Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Chapter 1023 "Punishment" From the Blue Sea Empire

Chapter 1023 "Punishment" From the Blue Sea Empire

Letting out a somewhat frustrated sigh as he realized that he would still have to deal with the Heavenly Dragon Temple, Xuan Hao could not help silently hoping that the master of this little core disciple in front of him ended up getting held up by the other elders of the Heavenly Dragon Temple.

After all, from the information he had managed to gather so far, it seemed like this little core disciple's master was up to something that didn't align with the overall interests of the Heavenly Dragon Temple. Even going so far as to nurture a force of his own outside the Heavenly Dragon Temple...

"Hopefully the Heavenly Dragon Temple will continue to be chaotic for a few more years until I become strong enough to face off against someone in the Earth Immortal Realm..." Shaking his head as he muttered this to himself, Xuan Hao turned his attention back towards the fearful core disciple from the Heavenly Dragon Temple.

Even if he had given him his word that he would not kill him, it was rather obvious that this core disciple didn't trust his words and had partly come to terms with the fact that he might not be able to return to the Heavenly Dragon Temple alive.

"No need to look at me like that. If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead." Rolling his eyes as he said this in response to the terrified core disciple already prepared for death, Xuan Hao didn't Following this, he forcibly infused his qi into his body and effortlessly broke through any defense around his dantian.

wait for him to say anything, as he made his way over and placed his hand on top of the core disciple's head before he had a chance to say anything.

Whoosh~

Following this, he forcibly infused his qi into his body and effortlessly broke through any defense around his dantian.

"Here it is..." Finding what he was looking for after his qi flooded the dantian of the core disciple, Xuan Hao didn't hesitate as his qi entangled itself with the panicked nascent soul inside the dantian-

Crack~

And before the core disciple had any time to realize what was happening, he applied pressure on the nascent soul and the dantian, causing the dantian to show signs of fracturing while the nascent soul was completely destroyed in the process. Only leaving behind a small bit of the core disciple's soul. Rendering the Domain Lord Realm cultivation base of the core disciple completely useless, as his strength fell all the way to the Core Formation Realm.

Although this did not end up killing the core disciple of the Heavenly Dragon Temple, it essentially crippled his cultivation together with the memories he had accumulated ever since forming his nascent soul. Only leaving behind incomprehensible fragments of his life after having reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

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"Wait! Isn't that the core disciple that the senior from the Blue Sea Empire took away earlier!? What happened to him? Why is his aura so weird...?"

"Huh? Ah! You are correct! But... What will happen to us now that the core disciple is still safe and sound!? Won't he tell on us to the higher ups!?"

"AH! You are right! But we can't do anything about this by ourselves, let's inform the captain first and have him deal with the situation..."

Not too long after the confused core disciple had made his way down the mountain, he was accidentally spotted by a few of the people from the secret outpost, who were making last minute preparations before leaving the Blue Sea Empire.

Luckily for the confused core disciple, the two of them didn't dare to attack a core disciple by themselves, so they rushed back to get the Soul Ascension Realm captain in charge of the secret outpost and have him deal with the situation.

"What!? That core disciple is still alive!?"

In the end, when they arrived back at the secret outpost and informed their captain, he didn't wait a second before rushing out to confirm things for himself. After all, if the core disciple really did survive and made it back to the Heavenly Dragon Temple and informed the elders about what happened, he and the rest of the people in the outpost would be as good as dead!

"Huh?"

However, after seeing the core disciple in person, he quickly realized something was wrong... And after a thorough examination, he realized that the core disciple had his nascent soul destroyed. Erasing most of his memories in the process.

Although this could be considered as mercy from the side of the Blue Sea Empire, it was still an incredibly cruel punishment.

"But... This way, I don't have to worry about explaining the death of a core disciple to the elders. Not to mention, he won't ever be able to recover the memories of what happened! Hah... I don't know whether or not to thank the person from the Blue Sea Empire for this..." Muttering this to himself after realizing the situation, the captain went forward and picked up the confused core disciple before he had any time to react and brought him back to secret outpost in the process of being dismantled.

At least, he now had a way to defend himself from any severe punishment from the elders...