Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

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Landing in front of the fourth celestial gate, Xuan Hao was just about to panic about the fact that he hadn't sealed up his cultivation base and might cause the formation in place around the small mountain where the fourth celestial gate was located, when he realized that nothing was happening.

Upon closer inspection, it seemed like the cave where the fourth celestial gate was located had been fully isolated from the formation that protected the mountain outside.

Considering that others who similarly left the celestial gate in past should have encountered a similar situation, it made sense that the formation wouldn't activate the moment he left the fourth celestial gate.

If that had really ended up happening, he would have no idea whether or not to laugh or cry if he ended up being sealed away by the ancient formation for who knew how long.

"Luckily that is not the case… Although I still have to spend a few days getting down the mountain again, the time won't be wasted as I can still use the time to comprehend the Dao of Formations. Not to mention, a few days won't make much of a difference now that I have the celestial coins that I need." Chuckling to himself as he said this while looking towards the entrance of the cave, Xuan Hao briefly closed his eyes as he sealed up his cultivation base before leaving the cave to make his way down the mountain a short time later.

Given that he had managed to get more than thirty celestial coins from the celestial trial this time around, Xuan Hao couldn't completely focus on comprehending the Dao of Formations on his way down the mountain, as part of him also began to ponder over the few different combat techniques he had casually looked over on his way to the scroll with information on the Dao Domain Lord Realm.

Although the bits and pieces of information he had managed to gather on these combat techniques weren't a lot, all of them were at least heaven rank combat techniques and would be worth a lot to him at his current cultivation realm.

Not just to him, but also his disciples and the rest of the Star Shattering Sect. After all, the combat techniques inside the tower of secrets could be considered a facility not much different from the Star Shattering Sect's library where the sect's combat techniques and cultivation techniques were stored.

In a sense, outside of being part of the exchange hall, the tower of secret could be considered an ancient library that stored the techniques and cultivation information of the Mirage Sect, a treasure trove for any weaker sect that might stumble upon it, as it would be helpful for establishing a solid foundation of knowledge for the Profound Immortal Realm and possibly even beyond that.

Of course, Xuan Hao also understood that it was unrealistic for him to take away the tower of secrets with his current balance of celestial coins, let alone take it away forcefully.

However, it didn't stop him from dreaming about the day when he could do this, as he was already fully intent on seizing the tower of secrets for his sect, disciples and his own growth.

On the other hand, outside of this, his newest quest had also progressed after he passed the fourth celestial trial.

[Celestial Trials Completed: 4/10] Even then, he would still need to complete another 6 celestial trials before he would complete it, a thing for the future. Especially considering that each of the celestial trials would involve a certain risk to his life, something that had become clear after his visit to the mushroom forest.

At least for now, he felt fine just completing one celestial trial and making his way back to the tower of secrets to exchange his celestial coins for something useful before checking up on Mui to see how she was doing after having been left alone for such a long period of time.

Even if none of the safety measures he had left for her had been triggered during this time and her status through the system only showed that she had managed to break through to the Sixth Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, he still felt a bit worried about how she was doing on her own inside a monster infested forest. Especially considering that he was almost certain that she would be starting to wander outside the borders of the forest he had placed her inside of at some point in time.

Though she was now at the Sixth Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm and had the help of her unique metal balls for battle, he understood very well that she would start struggling when faced with a demon beast in the Half Step Domain Lord Realm with a pseudo domain.

A domain, even if it was just a pseudo domain, was hard to overcome as someone in the Nascent Soul Realm and was the main difference between someone in the Domain Lord Realm and someone in the Nascent Soul Realm. Overcoming it was not a simple matter…

…

At the same time that her master emerged from the fourth celestial trial and had begun to think about how she might be doing and worrying that she had left the place where he had left her to train on her own, Mui had already begun to explore the new forest that she found herself in after she had stabilized her cultivation base at the Sixth Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

"Wawawa, what is this cute thing!? How come it's in here?!"

Currently finding herself face to face with a cute looking demon beast at the Second Stage of the Core Formation that she couldn't stop herself from picking up to hug due to its overwhelming cuteness that seemed to be a result of it being a mutated rabbit demon beast with pink colored fur and bright green eyes.

"…"

Of course, given the difference in strength between the two of them, the rabbit demon beast didn't dare to utter a single word as it was picked up by Mui and hugged. Only able to think about how to remain motionless and avoid provoking the terrifying monster that had suddenly appeared to pick it up.

Boom!

"Hm? What's that?"

Luckily, the pink colored rabbit demon beast didn't have to wait for long, as it was soon put down on the ground and allowed to run away following a sudden battle that seemed to break out not too far away from where the two of them were. Drawing Mui's attention away from it.

"A battle between two demon beasts… And quite powerful ones at that! If I'm not wrong, they should at least be at the Half Step Domain Lord Realm. Maybe even having reached the Domain Lord Realm!" Muttering this to herself as both of her eyes started shining while looking in the direction of the battle that had suddenly erupted between two powerful demon beasts, Mui no longer paid the slightest bit attention to the cute looking and unique rabbit demon beast, as she instead placed her full attention on the battle not too far away from her.

Although she was still far too weak to participate in such a battle personally, it didn't mean that she couldn't observe it from a distance… And considering that she always had her flying metal ball to escape with in case the demon beasts decided to try and attack her, Mui didn't feel afraid. Wasting no time as she began moving closer to the place where the two powerful demon beasts were clashing with each other.

Roar!

ROoooar!

Rooar!

Similar to her, other powerful demon beasts ranging from the earlier stages of the Nascent Soul Realm to a few that had managed to reach the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. Only one step away from forming a pseudo domain of their own. All began moving closer to the place where the two powerful demon beasts were clashing with her.

Of course, different from her goal of observing the fight between the two powerful demon beasts, the main goal of the demon beasts who were trying to get closer the place where the battle was happen was doing so because they wanted to try and get their hand on the body of the losing one among the two powerful demon beasts- Or at least a part of it.

After all, consuming the flesh and body of a powerful demon beast was immensely beneficial to demon beasts. Especially if the consumed demon beast was far stronger.

For this reason alone, there were also quite a large number of daring weaker demon beasts who were sneakily starting to move closer to the place where the battle was happening. Trying their best to avoid detection or getting too close to the battle out of fear of getting caught up in the battle.

Only a few of the braver demon beasts who saw no other path for reaching the Nascent Soul Realm decided to do so.