The Virtual Universe had only just appeared, and information circulated nowhere near as conveniently as it did in the original story.
Thus, even when the upper echelons of the Human Race made decisions, it was difficult to implement them throughout the Human Race's territory in a short time.
Naturally, the same applied to Lu Qingshan, who was cultivating on Purple Water Star. He knew nothing about the Human Race's current situation, so he had no need to consider too many things.
What he needed to do most was still to take care of the matters before him first, such as cultivating the several precious secret techniques his teacher Kanuo had bestowed upon him.
Although Xuanhuang Star had secret techniques left behind by predecessors, the strongest people to have appeared in its history had only reached the star level, and even those had been exceedingly few. Thus, the secret techniques circulating on Xuanhuang Star could be described as extremely rudimentary.
Even Lu Qingshan, over his more than three hundred years of cultivation, had once developed something new from an existing secret technique for increasing his force output, bringing it to a higher level.
The secret techniques Kanuo had bestowed upon him, however, had all been created by domain lord level or even world lord level experts in the universe, and had withstood the test of long ages. Although they were still rudimentary to truly powerful experts, they were exceedingly precious to Lu Qingshan as he was now.
Thus, after obtaining the secret techniques, Lu Qingshan quickly began cultivating under his teacher Kanuo's guidance. In particular, when it came to exerting his body's strength, Kanuo's guidance was undoubtedly a tremendous help.
Having obtained these precious manuals, Lu Qingshan was like a man in the desert who had found water. He immersed himself in them completely, rapidly drawing in their nourishment and increasing his strength.
Of the three sets of secret techniques, the first Lu Qingshan cultivated was Force Exertion Analysis.
This was a secret technique for improving his force application technique, and could be considered the simplest of the three. Moreover, force application technique was his greatest weakness.
The Soul Defense Secret Technique, Soul Tempering, had been created by a domain lord level expert. It was divided into three stages, corresponding respectively to the star level, universe level, and domain lord level.
Lu Qingshan was still at the planetary level. Although his will was considerably stronger than that of ordinary planetary level cultivators, allowing him to begin cultivating the first stage of Soul Tempering, his cultivation speed would certainly be slower. He would be better off waiting until he broke through to the star level before continuing.
After all, Lu Qingshan was already at planetary level eight and had sufficient resources on hand. Stepping into the star level would certainly be very easy.
As for the final technique, the Thick Earth Secret Canon, it was rather obscure and difficult to understand, even though Lu Qingshan had already entered the first stage of the Earth Domain.
At a time like this, cultivation would certainly have been easier with a teacher's guidance, but Kanuo had not even comprehended the first stage of the Earth Domain himself, let alone been able to guide Lu Qingshan.
For precisely this reason, Lu Qingshan focused his main efforts directly on cultivating Force Exertion Analysis.
Time flowed on, and several more days passed in the blink of an eye.
In the training grounds of Kanuo's manor.
My disciple's talent is probably even greater than I imagined!
Seeing Lu Qingshan raise his body's force output from twelvefold to fifteenfold in just two days, Kanuo could not help marveling inwardly, Being born on a native planet really did limit my disciple's potential!
Fortunately, he has now joined interstellar civilization. His future path of cultivation will be much smoother!
After these thoughts flashed through his mind, Kanuo soon looked toward Lu Qingshan, who was still immersed in cultivation. "Disciple!"
Hearing Kanuo's call, Lu Qingshan finally stopped cultivating, walked over to Kanuo, and bowed slightly in greeting. "Teacher!"
"Disciple, cultivation isn't accomplished in a single morning or evening!"
Kanuo looked at Lu Qingshan and said with a smile, "Your rapid progress these past few days is entirely because you previously had no legacy to guide you and could only rely on yourself to cultivate. Now that you've obtained a legacy, your strength can naturally improve rapidly for a short time!"
"But after that, if you want to improve your strength further, you'll have to cultivate slowly over a long period!"
"I understand!" Lu Qingshan promptly nodded.
"I just received word from the family fleet. They'll be arriving at Purple Water Star very soon!"
Kanuo continued, "By my estimate, your relatives should be arriving at Purple Water Star around now as well. Go and make the arrangements for them next. I'll have Weilusi accompany you!"
"Once everything has been arranged, come with me to cultivate on Pastoral Song Star! It's an important stronghold of our Kanuo Family, with many facilities built to assist cultivation. They'll allow you to cultivate a little faster!"
"Yes, Teacher!" Lu Qingshan promptly nodded in agreement.
Pastoral Song Star was the birthplace of the Kanuo Family. Back then, Kanuo had merely been a member of a major family on Pastoral Song Star, whose strongest member had been a warrior at star level five.
Only after Kanuo successfully broke through to the universe level had he purchased the entire Pastoral Song Star and begun developing it as his family's core planet.
After tens of thousands of years of development, Pastoral Song Star had become extremely prosperous, and was quite famous even throughout the Purple River Empire.
Just then, Weilusi, who had received Kanuo's orders, had arrived outside the training grounds and was waiting.
"Weilusi!"
Seeing Weilusi appear, Kanuo asked directly, "Where is your spaceship now?"
"Reporting to the Patriarch!"
Hearing this, Weilusi hurriedly replied, "Enstan and the others have already reached Purple Water Star. They're currently at the spaceship docking port!"
"Very good!"
Kanuo continued, "The family fleet will soon arrive at Purple Water Star as well. Qingshan will be returning to Pastoral Song Star with me next! Before that, help Qingshan take care of some miscellaneous matters and get the development of his home planet on the right track!"
"Yes, Patriarch!" After hearing Kanuo's instructions, Weilusi promptly responded respectfully.
Kanuo soon turned to look at Lu Qingshan as well. "Disciple, you should go too!"
"I'll take my leave!"
Lu Qingshan promptly spoke, then left the manor with Weilusi and headed for the spaceship docking port.
Watching Lu Qingshan and Weilusi depart, Kanuo thought to himself, Having a disciple whose talent is too great isn't entirely a good thing for me as his teacher!
Right now, I can still guide him in some fundamentals for a while. Once he's improved his foundation, I'm afraid it'll be difficult for me to teach him anything!
It seems I should make plans for my disciple sooner rather than later. Ideally, I should find a way for him to join one of the major powers within the Golden Lion Empire. That would make his future path of cultivation smoother as well!
Kanuo did not worry that Lu Qingshan would forget him as his teacher after joining those major powers.
First, even before Lu Qingshan became his disciple, he had gained a detailed understanding of Lu Qingshan's life over the past several hundred years and confirmed that Lu Qingshan was someone who repaid kindness;
second, the relationship between teacher and disciple had always been very firm in the universe.
For precisely this reason, as Lu Qingshan's teacher, he naturally had to make plans for Lu Qingshan's future cultivation.
With the talent Lu Qingshan had displayed so far, even if he joined those superpowers of the Golden Lion Empire, he would probably count among their higher-ranking geniuses.
Once Lu Qingshan grew powerful in the future, he might even be able to help his teacher.