“Back then, Sovereign Bloodheaven was besieged by numerous experts at the Azure Mountain and his Golden Core was destroyed. But even so, ten years later, he came back and killed everyone from the ten sects of the Azure Mountain.”
“Even when the Sovereign’s primal soul was destroyed it still didn’t matter. After spending twenty years at the Blue Sea, he returned and frightened everyone in the world.”
“Back then, the Sovereign dominated the world for 200 years and thought his countless battles, his Golden Core, true body, primal soul, and purple mansion were destroyed many times, and yet he still managed to get back on his feet time and time again.”
“Back then…”
“What is a trifling Foundation Establishment compared to what Sovereign Bloodheaven had endured in those days?”
Fei Kui’s unhurried voice cause Li Zheng’s to turn ashen and left him dumfounded.
The several historical figures that Gu Qingfeng had just mentioned could not be verified, but the deeds of Sovereign Bloodheaven were absolutely proven.
Daoist Fei Xue spoke in an icy tone, “The Sovereign is one of a kind. How can he be compared to Sovereign Bloodheaven?”
Li Ziheng would not allow Gu Qingfeng to enter the inner sect because of what he had done to his grandson, and similarly, Daoist Fei Xue would definitely not allow him to become an inner sect disciple due to his relationship with Ouyang Ye.
“That’s not exactly the case, Daoist Fei Xue.” Fei Kui was very humble and he always bowed his head when speaking.
“It’s true that Gu Qingfeng isn’t comparable to Sovereign Bloodheaven now, but who can guarantee that he won’t be in the future? Don’t look down on someone due to his young age, Daoist Fei Xue. Do not forget that Sovereign Bloodheaven who had dominated the world in the past had actually worked as a janitor in our sect.”
Everyone in the arena looked at each other in disbelief after hearing this sentence.
The fact that Sovereign Bloodheaven had worked as a janitor in the Redcloud Sect had always been a pain and humiliation that could never be forgotten for the sect members.
“What do you say, Elder Rende?”
As soon as Sovereign Bloodheaven was mentioned, Elder Rende’s expression became a bit complicated, or being more precise, he was embarrassed
He twisted his white beard and after a few moments of pondering, he looked at Gu Qingfeng and nodded, “Failing your Foundation Establishment doesn’t mean the end of your cultivation read. Young man, I will give you a chance today.”
“But Elder Rende- “Li Ziheng was just about to say something but he was interrupted by Elder Rende.
“All people have equal opportunities. What happened with Sovereign Bloodheaven in the past taught us that there are no absolutes in the world.”
As the main examiner, once Elder Rende had decided something, even if Li Ziheng still had countless reluctances in his heart, the only thing he could do was swallow them.
“Thank you, Elder Rende.” Fei Kui bowed to express his gratitude.
He knew that Elder Rende would certainly approve Gu Qingfeng because Sovereign Bloodheaven, throughout his demented life, had informed people that there were no absolutes in the world.
What was a trifling Foundation Establishment compared to Sovereign Bloodheaven?
Most importantly, the Sovereign had once been a janitor in the Redcloud Sect, which was a scar that would permanently remain on the sect.
Fei Kui knew that as long as he mentioned Sovereign Bloodheaven, even if Elder Rende was not present, Li Ziheng and the others still would not dare to disagree.
Next to him, Gu Qingfeng smiled as he looked at the short and fat man. He didn’t expect him to be this glib-tongued and finally understood why Huode left Fei Kui in charge of arranging everything for him.
Daoist Fei Xue’s tone was as icy as ever, as if she did not have any trace of emotion in her, “Elder Rende, although failing the Foundation Establishment doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the cultivation road, after failing it the spiritual root, meridians and dantian would all get tangled up and end up in a chaotic state, making it very difficult to absorb the spiritual energy of the world.”
“Not to mention that his body mutated and his spiritual root was destroyed. A person with no spiritual root is basically isolated from the spiritual energy of the world.”
“That’s right, Elder Rende, he doesn’t even have a hint of spiritual force in his body. It would be unfair to the other disciples if you allowed him to take the test, don’t you think so?” Li Ziheng also persuaded.
“This….” Elder Rende hesitated.
Gu Qingfeng unhurriedly spoke, “Who told you I don’t have spiritual force inside me?”
“Even if you have spiritual force inside your body, it would the result of refining pills. It would be extremely impure!”
“Then open your eyes and take a closer look to see whether my spiritual force is pure or not.” Gu Qingfeng faintly smiled then raised his hand and ignited a flame in the middle of his palm. That flame was like mist and light, extremely translucent and void of any impurities.
Gu Qingfeng asked lightly, “Can you see it clearly? Is it impure or not?”
“You!” Li Ziheng was greatly shocked and his face turned pale. He simply couldn’t understand how could someone without a spiritual root have such pure spiritual force.
He wasn’t capable of understanding how it happened, and neither could the rest of the people.
No cultivator in the world dared to say that their spiritual force was absolutely pure, because the spiritual energy of the world wasn’t totally pure in the first place and after absorbing it and refining it into their bodies, it would be even less pure.
Besides, in today’s cultivation era, pills were indispensable for cultivators and just by taking a single pill, your spiritual force would become impure by a little. The more pills you took, the impurer your spiritual force became.
However, having a completely pure spiritual force was not something impossible, but it was something extremely hard to achieve. It was a long and boring process of refining your spiritual force over and over again. With each refinement, the spiritual force would become purer, but its amount would also decrease.
Had Gu Qingfeng refined his spiritual force until it was this pure after taking pills?
No one knew.
“What an amazing pure spiritual force!” Elder Rende was very excited and stared in shock, “ I’ve been cultivating for hundreds of years but I’ve never seen such pure spiritual force. Young man, how did you do it?”
“I refined it.”
Refined it?
It looked like Elder Rende couldn’t accept this answer because he himself had tried to refine his spiritual force and knew how difficult the process was.
“Do you have any further objections?” Gu Qingfeng smiled, “If there are no objections, then let’s continue because there are two disciples waiting behind.”
“Young man, how are your immortal arts?”
“Pretty good.”
Fei Kui came forward and replied, “Gu Qingfeng’s musical attainments are extremely masterful. At the Superb Villa, he played the Sovereign’s Drunken at the Blue Sea with his bare hands and brought out its concept. Even Grandmaster Wen Zhu praised him.”
“Fei Kui! What is your relationship with him? You’ve been speaking up for him this entire time!” Li Ziheng seemed to have realized that something was wrong.
“I have no relationship with him, I’m just stating facts because I can’t bear to watch how a genius gets destroyed just because he failed his Foundation Establishment.”
“Genius? Hmph! I’ve never seen him play with my own eyes so I don’t know if his musical attainments are really that exquisite or not. However, I do know that we are examining the Firecloud Palm, Thunderfire Art, and the Rainbow Sword Art in this examination!”
Out of the ten immortal arts, martial skills, magic arts, and sword arts were the most used ones.
The tree arts mentioned by Li Ziheng were all basic and mandatory techniques of the Redcloud Sect, and as long as you reached the minor accomplishment level in either one of them, you would pass this stage.
“They are just immortals arts, nothing more. The minor accomplishment level was enough, right?” Just as his name implied, Gu Qingfeng was as calm as a cool breeze. He appeared to be very relaxed and mild.
He slowly raised his arm and light flickered from his fingertips, causing a flaming clap of thunder to appear in midair. This flaming thunder was about two meters long and when it appeared, it rumbled and shone with light, making its thunderfire power felt.
And it was actually the power of 27 thunderfires!
It was common knowledge that the Redcloud Sect’s Thunderfire Art contained the power of 81 thunderfires inside it.
Bringing out the power of nine thunderfires represented the elementary level.
Bringing out the power of 18 thunderfires represented the proficient level,
Bringing out the power of 27 thunderfires represented the minor accomplishment level.
The power contained in the thunder released by Gu Qingfeng happened to be of 27 thunderfires, indicating that he had cultivated this technique to the minor accomplishment level.
“Back then, Sovereign Bloodheaven was besieged by numerous experts at the Azure Mountain and his Golden Core was destroyed. But even so, ten years later, he came back and killed everyone from the ten sects of the Azure Mountain.”
“Even when the Sovereign’s primal soul was destroyed it still didn’t matter. After spending twenty years at the Blue Sea, he returned and frightened everyone in the world.”
“Back then, the Sovereign dominated the world for 200 years and thought his countless battles, his Golden Core, true body, primal soul, and purple mansion were destroyed many times, and yet he still managed to get back on his feet time and time again.”
“Back then…”
“What is a trifling Foundation Establishment compared to what Sovereign Bloodheaven had endured in those days?”
Fei Kui’s unhurried voice cause Li Zheng’s to turn ashen and left him dumfounded.
The several historical figures that Gu Qingfeng had just mentioned could not be verified, but the deeds of Sovereign Bloodheaven were absolutely proven.
Daoist Fei Xue spoke in an icy tone, “The Sovereign is one of a kind. How can he be compared to Sovereign Bloodheaven?”
Li Ziheng would not allow Gu Qingfeng to enter the inner sect because of what he had done to his grandson, and similarly, Daoist Fei Xue would definitely not allow him to become an inner sect disciple due to his relationship with Ouyang Ye.
“That’s not exactly the case, Daoist Fei Xue.” Fei Kui was very humble and he always bowed his head when speaking.
“It’s true that Gu Qingfeng isn’t comparable to Sovereign Bloodheaven now, but who can guarantee that he won’t be in the future? Don’t look down on someone due to his young age, Daoist Fei Xue. Do not forget that Sovereign Bloodheaven who had dominated the world in the past had actually worked as a janitor in our sect.”
Everyone in the arena looked at each other in disbelief after hearing this sentence.
The fact that Sovereign Bloodheaven had worked as a janitor in the Redcloud Sect had always been a pain and humiliation that could never be forgotten for the sect members.
“What do you say, Elder Rende?”
As soon as Sovereign Bloodheaven was mentioned, Elder Rende’s expression became a bit complicated, or being more precise, he was embarrassed
He twisted his white beard and after a few moments of pondering, he looked at Gu Qingfeng and nodded, “Failing your Foundation Establishment doesn’t mean the end of your cultivation read. Young man, I will give you a chance today.”
“But Elder Rende- “Li Ziheng was just about to say something but he was interrupted by Elder Rende.
“All people have equal opportunities. What happened with Sovereign Bloodheaven in the past taught us that there are no absolutes in the world.”
As the main examiner, once Elder Rende had decided something, even if Li Ziheng still had countless reluctances in his heart, the only thing he could do was swallow them.
“Thank you, Elder Rende.” Fei Kui bowed to express his gratitude.
He knew that Elder Rende would certainly approve Gu Qingfeng because Sovereign Bloodheaven, throughout his demented life, had informed people that there were no absolutes in the world.
What was a trifling Foundation Establishment compared to Sovereign Bloodheaven?
Most importantly, the Sovereign had once been a janitor in the Redcloud Sect, which was a scar that would permanently remain on the sect.
Fei Kui knew that as long as he mentioned Sovereign Bloodheaven, even if Elder Rende was not present, Li Ziheng and the others still would not dare to disagree.
Next to him, Gu Qingfeng smiled as he looked at the short and fat man. He didn’t expect him to be this glib-tongued and finally understood why Huode left Fei Kui in charge of arranging everything for him.
Daoist Fei Xue’s tone was as icy as ever, as if she did not have any trace of emotion in her, “Elder Rende, although failing the Foundation Establishment doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the cultivation road, after failing it the spiritual root, meridians and dantian would all get tangled up and end up in a chaotic state, making it very difficult to absorb the spiritual energy of the world.”
“Not to mention that his body mutated and his spiritual root was destroyed. A person with no spiritual root is basically isolated from the spiritual energy of the world.”
“That’s right, Elder Rende, he doesn’t even have a hint of spiritual force in his body. It would be unfair to the other disciples if you allowed him to take the test, don’t you think so?” Li Ziheng also persuaded.
“This….” Elder Rende hesitated.
Gu Qingfeng unhurriedly spoke, “Who told you I don’t have spiritual force inside me?”
“Even if you have spiritual force inside your body, it would the result of refining pills. It would be extremely impure!”
“Then open your eyes and take a closer look to see whether my spiritual force is pure or not.” Gu Qingfeng faintly smiled then raised his hand and ignited a flame in the middle of his palm. That flame was like mist and light, extremely translucent and void of any impurities.
Gu Qingfeng asked lightly, “Can you see it clearly? Is it impure or not?”
“You!” Li Ziheng was greatly shocked and his face turned pale. He simply couldn’t understand how could someone without a spiritual root have such pure spiritual force.
He wasn’t capable of understanding how it happened, and neither could the rest of the people.
No cultivator in the world dared to say that their spiritual force was absolutely pure, because the spiritual energy of the world wasn’t totally pure in the first place and after absorbing it and refining it into their bodies, it would be even less pure.
Besides, in today’s cultivation era, pills were indispensable for cultivators and just by taking a single pill, your spiritual force would become impure by a little. The more pills you took, the impurer your spiritual force became.
However, having a completely pure spiritual force was not something impossible, but it was something extremely hard to achieve. It was a long and boring process of refining your spiritual force over and over again. With each refinement, the spiritual force would become purer, but its amount would also decrease.
Had Gu Qingfeng refined his spiritual force until it was this pure after taking pills?
No one knew.
“What an amazing pure spiritual force!” Elder Rende was very excited and stared in shock, “ I’ve been cultivating for hundreds of years but I’ve never seen such pure spiritual force. Young man, how did you do it?”
“I refined it.”
Refined it?
It looked like Elder Rende couldn’t accept this answer because he himself had tried to refine his spiritual force and knew how difficult the process was.
“Do you have any further objections?” Gu Qingfeng smiled, “If there are no objections, then let’s continue because there are two disciples waiting behind.”
“Young man, how are your immortal arts?”
“Pretty good.”
Fei Kui came forward and replied, “Gu Qingfeng’s musical attainments are extremely masterful. At the Superb Villa, he played the Sovereign’s Drunken at the Blue Sea with his bare hands and brought out its concept. Even Grandmaster Wen Zhu praised him.”
“Fei Kui! What is your relationship with him? You’ve been speaking up for him this entire time!” Li Ziheng seemed to have realized that something was wrong.
“I have no relationship with him, I’m just stating facts because I can’t bear to watch how a genius gets destroyed just because he failed his Foundation Establishment.”
“Genius? Hmph! I’ve never seen him play with my own eyes so I don’t know if his musical attainments are really that exquisite or not. However, I do know that we are examining the Firecloud Palm, Thunderfire Art, and the Rainbow Sword Art in this examination!”
Out of the ten immortal arts, martial skills, magic arts, and sword arts were the most used ones.
The tree arts mentioned by Li Ziheng were all basic and mandatory techniques of the Redcloud Sect, and as long as you reached the minor accomplishment level in either one of them, you would pass this stage.
“They are just immortals arts, nothing more. The minor accomplishment level was enough, right?” Just as his name implied, Gu Qingfeng was as calm as a cool breeze. He appeared to be very relaxed and mild.
He slowly raised his arm and light flickered from his fingertips, causing a flaming clap of thunder to appear in midair. This flaming thunder was about two meters long and when it appeared, it rumbled and shone with light, making its thunderfire power felt.
And it was actually the power of 27 thunderfires!
It was common knowledge that the Redcloud Sect’s Thunderfire Art contained the power of 81 thunderfires inside it.
Bringing out the power of nine thunderfires represented the elementary level.
Bringing out the power of 18 thunderfires represented the proficient level,
Bringing out the power of 27 thunderfires represented the minor accomplishment level.
The power contained in the thunder released by Gu Qingfeng happened to be of 27 thunderfires, indicating that he had cultivated this technique to the minor accomplishment level.
