The Sect Master of Broad Sky Sect, Patriarch Void Sword, gained his title by being invincible among the swordsmen of his generation. He began as a mere outer disciple and climbed to the top without a master to teach him things.
He gained his high cultivation by using his sword intent as the foundation, he was called invincible within the same Realm and was one of the few Soul Transformation cultivators in the Sect.
"Where's your disciple?" Jian Sheng, the Patriarch Void Sword, asked Yu Jing, who was calmly smoking a pipe, as if not caring about his superior's presence.
"Don't play dumb!" Jian Sheng didn't look old, but he was older than Yu Jing, so he had no qualms as the disciples, "Before I smack your head inside your butt, bring him here."
Yu Jing calmly took the pipe out of his mouth and let the smoke escape through, "He is sleeping, don't tell me you can't see through the formations here with your cultivation."
"I'm not like you," Jian Sheng sneered, "I know how to keep basic manners."
"Bah!" Yu Jing sneered, "How righteous you are!"
Jian Sheng's expression turned dark as he saw his junior not giving him enough respect.
"I'm not afraid of you!" Yu Jing declared triumphantly, "I got your weakness in my hands!" He then proceeded to laugh like a villain.
"You saw me there, didn't you?" Jian Sheng looked at him mockingly, "Don't tell me you think I'm afraid of you talking to my wife about it."
"Hehe..." Yu Jing laughed, "Don't try to trick me, I have kept the proof in the hands of someone trustworthy, so if you try and silence me...
"Your wife will be the first to know the truth!"
Jian Sheng looked at him in silence for a while before saying, "You gave a Motion Crystal to Tu Long, right?"
Yu Jing sneered and kept his mouth shut, just enjoying the pipe.
"I knew it, I will deal with you after I deal with him," Jian Sheng said and disappeared from the cave.
A bead of sweat slowly appeared on Yu Jing's forehead... But his face remained stoic.
...
In his room, Yang Wu finally woke up, he looked at the unfamiliar place and sighed at how unpredictable life could be.
He got up from the ground and sorted all his thoughts again before leaving his room.
"You are finally out," Yu Jing appeared right in front of him just as he stepped outside, scaring him a bit, "I was waiting for you to calm down before we started things."
"Master," Yang Wu steeled his heart and accepted the reality he gained a master he knew almost nothing about, "I wait for your instructions."
"Don't talk so formally to me," Yu Jing waved his hand, "There's a saying that a Master is like a Father, so I hope you grow used to this old man. Moreover...
"If you ever come to awaken your past life's memories, we won't be too distant in terms of seniority."
"I will try..." Yang Wu nodded his head and still didn't correct Yu Jing's mistake.
"Let's enter your room, I already brought everything we need to start your cultivation," Yu Jing seemed to be in a hurry as he quickly pushed Yang Wu back to his room.
Although Yang Wu was a bit bewildered, he wasn't against starting immediately but was rather excited.
"Listen well to my explanation," Yu Jing began to teach after Yang Wu sat down.
"In this world, according to my knowledge, there are three ways for a human without cultivation to sense the Yuan Qi.
"The best way is to possess a Mystical Root, it is an innate gift, and not many possess it, it works like an organ and gives a person the innate ability to sense and absorb Yuan Qi, and not only that, it also determines one's overall talent. There are many grades and qualities of Mystical Roots, but this is not important right now.
"The second best way is to possess some kind of special physical constitution, there are many kinds of constitutions with different effects, and they also have grades dividing them, but this is not very important right now, although you also possess one special constitution.
"The third and least efficient way is to use external help to form a Fake Mystical Root, which would imitate an innate mystical root but without the benefits of increasing one's talent and giving special effects to one's True Qi"
"True Qi?" Yang Wu muttered.
"It's what we call the refined Yuan Qi inside our bodies," Yu Jing explained and pointed at him, "Although you possess a special constitution, for some reason it seems to not give you the ability to sense and absorb Yuan Qi.
"Therefore you need to follow the third way, to form a fake mystical root."
Yu Jing made a gesture with his hand and a five-colored lotus appeared in his right hand, "This is called Clear Sky Lotus, it will be the foundation of your fake mystical root."
Yang Wu could feel strong Five Elements Energy from the lotus, "How should I handle it?"
"Don't worry," Yu Jing smirked, "Just trust your master, can you do it?" he then looked meaningfully at Yang Wu.
"...It seems the truth didn't escape your eyes," Yang Wu sighed, "I'm sorry."
"You don't need to be," Yu Jing shook his head, "A true master-disciple relationship needs the trust of both parties, I was being too hasty and didn't wait for you to accept me."
Yang Wu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Can I ask if you really found me by accident?"
Yu Jing looked at him with a meaningful expression and said, "Do you believe it?"
Yang Wu shook his head in denial, "That Secret Realm is so big, how could there be such coincidence?"
Yu Jing smiled and nodded, "That's right, I lied before. It wasn't a coincidence that I found you."
Yang Wu looked at him calmly, as if expecting it.
"But... I didn't lie when I said I had no ill intentions," Yu Jing added with a laugh, "As a master of divination, I certainly do things with a purpose."
"You mean..." Yang Wu was enlightened, "You peeped in the future and found me?"
"I need you to risk your life for me in the future," Yu Jing was straightforward, "In exchange, I will treat you as my true disciple and will spare nothing to nurture you, are you willing?"
Yang Wu thought for a while and asked, "Is there any chance of me surviving?"
"Almost zero, if I'm being optimistic," Yu Jing didn't seem to lie, "I spent most years of my life span to peep into the future and get an answer for my intentions, it's to the extent I'm almost dying of old age. If I don't advance soon, I will die."
"I see..." Yang Wu sighed and got up from the ground, looking at Yu Jing without a trace of fear, "If you tell me in advance what you want me to do, I will accept you as my true master."
Yu Jing was silent for a long moment and suddenly smirked, "It seems you are better than I thought. Okay, I will tell you.
"I want you to betray our Sect and steal something very important from it. And not only that, I want you to kill someone of very high status."
Yang Wu suddenly laughed, surprising Yu Jing, "What an interesting turn of events..."
Yu Jing took another look at Yang Wu as if meeting him for the first time, "You..."
"Master!" Yang Wu suddenly held his fist with one hand and bowed, "Let me tell you one secret, I'm pretty eccentric as well. I'm excited and wonder about my future with you as my master, I hope it won't be boring."
Yu Jing was dumbfounded, he was paralyzed for a while before laughing hard. He didn't ask more about what Yang Wu meant as if accepting him.
"Won't you regret? What If I ask you to kill someone you like in the future?" Yu Jing asked with a wondering gaze.
Yang Wu looked at his eyes and asked, "Will you?"
Yu Jing asked again, "Why are you suddenly trusting me?"
"Who said disciples can't disobey their masters?" Yang Wu asked back, causing both of them to look at each other in silence.
"What a damn little fellow!" Yu Jing cursed, "Should I kill you right now?"
"And waste your efforts?" Yang Wu smirked.
"What if I was lying from the beginning?" Yu Jing sneered.
"Then my death is deserved," Yang Wu sat on the ground, "But there were those times in life when we need to risk everything, right?"
"How carefree!" Yu Jing drank a mouthful of wine from the gourd hanging on his waist and offered it to Yang Wu, who drank it along with him.
After the gourd was empty, Yu Jing said, "Let's start."
Yang Wu nodded.
The lotus floating above Yu Jing's palm suddenly began to shrink until it was hardly seen by Yang Wu, but it wasn't crushed.
Yu Jing put his finger on Yang Wu's forehead and said, "I will directly transfer the information to your mind, don't be scared."
Yang Wu nodded, it wasn't something new to him, even in his first life.
Knowledge about the formation of a fake mystical root began to surge inside Yang Wu's mind, quickly being absorbed by his powerful soul.
The first step of the process was to have someone at least in the Half-Step Nascent Soul Realm inject their Concept and True Qi inside the person's body and forcefully open the Dantian.
The Dantian was similar to the Qi Center, but it was located behind the navel, rather than inside the heart. Normally, only those with innate mystical roots or special constitutions are born with their Dantian in a half-opened stage, making it possible for them to fully open the dantian by themselves.
But a fully closed Dantian is very difficult to open, and only those who possess a concept and strong enough True Qi were able to open it without killing the person they wish to aid in the process.
Yu Jing put the hand that was 'holding' the lotus in Yang Wu's belly, "Maintain your calm, it won't hurt but will be shocking."
Yang Wu suddenly felt a strong energy inside his body, it was as vast as the starry sky and reminded him of his Qi Blood when he was still a Martial Sage. Yu Jing's True Qi seemed to be trying to find something close to his navel, and he could feel a strange Intent too, although it was called Concept in this world. That Concept was fiery but not like a flame, but like the majestic nebulas of the starry sky.
"Found it," Yu Jing muttered, and at the same time Yang Wu felt a never-before thing, it was as if a second Qi Center was being opened, but just behind his navel, it was smaller than his Qi Center, but just because he had no cultivation.
In the center of this new Qi Center, called Dantian in that world, the lotus from before was calmly floating, spreading a strange aura.
Yu Jing then took a piece of azure wood and a strange stone from somewhere and made them enter Yang Eu's newly opened Dantian. After that, the three objects began to merge together but still maintained the form of a lotus.
"Almost..." Yu Jing muttered, "It's time to awaken the Qi Meridians!"
Yang Wu received the relevant information about it before too, the Qi Meridians were similar to his Qi Veins but carried True Qi rather than Qi Blood.
The lotus in his dantian, with the help of Yu Jing's True Qi and Concept, began to shake Yang Wu's whole body, making the dormant and deeply hidden Qi Meridians to awaken, expand and connect to each other and the Dantian.
When the process was done and the Qi Meridians successfully established themselves, Yang Wu was surprised to find those Qi Meridians didn't intersect or touched any of his Qi Veins, as if avoiding them.
"The final step," Yi Jing interrupted his train of thoughts, "I need to take a little piece of your soul, so it will hurt."
Yang Wu nodded and felt a terrifying ache all over his body. It was as if pieces of his being were forcefully ripped from him. He knew the reason, the soul was connected to his whole body, so by hurting it, his body would also feel pain.
Yu Jing didn't waste time and merged the piece of Yang Wu's soul with the lotus. When it happened, Yang Wu felt an intense connection with the lotus, it was as if it were part of him since his birth, and at the same time, the pain disappeared, as if his body had become whole again.
"Done," Yu Jing smiled, "It is a high-grade fake mystical root, compared to a low-grade innate mystical root, it's something many dream about but are unable to obtain."
Yang Wu took a deep breath, he was deeply shocked at that moment. Just as he formed the fake mystical root, he began to feel "another world" around him, a mysterious and wonderful dense energy was everywhere, nurturing everything.
"Beautiful?" Yu Jing repeated the same question he made when Yang Wu exited the Secret Realm for the first time, "Welcome to the immortal world."
Yang Wu's old soul was trembling in excitement, his blood was as hot as a volcano. He tried and he indeed could absorb the Yuan Wi around him, it quickly entered his Qi Meridians through the pores in his body, and then entered his Dantian and was absorbed by the lotus there. After a second, the lotus released his first wisp of True Qi, it felt just similar to his Qi Blood and could be controlled at his will.
When it happened, his whole being shook, from his soul to his body. He felt a very familiar feeling, the feeling of a breakthrough. He successfully entered the Qi Refining Realm.