"Hmm, most importantly, your battle strength is really strong!"

Mu Jinyu comforted Chu Huannian, "Think about it, when everyone was competing for that last spot to enter the Tiangan Secret Realm, you went head-to-head with those intermediate students and even won against one or two."

"Now your cultivation has skyrocketed from the Fifth Layer Hedao Realm to the Peak Eighth Level, about to reach the Ninth Layer, so your battle power is naturally stronger. Are you still afraid of not surpassing those competitors and standing out?"

Hearing Mu Jinyu's reassurance, Chu Huannian nodded, also feeling that she indeed had a high probability of advancing to intermediate student status.

She had heard that among nearly five hundred intermediate students, a small portion had cultivation only in the Late Stage Hedao Realm and Peak.

It's just that due to strong battle power, or other reasons, they became intermediate students.

Thinking this way, Chu Huannian became more confident in advancing to intermediate student status.

"Then I'll go back to cultivate now."

Full of fighting spirit, Chu Huannian couldn't wait to complete the advancement task for an intermediate student, become one, and have her own little courtyard.

So she wouldn't have to stay at Mu Jinyu's place.

After all, being so strong, she really didn't want to live under someone else's roof.

"Hmm, you go ahead." Mu Jinyu nodded.

Chu Huannian then left. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Afterward, Mu Jinyu called over Ji Xiaoyun and Chu Huaxiu.

"Brother Jinyu, is there something you need?"

Ji Xiaoyun and Chu Huaxiu came in, softly asking.

Mu Jinyu said, "I'll give you some law fragments, so in the future, your cultivation to later stages will be smoother."

"Sit down first."

Hearing Mu Jinyu's words, the two girls obediently sat cross-legged, eagerly watching Mu Jinyu.

Mu Jinyu then extended his hand to point at their foreheads, subsequently transferring the remaining small portions of space law fragments and life and death law fragments to them.

Since Chu Huaxiu and Ji Xiaoyun's cultivation was still low, and their soul power wasn't strong, even though the law fragments given by Mu Jinyu weren't much, it still left them dizzy for a while before they adapted.

"I can't refine these fragments..."

After coming to her senses, Ji Xiaoyun shook her head and said to Mu Jinyu, frowning.

Mu Jinyu smiled, "Of course you can't refine them now, your cultivation is still low. You'll be able to in the future."

"Alright, you can go back and cultivate slowly now."

"Oh, okay..."

Although Ji Xiaoyun and Chu Huaxiu felt that Mu Jinyu's tone was a bit strange, and wondered why he gave them things they could use in the future so early,

after hearing Mu Jinyu's words, they still obediently left his room.

"This way, even if things eventually get exposed, I won't have to worry too much..."

Watching Chu Huaxiu and them leave, Mu Jinyu whispered to himself.

Then, he began to continue cultivating the "Marrow Nourishment Chapter," while attempting to see if the core cultivation methods from the Ji Clan's resonance of the five viscera for blood exchange and marrow cleansing could further perfect the flaws in the Marrow Nourishment Chapter.

"Buzz!!"

Mu Jinyu's body trembled violently, and not long after, blood gushed from the corners of his mouth.

Subsequently, blood seeped from all seven orifices, and his body even showed signs of cracking.

"No way!"

Mu Jinyu immediately interrupted this cultivation method.

And even though he stopped the cultivation in time, his whole body was still in immense pain, with his internal organs and skeletal meridians feeling a burning pain.

As if he was in a pot of boiling oil.

"This method doesn't seem to work, or perhaps I did something wrong?"

Mu Jinyu's face was pale, his brows tightly furrowed, feeling extremely uncomfortable as he muttered.

His recent attempt almost crippled him from the inside out!

Fortunately, he stopped in time; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Yet he felt his approach was sound, so why did it fail?

"Indeed, paving a new path for oneself is extremely difficult. With my cultivation realm, with my insight, it's far from enough."

Mu Jinyu once thought he should be able to pave a suitable path for himself, but it wasn't until he started to tread this broken road that he realized the journey was fraught with immense difficulties.

It's not a path an ordinary person could take.

This left him deeply discouraged and irritated.

What should he do?

"I might just have to spend a lot of time, trying each method one by one..."

As Mu Jinyu pondered, he couldn't find a method that was immediately feasible and also fast for cultivation.

But thinking about slowly trying to carve out his path filled him with despair.

How long would it take for him to return to Earth?

To see his wife and child?

He feared by the time they had aged, he wouldn't even get to see them one last time...

For the first time, Mu Jinyu felt a twinge of regret, for that impulsive decision to sever his Dragon Bloodline and walk this path.

If at that time he hadn't done so and had honestly walked down the Foreign Race Bloodline Cultivation Path, perhaps he would have found it smoother?

And would have had a better chance to return to Earth to see his wife and child.

For a while, Mu Jinyu's thoughts were chaotic, causing his expression to change constantly, sometimes suppressed with frustration, sometimes hopeless, sometimes dejected...

If he calmed down a bit, he'd realize he was starting to mentally crack, slowly falling into a demonic path, in an extremely dangerous situation.

However, with Chu Huannian and Ji Xiaoyun all gone to cultivate, there was no one to disturb Mu Jinyu, naturally, no one to wake him from his state.

Oddly enough, the mystical little tree that once protected his soul from all kinds of harm showed no response now.

...

Cangyan State!

In the Earth Emperor Relic.

The surroundings of the Earth Emperor Relic had long turned into ruins due to the arrival and combat of kings and royals from several powerful races.

And within the relic, the killings grew even more terrifying!

"Bang!!"

"Boom!!"

Countless radiant giant palms reached for a skeleton standing in the sky!

Yet with a gentle wave of its arm, the skeleton shattered these giant palms into pieces!

A month has passed!

Since the discovery of the Earth Emperor's skeleton, despite being completely covered in cracks and having no trace of divine sense, it had been battling the kings and royals of various foreign races for more than a month, solely relying on its instinctual combat awareness!

Nearly two months!

What a terrifying thing!

If it retained even a hint of consciousness to perform divine techniques.

Perhaps all these invading foreign kings and royals would be buried here in this relic, turning into bones to accompany it.

This left all the attacking foreign kings and royals secretly alarmed.

They hadn't fought with top-grade human experts for a long time and saw the human race as nothing more than ants.

Unexpectedly, a former Human Emperor, even just a skeleton, could fight like this!

It seems if not for the dramatic changes in the world, unfitting for human cultivation, the human race was indeed very strong and was once the leader of the Ten Thousand Clans!

Those clan leaders forcibly conscripted by the royal clan, some have already fallen by accident, while others luckily survived.

The surviving royal clan leaders, gazing at the unparalleled grandeur of the Earth Emperor's remains, felt infinitely complex in their hearts.

This was the unmatched elegance of a Human Emperor!

They too once had the opportunity to become such unrivaled powerhouses.

Sadly, due to changes in the world, they could not cultivate according to the regular path.

Now their cultivation is stuck in the Chrono Light Realm, unable to advance further.

Seeing the grandeur of their human emperor ancestors, while they were forcibly conscripted by foreign races, how could their hearts not feel despair and sorrow?