Proving the Dao and Becoming Emperor's Cultivation Method

Ye Wuchen looked at Ye Hao, a flicker of doubt deep in his eyes.

He had already learned about what Ye Hao had done at the academy today.

He had heard that his son, Ye Hao, had broken through to the Qi Condensation Realm and beaten up everyone who had bullied him.

Even Xia Zining, at the Fifth Level of Qi Condensation, had been no match for his son.

Ye Wuchen had initially been worried, thinking his son had undergone Body Seizure.

He had once traveled to distant places and seen martial artists with extremely high Martial cultivation levels. Some powerful experts could seize another person's body with nothing more than a wisp of their remaining soul.

Though one who performed Body Seizure could inherit the original owner's memories, the consciousness in control would still be that of the body snatcher. Their manner of conduct, even their smallest habits, would be completely different.

Even if the body snatcher deliberately tried to imitate the original owner, they could only mimic the form, never the spirit.

Those familiar with the original owner could easily see through them.

Yet in his son's eyes, he saw concern... and a feeling as though they had reunited after a long separation.

Ye Wuchen found it strange.

Ye Wuchen looked at Ye Hao and spoke blandly. "I heard you broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm, and even defeated Xia Zining of the Fifth Level of Qi Condensation."

Ye Hao nodded lightly.

He looked at Ye Wuchen curiously. "You found out so quickly?"

Ye Wuchen gave a soft laugh. Reclining in the Grand Tutor Chair, he looked thoroughly at ease. "Isn't it normal for your father to have a few connections at the academy?"

Ye Hao's brows furrowed slightly as he stared at Ye Wuchen. "Then did you know that I was bullied at the academy all these years?"

Ye Wuchen nodded faintly. "I knew."

Ye Hao did not become angry over this, nor did he think that although his father had known he was bullied at the academy, he had always pretended not to know, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Ye Hao looked at Ye Wuchen and voiced his confusion. "Then why did Father never bring it up all these years?"

Ye Wuchen remained calm. The Grand Tutor Chair beneath him swayed gently as he said indifferently, "You could call it one of my methods of education. I wanted you to remember the time when you were at your most miserable. I wanted you to understand the evil of human nature. The more you experience, the more deeply you experience it, the deeper your realizations will be. It will help your cultivation in the future."

Ye Hao fell silent.

Ye Wuchen looked at Ye Hao and asked mildly, "Are you blaming me in your heart?"

"A little." Ye Hao met his father's gaze and answered frankly.

Ye Wuchen let out a soft sigh. "If you have any grievances against me, then curse me a few times."

Though Ye Hao did blame him somewhat, when he thought of everything he had experienced in the hundred years since his soul transmigrated to an otherworldly realm, it made what he had gone through at the academy seem like a witch before a great wizard—utterly insignificant.

He simply felt that his father had been a little too cruel, watching him get bullied for so long without doing anything about it!

At that moment, Ye Wuchen said blandly, "For those who cultivate the martial path, what matters is a breath of resolve. That breath may be resentment, anger, or something else, but so long as you have a breath trapped in your heart, it will become the driving force that makes you stronger. For example, when you were bullied at the academy, you must have been holding in that breath. It would push you to become stronger of your own accord. Once you became strong, you would take revenge. Without that breath, you might grow slack in your cultivation."

"But a father's love is important too."

Ye Hao looked at Ye Wuchen.

Ye Wuchen could not help but smile. Looking at Ye Hao, he said mildly, "Your father's love was merely expressed in a different way. Every move you made at the academy, your father watched over in silence. Everything you did outside the academy, your father watched over in silence as well. For instance, when you just returned from the slave market, bought two maidservants, and beat up Li Xuanyuan of the Li family—your father knew all of it."

Ye Hao's pupils contracted as he stared at Ye Wuchen in shock.

His father actually knew everything he did outside!!!

In that instant, the trace of blame in his heart dissipated.

Ye Hao had not expected his father to care about him this much.

Ye Wuchen then looked at Ye Hao with a beaming smile. "Moved, aren't you, son?"

Ye Hao, "..."

Ye Hao was silent for a while before changing the subject. Looking at Ye Wuchen, he asked the question that had been weighing on his mind. "Who destroyed your Dantian Qi Sea? And who exactly is my mother? Where is she?"

Ye Wuchen had been secretly observing Ye Hao's expressions all along. Seeing how much his son cared for him, and how desperately he wanted to know who his mother was—

It seemed his son had not undergone Body Seizure...

Ye Wuchen finally let out a breath of relief in his heart.

Ye Wuchen then said mildly, "Your mother is in a very distant place. At your current realm, even if you traveled on foot for a thousand years, you still would not reach it. As for my Dantian Qi Sea, it was destroyed by your mother's older brother. Your mother's brother is a Doting Sister Maniac. He believed I had sweet-talked and deceived your mother... Ah..."

"Isn't that putting it a little too lightly?"

Ye Hao did not quite believe him.

Ye Wuchen chuckled. The Grand Tutor Chair beneath him swayed gently. After swaying for a while, Ye Wuchen finally spoke blandly. "Your mother was originally betrothed. On top of that, your maternal grandfather and grandmother believed I had ruined her whole life. They originally wanted to kill me, but your mother threatened them with her life, saying that if they dared kill me, she would take her own life. Only then did your maternal grandfather and grandmother spare me, though they crippled me..."

Ye Hao fell silent.

After a moment of silence, he looked at Ye Wuchen. "Then what are your plans for the future?"

Ye Wuchen smiled lightly. His handsome face turned toward Ye Hao, and he said with a calm expression, "Whether your father can reunite with your mother in the future may depend on you. Your father plans to Hope for one's son to become a dragon."

Ye Hao said helplessly, "Can you stop joking?"

Ye Wuchen chuckled as he looked at Ye Hao. "Let's not talk about me yet. Let's talk about you first. Tell me—how were you clearly at the Body Refining Realm Eighth Level before, yet suddenly became a Qi Condensation Realm cultivator?"

Ye Hao concealed part of the truth, saying that he had obtained a cultivation method for comprehending the Dao. So long as his mind was clear, his cultivation realm could break through very quickly.

After hearing this, the smile on Ye Wuchen's face gradually faded, replaced by utter seriousness.

"This should be a Cultivation Method for Proving the Dao and Becoming Emperor. I heard from your mother that no one on this continent has been able to Prove the Dao and Become Emperor for a hundred thousand years, and no one knows how to do it. But over the years, I've always had some guesses. To Prove the Dao and Become Emperor, one must first prove the Dao before becoming emperor. As for what Dao must be proven and how one proves it, I've always felt it has something to do with one's guiding intent. Take your Dao, for instance—it is Clear Mind. If you can walk the path of Clear Mind to its utmost limit, perhaps you will be able to Prove the Dao and Become Emperor..."

Ye Wuchen spoke at length. After listening to his son Ye Hao's account, he had learned that in just one afternoon, Ye Hao had broken through from the Body Refining Realm Eighth Level to the Perfection of the Fifth Level of Qi Condensation, and that his Cultivation Method pointed directly toward comprehending the Dao...

Among all the Cultivation Methods he had encountered, there had never been one with such an underlying intent.

Ye Hao looked at Ye Wuchen curiously. "Why have you been thinking about Proving the Dao and Becoming Emperor all these years?"

Ye Wuchen said, "Because I was wondering—if I could comprehend a Dao Heart, could I be nourished by the Great Dao and regain the ability to cultivate?"