148: Chapter 148 People from Sky Dome Continent

Li Yuan's own Comprehension Ability was not bad to begin with; as long as he had the opportunity to practice, he could always make some achievements.

After the Battle Soul was cultivated into form, it only took Li Yuan five days to be able to command the Battle Soul in actual combat.

From an observer's perspective, the Battle Soul was a black mass in the shape of a half-human torso.

This black mass floated in the air and could also be attacked.

However, even if this black mass was sliced in half, it could merge and recover within a dozen breaths.

In martial arts competitions on Tianqiong Continent, unless there was a huge disparity in strength, attacks were always directed at the Martial Artist, not the Battle Soul.

What Li Yuan needed to practice now was making the Battle Soul master his own Martial Skills.

He needed to control the Battle Soul to effortlessly use the Nine Nether Azure Sword and even movement techniques like the Cloud Mist Step.

If the Battle Soul could use movement techniques at will, then it would be considered very skillfully mastered.

During this period, the entire Shun Kingdom was relatively peaceful.

After King Guiyuan met his end, almost everyone on his side had also died.

The old emperor of Da Shun was preparing to abdicate to the younger generation.

Before abdicating, the old emperor personally came to Meifengshan Martial Arts Academy to ask for Li Yuan's opinion.

He wanted to see Li Yuan's views and instructions regarding the prince who would inherit the throne.

The old emperor was likely already clear about Li Yuan's formidable strength.

The imperial family had four Ninth-Grade Supremes, which was originally the Shun Kingdom imperial family's trump card.

But facing Li Yuan, the four Ninth-Grade Supremes did not have the courage to confront him.

Even Wen Jingci had died at Li Yuan's hands, and the other Ninth-Grade Supremes of Da Shun had basically all submitted to Li Yuan.

The four of them no longer had the ability to give the Da Shun imperial family the confidence to occupy a high position.

Fortunately, Li Yuan had no interest in the throne.

Managing a country was not an easy task; there were many things to deal with.

Li Yuan only hoped that the successor of the Shun Kingdom would ensure the people had enough food and clothing, making their lives better and better.

The Shun Kingdom had long-standing malpractices and suffered from many deep-seated problems.

Many powerful clans monopolized resources and used them to prey upon and exploit the common people to the fullest.

Li Yuan's meaning was clear: they could currently carry out bold rectifications and reforms.

If they encountered resistance, they could speak with him.

Meifengshan Martial Arts Academy also dispatched inspectors to provide an extra line of supervision.

Of course, it was impossible to achieve all this without a single flaw.

Before Li Yuan transmigrated, he had read many history books.

There were many instances of emperors being deceived; an emperor might not even understand the magnitude of the country's problems until the day he died.

Another three days passed.

A group of people arrived outside Meifengshan Martial Arts Academy.

The leader was a youth of thirteen or fourteen who looked somewhat green.

Despite his young age and youthful appearance, he was quite arrogant.

An indifferent smile hung on his face, and he looked at the people and things around him as if he were looking down from a high place.

“Young Sect Master, this is Meifengshan Martial Arts Academy.

The place the information pointed to is this academy; the Martial Artist named Li Yuan lives inside.”

The Young Sect Master nodded, then his gaze swept over the surroundings of the academy.

Seeing the physique and Aura of the academy Disciples, he shook his head with some disappointment.

“Is what Ning Changting said true?

The martial arts here are lowly and the essence qi is thin; it doesn't look like a place that could give birth to any Genius at all.”

The disappointment on the youth's face was obvious.

If he spent time coming here and gained nothing, he would truly be disappointed.

Hearing his Young Sect Master's words, the lead guard to the side was much more optimistic.

“Young Sect Master, I have only ever believed thirty percent of what Ning Changting said.

Ever since he was relegated to this remote place, he fabricated excuses more than once wanting to return to the sect.

But because he died this time, I actually feel there is some truth to what he said.”

The guard's words struck a chord with the Young Sect Master; it was indeed logical.

“Ning Changting's talent was ordinary, and his path to cultivating a Battle Soul was full of obstacles.

Yet in such a barren land, his strength could be considered top-tier.

Now that he's dead, perhaps that method to rapidly increase cultivation truly exists.”

The youth nodded, feeling a bit more energized.

He then ordered his subordinate guards to go and notify Li Yuan, telling Li Yuan to come out and welcome them.

He, meanwhile, led the others to sit on the stone benches outside the academy gate.

At the same time, Li Yuan had already been watching this group from not far away.

Not surprisingly, these people were the Martial Artists from Tianqiong Continent.

Because they were very different from the Martial Artists of Shun Kingdom.

Shun Kingdom Martial Artists hid their own breath and Aura, making it hard to see their strength.

A beggar boy by a muddy path could potentially be a hidden martial arts expert.

But these Martial Artists from Tianqiong Continent were different.

Their breath and Aura were exposed, so Li Yuan could easily see the details of their strength.

This was likely related to their cultivation methods.

Tianqiong Continent was filled with essence qi, and to increase cultivation, one had to breathe in the essence qi around them.

With this exchange with external essence qi, it was difficult to hide one's own breath and Aura.

It wasn't obvious on Tianqiong Continent, but in Shun Kingdom, they were conspicuous to the extreme.

Regarding that Young Sect Master, Li Yuan had obtained some information from Ning Feichi's fragmented memories.

Fu Jiuya, the son of the Lanyuan Sect Master.

In Ning Feichi's memories, his strength was at the Eighth-Grade Shenzhe Realm Great Perfection.

Li Yuan was not clear on what the Shenzhe Realm was.

But looking at Fu Jiuya, he had the strength of Grade 8 Great Perfection.

Eighth-Grade Shenzhe Realm should be Martial Arts Grade 8.

Fu Jiuya was only thirteen or fourteen years old, yet he had the strength of Martial Arts Grade 8.

If placed in Shun Kingdom or Jin Kingdom, that would indeed be quite terrifying.

But from the fragmented memories left by Ning Feichi, strength like Fu Jiuya's was actually considered inferior.

Besides Fu Jiuya, the guards around him were all significantly stronger than Ning Feichi.

Especially the lead guard; Li Yuan could feel a threat from him.

Of course, it was only a threat.

Li Yuan was confident he could slay this guard.

In Shun Kingdom, there was no essence qi around for them to utilize or replenish.

Many of these people's cultivation on Tianqiong Continent relied on essence qi to improve.

At the same Realm, their Foundation was far inferior to Li Yuan's.

Furthermore, the assistance of their Battle Souls wasn't some strange trick to Li Yuan, as if he didn't know how to use one himself.

Li Yuan had already seen through the crises before him.

His current strength was fully capable of handling and resolving them.

Watching the guard notify the academy, Fu Jiuya looked left and right, feeling that the academy's reaction was not fast enough.

“How about we kill a few academy members? Let them understand the urgency of the situation so they won't be so slow.”

This thirteen or fourteen-year-old child viewed human life as nothing more than grass.

Those wicked bandits and robbers would have to take a back seat when it came to evil deeds.

They did it for money, while this Fu Jiuya did it just to urge the academy people to come faster.

For such a trivial matter, he wanted to kill people.

And the academy hadn't even procrastinated; as soon as the guard stepped forward to announce their identity, the academy attendants immediately reported the message up.

They simply did not treat the people here as human beings.

The guard beside him took the order and had already struck.

At that instant, the weapon in Li Yuan's hand blocked this fatal blow.