Shang Xia’s breakthrough was a terrific event for the Shang Clan.
Ever since the collision between the two worlds, the heaven and earth qi contained in the You Continent was greatly affected. The Shang Clan, which was a mere second-rate clan, experienced a huge boost. They took twenty years to gather their strength and eventually became a huge faction with hundreds of people.
Even so, there were only two Martial Extermination Realm experts born in the family.
The number of Martial Intent Realm experts they had wasn’t something they could boast about too. Even with the addition of Yan Qi, an adopted member of the clan, along with Xu Huizhu who married into the Shang Clan, they could barely gather seven Martial Intent Realm experts across the older generations.
The moment Shang Xia broke through, the Shang Clan would welcome their eighth Martial Intent Realm expert. More importantly, he was the first among the third-generation disciples to break through! That alone was a significant event to show that the Shang Clan possessed a worthy successor!
Everyone knew the importance of Shang Xia’s breakthrough. The moment his divine sense extended beyond his room, Shang Xi was the first to react.
“He did it!” Yelling loudly, she couldn’t hide the joyful expression on her face. A feeling of gratification filled her heart at the same time. “Brother, do you see this? Little Xia entered the Martial Intent Realm! Your descendant broke through the bottleneck. He’s ready to pick up where you left off…” (Shang Xia’s dad)
Even though Shang Xia’s divine sense extended out of the room, signaling his successful breakthrough, Shang Xi didn’t let her guard down. Instead, she became even more alert in case anything happened at the last second.
When Shang Xia extended his divine sense outside his room, he was naturally able to notice Shang Xi’s flurry of feelings too. He was also able to sense that she became a lot tenser than before.
“Damn brat.” Shang Xi snorted before glancing in the direction of his secret chamber. “He barely completed his breakthrough but he could extend the area covered by his divine sense by so many times. It’s basically comparable to mine. I wonder how terrifying it would be after he advances to the large completion stage of the Martial Intent Realm... Hmph, I was right back then. He’s probably stronger than me now that he has broken through.”
“Oh, maybe not. He has to start practicing martial arts made for Martial Intent Realm cultivators before he can be a match for me…” Shang Xi thought to herself.
She wasn’t the only one whose mind was filled with a multitude of thoughts. Shang Xia was deepening his understanding of the Martial Intent Realm.
“If condensing my divine sense is considered the first transformation, it’s a little too weak. It’s able to pressure my opponents slightly, and it seems to be able to affect the heaven and earth qi in the surroundings to a certain extent. However, it’s just too damn weak! Well, at least I know what to expect for future transformations to my divine sense…” Shang Xia grumbled to himself. With his current experience and strength, he felt that the ability his divine sense had to affect his surroundings was really too weak! If anyone else were to learn of his evaluation, they wouldn’t be able to resist the urge to beat him up!
When Shang Xi felt the fluctuations in heaven and earth qi earlier, she experienced incomparable shock. Any other Martial Intent Realm expert of the Shang Clan would feel the same if they were in their place.
Earlier, when Shang Xia’s divine sense overlapped with Shang Xi’s, he managed to gain a better understanding of how divine senses were used. “Aunt Xi seemed to have successfully gone through her second divine sense transformation. Even though the area she can cover is barely larger than mine, she should be able to form a barrier with her divine sense.”
“It might not be able to physically stop attacks from coming through, but she will be able to feel anything that enters its range! There will be no blind spots left in the region around her!”
Gaining a primary understanding on the uses of his divine sense and grasping the way to control it, he decided to test it out one more time. When he tried to extend his divine sense again, he was assaulted with a wave of nausea. The world started to spin around him and he felt weakness in his limbs.
“Not good… I overexerted myself! I should have consolidated my foundations before playing around with my divine sense!” Shang Xia gasped in fright before crumbling to the ground.
Forcing himself to get up with the last of his strength, he dumped the Intent Gathering Powder into the tub of water behind him before jumping in himself.
The weakness he felt finally started to fade and he finally managed to clear his mind. After taking a long breath, he no longer tried to play around with his divine sense. Instead, he inspected the ball of chaos in his dantian.
A smile slowly returned to his face. He finally stepped through the gates of the Martial Intent Realm!
There was only one thing he couldn’t wrap his head around. If the Triple Loop Coalescence Needle allowed him to form an origin core in his body, what did the blood red tablet mean by the ‘Triple Command Realm’?
The way Shang Xia entered the Martial Intent Realm was too highkey. Even with Shang Xi forming a barrier around his courtyard, she didn’t manage to prevent the divine sense of other Martial Intent Realm experts in the Shang Clan Manor from detecting the change.
In fact, the Martial Intent Realm experts of the Shang Clan weren’t the only ones paying attention to his breakthrough. There were countless other disciples taking note of it.
In the eastern courtyard of the Shang Clan Manor, Shang Jian and Xu Huizhu noticed his breakthrough almost instantly.
“He… He actually succeeded?” Xu Huizhi mumbled.
Nodding slowly, Shang Jian turned to look in the direction of Shang Xia’s courtyard. He seemed to be able to peer through the void as he silently observed the changes to the heaven and earth qi in the air.
An awkward expression hung on Xu Huizhu’s face as she muttered sheepishly, “I was too rash the other day, causing trouble for you in the clan again. I should have done more careful research on the situation so that Shang Dong could choose the correct opponent…”
“You…” Shang Jian shook his head and sighed, “Do you still not understand? It wasn’t about choosing the wrong opponent. Your method was wrong in the first place. Our Shang Clan has an established set of rules. Regardless of your identity and strength, the Shang Clan won’t bother offending you even if they don’t accept us completely. You had to come up with a plan to establish our strength… Your actions would only serve to alienate us further from the clan…”
A deep frown remained on Xu Huizhu’s face. “What was I supposed to do? If this really doesn’t work out, we can always leave! With our strength, we can definitely look for a suitable sword technique for our kids.”
“Nonsense! If it was so easy to look for a suitable technique for the two of them, we would have found it a long time ago! They’re about to enter their twenties soon and we still can’t find a sword art for the two of them! Are they supposed to wait around their whole life? Look! Even my fourth brother’s child has condensed his divine sense. Are we going to make them wait forever?! Now is not the time to throw a tantrum and make hasty decisions.” Shang Jian snapped.
“Then what are we going to do now? Are we supposed to look for him to offer our apologies? Hmph, regardless, we’re his elders! How can we lower ourselves to apologize to someone of the younger generation?” Xu Huizhu grumbled.
“Oh? Did you just realize that you’re his elder?” Shang Jian revealed a bitter smile and sighed, “Enough. You don’t have to interfere with this anymore. I’ll think of a way.”