The entire field fell silent, deathly silent.
Feeling the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from Mu Yuan, the expressions on the faces of the many students present were extraordinarily vivid.
A moment later, frantic cries rang out across the field like a spinning windmill.
"Sensing Realm!"
"Brother Yuan can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!!"
The Sensing Realm was merely the first step of cultivation and ordinarily not something worth making such a fuss over.
But the one who had broken through was none other than Mu Yuan.
Even without any cultivation, Mu Yuan had been able to toy with Liu Che and the others.
His intellect was unmatched among those of his age.
Everyone had always felt it was a pity that he could not cultivate.
They had anticipated this for three years, waited for three years.
Now, Mu Yuan could finally step onto the path of cultivation.
Walking onto the stone platform, Mu Yuan exhaled a breath of foul air, then immediately sat down cross-legged and assumed a cultivation posture.
Now that he could cultivate, he could not wait to test his cultivation speed.
Three years. Beneath his seemingly carefree exterior had always lain a trace of loneliness. Now, it had finally come to an end.
The blazing sun hung high overhead, shining down on Mu Yuan. The young man raised his head and looked directly at the sunlight, his narrowed eyes brimming with powerful confidence.
Mu Chen looked ahead, a brilliant smile spreading across his youthful face.
"Brother Yuan, I knew you were no ordinary person."
"If Father learns this news, he'll be even happier."
Mu Yuan had always possessed a powerful presence.
Even when he had been unable to cultivate, he could still inspire others' trust.
In truth, within Mu Domain, Mu Yuan's reputation was even greater than Mu Chen's.
Even though Mu Chen had once obtained a qualification for the Spiritual Road.
Tang Qian'er's beautiful eyes widened at once. Covering her rosy lips, her pretty face was filled with shock.
Yet this was not all.
As Mu Yuan cultivated, the faint glimmers around him, nearly invisible to the naked eye, actually grew more and more numerous.
"How is that possible?"
As its name implied, the Sensing Realm involved sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Those faint, nearly invisible glimmers were the spiritual energy drifting between heaven and earth.
Once the spiritual energy one sensed reached the limit their body could contain, they could absorb it into their body and enter the Spiritual Movement Realm.
But judging by Mu Yuan's momentum, this was nothing like someone who had just entered the Sensing Realm and sensed spiritual energy. He was clearly about to step into the middle stage of the Sensing Realm.
"Breaking through nearly two realms in a single day... that cultivation speed is simply unheard of. Even Liu Yang, who possesses a spiritual vein, couldn't do it."
Mu Chen spoke in shock.
Back then, even he had taken three days to reach this level.
Thinking of what Mu Yuan had said earlier, it turned out he had not been speaking nonsense.
For a time, the gazes of the many youths fixed on Mu Yuan were filled 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 know why you didn't obtain a qualification for the Spiritual Road back then."
Tang Qian'er stuck out her rosy little tongue, looking exceptionally charming and adorable.
"I heard from the dean that the Spiritual Road has officially ended."
"With your freakish cultivation speed, you can already compare with quite a few people from the Spiritual Road."
"I heard that an extremely terrifying person appeared in this Spiritual Road, someone who seemed to possess a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein that only appears once in ten thousand years."
"The Five Great Academies fought until their heads were bloodied to claim him."
"A Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein... I've never even seen one."
"But now that I've seen your rocket-like cultivation speed, I can roughly imagine just how terrifying a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein is."
Tang Qian'er's father was also one of the domain lords of the Northern Spiritual Territory.
Over all these years, neither the Northern Spiritual Academy nor the Northern Spiritual Territory had ever produced an Earth Grade Spiritual Vein, much less a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein. This showed just how rare a Heaven Grade Spiritual Vein was.
Tilting her head, 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 did not notice at all that, the instant Mu Chen heard that the Spiritual Road had ended, his body stiffened slightly.
"His name seemed to be Ji Xuan?"
Mu Chen answered indifferently. It was a name etched deeply into his memories.
"You know him?"
Tang Qian'er asked in surprise.
"Not really."
Mu Chen lowered his gaze.
That guy truly was formidable.
They did know each other, but they were not friends. Back then, Mu Chen had nearly killed him.
"Forget it, let's not talk about him."
Seeing Mu Chen's expression, it was obvious he did not want to speak. The two brothers were both the same. Tang Qian'er waved her jade-like hand and could not help snorting.
"There are only ten days left until the Academy Trial. Mu Yuan, I don't know what you're planning, but even if you truly are a cultivation genius, it's impossible for you to surpass Liu Yang within ten days. Liu Yang has already begun cultivating spiritual arts."
She had no confidence at all that Mu Yuan could create a miracle within ten days.
After cultivating techniques and spiritual arts, the spiritual energy in one's body would transform into true spiritual power.
Spiritual power had already undergone a qualitative change and was several times stronger than spiritual energy.
A Spiritual Movement Realm cultivator who had cultivated spiritual arts could easily crush someone in the Sensing Realm.
"Even if you have countless tricks, they're still useless before absolute strength."
"Still, since you can cultivate now, I'm no longer worried that Liu Yang will beat you half to death on the day of the Academy Trial."
"Mu Chen, our East Courtyard will still have to rely on you to turn the tide that day."
As she spoke, Tang Qian'er flicked her black ponytail and left with a light sway of her slender waist.
Although Mu Domain was not the strongest domain in the Northern Spiritual Territory, it was the most prosperous. It surely possessed some decent spiritual arts.
Watching Tang Qian'er's captivating figure depart, Mu Chen once again thought of that proud young girl from the Spiritual Road.
After leaving, the girl had quietly looked at him with a pair of deep, bottomless turquoise eyes.
"I'll wait for you at the Five Great Academies. If you don't come..."
The girl's slender hand gripped that black longsword as it slowly came to rest before his chest.
Suddenly, someone lightly patted his shoulder.
Mu Chen turned his head and saw Mu Yuan looking at him with a grin as he said:
"Little Mu, just looking at you, I can tell you're lovesick. Tell your brother, which family's girl did you hook up with?"
"Brother Yuan, don't talk nonsense. There's nothing like that."
Mu Chen hurriedly shook his head.
He did not want to admit it.
"You still want to fool your brother? Was it the girl you met on the Spiritual Road, the one called Luo Li?"
The amusement in Mu Yuan's eyes deepened as he exposed him outright.
"Huh?"
"Brother Yuan, how... how did you know?"
This was Mu Chen's deepest secret. In all of Mu Domain, no one besides him should have known.
Mu Yuan rolled his eyes.
As the original female lead of The Great Ruler, he knew every detail of how Mu Chen and Luo Li had met.
The two had met on the Spiritual Road. When they had first met, this brat had inexplicably been hunted by Luo Li for over half a year.
The so-called Spiritual Road was actually an incomparably vast trial ground, and its creators were the Five Great Academies.
Every three years, the Spiritual Road would open.
The selection process for the Spiritual Road was quite unusual. It was not chosen by people, but detected by a divine artifact known as the Mirror of Judgment.
Naturally, Mu Yuan would not tell him any of this.
Without blushing or skipping a beat, he casually made something up:
"Ever since you returned from the Spiritual Road, you've talked in your sleep every other night. More than nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you called out Luo Li's name. How could I not know?"
Mu Chen: "..."
He truly wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.
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