Outside of the Infernal Blaze Sect floated Tian Yongheng along with Yan Jingfei, supporting Lu Qingfeng with his Spiritual Energy.
At this moment, a chubby and elderly man came running from the inside and stopped in front of Tian Yongheng.
"You must be..."
Seeing Tian Yongheng’s appearance, the chubby man stood in the same spot for a few moments, mesmerized by his charm. It was only some time later did he snapped back to reality.
"Ah...please forgive me for that unsightly look. You must be the Master of Eternal Peak, fellow daoist Tian Yongheng! It’s a pleasure meeting you. I’m the First Elder of my Infernal Blaze Sect, Yu Changgong!" He introduced himself, smiling with courtesy as he cupped his fists and bowed slightly.
This person...he’s Tian Yongheng? He’s so good looking! I haven’t seen someone even slightly comparable to him in terms of looks!
But that aside, I also can’t see through his cultivation despite being at the Seventh Stage of Acquired Realm, which means he’s definitely at least on par with the Sect Master.
But they said that he was only in the early stages of Acquired Realm when he defeated that Innate Realm expert just a few decades ago...? How is it possible to cultivate this quickly?
Or how it is even possible to defeat an enemy an entire major realm above your own?
Either way, it’s best to act cautiously around him.
He thought, his face full of smiles as he lead Tian Yongheng inside.
[Yu Changgong has developed favorability towards you.]
[Current favorability: 1-Star]
...
A few moments later, they arrived at the entrance of the Sect Master Hall where Yu Changgong bid them farewell and left.
The door opened slowly, revealing three figures inside, one standing and the other two sitting.
Tian Yongheng and the other two entered the hall quietly, with Yan Jingfei and Lu Qingfeng paying respects to Yan Zhangwei and Yun Ping.
Yun Feng, who was standing by the side, couldn’t help but be shocked at Yan Jingfei’s cultivation, which was on par with his own despite him being far more older than her. She was only in the Sixth Stage of Foundation Establishment Realm a few decades ago when he was in the First Stage of Acquired Realm, but now, both of them were at the same level.
It was most probably not because of Yan Jingfei’s talent. Her cultivation was pretty normal before she became a Personal Disciple of the Eternal Peak and Tian Yongheng. In the past, it should have taken her nearly a hundred years to even reach the peak of Foundation Establishment Realm, but she broke through to the Acquired Realm and even reached its Third Stage in less than sixty years?
It was impossible!
It can only mean one thing.
Her cultivation speed increased because of him!
This was the only thought which came to Yun Feng’s mind. He had also seen Tian Yongheng at the banquet of the Sword Seeking Sect back then and even developed a 1-Star favorability for him because of his good looks, but even at that time he was only at the Ninth Stage of Foundation Establishment Realm.
Now, he couldn’t even see through his cultivation, which meant he was far stronger than him.
Although he had also heard that Tian Yongheng defeated an Innate Realm expert, he was skeptical of it and thought that some other mighty figure might have intervened, but now he was even more skeptical of his own guess.
But how can his cultivation increase so quickly and greatly? What kind of resources does he have? Or is it just natural talent?
Right now, there were countless questions in Yun Feng’s mind, but he could only suppress them all and show respect to Tian Yongheng by cupping his fists and bowing.
Tian Yongheng, on the other hand, only took a glance at Yun Feng and gestured him to stand up, then turned to look at Yan Zhangwei and Yun Ping.
"I didn’t expect your injuries to be so severe, fellow daoist Yun." He said calmly, going behind Yun Ping and circulating his own Spiritual Energy in his hand.
"Huh? Fellow daoist Tian, it means you knew what happened with me?" Yun Ping asked, somewhat surprised as he turned his head around.
"No." He denied flatly, directly sending a wave of his Water Attribute Spiritual Energy into Yun Ping’s Sea of Consciousness from the back of his head.
"I didn’t." And then, the next moment, his Water Attribute Spiritual Energy spread throughout his entire body from his Sea of Consciousness and immediately dominated and subdued the raging Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy inside of Yun Ping’s body.
Instantly, all the red, glowing blobs that were on Yun Ping’s body began to subside, his skin returning to normal a few minutes later.
Not only had his injuries been all healed, he had even become far more stronger than before because of his stronger Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy.
Whoa!
Both Lu Qingfeng and Yun Feng couldn’t help but be shocked at this.
Yun Feng couldn’t believe that the injuries which had been bothering his father for more than three years were healed just like that, and Lu Qingfeng’s admiration foe Tian Yongheng rose by another level.
Even Yan Zhangwei was a little shocked to see this.
Yun Ping immediately stood up and circulated his Spiritual Energy, doing some basic moves. He could clearly feel that not only had his injuries been healed, he was also a lot stronger.
He turned around and bowed deeply, cupping his fists as he thanked Tian Yongheng.
"I’ll never forget your benevolence, fellow daoist Tian."
Seeing him do this, Yun Feng was extremely shocked.
Even if he saved his life, how could father bow to someone he calls "fellow daoist"!?
But he didn’t dare to say his thoughts aloud.
Tian Yongheng just waved his hand casually and turned his attention to Yan Zhangwei.
"Fellow daoist Yan, your backlash from failing to breakthrough was quite great it seems." He said, raising his index finger and condensing his Spiritual Energy into a ball on it.
*Whoosh!*
He aimed his index finger onto Yan Zhangwei’s forehead, and sent the ball of Spiritual Energy into his Sea of Consciousness.
His Spiritual Energy instantly merged with Yan Zhangwei’s Spiritual Energy, providing him with more than thirty years worth of cultivation!
It was essentially because Tian Yongheng was already in the Innate Realm, and his Spiritual Energy was far stronger than that of Yan Zhangwei’s.
"Just get used to that extra Spiritual Energy, it won’t take you longer than a year to do that, and it’ll save up much time." He explained calmly.
"Th-this...fellow daoist Tian, are you already in the Innate Realm!?" Yan Zhangwei couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.
The Spiritual Energy he felt inside of his Sea of Consciousness was way too strong to belong to a cultivator in the Acquired Realm.
At this moment, everyone present also looked at Tian Yongheng, specially Yun Feng and Yun Ping.
Yun Ping had already suspected this when he was instantly healed by Tian Yongheng, but he was not so sure about it so he kept quiet. But now since even Yan Zhangwei had said it, he was certain of it.
On the other hand, Yun Feng was even more bewildered.
He was weaker than me just some decades ago...and now you’re telling me he’s already a major realm above me?
Impossible!
It can’t be real! No way it’s true...I..
Are geniuses always like this...?
I truly can never match up to these monsters..
He couldn’t help but feel bitter inside.
"...Yes. I broke through not long ago." Tian Yongheng had no choice but to tell them the truth.
Hearing it from himself made everyone speechless.
Breaking through from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Innate Realm took him less than a hundred years?
What have we all been doing till now!?
"By the way, where has Yan Guo been?" Tian Yongheng asked suddenly, turning his gaze to Yan Zhangwei.
"Hm? He recently broke through to the Acquired Realm, so he left the Yan Dynasty a few years ago to hone his skills and test his newfound strength and even gain some experience of the outside world." Yan Zhangwei said, after thinking for a while.
"Where had he gone?"
"Although I don’t know where he is right now, he had gone in the northwest direction, where the Heavenly Spirit Pavillion is located outside of the Yan Immortal Dynasty."
"Heavenly Spirit Pavillion, huh.."
How can experts above the Innate Realm appear in that area...? I’ll have to investigate further later on.
Tian Yongheng thought silently.
"Senior Tian, the Golden Core Realm cave abode is also located near that area, so we’ll probably encounter him when we go there."
The way Yan Zhangwei called him had changed from "fellow daoist Tian" to "senior Tian", and although Tian Yongheng did notice it, he didn’t mind it that much.
It was normal in the cultivation world.
"Hm...don’t inform him of anything happening on our side, then. And try to avoid any encounters that may happen with him when we go there."
"Huh? As you say so, senior Tian." Yan Zhangwei felt that something was up and there was probably a reason why Tian Yongheng said that, that was why he no longer questioned him.
Tian Yongheng nodded slightly.
If the expert who is by Yan Guo’s side and the one who injured him decide to attack us, it’ll be way too problematic. I don’t even know how many of them there are.
It’s going to be chaotic.