Qi Yuan

Azure Wave World.

Shinguang Sect.

The morning bells rang without end. All the disciples woke, radiant with energy as they breathed and refined qi.

The sounds of morning practice echoed throughout the entire sect.

Vigorous and full of life.

On Seven Colors Peak, Qi Yuan lay on his bed. The morning bells were especially piercing, and he covered his ears.

The Wooden Cat Puppet appropriately opened its mouth and made a sound as well.

"Time to get up!"

"Time to get up!"

With a wave of his hand, Qi Yuan stuffed a small Wooden Fish Snack into the Wooden Cat Puppet's mouth, and it immediately fell silent.

He shifted into another position and went back to sleep comfortably.

As the saying went, when the sun stood three poles high, I alone slept on. Who was an immortal? I was an immortal!

After an unknown amount of time, Qi Yuan finally woke leisurely.

He took a deep breath of air.

"Mmm, the air in another world is quite sweet."

Qi Yuan had originally been one of the countless ordinary people on Blue Star. Half a year ago, he had transmigrated into this world.

Unlike his previous world, this world possessed the extraordinary. There were cultivators here.

By a twist of fate, Qi Yuan had joined the Divine Light Gate and become a disciple of Seven Colors Peak—the only disciple there.

After washing up and dressing neatly, Qi Yuan rose and left the courtyard.

Yesterday, his master had sent down a message, assigning him several tasks.

Standing halfway up the mountain, Qi Yuan looked toward the peak. It towered into the clouds, its immortal aura drifting dreamily.

Qi Yuan glanced at the palace amid the clouds and murmured, "Another day of missing Master."

The clouds atop the peak instantly rippled, then vanished in an instant, as though nothing had happened.

His master lived at the summit and had set down restrictions forbidding Qi Yuan from going up.

Qi Yuan did not see the clouds gathering and dispersing atop the peak. He headed down Seven Colors Peak.

Today was Shinguang Sect's disciple recruitment ceremony.

He would represent Seven Colors Peak, one of Shinguang Sect's Five Peaks, in recruiting disciples.

Such a vast Seven Colors Peak had only one disappointing disciple—him—and the sect had quite a few opinions about that.

Of course, Seven Colors Peak's peak master was powerful, so those opinions could only be kept to themselves.

However, the current Qi Yuan had even given Seven Colors Peak's peak master some opinions, which was why they planned to recruit more disciples.

Qi Yuan slowly made his way down Seven Colors Peak.

When he reached the mountainside, Qi Yuan stopped.

There was a great tree here, several zhang tall. Looking down from above—

This was a somewhat extraordinary blade of grass, but three days ago, Withered Wood True Lord and the Great Shang Empress had met here in secret.

Standing beneath the tree, Qi Yuan swept his gaze over the lush green, tender grass on the ground, and a string of words surfaced in his mind.

He froze.

If he remembered correctly, when he had come here a few days ago, what his eyes had seen was...

This was an ordinary blade of grass, but four days ago, a stray dog had taken a piss on it.

"This grass is rather interesting."

After stepping into the Qi Refining realm, Qi Yuan had discovered that there was something wrong with his eyes. They could see things others could not.

For example, the first time he had looked at the cultivation art his master gave him.

"Seven Colors Flame Refining Art."

What he saw was...

This was a Jade Rank cultivation art. It contained 1,371 obvious flaws, along with several other flaws.

Cultivating it to the supreme realm would turn one into the resources of some indescribable existence.

When Qi Yuan saw this information, he was stunned.

He then went to inspect other cultivation arts.

They were more or less the same.

The supreme realm?

Resources?

Too distant?

Not something a tiny Qi Refining cultivator like him needed to consider.

Of course, his cultivation had also remained stuck at Qi Refining.

Because according to what his eyes showed him, once he cultivated and broke through, his identity as resources would be confirmed.

Thus, Qi Yuan had been searching for a suitable cultivation art and working hard toward that goal.

The Sect Main Hall glimmered with scattered divine light.

The white-haired Kang Fulu held a whisk and sat cross-legged in the air.

Behind him stood the chief disciples of the other peaks, all upright and straight-backed.

Kang Fulu looked at the several hundred newly admitted disciples below, who had just passed the examinations, and revealed a satisfied expression.

But thinking of something, he slowly asked, "Has no one from Seven Colors Peak arrived yet?"

"Senior Brother Kang, you know the temperament of Seven Colors Peak's senior brother..." a man dressed in gold said softly.

Hearing this, Kang Fulu said nothing more.

Just then, a voice rang out, "Seven Colors Peak's senior brother, Qi Yuan, has arrived."

Following that announcement, Qi Yuan appeared before everyone in a white robe, tall and straight, a jade pendant at his waist as he approached against the light.

Quite a few Shinguang Sect disciples, as well as the newly admitted disciples, looked at Qi Yuan with varying expressions.

"I never expected Senior Brother Qi Yuan to actually come down the mountain!"

"He is even three parts more handsome than the rumors said..."

"What a pity. Such a man, as graceful as jade before the wind, yet..."

"Yet what?"

"His behavior is strange. There's something wrong with his mind!"

"Huh?"

"Actually, not quite. It's just that his cultivation differs from ordinary people.

"He belongs to the Obsession Lineage. Cultivators of that lineage all have rather unique personalities!"

"A madman in the cultivation world? Better not provoke him, better not provoke him."

"Don't be fooled by how crazy he seems. He is a true genius and has deep insights into cultivation. Quite a few senior brothers and sisters go to him for advice about cultivation."

The cultivators below discussed animatedly. Many looked at Qi Yuan with strange expressions.

In Azure Wave World, there were three types of people one must not provoke.

First, healers. Second, Sword Cultivators. Third, Obsessed Cultivators.

Healers mastered medical arts and could treat injuries and save lives.

Any cultivator might be injured in battle at some point and need a healer to treat their wounds and help them recover quickly, so healers were not to be provoked.

Moreover, healers were generally skilled in refining strange poisons and poison pills, killing without leaving a trace. It was best not to offend them if possible.

Sword Cultivators possessed astonishing combat power and killed with decisive resolve. If one could avoid provoking them, one should.

Obsessed Cultivators, however, were rather different.

Cultivators of this lineage emphasized being obsessed with one thing.

It could be a sword, a flower, or a person.

The more extreme the obsession, the more it meant there was something wrong with their mind.

Such cultivators were not easy to provoke. Who knew whether a madman would suddenly go insane?

And Qi Yuan was a cultivator of the Obsession Lineage.

"Junior Brother Qi Yuan, you came rather late," Kang Fulu said softly.

"I went to sleep too late yesterday." Qi Yuan yawned.

The chief disciples of the other peaks said nothing upon seeing this.

Kang Fulu said, "Now that everyone is here, let us begin recruiting disciples."

The people on the square now were mostly disciples who had just passed the entry examinations.

The chief disciples of the various peaks were responsible for selecting candidates to enter their respective peaks.

Kang Fulu stepped forward. Looking at the several hundred new disciples below, he slowly spoke.

"Shinguang Sect is one of the Three Great Cultivation Sects of Great Shang."

"Congratulations, everyone. Having passed trial after trial, you are now disciples of Shinguang Sect."

The several hundred young men and women on the square were all somewhat excited to hear this.

After all, Shinguang Sect was one of the three most powerful cultivation sects in the Great Shang Kingdom.

The moment one joined the sect, one became a person above others.

Kang Fulu was very satisfied with everyone's reaction and continued speaking.

"Shinguang Sect has Five Peaks. You may each choose one to join."

"This is Zhuge Miao, the chief disciple of Divine Medicine Peak."

"This is Xu Yiyi, the chief disciple of Ten Thousand Laws Peak."

"This is Qi Yuan, the chief disciple of Seven Colors Peak."

"This is Madman, the chief disciple of Battle Peak."

"I am Kang Fulu, the final disciple of Five Lights Peak's peak master, the son-in-law of the Shinguang Sect Master, the master who brought the Five Lights Sacred Art to completion, the founder of the Lesser Sunbeam Technique, and the foremost chief disciple of Five Lights Peak."

As the white-haired Kang Fulu spoke, five-colored divine light happened to appear above his head, making him incomparably dazzling and eye-catching.

That was right. Kang Fulu was known as Five Lights Peak's greatest show-off.