Breaking Through

Chapter 5: Breaking Through (Please Recommend, Please Bookmark)

The entire venue fell into silence, a deathly stillness.

Sensing the Spiritual Energy fluctuation emanating from Mu Yuan, the expressions on the faces of the many students present were exceedingly vivid.

Moments later, sharp cries rang out across the field like a windmill.

"Sensing Realm!"

"Brother Yuan can sense the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth!!"

The Sensing Realm was merely the first step in cultivation, hardly worth making a fuss over.

But the one breaking through was none other than Mu Yuan.

Even without any cultivation, Mu Yuan could toy with Liu Che and the others.

His intellect was unmatched among his peers.

Everyone had long lamented his inability to cultivate.

They had waited in anticipation for three years, hoped for three years.

Now, Mu Yuan could finally step onto the path of cultivation.

Walking to the stone platform, Mu Yuan exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, then sat cross-legged and assumed a cultivation posture.

Since he could now cultivate, he couldn't wait to test his cultivation speed.

Three years—beneath his seemingly carefree and unrestrained exterior, a layer of loneliness had always been hidden. Now, everything had finally come to an end.

The blazing sun hung overhead, falling upon Mu Yuan's body. The youth looked up directly into the sunlight, his squinting eyes brimming with powerful confidence.

Mu Chen gazed ahead, a brilliant smile spreading across his youthful face.

"Brother Yuan, I knew you were no ordinary person."

"If Father hears this news, he'll be even happier."

Mu Yuan was naturally born with a powerful aura.

Even without the ability to cultivate, he could still command the trust of others.

In truth, within the Mu Domain, Mu Yuan's prestige was even higher than his own.

Even though he himself had once earned the qualification for the Spiritual Road.

Tang Qian'er's beautiful large eyes instantly went wide. She covered her rosy lips, her small face filled with shock.

Yet, this was not all.

As Mu Yuan cultivated, the faint, barely discernible specks of light swirling around him grew increasingly numerous.

"How is this possible?"

The Sensing Realm, as its name implied, involved sensing the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth.

Those faint, barely visible specks of light were the Spiritual Energy drifting freely between heaven and earth.

When the sensed Spiritual Energy reached the saturation point one's body could hold, one could absorb that Spiritual Energy into the body and step into the Spiritual Movement Realm.

But judging by Mu Yuan's posture, this was far from a mere breakthrough into the Sensing Realm—he was clearly on the verge of entering the mid-stage of the Sensing Realm.

"Breaking through nearly two realms in a single day—such cultivation speed is simply astonishing. Even Liu Yang, with his Spiritual Vein, couldn't manage that."

Mu Chen spoke in shock.

Back then, it had taken him three days just to reach this level.

Thinking back to Mu Yuan's earlier words, it turned out he hadn't been speaking idly.

In that moment, the gazes of the many youths toward Mu Yuan burned with fervor and admiration.

Brother Yuan was still Brother Yuan—no matter the field, he remained just as dazzling!

Tang Qian'er: "..."

"Freak!"

"I really don't understand why you didn't qualify for the Spiritual Road back then."

Tang Qian'er stuck out her rosy tongue, looking exceptionally charming and cute.

"I heard from the dean that the Spiritual Road has officially ended."

"Your freakish cultivation speed can already rival quite a few fellows from the Spiritual Road."

"Apparently, an extremely terrifying figure emerged in this Spiritual Road, said to possess a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein, something unseen in ten thousand years."

"The Five Great Academies fought tooth and nail over him."

"A Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein... I've never even seen one."

"But now, seeing your rocket-like cultivation speed, I can probably imagine just how terrifying a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein really is."

Tang Qian'er's father was also one of the domain lords of the Northern Spiritual Territory.

In all the years of the Northern Spiritual Academy and the Northern Spiritual Territory, not once had an Earth Grade Spiritual Vein appeared, let alone a Heaven Grade one. From this, one could see just how rare a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein truly was.

Tilting her neck, Tang Qian'er suddenly fixed her eyes on Mu Chen and asked:

"I almost forgot—you also participated in the Spiritual Road. Do you know who that person with the Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein is?"

She didn't notice at all that Mu Chen's body had stiffened slightly the moment he heard "Spiritual Road ends."

"I think his name is Ji Xuan?"

Mu Chen said flatly—a name etched deep in memory.

"You know him?"

Tang Qian'er asked in surprise.

"Not really."

Mu Chen's eyes drooped slightly.

That guy really was formidable.

They did know each other, but they weren't friends. Back then, he'd almost killed that bastard.

"Forget it, let's not talk about him."

Seeing Mu Chen's obvious reluctance to discuss it—the two brothers were cut from the same cloth—Tang Qian'er waved her jade hand and snorted:

"There are only ten days left until the Academy Trial. Mu Yuan, I don't know what scheme you're cooking up, but even if you're a true cultivation prodigy, catching up to Liu Yang in ten days is impossible. Liu Yang has already started cultivating a Spiritual Art."

She had no faith whatsoever that Mu Yuan could work a miracle in ten days.

After cultivating a cultivation technique or Spiritual Art, one converts the Spiritual Energy within the body into true Spiritual Power.

Spiritual Power already has a qualitative change, several times stronger than Spiritual Energy.

A Spiritual Movement Realm cultivator who has trained in a Spiritual Art can effortlessly dominate a Sensing Realm cultivator.

"No matter how many tricks you have up your sleeve, they're all empty in the face of absolute strength."

"But since you can cultivate now, at least I'm not worried about Liu Yang crippling you on the day of the Academy Trial."

"Mu Chen, on that day, our East Courtyard will still rely on you to turn the tide."

With that, Tang Qian'er flicked her jet-black ponytail and swayed her slender waist as she walked away lightly.

Although the Mu Domain wasn't the most powerful domain in the Northern Spiritual Territory, it was the most prosperous—it should have decent Spiritual Arts.

Watching Tang Qian'er's moving silhouette disappear, Mu Chen's thoughts drifted again to that proud girl on the Spiritual Road.

After they parted, the girl had stared at him quietly with her deep, unfathomable azure-green eyes.

"I'll be waiting for you at the Five Great Academies. If you don't come..."

Her slender hand gripping the black longsword had slowly come to rest against his chest.

Suddenly, a light tap landed on his shoulder.

Mu Chen turned his head and saw Mu Yuan smiling at him, and he laughed:

"Little Mu, the look on your face says you're lovesick. Tell your big brother—which girl have you hooked up with?"

"Brother Yuan, don't talk nonsense. There's nothing like that."

Mu Chen quickly shook his head.

He didn't want to admit it.

"Still trying to fool your big brother? It's that girl you met on the Spiritual Road, right? Luo Li, wasn't it?"

The smile in Mu Yuan's eyes deepened as he called it out directly.

"Huh?"

"Brother Yuan, you... how do you know?"

This was Mu Chen's deepest secret. In the entire Mu Domain, no one else should know about it except himself.

Mu Yuan rolled his eyes.

As the original female lead of The Great Ruler, he knew every detail of Mu Chen and Luo Li's meeting.

The two had met on the Spiritual Road. At the start of their acquaintance, this kid had been inexplicably hunted by Luo Li for over half a year.

As for the so-called Spiritual Road, it was actually an enormous trial ground. The creator of the Spiritual Road was the "Five Great Academies."

The Spiritual Road would open once every three years.

And the selection for the Spiritual Road was quite peculiar—it wasn't chosen by people, but detected by a divine artifact called the "Mirror of Judgment."

Of course, Mu Yuan wouldn't say any of this.

Without a blush or a racing heart, he fabricated:

"Ever since you came back from the Spiritual Road, you've been talking in your sleep every other night. You've shouted Luo Li's name no less than nine hundred and ninety-nine times. How could I not know?"

Mu Chen: "..."

He really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into right now.

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