Divine Brilliance

Zong Shou was having a tough time dealing with the warm and soft girl hugging him, as her big chest was pressing into his back. As long as one was a guy, they would definitely be tempted. Who knows whether the effect of Chuxue’s actions was intentional or not?

He put Chuxue down and put her to the side. Then he nodded, “I’m not training anymore! For the next two days let’s go look around and have fun!”

Chuxue was delighted and cheered, though she was a little hesitant, acting worried, “Wouldn’t that delay Young Master’s training? The path of martial cultivation is so that if one doesn’t improve they will fall behind…”

Before she finished, Zong Shou smiled and flicked her forehead. Then he walked off the wooden raft and onto the shore.

He moved like a nimble leopard as he headed straight toward the wooden house.

Three months had passed as he cultivated day and night. Even at night, he would train his soul and never rest, meaning what he wanted to do now was disregard everything and have a good night’s sleep.

Just as he passed by Zong Yuan, he heard his cousin scoff. Turning around, he saw that he was waving his sword around in a lively manner yet it was empty within. Although his strokes were correct they didn’t have any meaning.

Zong Shou frowned, thinking for a while before stopping in his tracks, “Zong Yuan show me your Purple Lightning Spear!”

Zong Yuan looked at him coldly and wanted to disobey, but seeing the smile on his face made his heart grow weak. He could only follow Zong Shou’s instructions and display his Purple Lightning Spear.

In front of Zong Shou, he didn’t dare to display his skills poorly. Above the spear a lighting glow formed an illusion of a spear flower, releasing attacks, sometimes stabbing and sometimes sweeping.

After a few moments, Zong Yuan was stunned.

Since he had given up hope, he never trained in the Purple Lightning Spear for the entire three months. But now when he used it he didn’t feel rusty at all and instead felt really smooth. Between the different strokes and stances, he found there were fewer weaknesses than before.

When did his martial path have such a huge breakthrough? Suddenly, he had an idea. Did Zong Shuo ask him to do these basic strokes to cause such a breakthrough?

Zong Shou laughed coldly when he saw the result, tossing a pill bottle he got from Xuanyuan Yiren to him, before looking away, “This is the Five Aspect Pill that Yiren refined. There are only fifteen pills. Within half a month, if you are unable to breakthrough three Earth Chakra Meridians and become a Martial Ancestor then you won’t be of any use. I will kill you and hang your body on the gates of Gantian Mountain City for all to see!”

After giving his instructions he didn’t bother with him anymore, and directly passed by him.

Zong Yuan didn’t feel angered or humiliated, though he stood stunned in place. He only had one thought in his mind, that Zong Shou’s method worked really well, and now the prince was giving him even more pointers.

Placing the pills at his feet, he pouted, as no matter how good he became he was still not independent.

However, when he started practicing the spear once more he seemed much more focused. Although he was depressed and had lost hope, he still had an innate wish to go further in the martial path!

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On the highest peak, Zong Shou sat down at a place carved with many spiritual marks and looked down.

This was the largest mountain range near the Water Fairy Lake. It was around six hundred miles in size and looking down from the peak, one could see pretty much everything.

And now Chuxue was standing at his side, crying, “Young Master, is this what you call touring? How boring…”

Zong Shou didn’t even turn his head as he continued to display his spiritual technique, activating the altar he had set up, smiling, “How isn’t it? We search for spiritual veins while having fun, isn’t that good?”

His path had always been filled with fights and battles and he was never able to put everything down and have worry-free fun.

Hu Zhongyuan’s eyes opened wide in rage, looking similar to Hu Qianqiu, “Xue’er your words are preposterous! The four of us lack earth veins, and prince helping us search for them is such a great opportunity and you aren’t happy? What a brat!”

Chuxue grumbled and didn’t say anything else. She wasn’t afraid of her uncle, she was actually just too lazy to say anything more. She knew that following her Young Master would mean she wouldn’t be free for even a second.

Along with Zong Yuan and the Rising Moon Lion, three people and one beast each took a corner of the spiritual formation as they injected true qi into it. They were using the formation to feel where suitable earth veins were located.

Although they were at the highest peak of the mountain range, one couldn’t see spiritual veins with the naked eye. They could only borrow the help of a formation to roughly feel where it was. Apart from that they also had the responsibility of protecting Zong Shou.

Zong Shou muttered the chants while his hands formed into a seal. Slowly, a colorful glow appeared in the sky above the four of them. It was calm, though occasionally some ripples and lines would appear in it.

” Linhai College’s Three Mystery Reflecting Spiritual Technique is good, as although it is not as precise as the Spirit Finding Technique in seeing all spiritual energy veins, its range is huge and it can show all the spiritual energy changes in a thousand miles. This is from that old college, so the techniques of spirit houses and shrines are definitely better than this. If I knew spirit masters were so strong I would have spent some of my time in cultivating that. I’d save so much time while searching for earth veins…”

Zong Shou thought as he observed the changes in the colorful scene above.

The ripples were all formed by spiritual veins and they were intersected with one another. His spiritual technique wasn’t deep and his soul power wasn’t strong, so it was difficult to pinpoint the source. Only the lines that sometimes appeared and disappeared were the spiritual veins that the technique found. Through their colors, one could tell which element the vein was.

However, most spiritual veins were flowing and didn’t have a specific position. Even if he saw one it didn’t mean he could easily capture it.

In his memory, there were also many secret techniques from sects that were now destroyed. But as he couldn’t say where they came from he couldn’t just randomly use them.

Especially since two people were peeking nearby and looking on.

After Hu Zhongyuan finished scolding Chuxue, he asked with some doubt, “Young Master I heard that to search for spiritual veins you need a really high realm. You not only have to travel a thousand miles in a night but also must have special artifacts. Young Master, aren’t you rushing a little?”

Zong Shou laughed coldly, as he wasn’t just rushing it a little, he was rushing it too much! To be honest he really was underestimating its difficulty!

Even Gantian Mountain didn’t have many spirit masters who could use this technique, so they would search for people and pay them a sky-high price. These people too were also unable to succeed every time.

If this technique was so simple, why would Gantian Mountain’s Xiantian Masters find it so difficult to advance every grade?

Zong Shou acted like he didn’t hear what was said, focusing above on the changes in the light.

Although he memorized the method, he had never used it before. Using it now he discovered he was really rusty and that it was difficult for him to display its full ability.

He could only fully focus and observe the movement of the spiritual veins to induce the location of a vein.

He continued to focus on it like this quietly, and eventually, his brows raised, revealing a joyful expression, “I found it! Six hundred miles out, five elements present, gold element as the main one. The source is really pure, it should be a high-grade vein…”

Hu Zhongyuan frowned and then smiled bitterly. So what if they found it? If it was within thirty miles it was achievable. But six hundred miles? When they finally got there it would be too late.

Just as he was going to open his mouth to persuade him, Zong Shou’s soul suddenly flew up from the back of his head.

Hu Zhongyuan knew that Zong Shou had already reached the Out of Body Realm and could even move for small distances.

He felt amused, did Zong Shou really plan on chasing the vein? Even with the speed of Night Wandering Realm spirit masters, it would take fifteen minutes to reach six hundred miles away. If things go wrong they would be at risk, and who knows where the spirit vein could have gone to? Even if it was still at the same spot how was he going to obtain it?

Just as he shook his head, he saw a Three-Layer Exquisite Pagoda fly out from his sleeves.

Zong Shou’s entire soul suddenly gathered in one area and turned into a Lightning Phoenix shape.

What Hu Zhongyuan was looking at was three shining talismans within the ball of smoke. He then looked at the extremely strong, cold energy that lacked impurities, and noticed that it had obviously gone through a change of nature.

A bright glow exploded out of his eyes, staring right at Chuxue, “Xue’er, the prince reached the Night Wandering Realm? When?”

Chuxue used her fingertips to scratch her cheeks, as she was also filled with doubt, “He should have? As for when I also don’t know. We haven’t been together recently…”

Hu Zhongyuan didn’t feel any disappointment, and he couldn’t suppress his emotions as he burst out laughing, the sound spreading through the wilderness. His father who had battled Zong Shou to a draw, what kind of feeling would he have right now?

Surprise and happiness, relief, thoughts of the future, everything mixed together.

A huge power like Gantian Mountain could only be created by someone above a Xuanwu Ancestor. But for someone taking over, Zong Shou who was at the Night Wandering Realm would be more than enough.

Zhong Yuan’s face, on the other hand, turned ashen white, his eyes blinking. He thought that Zong Yang and the others had some chance of succeeding, yet now he had totally given up. Facing such a freak, one can imagine that whether it be Zong Shi or Zong Yang they both didn’t stand a chance of inheriting the throne.

Zong Shou’s soul then flashed with a lightning glow, the group quickly noticing that it was already ten thousand feet away.

With just one flap of its wings, it managed to fly numerous miles and in the blink of an eye, they couldn’t see any traces of it.

Hu Zhongyuan stood rooted in place. Such a lightning-quick speed was something even Back to Sun Realm experts couldn’t match…