My cultivation level increases by one year every day!

A blue lotus blooms with dazzling blue light, adorned with countless profound Taoist charms, making it hard to look away.

"You've awakened this talent?!"

Fang Zhongwu's face was stunned, his eyes filled with shock and a hint of disbelief.

"I knew it! That's why you broke through but no auspicious signs appeared. It turns out you also awakened the Nine Tribulations Green Lotus."

Fang Zhongwu muttered to himself, a look of realization on his face, clearly still reeling from the shock he had just experienced.

"Is the Nine Tribulations Azure Lotus also a family-inherited talent?" Fang Yuan was a little confused.

Fang Zhongwu took a deep breath to calm himself down. His expression was quite complicated, as if he was thinking about the past.

"Our Fang family's heritage is mainly related to the Dao of Thunder."

"Just like the martial arts mark you awakened, it is the thunder mark. What it specifically contains, you will have to develop it slowly in the future."

After saying that, Fang Zhongwu stretched out his hand, and three-colored lightning suddenly appeared in his palm, intertwining with each other and exuding an aura of annihilation.

"This is my Thunder Path Mark!"

Amidst the intertwining of three-colored lightning bolts, a mark gradually emerged, strikingly similar to the mark on Fang Yuan's dantian, and capable of resonating with it.

"Have any of the Ten Elders awakened their martial arts imprints?"

Fang Yuan recalled the throbbing sensation in the mark within his dantian when the long-bearded old man made his move.

Fang Zhongwu shook his head and said, "The strongest elder only has a relatively strong lightning bloodline."

The Fang family's geniuses throughout history have awakened different talents during the Foundation Establishment stage.

This includes, but is not limited to, bloodline, spiritual root, physique, and Dharma form.

These talents vary in strength and are difficult to rank, but the strongest talent is undoubtedly the Martial Arts Imprint.

Because the martial arts imprint is the sublimation of these talents, encompassing everything, and to some extent can even give rise to other talents.

"As members of the Fang family, those with strong talents will resonate with each other; this is a bond of blood."

Fang Yuan nodded slightly, glanced at Fang Zhongwu's martial arts mark, and said with a smile, "Father, you've been hiding your true abilities."

"That's natural. When I was young, I swept aside my peers and was invincible!"

Fang Zhongwu stood with his hands behind his back, seemingly thinking of the past, and said proudly.

"So, the blue lotus I awakened is a talent from my mother's side?" Fang Yuan returned to the main topic.

Fang Zhongwu nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on the dreamlike blue lotus, momentarily lost in thought.

"I didn't expect your talent to be so amazing, that you have awakened two supreme talents at the same time."

"Isn't this a good thing?"

Seeing that his adoptive father's expression wasn't as joyful as he had imagined, Fang Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"Both of these talents, either one, can lead you directly to the Great Dao, without any obstacles along the way."

"However, awakening both at the same time will actually affect your future path of spiritual practice."

Fang Yuan asked, "Are the two talents in conflict?"

Fang Zhongwu shook his head and said, "Not only not, but they complement each other."

This deepened Fang Yuan's doubts.

"You have now officially embarked on the path of cultivation. You should know that cultivators have different cultivation directions."

"Talent is the same. Will you choose to focus on developing your martial arts imprint or hone your divine sense and transcend the Nine Tribulations Green Lotus?"

Seeing that Fang Yuan was about to speak, Fang Zhongwu continued, "Don't tell me you'll do it all at once; you don't have that much time."

"You still need to improve your cultivation. Cultivation is the foundation of strength. If you master just one of your two talents, you will be able to crush your peers."

"If you try to have everything, you'll find it difficult to accomplish anything and end up neglecting one thing for another."

Fang Yuan did not refute.

Ordinary people certainly can't do it all at once, since improving one's cultivation level is the most important thing.

But he's different.

With the heaven-defying blessing of the Heavenly Origin Realm, he doesn't need to waste time on arduous cultivation.

One day is like a year!

"You can decide on your focus once you've officially reached the Foundation Establishment Realm," Fang Zhongwu said.

Fang Yuan was completely bewildered and asked in surprise, "I haven't broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage yet?"

"You've broken through, but not completely," Fang Zhongwu said in a deep voice. "I never expected you to awaken the Nine Tribulations Green Lotus."

"The baptism accumulated over a thousand years in the ancestral temple has been applied to you, but it has only thoroughly stirred up your martial arts imprint. You are still a little short of the Nine Tribulations Green Lotus."

Fang Yuan looked down at the illusory green lotus in his hand, which was indeed far less dazzling than the martial arts mark in his dantian.

"While the residual energy from the baptism still remains in your body, let's immediately return to the clan for your second Foundation Establishment!"

Fang Yuan asked, puzzled, "Can't I stay here and break through to the next level?"

Fang Zhongwu said, "To ensure everything goes perfectly, I need to make some preparations. Some of these materials are only available to families."

"Moreover, the momentum and sensation caused by your breakthrough again will far exceed that of this time."

"If a powerful individual were to risk their life to kill you, the ancestral land would find it difficult to withstand such an impact. After all, there are too many ordinary people living here. And activating the sealed array of the ancestral land in advance would waste a huge amount of resources, as well as various restrictions and rules, which is far less convenient than staying within the family."

Of course, the most important point is...

Fang Zhongwu was worried that trouble would arise from within the family, since there were retired experts from the Fang family of the capital here, and even one or two of the ten elders.

Before Fang Yuan entered the ancestral hall for baptism, most of the family's elders had already returned.

In order to avoid attracting attention.

Fang Yuan and Fang Zhongwu returned to their clan first, while the other ordinary elders and disciples made their own arrangements.

"This is what it feels like to be detached from the ground and soar through the air; it's truly wonderful."

Fang Yuan flew through the air, completely unrestrained by gravity, like a white shooting star streaking across the night sky.

In less than half a day.

Fang Yuan and Fang Zhongwu then returned to their family.

At roughly the same time, a streak of blue light streaked across the sky above Qinghai City.

An elderly man dressed in a blue robe landed at the entrance of the Fang family's house.

If you look closely, you will notice that there are three flowing clouds embedded two fingers below the right shoulder of the old man in his blue robe.

This is none other than the insignia of the Vice Palace Master of Qingyun Academy!

"I, He, from Qingyun Academy, have come to pay my respects to the Fang family!"

He Yunsong did not conceal his figure, and the sound of his shouts at the door was actually not loud.

However, the inner city was full of hidden talents and powerful individuals, and since it happened to be near the Fang family's gate, those with ulterior motives quickly spread the word.

Qingyun Academy.

The martial arts holy land of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a cultivation academy that young cultivators dream of attending.

Students who successfully graduate from Qingyun Academy are all renowned and powerful figures in their respective regions.

Among them were powerful regional officials, prefects with great authority, and even those who were granted titles and generalships, reaching the highest ranks of officialdom.

"What brings the powerful figures from Qingyun Academy to visit the Fang family?"

The name of Qingyun Academy was so famous that it attracted a lot of attention, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, everyone was talking about it.

"It seems the news was true."

When the high-ranking officials of Qinghai City learned that someone from Qingyun Academy had visited the Fang family, their faces darkened, confirming their suspicions.

Although the two family heads intended to conceal Fang Yuan's defeat of Fang Lian in the ancestral land, it was ultimately difficult to keep it a secret.

There were just too many people present at the time, which at most slowed down the spread of the news.

"To use a cultivator at the Innate Realm to attack a Foundation Establishment True Person—Fang Yuan's intention was to suppress the younger generation of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"

A patriarch of a prominent family looked up at the location of the Fang family and sighed deeply...