Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

”A spiritual fruit tree orchard? When did the sect have something like that?”

”I don’t know… Maybe it was only recently created? Let’s try and ask her about-”

”No! Don’t! The senior is clearly deep in meditation! The fact that she even got up to inform us kindly after we disturbed her is already stretching our luck!”

”This… I understand, let’s just quietly leave to avoid disturbing the senior…”

Listening to the five young disciples as they talked among themselves, Chun Hua could not help feeling a bit amused as she opened her eyes to see them walk among the spiritual trees filled with awe before starting to slowly and cautiously begin climbing down the mountain.

Considering that the young disciples were only in the Qi Condensation Realm, reaching the Peak of the Fourth Star Peak could be considered quite an achievement, as it was in no way an easy journey for someone in the Qi Condensation Realm.

If she guessed, those five had most likely spent between two and three days reaching the Fourth Star Peak from the Seventh Star Peak, as there were currently no teleportation formations connecting the Seventh Star Peak with the Fourth Star Peak.

Another reason was that outside of the important locations used by the sect, the rest of the Shattered Star Peaks had mostly remained undeveloped and was no different from travelling through a wild mountain range with no path to follow.

Although this couldn’t really be considered anything special for those in the Core Formation Realm, as it was relatively easy to travel around without a teleportation formation, the disciples still in the Qi Condensation Realm and Foundation Establishment Realm considered the Shattered Star Peaks rather difficult to traverse without the help of teleportation formations.

Of course, this had resulted in no small number of younger disciples setting out on small adventures to explore around the Shattered Star Peaks. Excluding a few dangerous areas that had already been sealed off by the formation guarding the entire Shattered Star Peaks.

”Ah! Th-the senior!”

”What senior? Is something- Ah!?”

”I- Let’s run!”

Realizing that Chun Hua had opened her eyes and was directly looking at them, the group of younger disciples who had been doing their best to be quiet began to panic as they ultimately ended up deciding it was better for them to run away before she said anything, a rather amusing plan considering that it would be rather simple for her to catch them if she wanted to.

However, considering that she had no intention of capturing them, she just quietly chuckled to herself while watching them run down the mountain while stumbling over each other to escape as fast as possible. Even resulting in one of the five rolling down the mountain ahead of the rest.

At the very least, the Fourth Star Peak was covered in a soft blanket of unique alpine vegetation that lessened any damage from rolling down the mountain or that disciple rolling down the mountain would have been hurt even if she had reached the Qi Condensation Realm.

Not that she would end up completely unharmed from rolling down the side of a mountain…

Shaking her head as she thought about this, Chun Hua closed her eyes again as she returned to waiting for Shu Yao to return so the construction of the fruit tree orchard on the Fourth Star Peak could officially begin. Unaware of the problem that the disciples she had just allowed to leave would bring upon their return to the Seventh Star Peak.

…

Back on the Seventh Star Peak, Xuan Hao was unaware of the recent developments regarding the fruit tree orchard being constructed on the Fourth Star Peak, as he was instead far more focused on the situation taking place inside of his dantian at the moment.

Although the changes that had taken place following him reaching the level comparable to the Late Stage of the Dao Seed Realm, it was nothing compared to what was currently happening inside of his dantian, as the spiritual qi that was calm and without change normally was currently violently surging to the point where his dantian was showing signs of cracking under the pressure.

All of this dated back to a few minutes earlier when he had just returned to comprehending the Dao of Space after having allocated others to take care of the rewards he had received from the system and ensure that they were properly utilized to increase the strength of the sect.

However, instead of the normal cultivation session that involved him just feeling like he was slowly creeping closer and closer to the Perfection Realm in the Dao of Space, this time around, he managed to unknowingly break through the barrier between the Large Success Realm and the Perfection Realm. Allowing him to reach the Perfection Realm in the Dao of Space.

Unfortunately, the increase in strength he had expected after reaching the Perfection Realm in the Dao of Space did not turn out like he had expected, as his comprehension reaching the Perfection Realm almost instantly caused three new layers to be created around the dao seed in his dantian. Forcibly draining the qi inside of his dantian to do this.

Because of this completely unexpected turn of events, he had no time to prepare, as his dantian and the sea of qi inside of it was instantly thrown into chaos as it was forcibly used against his will to condense three new layers around his dao seed.

If not for the fact that the process also ended up draining close to thirty percent of the qi inside of his dantian, Xuan Hao had a feeling that his dantian might very well have ended up breaking following the unexpected chaos that he had no time to defend against.

Even the few cracks that had started forming were difficult to get rid of and would at least take him a few months to fully heal from, though, that was only with the help of some of the more precious spiritual herbs and pills he had managed to get his hands on…