Xuanhuan: The Empress and I Swapped Bodies - Chapter 112
“No! You absolutely cannot cultivate the Undying Heaven Art!!”
“Why??”
“Your most important task right now is to improve your strength, to make your Body Forging realm foundation stronger—not to divert your energy into cultivating an even more powerful Dao technique!”
“If you start cultivating the Undying Heaven Art now, it will inevitably consume a huge amount of your energy. Who knows how many years it would take for you to advance then?!”
Zongzheng Liuning’s reason for opposing this was actually quite simple: he didn’t want Ye Wushuang to allocate more energy to the Undying Heaven Art.
Although cultivating the Undying Heaven Art could indeed provide excellent support for the Eight-Nine Heaven Art, mastering a Heaven Art required an enormous amount of time.
Ye Wushuang was currently at a critical stage in his cultivation. If he expended great effort on the Undying Heaven Art now, he might not even complete the Body Forging realm within a year.
That would truly be a waste of talent—putting the cart before the horse.
However, hearing this, Ye Wushuang found it both amusing and frustrating.
He had already mastered the Undying Heaven Art long ago. Cultivating it now would merely be a refresher—it wouldn’t consume his energy or waste his time at all.
For him, as long as he had the Divine Phoenix True Blood, cultivating the Undying Heaven Art would be effortlessly simple.
It wasn’t nearly as complicated as Zongzheng Liuning imagined.
“Well, it actually won’t consume my energy. Cultivating the Undying Heaven Art isn’t really that difficult!”
“Not difficult? Do you have any idea how hard it is to cultivate the Undying Heaven Art? Do you know how long it took me to master it??”
“How long?”
“It took me a full six… no, three months just to get started! You can imagine that for you to cultivate the Undying Heaven Art and complete the first nirvana, it would take at least a year!”
“Is it worth wasting a whole year just to try this Undying Heaven Art?”
Zongzheng Liuning had spent a full six months just to grasp the basics of the Undying Heaven Art.
Even now, he had only just completed the first nirvana.
By that standard, his speed wasn’t considered slow.
But to make himself sound more impressive, he outright halved the time he actually spent.
Although he shortened the timeframe, he was confident that this was still long enough to deter Ye Wushuang and dissuade him from the impulse to cultivate the Undying Heaven Art.
However, this was only his own assumption.
Ye Wushuang had already cultivated the Undying Heaven Art before. So, no matter what Zongzheng Liuning said, Ye Wushuang wouldn’t change his mind.
“Give me three days. If I can’t make progress with the Undying Heaven Art in three days, I’ll stop cultivating it!”
“Three days? You only want three days??”
“Yes! Just three days.”
“That… that might not be enough. How about I give you a month, no… three months! How about using three months to cultivate the Undying Heaven Art??”
Hearing that Ye Wushuang only wanted three days, Zongzheng Liuning’s first reaction was that it was impossible.
But at the same time, he felt he was being too harsh.
Ye Wushuang was a genius. It was only natural for a genius to want to cultivate more powerful techniques.
After all, every genius had their own pride.
He couldn’t just stifle a genius’s ambition like that.
So, he felt he should give Ye Wushuang a bit more time and a chance to try. Only then would he not seem like an overly strict master.
However, Ye Wushuang insisted on three days, so three days it was.
“No need. Three days is enough. If I haven’t made any progress in three days, I’ll temporarily set aside the Undying Heaven Art!”
“Very well! Since you’re so determined, I’ll help you apply for the Divine Phoenix True Blood. Even if it’s wasted, it doesn’t matter!”
Although Ye Wushuang had brought back a lot of Divine Phoenix True Blood last time, it was still a highly important resource within the Divine Dragon Royal Family.
After all, each portion of Divine Phoenix True Blood meant that one more person could potentially master the Undying Heaven Art.
Under these circumstances, obtaining the Divine Phoenix True Blood was actually quite troublesome.
But for Ye Wushuang’s sake, Zongzheng Liuning was willing to pull some strings—even if Ye Wushuang was just testing it out.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Ye Wushuang interjected.
“No need. I can apply for the Divine Phoenix True Blood myself.”
“You apply for it yourself? You… although you are my disciple, it’s very likely your application won’t be approved.”
The Divine Dragon Royal Family had strict protocols for many things.
Zongzheng Liuning could apply for the Divine Phoenix True Blood because his strength was formidable enough and his status within the royal family was sufficiently high.
But Ye Wushuang was different. Even though he was Zongzheng Liuning’s disciple and was soon to be enrolled into the Divine Dragon Royal Family’s clan registry, his access privileges were still limited. It was basically impossible for him to obtain something as precious as the Divine Phoenix True Blood on his own.
Even the Undying Heaven Art technique he wanted to cultivate required Zongzheng Liuning to use his authority to transmit it to him.
If Ye Wushuang applied on his own, he simply wouldn’t get approval.
However, Ye Wushuang’s next sentence completely caught Zongzheng Liuning off guard.
“I’ll go ask Her Majesty, the Empress. She will give it to me.”
“Her Majesty will give it to you? How can you be so sure??”
“Tell me! Are you two really together? You’re together and you’re hiding it from me!!”
Even for Zongzheng Liuning himself, applying for it was incredibly troublesome.
Yet Ye Wushuang stated so confidently that the Empress would simply give it to him—how could Zongzheng Liuning not read into that?
But his outburst left Ye Wushuang utterly speechless.
In response, Ye Wushuang only offered a brief explanation and didn’t elaborate further.
A half-day later, several portions of Divine Phoenix True Blood actually appeared before Ye Wushuang.
Witnessing this, Zongzheng Liuning became even more convinced that Ye Wushuang and the Divine Dragon Empress were indeed an item.
However, he still held Ye Wushuang in very high regard. If they really were together, Zongzheng Liuning would actually be happy about it.
Strengthening family ties was a good thing.
It’s just that neither of them was making it public, which annoyed him a little.
After obtaining the Divine Phoenix True Blood, Ye Wushuang paid no further attention to Zongzheng Liuning and directly began his cultivation.
If he wanted to increase his physical strength further, he naturally needed to properly cultivate the Undying Heaven Art.
So, once he had the Divine Phoenix True Blood, he started cultivating immediately.
Twenty breaths later, Ye Wushuang had already grasped the basics.
Then, without stopping, he continued to delve deeper.
Half a day later, Zongzheng Liuning came to check on Ye Wushuang’s progress.
What he saw left him utterly stunned, his jaw nearly hitting the floor.
“How… how is this possible? How did he grasp the basics in just half a day??”
“Is this real? Is he really cultivating the Undying Heaven Art??”