Chapter 49: The Path to Immortality is Long and Arduous
Trueman Fen Hai hummed a small tune the entire way back to his residence. He then went straight to his study and rummaged through his treasure shelves for a bit; setting aside the most valuable mystic artifacts, pills, and natural resources that used to occupy the center space of the shelves. After boxing them all up and jotting down their material, function and price accordingly, he then searched through the entire house until he finally found a jade toad at a forgotten corner of his storeroom.
From a Trueman’s perspective, the material and the craftsmanship of the jade toad were perfectly ordinary. It could slightly improve one’s luck and the fengshui of a place, but this the Green Cliffs That Hang Over An Empty Valley. Its fengshui was already perfect. Thus, the jade toad was essentially worthless.
Despite this, Trueman Fen Hai carefully placed the jade toad that most would consider a waste of space even as an ornament at the center of his treasure shelves. He even gave it a proper wipedown.
Three tiny immortal swords used to occupy this space. Now, it had been moved aside.
The successful manifestation of his image caused a tiny splash among Wei Yuan’s fellow classmates. That was it. True Lord Xuan Yue had personally sealed off the oddities regarding his image, and no one beneath his level could see through it. Naturally, the students had no way of learning the truth.
As curious as they were, they quickly put the matter behind them.
According to the history books, the biggest ever Jade Toad Full Moon Painting boasted a length of twelve zhang and a middle-level extraordinary phenomenon. Although Bao Yun’s image was only eleven zhang and smaller than the record holder’s, it came with a top-tier extraordinary phenomenon. Overall, her image had really surpassed all of her predecessors.
Cui Yu’s image was only six zhang long, but its extraordinary phenomenon was almost top-tier, and the boon he received was an immortal sword’s sword qi. Thus, his overall combat power was pretty high, not to mention that it could be higher with the backing of the Cui Clan. One could say that his Dao Foundation was almost certainly going to be Heaven-tier.
On the other hand, Wei Yuan had taken an unprecedented amount of time to develop his image. His unnaturally slow cultivation speed was clearly a sign of poor innate talent. Besides that, his foundation potential was only seven chi and nine inches. In the outside world, he would be praised as an unexcelled prodigy, but in the Palace of Absolute Beginning, he was only average. On top of that, he came from humble origins and so did not enjoy the luxury of an intelligence-awakening secret art or refinement of his foundation. That was why his classmates all thought that he was a little stupid and would need at least a couple more years before he reached full mental maturity.