bookbashuk Chapter 172 Accepting a Disciple, and the Choice Given to Luo Feng
Chapter 172 Accepting a Disciple, and the Choice Given to Luo Feng
Chapter 172 Accepting a Disciple, and the Choice Given to Luo Feng
As Xu Qing watched Luo Feng's figure, a thought suddenly occurred to him:
"With Luo Feng's current talent, he's more than capable of entering the Primal Secret Realm. Perhaps I don't need to continue training him?"
His cultivation of Luo Feng was merely a form of compensation—in terms of personal relationship, there was no deep friendship between him and Luo Feng.
They are neither father and son nor teacher and student, and all the effort put into training them will not bring much practical benefit.
Moreover, as long as Luo Feng can reach the top of the Genius Battle and pass the Tongtian Bridge test, he will naturally find his own master within the training framework of the human race in the universe.
However, in the human system of the universe that swallows the stars, most master-disciple relationships tend to be "free-range".
The so-called master-disciple relationship doesn't offer much real help; the resources are readily available, and whoever has the ability can take them.
Even the Lord of Chaos City in the original work did not offer Luo Feng much support, only giving him the wings to kill Wu and some secret techniques, nothing more.
Everything Luo Feng was able to obtain was earned through his own strength.
Ultimately, the alien race's model for cultivating elites is more like a company that only values ability.
In the original story, masters like the True King of Yan, who were willing to sell their own property to support Luo Feng's cultivation, were extremely rare.
From this perspective, even without his guidance, Luo Feng was qualified to walk the path of a strongman.
However, considering that he had previously obtained a lot of resources from Luo Feng, although those were mainly for fighter jets, Xu Qing was willing to give him a chance. If Luo Feng was willing, Xu Qing could teach him the cultivation methods of the Eternal World, as well as some of the Three Thousand Great Daos.
It's important to know that the energy level of the immortal world far surpasses that of the multiverse in the Swallowing Star universe.
Its cultivation system is divided into four major realms: physical body, supernatural powers, longevity, and immortality, each of which is further subdivided into ten levels.
The realm of immortals alone is enough to create a universe, and the supreme Golden Immortal can create or destroy countless universes with a thought. The upper limit of the entire world is far beyond the infinite primordial space.
After hesitating for a long time, Xu Qing still couldn't make up her mind.
"Forget it, let's just ask Luo Feng directly."
Once the thought was settled, Xu Qing's consciousness instantly transformed into several rounds of crystal-clear sunlight, piercing through the void and landing steadily in front of Luo Feng and the other two, solidifying into his figure.
Upon seeing this, the three men were immediately surprised and bowed in unison, saying, "Greetings, Lord Xu Qing."
Xu Qing nodded, his gaze sweeping over Hong and Lei Shen: "You two go out first, I have something to say to Luo Feng alone."
Hong and Thor exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes, but neither asked any further questions, and they turned and walked out the door.
As soon as he stepped out of the room, Thor couldn't help but look at Hong: "Mr. Xu Qing, are you going to cultivate your third brother with pills again?"
Hong smiled and shook his head: "Second brother, don't make wild guesses."
Inside the room, Luo Feng looked at Xu Qing, who had left him alone, and was filled with doubt: What did Lord Xu Qing want to say to him?
At this moment, Xu Qing spoke first: "Luo Feng, I've recently been considering taking on a disciple, but I'm unsure about his character. I'd like to ask you for your advice."
Luo Feng was taken aback: Taking on disciples? What does this have to do with him?
As if seeing through his confusion, Xu Qing smiled and said, "I'm not sure myself. How about I tell you what that person did?"
Put yourself in my shoes and help me decide whether or not I should accept him.
Luo Feng then understood, immediately put aside his distracting thoughts, and waited for Xu Qing to continue.
Xu Qing looked at Luo Feng and slowly said, "What I want to tell you is this person's early life experiences."
"Do you know what kind of person he became later? Well, I'm just giving you an example, it's not a true story, but you can relate it to it."
"That's probably an immortal god-level being, overseeing tens of thousands of galaxies the size of the Milky Way."
Hearing this, Luo Feng was somewhat shocked.
Does Lord Xu Qing intend to take an immortal deity as his disciple?
But considering that Xu Qing was only at the Hengxing level yet possessed immortal power, Luo Feng didn't find it strange at all.
Xu Qing continued speaking:
"Of course, at the very beginning, this immortal god, the ruler of the universe, did not have the talent to reach the pinnacle of immortality."
"He is just a child from an ordinary star system and an ordinary planet. The strongest person on that planet is only at the first level of the planetary level."
"That person was born in a small village, but even on this planet, only in that village could he be considered a genius."
Besides, his talent is so exceptional that it's impossible for him to even reach the third level of apprenticeship.
"The turning point came when he took a teacher. That teacher was a big shot in a nearby small city, probably at the seventh level of apprenticeship. Later, he disappeared, but left all his assets in that village and specially entrusted a brother to stay in the village to be the boy's substitute teacher."
"The boy's path of cultivation has never been smooth."
"That village had suffered several catastrophic crises in the past, either from massive floods that could have submerged the entire village, or from bandits who emerged from the deep mountains. The strength of those bandits was nothing compared to that of the villagers; they could easily wipe out the entire village without leaving a single one alive."
"But there was a turning point. His teacher, with the assets left behind by his teacher, saved the lives of the entire village during the flood."
"Faced with bandits who wanted to occupy the village, he used the means of transportation left behind by his substitute teacher to leave the poor village, go to the big city, use the money left by his teacher to buy the entire village, and receive the protection of the city lord."
"In other words, without that teacher, he would have died in his youth, leaving no trace."
Xu Qing looked at Luo Feng, his gaze sharpening slightly, and asked, "Luo Feng, tell me, is this teacher's help to the boy considered significant?"
Luo Feng replied almost without hesitation, his tone sincere: "Lord Xu Qing, this is far more than just huge. If it weren't for the assets left by that teacher to support us and resolve the crisis, the boy would have lost his life in the flood or at the hands of bandits, and even the lives of the entire village would have been lost. He wouldn't even have had the chance to leave the village."
"That teacher has done a great favor by saving this boy's life twice and saving the village from danger twice."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qing nodded slightly and continued, "You're right, but there's something you might not have guessed: the flood that nearly swallowed the village back then was an opportunity for him."
"The flood was caused by a treasure, and the power of that treasure was enough to make him instantly become a top genius in his country."
"This is the first real 'stepping stone' on his spiritual path."
Xu Qing looked at Luo Feng and said:
"But have you ever thought about it? If it weren't for the legacy left by the teacher, that boy would have been swept away by the raging flash flood and drowned in the water along with all the villagers."
"In the days that followed, because he obtained the treasure from the flood, he went from the village to the small city, and from a corner of the planet, he slowly climbed to the position of the strongest on that planet."
"After he gained sufficient strength, he found his teacher who had 'disappeared' years ago and returned the resources he had accumulated over the years to his teacher in a way that was a hundred million times greater."
Xu Qing's voice was calm: "After that, he broke through the planet's limits, overcame numerous trials along the way, and finally broke through to become an immortal god. In the end, he took charge of a star field and ruled over tens of thousands of star systems."
At this point, he looked at Luo Feng and said with a smile:
"From having no talent even at the third level of apprenticeship to becoming an immortal god, it sounds like my apprentice is not bad, right?"
Luo Feng nodded.
Xu Qing said:
"But do you know how he treated this teacher and his substitute teacher afterwards? You can guess."
"My lord, how am I supposed to guess this?"
Luo Feng shook his head, and couldn't help but wonder why he was being asked such a question; how would he know?
Xu Qing, however, was not troubled and continued:
"He promoted that substitute teacher to the first level of the Hengxing level. Although he had 1 ways to promote someone to the ninth level of the Domain Lord level, he did not do it."
"Furthermore, he also established a governorship for his planet, with a term of 10000 years, consisting of nine governors and 72 deputy governors."
But his substitute teacher, as far as I know, could only become a deputy governor in the 9th term.
"Even if there were a virtual universe where a thought could bring people together, that substitute teacher can hardly even see him. What do you think of his character?"
Hearing this, Luo Feng frowned, his tone filled with confusion: "Eternal Star Level 1? Vice Governor? Doesn't that mean there are nearly six hundred people whose status is above his, the substitute teacher?"
Luo Feng couldn't help but laugh as he recounted this:
"Could it be that over six hundred people on that planet saved the life of this immortal god? That's ridiculous! How could he treat his own teacher like that? And immortal gods have eternal lifespans, how could it be so difficult to even meet them?"
After saying that, Luo Feng seemed to have thought of something and asked again: "Wait, what about Lord Xu Qing and the real teacher of that immortal god?"
Why was only the substitute teacher mentioned?
Xu Qing smiled and said, "Oh, that's the real teacher."
"This immortal deity didn't even give this legitimate teacher a boost, so he has to rely entirely on himself for cultivation. He seems to be just a planetary-level cultivator."
"Not only that, even though this immortal god often plays games and ranks in the virtual universe and plays blacksmithing when he's bored, that teacher doesn't even have the qualifications or the opportunity to see him."
"This...this isn't even human anymore?!" Luo Feng's face flushed crimson, his knuckles turned white as he clenched his fists, his voice filled with disbelief and rage. "He's an ungrateful beast! That teacher gave him a second life! Without the teacher, he would have been nothing but mud in a flood..."
A pool of blood from the bandits' blade! Now that they've made it big, they won't even let us meet? Have they lost their conscience?
Seeing Luo Feng so angry that his chest heaved, even uttering harsh words like "beast" and "heartless," Xu Qing almost burst out laughing.
He suppressed a laugh, but the mockery in his eyes couldn't be hidden, and he continued to add fuel to the fire: "Not only that, his followers think he did the right thing. They say that the teacher was just a seventh-level apprentice, and that enabling him to reach planetary level was already an immense favor, even saying, 'Even if the teacher were to go to see an immortal, he wouldn't dare.'"
"These believers are so unable to distinguish right from wrong!"
Luo Feng was so angry he almost slammed his fist on the table.
"It's one thing for him to be afraid to see the teacher, but it's quite another to deny the teacher the right to see him! This is utterly heartless and cruel, a betrayal that can't be erased!"
Seeing Luo Feng's righteous and stern rebuke, Xu Qing finally couldn't hold back and chuckled.
"Haha, Luo Feng, you see things very clearly."
Watching Luo Feng angrily berate this "immortal god," Xu Qing suppressed the urge to laugh and nodded, saying, "When he was weak, he relied on the resources of other immortal gods to advance to immortality, but once he became immortal, he felt that having too many resources was a bad thing and advocated reducing those star-level and universe-level resources."
"Moreover, his behavior is contradictory: on the one hand, he constantly says he can't be a 'catastrophe-type cultivator' and can't devour others to cultivate, but on the other hand, he raises a monster that grows by devouring the inner worlds of realm lords and the divine kingdoms of immortal gods."
"He killed those world lords and immortals he considered 'Cataclysmic' beings, letting monsters devour them, and still thought he had only killed Cataclysmic beings."
"But he forgot that a Realm Lord has an inner world, and an Immortal has a divine kingdom. Once killed, billions of lives will be buried with them, devoured by the monsters under their command. Isn't the 'Cataclysmic Cultivator' he speaks of himself?"
Xu Qing stopped speaking here and looked at Luo Feng: "So Luo Feng, do you think I should take this immortal god as my disciple?" That's right, the "immortal god" he mentioned is none other than Luo Feng, who will become a lord in the future.
Because of his intervention, Luo Feng's experience of becoming Hu Yanbo's disciple had already been altered. At this moment, Luo Feng didn't realize that the person in the story was himself.
Luo Feng was still hesitant. Although he sensed the despicable attitude and character of the immortal god that Xu Qing had mentioned, he wondered if he could really interfere with Xu Qing's decision to accept disciples.
As if sensing Luo Feng's hesitation, Xu Qing said, "Feel free to bring it up, say whatever you want. I'm telling you these things to get your opinion."
Upon hearing this, Luo Feng clenched his fists almost immediately, his eyes filled with unwavering anger: "Lord Xu Qing, then I must say, you absolutely should not have accepted this disciple!"
"Think about it, even if someone achieves immortality with talent that's barely at the third level of apprenticeship, although their will is unwavering, their moral flaws are far more terrifying than having no talent at all!"
"He can keep the real teacher stuck at the first level of planetary rank, and not even give him the right to meet him, even though he has saved his own life twice and saved his hometown twice."
"The substitute teachers, who clearly have the ability to be promoted to the Domain Lord level, are only given the first rank of the Eternal Star level. Even the Vice Governor of the home planet is ranked ninth. How can this be treated as a benefactor?"
He paused, recalling Xu Qing's mention of "Cataclysmic Cultivators," and his brows furrowed even more deeply:
"Not to mention his inconsistent words and deeds! On the one hand, he opposes cataclysmic life forms, while on the other hand, he raises monsters to devour the world's master and the immortal god kingdom, turning billions of lives to ashes."
"I climbed to the top by relying on immortal resources, but becoming immortal immediately weakens those resources."
As Luo Feng spoke, he practically gritted his teeth at the "immortal god" Xu Qing had mentioned, uttering each word with venom:
"In my opinion, he himself is the most deserving 'catastrophe'!"
"The stronger this kind of person is, the more crooked their mind becomes. Who knows what ungrateful or treacherous things they might do in the future?"
Luo Feng's tone became sincere, even tinged with worry.
"If someone can forget even the debt of being saved, even if they become your disciple, will they treat you the same way once you're no longer of use to them?"