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"P-Princ.i.p.al! W-Why are you here?" Shen Lu spoke out nervously.
Seeing who it was that appeared, Xiahou Yu finally relaxed herself. She knew that the princ.i.p.al was not their enemy.
However, w.a.n.g Xiolun still kept his guard up. Even if the other party was the princ.i.p.al of the academy, if they turned out to be an enemy of his Lord, he would not hesitate to retaliate the slightest bit!
Shen Murong was also still pretty guarded, with his Qi cycling at top speed. He knew that people at the top would always have some dark secrets of their own that they were not willing for others to know.
"Calm down. I had the entire place on a lockdown so that your Lord would not be able to absorb the spiritual Qi from outside his residence court. Otherwise, it would attract the attention of others." said the princ.i.p.al casually.
"Why is that?" w.a.n.g Xiolun asked out with his body still in a defensive stance.
Against a Nascent Soul realm expert, attacking would be entirely futile, as well as defending. But even so, he would have a better chance if he put everything he had into defending. At least, he won"t fall with just a single attack.
"This must be your first time observing this phenomena around your Lord right? If I were to tell you that he is currently cultivating, and that in itself has endangered himself, would you believe me?" the princ.i.p.al chuckled out.
Hearing this, Shen Murong"s mouth opened slightly.
"You mean to say that all the spiritual Qi were sucked clean by Duan Li because he is cultivating right now? That makes no sense!" he spoke out in disbelief.
In his knowledge, no matter how talented one were in cultivation, there was no way they would be able to cause a phenomena as such!
The reason why a cultivator needed a long time to cultivate and increase their realm despite being surrounded by spiritual Qi the whole time was due to the two limitations set by the heavens, the rate of absorption and the density of the spiritual Qi.
For example, a cultivator at the Foundation establishment realm already has the ability to form Qi b.a.l.l.s within their dantian. Each of these Qi b.a.l.l.s were made up from 10 Qi pools.
Although forming a single Qi pools would not take them a lot of time when compared to people at the Qi condensation realm, it would still take a bit of an effort to form one.
If a person at the Qi condensation realm with an average talent would took 10 days to form a single Qi pool, then a person of the Foundation establishment realm with an average talent as well would be able to achieve the same thing in just 2 days.
However, this was provided that both was in seclusion and focused all their time in cultivating, and normally, this was not the case as they were students of the Academy and needed to learn more than just cultivating.
Therefore, these rate of absorption between different realms were more or less fixed, with slight differences for those who were more talented. But even if they were a genius among geniuses, there was no way they would be able to defy the laws set by the heavens onto them.
The only game changer to this set of rules were if they cultivated within an area with a more denser spiritual Qi!
That was why they were excited with the residence court here, because it has a much thicker spiritual Qi of at least 10 times than outside due to the nurturing of the numerous runic formation within it.
But even if that were the case, there was no way they would be able to increase their rate of absorption to the point that the whole spiritual Qi were being sucked dry like it was now!
To make an a.n.a.logy, the human lungs could only absorb so much air at one time. This was the same with one"s dantian, they could only absorb so much spiritual Qi at a time!
The princ.i.p.al chuckled out mysteriously hearing such a question.
"You guys haven"t yet to know his true capabilities. His very existence was already a defiance to the heavens! Back when he was just a mortal trying to ascend to the Qi condensation realm a few days ago, there was already a thunder tribulation the level of a Nascent Soul realm would have to undergo!" the princ.i.p.al said as he shook his head.
Whenever he remembered that scene back then, he was utterly stupefied to the point that students of the academy had seen his puffer fish like expression!
In his attempt to covered it up, he had them punished in a separate dimension, and had the vice-princ.i.p.al lock down any rumors revolving around such phenomena.
When the three men heard this, they couldn"t help but to be taken aback in disbelief!
A mortal doing their first ascension to the Qi condensation realm was already struck by a thunder tribulation at the Nascent soul realm level?
What more, "just a few days ago"?
What an exageration!
Why is he not dead yet?
This was something that should only be possible for an inanimate object like the pebbles by the roadside. If they were to suddenly turn into a cultivator, the heavens would definitely not tolerate it and smite these rocks into non-existence!
But the problem here was that, their Lord was a perfectly normal human being, not a pebble!
Thus, how could he had already attracted the heaven"s punishment just by trying to cultivate to the very first level of the Qi condensation realm?
From their knowledge, the heavens wasn"t an existence that was that petty at all!
Looking at their faces full of suspicion to what he just said, the princ.i.p.al could not help but to feel a little bit exasperated!
"Hmph! Observe for yourself then. Right now, he was just cultivating casually with his three dantians. Even if the heavens were to try to kill him today, they were not someone qualified to have that capabilities!" the princ.i.p.al said non-chalantly as he snorted.
Pu!
The three men choked their throats out.
To think that the princ.i.p.al would dare to look down on the heavens that had encompa.s.sed their whole skies since time immemorial, was he not afraid of being strucked by a thunder?
Furthermore, what was that they heard from him?
Their Lord was cultivating with three dantians?
Pu!
The three men choked on their throats once more.
Were they dreaming? Or was the princ.i.p.al toying with their little hearts?
Just as they were about to ask more, the princ.i.p.al narrowed his eyes as he swiftly projected his Qi barriers to surround the four of them.
"Things are going to get ugly now, we need to move back a bit further." said the princ.i.p.al.
"Eh? What"s going on?" Shen Lu asked out.
The princ.i.p.al pointed out with his index finger towards the place where Duan Li was.
"Take a look. The heavens has begun to make their move. Those clouds of tribulation formed within the spatial barrier that my followers casted had just pa.s.sed right through it."
"Such things had never happened before. Those barriers effectively treated the entire place here as a separate dimension, yet the tribulation cloud still appeared."
As the princ.i.p.al said these, his expression turned grim.
"Thunder tribulations? I-Is he trying to breakthrough to the Core formation realm already?!" Shen Murong couldn"t help but to exclaimed out in shock.
"No, from my soul sense, he had already reached the pinnacle stage of the Foundation establishment realm a few breaths ago."
"I don"t know why, but he suddenly stopped cultivating just before the bottleneck. With his abilities, levelling up straight to the Core formation realm wouldn"t be a problem for him."
"But soon after, the gathered spiritual Qi around him started to be absorbed once more. However, his cultivation was still just below the bottleneck and it was also at that time that I realized the tribulation cloud to abruptly formed, quickly at that."
The princ.i.p.al explained as his eyes continued to observe the minute changes to the tribulation cloud.
Somehow, he felt that this was very different from what he had experienced so far. A deep unsettling feeling surrounded him that caused him to become increasingly wary.
With a flick of his fingers, ten layers formed around his Qi barrier, further reinforcing himself and the four students under his protection.
He also cycled his spiritual Qi to the maximum level and shifted the students to float behind him. This way, he was confident that he could protect them if anything were to happen suddenly.
Powerful!
Extremely powerful!
The four students sweat as their hearts palpitated in fear when they felt the aura leaking out from the princ.i.p.al!
They felt that even if there were a thousand of them each, the princ.i.p.al would only need a single palm to slap them all to death at this moment!
...
Seeing the serious state their Lord was currently in, the four figures in black robes and black mask that was managing the barrier was surprised as they communicated with each other.
"What happened to the Lord? Why is he so worked up?" asked one of them, alerted.
"I don"t know, it has been so long since I last saw him like this. Let"s keep our guard up." replied another.
"En! Reinforce the spatial barrier and upgrade it to tier 3!" said another figure with a deep voice.
"I will keep a lookout outside the barrier, you guys focus your attention on whatever that will happen inside." a slender figure that seemed to be authoritative in her tone spoke out.
"Roger that!"
"Alright!"
"En!"
The three figures responded simultaneously.
...
Within the barrier, the cloud rumbled slightly, as a golden door that looked extremely archaic and vicissitudinous in nature suddenly appeared.
"What is.. that door?" the princ.i.p.al said as his face turned solemn.
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