Chapter 2238: The Origin of 'Teacher'

"I can only ask in person..." Zhang Xuan shook his head.

On the surface, the strongest in the God Realm was Luo Ruoxi, but for some reason, he always felt that a great hand was pushing them, dragging them into a whirlpool from which they could not extricate themselves.

"Can you teach me the technique for severing the Three Corpses?"

Putting aside that thought, Zhang Xuan looked over.

Regardless of whether it could help him break free from the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, mastering this method would grant him three extra lives, greatly increasing his means of survival.

Moreover, it could sever the Evil Corpse, Good Corpse, and Self Corpse, making him purer and more adept at future cultivation.

"This technique, to be cultivated and hidden from the Heavenly Dao, cannot be retained in memory... otherwise it would also be spied upon! We received the teacher's instruction in the spatial turbulence when leaving the Master Teacher Continent, and after practicing, we forgot it... Even the teacher does not keep the formula in his mind... So, we do not have the technique here!"

Ziyuan Ancient Sage smiled awkwardly.

It was not that he was unwilling to pass it on, but that it was impossible to do so.

To hide from the Heavenly Dao, one had to erase it from memory. Once done, the technique was lost, and even passing it on was impossible!

Understanding this, Zhang Xuan gave a wry smile and asked curiously, "Did Master Kong create this technique himself? Did he know in the Master Teacher Continent that someone would contend with him for the Heavenly Mandate?"

This was what puzzled him most.

When he left the Master Teacher Continent, he was still ignorant and heavily reliant on the Library of Heaven's Path.

Logically, the struggle for the Heavenly Mandate was a fact known only in the God Realm. Why had Master Kong prepared in advance while still in the Master Teacher Continent?

Did he control the order of the Heavenly Dao and possess the ability to foresee?

"Although the teacher is a sage with unparalleled talent, he was not born with knowledge. He also had someone to teach and guide him..." Ziyuan Ancient Sage said.

Zhang Xuan nodded.

Master Kong had shone too brightly from the Master Teacher Continent, leading Zhang Xuan to once think he had emerged out of nowhere without needing to learn... Now that he thought about it, that view was too one-sided.

Everyone starts from ignorance to knowledge; everyone has a learning process.

Master Kong's talent was irreplaceable, but how did he step into cultivation? And from whom did he learn? There must have been a guide.

Just like himself, possessing the heaven-defying cheat device of the Library of Heaven's Path, he still needed Master Kong to point the way forward.

"This technique was taught by the Grandmaster..." Ziyuan Ancient Sage nodded.

"Grandmaster?" Zhang Xuan was puzzled.

This was the first time he had heard that Master Kong had a teacher.

"In the former Master Teacher Continent, those who imparted knowledge were simply called 'Shi'! It was after the Grandmaster appeared that later generations began to address their personal master as 'Lao Shi'!"

"..." Zhang Xuan was completely confused.

What the other said felt like a tongue twister... He didn't understand it at all.

"We call you Zhang Shi, you call our teacher Kong Shi, and many call me Yan Shi... all using the surname to honor the master. The term 'Lao Shi' originally referred to the Grandmaster, addressing his master. Later, we adopted it, and it has been passed down to the present..." Ziyuan Ancient Sage continued.

Zhang Xuan was stunned for a moment, then thought of something and looked over in confusion: "Do you mean... your Grandmaster's surname is 'Lao'? So calling him 'Lao Shi' gave rise to the term 'teacher'?"

"Exactly!" Ziyuan Ancient Sage nodded.

"There are people with the surname Lao?" Zhang Xuan gave a wry smile, then stopped pursuing the matter and looked over curiously again: "Since that Grandmaster could teach Master Kong such profound techniques, his cultivation must be formidable. Why have I never heard of him?"

He had read the history of the Master Teacher Continent countless times and had living guides like Henren... but he had never heard of this extraordinary figure surnamed Lao!

"According to the teacher, the Grandmaster only stayed in the Master Teacher Continent for a very short time, a fleeting glimpse, then left riding a green ox. Where he went, the teacher did not know, and naturally, we know even less..."

"Alright..." It seemed he would have to wait for Master Kong to be resurrected to ask clearly.

Knowing he could not learn the technique for severing the Three Corpses, Zhang Xuan looked over: "Among you, are there any experts skilled in alchemy? Do you have any top-grade Divine Origin Pills or similar medicines that can rapidly improve cultivation?"

His soul had already reached the peak of a Sealed King God King, and he had also comprehended the technique to break through to the Sovereign. What he lacked now were pills to enhance his true energy and opportunities to strengthen his physical body.

If both conditions were met, he could push his cultivation to the true peak of a God King, or even... strike for the Sovereign!

He had already thought about the physical body: when the Undying Sovereign was resurrected, the Undying Lava Pool would surely be usable again, and he could enter it for tempering. But for true energy, without sufficient pills, progress would not be so easy.

Fu Jiangchen, the strongest alchemist in the God Realm, did not have many top-grade Divine Origin Pills. Perhaps Master Kong's accumulated stock over the years would be considerable.

"Top-grade Divine Origin Pills? The teacher refined some in the past, and we fellow disciples consumed quite a few. There should still be a few hundred left. I'll go fetch them..."

Ziyuan Ancient Sage smiled, turned, and left.

"A few hundred?" Zhang Xuan's mouth twitched.

As expected of Master Kong, truly wealthy.

Before long, Ziyuan Ancient Sage brought a cloth bag and tossed it casually: "Here they are..."

Zhang Xuan opened it and saw densely packed top-grade Divine Origin Pills, indeed several hundred of them.

"You... keep Divine Origin Pills here?" His eyebrows jumped.

Others stored Divine Origin Pills in jade boxes or jade bottles, but this one used a tattered cloth bag, like storing trash...

It made him doubt whether he had gotten fake pills.

He casually picked one out and swallowed it.

Gurgle, gurgle!

A surge of vigorous spiritual energy immediately spread through his body. Then he took out a second, a third... swallowing them one after another.

"You... eat pills like this?" Ziyuan Ancient Sage's face twitched.

They had many pills, but these were top-grade Divine Origin Pills. With his Sealed King God King strength, refining one would take some time. The other was swallowing them one by one like candy beans...

No amount of medicine would be enough for you to eat!

Just as he was speechless, he saw the young man's cultivation rapidly break through from early-stage God King.

Mid-stage God King!

Late-stage God King!

...

In a short while, he reached the peak and then slowly stopped.

"What a pity... The effect of the top-grade Divine Origin Pills is gone..." Zhang Xuan sighed as he stopped.

Top-grade Divine Origin Pills were useful for ordinary Sealed King God Kings, but for Zhang Xuan, once he reached the peak of God King, the effect was minimal. No matter how many he swallowed, he could not break through to Sealed King.

"Good thing the effect is gone, or you would have eaten them all!"

Ziyuan Ancient Sage's helpless voice sounded.

Zhang Xuan looked down; the pills in the bag were only a little more than half left...

Embarrassed, he scratched his head: "It's mainly because Master Kong's pills taste too good—pineapple flavor, apple flavor, grape flavor... I couldn't control myself and ate too many!"

Ziyuan Ancient Sage: "..."