Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Chapter 2057  Two Troublemakers

A few minutes before the spy from the Cui Family found himself at the western city district staring at the rubble that was what little stood standing of this major district that took up a good part of the capital city and housed several large family clans like the Cui Family and a few powerful noble families, back at the Lu Family Estate, Xuan Hao, who had been about to pay Lu Dongli a visit after seeing her successfully break through to the Qi Condensation Realm and step onto the path of cultivation officially, stopped.

Not because of the spy that had escaped the estate a few seconds earlier, as this kind of existence wasn't worth his attention.

Instead, it was because he sensed a peculiar fluctuation coming from the western side of the capital that far exceeded something possible by anyone within this small kingdom, sweeping past the western district before instantly leveling it. Killing everyone within before they even had the time to react.

The sole reason why the damage from this fluctuation was limited to the western district being because he had intervened in the instant, he sensed it. Preventing it from doing any more damage.

At the same time, he also analyzed the strength of this fluctuation and realized that whoever was behind this small fluctuation had reached the Sea Formation Realm of the Profound Immortal Realm in terms of strength. The fluctuation in question being the side effect of a battle playing out nearby reaching this small kingdom.

The nearby in this situation wasn't exactly close in the eyes of anyone below the Profound Immortal Realm, as the battle in question took place tens of thousands of kilometers outside the territory of the Star Shattering Sect.

But this was ultimately a battle that had ended up affecting the Star Shattering Sect to some extent, as through his divine sense, he saw several other nearby kingdoms that had suffered a similar fate. Main difference being that they didn't have anyone to stop the attack when it landed on their side, causing several smaller kingdoms to be erased in an instant.

Fighting next to the Star Shattering Sect's territory was fine and Xuan Hao himself couldn't care less about it as it was already something that had happened countless times with the demonic cultivators and different major powers clashing with each other over territory.

However, in those situations, the two parties had made sure to not affect the territory of the Star Shattering Sect during their battles, either moving away from the borders of the sect or avoiding any accidental spillover of their battle into the territory of the Star Shattering Sect.

Because of this, Xuan Hao was a bit surprised when he realized that someone was actually daring enough to directly cause this kind of damage to the territory under his sect, but after this, he felt an understandable sense of anger looking at the large-scale damage that had been done to his sect's territory.

Not just because it pulled him away from what he had been doing just as he was about to take in Lu Dongli as his seventh disciple, but also because in another way, this could be viewed as a direct challenge to the Star Shattering Sect. No matter what, it was a situation he had to respond to or those other battlefields at the other borders of the sect where demonic cultivators and the local cultivators from the Northern Central Region clashed with each other might also start to spill over into the territory of the sect.

And fueled by his anger at the current situation he had found himself being forced into and his recent breakthrough to the Middle Stage of the Land Creation Realm, his divine sense rapidly grabbed hold of the fragment of spiritual qi lingering around one the destroyed small kingdoms before tracing it back towards the source, something that was simple enough to accomplish with his current strength, as his divine sense was already far stronger than someone at the Land Creation Realm following the creation of his inner world and had reached a level in no way inferior to someone in the Star Creation Realm.

Although he made sure his divine sense didn't accidentally harm any of those within the territory under the protection of the Star Shattering Sect, he showed no such regard once his divine sense crossed past the borders of the Star Shattering Sect-

RUUUMBLE~!

"Wha… What is happening?!"

"So powerful…"

"I can't move… Did some senior perhaps arrive…?"

"Divine sense! This is divine sense! To be this powerful… What kind of realm must one reach?"

And as a result, countless people found themselves unable to move a single muscle as his divine sense swept past showing no intention of hiding itself from view as this wasn't some covert operation but a direct response to someone damaging the territory of the Star Shattering Sect. A more forceful approach could be considered expected, as some people would only ever learn what not to do by being taught a lesson in this kind of manner.

Soon enough, as his divine sense swept past a dozen smaller kingdoms and two relatively large empires with Soul Ascension Realm cultivators at the top, he reached the origin point of the attack that had landed within the territory under the Star Shattering Sect. A large battlefield the size of a small empire with two cultivators at the center.

Originally having expected the attack that landed within the territory of the sect to have originated from some kind of life and death battle where neither side could hold back any longer and had been forced to go all out to survive, he was somewhat surprised when his divine sense swept over the two individuals at the core of this massive battlefield that they had carved out for themselves.

Not only because these two individuals didn't seem to have reached the end of the line where they needed to engage in the kind of reckless battle that affected something as far away as the territory of the Star Shattering Sect was from their battlefield, but also because neither of the two involved were demonic cultivators. Making their reason for fighting so close to the border with the Frozen Wastelands questionable.

But even more than that, though one of them had reached the Early Stage of the Sea Formation Realm and the other the Late Stage of the Celestial Immortal Realm, none of them was amongst the powerful figures he had learnt about within the Northern Central Region or even those outside it for that matter.

In other words, completely unfamiliar figures to him.

"This divine sense!"

"S-Star Creation Realm!? The Star Shattering Sect really has someone at the Star Creation Realm!?"

However, it was their reaction to his divine sense showing up and pressing down on them that made him realize that the situation wasn't as simple as two unfamiliar cultivators who didn't know much of their surroundings and happened to start a fight to the death over some treasure they had encountered next to the territory of the Star Shattering Sect.

Instead, they clearly knew about the Star Shattering Sect and the mention of the Star Creation Realm made it clear to him that these two had come to test the Star Shattering Sect in some way that seemed connected to whether the sect had someone at the Star Creation Realm or not.

The reason behind this didn't matter, as one thing was for sure, whoever decided to test the strength of the Star Shattering Sect in this kind of manner certainly didn't have any kind intentions in mind-

RUUUUUUMBLE-!

And with that, he saw no reason to spare these two troublemakers who had so clearly come looking for trouble as his divine sense came crashing down from above filled with killing intent.

After all, losing someone at the Sea Formation Realm and someone at the Late Stage of the Celestial Immortal Realm would be painful to any major power. Even those from the Southern Central Region considering such a person required not just an enormous investment in resources, but also a long time…

"We need to go before that person shows up!"

"You don't need to say that twice, I already know that!"

A fact that these two understood full well. Throwing away any earlier pretense of being locked in a fight to the death as they both took out a teleportation talisman and activated it to get away. Having already confirmed what they had set out to find out with the arrival of the divine sense that had just swept over them and was not pressing down on them from above.

Even with their current strength and only facing divine sense alone, the pressure they felt in their very soul was something that couldn't be faked and something that in their eyes would only ever be possible for someone who had reached the Star Creation Realm to accomplish.

Heh, are these two trying to escape using a spatial talisman?

Watching the situation playing out through his divine sense, Xuan Hao narrowed his in amusement upon seeing the two spatial talismans appearing. Although these two talismans would have been enough to escape from someone at the Star Creation Realm before they could reach them, his comprehension of the Dao of Space had long since reached the Perfection Realm and even began approaching the Origin Realm.

Before the spatial talismans even had the chance to activate and bring the two away, he had already arrived above them and casually waved his hands. Sealing off the surrounding space with a simple gesture that commanded complete control over the local space that only someone else with a similar realm in the Dao of Space would be able to contend with… And though the creator of those two spatial talismans also seemed to have reached the Perfection Realm in the Dao of Space, the other party ultimately wasn't present and had no way to directly contest with him in control over the local space.

Whoosh~

Because of this, as the two teleportation talismans activated, the two cultivators below watched in despair as the talismans simply went up in flame without doing anything more than cause the space in front of them to sway gently before returning to calm a second later.

"S-Senior! P-p-please spare us reckless juniors, we didn't mean to offend you or the Star Shattering Sect!"

"Yes! Senior, we were forced to-"

Swish~ Ptsh!

Not even bothering to listen to the two below as they began begging the second they realized that they wouldn't be able to escape, he directly used the Sky Splitting Sword from the Heaven Splitting Sword Art in combination with the Void Sword Art to not just cut down and kill the two cultivators below-

RUUUUUUMBLE-! BOOOOOOM-!

But also leave a lasting mark that directly upturned the battlefield of these two and flooded it with a terrifying sword intent.

Also making sure to leave behind a truly devasting site where the two corpses had fallen to the ground as he directly collapsed the space around them after having seized their interspatial rings. The kind of thing that would have been impossible for him to accomplish with his current strength without the Divine Void Eyes derived from his Stellar Dao Body.

Only this way did he feel that he had left enough of a warning for whoever it was, that was bold enough to so directly target the Star Shattering Sect, as he turned around and left the scene. Heading back to take on Lu Dongli as his seventh disciple.

Hopefully without any more unexpected interruptions before he could finish this time around, as it seemed like taking Lu Dongli on as a disciple was fraught with more than just this one interruption along the way.

From the ancient secret realm to him having to set aside some time lecturing his disciples to the current situation, he was starting to feel like another interruption might pop up the second he got back…