Chapter 306: Young Master - 306
The crowd watched silently as Tian Ren's wife spoke.
"As we all know, just a few years ago, Guang Fu fought Yao Mun. Not only did he fight him and survive, but he even fought him at the same cultivation. I don't believe that there is another alive that could do so." Tian Ren's wife said.
"Along with his incredible feat, he was also personally selected by my husband, Tian Ren, to be his disciple."
As Tian Ren's wife spoke, Guang Fu looked around the crowd. A little bit in the back, in order to not block everyone's vision, was Lernean. Guang Fu had not noticed him before due to him being behind so many people.
"With Guang Fu as our Heaven sects young master, we will be able to rise to our full potential. Now, the ceremony will begin." Tian Ren's wife said.
As she said that, clouds began to gather above. Guang Fu turned around and looked at the altar on the stage. The altar seemed similar to a fountain in the middle of some city squares, but without water or anything in it.
On top of a pillar in the center of the altar was an eyeball, representing Heaven.
Guang Fu picked up the knife sitting on the altar and held the blade on his palm.
"Naturally, the Heaven sect does not only consist of Heavenborns. Most importantly, there is Heaven, our creator." She explained.
"In order to crown a young master, the approval of Heaven is naturally required. If he is deemed unworthy, then he will not be the young master of the Heaven sect." She said.
"It is now time. Guang Fu, begin." Tian Ren's wife gave the go ahead.
Guang Fu sliced open his palm and dripped the blood into the altar.
The origin of the altar was no mystery. Tian Ren had made it long ago in case he died. According to unconfirmed information, he and Heaven had come to an agreement that the altar would be used to help select a successor in case of his death.
As Guang Fu's blood dripped, the clouds above began to spiral. Everyone quietly watched as time passed and the clouds grew more concentrated above.
After a minute, an eyeball suddenly formed above everyone's heads. It silently floated as it examined Guang Fu.
All beings attending hurriedly stood up and kneeled to Heaven. Even Tian Ren's wife did. Only Guang Fu was still standing. His nervousness, as well as his astonishment, was enough to make him not think straight.
After thirty seconds, the eye disappeared. Just as everyone was confused, a lightning strike shot down faster than anyone could react and hit Guang Fu's forehead.
In the next second, Guang Fu opened his eyes and found that he seemed to be floating in space. Below him was the Heaven world.
In front of him floated a giant eyeball. Now, it spoke.
"You are to succeed Tian Ren?" It asked.
"Yes I am." Guang Fu resolutely confirmed.
Although he put up a brave front, he was more nervous now than he ever had been. His very creator was in front of him.
"Do you believe that you can?" The eye asked.
"I do." Guang Fu responded.
"Then why aren't you kneeling already?" The eye asked.
Guang Fu's eyes widened in realization as he hurriedly kneeled. Despite having pride, he did not find the act shameful. Heaven was the very core of all Heavenborns. Their lord and creator.
Not kneeling in his presence was enough to get beheaded and hung on the city walls.
After a moment, the eye spoke.
"Then succeed him well. Do not disappoint me, nor him." The eye said as it faded away.
On the stage, Guang Fu opened his eyes. Only an instant had passed since the lightning had struck him.
Soon, the clouds dispersed and the sun shone down on the park.
As Guang Fu turned around, everyone could not help but notice the lightning bolt mark on his forehead, similar to Tian Ren's.
Everyone was already kneeling, but they internally kneeled again.
"We greet the young master." They said in unison before sitting back down or flying back up. Even Tian Ren's wife and the other space shattering cultivators had done so.
Guang Fu's status, as someone approved by Heaven, was far beyond theirs.
Soon, the scene was like before, with everyone sitting and Tian Ren's wife speaking.
"Clearly, Guang Fu has become the young master and the future sect master, but that is not all we came here for today." Tian Ren's wife said.
"Almost everyone is unaware, but Tian Ren, long ago, was the person who named himself. This was back when he was the only Heavenborn on the Heaven world and single handedly created the Heaven sect." She said.
"Behind the name Tian Ren, there is another meaning. The word Tian, stands for Heaven, while the word Ren stands for man. In other words, Tian Ren means Heaven man, or as we call it, Heavenborn. The name Tian Ren stands for much more than many understand. That is why no other Heavenborn has the word Tian in their name. It represents a being connected with Heaven." She said.
"Although Tian Ren is dead, his legacy continues. From today on, Guang Fu is no more. What remains is Tian Fu, the second ruler of the Heavenborns!" She exclaimed.
As she finished speaking, applause broke out. Tian Fu had already been informed of such a thing beforehand.
The name change would feel weird for a while, but the honor it brought would last forever.
Soon, a feast was held in Tian Fu's honor. The most delicious food was presented to each person attending.
The entire Heaven sect, as well as the visitors, moved away from the park and entered a large building outside of the sect where the food was. The large building was more than enough to hold the amount of people attending.
An uncountable number of people walked up to Tian Fu and greeted him. Everytime, he greeted them back.
At some point, even Lernean came up.
"Nice to see you again Gua– I mean, Tian Fu." Lernean said, correcting himself mid way.
"Good to see you too, Lernean." Tian Fu responded.
Chapter 307: 1,000 Years - 307
It took three days for the banquet and feast to finally end. Just about every single Heavenborn and visitor greeted him at some point.
At its end, Tian Fu was preparing for seclusion. Playtime was over, he needed strength as soon as possible.
First, Tian Fu went to the library. He spent most of his time in the deepest level, accessible by less than a hundred people in the entire sect.
He looked around it, but found only two techniques that interested him. Tian Ren had been right, the techniques he had chosen were the best of the best and suited towards Tian Fu.
As he left the library, Tian Fu decided that he would begin creating his own techniques once he mastered the two new ones. He would also hone the ones chosen by Tian Ren farther.
As Tian Fu entered his house and shut his doors, a long period of seclusion ensued.
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Two giant doors opened, a golden light shining out of them. Ying Xiong walked through the doors that blocked the deepest area in the Buddhist sect from others.
He entered a large hallway and looked around. In front of pillars that held up the ceiling were bald men dressed in robes. All of them were meditating.
Ying Xiong nodded at the scene. He was used to it.
Although he entered the room and everyone had sensed him, there was no reaction. In most sects, status was extremely important and showing respect to those with higher status was expected.
In the Buddhist sect, however, there was no such thing. Although a sect master like Ying Xiong was very important, no respect needed to be shown.
Ying Xiong exited the Buddhist temple and walked through the streets of mankinds greatest imperial capital. Soon, he came upon an area surrounded by gates, but with an open entrance. He walked through the gates and ventured around, soon coming to a stone grave.
Near the end of her lifespan, his mother had fallen due to a sickness. She died happy, a thing that made Ying Xiong very glad.
Ying Xiong knelt down and honored his mother. A while later, he got up and returned to the buddhist temple, entering the deep doors.
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In a deep sinkhole, in a room at the very bottom, a giant man with grayish skin cultivated. He had not moved for a long time, but he constantly gained strength.
The fiendcelestial world, as well as the other races worlds, were still gradually recovering from the cultivation reset.
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1,000 years passed.
Tian Fu, Yao Mun, Ying Xiong, and Lernean had all reached the peak of the soul formation realm.
Their strengths soared leaps and bounds in that time, but soon, the tutorial was going to end.
Upon entering the void traversing realm, the smooth and predictable journey they had lived through would finally end.
From then on, their individual talents would truly shine on the world.
For the first time in a thousand years, Tian Fu stepped out of his house. Despite so long passing, nothing seemed to change. Ever since the retreat, there had been no outside conflict. Still, the new lack of resources had greatly stunted the growth of the Heaven sect and Heavenborns in general.
As time passed, the talent requirement for joining the Heaven sect had been gradually increasing.
Although the Heaven sect's size had not been expanded due to the fact that it was personally built by the first Heavenborn, there were new cities outside of the current Heaven sect in order to allow more people to join.
In the first 500 years, Tian Fu honed his techniques to perfection. Even the ones he had gotten from the library had been fully perfected.
The first three techniques he had gotten from Tian Ren, the formless sword, the light space cutting technique, and the sword explosion drill, would continue to be useful through most of his cultivation journey. The new ones, however, would barely be useful in the void traversing realm. He had learned them more as a reference point for creating techniques.
In the later years, Tian Fu worked on creating his own techniques. Once he reached the void traversing realm, the bonus from being restricted would disappear. The difference between cultivating for 24 hours a day and 18 hours would once again exist.
Luckily, he still had nearly a thousand years before reaching the void traversing realm was possible. If he wanted to, he could wait to breakthrough, but he would not progress in cultivation at all that way, so it would be stupid to do so.
Tian Fu had some success with creating his own techniques, but nothing incredible yet. After many trials and errors, he had finally created the framework for two techniques he was excited for.
In terms of usefulness, they were comparable to the formless sword, and above the light space cutting technique and the sword explosion drill.
The first was a very simple looking technique that held a lot of complexity and power within it. It could only be used in a downward sword strike, but its power was incredible. He named it "Unparalleled descent".
The second technique was not a sword technique. It was a fist technique. Once he reached the void traversing realm or the space shattering realm, he would be able to break space with a punch using the technique.
When punching, it created a tunnel shaped force that was so powerful and fast that it should theoretically break space.
It was wishful thinking breaking space in the void traversing realm with his techniques, but it was not impossible.
Tian Fu called the second technique "Tunnel force". He was not good at naming, but the names sounded reasonable to him.
The techniques were still in the beginning stages of creation, but they were likely to be finished in the next thousand years. Mastery would come after that.
Tian Fu had thought about it and decided that when he reached the void traversing realm, he would spend 23 hours a day cultivating, as it was the very foundation of all his power, and would spend an hour practicing techniques.
It would be less efficient in both ways, but it was what he had to deal with. He only hoped that Yao Mun's cultivation talent was not greater than his.
Although Tian Fu came out, it was only to fight battles. The first person he looked for was Lernean.
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