My Disciple Die Yet Again

Chapter 7: Don't Court Death And You Won't Die

Yu Yan really could not understand this disciple he just took in. Since she possessed the innate lightning spirit vein, she was already destined to have the potential to ascend. Even though she was a little old, it was not really a big problem. As people who cultivate into deities, their bodies were merely vessels. Although the younger you were, the more successful you would be in cultivating, he was confident that, with his knowledge as the lord of Jade Forest Peak, he would definitely be able to help her form her Azoth Core before her lifespan ends. Then, once she gained the ability to shapeshift, there would no longer be a problem regarding her age.

His Jade Forest Peak had been passed down for many hundred thousand years, yet, the disciples who had entered it were minuscule in number. However, more than half of these successors had already ascended into the world of deities. The main reason was that they only took in disciples with the lightning spirit vein, and the lightning spirit vein was the most mystical spirit vein in this entire world. As long as you were someone who were cultivating to become a deity, you would have to progress through a total of six stages – Essence, Foundation, Azoth Core, Nascent Soul, Demigod, and Ascension. In every stage, they were further categorized into eleven levels. The first to fifth levels were known as the elementary levels, the sixth to ninth were known as the intermediate levels, the tenth level as the advanced levels, and there was the Paragon, these four small stages. Above the Azoth Core stage, whenever one broke through into the next stage, that person would definitely draw in lightning strikes. A small breakthrough would draw in weak lightning strikes, while a large breakthrough would draw in extremely powerful lightning strikes. The heavenly lightning was made up of the cleanest and purest lightning spiritual energy in this world, and was capable of destroying all life forms in the world. So, when the lightning strikes were drawn in, the practitioner could only endure them by drawing out all of the energy inside his body to defend against them.

But, even if one could endure all these lightning strikes, there were still the eighty-one tribulations one must go through when he or she attempts to ascend. The strength possessed by each one of these eighty-one Nine Purple Heavenly Lightning, was tens of thousands of times stronger than the strength of a regular lightning strike. In this world, many highly capable practitioners fell under the power of the Nine Purple Heavenly Lightning, and even some Demigods who had reached the limits of their lifespan, did not dare to pit themselves against the Nine Purple Heavenly Lightning. Other than lightning spirit vein holders!

Lightning spirit vein holders had the innate ability which allowed them to naturally absorb lightning spiritual energy. Hence, the tribulations, to them, were basically not life-threatening challenges, but simply a way to take in a large amount of spiritual energy. With such a heaven-bending spirit vein, even if they did not want to ascend, they had no choice but to do so.

But, this type of spirit vein was extremely rarely seen. The last time a lightning spirit vein holder appeared was sixteen thousand years ago, and that person was Yu Yan.

He was taken in as a disciple at three years old, and reached the Essence Paragon stage at five years old. When he was ten, he became a Foundation stage practitioner. At twenty, he formed his Azoth Core, and he reached the Nascent Soul stage in a hundred years. In a thousand years, he became a Demigod, and reached the Demigod Paragon stage in just six thousand years, becoming number one in the cultivation world. There’s a need to say that he became a legend of the cultivation world due to his frightening cultivation speed. But a legend like this, just happened to remain as a Demigod for exactly ten thousand years. It was not because he was incapable of ascending, rather, it was because in these ten thousand years, he actually did not manage to find a single lightning spirit vein disciple. And in the entire cultivation world, only Jade Forest Peak of Ancient Hill Sect, possessed the cultivation method for lightning spirit vein holders. If he were to ascend, there will no longer be any successors to his line. Hence, even though he had long possessed the body of a deity, he continued to stay in the lower realm, so as to wait for someone capable of succeeding him.