Chapter 99: The Gears of Fate
Qi Tian and Zhu Zhuqing had returned to their old place and continued their daily cultivation.
However, in his spare time, Qi Tian would also use Out Of Body to possess Ah Yin's body to cultivate.
Several months had passed for him, while two full years had passed for Ah Yin, and her cultivation had finally reached level sixty-one.
Ah Yin had officially entered the mature stage. Her identity would no longer be exposed, and she could cultivate like a human Soul Master.
On this day, Qi Tian possessed Ah Yin's body once again.
On the mountain outside the Yin Yang Ice And Fire Eyes, several wooden houses had been built, where Ah Yin and her three disciples lived.
The three disciples were all girls Ah Yin had rescued in Sunset Forest.
The eldest disciple, Bai Yan, possessed the mutated Blue Silver Grass spirit; the second disciple, Qing Qing, possessed the Azure Vine spirit; and the third disciple, Yan'er, possessed the Illusionary Poison Flower spirit.
"Ah Yin, you've now entered the mature stage and can cultivate without being with others."
"You should send these disciples down the mountain and let them train at a Spirit Master Academy."
"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Ah Yin had grown used to following Qi Tian, displaying a bit of a "husband and wife in harmony" attitude.
Early in the morning, Qi Tian knocked on the doors of the three neighbouring rooms, and three girls came out.
Just then, Qi Tian suddenly noticed that Bai Yan's hair had changed from long black to long blue.
Not only that, her ordinary appearance had become far more attractive; she could now be considered a genuine beauty.
Qi Tian had a bad feeling because he had experienced something similar before.
This had happened during the second awakening of his own spirit, but because his original spirit suppressed it, his hair colour had returned to normal.
"Ah Yin, why has Bai Yan's hair changed colour?" Qi Tian asked anxiously.
"Oh, her!"
"Although Bai Yan's spirit is a mutated Blue Silver Grass, her cultivation talent was still too poor, so I helped her awaken the Blue Silver King spirit!"
"That way, she should be able to graduate smoothly if she goes to an intermediate Spirit Master Academy!" Ah Yin said.
She was too kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see Bai Yan suffer, so she had actually used the aura of the Blue Silver Emperor to help Bai Yan awaken the Blue Silver King spirit.
"Ah Yin, you're being too impulsive. What if someone discovers the secret of the Blue Silver Grass spirit's second awakening and comes after you?"
Ah Yin replied, "Impossible. The secret of the Blue Silver Grass spirit is known only to me and the Blue Silver King on the entire continent."
"If neither I nor the Blue Silver King tells, no one will ever know this secret."
"Qi Tian, you're overthinking things. You should rest and conserve your soul power."
"I don't want to become a god only to find I can't save you!"
Perhaps because of Ah Yin's influence, Bai Yan's appearance now bore some resemblance to Ah Yin's.
Even that slight resemblance was enough to make her a very beautiful woman.
Qi Tian sighed, gave some instructions to the three girls, and then sent them down the mountain.
...
On the official road, two middle-aged men of average appearance but brimming with vigour were heading toward Heaven Dou City.
"Big brother, I didn't expect you to break through to the Contra level so quickly after the trip to Devil Island."
"Second brother, your cultivation isn't far behind; you'll catch up to me soon!"
"Brother, should we return to the sect now?"
The older middle-aged man said, "Of course, we've been out training for several years already."
"Besides, at our age, it's time to marry and have children."
Another man in a grey robe shook his head and said, "Father will definitely arrange marriages for us with women from the four major subordinate clans. I don't want that!"
"The women from the Tai and Niu clans are too burly and not pretty enough; the eldest daughter of the Bai clan is related to us by blood, so she's not suitable."
"Everyone in the Yang clan practices the Soul-Breaking Spear. They look sinister and make me uncomfortable."
In short, he looked down on the women of the four great clans.
The other man nodded in agreement, saying, "Second brother, your name carries the character of Clear Sky."
"I'll leave the task of strengthening the sect and forging marriage alliances with the four great clans to you. As for me, I'll reluctantly marry an ordinary woman!"
Just then, he noticed his second brother staring blankly to the west.
He followed the gaze and saw three girls walking toward them from the direction of Sunset Forest.
The three girls were all quite beautiful; one was as gorgeous as a poisonous flower, another was plain yet pretty.
The third looked delicate and frail, with exquisite features, and her blue hair added an enchanting charm.
The two middle-aged men stared wide-eyed; the blue-haired girl seemed to be exactly their ideal type.
"Brother, I feel I should start a family now. Your cultivation is higher; you should inherit the sect!"
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he quietly followed behind the three women, looking for a chance to strike up a conversation.
"I think Father is still young. Let him continue contributing to the sect while we keep training on the continent!"
With that, he followed his second brother.
Qi Tian had no idea that the disciple he had just sent down the mountain had been spotted and fallen for at first sight by two members of the Clear Sky Sect.
If he had known, he would rather have kept Bai Yan by his side forever than let them go down the mountain.
"Ah Yin, are you going to stay here to cultivate, or return to Blue Silver Forest?"
"Let's go back to Blue Silver Forest. It's been so long since I've seen my people."
She was now in human form, and cultivating in the environment of Blue Silver Forest would be even faster than here.
...
Years later, Tang Hao, accompanied by his fiancée, prepared to return to his sect to pay respects to the elders.
While passing through Notting City, he encountered an interesting man.
This person claimed to be a master, an expert in spirit theory, yet hid in a junior Spirit Master Academy to survive.
The master looked at his idol Tang Hao and was so excited he could barely contain himself.
"If my spirit had no flaws, the one famous across the continent would be me, not Tang Hao, right?"
"In terms of spirit, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan, which possesses the continent's top beast spirit, is no inferior to the Clear Sky clan, which possesses the top tool spirit."
"In terms of talent, I, Yu Xiaogang, am absolutely second to none!" the master thought to himself.
He looked at Tang Hao as if looking at another version of himself—a version whose spirit had not suffered a malignant mutation.
"Master, you have studied spirits extensively; you must not know what my lover's spirit is!" Tang Hao said confidently.
"Oh? Let your wife demonstrate her spirit!" The master was equally confident.
"You guys!" Bai Yan looked gently at Tang Hao and released her spirit.
It was a large, robust Blue Silver Grass, its stems and leaves covered in many silver patterns.
Beneath the Blue Silver Grass, four spirit rings clearly pulsed.
"Blue Silver Grass? A fourth-ring Soul Elder? How is that possible?" The master stared at her in shock.
He clearly remembered that Blue Silver Grass spirits usually only had 0.5 innate soul power and, like himself, would be stuck at a certain bottleneck and unable to break through.
But wasn't this spirit also Blue Silver Grass? Why had it broken through level 40?
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