Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Happily receiving the formation blueprints from Elder Song, the formation masters of the sect wasted no time as they began studying the complicated blueprints without bothering to wait for Elder Song to leave, causing the person in question to stand around with a speechless look on his face before ultimately leaving the formation masters on their own. Although he didn’t understand much when it came to formations, it was at least clear to him that the formation blueprints that had been created by the ancient formation spirit were of immense value to the Formation Hall.

This realization made him realize that the ancient formation spirit might be far more useful than he had originally anticipated after having casually asked it for help.

If possible, he might be able to convince the ancient formation spirit to compile a few more formation blueprints. Allowing the overall formation master inheritance of the sect to reach a level far beyond the level of the current Blacksmithing and Alchemy Hall. Ensuring that there would be no problem breaking through to the First Heaven of the Saint Realm or even beyond.

Of course, to ensure he got as much as possible out of the ancient formation spirit, he had to find some way to make the ancient formation spirit hand them over.

Luckily, with the ancient formation spirit almost certain to become a part of the Star Shattering Sect, he didn’t have to worry too much about not being able to get his hands on the countless formation blueprints stored away in the depths of its soul. Only, it might take some time, and he would still need Xuan Hao to officially help it find a place inside the sect to settle down before any action could be taken to extract those formation blueprints.

As for using a formation that already existed within the sect to appease the ancient formation sprit? Elder Song didn’t even think about it, as he guessed from the words of the ancient formation spirit that it had already judged those formations within the sect and deemed them unqualified to settle down inside during their short trip around the sect.

Still, given that the current Star Shattering Sect didn’t have any Formation Master at the Saint Realm, he had plenty of time to wait, as the one set of formation blueprints seemed to be enough for the formation masters within the sect to see a clear path to the Saint Realm.

Not that the formation masters themselves had informed him about this, but more so because their reaction alone told him this much. Knowing from past experience with these formation masters that they would never have treated him as rudely as they had just ended up doing in their excitement over the complicated formation blueprints, they had just gotten their hands on.

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As Elder Song began scheming about how to best extract more formation blueprints from the ancient formation spirit in the future, back at the training ground, Xuan Hao’s overcomplicated clone had just finished up teaching Lu Dongli the basics about the Foundation Establishment Realm and the future challenges she might run into when establishing her first foundational pillar inside her dantian. Leaving the young lady on her own, as the clone itself disappeared from sight and entered a state similar to hibernation inside his cultivation room.

Not because he didn’t want to wander around with it, but more so because it had turned out to be far more difficult than he had originally anticipated to keep the clone running smoothly while his true body was inside the ascension realm tower. Placing a certain strain on his soul. Meaning that he wouldn’t want to keep it running unless necessary.

In turn, this caused Lu Dongli to have most of the day to herself, as she found herself spending the free time outside of lessons wandering the sect or deep in meditation trying to increase her cultivation.

In fact, if it wasn’t because of how curious she was about the Star Shattering Sect mainly due to what she had experienced inside the illusion or what she still firmly believed to have been a potential future life, she would most likely have ended up spending all her time deep in meditation trying to increase her strength to reach the realm required for her to not have to worry about her unique physique.

Most of her curiosity towards the Star Shattering Sect stemming from the simple fact that she had never heard about this sect before but had now found out that it essentially controlled the territory that the small kingdom she came from existed on.

Having never heard anything about this powerful sect when she had been out wandering in her past life after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, she felt like something might have ended up happening to the sect that made it seemingly impossible for her to learn about back when she had been adventuring on her own seeking an opportunity to surpass the Nascent Soul Realm.

If not… She felt like it would be impossible for her to not even have heard a single peep about such a massive and powerful sect. Especially so after she learnt from her new senior sister Qing Yi that the sect also had hundreds of smaller branch sects scattered throughout the territory of the sect.

In a sense, her exploration of the Star Shattering Sect during her free time was not just to learn more about this massive sect that she now found herself part of, but also to see if she could learn about anything that might be the reason behind the disappearance of such a massive sect.

But… No matter how hard she tried discreetly asking around about potential danger that the sect might be facing, she found nothing that stood out.

There were demonic cultivators, but they were too weak to do anything to the sect according to the few disciples she had chatted with about them and the other major powers throughout the Northern Central Region that the sect was located within were also clearly not anywhere near the same level as the Star Shattering Sect, as her master had apparently gone to forcibly stop the chaos caused by these major powers and the demonic cultivators clashing with each other. Showcasing the superior status of the sect compared to these other powers with how her master had seemingly singlehandedly calmed the situation through force.

At the same time, this was also the first time that she realized just how strong her master was and what kind of identity he held inside the sect. Essentially being at a level comparable to the sect master in terms of status, but strength above that of the sect master.

Still, exalted as her master’s status was, she still found someone within the sect who seemed to eclipse both him and the sect master in terms of status in the eyes of the sect disciple, that person being the current vice sect master.

Originally finding this somewhat odd, it didn’t take her too long to figure out why this vice sect master was so revered by almost any of the disciples she ended up encountering. Learning that it mainly had to do with the fact that he was person handling the internal affairs of the sect and at the same time also took the time to personally set up countless events and tournaments within the sect where the disciples could show off and earn precious cultivation resources and contribution points. Even taking out more time to hold public lectures for the disciples.

Just learning about this Vice Sect Master was more than enough for her to understand how such a person earned such an exalted status, as it was clear from a glance that this person seemingly took no breaks when it came to ensuring the sect continued to thrive.

In fact, part of her had even thought that the other party had given up on cultivation upon learning about how much he was doing, so she was rather surprised to discover that the senior had reached the Ninth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm and was already preparing to break through to the Soul Ascension Realm that came after it.

That was another thing, though her master had only really taught her up to the Foundation Establishment Realm so far, she had managed to learn about the cultivation realms that had been unknown to her in the past through listening to public lectures held by other sect elders or through talking with other disciples.

It was also through this that she realized just how long the path was for her to successfully resolve the problem that had been plaguing her regarding her special physique.

Not to mention taking advantage of her good cultivation environment to resolve the problem within a hundred years, she doubted she would be able to reach the Celestial Immortal Realm or the Breaking Dawn Realm within the next thousand years. Now aware of how high those two cultivation realms actually were…