"Even if you possess Mental Power, you can't cultivate like this. Don't you know that the path of martial cultivation requires gradual, steady progress? Breaking through so quickly like this will make it very hard for you to achieve anything great in the future."
"If I wanted to, with my family's wealth, I could have broken through to Spirit Martial Ninth Stage before the age of twelve. But do you know why I'm fourteen now and still only at Spirit Martial Eighth Stage?"
"Because using cultivation resources to break through continuously is essentially breaking the rules of martial cultivation. Alongside the power, it also puts a burden on the body and lowers your comprehension potential going forward."
"Even if you could become a Spirit Martial Ninth Stage expert in the short term, what you'd face afterward is the predicament of never being able to break through to Yuan Wu for the rest of your life. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
Looking at Su Mei like this, Chu Feng felt both secretly pleased and a little heartache. He naturally knew that the path of martial cultivation required gradual progress and that one shouldn't rush for quick results — but that only applied to ordinary people, and Chu Feng clearly couldn't be measured by ordinary standards.
No one knew his own body better than he did. His body hadn't suffered any burden from the rapid breakthroughs — in fact, it had been growing stronger and stronger.
The problem was, he couldn't tell Su Mei the truth. He didn't know how to explain his body. He couldn't very well say, "Not only do I possess Mental Power, but my constitution is special, and there's a ball of Divine Thunder hidden inside my Dantian," could he?
This kind of secret, Chu Feng wouldn't share lightly with anyone. If he could, he would keep it hidden for the rest of his life.
"I got it, girl. I'll be more careful." Unable to come up with a proper explanation, Chu Feng could only smile and brush it off.
"You'd better watch yourself. I don't want you to throw away your bright future just because you were too eager for quick results." Seeing that grinning Chu Feng, Su Mei grew a little angry and turned to walk into her residence.
Watching Su Mei's retreating figure, Chu Feng felt a warmth in his heart. Having a girl who cared about him this much — it really was a happy thing.
The next morning, just as the sky was beginning to lighten, Chu Feng was already up, because today was the day of the Core Disciple Examination.
Core Disciples — the Azure Dragon Sect's priority cultivation targets, and also its main fighting force. Their status was worlds apart from that of Inner Sect Disciples.
First, Core Disciples enjoyed the Azure Dragon Sect's finest cultivation resources. Second, their families also received the Sect's protection. If anyone dared to make trouble for the family of a Core Disciple, that was tantamount to declaring war on the Azure Dragon Sect.
Moreover, not all Core Disciples were of Zhou Zhiyuan's caliber. In reality, many Core Disciples were quite powerful — the majority had stepped into the Yuan Wu Realm, all of them possessing exceptional martial talent. Some Core Disciples were even strong enough to rival the Core Elders.
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So compared to the Inner Sect, the Core Area was where Chu Feng most wanted to go. It held far greater challenges, and he loved that kind of life — the kind that forced you to keep pushing yourself to become stronger.
The Core Disciple Examination took place in another vast underground palace, except this one was far larger in scale than the one used for the Inner Sect Examination, and its traps were considerably more dangerous.
Most importantly, the Inner Sect Examination's traps remained the same year after year, but the Core Disciple Examination's traps changed almost annually, with endless tricks and stratagems. Nobody knew what the traps would look like this year.
Of course, if you possessed absolute strength, no matter how difficult the traps, you could still get through them.
And now, the twelve members of the Wing Alliance had finally stepped into this colossal underground palace.
"Oh my, the Wing Alliance really went all out this time — so many people participating."
"Twelve people? You call that going all out?"