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Mu Changqing brought the two back to Tianheng Sect and formally accepted Yu Linzhou and Yan Lingcang as his personal disciples.

As Lin Zhixu watched the three of them interact, he recalled the rumors he had heard that the two of them had joined the old sect master's sect together. The master was originally going to take Yu Linzhou as his personal disciple, but in the end, he took Yan Lingcang as his disciple instead.

Now that I see it with my own eyes, the two of them have clearly become disciples. Although their relationship is not close, they are still respectful to each other. What happened later that caused them to break up to the point of irreconcilable differences?

This question planted a seed in his heart, and the answer was slowly revealed later.

Yu Linzhou was not human after all. Without his inner core, his cultivation was far less smooth than Yan Lingcang's.

Yan Lingcang drew Qi into his body, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged into his meridians like a stream flowing into the sea. However, when he drew Qi into his body, his dantian felt empty, like trying to draw water with a bamboo basket; no matter how hard he tried, he could only retain a few drops.

Mu Changqing said that his bloodline still existed, and it was not impossible for him to condense a new inner core, but it would take time.

But what Yu Linzhou lacks most is time.

He was consumed by hatred, which kept him restless day and night.

Whenever he closed his eyes, he could recall the tragic state of those villagers and how Zhang the hunter died in his arms.

He cultivated like a madman every day, wanting to take revenge as soon as possible.

He was so eager to become stronger and make a name for himself that he forcibly broke through the barrier. His spiritual energy surged wildly and backward in his meridians, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood and collapse to the ground.

It was Mu Changqing who discovered it in time and forcibly suppressed the rampaging spiritual power.

Mu Changqing stayed by his bedside and remained silent for a long time after he woke up.

Finally, he sighed, "You're too impatient. Haste makes waste."

Yu Linzhou gritted his teeth, "Master, I can't wait. I'm too weak now. I don't even have the right to take revenge. If I continue to cultivate at this speed, when will I be able to kill my enemy?"

Mu Changqing looked at him with pity in his eyes and advised him to let go, "Cultivating immortality is about cultivating one's state of mind. If there is only hatred in your heart, you will be devoured by hatred sooner or later."

Yu Linzhou remained silent, avoiding Mu Changqing's gaze.

He knew perfectly well that his master was right, but he simply couldn't do it.

He survived only because of hatred. Once he let go of hatred, he would have nothing left.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Mu Changqing shook his head, sighed, and got up to leave the room.

Yu Linzhou continued to cultivate diligently, and his efforts paid off.

Although he has lost his inner core, his bloodline remains, and his spiritual power is much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators at the same level.

But while he was fast, someone was even faster.

Yan Lingcang truly deserves to be called a genius that appears only once in a thousand years. He broke through to the Golden Core stage in just ten years after entering the Tianheng Sect.

Everyone in the sect was talking about this exceptionally talented and brilliant first disciple of the sect leader.

The elders' unanimous praise, the disciples' admiration and adoration, and Mu Changqing's satisfaction and pride fueled Yu Linzhou's envy and also created a strong obsession.

Fortunately, his hard work paid off.

Soon Yu Linzhou also broke through to the Golden Core stage, and even showed a tendency to surpass Yan Lingcang.

He rarely showed the excitement that a young man should have, and ran to tell Mu Changqing.

Mu Changqing smiled and praised him, then paused before softening his tone: "The path of cultivation is long, you don't need to work so hard."

Yu Linzhou felt a warmth in his heart, thinking that his master was worried about him.

But he didn't see the worry in Mu Changqing's eyes.

It wasn't until he reached the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage before Yan Lingcang that he realized something was wrong.

His cultivation was already perfect, and his spiritual power was abundant, but that barrier stood in his dantian, and no matter how he tried to break through it, he couldn't budge it an inch.

At first, he remained calm, thinking that he had not accumulated enough experience, so he doubled his training and tried every means to break through.

We tried everything, but the barrier remained completely unmoved.

He became anxious and took a risky move that was almost self-harming, forcibly pushing his spiritual power through the barrier.

The tribulation arrived as scheduled, and he welcomed it with joy.

He thought he had finally broken through to the Nascent Soul stage when the tribulation ended.

However, when he finished adjusting his breathing and examined his dantian again, he found that his cultivation level had not only not broken through, but had actually regressed by 10%.

He thought he was seeing things, and checked again and again, but it was still the same.

Then he sat there blankly, as if all his strength had been drained away.

He was in a terrible state when he found Mu Changqing; his eyes were bloodshot.

"Master, I clearly survived the tribulation lightning, but why did my cultivation level regress instead of increase? Is there something I did wrong, or am I simply not meant to cultivate...?"

Mu Changqing seemed to have anticipated his arrival.

He closed his eyes, let out a long sigh, and finally stopped hiding it.

"Because you are not human. The Tianheng Sect's protective formation has a natural suppression effect on bloodlines of other races."

"All those who are not of my kind are subject to the limitations of the great formation in terms of cultivation. The moment you became my disciple, you and Yan Lingcang were already bound together, and the sect's protective formation will not allow you to surpass Yan Lingcang."

Yu Linzhou was stunned by the truth. He stood there, his voice hoarse, "You knew all along."

"Linzhou." Mu Changqing interrupted him in a deep voice, his eyes filled with reluctance.

Yu Linzhou took a step back, and the affection and dependence he had shown for Mu Changqing crumbled little by little on his face, revealing his confusion, anger, and disappointment at being betrayed by the person he trusted most.

"This is not fair. I work harder than Yan Lingcang, I work harder than Yan Lingcang, I put in ten times or a hundred times more effort than him."

Why should I be forever inferior to him just because of a formation? Why should I suffer all this when I did nothing wrong?

"Linzhou..."

"Tell me, on what grounds?!"

Mu Changqing couldn't answer and felt guilty.

Yu Linzhou no longer needed his answer.

He turned and left, and never called him "Master" again.

……

Afterwards, Lin Zhixu saw that Yu Linzhou had stopped cultivating so diligently and had become lazy.

Whenever Yan Lingcang appeared, he would feel as if he were facing a formidable enemy, and he would always try to outdo him in everything.

Mu Changqing saw this and knew that the child was angry, so he let him do whatever he wanted.

Whenever Yan Lingcang was inexplicably targeted, he would simply glance at him expressionlessly and walk away.

This personality of his made it impossible for Yu Linzhou to even have a proper argument with him; it was like punching cotton every time.

This made Yu Linzhou even angrier.

To be fair, Yu Linzhou sometimes felt fortunate that Yan Lingcang was the one who restrained him.

After all, with this guy's talent and his cultivation speed at its peak, it's only a matter of time before he seeks revenge.

A century later, Yan Lingcang finally faced his tribulation. Dressed in white, he stood atop the peak, and the nine bolts of heavenly lightning quickly struck him down, allowing him to successfully advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

Yu Linzhou looked at him, feeling jealous.

Why was his tribulation so easy, even though they were both undergoing lightning tribulations?

He himself faced a near-death experience during the tribulation of lightning.

Not long after Yan Lingcang broke through, Yu Linzhou finally touched the barrier that had trapped him for a hundred years.

This time there were no obstacles, and the breakthrough was successful.

After the nine bolts of lightning struck, he knelt in the scorched earth, his body blackened, and laughed out loud.

After a hundred years, he finally broke through to the Nascent Soul stage.

He finally had the ability to take revenge.