#1204 - Chapter 1204 Can You Participate?

Ye Kong wondered why Elder Wang was suddenly imparting cultivation techniques to him, especially since he had previously adopted a hands-off approach.

Elder Wang wore a solemn expression, sitting cross-legged with his hands clasped together, then raising them, and circling them in front of his chest. Immediately, pale white light rings surrounded his entire body, and wisps of white smoke filled the air around him.

Elder Wang focused his energy, gathering all the spiritual power in his fingertips, and shouted.

“Ye Kong!”

Ye Kong immediately sat facing him, simultaneously opening his hands and placing them flat on his knees. Elder Wang covered Ye Kong's hands with his own, flipping them over, then pressing them tightly together, locking eyes, and transferring spiritual power to Ye Kong.

Bang.

A soft sound.

Ye Kong felt a burst of brightness on his forehead. Looking around, he found that he could see the end of the Upper Realm at a glance and also see through the Ruins of the Azure Dome. Continuing to look, he could see from above the clouds all the way to the landscape twenty thousand miles beneath the earth.

Ye Kong marveled at this tremendous breakthrough and curiously looked around. Now, without having to manually turn over the ant nests, he could see their entirety.

Elder Wang, sitting opposite him, was also surprised. With only a portion of spiritual power, Ye Kong had actually awakened the Infinite Heavenly Eye.

Elder Wang retracted his palms, stood up, looked at Ye Kong, and said, "Now, just by transmitting spiritual power to you, you can achieve such a great breakthrough. If you had more cultivation techniques, you would be even stronger, surpassing the heavens, incomparable."

Elder Wang looked at Ye Kong and murmured, "Even comparable to Lei Zhentian back then."

“Master, what did you say?” Ye Kong was stunned for a moment, not hearing clearly.

“It’s nothing. Practice diligently, so that the cultivation techniques can become one with you.” Elder Wang got up, patted his buttocks, and walked away.

Elder Wang was indeed right. Ye Kong's body was a great furnace, capable of using any spiritual power to strengthen himself. He never expected that the only disciple who could be ranked in the Tai Chu Institute in so many years was in his hands, so he had to do his best to give him a boost.

Behind him, Ye Kong lost his support, and the white clouds he was sitting on also lost their support, beginning to fly around randomly. Ye Kong calmed his mind and first practiced one technique, the Art of Cloud Riding.

Although he practiced diligently, this technique was rarely useful. For example, when they needed to go out or down the mountain, the Art of Instantaneous Movement was much more useful.

However, since his master imparted everything to him, Ye Kong accepted it all. As the spiritual power and cultivation techniques settled in Ye Kong's body, he instantly felt as if his entire person had been reborn.

Below the clouds, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, not knowing which immortal was cultivating here.

Then, the sky cleared, with not a cloud in sight. Ye Kong walked behind Elder Wang with his hands behind his back, step by step.

“Master, where are we going? It’s been two days; why haven’t we returned to the Tai Chu Institute?”

It wasn't that Ye Kong missed the Tai Chu Institute, but now that the Tai Chu Institute had experienced a fierce battle and was in ruins, everyone had multiple roles and was working hard to rebuild it. At such a critical time, how could Ye Kong, as a member of the Tai Chu Institute, be idle and carefree outside?

Elder Wang didn't even lift his head, only saying, "With your current abilities, it's still difficult to challenge the Taotie alone."

Not to mention that Ye Kong's current goal was to challenge the twelve elders.

The Tai Chu Institute began to be rebuilt, completely renovated. Some of the disciples were bewitched by those rebels and fought the Taotie, resulting in being turned into meat paste. Some disciples fled the Tai Chu Institute with other sects and have not returned to this day.

In short, after the Tai Chu Institute was more than halfway repaired, it began to recruit new disciples.

Recruiting new disciples meant that the original disciples would either advance to a higher level or go down the mountain. And in this advancement, the Tai Chu Institute had added a new policy this year.

“Those who can successfully challenge the twelve elders will be ranked as a Di-ranked Elder.”

This made the excellent disciples of the Tai Chu Institute restless.

The Di-ranked Elder was a new position after the thirteen elders, as well as the elders who had disciples, such as Elder Wang and Elder Chen.

Once ranked as a Di-ranked Elder, one would be a person with status, position, and ability in the Tai Chu Institute, no longer just a disciple.

This was seen as a new stage goal for those who had been in the Tai Chu Institute for several years and those who had shown their skills in the sect-level ranking competitions.

Similarly, Ye Kong also wanted to compete for it.

Although Ye Kong's super performance in the sect-level ranking competition had shocked everyone and made everyone believe that he was the candidate, this time it was not as simple as defeating fellow disciples.

Winning against fellow disciples first, then defeating the elders, was the process.

Most importantly, one had to defeat the twelve elders at the same time and break the elders' seal in order to be capable of holding the position.

And the twelve elders, who defeated Lei Zhentian and sealed Lei Zhentian's prestige, had faced one or two challengers over the years.

There were many who could defeat one or two elders, but no one had ever defeated the twelve elders at the same time.

This was also the reason why the position of Di-ranked Elder had been vacant for so many years.

Even if Ye Kong's ability was strong, even if he could match the spiritual power abilities of the twelve elders, it was still extremely difficult.

Moreover, the loser could not challenge again within ten years.

It could be considered cutting off the retreat.

Finally, after three days, Ye Kong had mastered everything that Elder Wang had taught him.

Only then did Elder Wang feel relieved and take Ye Kong back to the Tai Chu Institute.

Ye Kong always felt that there was some gap between Elder Wang and Sima Shizun, but this gap couldn't be because of him, right?

On the way back, Ye Kong ran into Sima Shizun, but before Sima Shizun could ask two questions, Elder Wang appeared.

“Ye Kong, don’t forget to weed the medicine field later.”

Ye Kong was weeding in the medicine field when he unexpectedly found that Shengge was there.

Shengge seemed to have mustered a lot of courage to speak, “Ye Kong, can you not participate in this competition to challenge for the Di-ranked Elder?”