The sight left everyone nearby utterly dumbfounded!
A youth without the slightest fluctuation of cultivation had taken a one-star trash as his disciple?
Not even a storyteller would dare make up a tale like this!
After a brief stupor, everyone around them erupted into earthshaking laughter.
"Hahaha, little brother, what sect are you from? What realm have you reached to be out here taking disciples?"
"I've never heard of anyone willing to take trash as a disciple. I could laugh about this for a whole year!"
"That's not how you pick up overlooked treasures, is it? Who wouldn't laugh at you for picking up trash?"
"Forget it. This little brother doesn't have any cultivation fluctuations himself, yet he's copying others and taking disciples? I bet he's a swindler!"
The surrounding people could not help mocking Ye Chen and Su Jian. In their eyes, the two were clowns who had come out just to be laughed at.
Not far away, Su Lingyun and Tao Yaoyao also found it utterly ridiculous.
"Senior Sister, do you think that person might be a heaven-sent genius, and none of us can tell?"
Tao Yaoyao even joked about it.
No one believed Su Jian was really a heaven-sent genius. It was nothing more than Tao Yaoyao's joke.
Su Lingyun covered her smile with her hand and chided, "Yaoyao, why are you making fun of him like that? We've had professional training. Under normal circumstances, we don't laugh!"
"Oh!" Tao Yaoyao pouted.
As for Su Jian, he could face so many people's mockery calmly now.
Ye Chen first checked the treasures he had received as rewards.
[Reward: one Primordial Sword Palace!] [Reward: two Immortal King Summoning Cards!] [Reward: Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation!] [Reward: cultivation method "Eternal Sword Dao" (Emperor Grade)!] [Reward: one Scripture Pavilion!] [Reward: one hundred True Dragon Immortality Medicine plants!]
Ye Chen was thoroughly satisfied with these rewards. As expected of rewards for Emperor Grade aptitude, these were excellent things!
He could examine the rest later. For now, he would first impart the Eternal Sword Dao to Su Jian and help him awaken his Supreme Sword Bone.
While Ye Chen was checking the system information, Deng Tiancheng, who had been shouting so arrogantly earlier, was now laughing the loudest.
"Hahaha! I'm fucking dying of laughter! Hahaha! Su Jian, someone's finally taken in a piece of trash like you. Trash belongs in a dump! But I'm different. I'm a disciple of the Clear Void Sword Sect. You'll only ever be able to look up to me!"
Deng Tiancheng rocked back and forth with laughter, all but pounding the floor tiles.
Ye Chen ignored the commotion around him. He pressed a finger to Su Jian's brow and told him, "Now, I'm going to activate your constitution and impart a cultivation method to you at the same time!"
Before Su Jian was ready, he suddenly felt as though his soul had entered another world!
His flesh was being sublimated, countless meridians were cleared, and his blood and bones were transforming!
His spine, in particular, released earthshaking sword intent that shot straight into the sky, turning into an illusory sword ten thousand zhang long that pierced the heavens!
Terrifying sword intent spread in every direction with his body at its center, like a hurricane capable of destroying everything!
Every treasured sword within ten thousand li trembled, as though in submission, yet also in excitement!
The phenomenon made many people pale with shock. They hurriedly held down their treasured swords, afraid the weapons would escape their control.
Moreover, the disturbance was so great that it had already alerted the higher-ups of many sects.
Within the Clear Void Sword Sect, the sect master sensed the astonishing sword intent and saw the towering phantom sword piercing the heavens. His jaw nearly dropped to the ground in shock.
"It's the legendary Supreme Bone! It must be! It's the Supreme Sword Bone!"
The Clear Void sect master cried out involuntarily.
The other sect higher-ups also appeared one after another. Normally, every one of them was exceedingly solemn, but now shock was written all over their faces.
"That's right! According to ancient records, this is exactly the phenomenon that appears when a Supreme Sword Bone emerges!"
"This is the legendary Supreme Sword Bone! Our Clear Void Sword Sect has only ever had one, thirty thousand years ago. We must take this one in today!"
"We've struck it rich! Our Clear Void Sword Sect is going to rise! Could we actually nurture a Sword Dao Immortal Emperor in the future?"
The Clear Void Sword Sect higher-ups grew more excited as they spoke. At the thought that they might truly nurture a Sword Dao Immortal Emperor in the future, they trembled all over.
"Enough nonsense! Hurry to the Subduing Dragon Mountain Range! We must bring the Supreme Sword Bone back to the sect at once!"
The Clear Void sect master shouted, then swept his Daoist robes and turned into a streak of light too fast for the naked eye to follow, racing toward the Subduing Dragon Mountain Range.
The other sect higher-ups followed close behind. It could almost be said that the entire sect had mobilized!
The Clear Void Sword Sect was not the only one making a major move. The Vast Righteousness Pavilion, the Treasure-Gathering Heavenly Sect, the Return to Origin Sect, the Shadow Moon Sect, the Heavenly Gang Dao Sect...
All these powerful sects mobilized.
A Supreme Sword Bone warranted everyone's attention!
If an ordinary genius could become a True Disciple directly, then the bearer of a Supreme Sword Bone could be nurtured as a successor!
Even ten geniuses with excellent aptitude could not compare to a single Supreme Sword Bone!
It could be said that every sect of any renown throughout the Falling Moon Region had mobilized, determined to obtain this Supreme Sword Bone!
Meanwhile, in the Subduing Dragon Mountain Range, Su Jian, whose Supreme Sword Bone had awakened, threw back his head and let out a long howl. A terrifying fluctuation swept out in every direction!
His cultivation actually shot straight up to the Foundation Establishment Realm!
Just moments earlier, he had been nothing more than a weakling struggling bitterly in the Body Refinement Realm.
Yet in the blink of an eye, he had charged from the Body Refinement Realm into the Qi Refinement Realm, then into the Foundation Establishment Realm, without the slightest obstruction.
At last, all the phenomena vanished, and the towering sword withdrew into his spine.
Feeling the surging power within him, Su Jian had never felt so strong, as though he could unleash dozens of streaks of Sword Qi with a mere raise of his hand!
His understanding of the Sword Dao was a thousand, ten thousand times greater than before!
In his eyes, the world seemed to be made entirely of sword intent.
This was the superiority of an innate Supreme Sword Bone!
"Thank you, Master! Your disciple will never forget your immense kindness! Your disciple is willing to give his life for you!"
Having undergone a complete rebirth, Su Jian fell to his knees with a thud in boundless gratitude and kowtowed loudly to Ye Chen several times.
Ye Chen accepted his disciple's obeisance with a smile.
"My disciple, you have strength now. You don't need your master to remind you what to do, do you?" Ye Chen said.
Su Jian abruptly turned toward Deng Tiancheng, who had been brutally beating him earlier and had even intended to kill him. Killing intent burst forth.
Before, he had swallowed his anger because he lacked strength!
But now, he would reclaim the dignity that belonged to him. He would kill this beast!
"Su Jian! We came from the same place, so we have some friendship! Don't kill me! I was wrong! I really was wrong!"
The phenomenon of Su Jian's Supreme Sword Bone had already frightened Deng Tiancheng senseless.
Now, meeting that murderous gaze, he instantly fell to his knees and begged for mercy, weeping bitterly.
How could he ever have imagined that the trash he had been free to humiliate just moments ago would undergo a complete transformation in the blink of an eye?
What on earth was going on?
"It's no use! I will kill you!" Su Jian said through gritted teeth.
Seeing that begging would not work, Deng Tiancheng was driven into a corner. His face twisted viciously as he shouted a threat, "I'm already a disciple of the Clear Void Sword Sect! Killing me means making an enemy of the Clear Void Sword Sect! Just try laying a hand on me!"
At this, Su Jian did indeed pause. The Clear Void Sword Sect was far too powerful. Would he bring trouble upon his master?
But he found approval in Ye Chen's eyes and hesitated no longer. He pressed his index and middle fingers together into a sword and slashed out a sharp streak of Sword Qi.
Deng Tiancheng died!