Chương 257: Long Feng's crazy plan

In the very center of the Thunder Sky Overlord Continent, where the actual Thunder Sky Sect was located, vast buildings stretched out across large distance, the entire sect itself taking up an area roughly comparable to half of a province in the Yihua continent. A province was already large enough. Just half of it as a sect was simply astonishing. Thousands of disciples roamed the sect grounds, training and cultivating from the outer court to the Core Court.

In the very center of the Sect, a palace reserved for the highest meetings between elders, Dozens of people sat on chairs in what looked very similar to a banquet, but much quieter than usual. From old men to middle aged men to mature ladies, even youths with suffocating auras sat eating and drinking in silence with the occasional chatter and laugh.

"Hm? Someone reached the eleventh floor?" An old man with gray hair and a long beard slowly stroked his beard and smiled.

"Not bad. The kid is good and has some potential." Another old man added with a nod.

"Envoys are praising Fang'er too much. He is merely passable yet his arrogance knows no bounds" A middle aged man with a shocking aura laughed nervously at these two old men, the respect and caution in his gaze clearly visible.

"Hahaha! Huang Chen, you're too humble. It's good for the kids to have some arrogance. Besides, his confidence in himself is surprising, so much that it is beginning to show signs of manifesting into an aura around him. He isn't just passable!" A different old man chuckled and joined in. The person called Huang Chen smiled deeply, his pride reflecting on his face.

Some of the youths seating looked up indifferently, their gazes seeming to penetrate the entire Sect and view the distant elimination round that just ended.

"Hmph. Having so much blind confidence with such pathetic strength… laughably foolish!" A handsome youth standing behind the first old man snorted coldly, not bothering to lower his voice. His disdain was so thick that it was palpable. Huang Chen's expression froze as he forced an ugly smile on his face.

"Nephew is right. Fang'er is foolish" he agreed with a forced nod.

"Lu jian, you can't speak to the Desolate Continent Master that way. He's your senior!" The old man sitting before the youth chided softly. The youth nodded respectfully and stayed silent. Huang Chen sat there with a dark expression, not daring to say anything. Seated around him were the other leaders of the other six overlord continents, yet none of them dared to overreact here.

The reason why the rulers of the continent zone would stay silent even when a youth mocked them was simple; these were all the envoys from the Mainland's forces! Each of these old and Middle aged men and ladies were all envoys from various forces with shocking power of their own. And some of them brought their disciples along. Each of their disciples were unbelievably haughty and arrogant, looking down on everything and everyone, including the Seven Sect Masters and Leaders of the seven overlord continents.

But then again, these youths all had the ability to be haughty. If Long Feng sensed the auras of any one of these youths, he would realize that both Huang Fang Hao and Liu Shan were absolutely nothing. Liu Shan was an imperial master already, and he was from the Royal Liu Clan, but that didn't mean he was talented in the clan or outstanding. In fact, he might me among the trashes of the Liu Royal Clan. But the weakest among these youths have a thick pressure equaling peak imperial realm masters!

And those were the weakest! And all of them shared one common detail; none was older than the age of 25!

"But my disciple is right Sect Master Huang. Your son being confident in himself is good, and that is infact a great way to cultivate his heart. But… that confidence should stay limited to the continent zone. If he goes to the Mainland with that confidence, he might cause trouble upon himself and be defeated by those younger but stronger than him, causing his heart and confidence to crack. You wouldn't want your son to have a huge flaw in his heart would you?" The old man suddenly continued calmly.

This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author's consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. Huang Chen almost gritted his teeth with rage, but he couldn't show any of that on his face. He could only swallow his grievances and nod with a grateful smile"Envoy is right. My son is too rash. I will properly teach him before he leaves."

"Very well. No matter what, the Heavenly Spear Pavilion got a good seedling. If he is trained well, he could reach the Dao realm in the future." The old man nodded approvingly. Thinking about the Heavenly Spear Pavilion, Huang Chen finally felt a bit better in his heart. His son Huang Fang Hao had been accepted as an outer Disciple of the Heavenly Spear Pavilion, a three star force of the Western Region.

"Apart from this Huang Fang Hao, no one else meets my eyes here. Those other six kids are barely passable. I'll take one of them" The old man stroked his beard continuously and spoke. An old woman laughed at him mockingly"You are already deciding who you'll take? Even before the honoured envoys speak? The audacity of you Shen Gong!" The old man's expression froze and he slowly turned his stiff neck to stare at three people seated at the center of the palace with their eyes closed indifferently.

These three consisted of two middle aged men and one extremely beautiful mature woman. No one in the palace, from the envoys of the five star forces to the leaders of the continent zone and the three star forces envoys like the old man, no one dared to stare at these three for too long. The woman especially. She was extremely beautiful, yes. But she gave off such an icy aura that could freeze the soul of someone who stared at her! She was just like a thousand years old ice block, keeping everyone far away from her.

The entire palace fell silent as everyone stared at those three with respect. A few minutes of stifling silence later, the man by the left slowly opened his eyes, revealing his calm pupils"None of them are good enough. It looks like this is a wasted trip after all!" His words caused the other envoys to strangely let out sighs of relief. Those three were envoys of true two star forces! Two star were the giants of the mainland right below the four Royal Clans!

If these three said they wanted all the youths in this competition, the other envoys would only grumble inwardly but no one would dare to stop them. The icy lady also sighed with her eyes still closed. She could sense some potential youths with good ice affinity, but none of them was truly great. If anyone caught her eyes, it would be Li Yue'er's extremely high affinity for the ice Dao. That was all. The man in the middle slowly opened his eyes.

His black orb like pupils seemed to replace the sky for everyone, and he seemed even stronger than the other two at a glance.

"That kid… his cultivation is unstable and his aura is chaotic, but why do I sense such a dense energy underneath this chaos? And his Dao concepts aren't bad. Sword and demon Daos. And it isn't everyday that you see a spirit realm warrior withstanding a rudimentary heart demon and using it to form his sword heart… Let me observe if he is worth taking in." The man nodded faintly and closed his eyes, all the time not sparing even a single gaze at anyone in the palace.

The elimination round ended that day and everyone began to rush back to their temporary residence. Long Feng and the others all met up with the Yihua clan's Great Elder as well as the Misty Mountain's Master and began to return back together. Along the way, Long Feng could sense the gazes of everyone on him for more than half of the flight. There was nothing he could do so he simply ignored them.

Li Yue'er faced similar scrutiny as she had performed shockingly well in the elimination round, actually reaching the seventh floor and staying there for a long time. Although Long Feng was surprising, they all merely wondered about how he managed to struggle and barely reach the fifth floor before getting thrown out. That was what everyone thought, and Long Feng was extremely happy to entertain them.

As long as he kept low key and didn't draw excessive attention to himself, he couldn't care less what anyone thought. They all returned to their rooms before nightfall and Long Feng immediately sat on his bed and continued to control his energy. The effects of losing control of his demon Dao wasn't going to be cleared so easily. If he didn't take care, he could either fall down to the peak Yang realm again or even lose his life.

"The demon Dao naturally isn't a good Dao. It represents chaos, darkness and bloodshed. Controlling it will become a challenge the more I comprehend it. If I don't find a way to absolutely control it, I might sooner or later lose myself to my own demon Dao!" Long Feng rapidly thought as he continued to stabilize his energy.

"The main issue now is that the strand of aura that forced the Demon and Light Daos to coexist together doesn't belong to me. Therefore I won't ever be able to truly gain full control of my energy unless I also find a way to either control or replace it" Controlling that strand of gray energy was nothing more than the ramblings of a fool.

Long Feng had witnessed the power of that mere strand of energy and he knew that even if he was ten times stronger than he was now, wanting to control that energy would be a joke and half. And if he doesn't find a method around it, he wouldn't be able to stabilize his cultivation. The reasoning was simple. The demon and light Daos were absolute enemies and would never coexist. And both Dao energies belonged to Long Feng. They were under his control. But the strange strand of energy wasn't the same.

It might have come from his body, but that was something he couldn't explain. And he had not the slightest bit of control over this energy. It had forced his two opposing energies together into the same spirit core and then sperated the round core into two sides with both energies taking one side each, and it in the center separating them completely.

While that was a short term solution, it also made Long Feng to never truly be able to fully control his spirit core due to that one external strand of energy, resulting in his extremely chaotic cultivation. Since controlling that energy wasn't a viable option, then he could find a way to replace it with an energy he controlled perfectly, an energy that surpassed both the demon and light Daos and also could separate them both completely.

"There is only one energy I have that fit all those requirements; the Sword Dao! It is stronger than either of the two Daos and is fully under my perfect control. But the question is… can it actually work? Can his sword energy keep the two Daos suppressed?

"Even if it works, I'll merely be able to hide my cultivation again like before and no longer look like I have an unstable foundation. But I'll still be unable to use both Daos at the same time." This was another issue. Long Feng's spirit core had two energies which made him have double the usual spirit energy than other spirit realm warriors had. But he was unable to utilize that advantage due to this limitation.

If he could find a way to use his demon energy, light energy and sword energy at the same time, he could unleash an attack that contained three extremely powerful Dao energies! Imagine if all this three Daos were at the ninth concept level. Or even all at the Dao Intent stage. How strong would his attacks be? Long Feng had a crazy and bold idea of what to do next. If it worked, then… there was absolutely nothing to say but to wait and see the results.

"I will try my best to use my sword energy to replace that strand of gray energy. That way, I'll gain full control and stabilize my foundation. After that… I will not just suppress both light and demon Dao energies but merge them into the sword energy. I don't know if it is even possible, but if it is, then I will have a triple Dao spirit core, containing my sword, demon and light energies. Heaven knows how strong I would be then." Long Feng planned out this insane idea.

If he failed, he didn't know what could happen. The two energies could run wild and reduce him to dust, or the strand of gray energy would reappear again, he didn't know. And the idea of merging three Daos together was absolutely crazy. Especially when two of those energies were the most extremely opposite energies next to Yin and Yang. Long Feng sighed and focused on his foundation currently.

"I will begin to try placing my sword energy as the barrier between both Daos first. If it works and I don't die, then I can talk about the next phase" he decided and closed his eyes, drifting into a state of meditation.