Chapter 297: Just a Breakthrough? The Eve of Departure!

Just a Breakthrough? The Eve of Departure!

The anomaly persisted for a long time, and many from the Heavenly Cold Sect, even disciples, started to respectfully worship the auspicious clouds and mythical beasts in the sky.

They exclaimed, “It seems our Heavenly Cold Sect is about to receive great fortune!”

Originally, the elders, including Wan Shan Taoist, thought upon seeing this natural anomaly that perhaps the Heavenly Cold Sect was about to experience some great fortune.

But when they saw the Golden Lotuses appear around the hall where Gu Changge was, they suddenly understood.

“This isn’t about our Heavenly Cold Sect receiving great fortune.”

“It’s clearly the Heavenly anomaly caused by Young Master Gu…”

“However, if we’re talking about it truly, it could also be considered a fortune for our Heavenly Cold Sect!”

The Sixth Elder slightly opened his mouth, somewhat absent-mindedly looking at the anomaly above, and whispered to himself.

“With such an astonishing anomaly, even if one were to break through above Ninth Grade to reach Sage Realm, it’s doubtful it would cause such a thing, right?”

Wan Shan Taoist looked at the heavenly and earthly anomaly with a complicated gaze.

Anomalies such as these were rare but not entirely unprecedented; they appeared whenever Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures matured.

But those anomalies paled in comparison to what was before their eyes, not even one ten-thousandth of it!

The mere sight of Purple Qi coming from the east for thousands of miles was clear for countless mortals within the territory of the Heavenly Cold Sect.

Especially within those auspicious clouds, there were dragon and phoenix silhouettes, and Auspicious Beasts kept appearing.

Seeing this scene, the mortals and Loose Cultivators couldn’t help but devoutly worship the source of the anomaly!

Under the influence of this anomaly, at the very least for the next few years or even for decades, the Heavenly Cold Sect’s recruitment of disciples would receive a massive boost!

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After all, those mortals and Loose Cultivators didn’t know the specifics of how the anomaly came about.

They only knew that the anomaly appeared over the Heavenly Cold Sect!

“What has the Young Master done?”

“Why would such an astonishing Heavenly anomaly suddenly occur!”

“Such an anomaly is presumably what one would expect when attaining the status of Human Immortal!”

Jian Chen and the others, standing midair, were also shocked by the anomaly.

The Golden Lotuses exuded a pale golden Tao Rhythm that felt refreshing to the heart and pleasing to the mind.

Bathed in the light of the Golden Lotuses and anomaly, the hall where Changge was, seemed extraordinary, resembling a Divine Hall where immortals and gods resided!

Not something of this mortal realm!

“Indeed, the anomaly that suddenly appeared before, was caused by Changge’s breakthrough…” Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

Gu Family Ancestor saw this scene and resolved a doubt in his mind.

Previously at the Gu Family, an anomaly of Purple Qi coming from the east had occurred once.

But before any other anomaly manifested, it suddenly dispersed.

At that time, it was the day Gu Changge had broken through to the Sixth Grade Refining Void Realm!

This time, without a doubt, the anomaly appeared because Gu Changge broke through to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm!

“That boy…”

“What exactly is happening?”

In the Cold Pond Sacred ground, Purple Spirit Saintess looked at the heavenly anomaly shrouding the Heavenly Cold Sect, also losing herself in thought.

Previously when she came out of seclusion, she had discovered that the Gu Family kid possessed the Talent of Dao Body, which was extremely rare!

However, she was preoccupied with going to Duanbei City to deal with the fallout from a Ninth Grade of the Heavenly Cold Sect’s downfall.

As a result, she hadn’t been able to observe him closely.

Weirdly enough, this time when Gu Changge returned to the Heavenly Cold Sect, in her eyes, his Root Bone talent had severely declined to the point of merely having an Acquired Spirit Body.

Obviously, he used some method to hide his Root Bone, even managing to fool her, a Sage Realm cultivator!

But…

This anomaly was too shocking.

Was this something a junior cultivator who hadn’t even reached Ninth Grade should possess?

At least when she herself braved the Heavenly Tribulation and broke through to the Star Drawing Sage Realm, she hadn’t triggered such an anomaly!

It was nothing more than receiving some Merit Fortune after the Tribulation.

“Is this what a Sacred Body is like…”

“Truly extraordinary!”

“Just a breakthrough to Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm can elicit a Heavenly reaction.”

“If he one day advances beyond Ninth Grade to the Star Drawing Sage Realm, even the Moon Unification True Monarchs would have to avoid his edge!”

“For Sword Sect to receive this young man truly is a fortune for the sect!”

From tens of thousands of miles up in the sky, Ye Qing looked down at everything, taking in all the anomalies.

Out of curiosity, he even blinked, appearing amidst the Purple Qi and auspicious clouds.

Seeing the shadowy figure of the Auspicious Beast passing by him, he couldn’t help but lift his hand trying to touch it. However, it simply passed through his palm, without the slightest tactile sensation.

He had yet to meet Gu Changge in person, but the latter had already caused him too much astonishment!

You see, even when Ye Qing had broken through to the Land Immortal Realm thousands of years ago, becoming one of the strongest beings between heaven and earth,

The anomaly he caused wasn’t as evident as this!

It was just Purple Qi coming from the east for eight hundred miles, with only a few Auspicious Beast silhouettes, and the auspicious clouds weren’t as manifest as today!

But what about Gu Changge?

Merely breaking through the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm had caused Purple Qi to come from eight thousand miles away, an endless number of Auspicious Beasts, and even dragon and phoenix silhouettes appeared.

There were also Golden Lotuses surrounded by faint immortal music.

He had completely trumped the anomaly from his own breakthrough to Land Immortal Realm by a hundredfold!

With Saint Body Talent, no mistake!

Ye Qing could even begin to visualize that once this young man went to Central State Sword Sect, he would crush generations of their best!

He was no longer just unbeatable in his own generation…

With Saint Body Talent, he was strong enough to dominate an entire era, whether it was the older monsters from previous generations or the Heavenly Pride Sons to come.

Before he became a Human Immortal, they would all fall into obscurity under his influence!

This Heaven-shocking anomaly persisted for a full 30 minutes and only began to dissipate gradually as Gu Changge slowly contained his breath.

Within the hall, Gu Changge slowly opened his eyes and realized that his wives were intently staring at him, not daring to even breathe heavily.

Even Yuan Youbai, who had been startled awake by the sudden anomaly, was nestled in Liu Qingqing’s arms looking at him.

“Husband… the commotion of your breakthrough was quite tremendous, wasn’t it?” Liu Qingqing couldn’t restrain herself from speaking up as she saw his gaze turn towards her.

“Knowing that Lord Husband was breaking through to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm, one who didn’t know any better might think Lord Husband was aiming to become a Proving Immortal!” Wang Yue chimed in.

Their Divine Sense had also detected the anomalies outside just now.

But the anomalies surrounding Lord Husband himself were equally astonishing.

Four types of Spiritual Energy entwined, with Purple Thunder flashing, deterring anyone from coming close.

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that, while others might need a protector during their breakthrough, he had no such concerns at all. The Spiritual Energy and Purple Thunder emanating from him could at least keep cultivators of the same realm from daring to touch the slightest bit!

Heaven knows what severe backlash would follow from such a contact!

“Ahem…”

“Accumulating experience over time certainly does the trick,” Gu Changge said nonchalantly after regulating his breath and clearing his throat.

“?”

Hearing the phrase “accumulating experience over time,” Liu Qingqing and Wang Yue both couldn’t help but show a big question mark above their heads!

Using it as an excuse at the beginning was fine.

After all, not cultivating for eighteen years and finally stepping onto the path of cultivation, it was understandable for the first two realms to be broken through quickly.

But…

Husband’s current Realm was now two Great Realms higher than their own!

Still talking about accumulating experience over time?

How much more to accumulate!?

“The Spiritual Energy that Husband had just now…”

However, after thinking of all the incredible things Husband had done, Liu Qingqing no longer dwelled on the natural phenomenon.

Instead, how did Husband come by the Heavenly Cold Sect’s Saintess’s inheritance Cultivation Technique?

That Cold Spirit Energy was indistinguishable from her own; the only difference was that Husband’s was even purer and thicker!

“One glance and I understood it,” Gu Changge replied with a light smile.

“One glance and you understood it!?”

“But, Husband, you never watched the transmission of a Cultivation Technique, did you?” Liu Qingqing asked, slightly perplexed.

“Just by observing my wife practicing the Cultivation Technique, I understood it,” he explained.

“What’s so difficult about that?”

“Even if it’s a Heaven Rank Divine Skill, I can still learn it at one glance, let alone being with my wives day and night, a mere Cultivation Technique poses no difficulty.”

Gu Changge waved his hand casually, as if talking about a trivial matter.

But this reminded them of the previous battle outside the Gu Family Mansion with Miss Dongfang.

He really did just take one look and learned Dongfang Mingyue’s Heaven Rank Sword Dao Divine Power!

This…

They suddenly realized.

This was Husband’s Innate Divine Ability!

Only…

Husband’s Innate Divine Abilities seemed a bit too numerous!

“But even so, how can you cultivate four types of Spiritual Energy at the same time?” Wang Yue discovered another problem and asked with some confusion.

Being able to learn a Cultivation Technique at a glance, she could accept that.

But…

Shouldn’t Husband be practicing the Gu Family’s inherited Cultivation Technique?

“It’s quite simple,”

“Just open up four Qi Seas and cultivate each one individually,” Gu Changge said, still with an easygoing expression on his face.

But to Liu Qingqing and the rest, his words were like a bolt from the blue.

What does ‘quite simple’ mean, just open up four Qi Seas like that!?

Is that even something a human can achieve!?

Seeing their stupefied expressions, Gu Changge simply stretched out his palm and displayed the four types of Spiritual Energy.

Four completely different Spiritual Energies, interacting yet incompatible within his palm, coexisted harmoniously.

Yet this scene only made Liu Qingqing and Wang Yue feel even more mind-blown.

This was completely against their understanding of cultivation!

Unseen and unheard of, nobody they knew could do such a thing!

And yet, there was Husband, showing them it was indeed possible right before their eyes!

“This method does have its drawbacks, though.”

“Opening up four Qi Seas naturally affects the speed of cultivation.”

“Each breakthrough requires about four times the Spiritual Energy accumulation that a normal cultivator would need,” Gu Changge mentioned, seeing a glint in Wang Yue’s eyes as if she was considering trying to open multiple Qi Seas.

Hence he felt the need to remind her.

“…”

“Do you mean, Lord Husband, that each time you break through, you need four times the accumulation of a normal cultivator?” Wang Yue asked, somewhat baffled.

“That’s correct,” Gu Changge nodded slightly.

“Then the speed of Lord Husband’s breakthroughs still…”

“If you hadn’t opened four Qi Seas, wouldn’t Lord Husband at least have broken through to the Eighth-Grade Heavenly Gate Realm by now!” Wang Yue opened her mouth in shock, her expression becoming numb as she looked at Lord Husband.

She had thought Lord Husband was already defying the heavens with his speed of breakthrough, so despairing that it seemed uncatchable.

And yet, that was him cultivating at just a quarter of the speed due to having four Qi Seas!

“You could say that,” Gu Changge nodded again.

These things, for him now, were no longer considered secrets worth hiding.

He could afford to reveal them entirely.

Moreover, now that he had assumed the identity of the Sword Sect’s Saint, he didn’t need to worry about others coveting what he revealed.

The method to open four Qi Seas, he was even willing to share it.

Only, he suspected no one would dare to try it!

After all, crafting multiple Qi Seas meant sacrificing the speed of breaking through each Realm.

For others, it might not be worth the loss.

Only he, with each Daoist Couple binding, would receive a cultivation compensation, synchronizing his partners’ cultivation achievements, allowing him to fearlessly open multiple Qi Seas without worrying about significantly delaying his cultivation speed!

Even if…

The most crucial was the Twelfth Grade Golden Lotus within his Qi Sea.

It could perfectly balance the spiritual energy content of each Qi Sea, ensuring that no conflict would arise between the different spiritual energies, preventing an explosion and death.

For others, even if they could create multiple Qi Seas, there might still be unexpected situations due to the disharmony of spiritual energies!

“Every time I feel like my husband has already defied the heavens enough in my eyes…”

“My husband always makes me overturn all my previous opinions and realize that my vision was still too short-sighted!”

Wang Yue let out a long sigh, and the tentative idea in her heart instantly dissipated.

Now, even she couldn’t catch up with her husband’s breakthrough speed, let alone consider creating multiple Qi Seas like him, without taking into account the acquisition of Cultivation Techniques or the impact on the speed of breakthroughs.

If she was left behind by her husband, it was one thing, but even Liu Qingqing might leave her far behind.

Liu Qingqing pursed her lips and looked at her husband before her, her eyes shining.

She was truly lucky.

If she hadn’t insisted on going to the Gu Family back then, she might have missed out on a man as stunning as her husband.

And then there wouldn’t be the her that exists today…

“It seems quite noisy outside; does my husband want to go out and calm things down?”

Liu Qingqing fell silent for a moment before she couldn’t help but suggest.

Because of the anomaly between heaven and earth, at this moment, the Elders of the Heavenly Cold Sect and even people like Sage Jian Chen were silently standing outside this great hall.

They wanted to see what was going on to cause such an anomaly.

“My wife’s reminder is timely.”

Gu Changge nodded slightly and then got up to head outside the hall.

The moment he stepped out of the hall, he realized that apart from those in seclusion, it seemed that the entire Heavenly Cold Sect had gathered here…

In an instant, all eyes turned toward him.

“Uh…”

Gu Changge couldn’t help but smile helplessly; he had just broken through to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm, and the stir was indeed a bit big!

“Young Master… what was that anomaly just now?”

Sage Jian Chen, always straightforward, immediately couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“I’ve broken through to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm.”

Gu Changge casually replied.

“…”

His response left everyone present, who had pricked up their ears to hear about some great fortune that caused such a celestial anomaly, dumbfounded.

Just a breakthrough?

Pull the other one!

It was unheard of for a breakthrough to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm to cause a celestial anomaly!

For a moment, everyone assumed he simply didn’t want to reveal the real reason.

No one believed that just breaking through to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm could cause such a sensational celestial anomaly.

Only the Gu Family Ancestor silently stroked his beard and said nothing.

Even the Old Blind Man looked indifferent. When he had rushed back to the Gu Family from Central State before, he had vaguely seen an anomaly of Purple Qi from the east.

Unfortunately, that anomaly had not fully manifested.

Calculating the time from then, it was precisely when the Young Master was breaking through to the Sixth Grade Refining Void Realm.

Both of them had no doubts about what Gu Changge had said.

Even Sage Jian Chen and Sage Zhao found it hard to believe that this was merely the anomaly caused by a breakthrough.

But they didn’t dwell too much on this issue!

If the Young Master didn’t want to say, they just had to believe it; there was no need to ask further if they didn’t believe.

“Since the Young Master has broken through to the Seventh Grade Unlimited Realm, is it time to set off for the Sword Sect?”

Sage Zhao’s eyes flickered; he was already eager to follow the Young Master back to the Sword Sect!

Even the Sect Master would probably be shocked!

The incident outside Duanbei City had been sent back to the sect immediately, and now the Young Master’s status in the Sect Master’s heart must have risen again!

Perhaps there were now Monarch Realm Great Powers secretly watching over him, to prevent the same kind of accident from happening again!

Little did he know, he was still guessing too conservatively.

At this moment, tens of thousands of li above the Heavenly Cold Sect, it was not some True Monarch Realm, but a real Land Immortal Realm Ancestor who was staying on guard!

“Indeed, it is time to set off.”

“In a few days.”

Gu Changge nodded slightly; although he felt somewhat reluctant to part with his wives, after all, it wasn’t some kind of tragic farewell.

Moreover, going to Central State didn’t mean he couldn’t come back.

So there was no thought of delaying.

“Perfect, I can send the good news of the Young Master’s breakthrough back to the sect.”

“The arrangements for the Young Master’s journey to the Sword Sect should not be lacking!”

Upon hearing this, Sage Zhao nodded repeatedly, indicating no rush.

When everyone had dispersed, and the disciples of the Heavenly Cold Sect were buzzing with discussions, speculating about what kind of heaven-defying fortune had caused such a celestial anomaly for Saint Gu, the consensus was that they really didn’t believe it was just a breakthrough!

Among them, even Zhu Qin couldn’t help being curious about what kind of grand fortune Young Master Gu had obtained.

Regrettably, she was simply out of his sight now, and even among the crowd earlier, Gu Changge hadn’t glanced in her direction, which made Zhu Qin feel inexplicably lost and inferior.

Originally, she thought that she was a pawn he had control over because he had caught her in a compromised situation.

But now?

He didn’t need her as a pawn at all—the pawn was just a self-assumed position.

…

After returning to the hall, seeing Qingqing and Yue’er’s reluctant gazes.

He also decided not to cultivate these next few days and spend more time with the two of them.

He planned to get the next three years’ worth of affairs in order!

However, this made Yuan Youbai miserable again, being forced to return to his room alone, lying on his bed fantasizing about once he arrived in Central State, without Sister Saintess and Sister Princess, his husband would belong to him alone.

He had forgotten that even in Central State, there was still Dongfang Mingyue…

Even now, before Gu Changge was headed to Central State, his reputation was gradually spreading there.

Who knew how many fairies would admire him and even throw themselves at him?

Anyone who could become the Saint Heir would have numerous female cultivators eager to throw themselves at him, let alone Gu Changge, who received the treatment of First Saint Son Peak!

Even many families and powers in Central State, if given the chance, would be willing to pair up their eligible young ones as Daoist couples, if only… they matched up well!