape from that invisible curse. Otherwise, no amount of mysticalwater or rare herbs would be able to help me. I trust that Old Man Ying hadother encounters which allowed him to break through!”
“To what do you mean?” asked Cheng Xiao Xiao, completely baffled.
“Miss, allow me to explain it to you!”
Old Man Ying took over the explanation, “On this continent, it wasalmost like we were restricted by some unseen laws or principles. Most of ushere could only cultivate to apex martial emperor then, no matter how hard wetry, we would not be able to go any further. Our lifespan is restricted to the400 or so year because of that, and most of us would not be able to breakthrough beyond that during our life time!”
“Really?!”
Seeing how surprised she was, everybody nodded to her. Even Zhu XIangyu,who was only a martial spiritualist, nodded as well. Even he was well aware ofwhat had been going on.
“Legend had it that our continent was but a very small part of theworld. There were a bigger world outside of here. With the exception ofQIngtian, the founder of Pillar’s Clan, n.o.body else was able to achieve thelevel of martial celestialist!”
As the old dean carried on, he seemed to have been lost in his ownmemory. With a look of both respect and a slight disappointment, he said, “Veryfew people are aware of martial celetialist here as none of us were even ableto break through to martial monarch. Martial celetialist was but a distantdream to us. Only those who had achieved martial celestialist would ever beable to leave this continent; none of us will ever find out how big the worldoutside of here truly is. That was another issue that cultivators like us face;we all want to travel outside of here to see the world, but we were trappedhere!”
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