Chu Feng had no idea what happened after he left.
He still thought he had escaped calamity and picked up his life from the gates of hell.
It was not that Chu Feng was timid or afraid of trouble, but that Sacred Valley old man was, for the current Chu Feng, simply too ridiculously strong, an existence he could not contend with.
However, after leaving, Chu Feng did not hurry to depart from that world. Instead, once he felt safe, he found a quiet place and delved deeply into studying that bead.
Chu Feng was far too eager for power. He wanted to quickly raise his cultivation, quickly enter the Wolong Martial Sect, and quickly see Zi Ling.
Of course, his desire to raise his cultivation was not solely to rescue Zi Ling.
There were also his family members.
After all, only with sufficiently strong cultivation could he investigate matters concerning his grandfather and grandmother.
But the distance to that level of cultivation was still far too remote for the current Chu Feng.
“So difficult to handle?”
At this moment, Chu Feng sat above the clouds, with the bead right in front of him.
Yet just looking at the bead left Chu Feng somewhat helpless.
The Sacred Valley old man had not deceived him.
The power within this bead was clearly so abundant, and Chu Feng could feel it distinctly.
But making the power within this bead serve him was not a simple matter.
This bead seemed to have formed its own life. Though it was a cultivation resource, it possessed its own consciousness.
Using its power for cultivation was not impossible, but it required gaining its recognition.
Yet obtaining this bead’s recognition was not easy.
Chu Feng needed to continuously infuse his own power and aura into it.
But this matter could not be rushed. It could only proceed slowly. Exactly when he could gain the bead’s recognition, Chu Feng had no way to determine.
That depended entirely on the bead’s will.
Though somewhat disappointed, Chu Feng was not upset.
The power of this bead, although not easy to obtain, could at least be obtained. The only difference was a matter of time.
It was far better than the divine tree seed within his body.
That divine tree seed was something Chu Feng truly could not control.
Whether it could be used by him, Chu Feng was still unclear.
He did not even know if it was a blessing or a curse.
After all, whenever his bloodline power tried to refine that divine tree seed.
The divine tree seed would resist.
And the result of that resistance was to cause Chu Feng’s cultivation to regress.
Each regression brought some trouble to Chu Feng.
So for now, the divine tree seed brought only harm to Chu Feng.
As for benefits, none could be seen.
“Alas, the path of martial cultivation is truly not easy.”
Chu Feng sat above the clouds, looked at the bead, sighed once, then used boundary power to seal it, preventing its energy from leaking out.
But Chu Feng did not store it in his Cosmos Sack. Instead, he placed it inside his body.
He did this because he needed to continuously infuse his power into the bead.
Keeping it in his bosom would make it easy to expose. If he encountered a cultivator stronger than himself, the bead would inevitably be seized.
But hiding it within his body made it less likely to be discovered, relatively much safer.
After doing all this, Chu Feng stood up and prepared to leave.
He had already decided where to go.
The strongest junior competition hosted by the Holy Light Clan, Chu Feng was definitely attending.
Chu Feng was going not to make a name for himself, but mainly to obtain the cultivation rewards provided by the Holy Light Clan.
After all, Chu Feng was too eager for cultivation. As long as there was an opportunity to raise it, Chu Feng would not let it pass.
But for now, there was still some time before that junior competition.
So Chu Feng prepared to go to another place.
That was the Great Thousand Upper Realm in the Ancestral Martial Starfield.
There lay the roots of his family, the Chu Heavenly Clan.
Back then, after parting with the Chu Clan leader and others at the Purple Star Hall, Chu Feng had not seen them again.
Because Chu Feng worried for their safety, he had even entrusted Xianhai Shaoyu to relocate the entire Chu Heavenly Clan to a safe place.
Although Chu Feng knew where that relocation spot was, he had never gone to see it.
Though Chu Feng greatly trusted Xianhai Shaoyu’s abilities, some things were more reassuring seen with one’s own eyes.
Anyway, there was still some time before the strongest junior competition. Chu Feng wanted to visit the Chu Clan leader and the others.
“That is?”
But just as Chu Feng prepared to set off, his expression suddenly changed, and then his gaze shifted dramatically.
It turned out that in the southeast direction, a group of cultivators was flying towards Chu Feng’s position.
Because Chu Feng was in a concealed state, they had not noticed his presence at all and were conversing without restraint.
But what Chu Feng cared about most was not their conversation, but a scroll travelling alongside them in the air.
On that scroll were two women, and Chu Feng recognised them.
They were surprisingly Su Rou and Su Mei.
Who were Su Rou and Su Mei?
Like Zi Ling, they were people who had shared life and death with Chu Feng back in the Nine Provinces Continent of the Ancestral Martial Lower Realm, and they were also women Chu Feng deeply loved.
“It really is them.”
“Could Senior Yuexian really be here too?”
At first, Chu Feng could not be certain, but after careful observation, he confirmed it was indeed Su Rou and Su Mei.
He could not possibly fail to recognise his own beloved women.
However, upon seeing the portraits of Su Rou and Su Mei, what emerged in Chu Feng’s mind was not only the deeply missed Su Rou and Su Mei, but also another person: Yuexian.
Yuexian originated from the Ancestral Martial Lower Realm, an existence who dominated it ten thousand years ago.
She also had an extraordinary relationship with Qing Xuantian.
But due to certain special reasons, Yuexian could not travel the martial cultivation world in her own body and could only borrow the bodies of Su Rou and Su Mei.
The last time Chu Feng saw Yuexian was still in the Ancestral Martial Starfield.
At that time, Yuexian told Chu Feng she needed to borrow Su Rou and Su Mei’s bodies for one hundred years.
After a century, she would not only return their bodies but also impart all her cultivation to them.
And Su Rou and Su Mei had agreed to this condition.
Though Yuexian had initially forcibly occupied their bodies.
Later on, Su Rou and Su Mei willingly lent their bodies to Yuexian.
Their relationship was very harmonious, even like teacher and friends, so Chu Feng’s impression of Yuexian was not bad. At least, he held no hostility.
After parting back then, Chu Feng had thought it would be hard to see Yuexian again.
Because what Yuexian was doing was pursuing Qing Xuantian’s whereabouts.
Yet unexpectedly, here he saw news of Yuexian.
Because those people were not only carrying portraits of Su Rou and Su Mei.
What they were discussing was also related to them, and they knew Yuexian’s whereabouts.
