10: Forced intervention, the laws of heaven and earth

Two months later, your cultivation had reached the late stage of Post-celestial Ninth Level, and your five internal organs were basically condensed.

As the Cangshan Academy martial arts examination approached, you followed the prefectural city's martial arts examination team to the capital. A Five Elements Grandmaster and a prefectural city Grandmaster general accompanied the team, responsible for protection.

You were already comprehending the Innate-level Heavenly Bright Sword for the Grand White Dazzling Star Sword.

The Startling Swan Steps had reached great mastery and had incorporated some insights from the Eight Trigrams of Heaven and Man.

The Five Elements Six Harmonies Art was completely mastered.

You also had your own understanding of military martial power.

The Seven Stars Art could now increase your strength threefold.

You had a sudden epiphany and created a seal art: the Limitless Seal, which transformed supreme power into a single seal to suppress, destroy, and annihilate!

Thanks to you, the Tiger King was now a beast comparable to a Post-celestial Seventh Level expert. It had the potential to become an Innate Spirit Beast in the future, with a promising future.

The journey to the capital was relatively smooth. After all, no one wanted to provoke a team protected by two Innate Grandmasters and over a hundred military martial artists. Although there were some minor twists and turns, they were considered local customs and allowed you to enjoy the scenery of the land.

Your group departed from Shanyue Prefecture, passed through Mangzhou, Baizhou, and Tianlanzhou, finally arriving at the Great Xuan Capital, located in Xuanwu Xuanwu.

The capital was a place of natural treasures and outstanding individuals, bustling and picturesque, with red walls and green tiles, full of ancient charm, and lively streets and alleys.

Cangshan Academy was located in a mountain behind the capital, shrouded in mist and stretching majestically.

It was Little Cang Mountain! Old Man Cangshan, with his power as a Heaven and Man, moved mountains and altered rivers, transporting it from an unknown place with his own strength, leaving countless martial artists speechless and earning the admiration of countless people!

You comprehended a trace of The Way of Limitlessness and wished to continuously refine it. Only by constantly fighting others, comprehending the cultivation methods and wills of countless martial artists, and gathering the strength of thousands into one, could you walk the path to supreme martial arts.

There were seventeen fellow villagers from Shanyue Prefecture who came with you to the capital to participate in the Cangshan Academy and Imperial Capital martial arts examinations, all of them experts at the Post-celestial Eighth or Ninth Level.

You challenged all of them during the journey. Although you gained something, it wasn't much. There was no second Wang Teng in Shanyue Prefecture, and you were troubled by the lack of a suitable opponent.

Now, finally in the capital, where almost all the young prodigies of the Great Xuan Dynasty were gathered, your hands were already itching for a fight.

You really wanted to encounter a minor villain, whether he provoked you with words, bullied the weak in your sight, was a lecher, or even just spit on the ground without good hygiene. As long as he dared to appear, you would take the job and teach him a lesson.

Then, it would be best if he could involve a whole host of backers and powerful figures! Developing into the trope of 'defeating the young one brings out the old one'.

Then you would be able to enjoy the battle, absorb experience, and advance further.

Your martial arts talent, 'Life and Death in an Instant,' hadn't been activated in a long time.

These days had been too peaceful; you missed the days when you were weak and outsmarted the treasure beasts in the mountains.

Why? Why!

You didn't understand. You deliberately took your sword attendant, Yu Qingwei, to wander around the capital, hoping to encounter someone who didn't know their place and thus trigger a dramatic plot, but no matter how much you searched, nothing happened.

Could it be that the scions of the Great Xuan Capital were so well-behaved? You didn't understand; this wasn't like a novel at all!

Finally, finally!

You found something to make a fuss about.

At the Jade Lake, a noble young master in luxurious clothing, whose cultivation was not weak, was pestering an exceptionally beautiful and graceful woman, along with a fierce-looking man wielding dual hammers.

The three seemed to be intertwined, caught in a love triangle.

You approached to eavesdrop. It turned out that both men wanted to invite the woman individually to play a zither piece, cleanse their souls, and gain insights into martial arts.

The woman, named Shangguan Xi, was a successor of the Heavenly Sound Pavilion and could play the Heavenly Earth Melody. Receiving its baptism had a chance to make people fall into an epiphany and rapidly advance in strength.

Both men wanted to find a secluded place to cultivate martial arts in peace, but they were at odds and both were influential figures, so they were at a stalemate.

Your eyes lit up, and you decided to get involved.

"All eyes on me!"

You came before the three.

"You two don't need to argue anymore!"

"If you want to listen to the fairy's heavenly zither music, there's no need to listen if you're a good-for-nothing!"

"How about this! I'll give you a chance! Challenge me! The winner gets the opportunity to listen to the fairy's heavenly music!"

"Or you can both come at me! If I defeat both of you, I'll enjoy the fairy's heavenly zither music alone!"

Your actions successfully drew the spotlight to you.

Your words also successfully angered the two. The noble young master in luxurious clothing, though annoyed, did not explode, but the burly man with dual hammers was already swinging his heavy hammers at you!

"Good timing!"

You used the Six Harmonies Palm, using softness to counter hardness, and met the dual-hammer brute's hammer techniques with your bare hands.

The battle became intense. The dual-hammer man's combat power was not weak. You began to lead him into your rhythm, cultivating during the battle and absorbing experience.

Footwork, palm techniques, fist techniques, soft-hard, hard-hard! After frequent exchanges, the dual-hammer man could no longer put pressure on you.

You used a small trick to draw the noble young master into the fight.

One against two, the pressure returned.

Both of them were formidable, not much weaker than Wang Teng once was, and each possessed Innate cultivation methods.

Gradually, you became somewhat disappointed. You were too strong. Even without using sword techniques, their combined efforts could not force out your 'Life and Death in an Instant'.

You easily defeated the two and pointed out their respective weaknesses, advising them to refine their cultivation as a form of compensation.

Afterward, you left directly.

The successor of the Heavenly Sound Pavilion also left with you.

The next day, news spread throughout the streets and alleys that the direct grandson of the Duke of Zhenguo and the Fourth Prince had fought over a woman but were beaten by a passerby.

The onlookers were all curious as to who this powerful individual was.

A passionate citizen enthusiastically told everyone the gossip: "He might be here to take the Cangshan Academy examination."

"Who doesn't know that? What's the big fuss?"

The Heavenly Earth Melody, worthy of being one of the nine great melodies, did indeed give you some insights, and your strength slightly increased.

Shangguan Xi was also here to take the Cangshan Academy assessment, and your eyes lit up. You really wanted to fight her.

Rejected!

If she wouldn't fight, then so be it. You decided to have a good fight at Cangshan Academy when the time came.

Time flew by. As the examination date drew closer, various prodigies gathered in the capital.

There were six individuals with innate martial physiques, as well as various other gifted individuals, and even children of Heaven and Man came to pay their respects.

You looked forward even more to the upcoming competition for the Cangshan direct disciple position.

Soon, the Cangshan Academy martial arts examination arrived as scheduled.

Each year, Cangshan Academy recruited a maximum of ten martial arts prodigies, and direct disciples might not even be recruited every few years.

Even so, it still attracted countless heroes to compete!