Mao Ling watched from afar as his son Mao Qiang violently assaulted another training dummy in the courtyard.
"There goes another one of those expensive dummies I still find it hard to believe he can break them so easily after all there made of dragon steel which is said to be as tough as the scales of a dragon," said a truly surprised Mao Ling.
He knew of the doll's toughness he tested them after all.
He punched one using all of his strength but it didn't even leave a scratch on the iron silkworm thread cloth covering the doll and now he was watching that same cloth be burned off by his son's blood Qi.
Mao Ling never saw such vigorous blood Qi before it can only be thanks to that dangerous technique the venerated ichor method.
He heard about this technique from a friend of his that worked at the heavenly treasure pavilion which was a super sect that originates from the central plains and was one of the few sects that had multiple locations throughout several different lands.
It was like a merchants guild from a fantasy world that provides everything from cultivation techniques to valuable materials you could even hire assassins or mercenaries through the heavenly treasure pavilion.
Mao Ling had a friend who was a senior member of this sect and he was the one who gave him that technique.
The venerated ichor method had two parts and the heavenly treasure pavilion only sold the first part but thanks to his connections he got the second part as well.
The pavilion only provides the part that tells you how to cultivate blood Qi excluding how to turn your Qi into golden blood Qi.
The second part which he got with the help of his friend includes the process of how to transform your Qi into golden blood Qi and how to use that golden blood Qi to make the body undergo a metamorphosis.
Mao Ling spent a lot of valuable resources to get that second half but the results more than make up for the cost.
He was hesitant at first to have his precious heaven favorite son Mao Qiang use such an infamously famous technique.
Heaven's favorites weren't very common only a few were born every generation and were especially rare here in the barren southern lands which haven't had a heavens favorite be born in over a thousand years.
Such monstrous genius could comprehend the Dao easily seeing as they were very well-liked by the laws of the great Dao.
It's considered common for all of them to reach the Nascent soul realm by five if they haven't then that usually means there lazy or incompetent.
The only reason Mao Qiang hasn't broken through yet is because the Dao he's pursuing happens to be a rather difficult one to make any progress in.
"Hmm, the physical Dao only true cultivation monsters can reach immortality by pursuing that tricky Dao," said Mao Ling as he continued to stare at Mao Qiang as he trained.
As he stared he could sense a very faint trace of the laws of the great physical Dao on his body.
It was only a matter of time before his son broke through to the Nascent soul realm and when he did it wouldn't take him very long to reach the Ascension realm.
His son would definitely reach the Ascension realm before the age of 10 and when he did he'd be the youngest Ascension realm expert in the southern lands.
Even after that, he will continue to grow at an exponential rate as was the fate of all heaven's favorites to soar higher than everyone else.
All my life I thought I was a genius but compared to him I'm only slightly less worse than any random mortal now I get why Mao Jiang went crazy with jealousy after seeing him for the first time.
Mao Ling continued to think about Mao Qiang and his monstrous talent when all of a sudden he sensed someone approaching him.
He recognized this fearsome aura it was his son he turned and saw Mao Qiang walking toward him his body covered in sweat.
"Hey father I'm bored I'm not getting anywhere by hitting a lifeless doll I want a real opponent you know like you promised to get me," said a slightly annoyed Mao Qiang.
Ignoring his son's disrespectful tone he answered him truthfully.
"Don't worry in just a week's time the sacred sun sect will be hosting a conference in the holy yang fields and as an elite disciple I will be going and as my son, you will also come many other young cultivators will show up as well and it's there you can find an opponent to fight you," said Mao Ling in his usual lifeless tone.
The sacred sun sect is hosting an event why would they do that?
Noticing my confusion Mao Ling told me about the specific details of the conference.
"Every few years the cultivators will meet at this conference to show off their strength and share knowledge about cultivation and it just so happens that out of the other three super sects this year our sect will be hosting the event,"
"Not only members of the sacred sun sect will appear vagabond cultivators and cultivators of other sects will arrive to demonstrate their might in the hopes that they will receive the attention of the other sects,"
"The sacred sun sect will even offer great rewards for those who do well during the conference and if you are lucky you could even be recruited by a strong sect that's why this conference is so important for many how well they do at this conference will determine their entire futures," said Mao Ling as he walked away leaving Mao Qiang standing in the courtyard.
Just a week huh, well then I better train even harder this week.
Mao Qiang walked toward the already beaten up training dummy and continued violently assaulting the dummy he had to be ready for the upcoming conference.