Sect Master Candidate?
Yang Ning turned his head and asked, "Brother Yuan, why can't a person cultivate two Peerless Divine Abilities at the same time?"
"Why are you suddenly asking about this?" Li Yuan asked.
"The sect leader just said he has high hopes for me, and then gave me a Peerless Divine Abilities." Yang Ning smiled shyly.
The sect leader didn't tell him to keep it a secret, so Yang Ning would only say that such a thing happened, without revealing the name of the Divine Ability.
Since you've already revealed it, how can you still claim to be a hidden dragon?
"Is that so?" Li Yuan's eyes widened immediately. "No way, the sect leader would give things away? Am I just too bad at aptitude?"
He looked at Xu Guiyuan, Xu Guiyuan shook his head. "Tian Dao Yi should not have accepted any gifts from the sect leader. However, the sect leader has only been in office for three hundred years, while Tian Dao Yi has been the senior disciple for a thousand years. It would be inappropriate to give him a gift now."
Essentially, he is a talent cultivated by the previous sect leader of Tian Dao Yi. If Qu Heng tries to win him over, he risks offending the previous sect leader.
The previous person only stepped down, they didn't die.
"Perhaps he thinks you have exceptional talent and wants to take you as his disciple?" Xu Guiyuan suddenly thought of something, but before he could finish speaking, he immediately thought of something else and felt a little regretful.
"How so?" Yang Ning's eyes lit up as he asked.
Xu Guiyuan was reluctant to continue, but since he had already started, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and keep going.
"In Taiheng, disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, whether at the Qi Refining First Level or Qi Refining Tenth Level, are still disciples and are not qualified to take on disciples!" Xu Guiyuan said. "Only those who reach the Spiritual Law Realm can take on disciples, and our sect leader has just taken office, which is precisely the time to take on disciples. Fortunately, our sect leader doesn't have any disciples yet!"
"Yes, yes, he gave you the cultivation Cultivation Method, so he has the grace of imparting knowledge and teaching you. It's perfectly fine for you to call him teacher!" Li Yuan, "However, accepting a disciple isn't something that can be settled after just one meeting. Usually, it takes a long time to observe and test him before it can be finalized. For example, my master True Person Black Cloud, took a liking to me during the Mountain River Ranking competition and even gave me a Black Cloud Pearl. But he didn't summon me for decades afterward, until I used this Black Cloud Pearl to kill several Devil Cultivators and made quite a name for myself, and only then did I formally become True Person Black Cloud's disciple!"
At this point, Li Yuan seemed to have thought of something as well.
It seems quite normal for someone at the Spiritual Law Realm to accept disciples!
But what if this Spiritual Law Realm is the sect leader?
Yang Ning nodded thoughtfully; he understood as well.
The purpose of this <Soaring Snake Hidden Dragon Technique> is to tell the other Spiritual Law Realm elders that I have high hopes for this disciple and have already reserved him, so they should not make a move.
Whether I can formally accept someone as my disciple depends on their performance. If they develop exceptionally well, then it means my initial judgment was correct, and I will naturally accept them as my disciple.
If things don't go well, it's not a huge loss since the master-disciple relationship wasn't established. At most, you'll have to admit you had poor judgment and didn't make the right choice at the time.
It wasn't that Yang Ning was particularly quick to understand; it was simply that he himself operated in the same way.
He invested in Jiang Yunhao, but gave him nothing except for the weapon-refining technique and the Insight Eye, because he wanted to observe whether this person could truly shoulder great responsibilities.
It seems that Lin Yuanxi was the same. She knew about it when she was fourteen and observed it silently for seven years. It wasn't until she entered the Cultivation World that she found an opportunity to meet her, but she didn't show any particular reaction at the time.
Perhaps she has feelings for me, but hasn't made up her mind yet.
It wasn't until she witnessed Yang Ning's potential and spirit during the trials at Demon Subduing Valley that she became certain of her feelings.
So she offered her blessings and went back to collect materials for refining weapons, already considering herself Madam Yang.
"What he said at the time was that he didn't want to cultivate it, but rather to learn from it. He wanted to see what his <Black Tortoise Breath Concealment Technique> would look like in the future. In other words, he valued not my talent in weapon crafting, but my talent in creating Divine Abilities."
"So his test for me was to evolve the <Black Tortoise Breath Concealment Technique> to a level no less than the <Soaring Snake Hidden Dragon Technique>, or at least not too far off. If I could do it, I would be the sect leader's disciple; if I couldn't, then I would just be a disciple the sect leader had high hopes for."
Yang Ning took a deep breath to calm himself down. The position of the sect leader's disciple was very tempting!
The disciple of the sect leader may not necessarily become the sect leader, but the chances are definitely much greater than for others.
As for the benefits of becoming the sect leader, there's no need to elaborate. As a disciple, even decades or hundreds of years of hard work are not as useful as a single word from the sect leader. As long as you have great ambitions and don't want to be a slacker, you will definitely want to become the sect leader!
As for the intense competition for this position? So what? As Senior Ergen once said, "We cultivators are not afraid of a battle!"
"Could you two please keep this a secret for me?" Yang Ning said immediately.
He's not afraid of competition, but competing with the Body Refinement Realm Qi Refining Realm is out of the question; that's suicide.
"I understand!" Li Yuan nodded Li Yuan, realizing what was going on as well.
He knew he had no chance of becoming the sect leader; his talent was limited, and he didn't have anyone he particularly favored.
But if Yang Ning becomes a candidate, I will definitely support him!
There's no other reason than that Yang Ning is Artifact Forging Master, one of our own!
The two then looked at Xu Guiyuan. Xu Guiyuan was Tian Dao Yi, and if he didn't keep it a secret, then it would be meaningless.
"I'm already quite old, all I want now is to enjoy the rest of my life!" Xu Guiyuan stroked his gray beard. "It was windy just now, this old man didn't hear anything."
He is indeed a member of the Tian Dao Yi, but his wife, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are not.
Is the struggle for sect leadership something you can interfere with? Aren't you afraid of retaliation and your whole family being cremated?
The old man chose to protect himself.
Li Yuan and Yang Ning exchanged a glance and decided to believe him for the time being.
Looking at this newly established Artifact Forging Master Association now, it seems to have taken on a different meaning. Isn't it Yang Ning's natural voter base and staunch supporter?
"Oh right, Brother Yuan, you haven't explained why one person can't cultivate two Peerless Divine Abilities!" Yang Ning asked.
"Oh, oh!" Li Yuan snapped out of his daze, pretending his earlier guess had never existed. "It's like this, you know that Peerless Divine Abilities contain Daoist runes, right!"
"Hmm!" Yang Ning nodded. "And what is this inscription?"
"Daoist script is said to be a type of rune, but runes are Spiritual Qi circuits, while Daoist script is the circuit of the Great Dao!" Li Yuan said, "This kind of Daoist script is not considered a written word, nor can it be engraved on objects. Even Dao artifacts can only be inscribed with a trace of Daoist script. It is said that only immortal artifacts can truly bear Daoist script!"
No wonder, I can only recite the Daoist inscriptions passed down in the Great Dragon Physiognomy, but I have no idea what they look like.
"Besides celestial artifacts, a person's will can also bear Dao inscriptions. This process is called enlightenment. But how powerful are Dao inscriptions? A person's will is like a firefly compared to the bright moon in front of Dao inscriptions. Therefore, an ordinary person's soul can only bear one kind of Dao inscription!"
"What if this person's soul is twice the size of someone else's?" Yang Ning asked.
"It's still one type!" Li Yuan, "It's just that it carries a larger portion of this Dao script! If the Dao script is a giant dragon, an ordinary person can carry one dragon scale, then a soul twice that size can carry two scales, but it's absolutely impossible for it to carry two scales of two giant dragons!"
"Unless!"
"Unless what?"
"Unless you have the Imperial Dragon Pearl!" Li Yuan. "The Royal Dragon can command all dragons, so it can naturally suppress many Dao runes. But how is that possible? No matter how strong the Nightmare Tribulation is, it can't harm the Royal Dragon! The royal family of the dragon race was all taken away by the dragon ancestors. They created a world called the Dragon Realm. If you want to obtain the Imperial Dragon Pearl, you'll have to fight your way into the Dragon Realm!"
Yang Ning was speechless. So, it's unfair that the Dragon Pearl I named Zhao is called the Nightmare Dragon Pearl; it should be called the Royal Nightmare Dragon Pearl!
"Of course, that means that before reaching the Supernatural Power Realm, one can only cultivate one kind of Peerless Divine Abilities. Once one reaches the Supernatural Power Realm and condenses Supernatural Power Seed, the one that carries the Dao runes changes from the soul to the Supernatural Power Seed. At that time, one can naturally cultivate more peerless Peerless Divine Abilities!" Li Yuan said.
Yang Ning nodded. "I understand!"