"Hmm?!"
Hearing Mu Shao'ai's words, Mu Jinyu's body involuntarily tensed up again.
If Master studies until falling into demon and ultimately makes the same decision as the original Master of Heavenly Palace, what is he going to do?
Rebelliously kill his master?
But he can't beat Master now.
Mu Shao'ai glanced at Mu Jinyu and cursed, "Look at you! Getting pureblood Phoenix isn't only achieved in that way, what do you think your master is?"
"Master, why do you want to leave Earth? I feel the cultivation environment of Kunlun Ruins is okay!" Mu Jinyu reluctantly smiled, then changed the topic.
Mu Shao'ai said, "Because your strength is still too weak, just at the Unity Realm Stage, the constraint of this world on you is not pronounced yet. Wait until you one day reach the realm of your master, then you'll understand how miserable it feels."
"Alright then, what realm are you in now, Master?"
Mu Jinyu curiously asked.
Back when he lived on Yinlong Mountain, he was always lazy and rarely cultivated. After over a decade, he was still lingering in the Energy Transformation Qi Refining Realm, not even stepping into the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Although he sensed Master's cultivation was unfathomable, he never truly knew what his cultivation was. At that time, he even thought Master was in the God Realm.
Thinking back now, it was somewhat laughable.
But back then he really didn't understand.
But now, having set out from Yinlong Mountain, in over a year, he rushed his cultivation from Energy Transformation all the way into the Unity Realm Stage, and still couldn't discern Master's realm.
He was very curious about what realm his Master really was in.
Was it above Unity?
Or even higher than that?
Mu Shao'ai said, "It's just the realm above Unity, I don't even know what it's called, I just referred to it as 'Void Breaking Realm'."
"Void Breaking Realm, huh?" Mu Jinyu pondered, nodding.
At this moment, Mu Shao'ai flicked his fingers, clearly without using a trace of True Qi, but the void a hundred feet before them, instantly collapsed into pitch darkness.
Only after more than ten minutes did heaven and earth slowly heal.
Mu Shao'ai sighed, "At my realm, the world becomes too fragile. A casual move might break the void, so I can't lightly make a move."
"You saw it just now, at that time when I had a life-and-death battle with the Master of Heavenly Palace, we ended up fighting in outer space. Otherwise, if I had fought him on Earth, I'm afraid Earth would have been shattered by us!"
"This is why we all want to leave Earth, the environment here is no longer suitable for us. We can't absorb Heaven and Earth Vital Energy and are suppressed by Heaven and Earth Laws, it's practically like a prison."
Mu Jinyu understood, nodding and said, "Oh, so the Starry Sky Teleportation Array can allow you to leave Earth and go to more suitable planets for cultivation?"
"More or less, the Master of Heavenly Palace studied it for several thousand years and still didn't understand where the Starry Sky Teleportation Array leads to. I researched for a few years and didn't make much progress, we're just going to give it a try." Mu Shao'ai answered.
Then, as the master-disciple duo chatted, Mu Shao'ai suddenly said with satisfaction, "You brat finally decided to cultivate seriously, quite terrifying indeed, to go from Qi Refining Realm to Unity Realm in just a few years, even your master wasn't this exaggerated back then!"
"Master, how many years did it take you to cultivate to the Unity Realm?" Mu Jinyu blinked his eyes and asked curiously.
Mu Shao'ai calculated carefully, sighed, "I started on the path of cultivation at seven, similar to you, and in my early twenties, I overcame the Hedao Tribulation and became a great power in the Unity Realm..."
His tone showed some loss, truly feeling the truth in the saying of new talents emerging every generation, each dominating for a few hundred years.
Back then, he was the true first genius, yet in the blink of an eye, he was surpassed by his own disciple.
Although their cultivation age and at what age they stepped into the Unity Realm seemed not too different, realistically, it's worlds apart.
Mu Jinyu started cultivating at five or six, remained in the Qi Refining Realm at fifteen or sixteen, made no progress.
But back when he was seven, cultivated and reached the Divinity Transformation Realm at eight, entered the Fanxu Realm at twelve, finally reached the Unity Realm at twenty.
And Mu Jinyu, having wasted the prime years for cultivation, seriously started at around seventeen, yet in just over a year, succeeded in Unity.
Moreover, at the Fourth Layer of Unity!
If he had worked a bit harder back then.
Isn't that to say he could have reached the Unity Realm at seven or eight?
The more he thought, the more Mu Shao'ai felt a poignant heartache.
At this point, Mu Jinyu curiously asked, "Then it seems we're quite similar, both stepping into the Unity Realm at around twenty, Master, at what age did you attain the Void Breaking Realm? Tell me, so I can gauge when I might reach the Void Breaking Realm."
Hearing his obedient disciple's words, Mu Shao'ai's face turned a little ashen, corners twitching before he said, "You don't need to worry about that, when the time comes, you'll naturally break through, being too fixated on the timeline isn't good..."
"Oh." Mu Jinyu lightly nodded, still preparing to ask further.
Seeing his readiness to continue probing, Mu Shao'ai hurriedly changed the subject, "Seeing you, this brat, finally willing to cultivate seriously and having now stepped into the Unity Realm, as a teacher, I am truly relieved. I once feared your grinding would end prematurely when you were to be hunted by the Wu Family, but surprisingly, you exceeded my expectations, persisting until now."
As expected.
Those words ignited flames of anger within Mu Jinyu's heart immediately.
"Oh you wicked old man, heartless truly, seeing your disciple hunted by so many, you can still harden your heart to watch, what if I really met some mishap and died, who'd clean up your corpse after?!"
Mu Jinyu angrily said, his tone tinged with grievance.
Ever since being hunted by Wu Xiongfei and becoming an enemy with the world, the process was truly at the brink of life and death.
Were Mu Shao'ai not the Master of Heavenly Palace and were elsewhere than Kunlun Ruins, he could understand, as he wouldn't know about the incident.
Yet the old man was clearly at the Heavenly Palace, aware of the pursuit, still, he could bear watching it unfold.
What a black heart indeed.
At the time, he was at the Seventh Layer of the Fanxu Realm, while Wu Xiongfei and others were great powers of the sixth and seventh layers of the Unity Realm, one misstep, and he could truly have perished.
If he hadn't had good luck, if given the same experience again, he wouldn't be sure if he could survive and crush his foes.
Mu Shao'ai merrily said, "Wasn't the master tempering you? Without this, could you have rushed from Fanxu Realm to Unity Realm so swiftly?"
"The well-intentioned master worried that exposing identity meant you felt no pressure in Kunlun Ruins, and become lazy like on Yinlong Mountain, reluctant to cultivate earnestly, hence choosing to let you taste hardship, now master sees that you haven't perceived the master's pains at all, truly disheartening."
At the end, Mu Shao'ai wore a heartbroken expression.
"Oh stop it already!" Mu Jinyu looked at him with disdain, saying, "When I was seeking the Hedao Fruit in the Secret Realm, did you follow along and could rescue me anytime?"
Mu Shao'ai was momentarily speechless.
Mu Jinyu continued scornfully, "When I slew a large crowd in the Extremely Cold Hell, did you enter with me? Then tell me what I encountered inside?"