Chapter Thirty-Four: The Days Drag On Like Years

  "Ah, Yu'er, hurry up and get up. You can break through the seal, it's a great comfort for your father. These years have been hard on you, do you resent your father?" Emperor Yin walked to Shangguan Yu's side and helped him up.

  "The child does not blame, the father must have done all this for my own good." How could Shangguan Yu not understand the emperor's kind intentions? To grow up, one must undergo sufficient trials and tribulations.

  "Yuer has indeed become sensible, worthy of being a descendant of the Imperial Family! However, there's one thing you must remember: before you have enough ability to protect yourself, never reveal that your surname is Di. You'll just be called Shangguan Yuer, taking your mother's surname. In this world, only my lineage dares to bear the surname Di, and only my lineage has the qualifications to bear the surname Di!" That majestic figure, that heroic voice, dominated the world, uniquely supreme.

  Shangguan Yu nodded slightly, "Alright, let's just say Shangguan then. 'Child wants to know, where is mother now?'"

  "The current you, knowing is useless. In front of you is just a wisp of thought as your father, where I and your mother are, the current you can't go. The current you, the strength is really too weak, what you lack is time. Since you broke through your uncle, I'll give you three years' time!"

  Shangguan Yu looked at his father in confusion, what did it mean to send him three years? There were things that could be sent, but he had never heard of sending time before. Emperor Yi didn't say anything else, just smiled inexplicably.

  On a cliff, Yu Shang slowly opened his eyes. His eyebrows furrowed deeply, was everything that happened just now fake? Impossible, the feeling his father gave him was so real, and he indeed had memories of the past two years.

  "Father, are you there?" Shangguan Yu shouted into the endless void, his voice filled with hope.

  A golden light shot out from Shangguan Yu's mind, gradually transforming into the figure in blue clothes. The figure transformed from illusory to real, and Emperor Yi appeared vividly before Shangguan Yu's eyes.

  "Don't ask too much, you'll naturally understand all of this later. Your father had also considered the possibility of you breaking through the seal back then, so he prepared a primordial realm for you. This primordial realm has another name, called 'A Day is Like a Year', where one day outside equals one year inside. This primordial realm can sustain three days, which means you can cultivate inside for three years."

  The emperor's calm words, however, stirred up a huge storm in Shangguan Yu's heart. The impact of all this on him was simply too great; he had only heard that one day in heaven is equal to one year on earth. This was just like a myth - inside it was a year, but outside, only one day had passed.

  "Father, what kind of realm have you reached?" He couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart anymore. This Yuanjie who was spending years like days was too unbelievable. To think that the one in front of him was just a strand of his father's divine thought, if the true body came, what level would it reach?

  "These are not for you to know now, cherish these three years well, and your father will also urge you."

  Di Yun moved, his hands moving in a rhythmic motion, as if drawing out the trajectory of the Great Way. Shangguan Yu didn't understand it at all, he only saw that his father's hands kept moving, finally forming a mysterious handprint.

  "Yuanjie is established! Yuanjie opens!" Emperor Yun shouted loudly, and only then did Shangguan Yu feel the scenery around him change again.

  "Alright, you can now focus on your cultivation. Make the most of these three years." Emperor Yi said to Shangguan Yu, and he clasped his hands behind his back once again.

  Shangguan Yu found that the scenery around him had stopped changing, and he appeared in a mountain valley. The most striking feature here was that there were many, many waterfalls, and each waterfall had a different height.

  Martial arts have one path, the physical body is the foundation, but later martial artists only pay attention to cultivating yuanqi. The Emperor's descendants study the harmony of heaven and man, so it's impossible for them to make this mistake. Cultivating only yuanqi can also temper the physical body to a certain extent. However, in ancient times, some martial artists could catch stars and moons with just their physical bodies, which shows how powerful their physical bodies were.

  If the light raises the boundary, within three years, Emperor Yin can completely raise Shangguan Yu to the Wangji boundary. However, he deeply understands that the more solid the foundation is laid, the better it will be for later on. In the early stages, there doesn't seem to be any advantage, but in the later stages, it becomes especially important. If Shangguan Yu lays a good foundation within three years, he will inevitably leap to greatness in the future. The Emperor's family has never had a weak member, as for how strong they are, Emperor Yin has never revealed.

  Looking at Shangguan Yu in front of him, Emperor Yi nodded slightly. Shangguan Yu had always been unable to cultivate yuanqi, and his physical body could reach its current state, which meant that he must have put in a lot of hard work. As martial arts developed to this point, few people specialized in cultivating their physical bodies anymore. People found that only cultivating yuanqi allowed them to progress much faster in the way of martial arts, so naturally they thought that cultivating the physical body was unnecessary.

  Shangguan Yu wore the upper garment, allowing the waterfall to strike his body. His entire body was bright red, as if he was about to bleed, but on his face, there was no sign of pain. He had been in the Yuan realm for a year now, and this training method he had also persisted with for a year, long since becoming accustomed to it.

  Waterfall tempering, a very effective tempering method, people without sufficient willpower absolutely cannot persist. Moreover, it can't be done casually, that is to say, the emperor's family is by their side, otherwise, Official Yu would not dare to do so recklessly. Outside, there are no such good conditions, and it is impossible to find so many waterfalls, each stage can change a waterfall.

  "Alright, Yu'er, that's enough for today's waterfall training." Di Yin arrived at the side of the waterfall and looked at Shangguan Yu, who was completely red all over, without saying much.

  Shangguan Yu nodded and walked up from under the waterfall. He sat down cross-legged, starting to cultivate his yuanqi, using the heaven and earth's yuanqi to nourish his body. Since the seal was lifted, he found that the heaven and earth's yuanqi were no longer unfamiliar, but instead extremely close to him. Sometimes he also wondered, could it be that the heaven and earth's yuanqi had emotions?

  He also asked Di Yin this question, but Di Yin just smiled at the time and said to let him figure it out himself. Everyone's path is different, if you follow in the footsteps of others all the way, you might become a strong person, but you will absolutely never become the strongest.

  What delighted Lord You was not only that he could cultivate martial arts, but also that the mysterious techniques that had been unclear to him were gradually becoming clearer. It seemed that in the future, he would be able to cultivate both martial arts and learn magic. Emperor Yin also said that the path of magic was vast and profound, but he had never studied it before. Martial arts cultivation tempered the body, although not focusing on physical training, but after being refined by the primordial energy, the body became very powerful. Magic, on the other hand, specialized in cultivating the soul, even for a high-level magician, their physical body was only slightly stronger than that of an ordinary person.

  "The Tao is not transmitted without a scripture, and the scripture is not made clear without a teacher. The Tao is established because of the scripture, and the teacher makes the Tao clear. The Tao is to cultivate the Tao, which means to use one's own efforts to cultivate and comprehend the Great Tao. The scripture refers to reading the scriptures, which were written by the great sages of old to verify their cultivation. The teacher refers to the transmission of the teacher, who needs a master to transmit and point out the essentials of the Tao. As for you, I have seen the 'Reversing Chaos and Evil' in your brow, this is a fragment of the 'Wu Xie Scripture' written by the Great Emperor Wu Xie. The harmony of yin and yang, the perfection of the nine layers, from ancient times to the present, the transmission of the Tao has been Wu Xie!"

  Di Yin would talk to Shangguan Yu every day about things on the path of cultivation, even various secrets, as if he knew everything. Even stories of top-level Emperor-class powerhouses, Di Yin could know some of them. Sometimes, Shangguan Yu couldn't help but wonder what kind of family the Imperial Family was?

  Shangguan Yu had his whole body bound by heavy iron blocks and charged under the waterfall, practicing his punches one by one. In his past life, he saw Yang Guo practicing under the waterfall and thought it was very impressive. He didn't expect that now he could also practice under the waterfall. This world is indeed very wonderful and also very suitable for him.

  That evening, Shangguan Yu sat on a large stone to cultivate. He felt the heaven and earth's yuanqi around him surging towards his surroundings, gradually approaching his body. This feeling was very strange, and it was because he had practiced sensing that other warriors at his level couldn't perceive it.

  The primordial energy of the universe drew closer to his skin, threading its way into his pores. This feeling was extremely comfortable for him, and he even felt a strand of the primordial energy being absorbed by his dantian. Emperor Di watched from afar as all this happened, knowing that Shangguan Yu had already broken through to the Human Extreme realm.

  Shangguan Yu had been cultivating for many years, but was always hindered by the seal that prevented him from absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth. Now that the seal has been lifted, there is no longer any obstacle to his cultivation. The primordial energy of heaven and earth surged into Shangguan Yu's body, and if other warriors saw it, they would absolutely be shocked to the point of their jaws dropping. When others break through to the Human Extreme Realm, only a single strand of primordial energy circulates throughout their body, tempering their flesh. But the amount of primordial energy in Shangguan Yu's body was truly too much, even more than when others break through to the Martial Extreme Realm.

  Happy times are always short-lived, and the time for refining one's primordial energy is even shorter. These days, the refined primordial energy was about to leave Yu Fei's body, but as if they had felt the comfort of this flesh, they did not leave, instead merging into the flesh. This is the benefit of cultivating the flesh, if it were someone else, after refining their primordial energy, it would disperse into the heavens and earth, leaving only a wisp in the dantian.

  Shangguan Yu also felt the hint of yuanqi in his dantian, very little, but he also understood that from now on he was a martial artist at the extreme human boundary. For him who couldn't cultivate martial arts since childhood, this was really exciting. He knew that as long as he slowly accumulated yuanqi, he could break through to the soldier extreme boundary. Emperor Yin had said that before reaching the emperor extreme boundary, one only needed to focus on cultivating yuanqi, and as for the later boundaries, Shangguan Yu naturally didn't need to consider them for now.

  Shangguan Yu slowly opened his eyes, and his nose twitched as he sniffed the air. "Damn, what's with this stench?"

  "The original energy will naturally expel the impurities from your body, just look at yourself and you'll understand." Emperor Yi looked at Shangguan Yu with a hint of a smile.

  Upon hearing this, Officer Yu looked at his own arm and indeed found a few black stains on it. Without saying another word, he plunged headfirst into the waterfall.