“What do guys think?”

Unknown to Qing Yun, several figure were watching the fight that took place inside the closed space from the beginning. Although they were barely visible, according to their voices they should be members of the younger generation.

Several strange looking objects could be seen under their feet as they floated in the sky.

“I say, you guys must have gone stupid, you actually believe all that crap? Those crazy people who came out from the five continents back then were just blabbing nonsense.” One of the youths snorted in disdain.

“Still, it’s hard not to believe them. When they came back they looked as if they escaped from the depth of hell. Something must have happened in the five continents back then, yet when the great forces sent people to investigate there were no traces of the great disaster that those people spoke of.”

“En, the people in the five continents don’t appear to be aware of anything, as if nothing happened, it’s weird.”

Twenty years ago several people who came out of the five continents brought with them a piece of astonishing news. A certain sect tried to use a killing formation to refine all the lives in the five continent. It was a young man without any cultivation who fought against that sect by himself and emerged victorious.

Of course, at that time no one believed this. They just though that those people have gone crazy. There were just several individuals that found the whole situation odd and sent people to investigate. After all, those people who brought the information looked too hazard, their mental state was completely in disorder as they seemed to keep on the last thread of their sanity.

What astonished people even more was that those who came out of the five continents were not frighten by that sect but rather by that young man named Qing Yun who they described as a demon god who descended in the mortal world.

Unfortunately after investigating they found no evidence of such catastrophic event, no just that but the people in the five continents seemed to not know anything about this. After this, people outside the five continents nodded their heads and didn’t appear surprised at all as they never believed that something like that could happen.

Nonetheless, there were still several individual who wore thoughtful expression as they kept on believing that something must have happened in the five continents.

Although this kept on bugging several people it didn’t last long as another piece of astonishing news took it’s place. A certain cultivator from outside the five continents divined that numerous wondrous treasure will soon emerge all over the five continents.

This time no one even had time to express their doubts before great ripples of natural energies suddenly appeared from several location in the five continents. After investigating, they found out that numerous ancient remains have begun emerging all over the five continents.

The world outside the five continents exploded in turmoil as all the great powers sent people in hope of obtaining those treasures.

At this moment, Qing Yun was not aware that the power structure in the five continents has changed completely from his past life.

“Of course even if that were true, it would still be impossible for this guy to be that Qing Yun.” Another youth said, after a short pause he turned towards the one who spoke earlier and chuckled, “Though I have to admit, this guy is pretty good, don’t you think so Qing Qiao? Your family young miss seems to be quite smitten by this guy. Yaa, even I have no choice but to admire this guy, even though his cultivation is trash, he has good looks and smooth moves, he struck it rich with just a leap!”

“Xu Fan, it seems you don’t wish to keep that tongue of yours!” The youth named Qing Qiao spoke in an overshadowed voice, killing intent emanated from his body however it didn’t seem to be directed towards that Xu Fan as Qing Qiao was glaring at Qing Yun the whole time.

The space around those figures distorted before a middle aged looking man emerged from the distorted space.

“Uncle Lei!” The arrogance on those youths’s faces immediately dispersed as they greeted the middle aged man with due respect from a junior to a senior.

“Shouldn’t you brats search for ancient remnants, what are you doing here?” The man named Lei asked.

“Uncle Lei, it seems there is a sealing formation here, aren’t there ancient remains under this city? Why don’t we search for them?”

This was the main reason why they came here, however they got strict orders not to touch this particular formation.

The man named Lei looked at the youth before turning his gaze downwards, “This formation it’s not something you can handle. The elders from the six great families will come personally and take care of it.” After a short pause he turned towards the youths again. “You should head towards that divine mountain. The defensive formation is weakening as we speak, it probably won’t last more than a year. If you can find the legacy of a true immortal that will be a great fortune for all of us.”

When the middle aged man spoke about the divine mountain, the eyes of the youths were set ablaze with great desire. Without wasting anymore time they bid farewell to the middle aged man before turning into rays of light that shot towards the distance.

However, there was one person who remained. The middle aged man looked towards Qing Qiao who had yet to leave and sighed. “You should forget about it, after that incident madam and young miss probably won’t see us as family anymore. Both of them seem to love that boy very much. If you try to do something to him you will regret it.”

Qing Qiao clenched his fist at the sound of those words, killing intent surged inside his eyes once again as he thought of Qing Yun. Seeing this, the middle aged man could just shake his head, “The seal on madam has been weakened and her cultivation started to recover. That Long Yun has exited his retreat and it’s on his way here as we speak. After those years of bitter cultivation his power increased greatly. If he want’s to take madam and young miss away we won’t be able to do anything.” The middle aged man knew that he said what he should say and disappeared soon after.

This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.

After a while, Qing Qiao clenched his teeth before turning into a streak of light and disappearing into the distance too.

…

After meeting up with Qing Su, Qing Yin and Su Yijun, Qing Yun went back to the Su Clan manor under the questioning gazes of the later two. The two didn’t voiced any question though. From their behavior, Qing Yun could tell that they may know something about the formation but he didn’t ask either.

Inside his room, Qing Yun stood on his bed with a thoughtful expression on his face, several Qi Needles were injected in his body as they led the energy inside his body towards his wounds slowly healing them.

The stone seat still in the middle of the room, Qing Yun however didn’t plan to add more symbols today since he already lost too much blood. He wasn’t in a hurry anyway since he knew that tomorrow Jia Xinyi and Old Lan will come with the Blood Replenishing Pellets. Tomorrow will be the day he will form his soul and became a Symbol Master.

At this moment his mind was on the earlier fight as he wanted to comprehend more about his current cultivation. There were too many oddities. His sudden surge in strength after just two weeks was too astonishing even for him. Even then, with his aura that was similar to that of a 4th layer of Houtian he defeated someone at the first layer of Xiantian.

Even he found this hard to believe. Even fighting over one or two layer should be something just those loved by heaven could do. Qing Yun was aware of his own potential, even after his body was cured his talent in cultivation was something he would cry about as it was below average.

Time passed slowly as he tried to comprehend the mysteries of his cultivation. His eyes gradually closed as he entered in a state of meditation. His senses were closed and now he couldn’t fell his surroundings. The Qi Needles slowly dissipated too however Qing Yun didn’t seem to notice.

The mark on his forehead that resembled an ancient symbol let out a faint glow that enveloped the silver ring on his finger. The ring immediately transformed into a silver veil that enveloped Qing Yun body like a cocoon.

…

Somewhere above the city, the man addressed as Uncle Lei opened his eye and looked towards Su Clan’s manor. A complicated look flashed through his eyes as he tried to sense something.

“His aura completely vanished again.” The middle aged man laughed bitterly as he shook his head. “The expert behind that boy should be much stronger than me since he can hide even that boy’s aura so flawlessly,”

“Ugh, Madam and Long Yun are too much already. Now we may need to deal with some mysterious expert too. Sigh, those pedantic fellows from the family won’t listen to reason and it will undoubtedly fall upon me to take care of this mess, sigh.”

The middle aged man continued to lament his life as he though of the incident that will eventually fall upon him.

…

In a room inside the Su Clan manor.

“Sister Yin, how is your cultivation.” Su Yijun asked, as she looked towards the graceful figure of Qing Yin that stood across from her.

“Mn, it’s slowly coming back to me, it shouldn't take much before I regain my peak strength.” Qing Yun responded. Her voice contained some happiness but more than that was a sense of bewilderment.

“That’s good! Still I wonder how come that the seal was weakened all of a sudden?”

The two looked at each other and saw the doubt in each other’s eyes. Qing Yin cultivation was restricted by a powerful seal. They tried many times to undone it but to no avail. However when Qin Yin was suddenly cured by that poison a small crack appeared on the seal. Qin Yin then used her power to slowly make the crack bigger until her cultivation started to leak out of the seal.

It was a good thing however none of them knew how it happened.

At this moment both of them looked towards a certain place inside the manor. It was the building were Qing Yun resided.

“His aura disappeared again!”

Over the past days they felt Qing Yun’s aura disappearing several times, however they didn’t tried to inquire about it as they attributed this occurrence to his mysterious master.

…

Qing Yun stood unmoved for two hours now. No change could be seen in his surroundings but at this moment the ancient mark on his forehead showed some reaction.

In just an instant the faint light it gave of transformed in a fervent purple light that seemed to have formed several tentacles that wiggled around Qing Yun. Surprising enough, the purple light didn’t tried to get out of the silver cocoon as if it knew that it could conceal it ripples.

Soon enough, the purple light started to mend with the silver cocoon. Numerous purple veined patterns started to appear on the silver veil. Intense ripple of energy gushed out of the ancient mark and crashed into the silver cocoon like floodwaters. Even so, the silver veil didn’t let any ripple leak out.

Purple and silver light started to mend with each other creating a bizarre yet beautiful sight. Specks of light emerged from the silver cocoon and began to dance around it as if they were alive.

At this moment Qing Yun mind shook. The veined patterns on the silver veil began to wiggle and formed ancient looking characters that were imprinted on the silver cocoon. Following the appearance of the ancient characters Qing Yun lost control of the energy inside of his body which began to move as if it was controlled by someone else.

The crystalline core inside his dantian trembled in excitement as it let out wave after wave of Primordial Qi. The five colored lighting started to tremble in fright after witnessing the huge activity of the crystalline core.

Like floodwaters, the Primordial Qi poured throughout Qing Yun's whole body. It was no more just a cycle of flowing through his meridians and dantian. It escaped this cycle and circulated through his bones, flesh, muscles, organs and skin. Even his injuries began to heal at an astonishing pace, there was no place in his body that was not touched by the Primordial Qi.

When the Primordial Qi completed it’s first cycle throughout Qing Yun body, he suddenly felt a burning sensation that engulfed his whole body. However, the Promordial Qi didn’t stopped there, after it’s first cycle was completed it once again started to circulate through his body.

The time passed slowly, Qing Yun didn’t know how much time it passed but the Primordial Qi reached it’s 9th cycle now. With every cycle the burning sensation inside Qing Yun body became more unbearable. The pain was too unbearable and Qing Yun reached his limit a long time ago, even so he didn’t make any sound, even his face looked so calm that one would not think that he suffered such pain.

Fortunately, the primordial Qi stopped after it’s 9th cycle and even the burning sensation started to subside. Qing Yun however didn’t opened his eyes nor did he tried to suppress the energy fluctuation.

The burning sensation was almost gone aside from one place on Qing Yun's body, his back. But this time it was not painful but rather comfortable. At this point the energy inside his body started to flow towards his back.

Till now, Qing Yun was quite perplexed about the unusual occurrences inside his body however, when he saw what the primordial qi was trying to do, his mind shook in elation. He always had a good control over his emotions but at this moment he actually had to forcefully suppress them to keep himself from not waking up from this state of comprehension.

Everything was clear now, he finally knew why it was so hard to gauge his power. The Primordial God Physique actually let him directly cultivate in the True Realm!