The Way of The Dao

"Little Wuhu, do you know where little Guan is? Little Wei told me that he was in the Alchemy Association pavilion in the city, so I would trouble you to take me there." Ling Tian looked at Lu Wuhu and asked.

"Yes, Master! I'd be sure Brother Guan would interrupt whatever he was doing and come here to see you, Master." Lu Wuhu nodded with a smile as he thought of his younger brother. He knew where his brother who loved alchemy so much was, but if he discovered that Master they had all missed so much he would stop what he would be doing and come flying over here, so they didn't tell him anything yet.

Ling Tian nodded and looked at the remaining people. Xue Ning, Nalan Ziqing, Xuanyuan Ling, Shan Qingwu, Lu Wuhu and Xuanyuan Haoyun. Their three female disciples had accompanied his wives, Xi Fei, Ning Xiaoyi and his another female disciples but did not return yet, so they might have unexpectedly stayed behind accompanying them.

The only people who had a low cultivation base were Nalan Ziqing and Xuanyuan Haoyun. Nalan Ziqing had a cultivation base at the Body Condensation Early Stage, while Xuanyuan Haoyun had a base at the Late Stage of the Nascent Soul realm. Unexpectedly, Shan Qingwu was much further ahead, she had an amazing cultivation base at the Peak Stage of the Body Condensation realm; the might and energy of the Celestial Spring Yin Lake had played an important role in her cultivation apparently.

"Ning'er, do you want to..."

"I'll go with you, Big Brother! I hope it's no trouble~"

Ling Tian asked but before he finished asking Xue Ning replied with an expectant smile, looking at Ling Tian with eyes full of anticipation showing that she wanted to go with him. Xue Ning had spent so much time wanting to find Ling Tian, so now she would follow him no matter what, there was plenty of time to be by his side and there was no need to be so desperate or anxious in doing all sorts of things.

His gaze also swept over Shan Qingwu and Xuanyuan Ling, getting their nod as he saw that they also wanted to accompany him.

"Your Masters will be focused on cultivating and learning about the heritage they have so they will be busy for a long time. If you want you can also stay and take a room of the place to be yours."

When Ling Tian shifted his gaze, he asked Nalan Ziqing.

"Would you have any problem if I go with you too?" Nalan Ziqing thought for a moment and asked. She understood perfectly well the great opportunity her Masters had obtained and she was happy for them, so the least she wanted to do was to disturb them.

"Not at all. I told you once before, and now that I have reciprocated your Masters you are part of this family. If you need or think anything you can talk it over."

Ling Tian nodded quietly and smiled softly at her; he could clearly see that Ning Xiaoyi and Xi Fei looked at Nalan Ziqing as a little sister, just as he looked at these first disciples.

Nalan Ziqing nodded gratefully before taking out a small jade plaque, engraving some information inside through her spirit sense and sending it towards the place where Xi Fei and Ning Xiaoyi had gone. Surely they should have some communication artifact between them.

"Can you let your younger sisters know that we will be leaving? That if they want to catch up with us in the City or meet us later." Ling Tian looked at Lu Wuhu and asked after seeing that neither Zhen Bingluo or Gao Yue and Gao Xue came out after leading his wives inside the residence. He did not know if these disciples would have any artifacts or special form of communication between them.

"Don't worry, Master. I will let them know and they will be aware at any time as long as we are not too far away."

Indeed, Lu Wuhu took out a small simple scroll, wrapped it with his spiritual sense before the scroll vanished into the air and a faint, tiny energy mingled in space and drifted into the interior of the residence.

"These kids..." Ling Tian smiled and whispered inwardly as he watched the way they communicated. This form of communication he had seen once before but it was nothing like the one Lu Wuhu demonstrated, so silent and imperceptible. If it were not for his powerful spirit sense, he would not even be able to sense those wisps of energies.

"Brother Guan is in the alchemy pavilion in Yuan Le City, the main city of the northern state. It would take us a little over 1 day to reach the city if we use flying swords or go by normal flying, but it will only take us a few hours to get there if we go by my flying ship."

The next moment, Lu Wuhu searched through his storage ring before pulling out a remarkably small craft, approximately about 12 meters long and 5 meters high, with 7 meters wide. It looked like a small boat that contained a simple tiny little room inside to rest from the middle towards the back, while it had a simple cover with nothing else at the front.

"We will all go in there?" Shan Qingwu looked dazed and confused at the flying contraption Lu Wuhu took out. Although it looked big, they were 9 people, so they would be uncomfortable.

Xue Ning looked at her for a few seconds before saying with a smile, "Sister Qingwu, there are many flying artifacts but few are the ones that are special and amazing. This flying ship may look small, but inside it should be very large and spacious due to special formations."

Shan Qingwu looked at her before nodding still confused.

Ling Tian looked at Xue Ning who had spoken and then at Shan Qingwu. Shan Qingwu didn't have much knowledge so she still had a lot to learn about this new world.

"Sister, how come I can't see your cultivation level? You have learned a powerful stealth technique!?"

Suddenly, Xuanyuan Haoyun's dumbfounded voice was heard as he looked confusedly at Xuanyuan Ling after watching Ling Tian almost all the time. His spirit sense tried to see through her but he couldn't measure her cultivation!

Xuanyuan Ling rolled her eyes as she looked at her younger brother's immature behavior realizing that he couldn't see her cultivation level. But a faint mischievous smile strangely similar to Ling Tian's formed on her face.

"I haven't learned any stealth techniques. That you can't see my cultivation level means you have a lower cultivation than me~"

Xuanyuan Ling teased her brother while smiling slightly with a mischievous tinge, finally retaliating against this younger brother who always used to brag about having a stronger cultivation base than her in the past. Although she is older than him, Xuanyuan Ling preferred to take slow but very steady steps so as not to have trouble in her future cultivation, resulting in falling behind compared to Xuanyuan Haoyun.

"I don't think so!" Xuanyuan Haoyun shook his head in confusion and daze as he recalled, "The last time we met you had recently entered the Nascent Soul realm, while I had advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage a few days later with both of us stabilizing our cultivation. And in all this time I cultivated arduously and I'm already about to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, so I should have to see your level by having a higher cultivation base than you!"

Xuanyuan Haoyun couldn't think of anything other than a stealth technique that his sister had learned. Although he was younger than her by about a year, he put in much more effort, learning everything while cultivating quickly but not neglecting his cultivation base, managing to advance quickly but with stability and thus having a greater strength than his sister, unlike her preferring to take things slower and cultivate at a steady pace, lagging a bit behind him in terms of cultivation.

"So the only answer is that you managed to learn a powerful stealth technique that could completely conceal your power level!" Xuanyuan Haoyun exclaimed in disbelief.

Xuanyuan Ling rolled her eyes tiredly as she saw that her naive younger brother couldn't think of any more possibilities, especially that she was now stronger than him.

Lu Wuhu blinked slightly in surprise as he listened to Xuanyuan Haoyun. His spirit sense quickly scanned Xuanyuan Ling's cultivation level before he was stunned for a moment and then unconsciously looked at Ling Tian who was watching with amusement and interest at the sibling pair's expressions. His mind quickly processed many things.

Placing his hand on Xuanyuan Haoyun's shoulder and stunning him for a moment, Lu Wuhu smiled helplessly and still in some shock before saying, "Haoyun, Ling'er has not cultivated any concealment or stealth techniques. You can't see her cultivation level because she is now at the Early Stage of the Great Ascension realm..."

"What?" Xuanyuan Haoyun was dumbfounded to hear one of his Masters tell him this, stopping blinking before looking at Xuanyuan Ling. While he knew that sometimes his Masters would prank or tease him, Xuanyuan Haoyun knew Lu Wuhu well and knew that he wasn't joking right now. Even he could see in Lu Wuhu's eyes shock and surprise. His gaze on Xuanyuan Ling was frozen, being hard to accept it.

His elder sister who had a slightly inferior cultivation base to him in the past now she was much stronger than him? Powerful enough to reach the Great Ascension status that was his goal?

This was hard to accept!

How long had it been since they had been separated since that incident in the Western state? Just several months, a little over a year! It was impossible to reach the Great Ascension state from the Nascent Soul state in such a short time!

Although Xuanyuan Haoyun was happy to see his elder sister doing well, he could not easily accept that she had reached such a level in a short time, surpassing him by several levels.

Xuanyuan Ling looked at the expressive changes evident on her younger brother's face, letting out a sigh before deliberately releasing her aura towards Xuanyuan Haoyun, instantly horrifying and shocking him.