Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

"Where am I going to stay now… How do I explain this to my disciples?"

Muttering this to himself as he glanced around at the ruins of his pavilion, Feng Chen became even more depressed thinking about how he would explain what had happened to his disciples.

"You can stay at my pavilion until its rebuilt! I have more than enough space available for both you and your disciples!"

Not wasting a single second after hearing what Feng Chen muttered to himself, Zu Fei jumped forward and suggested for him and his disciples to stay at her pavilion during the time that it would take to rebuild the destroyed pavilion.

""…""

Seeing this, Xuan Hao and the two others very clearly understood what Zu Fei wanted to do, but in the end, they decided to not say anything. After all, if they butted in and caused Feng Chen to refuse, they would have to deal with Zu Fei's revenge later on. Not something any of them wanted to deal with…

"Really? Are you sure its fine?"

"Yes! I have more than enough space for you and your disciples!"

"Well, if you say so, then I guess I will have to intrude over the next few weeks…"

Watching the conversation between Feng Chen and Zu Fei proceed smoothly, Xuan Hao could not help shaking his head as he watched the almost predatory look in Zu Fei's eyes upon hearing Feng Chen accept her offer to stay at her pavilion with his disciples.

In the end, Feng Chen had unknowingly walked into a trap set up by Zu Fei, whether he would be able to leave in the future was something that would depend on Zu Fei…

"Now, let's go to my pavilion and I will sho-"

"Sect master, I have something to talk to you about, it's rather important…"

Walking over towards Feng Chen side before Zu Fei had the chance to drag Feng Chen back to her pavilion and show him where he would be staying, Xuan Hao interrupted the over eager Zu Fei and moved over.

Seeing the serious expression on Xuan Hao's face as he said this, Feng Chen instantly showed a similarly serious expression.

"Something important? I understand, we can go to your place and talk about it now that my place has turned into this…"

Not minding the fact that Xuan Hao had interrupted Zu Fei, Feng Chen very well understood that it should be something quite serious for Xuan Hao to look for him.

Not to mention that he had just returned from the Iron Sky Kingdom… perhaps it was something regarding the Iron Sky Kingdom or some possible enemy!?

Whoosh!

Thinking along this line, Feng Chen quickly left together with Xuan Hao after a quick word with the other elders present on the mountain peak, as both of them headed towards Xuan hao's pavilion.

…

"Your mountain peak has an entrance to a mystic realm!?"

"Yes, I wondered if you had any idea about this, but from your reaction I can guess that you also had no clue about it…"

Shaking his head disappointedly realizing that Feng Chen had no clue about the entrance to the mystic realm located on his mountain peak. Not that he had expected for him to know about it in the first place. After all, if that was the case, he should have not allocated the mountain peak to him back when he reached the Nascent Soul Realm and officially became a core elder of the Flying Sword Sect…

<br/>"Hm, a mystic realm is an extremely dangerous place. Even for someone like you who is in the Domain Lord Realm, so I think we should take things slowly and see if we can find out just what kind of mystic realm, we are dealing with first!"

Not forgetting to mention just how dangerous a mystic realm was before warning Xuan Hao about entering the mystic realm, Feng Chen looked extremely serious.

"Well, I was hoping that you would be able to look through the sect's historical records and see if you could find out if there is any mention regarding the mystic realm entrance, or at least a mention of some sort of hollow mountain peak."

Still not mentioning anything about the possible inheritance that might be present inside the mystic realm, along with the fact that nobody at the Domain Lord Realm or above could enter, Xuan Hao looked hopefully towards Feng Chen.

In the first place, his original goal had been to see if there was any information about the mystic realm entrance in the sect's historical records.

However, the problem here, was the fact that the number of historical records present inside the Flying Sword Sect was enormous! Even Xuan Hao would need at least a few weeks, if not months to go through them on his own and Xuan Hao really didn't want to waste such a long time on going over old historical records…

"I should be able to do that with the help of a few other elders… But it will take a bit of time, as going over a thousand years of historical records is no small task. Especially given the fact that the past elders and sect masters were quite eager to write down what was going on during their time…"

"That is more than enough! Not like the entrance to the mystic realm will go anywhere…"

"Hah… I will first stabilize my cultivation realm properly before finding a few available elders for the task of looking through the historical records, I will make sure to contact you in case I find anything. If you want to join in and learn a bit more about the history of the sect at the same time, you can visit the large underground library where all the historical records of the sect are kept. The entrance is located at the base of my mountain peak."

"Thanks, I will make sure to pay a visit at some point. After all, I still need to spend some time with my disciples after returning…"

With the end of the conversation about the mystic realm entrance between Xuan Hao and Feng Chen, Xuan Hao and Feng Chen began talking about what Xuan Hao had experienced during his time in the Iron Sky Kingdom also talking about how strong the Iron Sky Kingdom was compared to a kingdom like the Heavenly Sky Kingdom located at the edges of the Sky Empire.

"Well, I should take my leave for now, I can already feel my cultivation base growing more and more unstable."

"No worries, you still need to stabilize your cultivation base!

"Farewell, Elder Xuan, I will make sure to inform you in case something is found in the historical records!"

"Haha, get going before you end up permanently damaging your cultivation base!"

Sending off Feng Chen with a slight smile on his face, Xuan Hao could not help himself from laughing as he looked over Feng Chen's current condition.

Not only had he not stabilized his cultivation base yet, but he had clearly attempted to drag the matter out to chat with him about the Iron Sky Kingdom for longer.

Feng Chen was simply way too curious about the stronger kingdoms of the Sky Empire and the Core region of the Sky Empire…

Whoosh~

Along with the calm midday wind blowing over the mountain peak, Xuan Hao watched Feng Chen slowly make his way down the mountain side.

Even with him already having comprehended True Sword Intent and having the ability to fly using his sword, there was quite a risk in doing so given the current state of his cultivation base. In the end, the safest option of walking back was taken.

"Now that I think about it, why is he making his way back to his pavilion? Did he perhaps forget that he destroyed it…?"

Hah…

Not knowing what to say as he watched Feng Chen make his way back towards what remained of his pavilion, Xuan Hao let out a sigh as he took out his communication talisman to inform Zu Fei to pick Feng Chen up.

"I should check up on Chu Yang and Bai Ning and get a proper look on how much both of them have improved over the past month…"

Muttering this to himself as he put away the communication talisman without listening to the response of Zu Fei on the other side, Xuan Hao glanced over in the direction of his pavilion where his disciples were currently staying.

Outside of Qing Yi that had gained quite a lot of combat experience during their journey back to the Flying Sword Sect, Chu Yang and Bai Ning should not have been able to gain any real life and death practice during the time he was gone and would at most have settled with training with some of the other disciples.

Bai Ning is still a bit too young to begin real life and death practice for now, but it should be fine for Chu Yang….

Thinking this, Xuan Hao slowly began making plans for how he would spend his next few days training his two disciples before making his way to the Shattered Star Peaks to absorb the blue divine energy on the second star peak.