CHAPTER 266: TURNS OUT, MY MASTER IS CRAZY [2]

"Yu Xuan... my dear and lovely disciple," she said, her hand still pressed against his chest, "tell me... do you plan to be his disciple?"

Yu Xuan paled instantly, he didn’t have the courage to tell her that Old Yu had already called the other party ’Master’.

"Absolutely not, Master! I—I’m loyal Disciple! Body, mind, and soul! Elemental Heaven Peak allegiance for life!"

The pressure vanished just as suddenly as it had appeared.

She smiled faintly looking serene, and to Yu Xuan it felt the most beautiful smile ever.

"Good," she said softly. "Because if you ever change your mind..."

A chilling intent flickered in her eyes.

"...I’ll personally remind you, who and where you belong to."

Yu Xuan forced a laugh.

"Hahaha..."

Inside, though, he screaming and cursed.

’Even my master turns out to be crazy. Fuck, Old Yu!!’

Yu Xuan was very angry at Old Yu.

If possible, he wanted to strangle him personally.

Now, what would happen to him, when he ascends to Immortality?

Just thinking about it, Yu Xuan felt headache.

***

After Yu Xuan was excused, the Elemental Heaven Peak Master remained seated in silence, her expression unreadable but her mind spinning.

For the first time in a long while, she found herself... uneasy.

Her disciple’s cultivation had advanced at an astonishing pace — the 12th stage of Foundation Establishment, the very edge of breaking through to Core Formation.

By itself, that would have been enough to stir admiration. But what truly unsettled her was not his progress...

It was the energy she had felt within him.

When she had placed her hand over his chest earlier, intending only to inspect his meridians and internal balance, she had encountered something foreign.

A current of power that did not belong to any heaven, any law, she knew.

It wasn’t malevolent — on the contrary, it was nurturing him.

Every inch of Yu Xuan’s body, every thread of his Qi, every fragment of his essence was being fortified, perfected, by that mysterious force.

But that was precisely the problem.

No known heavenly flame, physique, or dao resonance carried such universal nourishment.

It wasn’t the power of an immortal, nor the blessing of a supreme being.

It was... something more fundamental.

"...as if the Origin of All Things has taken root within him," she murmured to herself, her voice low and troubled.

If she hadn’t personally inspected it, she would have dismissed the idea entirely — or worse, mistaken him for one of "them".

Her fingers tapped lightly against the armrest of her throne.

That realization alone was enough to send a rare shiver down her spine.

Because if Yu Xuan was one of those, then even she...

She leaned back, shaking her head.

If she didn’t knew him, she would have assumed that, but things were different.

But that wasn’t the only abnormality.

Yu Xuan’s body housed two Heavenly Flames.

His physique, was already an enigma, one even she could not fully comprehend.

And now... there was something else.

That strange Qi star in his dantian — that didn’t align with any cultivation record she had ever encountered.

Was Yu Xuan a pioneer? Definitely not, he is too weak to be one, because the mystery she felt from that domineering star was not something he could come up, with his current self.

She pressed her fingers to her temple and sighed softly.

She had known from the start that this disciple would be troublesome.

"This is far beyond even what I expected."

Because she even sensed that Yu Xuan was slightly more free now, it was mentally.

’He definitely broke through his spiritual restrictions.’ she thought.

Rising from her seat, she walked toward the window of her grand hall.

The night outside was quiet, the stars shimmering faintly in the sky.

Tomorrow morning, Yu Xuan would begin his breakthrough to the Core Formation realm.

She had already agreed to oversee it personally. Because she still did not trust the Martial Ancestor.

If this was a twisted experiment from him, then she would likely go to war.

Her gaze deepened, now thinking about tomorrow.

"I’ve seen hundreds of tribulations," she whispered, "but, his will not be ordinary."

Normally, a Human Cultivator’s Core Formation Tribulation was straightforward — a few lightning strikes, some purification flames, perhaps an illusion or two, everything depended on talent.

But Yu Xuan was anything but normal.

A dual heavenly flame holder. A mysterious physique. A disciple harboring unknown foreign energy.

Each of those alone would warp Heaven’s judgment — together, they would likely attract something unrecorded in history.

"The heavens don’t take anomalies kindly," she said softly, her tone carrying a rare trace of genuine worry.

"And this disciple of mine... might just anger Heaven."

As the night deepened, the Elemental Heaven Peak Master stood still.

In her heart, she only wished for one thing — that Yu Xuan would come out safe.

Oblivious to his master’s thoughts of going to war, Yu Xuan was sleeping soundly.

Despite being a cultivator who needed occasional sleep, Yu Xuan had always enjoyed it.

The night was serene.

Until.

Shiiiing—

The faint sound of something awakening echoed in the still air.

The locket around Yu Xuan’s neck began to shimmer faintly, glowing faintly.

Slowly, as if responding to some unseen force, the chain loosened and the locket detached itself, levitating in mid-air above Yu Xuan.

Two eggs; one dark as the abyss, the other radiant as moonlight — floated gently out from the locket.

Each pulsating like a heartbeat.

The locket, its duty fulfilled, dissolved into motes of light and vanished completely, leaving only the two eggs hovering in the air.

Even in his sleep, Yu Xuan’s instincts stirred.

His sixth sense, screamed at him that something unusual was happening nearby.

His eyes fluttered open.

And the first thing he saw was–

Two glowing eggs floating right in front of his face, radiating both warmth and mystery.

The light they emitted painted his entire room in shifting shades of white, blue and black.

For a brief second, Yu Xuan’s brain refused to process what he was seeing.

Then.

"What the?!"