Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1332 - 1328: Prediction

He stood before the Karma Stone Wall, shaking his head and sighing.

Footsteps sounded, and Zhang Ji Yuan came to his side, chuckling, "Junior Brother, how is it? ... Let me give you a piece of advice, don’t waste your efforts here, it’s all in vain and a waste of time. You’d be better off using this time to cultivate a bit more."

Chu Zhiyuan looked at Zhang Ji Yuan.

He placed the Strange Stone into his hand.

Zhang Ji Yuan reluctantly took it: "Test again? Is it necessary? Anyway, Senior Brother Ning and I will be staying in the sect without going out."

Chu Zhiyuan concentrated on the Strange Stone, nodded slightly, "It’s fine now."

Zhang Ji Yuan was stunned, immediately asked, "It’s fine now? Does that mean I can go out?"

Chu Zhiyuan said, "At least today you can go out."

"Haha... Great, great, great!" Zhang Ji Yuan was overjoyed, "I’m off then!"

He turned around briskly and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and shook his head.

This Senior Brother Zhang is restless by nature.

Staying quietly in the sect to cultivate is a completely different feeling from being forced to stay in the sect and something he couldn’t stand.

It’s like a beast being released from its cage.

He turned and went downstairs, returned to the main hall through the Light Gate, and saw Ning Dongge.

Ning Dongge was sitting cross-legged on a cushion against the wall, motionless, as if his soul had left his body.

Chu Zhiyuan concentrated and activated Super Sense, opening the Golden Pupil at the center of his brow.

Ning Dongge in front of him immediately moved.

He stood up from the cushion and practiced a set of Fist Techniques, then sat down again, as still as a clay statue, before standing up again to practice, then sat down motionlessly again.

After repeating this eighteen times, he left the main hall, disappeared in a flash, and appeared in a mansion.

This mansion was grand and luxurious, with hundreds of servants, intricately carved beams and painted pillars, small bridges over flowing water, and famous rocks among artificial mountains.

The mansion was located beside a bustling and noisy main street, and the street was in an imposing, enormous city.

He appeared in a quiet courtyard, and a charming young girl came out from the house, jumping into his arms: "Dad!"

Ning Dongge smiled, patting her shoulder, "Xiaorong, did you practice well today?"

"I practiced for three hours today!" the charming young girl said proudly, "But big brother only practiced for two hours, he was slacking off!"

"Hmm—?" Ning Dongge’s face darkened.

The charming young girl said, "He secretly went out to find Sister Qingqing."

"Nonsense!" Ning Dongge’s face turned stern, "Call him over!"

"Should I call him?" The charming young girl hesitated, her bright eyes flickering playfully, "Dad, if I go, he’ll know it was me who tattled, and he’ll definitely retaliate against me!"

"He wouldn’t dare!" Ning Dongge huffed, "If he really dares to retaliate, I’ll stand up for you!"

"Okay." The charming young girl agreed immediately, and gracefully ran out.

Ning Dongge sat at the nearby stone table, stroking his beard with a stern face, his gaze intense.

Chu Zhiyuan was amazed to see this.

He never thought Ning Dongge had such a grown-up daughter.

Through Chu Liezhao’s memories, he could immediately recognize that this was the Imperial City of the Yuanzhen Dynasty.

A steady young man strode into the courtyard, cupping his hands in salute: "Father!"

Ning Dongge’s eyes shot cold beams, scanning him up and down, speaking in a deep voice, "Distracted by a woman again?"

"Father, Qingqing has been accepted into the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion."

"Accepted into the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion, and you think that’s impressive?"

"Father, it’s the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion!"

"It’s just the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion!"

"Father, this is the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion, one of the Four Great Sects, not a small sect or faction!"

"I’m not confused, I know about the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion, but so what if she was accepted? Do you think your mental method is inferior to that of the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion?"

"It certainly is, otherwise how would our Ning Family be so unknown."

"Ignorant! Foolish!"

"Father, I’d also like our family’s mental method to be more powerful, but facts are facts, wishful thinking is useless."

"Utterly foolish, holding gold and treating it like a stone!" Ning Dongge shook his head, "From now on, you’re not allowed to see her again!"

The youth blushed with anger, speaking in a deep voice, "Unless you break my legs!"

"You think I wouldn’t dare?!" Ning Dongge glared coldly at him.

The charming young girl stood gracefully between them, quickly saying, "Father, leave it, big brother is just that foolish, don’t take it seriously."

The young man glared at her, "Little sister, stay out of this!"

"That Qingqing is no good, big brother, you’re blindfolded!"

"What’s wrong with Qingqing?" the young man retorted, "Little sister, you’re just jealous she’s both beautiful and talented, and managed to join the Purple Sky Jade Pavilion."

"Nonsense." The charming young girl pouted, "Big brother, Qingqing is so cunning, you’re not her only admirer, there are several others."

The young man said flatly, "With Qingqing being so beautiful, how could she not have men pursuing her?"

"Hmph, if she’s so virtuous, why would she allow so many men around her?"

"Qingqing is kind-hearted, she doesn’t have the heart to reject them, yet she keeps her distance, never getting close."

"Heh, big brother, you’re so foolish, you’re the one being kept at a distance!"

"I can win Qingqing’s heart."

Ning Dongge’s face was ashen, saying coldly, "Be quiet, you’re not allowed out of the house for ten days, or I’ll break your legs!"

"Then break them now!" the young man said in a deep voice, "I will definitely leave the house."

Ning Dongge gritted his teeth, glaring at him coldly.

The charming young girl quickly tugged at the young man’s sleeve, forcefully pulling him out of the courtyard.

Ning Dongge sat heavily next to the stone table, struck it with frustration, and the table instantly shattered into pieces.

...

Chu Zhiyuan withdrew his gaze, pensively looking at Ning Dongge.

Ning Dongge remained seated like a clay statue, completely still.

The previous scene seemed like a hallucination.

However, it was what would happen in the next ten days.

No wonder Ning Dongge preferred to stay within the sect and didn’t want to return home.

He had a troublesome son, a rebellious firstborn.

With a child like that, wanting to control him was beyond his means, so he could only avoid the frustration by not seeing him.

He made no sound, quietly leaving the main hall, and exited the Heaven-Reaching Sect.

In the next moment, he reappeared at the summit of the lone peak.

The starry night sky enveloped the surroundings.

The Bright Moon had already hidden behind a few white clouds, turning that part of the sky silver-white, brilliantly shining.

He bathed in the gentle evening breeze, looked up, observing the sky once more, concentrating his senses.

Capturing the air discovered when using the Heaven Peeping Skill.

The Heaven Peeping Skill they used relied on the strange stone’s aura.

This strange stone wasn’t connected to the New Cave Heaven, nor was it a New Cave Heaven they found, but rather the relics of East Huan Sacred Valley.

So, in theory, this should be the closest location.

But why do the relics of East Huan Sacred Valley keep shifting?

He shook his head, disappearing.

At dawn the next day, when he reappeared, he was already full of vigor.

So he focused again on the Golden Pupil, starting to capture the location of those relics and track their changes.

Suddenly he flickered and disappeared, the next moment appearing mid-air, and then flickered away again.

The next second, he found himself standing before a mountain valley.

Before his eyes were lush forests on both sides were towering mountains.

Three crisscrossing mountain ranges intersected, forming the enclosed valley before him.

He surveyed the surroundings, faintly feeling this wasn’t in the outer world, but in another realm.

The next moment, he was about to proceed into the valley for a look when his vision suddenly blurred.

Then he realized he was standing in the Void, falling straight down.

His body seemed like a falling stone.

True Yuan stopped functioning, Qinggong had failed, as if he had become a person with crippled cultivation.

He flickered and disappeared, reappearing at the summit of the isolated peak, at the East Huan Sacred Valley relics.