Chapter 274: The Oldest Half-God

"Will of Laws? Is it very difficult to reach this step?" The low voice echoed in the gales and raging waves.

The middle-aged man in hemp clothes had nothing to say.

But once he thought of the other party's terrifying battle record, he felt relieved.

It was indeed difficult for other Half-Gods to reach this step; in a sense, it was almost impossible.

But since the other party was Dongfang Ji, then everything was possible.

"With your personality, showing one part and hiding three, since you dare to condense the Will of Laws openly in front of me now, I can no longer fathom your true strength," the middle-aged man in hemp clothes shook his head slightly. "If one day you suddenly appeared in front of me, having already condensed a Divine Grid phantom, I wouldn't be surprised."

"Becoming a god is meaningless to me," the low voice said indifferently.

"That's true," the middle-aged man in hemp clothes nodded lightly. "With your peerless talent, your highest goal must be to pass through the Ninth Mountain world. Among the many Half-Gods of the many civilizations I know, if one were to say who has hope, I'm afraid it's only you."

"Speak, Dongfang. You haven't looked for me in decades. What is the matter?" the middle-aged man in hemp clothes said slowly.

"Help me teach a junior," the low voice said. "A Source Martial Artist."

"A Source Martial Artist?" The middle-aged man in hemp clothes was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "No problem. How far has he contemplated the Wind lineage? Has he condensed a prototype of True Intent?"

"No!"

"He hasn't even truly entered the threshold," the low voice said indifferently.

The middle-aged man in hemp clothes was stunned.

Soon, the low voice had told the middle-aged man in hemp clothes about Li Yuan's general situation.

"19 years old, prototype of True Intent?" A trace of surprise appeared in the middle-aged man's eyes. "This little fellow's talent in the Earth lineage is absolutely extremely high. With your help, I'm afraid in a few decades, your Seven Star civilization will give birth to another powerful Half-God... Why would you think of letting him contemplate the Wind lineage?"

"He has talent in this area," the low voice said slowly. "And with enough time, naturally he should be allowed to try it out."

The middle-aged man in hemp clothes shook his head; he couldn't understand the other party's thinking.

Suddenly.

"Earth, Wind." A thought flashed through the middle-aged man's mind, as if he realized something, and he couldn't help but say, "Do you want him to walk that path?"

"What path?" The low voice was very calm.

"Dongfang, you don't have to play dumb with me. I have also stepped into that domain," the middle-aged man in hemp clothes shook his head. "Your ambition is too great. You yourself... now you even want this junior to? Once he walks the wrong path, his future might be completely ruined."

"There is success, there is failure; there is hope, there is destruction," the low voice said indifferently. "Without paying the price, how can there be great achievements?"

The middle-aged man in hemp clothes said no more.

"I received your grace and have been lingering on until now; teaching him is no problem," the middle-aged man in hemp clothes said softly. "But I only promise to teach for half a year. If his talent in the Wind lineage is too poor... it won't be worth my wasting time."

"If his talent is decent, I will naturally do my best to teach him," the middle-aged man in hemp clothes said.

"Good."

"I still trust Teacher Lie Feng's character," the low voice said. "Are you going to see him, or should I have him come to see you?"

"I will go see him," the middle-aged man in hemp clothes said.

"Fine."

Hum~

The terrifying will that had originally shrouded this sea area had already dissipated with a boom, leaving only the middle-aged man in hemp clothes sitting alone.

"Will of Laws?"

"Becoming a Half-God for only a little over a hundred years, and actually reaching this step." The middle-aged man in hemp clothes sighed inwardly, recalling when they first met.

At that time, their strength was about the same, or rather, the middle-aged man in hemp clothes was slightly stronger.

But today, the gap in their realms was worlds apart.

"Li Yuan?"

"I hope his talent isn't too weak; teaching him will count as giving Dongfang an answer."

"If his talent is too weak, I'll just deal with it for half a year." The middle-aged man in hemp clothes didn't care about Li Yuan at all.

A person's talent is often limited. In his view, Li Yuan's talent in the Earth lineage was already extremely high. Talent in the Wind lineage? It was destined not to be very high.

If it were another Wind-type Half-God, out of a desire to make friends and invest in the future, perhaps someone would be willing to teach.

But the middle-aged man in hemp clothes didn't care about these things because he was already close to death.

A person close to death, with no descendants to worry about, why would he care about these things?

……

Martial God Star Realm.

Mount Qixing was shrouded in clouds and mist.

On the hillside of one of the peaks, on an open square in front of a villa residence, an aircraft was hovering.

Li Yuan, dressed in black, was sitting quietly at the very front of the square; not far away was the void, thousands of meters high.

Li Yuan faced the breeze, overlooking the vast earth below.

"The Earth lineage is quite lively." Li Yuan's powerful spiritual sense could vaguely perceive that there were owners in each of the palaces on the mountain peak.

The entire Mount Qixing was divided into seven peaks.

It wasn't divided according to the affiliation of the seven major planets... but according to attributes.

Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder... divided according to the seven lineages of cultivation; these were the seven most common and major source energies between heaven and earth.

This was mainly to facilitate communication between Mount Qixing members of the same lineage and to facilitate teaching.

But since entering Mount Qixing, Li Yuan soon discovered that the number of Mount Qixing members on the seven peaks who contemplated the Wind and Thunder lineages was very small.

They were all single digits.

"The previous rumors were indeed true; most of the powerhouses of our Seven Star civilization contemplate the Five Elements."

"Of the seven major high-stage cultivation methods created by the Seven Star civilization to date, there are two methods for cultivating Earth source energy, two for Water source energy, and one each for Fire, Gold, and Wood source energy," Li Yuan thought to himself. "There are no exclusive cultivation methods for the Wind and Thunder lineages."

In other words.

Among the Seven Star civilization, the martial artists belonging to these two lineages... almost all relied on creating their own methods to become Heaven-Flying Martial Artists and Half-Gods, so the number was naturally much smaller.

Li Yuan believed that the talent of many people in the civilization had been buried.

Of course, there were also a very small number of powerful martial artists whose source energy cultivated initially was of the Five Elements attribute... but during long-term cultivation, they gradually felt they were more suited to contemplating the Heaven-Earth mysteries of the Wind and Thunder lineages, so they would also shift their cultivation direction.

It was just that such powerhouses were rare; most martial artists would still try to contemplate the corresponding True Intent mysteries according to their own source energy attributes.

After all, since the source energy cultivated is of a certain lineage, the compatibility with that lineage is often higher.

"According to Mountain Master Duanmu."

"In the entire civilization, there seem to be only two or three Wind-type Half-Gods," Li Yuan thought to himself. "They may not be willing to come and guide me... let it be as fate wills."

"I once resonated with a deity's consciousness; according to the guidance of the deity's spear technique, I can cultivate the Wind lineage just the same."

"I'll try for a period of time first."

"If I still don't have much of a clue, then I'll put it aside for now." Li Yuan wasn't in too much of a hurry.

Since the inheritance hall of the deity Gu Ju, his cultivation pursued the path of following his heart.

The thickness and vastness of the Earth, and its ability to encompass all things, brought him joy.

The agility and unpredictability of the Wind also brought him joy.

"What brings me joy, and what makes my spear technique more powerful, is the path I should walk." Li Yuan followed this point in his heart.

Just like these days, he didn't want to stay in the Martial Arts Room for long, but instead liked to come to the outside world.

Sitting at the edge of the square, facing the howling wind.

Often sitting for half a day at a time.

"No wonder Principal Hai likes fishing," Li Yuan showed a faint smile, recalling his past conversation with Principal Hai.

Previously, Principal Hai had said that fishing was cultivation, and that once he reached that level, he would naturally understand and comprehend it.

Li Yuan didn't understand at the time.

But now? Li Yuan already understood.

"All Heaven-Earth mysteries are hidden in life, hidden between heaven and earth," Li Yuan thought to himself. "Comprehending Heaven-Earth mysteries from the operation of nature... is far better than burying one's head in thought in a secret room."

Ordinary martial artists have to bury their heads in hard cultivation because their realm is still at the level of 'skill'.

But once they step into the Fifth Stage, body and mind from inside to outside, it is skill approaching the Dao.

The prototype of True Intent is the threshold for entering the Dao.

Suddenly.

"Hmm? Group message?" Li Yuan felt his smart ring vibrate and couldn't help but lower his head to look.

It was a message from the "V-Group" of Mount Qixing members.

"Heaven-Flying level mission: Recruitment for the Mingxu Star Realm, the specific situation is..."

Li Yuan scanned it quickly. It was a war mission in the Mingxu Star Realm. The Seven Star civilization was breaking out in a major war with the Tianliang civilization and needed Heaven-Flying level combat power to support them, divided into defense missions and attack missions.

Requirement: Mount Qixing members can accept defense missions, but attack missions can only be accepted by the top thirty Mount Qixing members.

"Top 30? Doesn't this mean that only those who have grasped True Intent are qualified to accept them?" Li Yuan thought to himself.

On the entire Mount Qixing, there were about thirty top-tier geniuses who had condensed True Intent.

Subconsciously, Li Yuan scanned his own ranking on Mount Qixing: 118th.

Second to last.

Only one place higher than Bateman.

Mount Qixing rankings were sorted based on a combination of true strength and completed mission points.

"Hmm?"

Li Yuan's eyes moved, and he saw a private message sent to him alone by Yu Jinghe, and couldn't help but think: "Brother Yu accepted this attack mission? Preparing to return to the Xia Nation?"

"Take care of yourself," Li Yuan replied.

Li Yuan had a guess in his heart.

The war between the Mingxu Star Realm and the Tianliang tribe was mainly being fought by the Blue Star side, or more accurately, the Xia Nation was exerting its strength.

Now that a war mission had been issued on Mount Qixing, hoping for the top geniuses of the entire civilization to participate in the war and help.

In all likelihood, they had encountered great difficulties.

For many war missions, unless it involved a deity's inheritance like the world-within-a-world of the Lieyu Star Realm... otherwise, the top leadership of the Alliance would not force the top geniuses under their command to participate in the war.

Such life-and-death missions were mostly left for the geniuses to choose for themselves.

But for Yu Jinghe to decide to go so quickly, I'm afraid the Xia Nation had made a request... just like the many major battles in the Luo Bu Sea, Yu Jinghe had been present.

"My Xia Nation has quite a few geniuses in the Martial God Star Realm," Li Yuan thought to himself. "But there are only two who have grasped True Intent."

One was Yu Jinghe!

The other was named "Luo Chan," whom Li Yuan had never seen.

As for top-tier geniuses like Pei Yun who had Xia Nation bloodlines, there were still some on Mount Qixing, but they were born on Flying Star and had very low sense of belonging to the Xia Nation.

"Wait until I grasp True Intent and raise my physical fitness to the limit of a Source Martial Artist. If there is a suitable opportunity, I can also go participate in the war," Li Yuan thought.

Immediately, Li Yuan didn't think about it anymore.

With his current strength, he wasn't qualified to participate in such a large-scale war.

Getting involved easily would make it very easy to die in battle.

……

Time passed.

Night gradually fell, and Li Yuan was still blowing in the wind on the square, silently sensing the fluctuations of the Wind in heaven and earth.

Suddenly—

A white-robed figure approached silently. When he was within a hundred meters, Li Yuan sensed it instantly and opened his eyes.

An invisible pressure shrouded heaven and earth.

"Mountain Master." Li Yuan bowed respectfully; the person who had arrived was none other than Mountain Master Duanmu.

Whoosh!

Mountain Master Duanmu had already walked close, with a smile on his face: "Such keen perception. Your spiritual strength is so strong that I'm afraid it's already close to the Heaven-Flying level peak."

"Still quite a bit off, far from the Mountain Master," Li Yuan said quite respectfully.

These days, Li Yuan had also learned about Mountain Master Duanmu's strength. Perhaps he wasn't as good as Principal Fang Hai, but looking at the entire Seven Star civilization, he was also the most top-tier existence below the Half-God level.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been arranged to guard the Martial God Star Realm.

"No need to be humble," Mountain Master Duanmu smiled. "I came to find you to notify you that your Wind-type Half-God teacher has already arrived and is waiting for you outside the Martial God Star Realm."

"Oh?" Li Yuan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but say, "Mountain Master, which Half-God is it? Half-God Xuelong? Or Half-God Feng Hu?"

These were the two Wind-type Half-Gods Li Yuan knew of.

"Neither."

"It is an alien Half-God," Mountain Master Duanmu shook his head. "To be precise, it is a 'Guest Half-God' of our Seven Star civilization."

"It is also the oldest Half-God living within our Seven Star civilization, and he is not far from his limit."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 275 =====