Violent winds brewed—
A spinning wheel of nature's majesty, A Tornado that had the power of utterly eradicating Tier 5 Beasts and Immortal Ascension Realm Cultivators to shreds within an instant.
It kept expanding outwards with each passing moment—
While 10 miles from the eye of the storm, stood a gathering of more than 100 young desciples, nearly everyone looking at the wind's beautiful horror with awe and fright.
Among the many desciples, a few stood separately—
Yang Kai sat cross-legged with his eyes closed — recovering his Qi — while Hu Mie'er and Hu Jiao'er stood guard.
A few steps away, Wang Feng also sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. His muscular body appeared very different with the other males. His current state — with small wounds and blood covering his wounds — drew many eyes. But those eyes were quickly everted with one look from Su Yan.
Su Yan stood near Wang Feng. Her face neutral as she listened to the murmurs of the desciples around. But, most of the time, her eyes remained on Wang Feng — more importantly, on his rapidly healing wound.
She looked on in surprise as his wounds healed at the speed visible to the naked eye. 'the pills he took were only Earth Tier... But this healing speed.... It's too much for just an Earth grade Pill.', she wondered to herself, but felt slightly relived that he was healing fast.
An hour passed...
The tornado had expanded to seven miles from its eye. Yang Kai had woken up, fully recovered. As he did, Hu Mie'er and Hu Jiao'er sternly berated his jumping in front of the Tortoise.
Yang Kai could do nothing but nod his head with a weary smile while consoling the two.
It was then that Hu Jiao'er asked him, "Did you know this would happen after the Tortoise died?", she asked, pointing at the Tornado.
At this moment, Su Yan joined the talk — seeing that Wang Feng's injures were completely healed and his Qi was at sufficient level — she spoke, "I remember that Wang Feng was about to tell everyone to retreat, but you shouted before he could."
The three looked at her with surprise — mostly because she even spoke since she had been silent the entire time — while Yang Kai was surprised and asked, "Brother Feng did?", and looked at Wang Feng with slightly shining eyes.
As Yang Kai looked at the recovering Wang Feng, he heard a voice in his mind, '—Heaven! What a talent! An Earthly Flame! Sharp Sword Aura! And Such pure Elemental Qi! Young Master, this friend of yours is simply a monster!'
Yang Kai's expressions remained neutral while he mentally spoke to the voice, 'old demon, what do you mean?', he thought — confused about Old Demon's enthusiasm, he, after all knew his Sworn Brother was a monster of a talent, but he was still confused since it had become a bit normal for him, not to mention that his own growth had been very high since he recovered.
The voice rung out in his mind again, 'Young Master, you don't understand this Wang Feng's talent! Not to mention an Earthly Flame which is a wonder of Heaven and Earth — having an unimaginable level of difficulty for absorbing — just his Qi is something unusual for cultivators his level!'
Without giving Yang Kai the chance to ask, the voice continued, 'the purity of his Qi is nearly as pure as True Qi of True Element Realm! The amount of Qi he has absorbed in the last hour is also much more than what a Qi Transformation Realm Cultivator can accommodate!'
'and that's not even the true extent of his power, since I can feel a strong Sword Aura from him!—', Yang Kai blinked as he absorbed all of Old Demons analysis of Wang Feng.
But in the end, he just shrugged and dismissed the conversation. After all, the stronger and talented Wang Feng was, the happier he would be for his Sworn Brother and Best Friend. 'Not to mention, if not for Wang Feng, I wouldn't even be here.', he thought.
While all that talk took place in his mind, he answered the three women in front of him.
"What we are seeing right now is actually the appearance of the True Inheritance of this Secret Realm.", Yang Kai spoke softly.
Su Yan and Hu Jiao'er's eyes shone, while Hu Mie'er couldn't control herself and subconsciously spoke loudly, "What! The real Inheritance!?"
Her words stirred the surrounding desciples of the sects — their eyes now burning stronger than ever before.
Yang Kai and Hu Jiao'er looked at Hu Mie'er with a deadpan eyes, as if say, why don't you go and announce it to the whole world.
Su Yan looked at Hu Mie'er — who now had both of her hands covering her mouth with a red face — for a second before she turned around to go back to her post.
But, she stopped as soon as she turn — seeing Wang Feng now standing with his arms crossed, looking at the storm, while his upper body was still bare.
Wang Feng seemed to feel her gaze and turned his head, gazing into her icy blue eyes with his pale golden ones, a small smile gracing his lips.
The other three also noticed this and looked at Wang Feng. Yang Kai smiled and shook his head. He nodded to Wang Feng and glanced at Hu Jiao'er — who got the signal and went wide eyed, retreating with him — before dragging Hu Mie'er away.
Su Yan didn't seem to notice this, or she did but ignored it.
She just glanced at him with a slight frown, seeing his injures were completely healed, her frown unknowingly — for her — went away, her face returning to it's usual cold look.
She simply spoke, "Now that you're healed, tell me about 'that'", she said, pointing over her shoulder at the tornado.
As she asked, she didn't notice the surprise and delight in Wang Feng's eyes. 'she was definitely worried, wasn't she?', he thought to himself, recalling the slight frown that had appeared and subsided from her face.
Wang Feng asked with the same soft smile, "didn't Yang Kai tell you just now?", his words simply asking; you don't trust his words? But you truly trust mine?
Su Yan expressions remained cold, "are you going to? Or not?"
Wang Feng raised his hands in surrender and started speaking, "What I can tell you isn't much different from him...", he said while shaking his head.
He looked towards the tornado, "The Inheritance that I came here for is within that tornado. More specifically, it was sealed by using eight Tier 5 monsters beasts. So, unless one killed all eight, the inheritance would have not appeared..."
Su Yan listened with an understanding look, "so that why you said that those beast would have to die eventually.", she muttered before she asked with a frown — this time not an unconscious one, "You told me in my cabin that this was an opportunity that would change my life... but if you're here for this inheritance..."
Wang Feng chuckled, getting her meaning, "You don't have to worry~ It's not as if the inheritance will be mine without doubt.", he said that, but the smile was still there — a smile of confidence and mystery — making Su Yan to raise an eyebrow.
Wang Feng continued, "all I can tell you is... Getting this inheritance wouldn't be so easy for me... More so, it should be the easiest for you.", Wang Feng stopped for a second, 'hmm, I really want to know just how much time it will take me to reach the top.'
Su Yan still looked at him with that same look, as if expecting him to continue. But Wang Feng chuckled, "that's all you will get out of me ... for now", he finished with a grin before sitting down to reach his peak state.
Su Yan, who was about to question him, saw this and grinded her teeth before turning around with a slight huff. She too sat down a few steps away and started cultivating, thinking about Wang Feng's words deeply.
As she did so, Wang Feng opened his eyes slightly to peek at her, inwardly surprised. He thought with a fond smile, 'is your ice heart shaken? The unexpected tender hold, the worry and now huffing at me... You're melting, Su Yan...'
After that, Wang Feng closed his eyes again.
....
Another hour passed—
Huuuummmmmmmmmm
A loud vibration, akin to a gong, reverberated throughout the entire Secret Realm, making everyone open their eyes and look towards the tornado.
As they looked, everyone noticed a golden glow at the top of the tornado. It was only then that they realized — the tornado has slowly started to desipate.
From the very top, one by one, bit by bit, gusts of winds started dissolving — disappearing into the air.
As those winds slowly desipated, everyone below saw what had been hidden among the winds.
A Shining, Glamorous, Grand Palace held suspended in the void. It looked to be made entirely of Gold and White Materials.
From the foot of the Palace, everyone saw golden steps become visible, extending along the desipating winds.
On the ground, Wang Feng's eyes shone. He looked to the side, where Yang Kai stood with the Hu sisters. Yang Kai and Wang Feng looked at each other and nodded, before Wang Feng looked to his right, at Su Yan, who stood a few steps away.
He spoke, "it's time", his voice reaching Su Yan's ears, making her look towards him. She nodded before the two jumped and landed nearly in front of the golden stairway, just as the winds completely ceased — connecting the Golden Palace in the void to the ground.
Wang Feng glanced at Su Yan one last time before stepping on the stairway and said, "see you at the top~"
Su Yan stopped for just a moment, surprised by his words, but before she could say anything she saw that Wang Feng was already gone — having disappeared from right next to her — stunning her again.
But all it took was a single step before she understood why he disappeared. Looking around her, even at the first step, she saw no one around her, while she remembered that previous, a paltora of desciples stood behind her.
'it's a separate space...'
.....
Wang Feng stepped on the first step and felt the space around him suddenly turn silent, like someone just pressed a mute button for every noise except his.
But he didn't bother with that since he knew this would happen as this was a separate space; meant for a fair competition.
Instead, his focus went on to the slight Yang Qi entering his body through the golden stairs — making his eyes light up.
He immediately revolved his Cultivation Technique to his current limit, which was the 3rd Stage of the Primordial Origin Art
When he first started cultivating this technique, he was on the 1st Stage, which focused on absorbing Five Elemental Qi from the world, or refine Pure Qi into Five Elemental Qi.
He reached 2nd Stage when when he made his Pure Yang Physique — even though it was an Embryo — It still allowed him to have Yang Qi in his Dantian, because this stage was about introducing Yin and Yang Qi in his Dantian.
Now at 3rd Stage, he needs to cultivate all Seven Attribute Qi to a level where he could control and combine them seamlessly.
His cultivation speed increases with each stage...
As soon as Wang Feng started revolving his technique, the Yang Qi in the stairs gushed out and got sucked into Wang Feng's body in an instant.
'hmm... Well, that was... Sigh', Wang Feng thought disappointedly, because the amount of Qi was at least 10 times less than even 1% of his Total Qi reserves.
After that, Wang Feng shook his head and started climbing, his steps fast and continuous. He didn't stay on a step for more than a second. Eventually, his speed of climbing increased, jumping across the steps — sucking away all the Qi in them, at least the one that he could feel.
.....
While Wang Feng and the others climbed the stairs, Two silhouette covered in darkness gazed down from the top of the Golden Stairways.