In Canglan Star,
The atmosphere turned into a complete celebration. Common people were thrilled to join the Eternal Academy. Cultivation, once a dream for many mortals, now seemed within reach. To cultivate, they typically needed proper techniques and martial arts only possessed by those of at least the 9th tier. But now, with the Eternal Academy on their world, every citizen could apply for any course they wished to pursue.
Not only that, the academy promised to provide techniques and even weapons according to their contribution to humanity. This was a monumental gain. The Eternal Academy offered everything for free, as its sole motto was to improve the power of humanity.
Even the higher-tier families joined the academy, eager to marvel at the new techniques and cultivation methods.
At this moment, the Xie family celebrated loudly within their clan halls. At a grand banquet, Huai and Wuhe were seated at the main table, with Xie Yan and his parents beside them.
Xie Yan looked at his master. "Master! I want to learn cultivation from you. I want to become as strong as you."
Xie Yan's mother, Lin Shuyue, immediately tapped his back. "Yan! Stop saying stupid things."
Before she could continue, Wuhe chuckled. "Hahaha, don't worry about it, Yan. Your master will make you stronger than even himself."
Huai also nodded. "Yes, Yan, you're going to be the face of our younger generation in the sect in the future. So, you need to be strong to do that."
Yan nodded, his eyes still bright with determination. Xie Wuyuan looked at Huai, dumbfounded. He never thought in his life that his own child, Yan, would become a young master of a 4th-tier sect.
The banquet continued, but Huai, Wuhe, and Yan left after they finished eating.
The Xie clan had already prepared a lavish courtyard for Huai and Wuhe.
Huai sat on a chair in the garden. He spoke to Yan, "Yan, I'm going to reinforce your meridians and nourish them with many divine herbs. You need to endure no matter what. Can you do that?"
Yan nodded. Huai waved his hand and placed it behind Yan, who was sitting in a lotus position. A violent white aura entered Yan's body, first protecting his dantian and vital parts, then leaping through every meridian.
Yan's face twisted in pain, but he endured, just as his master told him. He gritted his teeth. Huai smiled, then with a gentle wave of his other hand, countless divine medicines emerged from his system space. They transformed into liquid and entered Yan's body. His pain grew more and more severe.
Huai's voice cut through the agony. "Endure! Endure for a little while longer, Yan. If you can do this, you'll have a beautiful future ahead."
Yan gritted his teeth, his meridians tearing apart from the medicinal power, then reconstructing, stronger and clearer than before. One after another, all his meridians transformed.
His blood and spiritual energy began to circulate throughout his body. His power solidified.
At this moment, a notification appeared in Huai's mind...
[Ding!
Congratulations, Host, for changing the fate of your first disciple, Xie Yan.
Congratulations for achieving success in the meridian changing process.
Reward:
1. True Dragon Primal Body.
2. True Dragon Scimitar.]
Huai looked at Yan in confusion. True Dragon Primal Body? What kind of body is this? Why does it contain the words 'True Dragon'?
Huai asked his system mentally, "System! I don't need another body, right? Is it for Yan?"
[Ding!
Yes, Host, this system chose that physique for Xie Yan, and that weapon is also for him to use.]
Huai sighed, then spoke to Yan again. "Yan, now I'm going to infuse a physique into you. I don't know how much pain you'll feel doing that. If you don't want this physique, you can shake your head. If you want to integrate this body, then just nod."
Yan heard everything and nodded instantly, gritting his teeth. He knew his master would never harm him. He had complete faith in his master.
Huai took out the True Dragon Primal Body, which was just an orb of pure white light. But the power it emitted was far beyond Huai himself. Huai frowned but trusted that his system wouldn't harm his first disciple, so he channeled the light into Yan.
The light immediately entered his body, and the pain that had tormented Yan for the last few hours dissipated as if it had never been there. His expression became healthy, and in a second his entire demeanor changed. His body became like pure jade. His muscles solidified. Even his height increased by a few inches, making him appear like a child of about 15 or 16 years old.
He opened his eyes, then stood up. But the sky above Canglan Star changed completely, as if something terrifying was about to happen again. Huai looked at the sky and waved his hand to cover the phenomenon from outer planets and galaxies. Even the Sovereigns couldn't see what was happening.
Huge, countless creatures began to appear in the sky. Green, red, blue, white, yellow many colors, and some whose colors couldn't be detected at all.
Wuhe looked at the sky, his own blood boiling just from observing the phenomenon. His inner wolf tried to howl, but he suppressed it; the aura was strong enough to even shake him. He murmured, "Dragons! Not just one, but each and every branch of dragons is present here!"
Huai looked at the sky, then smiled. This was a phenomenon caused by the activation of Yan's physique. Those dragons circled Canglan Star, their eyes fixed on Yan. Yan also looked at them dazedly. After a few more minutes, the dragons stopped circling, then all bowed toward Yan in unison.
The whole planet saw it, and it was in the direction of the Xie family. The Xie family knew exactly which courtyard those dragons were bowing toward, so they already understood it was for the being inside the courtyard. Yan nodded at those figures in the sky, unknowingly, and the dragons dissipated in a second.
Yan came to a realization, immediately bowing to his master, still saluting with both hands in front of him, fists clenched.
"Master!"
Huai smiled, then took out the scimitar and handed it to him. "Take it! It will be your companion for your whole life."
Yan looked at the beautiful scimitar, engraved with many dragons, and felt his heart warm. He was about to reject it when Wuhe put a hand on his shoulder. "You don't need to reject it. Your master has many treasures."
Yan accepted it, then said, "Master! I vow from today, I will be your first sword. No matter which enemy you face in the future, I will be on the front line."
Huai chuckled. "Hahaha! Then let it be. Become strong enough to do good for humanity."
Yan nodded with resolute eyes, his heart firm. He had never felt this much happiness in his whole life.
Huai looked at him, then pointed his finger toward Yan's forehead. A vast knowledge of cultivation flooded his mind the way of the scimitar, the intricacies of cultivation, the proper footwork, and even the two compulsory techniques of the Eternal Sect, "Eternal Sutra" and "Eternal Divine Technique." All of them were engraved deep within Yan's mind.
And his cultivation broke through one realm after another. He had only been a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator moments before, but in mere seconds, he entered Body Integration, then Tribulation Transcendence and without any tribulation clouds appearing, he entered the Star Realm. His realm continuously climbed Star Master, Star Lord, Star King, until he finally stopped at Star Venerable Level 6.
Huai and Wuhe both looked dumbfounded. "What the hell!" Even the geniuses in their sect never leaped this high. Huai thought in his head, "Is it because of the physique?"
[Ding!
Yes, Host, the physique given by this system is top-tier in the whole universe in every realm. So how could it be cheap?]
Huai sneered at his system, saying in his head, "Boasting! Pure show off!"
But his system didn't answer. Yan opened his eyes, said to his master excitedly, "Master! Master! I reached Star Venerable Realm! Even my ancestor won't be a match for me!"
Huai ruffled his hair again, then chuckled, "Don't be complacent. Always remember to be humble and stay focused on your cultivation."
Yan nodded his head. Huai and Wuhe sat back in their chairs while Yan came forward to make tea for both of them.
Huai and Wuhe drank the tea prepared by Yan, while Yan said goodbye to his master and grand elder, then left the courtyard to meet his parents.
After he entered his parents' courtyard, he told them everything that had happened to him.
Lin Shuyue asked, "Yan'er! Was it your master who caused that phenomenon in the sky just now?"
Yan chuckled, then told her about his physique that changed everything for him, and said that it was all bestowed by his master. He even released his aura to make his parents proud.
Feeling the aura, Xie Wuyuan immediately said with teary eyes to Yan, "Yan! You don't know how powerful your master is. Never disrespect him, ever. You should always obey him. A being that could make someone break through from Nascent Soul to Star Venerable Realm in a single day is not simple at all. I never heard of anyone who could do that..."
Yan nodded, clenched his fist, and said, "My master is my only benefactor in this life. I will be strong as my master told me to do and face any enemy who dares to disrespect my master."
Lin Shuyue immediately hugged him, and even Xie Wuyuan joined them.
But when the canglan Star was in absolute celebration, inside a distant galaxy, on a beautiful planet covered by mountains, rivers, waterfalls, and mist...
The entire ancestral land of the dragon clan shook all over the ground, as if something terrible had happened to their territory.
This was the Aetheria Plane, a realm containing all kinds of mythical beasts: tigers, phoenixes, xuanwus, and many more, including dragons.
This plane also knew of the conflict between humans and nether races. Although the nether races were an enemy of all other races too, for these beast races, they were not as important as for humanity.
Nether races had actively attacked humans for a very long time. And this particular plane didn't have any bad relationship with humans, but they weren't friends either.
For them, humans were just ants. They never cared about them from the beginning.
But today, something changed in their ancestral land, and one after another, powerful Galaxy Sovereigns of the dragon race stepped out of their cultivation chambers.
A golden-silver dragon, at the Galaxy Sovereign Peak realm, commented, "It appeared! Where did it appear this time? Which dragon clan awakens the person?"
Another dragon, whose skin and scales were completely white, and whose age was perhaps older than that of the golden-silver dragon, said, "It's not here! It's in that direction..." He pointed his finger toward the vast, beautiful, bluish-green plane, looking like a piece of divine land.
Another sky-blue dragon looked at that point and said in horror, "Human territory? Our divine being reincarnated there? Impossible!"
The rest of the dragons echoed together, "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! It can't be, why did he choose to reincarnate there?"
The white dragon shook his head. He was also confused, but as the oldest among them, he needed to give them some points to follow, or else they would face annihilation.
"Humans are not simple to begin with. If he chose to be born there, it means he has a plan. We just need to find him before it is late."
He ordered the other dragons, "Send envoys to human territory. No matter what they want, just get permission from those five. We need to find him soon."
The dragons nodded, then one after another disappeared to their own territories, just to give orders to their clan.
The white dragon, still floating in the air, looked at the vast human territory. "Did he come back also?"