Of course, there was improvement, and the improvement couldn’t be any quicker!
In just five to six short months, he had already risen from a Beginner High-Rank Wu Shi, to a High-Level High-Rank Wu Shi. Even though it was only two ranks, this guy’s potential could be seen.
…Of course, this also related to all those herbs that were fed to him.
Thinking of that part, a strange feeling of self-pride grew within Gu Bai.
Look, the strength Gu Xiao Shan had built from the past years couldn’t even be compared to the speed of improvements made from his slight pointers!
A kid needed encouragement…Gu Bai raised his chin a bit, struggling a bit on the inside.
And that including him growing taller than him, it was the same.
After finally overcoming his jealous mental state, Gu Bai nodded seriously, “You’re really good, keep it up.”
As expected, he received a bright sparkling and warm smile from the young male.
Qi Guan Rui reached out a hand with a smile, “Gege…”
Oh, oh, oh, he’s acting spoiled again, oh well.
Gu Bai extended a hand without expression and pulled him up.
He had to say, even though, sometimes he had thoughts of wanting to punch Qi Guan Rui, but most of the time, he actually doted on him more.
And the two’s relationship also melded together even more with the passing of time.
After the little match, Gu Bai had the general idea of what level Qi Guan Rui was at right now. Then, pinpointing the few problems that the other exposed to him, he continued to give advice.
As for Qi Guan Rui, the problems that he exposed were also of course, not just exposed randomly. To him, power was the most important. It was rare to have such a high-skilled person with so much knowledge like Zi Ju Shi Bai to teach him in person, so he obviously wouldn’t miss out, so with some of the stuff that he lacked in, he mixed into it to expose them all together, and used that method to receive answers.
So everything was also counted as fun for him.
After being taught, Qi Guan Rui started to train hard.
As for Gu Bai, he went back to his chamber and also started his own training, until dinner time came, then he was dragged out of the chamber by Qi Guan Rui again.
After these repeated days, towards the Qi Guan Rui who cared for the city governor this much, the loyal Da Guan Jia within the palace, Qin Xu Bo, also started to like him a lot more.
Especially when Qi Guan Rui’s martial skills improved greatly, he also slowly started to accept Qi Guan Rui as a member of the Tian Du Cheng City Governor’s Palace.
This allowed Qi Guan Rui to mix in the palace like a fish in water, with all the good reviews of him, from top to bottom.
When it was almost night, Gu Bai sat on his bed with a bit of hesitation inside.
It wasn’t anything other than that news had come out of the Town of the Blue Goats again.
The Town of the Blue Goats was already the protagonist’s territory, the latest news was that the protagonist was still doing secluded cultivation and wouldn’t be going out for a short while.
According to the plot that he could remember in his head, this should be about that time.
The protagonist was probably about to go to the Mo Domain.
So, what kind of place was the Mo Domain?
Everybody knew that when an author wrote a novel, there was always the good side and the bad side. As for the protagonist, no matter if they were good or bad, they all had the right to claim their doings as justice, and for those who opposed him, they were the antagonists.
But what was special about the special part in Gu Bai’s novel, was that his protagonist had planned a huge game of chess.
From the beginning to the end, the biggest character on the good side (the protagonist) and the biggest antagonist, they were the same person.
As to what these words literally meant, this novel was titled “Demon Lord Wu Zun”
Wu Zun was said to be the most powerful martial artist in this world, according to legends. It was a rank that for many years, no one could achieve, but it could definitely be achieved by the protagonist.
Or else why would the protagonist be the protagonist?
At the same time, there was obviously also a Demon Lord.
And as for this Demon Lord, he was the master of the Mo Domain, also a part of the protagonist in the future.
After the protagonist got rid of Lian Hengwu and took control over the Town of Blue Goats, he started to keep a low profile.
When the protagonist was practicing secluded cultivation in his chamber, after a while, he would catch a thief who tried to steal from the Qi Guan Family, and from that, he would get information about the Mo Domain.
Since it was a stallion novel, when the thief’s identity was revealed, she was deemed to be a beauty.
And she was also a Mo Ren, born within the Mo Domain but was exiled, so she couldn’t help but go into hiding. Using the techniques she had learned in the Mo Domain before, she stole money from big families to survive, and it had raised her own wealth too.
Okay, speaking ‘til here, the meaning of a “Mo Ren” had to be brought up again.
Mo Ren was someone who went into Qi Deviation, which caused their energy flow to be reversed, but they survived it. Or it could also be someone who reversed the flow of their energy in the first place, purposely trying to obtain greater powers from it.
Their biggest difference from normal martial artists was their style of energy flow.
In the Lingwu Mainland, with martial artists as the majority population, the way that Mo Ren trained was heresy.
Even though they were victims of Qi Deviation in the beginning. But amongst them, was also an extremely powerful person who had created the training style of reversing their energy flow, making an individual’s power way stronger as well.
Though if that was all, then this would’ve just been an awesome, newfound training style, and it should have more support since it had more powers.
The Mo Rens who survived in the beginning actually had received their family’s welcome, the martial artists also overlooked their existence. There were even some people who, in search of greater power, reversed their energy flow, which caused a great amount of Mo Ren to appear at once.
But as to why Mo Ren were called Mo Ren, it was because they couldn’t control themselves.
Mo Rens’ skills improved very fast and their ranks of power were the same as martial artists, but every time they broke through, they needed a great amount of blood.
In other words, they needed blood and flesh to fuel their energy. It could be from a beast, but the best was the blood and flesh of a martial artist.
During the beginning period, the Mo Rens could still control themselves, but as Mo Rens increased, there ought to be someone who would do whatever they needed to do. When they were breaking through a rank, they couldn’t control themselves and it allowed them to rip apart many living humans during that time span. Even some of the smaller families were all destroyed due to the Mo Rens within their family!
Under these kinds of circumstances, a great war occurred between the Mo Rens and martial artists.
The martial artists all had many generations of skills that had been passed down, with their deep roots and great population, they quickly suppressed the Mo Rens and drove them out into a wasteland, which was the Mo Domain.
From then on, Mo Rens could only live within the Mo Domain. If they were to come to the Lingwu Mainland and were discovered, then they would face certain death.
Once the protagonist found out about the Mo Domain’s existence, he quickly realized what he was lacking. So, he quickly controlled the female thief and asked her to take him back to the Mo Domain.
Then, journeying with the female thief on the road together, under the protagonist’s acting, obviously, the female thief fell for him very quickly. She even promised that the few powers she had built up, could all be used by the protagonist, and for the protagonist, she was willing to plead with an elder of the Mo Domain that, originally, she was never gonna forgive.
Like so, the protagonist trained in the Mo Domain for two full years.
When Gu Bai received the message that the protagonist was still in secluded cultivation at that time, in reality, the protagonist should’ve already arrived at the Mo Domain with the female thief.
Then for him now, he should also take the next step.
In this world, with a little of everything mixed in, obviously, there would also be a fancy and well-known academy that only the rich and wealthy could enter. To accompany the ancient setting, it was titled the “Qing Tian Academy”, a place specially used to train young talents.
To enter the Qing Tian Academy, the most basic requirement was that one needed to be a Wu Jun under the age of twenty-five, but of course, that was only the requirement for “outsiders.”
For the Hao Yang City, where the academy was located, and including the citizens from the thousand surrounding martial cities, not only was the age limit increased, for example, one could meet the requirement if they were thirty and under. As for the skill rank requirement, they only needed to be a High-Rank Wu Shi.
In other words, they gathered the insiders, and as for the outsiders, they only accepted the geniuses within geniuses.
So, this academy, obviously, was best known for its manuals.
The manual tower built in the center of the Qing Tian Academy had hundreds of floors, each floor contained countless martial manuals. The Academy had already existed for a long time and many of the lost martial styles from long ago, still had copies in the manual tower.
If one entered the academy, then the manual tower would allow access for students according to their rank. If they could just look at different studies of martial art like that, did the benefit for students even need to be explained?
Even to Gu Bai, it moved him a bit.
He was twenty-three this year, almost twenty-four, if he hurried over, then he would be just within the age limit.
As for the protagonist, under the circumstance of the plot not changing, he should have been at the Mo Domain, building relationships. Then leave the Mo Domain and would save a miss from some family, like a knight in shining armor and receive the information of open applications of the Qing Tian Academy from her, then he would decide to enter the academy for further studies. At that time, the protagonist would be twenty and would have already been a High Ranked Wu Jun, which was the same martial rank that Gu Bai currently held.
Calculating that, within the two-year time span, Gu Bai could go and sign up for the academy while the protagonist was still at the Mo Domain. Then he would improve his skills from the manual tower and the academy’s teachers’ teaching, if he could get into the elite level of this academy during that time, then when the year the protagonist came, he could just use his status to apply for training outside.
Then when the protagonist was climbing up with his power and making underlings or whatever, he would have nothing to do with those.
The most important thing was that the elite students could check the information of the normal students, so in the future, when Gu Bai had to come back to the academy occasionally, he could use this method to check where the protagonist was and proceed to hide from him. Anyway, in the first few years of the protagonist being here, he just acted as a pig, while in reality, was eating tigers. And even more, he flirted with some girls and used their family powers. When the protagonist was finally willing to be leveled up to the elite field, Gu Bai would have the chance to apply for an even higher training.
Basically, if he could control the progress of the plot, then he could avoid the protagonist.
Thinking up to that point, Gu Bai finally made his decision.
Just then, Qi Guan Rui walked out of the bathing room and found Gu Bai spacing out, so he waved his hand in front of him, “Gege, what are you thinking about?”
Gu Bai returned to his senses and spoke with a stone face, “The manual room within the city can’t satisfy the passion I have for martial arts anymore, on the third of the next month, I’m going to Hao Yang City.”
Qi Guan Rui was a bit shocked as he turned his head away slightly.
At a spot where Gu Bai couldn’t see, his expression became a little dark.
Then this meant…he was gonna abandon him?
Being abandoned for the second time…
But I’ve already forgiven you for the first time, so why is there a second time?
Qi Guan Rui felt a wave of rage rising up from the bottom of his heart, also making his blood boil a bit.
Gu Bai continued to speak, “I’m going to the Qing Tian Academy, you…” He stopped a bit, “I wanna take you there, but they only accept Wu Jun under the age of twenty-five, if you go, you can only remain at the same status as you are now. Would you be willing?”
Qi Guan Rui put his hands behind his back and regulated the flow of his blood, making the tiny bits of scale that were already growing disappear. Though by that time, his chaotic emotions were slowly turning peaceful.
Qi Guan Rui gave him a little smile, “Of course I would be willing to.” His tone was extremely soft, “How could I separate from Gege? I just originally thought that Gege always liked to stay in Tian Du Cheng, so I was a bit surprised.”