Published: March 9, 2025
After a long time, the blue light surrounding Chu Yang gradually dissipated. He then stood up again, drew his sword, and resumed practicing his sword techniques repeatedly.
His expression was focused, fully absorbed, and completely concentrated.
"He is not just a genius... With such diligence, can the likes of us compare?" The Lightning Serpent felt a shock to the spirit: "During the day, he faced three opponents alone, and he only has earthly-level cultivation... The fatigue he must bear is probably ten times more than ours; he didn't rest at night and then broke through... Successfully breaking through without doing anything else, and then immediately starting to cultivate again, such dedication... sigh!"
The last sigh synchronized with the other two.
In the past, everyone thought they had worked hard enough, but compared to Chu Yang, they were truly leagues behind...
"Wait a minute... it feels like something is missing?" The Lightning Serpent shook his head and went back, suddenly stopping.
"Missing something?" The other two were also taken aback, murmuring subconsciously.
After a moment, the three suddenly turned their heads in shock!
Over there, Chu Yang was still quietly drawing his sword, quietly cultivating, quietly comprehending...
There was no sign of anything unusual!
Yet it was precisely this lack of abnormality that was the biggest abnormality!
The Giant Spirit Blade stared for a while, then said in confusion, "Normally, breaking through to heavenly level requires a divine punishment baptism. So... why doesn't he have this procedure? This is too abnormal, right?"
After asking, no one spoke for a long time. Turning their heads, they found the other two standing there, dumbfounded.
The three couldn't figure out: Where did the divine punishment go?
Why was there no divine punishment?
The three masters of blades craned their necks and waited for a long time, only to see the sky was clear with few stars, black crows flying south, circling the trees three times, without a branch to cling to...
The sky was clear with no clouds.
All the sights that should be there were present, except there were no signs of divine punishment descending!
The three were left confused: In this world, could there really be a freak that broke through to heavenly level without divine punishment?
That night, the three tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. Each thought about the irrationality of this matter in their hearts. The more they thought, the less they understood.
Although the three were nominally at the saint level pinnacle, their actual cultivation had already crossed that threshold; yet they had not yet reached the beginner level of celestial level.
This situation was called "half-step celestial," just a thin sheet of paper away from true celestial level. At this stage, having seen much and knowing much was inevitable, but the three had never seen... or even heard of anyone breaking through to heavenly level without tribulation!
This was truly bizarre. The three thought through the night, their eyes dark.
As for Chu Manor Master after his breakthrough, he took a bath and went back to sleep with his wife. Chu Manor Master was indeed a freak; energetic as he was, he was still human at heart, and after a whole day, he still needed rest and human comfort...
The next day.
Chu Yang began his busy day.
Of course, outside was even more bustling; as for the sects of Eastern Sovereign Heaven, they had already sent the news back, and the major sects were furious. However, the matter was settled; no matter how angry they were, it was meaningless. They could only hold their noses and accept it, quickly starting to search for geniuses within their sects to prepare for training.
In any case, the seeds of these sects in Eastern Sovereign Heaven had to go through a battle to select the leading figures; but only eleven years remained, which was truly a very short time!
In the eyes of high-level martial artists in Nine Heavens Pavilion, eleven years was likely just a brief period of closed-door training, or even insufficient!