What Elder Chi Huo had said was indeed correct. When the Dean heard Liu Bai's proposal, he agreed without the slightest hesitation.
However, what he granted was merely a portion of land within Northern Heaven City for the Liu Family to establish their household. After all, the Liu Family was not an ancient clan with a thousand years of heritage or countless members. If not for Liu Bai's current strength and immense future potential, even a single manor would have been more than enough for them.
Yet, perhaps to show his regard for Liu Bai, the Dean waved his hand and directly allocated one-tenth of Northern Heaven City to the Liu Family.
One had to understand that Northern Heaven City was a grand city representing the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy itself. Even a tenth of its area was far larger than the Liu Family's current Liu City, and its prosperity was incomparable.
Even Elder Chi Huo was somewhat astonished, wondering if the Dean had perhaps drunk too much, as his generosity seemed excessive.
What he did not know was that the reason the Dean made such a decision was not only because he wished to win Liu Bai's favor, but also because he had previously held a deep conversation with the Northern Sea Dragon. He had learned that Liu Bai had played a major role in the Northern Sea Dragon's breakthrough to the Earth Sovereign Realm.
That fact alone was enough for the Dean to feel greatly indebted to Liu Bai.
Furthermore, from the Northern Sea Dragon's words, he had gained a vague sense of Liu Bai's potential future path, which was the true reason for the Dean's lavish decision.
It was, in essence, an investment made in advance.
Liu Bai naturally understood this, but reality was what it was. This was a recognition of his strength and talent, and he saw nothing wrong with the Dean's seemingly utilitarian approach. On the contrary, he was quite pleased.
Because only in this way could the bond between the Liu Family and the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy grow even stronger.
Moreover, Liu Bai now had good relations with all five of the Heavenly Seat Elders in the Academy, and two or even three of them could be considered his mentors. This made it certain that the Liu Family would live peacefully not only within the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy but throughout the entire Northern Heaven Continent.
To ensure his plan went smoothly, Liu Bai made a special trip to the Spiritual Array Pavilion, where he learned from Sikong Ling the method of setting up a Grade Six Teleportation Array. With that, he would be able to directly bring his family to Northern Heaven City safely and efficiently.
No one could have expected that his first Grade Six Spiritual Array would turn out to be a teleportation one. It was not that Liu Bai refused to use a lower-grade array for travel, but rather that the distance between the Northern Heaven Continent and the Northern Spiritual Realm was simply too vast. Only a medium-scale teleportation array could bridge such a distance in one go.
It was different from the teleportation used during recruitment, when new students were sent into small worlds like the Northern Heaven Realm. Those transmissions merely required the array to locate the small world's position and did not demand such high-level arrays.
Moreover, the recruitment personnel carried their own teleportation array diagrams and only needed to place materials according to the blueprint to create a simple, one-time teleportation array.
Liu Bai, however, did not require such a diagram, for he was already a skilled Spiritual Array Master. All he needed was to exchange for the materials necessary to construct the teleportation array at the Spiritual Value Hall.
He also prepared some additional items for his return to the Northern Spiritual Realm.
Among them was a single drop of the Northern Sea Dragon's blood essence, worth seven million Spiritual Values.
If not for Liu Bai's outstanding performance at the Divine Spiritual Mountain, where he had slain the Demonic Dargon Palace's top genius, Mo Xingtian, and even advanced two cultivation levels, the Dean would not have rewarded him with such a massive amount of Spiritual Value. Without that, he would have been unable to afford this drop of blood essence.
This was, after all, an essential component in obtaining that opportunity he had in mind.
By now, everyone could probably guess what that opportunity was. Indeed, it was the Nine Nether Sparrow that had failed its tribulation and was forced into slumber within its egg.
Leaving aside its future connection with the Great Thousand World and the Great Heavenlaw Domain, the fact that it was a creature capable of evolving into a divine beast was enough for Liu Bai to spend such a fortune to obtain the Northern Sea Dragon's blood essence.
Once it matured, the Nine Nether Sparrow would be a formidable ally equivalent to a Fourth Grade Sovereign, and it even possessed the potential to awaken the Undying Flame, a terrifying fire comparable to the True Sun Flame.
If Liu Bai's own Ancient Golden Crow wanted to evolve to that level, who knew how long it would take.
As for the claim in the original story that the Nine Nether Sparrow's human form was as beautiful as Luo Li, Liu Bai did not care about that at all.
In the following days, Liu Bai entered seclusion once again, not to cultivate but to refine pills and forge spiritual artifacts. These were all gifts he intended to bring back home.
During this time, he also paid a special visit to Elder Kong Qing of the Spiritual Pill Institute. After answering many of the elder's questions, Kong Qing expressed great admiration for him and earnestly invited him to join the Spiritual Pill Institute.
Liu Bai could only smile helplessly and use his apprenticeship under Elder Chi Huo as an excuse, which finally convinced the stubborn elder to drop the matter.
Even so, Elder Kong Qing still treated him warmly and offered him detailed guidance, especially regarding unique methods of refining medicinal ingredients and fusing Spiritual Pills—techniques not recorded in the Azure Ram Pill Scripture.
Every Spiritual Pill Master possessed their own personal methods, not necessarily secret arts, but each held its own unique merit. For someone like Liu Bai, who had relied heavily on a single pill scripture for advancement, learning such diverse techniques would prove immensely valuable for his future alchemy.
A month later, Liu Bai ended his seclusion. After informing Su Xuan and the other members of the Willow God Society of his departure, bidding farewell to his friends, and paying respects to his elders, he finally left the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy with the Dean's token in hand.
Entering the Academy had been simple, but leaving was another matter entirely.
Liu Bai first used the teleportation array to reach the continent nearest to the Hundred Spirit Continent. From there, he flew alone for seven or eight days before entering the Hundred Spirit Continent's territory. Afterward, he still needed to travel through the Hundred Spirit Heaven's and back to the Northern Spiritual Realm.
By the time Liu Bai set foot once again on the land of the Liu Territory, half a month had already passed.
Only now did Liu Bai understand why students of the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy rarely left before graduation, or even left the Northern Heaven Continent at all.
The Great Thousand World was simply too vast. The cost and effort required to return home were far beyond what most students could bear. Unlike his previous life where college students could return home during vacations, such a thing was impossible here.
In this world, a single parting could last several years, decades, or even an entire lifetime.
Otherwise, why would Mu Chen's journey in the original story resemble an epic saga of a little tadpole searching for its mother?
When Liu Bai finally stepped through the gates of the Liu Manor once more, the guards at the entrance froze in shock. Only when Liu Bai smiled at them did one of the young guards suddenly react, shouting while dashing frantically into the manor.
"Bad news, the Young Master has returned!"
Liu Bai's expression darkened. What kind of nonsense was that?
How could his return possibly be "bad news"?
"What are you shouting for? The Young Master's return is good news! Look at you, panicking like that," a familiar voice barked at the young guard.
There were three young masters in the Liu Territory. Aside from the eldest studying at the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy, the second and third were both enrolled in the Northern Spiritual Academy. Although they did not return often, they would occasionally visit.
However, when the man who had scolded the guard saw Liu Bai walking through the gate, he froze completely.
"Uncle Liu, it's been more than a year, yet you still look as strong as ever. Your voice seems even louder now," Liu Bai said with a cheerful smile.
"Young... Young Master? You... You have returned? Could it be that…"
Seeing Liu Bo's trembling lips and shaking fingers, Liu Bai couldn't help but feel puzzled. Could it be that the old man was simply too excited to see him? Or had something happened at home?
Thinking of this, Liu Bai frowned slightly.
At that moment, the news of his return had already spread through the entire Liu Family. His father, Liu Qingtian, rushed out from the inner residence with his two brothers. When they saw Liu Bai, all three of them looked visibly tense.
"What's with that reaction? Did something happen while I was away?" Liu Bai was completely confused. He had only been gone for just over a year, had they really forgotten who he was?
Finally, Liu Qingtian spoke up with a trembling voice. "My son, how did you come back? Don't tell me… don't tell me you were expelled from Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy?"
As soon as he said this, the people around them all turned to Liu Bai with anxious expressions.
When Liu Bai finally realized what was going on, he almost burst into laughter. So that was why they were acting so nervous—because they thought he had been expelled?
"No, no, don't worry, Father. I wasn't expelled. I asked the Dean for leave so I could come home to visit you all!"
"Really?" Liu Qingtian still looked doubtful.
Leave? To come home and visit?
Was there such a ridiculous thing in the Great Thousand World?
Although Liu Qingtian did not know exactly how far the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy was from the Northern Spiritual Realm, he knew that even leaving the Northern Spiritual Realm itself required an immense amount of time and effort, let alone leaving the Hundred Spirits Continent to travel to another continent.
To go through so much trouble and waste so much time during such a crucial period of cultivation—it sounded completely insane.
Seeing his father and uncles' looks of disbelief, Liu Bai sighed helplessly. He then released a trace of his aura.
In that instant, it felt as though the sky above the entire Liu Manor darkened. A wave of apocalyptic pressure spread across the air, causing everyone present to feel as though a great calamity was descending upon them.
But just as quickly as it came, it vanished.
When they looked up again, the sky was still blue, the clouds white, and even the gentle wind brushing past the courtyard remained unchanged.
"This… this is…"
Liu Qingtian stared wide-eyed at his son, unable to form a complete sentence for a long time.
"Hehe, do you believe me now? I've already reached the peak of the Heaven Completion Realm, and I'm only one step away from facing the Human Body Disaster."
"Heaven Completion Realm… Human Body Disaster…"
At that moment, everyone in the Liu Family felt as though they were dreaming.
It took an entire hour before Liu Bai finally managed to convince his father and uncles that his current strength was real and that his cultivation was already enough to dominate a region within the Hundred Spirit Heaven's.
He also learned why everyone had reacted so strangely upon seeing him.
"Mu Feng's son, Mu Chen, was originally chosen by the Spiritual Road, but for some unknown reason, he was expelled a while ago. The entire Northern Spiritual Realm has been laughing about it ever since," said Liu Ming, the third uncle, with a tone full of schadenfreude.
Liu Bai wasn't surprised. He had already heard about this from the Dean earlier. It was precisely because of this incident that the Dean had been delayed for so long and had even missed the events at the Divine Spiritual Mountain.
Since Mu Chen's expulsion from the Spiritual Road had caused such an uproar across the Northern Spiritual Realm, it was no wonder that the Liu Family had immediately assumed Liu Bai might have been "expelled from the Northern Heaven
Spiritual Academy" as well.
Liu Bai could only smile helplessly. His elders really had vivid imaginations.
However…
"I've also heard about Mu Chen's situation. Supposedly, he did something extremely terrifying within the Spiritual Road, causing serious casualties. That's the real reason he was expelled—it wasn't because of a lack of talent or strength."
"To stir up such chaos within the Spiritual Road, even alarming the Deans of all Five Great Spiritual Academies… that's not something an ordinary person could accomplish. This Mu Chen is definitely no simple character."
The mocking smiles on the faces of the Liu Family members instantly froze. Third Uncle Liu Ming stared at his nephew, dumbfounded. "Bai'er, are you serious? That boy from the Mu Territory actually managed to alarm the Deans of the Five Great Academies?"
Liu Bai nodded.
"This…" Second Uncle Liu Zong frowned deeply. "If that's true, then this boy cannot be underestimated."
But Liu Qingtian, who had already come to his senses, snorted coldly. "Even if he truly has talent, so what? Right now, he hasn't even reached the Spiritual Movement Realm, while Bai'er has already reached the peak of the Heaven Completion Realm. In the future, he might even become a Sovereign. What right does the Mu Family have to compare with our Liu Family?"
Hearing this, Liu Zong and Liu Ming exchanged glances and then smiled once more.
"Big Brother is right. With Bai'er here, our Liu Territory is now powerful enough to rule over the entire Northern Spiritual Realm!"
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