Chapter 453: Foundation Establishment Realm - 453
Although Zhu Yi had never even heard of Time Qi, it wasn't hard to understand what it meant. Fire Qi represented fire. Ice Qi represented ice. In that case, then Time Qi represented Time.
"You mean Time as in… you know… Time, right?" Zhu Yi asked.
Zhou Fan nodded. "Although you won't be able to do much before the foundation establishment realm, I've given you a great opportunity."
Zhu Yi was very excited. This affinity would redefine his entire life.
Zhou Fan continued. "Now, just focus on cultivating. Once you reach the Foundation Establishment realm, I have a few ideas."
Although the power of time was incredible and affected everything in the universe, it was also weak.
There was nothing that strengthened the power of time, and theoretically, it could be affected by any strong cultivator as easily as space.
Luckily, the Cosmic Dao had forbidden its usage, and Zhou Fan's river of cultivation had done the same. In Zhu Yi's case, Zhou Fan was the owner and creator of the river of cultivation and was naturally exempt from the rules.
As a result, Zhu Yi would be able to use Time Qi, and he would be able to use it very well.
After calming down, Zhu Yi took the beast parts and left the room. He soon returned to his house and began to cultivate. Before, he had focused on increasing his talent through Zhou Fan. Now, he could focus on getting stronger. After all, once he entered the foundation establishment realm, he would be able to hunt foundation establishment realm beasts on his own.
After recovering, Zhou Fan also gained the ability of increasing Zhu Yi's cultivation speed, even if not greatly.
Zhu Yi stayed inside and entered seclusion. Every week, he would go out and participate in an Assassination guild mission. He now completed missions for spirit stones to increase his cultivation speed.
His life continued in this fashion for 2 years before Zhu Yi reached the absolute peak of the Qi gathering realm. He had enough Qi to break through at any time, but he faced an issue that Zhou Fan had never encountered. A bottleneck.
It was a natural phenomenon that limited the advancing of a cultivator. Many would need to cultivate for a long time or gain an enlightenment before breaking through the bottleneck.
Zhou Fan sneered. "Nonsense."
He waved his hand, and Zhu Yi's bottleneck vanished. Doing this much was without issue.
Zhu Yi bowed to his master, extremely grateful, and cultivated again. In a few minutes, he easily surpassed the Qi gathering realm and entered the Foundation Establishment realm.
Zhu Yi opened his eyes.
He stood up and bowed to his master. His master had completely changed his life and he was eternally grateful.
"Don't bow at me." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi stood up. "Can I use Time Qi now, Master?"
Zhou Fan nodded. "Although I've never used Time Qi myself, it shouldn't be too much different from space Qi, in terms of difficulty at least. The effects, on the other hand, will differ greatly."
Zhu Yi nodded and played with time Qi in his hands while his master thought. Although he could not currently use Time Qi, he could still control it. It was like moving wind around but not actually using it for anything.
Zhu Yi watched his master think. Zhu Yi had a lot of questions. His master seemed unfathomable and shocked him more and more every day. He sometimes did things that did not make sense to Zhu Yi, such as clearing away someone's bottleneck or giving Zhu Yi an affinity and increasing his talent.
He wanted to ask questions, but decided to hold his tongue. His master would tell him when he wanted to.
He could only confirm that his master had been far more powerful than he could understand.
After a few hours, Zhou Fan spoke. "Alright. Try this."
Zhou Fan spoke while Zhu Yi listened. Zhou Fan had not created an offensive or defensive technique, but a supporting technique. It was what he had had in mind when giving Zhu Yi Time Qi.
Zhu Yi used his Qi according to Zhou Fan's words, and a bubble appeared around him. At the same time, he saw a bird fly over his house.
He looked at the bird, and it was clearly moving slower than usual
"This is the Time bubble, a technique so advanced that very few people could have created it even with access to Time Qi. Inside the bubble, Time passes faster. Within, you can cultivate faster."
Although the Qi in the world was about one tenth of the Qi from Zhou Fan's time, it was still all pervasive.
In other words, no matter how time was affected, unless Zhu Yi could use all of the Qi within the world in an instant, he could always cultivate at the same speed within the bubble.
If the Qi was not all pervasive, then he would cultivate slower due to cultivating too fast in the Time bubble.
"The Time bubble speeds up Time by two times. In other words, 2 days inside the bubble is one day outside."
Zhu Yi was impressed as usual, but he was getting used to his master's unfathomableness.
The only issue with the Time bubble was that it used Qi to maintain itself.
"You need to learn arrays." Zhou Fan said.
If Zhu Yi could implement Time Qi into arrays, everything would be much better.
Due to using up Qi maintaining the Time bubble, Zhu Yi could only technically cultivate 1.5x faster in the environment. Still, it was a great boost.
"Where can I get materials for arrays?" Zhu Yi asked while scratching his head.
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Zhou Fan responded.
Only then did Zhu Yi remember that Zhou Fan was not omnipotent. He had gotten too used to his unfathomableness.
Zhu Yi moved to the Assassination guild. After spending so much time, he had ranked up to E rank. Like the Rogue cultivator guild, the Assassination guild had the same rankings.
This gave him minor access to the crystal pad network. If he needed information, then the crystal pad network was the place to go.
Chapter 454: Secret Inheritance Grounds - 454
Zhu Yi clicked on the crystal pad and entered the crystal pad network. Upon clicking on the icon, all that Zhu Yi saw was a search bar at the top. Below it was an empty white screen.
Zhu Yi had an idea of how the crystal pad network worked after living in White Palace City for so many years.
He searched, "Is there a place to learn arrays in White Palace City?"
After a moment, a few links popped up. Zhu Yi clicked on one of them. It led him to some sort of "Forum". Whatever that was supposed to mean.
He saw a discussion in the past asking the same question.
"Is there any place to learn arrays in White Palace City?"
"There isn't. As a place with nobody at the core formation realm or above, it is mainly just a tourist attraction. If you want to learn arrays, join a sect or find some sort of inheritance."
It was a short conversation, but it had everything that Zhu Yi needed to see. It was only a few years old, so it was very likely that there had been no changes in the city since then.
Zhu Yi got off the crystal pad and walked up to the front desk. He needed some information. Although some things could be found on the crystal pad network, there was not much, especially at his low rank.
"I'd like to buy information from the Assassination guild." Zhu Yi said.
The lady at the front desk nodded and turned around. She went through a door and came back a moment later.
"Go to waiting room three." She said as she pointed towards a hallway.
Zhu Yi thanked her and walked towards the room. He entered, and inside was a small room. It was completely enclosed besides a small, rectangular slit in the wall.
Zhu Yi sat down on the only chair inside and waited.
After a few moments, he heard an upbeat voice. "Welcome, Zhu Yi. First time having you here."
Zhu Yi did not recognize the voice, but as a member of the Assassination guild, it was not weird that this person knew him.
"Hi. I need information on where I can learn arrays." Zhu Yi said.
There was no response for a moment. "That's quite the request. I assume you don't intend to join a sect or other organization, which makes this almost impossible. There is one possibility, however. You are under the age of 20, right?"
Zhu Yi nodded. "I am."
"And it seems that you've entered the Foundation Establishment realm, am I correct."
Zhu Yi nodded again. "Indeed."
The voice was envious. "Your talent is great."
To most people, weak rank meridians were already quite good. It was not common. However, it did not usually allow someone to reach the foundation establishment realm before the age of 20.
The bottleneck was what stopped a vast majority of cultivators.
"Anyway. I have some great information, and even an opportunity. Of course, it isn't free." The voice said.
"How much?" Zhu Yi cut to the chase.
"I want 30 low-level spirit stones."
"Can I take that on debt?"
"Of course. A talented cultivator such as yourself would have no need to scam little old me."
Zhu Yi used all his spirit stones to cultivate, leading to a lack of money. Luckily, as a foundation establishment realm cultivator, he had more options than before.
"Thank you."
"Alright, listen up. In White Palace City, there is a secret inheritance grounds."
The man's first words shocked Zhu Yi, but he continued without stopping.
"There are only two conditions to participate. One, be at the foundation establishment realm. Two, be under the age of 20. Although this applies to many people in the world, the leaders of our world have created their own limitations. They control who enters and exits, real scummy work. Anyway, as the branch of the Assassination guild in White Palace City, we get special treatment. We have two spots available. One is already set in stone, while the other is fought for among everyone else. I can get you in that competition."
"And there is information on arrays in there?" Zhu Yi asked.
"Hah!" The man suddenly burst into an uncontrolled laughter.
"Arrays! Hah! That inheritance ground was created by countless powerhouses of the past, and the leader of them was none other than Chen Jie. Not to mention information on arrays, you could get the opportunity to become the number one array master in the world. In fact, arrays aren't even important compared to some of the other stuff I've heard of, though those are just rumors."
Zhu Yi was amazed. If even Chen Jie had participated in the creation of the inheritance grounds, then was it not the number one in the world?
"You were truly lucky to be born so close to this city." Zhou Fan said.
Zhu Yi nodded in agreement.
"Please sign me up for the competition." Zhu Yi said.
"Of course. In fact, here."
Through the slit in the wall, the man handed him a letter.
"Everything you need to know is inside."
Zhu Yi thanked him again before leaving. He walked to his house before opening the letter.
After some words describing what was going to happen, a tournament between every cultivator in the foundation establishment realm below the age of 20 in the White Palace City Assassination guild branch, Zhu Yi got a location and time.
"A month. We need to train." Zhu Yi said.
"This is a great opportunity. I can't help you too much due to lack of materials, but if you can find them in the inheritance, we'll be fine."
Zhu Yi naturally did not need a teacher to teach him arrays with Zhou Fan, but there were a couple of issues involved.
First, there was no explanation for why Zhu Yi would suddenly learn arrays. If anyone found out, it could lead to big trouble. Some may think he had found an inheritance and would attack him. The results of such an issue were unknown.
Secondly, he needed materials. Array materials could not be casually found in White Palace City and were usually hoarded by sects.
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