Chapter 14: Beyond the Three Realms

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Song Yunwei paced rapidly several times around the office, her emotions running high. Her curvaceous figure rose and fell with each step, displayed in vivid detail.

"During the summer break, I’m setting a goal for you!"

She gazed deeply at the handsome youth before her. "By the time senior year begins, your Na Yuan realm must reach the fourth level."

"If you achieve that, beyond the school’s support program, I will personally reward you to help you grow even faster!"

Lin Zhenfeng, standing nearby, couldn’t help but be moved by these words. Principal Song had clearly seen Shi Yu’s astonishing potential and was starting to make early investments.

Moreover, this kind of investment wasn’t the usual official school-to-school arrangement.

It was entirely a personal gesture of goodwill.

“No, there’s also the family background behind Principal Song,” Lin Zhenfeng thought to himself.

Song Yunwei’s entry into the Transcendent Domain was not only due to her own talent but also largely because she was born into the Song family.

The Song family was wealthy and influential, involved in many industries, and had nurtured numerous transcendent martial artists.

They wielded great power, at least across the South Lake, North Lake, and West River provinces.

“Principal Song is also investing ahead of time for her family’s future,” Lin Zhenfeng mused inwardly.

It was indeed easier to enjoy the shade of a mighty tree. Unlike him, who had struggled alone, cultivating martial arts had been extremely difficult.

To step into the realm of the transcendent—that was a challenge beyond challenge.

Lin Zhenfeng turned to look at Shi Yu, who was only seventeen and in the second year of high school.

His future was boundless.

Song Yunwei looked at the young man with deep meaning. “Well, can you do it?”

Shi Yu thought to himself that Principal Song’s reward was practically a free bonus.

Na Yuan realm, level four...

Based on his current progress, especially with the uninterrupted days during summer break, even at the slowest pace, he could ascend to the fourth level within a month.

“Principal Song, no problem!” He nodded firmly and replied in a deep voice.

“Good!”

Song Yunwei smiled gently, her smile blooming like a peony flower.

...

After the brief mentor meeting ended, Song Yunwei watched Shi Yu and Lin Zhenfeng leave.

Her smile faded only when she looked at the piles of documents on her desk.

She sighed softly; she had no idea when she would finish handling all this paperwork.

Just then, a phone call came through on her mobile.

She glanced at the caller’s name and couldn’t help but raise her graceful brows.

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"Master Xia, what made you think of calling me today? Is there something you need?"

“Are you asking about Shi Yu?” Song Yunwei’s vanished smile reappeared at the corner of her mouth. “You’re quite well-informed...”

“It was your niece who told me, wasn’t it?”

After a brief exchange on the phone, the call ended.

Song Yunwei moved to the window of her office and looked out at the playground where Shi Yu was still talking with Lin Zhenfeng.

“The little one’s talent has attracted quite a bit of interest,” she murmured to herself. “This coming year is going to be lively at school.”

...

After school, Shi Yu first returned home to prepare dinner, then went back to the school again.

His enthusiasm for cultivation was now at an unprecedented high.

He would sleep in the martial arts room at night!

It was perfect—everything he needed was right there: training, bathing, then sleep, and upon waking, training again.

Even better, progress in the martial arts room was much faster.

Beneath the entire martial arts hall, a thick layer of Radiant Origin Stones was laid.

Radiant Origin Stone was a rare natural mineral, not only imbued with extremely dense primordial energy but also capable of continuously gathering such energy.

In ancient times, only a few martial sects could possess it.

But in modern times, with technological advancements in mining, Radiant Origin Stone had become more widespread.

Nowadays, most large and medium schools’ martial arts halls were required to be equipped with Radiant Origin Stone; it had become standard practice.

These stones were arranged underground in specific formations, essentially creating a large energy-gathering array to assist martial artists in their training.

Each independent martial arts room within the hall served as a node for gathering energy.

On the ceiling of each martial arts room hung a special Radiant Origin Stone.

This stone was purer and more potent than those underground.

If training in the martial arts hall accelerated progress by twenty percent compared to other places, then training in an individual martial arts room would speed it up by thirty percent.

Shi Yu sat quietly in the center of the training room, directly beneath the radiant stone.

Surrounded by the dense energy, he sat cross-legged with eyes closed, deeply focused on his cultivation.

He could clearly feel the fluctuations emanating from the Radiant Origin Stone.

This wave brought in the primordial energy of heaven and earth, which, coupled with the breathing techniques of his cultivation method, flowed steadily into his body.

It gathered in his Qi Sea, strengthening the foundation of his martial path.

[Host Realm Progress: Na Yuan Realm, second level, increased from 11% to 12%]

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[Host Realm Progress: Na Yuan Realm, second level, increased from 12% to 13%]

Every five or six minutes, the system’s prompt sounded, and his progress ticked upward.

His cultivation speed was truly remarkable.

Yet Shi Yu did not consider it anything extraordinary.

Though others saw him as a prodigy far surpassing peers, he remained clear-headed: there were always those stronger, those with even more terrifying talent.

Having witnessed true formidable talent, his own was but a small pond frog.

In front of a Great Saint, his so-called talent was nothing more than a trivial illusion.

...

While Shi Yu was lost in cultivation, far away atop Flower-Fruit Mountain, silver moonlight spilled like liquid.

A solitary figure stood gazing out at the boundless sea.

The ocean waves rolled ceaselessly, shattering the bright moonlight into a dazzling mosaic.

“Great King, are you thinking of your elder brother again?”

A long-armed monkey ambled slowly behind the figure and asked.

The figure turned slowly in the moonlight.

It was the stone monkey—born from the immortal stone—whom Shi Yu had nicknamed Shikong.

Now, he was the famed Handsome Monkey King of Flower-Fruit Mountain!

“Three years...”

The stone monkey’s eyes carried a wistful expression. “Over these three years, I’ve searched many places on Flower-Fruit Mountain, fought countless battles, yet my elder brother remains missing.”

The long-armed monkey shook his head gently and spoke slowly, “Back then, your elder brother once picked lice off me, and we shared pleasant conversations.”

“I recall he once vaguely mentioned coming from a very distant place, an unfathomable journey of tens of thousands of miles.”

“His arrival at Flower-Fruit Mountain was also due to fate.”

The long-armed monkey stroked his white beard and said, “Perhaps once that fate passes, he will return to wherever he originally came from.”

“The day I leapt from the Water Curtain Cave, your elder brother had already vanished,” sighed the stone monkey. “I asked around, but no one knew anything.”

“At that time, everyone’s attention was on your magnificent leap into the cave,” the long-armed monkey said, shaking his head.

“Only a small monkey mentioned that your elder brother Shi Yu’s figure disappeared like a fleeting illusion, gradually fading away, truth unknown.”

“Maybe your elder brother is that legendary immortal!”

“He has stepped beyond the Three Realms, no longer bound by the Five Elements!”