Chen Ku used the Earth Escape Skill underground, escaping ten li away in one breath, arriving in the forest.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

In the forest, the wind was fierce, and his thoughts were chaotic. At this moment, he was frantically searching his mind on how to deal with a Seventh Realm Martial Practitioner.

He was also very curious, why didn't the Transformation Diagram give a hostility warning?

His thoughts extended further...

Just when Chen Ku was in the wind feeling lost.

Boom!

Only a dozen breaths after he arrived in the forest, did an old man descend like a meteor from the sky, landing with a boom, standing three zhang away from him.

"It's really... that elder!"

Chen Ku looked at the elder who had landed in front of him with a booming presence, subconsciously stepping back, his face filled with uncertainty as he watched, waiting for the elder's move.

In his mind, he was already prepared with various countermeasures.

Although with his current ability, facing a master of the Seventh Realm, there was absolutely no chance of winning, he would never give up any possibility.

If there's no other way, just sell out the location of the Hero King Treasure!

But to his great surprise, while his mind was filled with these thoughts, he saw the elder holding a bead radiating five-colored treasure light, looking at him, face full of excitement, only focusing on examining him up and down:

"Five Spirit Roots! Five Spirit Roots!"

Chen Ku watched the elder as if he had gone mad, first circling around him, then raising the bead with both hands to the sky.

"Five Spirit Roots?"

He was shocked. Was it referring to his Five Spirits Body formed from the Five-colored Peacock Transformation?

Why react this way?

Could it be that kind of old demon from online novels who wants to seize spirituality from others? He subconsciously took another step back, thinking of various contingency plans.

Unexpectedly.

Seeing Chen Ku's wary backward step as he reached for his waist, Shan Lingguan's heart trembled, realizing his previous reaction was too inappropriate, seemingly frightening the child again.

Immediately, he adjusted his expression to appear as a kindly elderly man, straightforwardly saying to Chen Ku:

"Don't be afraid, I mean no harm. I just want to ask if you would like to become my disciple, my only direct disciple."

"Accepting a disciple?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ku's suspicion and caution in his eyes did not diminish, remaining suitably vigilant:

"Senior charged at me twice with such force, just to take me as a disciple?"

Shan Lingguan, seeing Chen Ku's cautious and wary demeanor, was not at all displeased. In fact, he very much appreciated it; the Jianghu was dangerous, and being sufficiently vigilant towards strangers was right, or else one wouldn't know how they died.

He didn't want the only disciple he would take in his lifetime to end up dead due to carelessness.

Thus, he seized the opportunity, explaining his purpose as clearly as possible in a short time, saying:

"Listen, I am one of the Supreme Elders of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect in You State, surname Shan, given name Lingguan. I also have a disciple nephew named Qin Yuxian. If you don't believe it, you can confirm with Little Qin to verify my identity."

"Imperial Enlightenment Sect?"

Initially, upon hearing the 'Imperial Enlightenment Sect,' Chen Ku looked as though he'd never heard of it, but when he heard that the elder had a disciple nephew named Qin Yuxian, his gaze shook slightly:

"The nephew you mentioned, Senior... is that the President Qin Yuxian of the Qiu Dragon Thirty-Six Martial Association?"

Shan Lingguan felt a mix of helplessness and satisfaction in his heart.

As the Inner of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect, he never sought fame or presence.

In any sect, someone must be the Outer and someone the Inner.

The Outer must remain unblemished. If it bleeds, the Inner must hold it together. If it cannot, and it spills onto the Outer, it's a matter of sect destruction.

The Imperial Enlightenment Sect suffered such a calamity back then because the Inner failed, leading to sect destruction.

Therefore, the less known his reputation, the safer the Imperial Enlightenment Sect and Qin Yuxian were. Conversely, the greater Qin Yuxian's reputation, the cleaner it was, proving how well he did as the Inner.

"He's the very Qin Yuxian stationed in your Baojiao County, who will soon preside over the Martial Arts Examination."

Seeing Chen Ku finally relax a bit, the elder did not rush, speaking with a smile:

"I guessed you might have mistaken me for the elder behind those three young men you encountered that night, hence being wary that I was here to avenge them."

Chen Ku remained slightly silent.

It's not his fault for thinking that way. It was too similar.

Shan Lingguan didn't say much more, only stating:

"To tell you the truth, the reason I followed those three young men was that among them, there was someone suitable for cultivating my technique, so I intended to test him. Unexpectedly, while following them, I discovered you... then discovered you..."

Here, Shan Lingguan's breathing quickened slightly.

Five Spirits Body!

This child is actually a Five Spirits Body!

He thought encountering even a Triple Spirit Body in this lifetime would be a gift from heaven, giving him another chance to take a disciple. Never expected to meet someone like himself with a Five Spirits Body!

What does this mean!

In those days, he, being a Five Spiritual Body, managed to cultivate to the Fifth Layer of the Huntian Overlord Body in less than twenty years. Unfortunately, not long after that, chaos erupted.

The sect was destroyed, the senior and junior brothers all died, and the masters and uncles were also defeated and doomed,

You could say, if his sect hadn't encountered the chaos over a hundred and fifty years ago, and with the elders all wiped out, without the support of elders, he could have at least shortened the time to cultivate to the Seventh Layer of the Huntian Overlord Body by two-thirds, and could even hope to go further, cultivating to the Eighth Layer, or even the Ninth Layer...

The background and backing of the sect are crucial for cultivation.

For all these years, it was entirely by pulling together with just two senior and junior brothers that he managed to rebuild the Imperial Enlightenment Sect. Now, the senior and junior brothers have also passed away, leaving only one promising youngster, Qin Yuxian, standing with him within a domain, rebuilding the Imperial Enlightenment Sect in another form.

Today, the Qiu Dragon Martial Meeting, though not as glorious as the Imperial Enlightenment Sect in its heyday, still possesses seventy to eighty percent of its foundation.

Now, he's met someone like him back then, another Five Spiritual Body.

You could say, Chen Ku has much better luck. As long as he, Qin Yuxian, and the Qiu Dragon Martial Meeting exist, the successor he accepts will have a much smoother path in cultivating the Huntian Overlord Body than he did.

Perhaps, he could aim for the pinnacle of the Huntian Overlord Body and truly cultivate the "Tyrant Body"!

"So, does the requirement to cultivate the predecessors' cultivation technique require a Five Elements Body?"

Chen Ku softly repeated once, saying:

"However, this young one has already taken Yang Luochen, the grand master of Medicine King Hall, as his master."

This statement was, of course, an excuse, since even Yang Luochen himself had expressed hope for him to take Qin Yuxian as master. If this old man before him was indeed Grandmaster Qin Yuxian's Master Uncle, then taking him as a master would be no hindrance.

But he still needed confirmation...

"I understand you're still worried."

Shan Lingguan didn't say much. The person was found, and Medicine King Hall was there; the cooked duck wouldn't fly away. He then smiled with hands behind his back:

"I'll give you time to confirm. When you're ready to apprentice, just seek out Qin Yuxian, and he will bring you to meet me. I'll be waiting for you over there."

After speaking, the old man directly rose from the ground, shooting into the sky.

As he watched the old man's swift departure, a shock appeared in Chen Ku's eyes:

"Does this old man always make such a commotion every time he ascends and descends?"

After Shan Lingguan rose to the sky, he glanced back at Chen Ku, musing silently: "This time, it's not startled but rather astounded."

Swoosh~

Chen Ku paused for a moment on the spot, still digesting this unexpected but safe occurrence.

"Take on a disciple? Become a master? Qin Yuxian? Imperial Enlightenment Sect?"

On his way back to Medicine King Hall's residence, his mind remained active without pause. To say he wasn't expectant was impossible:

"If all proves true, wouldn't I become Grandmaster's junior brother? That Thirteenth Guardian's Junior Master Uncle? How high would my seniority soar?"

Yet he still wanted to inquire more.

So he found a reason to discuss the Fourth Realm cultivation technique with Master Yang Luochen, when he mentioned the three words 'Imperial Enlightenment Sect.'

"Imperial Enlightenment Sect, where did you hear about this sect??" Yang Luochen did indeed know of it, and said gravely: "This sect is not simple; it's said one of the Ten Great Rebel Kings who shook the world back then was supported by them. The sect has three World-Surpassing Ultimate Skills, and one skill is said to have the potential to become a Divine Skill, called something like 'Huntian Overlord Body'..."

Huntian Overlord Body?

Potential to become a Divine Skill?

Wouldn't that be equivalent to Mountain-Lifting Heaven King Xiong Ying's [Sky-Shaking Earth-Shattering Divine Technique]?

"By the way, where did you hear about this sect?" Yang Luochen frowned and asked: "This sect was wiped out during the struggle among the Rebel Kings back then."

"Just in a book..." Chen Ku casually lied, then, after receiving the Fourth Realm Meridian-Opening incantation from his master, he returned to his courtyard.

Glancing at the sky, he intended to investigate further with the grandmaster tomorrow.

Just then.

Buzz buzz~~

A small yellow-red-tailed bee suddenly flew into Chen Ku's house.

"Hmm? You've returned, let me see what you found while tracking Sui You."

Seeing this bee incarnation, Chen Ku uttered a command to retrieve it, then absorbed the incarnation into his mind, reviewing its memories.

A moment later.

He suddenly widened his eyes:

"I've found the entrance to the Hero King Treasure's underground palace!"

Immediately, Chen Ku was ecstatic.

From his memory's viewpoint, he saw Sui You being followed to a mountain, where there was a mine. Inside the mine, there were hundreds or even thousands of workers digging channels. Sui You and some people resembling tomb robber geomancers were discussing something.

The bee overheard a phrase:

"Only fifteen zhang left to penetrate the spot leading directly to the underground palace's gate."

Chen Ku immediately couldn't sit still.

In his mind, from the Xu Family's Blood Memory Inheritance, he possessed a complete and intact 'Underground Palace Route Map', which perfectly marked the three treasure vaults inside that underground palace. It noted the routes to take to avoid the mechanical copper men and numerous tomb guardian beasts...

He was merely lacking the location of the underground palace.

Now, the position of the underground palace had been discovered, Shangguan Yun and his people were only a dozen zhangs away from opening the entrance over there, how could Chen Ku still sit idly?

He must drink the first soup, take the first bite of meat, and beat Shangguan Yun to it!

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