45: Chapter 45 Cangxuan Sect

"A puddle like this cannot raise a true Dragon."

Su Yuan watched the fire ignite in the depths of Su Yu's eyes, and made a decision that went against the ancestral teachings.

"Father, you cannot stay here."

"Staying in the Su Family will only ruin your Third-Grade Spiritual Root."

Su Yuan's tone was extremely solemn, without a shred of joking intent.

Without an Advanced Spirit Gathering Array, without systematic Cultivation Technique legacies, and without resources past the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Even if Su Yu's Aptitude was high, he could only stop at Foundation Establishment.

"What is the background of that Nascent Soul Sect?"

Su Yu's gaze fell on the area of the map that occupied a small half of the territory, and he asked casually.

Su Yuan put away the Jade Slip in his hand and reported truthfully.

"According to the sporadic intelligence I have gathered over the years, Cangxuan Sect is a large Nascent Soul Stage Sect closest to our Yue Country."

"It is a full one hundred thousand miles away from this place."

"It is not just a Sect, but the absolute Dominator of this vast region."

"The Spiritual Veins there are at least Tier 3 or above, and its Sect is internally divided into the Outer Gate, Inner Gate, and Core True Inheritance."

"Even if it is just an Outer Gate Deacon of Cangxuan Sect, if he comes to the border of our Yue Country, the Clan Chiefs of major Cultivator families must personally go out to welcome him."

Su Yuan put away the map, his tone steady.

"Father, your Aptitude in this lifetime should not be trapped in the Su Family."

"Although the Family is stable now, in front of the truly major forces in the Cultivation world, it is nothing more than a slightly stronger ant."

"Only by going there can you obtain resources for the Core Formation or even higher Realms."

Su Yuan said these words very realistically, without mixing in any personal feelings.

As a Foundation Establishment Stage Clan Chief who had lived for over a hundred and sixty years, he knew very well what choice was most beneficial to the Family and to his father.

Su Yu nodded slightly, acknowledging this decision.

Immediately afterwards, Su Yuan took out a palm-sized black jade token from his wide sleeve robe.

The surface of the jade token was engraved with complicated Formation patterns, faintly exuding an aura of spatial fluctuations.

"This is the cross-state flying boat passage token of the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce."

Su Yuan handed the jade token with both hands to the stone desk.

"I mobilized all the secular covert lines of the Dingyuan Trading Firm, and drew ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones from the Family treasury, before buying this quota from a down-and-out Cultivator merchant."

Ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

This was an extremely huge sum of money.

Even if the Qianlong Su Family occupied the Qingmu Market, this was cash flow that required scrimping and saving for a year to squeeze out.

"This money was not spent unjustly."

Su Yu picked up the jade token and put it into his bosom.

He knew the underlying logic of the Cultivation world too well.

A Loose Cultivator without a background, no matter how high your talent is, if you cannot even touch the mountain gate of a major Sect, and cannot even stand on the testing Formation, you will always just be a Loose Cultivator.

A major Sect's Cultivation Techniques, Medicinal Pills, guidance from renowned teachers, and most importantly, High Grade Spiritual Veins, could not be bought with any amount of Spirit Stones from the outside world.

"When will the flying boat dock?" Su Yu asked.

"The time given by the chamber of commerce is half a month later."

Su Yuan replied: "As long as the jade token grows warm, it means the flying boat has arrived at the immortal-welcoming platform on the periphery of the Qingmu Market."

The matter was settled, and there was no more unnecessary nonsense in the secret room.

In the following half month, Su Yu stayed in the courtyard of the inner mansion, shutting his doors and completely consolidating his Qi Refining 7th Layer cultivation.

One morning half a month later.

Su Yu was meditating when the black jade token in his bosom suddenly emitted a warm touch.

Immediately afterwards, a faint light lit up on the surface of the jade token, and a tiny rune kept flickering within it.

Time was up.

Su Yu opened his eyes and ended his breath-regulation.

He changed into an undecorated cyan long robe, and hung a few sets of clothes to change and the Storage Pouch prepared by Su Yuan around his waist.

Pushing open the room door, a person was standing in the courtyard.

His biological mother, Madam Liu.

Over a dozen years of time did not leave too many traces on Madam Liu's face, but today her expression appeared somewhat haggard.

The wind in the courtyard was a bit chilly.

Madam Liu walked in front of Su Yu, reaching out to tidy the lapel of his cyan robe for him.

She was a smart woman; although she was only a wife at the Qi Refining 6th Layer, she knew the rules of the Cultivation world very well.

Her own son was extraordinarily talented; this was a heaven-sent fortune, and also a fledgling eagle destined to leave her and soar high with spread wings.

She did not wail and cry like ordinary worldly women, nor did she say any words of obstruction.

"When traveling outside, take care of yourself in everything."

Madam Liu's eye sockets were somewhat red, and her voice carried a trace of extremely restrained trembling.

"Cangxuan Sect is not like home; the rules there are strict, and the people are also mixed."

"When encountering things, do not forcefully stand out; just Cultivate safely and peacefully."

This was simply a mother's most unadorned injunction.

Su Yu looked at this nominal mother in front of him and nodded slightly.

"Rest assured, I know my limits."

He did not say any superfluous guarantees.

Having lived for two hundred years, his understanding of the sinister nature of the Cultivation world was countless times deeper than Madam Liu's.

Bidding farewell to Madam Liu, Su Yu turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

Fifty miles outside the periphery of the Qingmu Market, there was a flat peak.

This was a temporary docking point for the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce's cross-state flying boat.

When Su Yu arrived, the sky was already shrouded by a huge shadow.

That was a huge flying boat reaching a hundred zhang in length.

The boat body was entirely crafted from Tier 3 spiritual wood, and its surface was densely engraved with defensive Formation patterns and Spirit Gathering Array patterns.

The flying boat hovered mid-air, and several boarding stairs condensed from spiritual light drooped down from the deck, extending all the way to the open space of the mountain peak.

Such a behemoth brought an extremely strong visual sense of oppression.

On the immortal-welcoming platform, quite a few Cultivators holding jade tokens to board the ship had already gathered.

Most of them were Loose Cultivators at the Late Stage of Qi Refining, or young people escorted by Family elders to go to major Sects to apprentice.

Su Yuan stood at the back of the crowd and did not step forward.

He watched Su Yu walk up to the spiritual light stairs.

The father and son were separated by a distance of over ten zhang, their gazes briefly intersecting in mid-air.

Su Yuan nodded slightly.

His meaning was very clear.

With him in the rear of the Family, there was no need to worry about anything, letting Su Yu go and venture forth boldly.

Su Yu also withdrew his line of sight.

He took out the black jade token and waved it in front of the chamber of commerce steward in charge of inspection.

The jade token turned into a stream of light and merged into the stairs.

Su Yu stepped onto the spiritual light stairs and walked steadily toward the deck of the flying boat.

The deck of the flying boat was extremely wide, enough to accommodate hundreds of people moving around simultaneously.

There were many people boarding the ship, appearing somewhat noisy.

Wherever there were people, there was inevitably Jianghu.

At the entrance of the deck, a red sandalwood table was placed, and an old man dressed in the attire of the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce was sitting behind the table, conducting the final identity inspection and room allocation for the boarding passengers.

This old man emitted the mana fluctuations of the Early Stage Foundation Establishment, and his attitude appeared very casual.

The passengers lined up, honestly handing over their jade tokens and accepting the illumination of a bronze mirror in the old man's hand.

That was a Magical Artifact used to test bone age and cultivation.

The rooms of the cross-state flying boat were divided into four Ranks of Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, and Yellow, allocated according to the passengers' cultivation and background; this was a default rule within the chamber of commerce.

Soon, it was Su Yu's turn.

He placed the jade token on the table.

The old man did not even raise his head, casually picked up the bronze mirror, and flashed it on Su Yu.

A faint light rippled across the mirror surface of the bronze mirror, and then two lines of tiny characters appeared.

The old man glanced at it casually.

The next instant, the old man's movements froze.

He suddenly raised his head, his originally half-narrowed eyes instantly widening, staring fixedly at the cyan-robed youth standing before him.

Bone age: eleven years old.

Cultivation: Qi Refining 7th Layer.

The old man had worked as a steward in the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce for decades, and had seen countless Geniuses preparing to go to Cangxuan Sect to apprentice.

But an eleven-year-old Late Stage Qi Refining—such a thing simply exceeded all his previous cognitive understandings.

Ordinary Cultivators are enlightened at age six; in five years, they directly leap from drawing Qi into the body to the Late Stage of Qi Refining?

What kind of terrifying Spiritual Root Aptitude, or some extremely rare special Physique, was needed to achieve this!

Such a person, once entering Cangxuan Sect, was definitely a seed for the Inner Gate or even the Core True Inheritance.

It was simply not something a chamber of commerce steward like him could offend.

The old man's originally casual sitting posture instantly tightened.

He immediately stood up, the indifference on his face transforming into an extremely enthusiastic smile, even faintly revealing a bit of respect.

"This Young Master, your inspection is correct."

The old man handed the jade token back to Su Yu with both hands, and smoothly took out a white jade number plate from his cuff.

"This is the door key for Heaven Room No. 3. The room is on the top floor of the flying boat, where the Spiritual Qi is the most abundant, and it is equipped with a separate Spirit Gathering Array and soundproofing Restriction."

"Young Master has had a tiring journey, just rest inside the room. If there are any errands, command the attendants on the boat at any time."

Su Yu took the jade token and number plate with a calm expression.

He did not feel surprised by the old man's change in attitude before and after.

In the Cultivation world, strength and potential were the best passes.

"Many thanks."

Su Yu simply replied with two words, and under the guidance of a maid, walked toward the corridor on the top floor of the flying boat.

However, the old man's loss of composure just now and that Heaven-grade number plate still fell into the eyes of the surrounding queuing passengers.

How sharp are the eyes and ears of Cultivators!

Soon, the news about an eleven-year-old Late Stage Qi Refining Prodigy boarding the ship quietly spread through the passenger cabins on each floor of the flying boat.

For this group of low and middle-tier Cultivators heading to Cangxuan Sect to seek their path.

An eleven-year-old Qi Refining 7th Layer was simply a true dimensional reduction strike.

This meant that the other party's future achievements would be immeasurable. If they could forge a good affinity at this moment, in the future it might just be a heaven-sent saving grace.

Only an hour passed.

Outside the door of Heaven Room No. 3 where Su Yu was, quite a few people gathered successively.

Some were Young Lords of down-and-out families, bringing the spiritual objects remaining in their homes, wanting to come and get familiarized.

Some were stewards of chamber of commerces, holding fine Magical Artifacts in their hands, attempting to make advance human-favor investments.

There were even a few fine-looking female Cultivators lingering outside the door, their words revealing probes of wanting to travel together as companions.

The corridor outside the door appeared somewhat crowded.

Su Yu sat on the futon in the room, listening to the commotion outside the door, his brow slightly furrowed.

This kind of icing-on-the-cake flattery and socializing had no practical value in his view.

What these people valued was his potential; once he had any accidents in the future, these people would run faster than anyone else.

Most crucially, he did not have the leisure time to perfunctorily socialize with this group of bottom-tier Cultivators.

The room door was pushed open by a crack.

Su Yu stood behind the door, looking at those smiling faces outside.

He did not push things to the absolute limit.

Facing the gift boxes and name cards handed over, he accepted them politely across the board, and then directly closed the room door.

Along with the activation of the soundproofing Restriction.

Those noisy sounds outside the door were completely cut off.

Su Yu casually threw those low-tier Magical Artifacts and Medicinal Pills into the corner of the wall, sat back down on the futon, and closed his eyes.

Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, and Yellow; the Spirit Gathering Array of the Heaven-grade room was indeed not bad.

The Spiritual Qi concentration here was several times higher than that Tier 1 High Grade Spiritual Vein of the Qingmu Market.

It was enough for him to steadily absorb along the way.

The flying boat vibrated slightly in mid-air, and then turned into a stream of light, piercing through the clouds and speeding away toward the northern horizon.

The journey began.

The time of seven days appeared extremely short amidst quiet sitting and breath-regulation.

After hundreds of years of operation by the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce, the route of the cross-state flying boat had long avoided the territories of all Advanced Yao Beasts.

Coupled with the deterrence of a Golden Core Immortal Master presiding over it, along the way they did not encounter any blind-eyed bandit Cultivators.

The flying boat was as steady as gliding on the surface of a lake.

The morning of the seventh day.

Su Yu felt that the Spirit Gathering Array inside the room gradually stopped operating.

The speed of the flying boat began to slow down noticeably.

He ended his breath-regulation, stood up, and pushed open the window of the room.

An extremely dense and pure Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, even carrying a bit of sweetness, rushed over his face along the gaps of the window.

Su Yu looked outward.

On the horizon ahead, it was no longer the desolate plains and low mountains of the Yue Country border.

A massive mountain range stretching for tens of thousands of li, with simply no end in sight, spanned between heaven and earth.

This was where Cangxuan Sect's mountain gate was located, the Cangxuan Mountain Range.

The peaks towered into the clouds, and many mountain tops even floated directly in mid-air, defying the physical common sense of the secular world.

Innumerable thick strands of spiritual light soared into the sky from the depths of the mountain range; that was a large-scale Formation at the level of the Sect's foundation operating.

In mid-air, extremely massive spiritual birds shuttled between the sea of clouds.

Hundreds and thousands of escaping lights and Flying Swords rose and fell among the mountain peaks, resembling twinkling stars.

And on the outermost periphery of the mountain range was a huge Cultivator city built attached to Cangxuan Sect.

The city walls of the city were tens of zhang high, entirely cast from black basalt, with the eerie light of Formations circulating on the surface.

Compared to here.

Qingmu Market was simply like a thatched shed in some remote, impoverished backwoods.

The flying boat slowly lowered its altitude, falling toward the mooring port on the periphery of that huge city.

Su Yu stood in front of the window, looking at this magnificent scene of the Cultivation world.

He tidied up the cyan robe on his body, fastening the Storage Pouch tightly.

Without any emotions excited to the point of trembling, he simply looked calmly ahead.

Cangxuan Sect.

Arrived.