Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Back in the Star Shattering Sect time passed without care for night or day, while their master was busy trying to comprehend the Large Success Realm of the Dao of Illusions and break through to the Late Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm, Mui and Bai Ning were relaxing in front of the small palace on a large outdoor couch as they watched Chu Yang and Qing Yi sparing with each other in the training ground attached to the side of the palace. 

On the side Zhi Ruo was preparing a pot of tea on a small table with a look of concentration plastered all over her face, not missing a beat as she carefully mixed different herbs into a unique self-created blend.

Rustle~

Lazily rolling around on the couch, Mui came to a stop just before rolling over the edge of the couch as her attention remained focused on her two seniors fighting each other.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Just the energy from their clashes was more than enough to make a shiver run down her spine as she felt a hint of longing. If not for the fact that she was in no state to do so at the moment, she would have wanted to join them and have her two seniors teach.

Unfortunately, compared to the two of them, she and Bai Ning had no energy to spare for training at the moment. 

Not so much because they were lazy or anything like that, but because they had just come back from the Sea of a Thousand Furnaces after spending the past two days forging without a single ounce of rest. Although it might have been fine in normal circumstances, both of them wanted to try and surpass their past creations and had thus ended up using up all of their qi in the forging process.

Because of this, no matter how much Mui wanted to join her two seniors, she had no energy to do so and could only roll around on the couch with a reluctant expression on her face as she observed the two sparing with each other.

"I wonder when master will return, I really want to show him how much stronger I have become and the powerful artifact I just finished creating…" Pulling out a large blob of metal that seemed to be the fusion created by the slag of hundreds of different metals, Mui let out sigh as she voiced her thoughts.

"No need to worry, it's already been two years since master left and he should be returning soon, who knows, he might already be on his way back as we speak." Encouraging Mui who seemed to have entered a somewhat depressed state after thinking about their master who had already been gone for over two years, Bai Ning smiled gently while saying this.

Even if he had no idea how accurate this would be, he felt that their master should be returning to the sect soon. Not so much because he had been informed by the Elder Song or anyone else about this, but because the situation in the Sky Empire was about to reach a critical state as the Soul Ascension Realm Experts from the different empires and the Soul Ascension Realm Experts hiding away in the capital city had started clashing with each other seriously.

Given the current state of things, it was only a matter of time before Soul Ascension Realm Experts belonging to these different powers ended up appearing inside the territory of the Star Shattering Sect to cause chaos, something that they had been able to avoid so far due to their location being at the border between the Sky Empire and the Frozen Wastelands.

Not only that, but Yi Min had also fended off a large number of the Soul Ascension Realm Experts who would normally have come to the Star Shattering Sect's territory from the core region of the Sky Empire. After all, her kingdom was essentially placed directly at the border between the core region of the Sky Empire and the border region of the Sky Empire.

Although, with the passing of time, most of the kingdoms located between the Star Shattering Sect and the Iron Sky Kingdom had already been integrated into the Star Shattering Sect due to the arrival of the independent sects.

"Really!?" Not aware of the thoughts going through her senior brother's head as he answered her, Mui just looked up at him with an exited yet questioning look on her face. Not fully believing the words of her senior brother. After all, it had already been years since their master left and this senior brother in front of her had said similar things in the past when she had asked about when their master would return.

"Yes, I'm sure it won't be more than a few months before master returns given the current situation in the sect. If you want to have him return earlier, you could try and go to the sect master and ask him to contact master through one of those long-distance communication talismans." 

Nodding his head as he said this with a confident smile, Bai Ning also decided to throw in some of the information about Feng Chen having a way to directly contact their master along the way.

"Yay!" Showing an overjoyed expression on her face as she heard the first part, Mui soon began pouting as she heard the second part of what he said. "Uncle Feng has a way to contact master!? Why didn't he tell me about this when I visited him together with Song Jia in the past!?"

Swish-!

Having seemingly found a new source of energy after hearing that Feng Chen had a way to contact their master, Mui jumped up from the couch before rushing out of the courtyard in front of the palace before heading in the direction of where Feng Chen's palace was located.

"How energetic… Hehe, this is what you get for lowering the resources allocated to the Blacksmithing Hall. Even if it's to facilitate the rapid expansion of the sect, you didn't need to take from the Blacksmithing Hall and could just have taken it from those beast tamers instead…!" Muttering this to himself as both his eyes narrowed while looking at his junior sister's disappearing figure, Bai Ning felt a sense of satisfaction after knowing about the headache she was going to cause before he leaned back down in the couch and began dozing off.

Bang! Bang! Boom!

Unaware of the trouble that their junior sister was about to cause, Chu Yang and Qing Yi continued fighting with each other as they fought each other using the moves they had managed to comprehend not too long ago, both of them seeking to learn what they might be able to improve through this spar.

Although they weren't excited to the same level as Mui when it came to showing off how much they had improved over the past two years, they were still looking forward to it and wanted to ensure that their master wouldn't think they slacked off in his absence.

At the same time, they were also curious about what their master had been up to over the past two years and wanted to find out about it as soon as possible. After all, for something to take their master such a long time to accomplish, it had to be something amazing.

Maybe their master had even managed to successfully increase his strength even further during this period of time!

No matter what it was, both of them were looking forward to finding out what had happened to their master. None of them felt worried that something bad might have happened to him, as they were fully confident in their master's strength.

…

Back in the Valley of Illusory Beasts, Xuan Hao quietly looked at the illusion blocking his only path out of the Valley of Illusory Beasts with a frown on his face.

"It should already have been a year, yet the illusion shows no sign of lifting after such a long period of time…" Muttering this to himself as he looked at the illusion that had now become far clearer to him, Xuan Hao could not help letting out a sigh to himself.

After a year of sitting in front of the illusion comprehending the Dao of Illusions, he had not only managed to break through to Large Success Realm in the Dao of Illusions and finish the last needed preparations for breaking through to the Late Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm by merging all of his Daos smoothly together with his dao domain, but he had also come to realize just how terrifying the creator of the illusion was.

Even after he had reached the Large Success Realm in the Dao of Illusions, he stood no chance of doing anything to the illusion in front of him. At most he would be capable of resisting it for a short time and approach the illusory wooden gates by another 10 or so meters before being forced to retreat. Far from enough to reach the wooden gates and leave the Valley of Illusory Beasts.

In the end, the only choice he had left now was to try and break through to the Late Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm inside the Valley of illusory Beasts, something that he wanted to avoid if possible due to the fact that an Earth Immortal Realm illusory beast interfering with him during his breakthrough might end up permanently damaging his foundation, or worse, kill him!