Xuanwu War Sovereign

Half a month later, a figure shot out from atop Niu Jinfeng, piercing through the clouds in an instant.

With a turn, he scanned his surroundings and got his bearings.

An hour later, he appeared before a massive portal.

He flashed forward and stopped outside the portal.

Outside the portal, two elders leaning on staffs—one in black robes, the other in white—looked up at the black-robed youth who had just landed.

"So it’s the new True Disciple of Niu Jinfeng. Are you on your way to All Stars Academy?"

"Elder Bai Mei, Black Extreme Elder!"

Qin Feng’s expression shifted.

He sensed an aura from these two Elders that was no weaker than that of the Medicine King Hall Master.

"Please, allow me to pass!"

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The white-robed Elder Bai Mei glanced at Qin Feng, his gaze flashing. "Half a month. In just half a month, you’ve cultivated Niu Jinfeng’s Great Void Five Elements Annihilation True Thunder Technique to the stage of Five Thunders Nurturing and Five Elements Transformation. Your talent is truly exceptional!"

At these words, the Black Extreme Elder’s expression shifted.

’The Great Void Five Elements Annihilation True Thunder Technique!’

This True Inheritance was one of the rare few that combined the Dao of the Five Elements, Thunderbolt, and Destruction.

It was exceptionally famous among the various peaks of the Star Sect.

Its Great Void Five Elements Annihilation True Thunder ranked among the top in attack power among the sect’s many True Inheritances.

However, while this True Inheritance was powerful, it was also exceptionally difficult to cultivate. Only those with excellent aptitude and outstanding comprehension could ever hope to master it.

Qin Feng’s eyes narrowed slightly. He was secretly astonished. ’These two Elders have incredibly sharp senses.’

"Go on in!"

Just then, Elder Bai Mei’s hands formed a seal. The portal—made of no metal or wood—suddenly began to glow, inch by inch. Countless patterns lit up, and a great, sky-piercing path took form within.

Qin Feng shot into it like a meteor, and countless lights bloomed around him. He could clearly feel innumerable Void storms surging, and in an instant, he had crossed an unknowable distance through the Void.

Light filled his vision, and in the next moment, he found himself in a spacious hall.

At the entrance, the group of white-robed disciples on guard duty looked startled. Their expressions shifted as they watched the black-robed youth fly out from the Star Domain, and one of them stepped forward.

"Senior Brother Qin Feng!"

"It’s you..."

Qin Feng glanced over, his expression turning to surprise, followed by an inscrutable smile playing on his lips.

’Zhu Jian!’

This was none other than Zhu Jian, the very same Outer Disciple who, when Qin Feng had first chosen his Spirit Mountain Blessed Land in the Spirit Mountain Hall, had resolved to make his life difficult.

Seeing Qin Feng’s expression, Zhu Jian’s face flushed crimson, and a chill rose from the depths of his heart.

He never would have imagined seeing Qin Feng here.

In just one year, so much had changed. Qin Feng’s rise had been meteoric—from being a protégé of Elder Cyan Dragon, to an Inner Sect Disciple, and now all the way to a True Disciple. The ascent was simply dizzying.

Meanwhile, he was still just an Outer Disciple.

The once-arrogant Zhu Jian now trembled under Qin Feng’s gaze like an ant in the dead of winter.

The many Outer Disciples stationed at Xingji Hall, guarding the portal to the Star Domain, looked at Zhu Jian in surprise.

It seemed this Zhu Jian had offended the new True Disciple.

In an instant, the way the other Outer Disciples looked at him changed.

Zhu Jian’s scalp went numb. He cursed inwardly, filled with hatred and a heart-wrenching jealousy.

’That Qin Feng is just too lucky!’

Giving Zhu Jian a faint, mocking smile, Qin Feng now found him too insignificant to even mention.

However, Qin Feng had always been one to repay every slight.

His gaze swept across the crowd and quickly landed on a man in a Silver Robe—the Steward of Xingji Hall.

"You’re the Steward of Xingji Hall!"

He was a clean-shaven, fair-faced, middle-aged man. Seeing Qin Feng’s gaze fall upon him, he looked completely overwhelmed and flattered.

Although Stewards like him enjoyed treatment comparable to that of Inner Sect Disciples...

...in truth, their prospects for advancement were already exhausted.

’If I could curry favor with a True Disciple,’ he thought, ’it would be a light at the end of the tunnel.’

The Steward was exceptionally eager, rushing forward to bow. "This disciple, Niu Ben, greets you, honored True Disciple!"

Qin Feng nodded. "I’ll remember you."

With that, his gaze fell upon the pale-faced Zhu Jian.

Niu Ben froze for a moment, then understood completely.

Qin Feng patted the steward’s shoulder and walked out of Xingji Hall.

As soon as Qin Feng left, the gazes of all the disciples in the hall fell on Zhu Jian, their eyes now filled with a trace of pity.

One could only imagine the fate awaiting someone who offended a True Disciple, even a newly appointed one.

The best-case scenario was being assigned to guard some remote little town. Otherwise, there was a high probability that his superiors, fearing the True Disciple’s authority, would send him to a major battlefield as cannon fodder.

With that casual gesture, he had settled the score for that past transgression.

Qin Feng appeared in the Contribution Hall and exchanged for the remaining 4th, 5th, and 6th Layers of the Mixed Element Star Technique.

The 4th Layer corresponded to the Martial Arts Nirvana Realm.

The 5th Layer corresponded to the Great Power Realm.

It included many Secret Techniques for overcoming, evading, or delaying the Nine Great Celestial Tribulations.

These Secret Techniques were only accessible to Inner Sect Disciples.

As for the Secret Techniques to evade, delay, and overcome the Nine Great Celestial Tribulations, those were absolute True Inheritances that only True Disciples were qualified to access.

This was a benefit exclusive to True Disciples.

There was also the 6th Layer, which corresponded to the Ultimate Venerable Realm.

Additionally, Qin Feng took the opportunity to exchange for another batch of Jade Spirit Wine. He cleared out his entire stock, trading it all for various Spirit Medicine Seeds and Spiritual Roots. He was on the verge of breaking through to the Nirvana Realm and would need a large quantity of Spirit Medicine.

This was something Qin Feng took very seriously.

Qin Feng couldn’t help but feel a little regretful. If he had joined any of the other Twenty-eight Peaks, a master or elder would have stepped in to sort this out for him.

Unfortunately, Niu Jinfeng was now utterly destitute and simply couldn’t support his Cultivation.

Recalling what he had seen and heard on Niu Jinfeng, he realized that besides an extremely abundant supply of Spiritual Qi, the peak had nothing else to its name.

It had truly fallen to an extreme low.

To say there were only a handful of people there would be an overstatement.

He recalled Li Zhong’s words before he left.

"Junior Brother Qin Feng, according to the sect’s rules for the legacy of the Twenty-eight Peaks, if no one inherits the Elder’s seat for three hundred years, the peak’s legacy will be sealed. If no one inherits the seat for five hundred years, the Star Sect has the right to select an elite from another lineage to inherit the legacy and reorganize the peak. We are now less than twenty years away from that five-hundred-year deadline. You must become the Elder within these twenty years, or Niu Jinfeng’s ten-thousand-year heritage will be lost forever!"

’Become the Elder? It’s not that simple.’ Qin Feng’s mouth twitched.

The sect rules stipulated that to serve as one of the Twenty-Eight Peaks’ Leaders, one’s Cultivation had to be at least at the Martial Arts Saint Realm.

As everyone knew, after reaching the peak of the Nirvana Realm, one had to begin Crossing the Tribulation.

Each great tribulation overcome leads to a transformation.

Only a peerless expert who had experienced four great tribulations was qualified to be called a Saint.

A Saint wields the Laws of the Saint Dao!

He took a deep breath.

After leaving the Contribution Hall, Qin Feng headed straight for Heavenly Red Peak.

Now that he had been promoted to a True Disciple, Heavenly Red Peak had become his Dao Field.

However, for a Level 9 Spirit Mountain to be upgraded to a Dao Field, there was one final step. Only by completing this step and helping Heavenly Red Peak break through the limitations of a Level 9 Spirit Mountain could it qualify as a true Dao Field!