“I don’t really have much understanding of the Sword Dao, but it doesn’t seem to be a bad path. Also, I don’t believe that you’ll be a bad teacher.” Nineorigin replied after some thought.

“What do you mean? It isn’t you taking me as a master! You, I’ll accept you as my master in this era!” Heifeng Jiansui’s annoyed words shook Nineorigin’s world.

“Aiya…?! Aaa.. ahahaha! Of course, you would ask to be my disciple! Not only am I the World Spirit of Nineorigin Chaosworld, I am also a peerless beauty! I know of all the myriad secrets of this Chaosworld, can freely control the Cycle of Life and Death, the Six Paths of Samsara! I can gather all resources, materials and treasures at will! I control the strongest, largest, best sect of this era, the Nineyuan Sect! I have unparalleled understanding of the cultivation system before the Three Steps to Immortality! You aren’t taking any losses at all, actually I am the one losing out in this deal!” Nineorigin seemed to have gone delirious with joy on hearing his reply.

“Okay then, call me Master!” Nineorigin looked at Heifeng Jiansui with lidded eyes.

“Yes, Master!” Heifeng Jiansui’s voice was quite unenthusiastic.

“That sounds not quite good… Call me Mistress then!” Her expression like a Cheshire Cat, she looked at her ‘disciple’ awaiting his answer.

“…Mistress.” Heifeng Jiansui seemed to regret his decision as he spoke.

“Put some spirit into it! My disciple!” Nineorigin was clearly enjoying this.

“Yes mistress!” Heifeng Jiansui’s unenthusiastic voice was forcefully loud.

“Haha! Now, dear disciple, we should hold the ceremony where I officially take you as my disciple! After this, we will be like blood relations, like husband and wife! Isn’t that amazing! Now, kowtow to me thrice!” Nineorigin had a really proud voice saying this.

Seeing the ‘mistress’ who seemed to be having too much fun, Heifeng Jiansui restrained his urge to punch her face in.

“One time I kowtow to Heaven, one time I kowtow to Earth, one time I kowtow to Man.” Heifeng Jiansui chanted this as he kowtowed thrice.

“Aha, I am Heaven and Earth! You didn’t need to say that, you know? Anyway, I accept you as a disciple! Now let’s drink! Let’s pour a glass for each other!” Magically, a bottle of wine appeared with two wineglasses beside.

“…Shouldn’t it be a tea ceremony?” Heifeng Jiansui looked dubiously at his master.

“Both of us do not appreciate the classics of tea, so might as well drink wine instead!” Hearing Nineorigin’s shameless voice as she poured out a glass, Heifeng Jiansui resisted the urge to expound on the time he learnt tea ceremony from the Battle Emperor.

“…Whatever.” Pouring out a glass, he offered it to Nineorigin with his left hand while accepting the glass offered with his right.

‘Clink’. Both of them lightly tapped their glasses together before drinking half the glass. After that, they switched glasses again and finished the wine.

“Now that you have kowtowed to me thrice and we have exchanged wine that is like blood, we are now master and disciple, traversing along the path of the boundless universal Dao together! The ceremony is now complete!” Nineorigin’s jubilant voice now had a trace of seriousness as she said this.

After she acknowledged their relation of master and disciple, the threads of karma between them solidified and became thickened. While Heifeng Jiansui wasn’t sure what benefits Nineorigin would gain from this, he was surprised to find that he gained the ability to calculate the fate of near every life in this world, courtesy of his connection to the World Spirit!

“Now by becoming my disciple, what do you hope to learn from me?” Nineorigin asked him gently.

“First of all, the cultivation path of the era. After that, the Dao of the World. I have some interest in the laws of Fate and Destiny and you said that it will be your Dao Path so I wouldn’t mind learning this as well… Also, if you have any understanding of Devouring Laws, teach me that as well.” Heifeng Jiansui had his needs mapped out.

In this era, he had trained in Auxiliary arts, Devouring Laws and Divination of Fate and Destiny. Auxiliary art legacies were many so he could simply train in one of them. While Heifeng Jiansui was quite sure Nineorigin didn’t have any understanding of Devouring, he thought that he might as well ask.

“You are pretty lucky! I can teach you the Dao of World, Fate and Devouring! In truth, forget about this era’s novice cultivators, you would find even Perpetual Emperors lacking to my comprehension of these arts!” Nineorigin couldn’t help but boast out happily, she and her new disciple had quite some compatibility!

“Yeah, don’t boast so much. Your innate understanding of the Dao of the World is only natural and your understanding of Fate must be high if you actually studied it, but where did your comprehension of Devouring come from?” Heifeng Jiansui looked dubiously at Nineorigin.

“You don’t know much about World Spirits, do you? Ahaha, of course I am the first World Spirit of this World, that’s only natural! Anyway, know this my dear disciple, all Worlds evolve by plundering Laws from other Worlds. I, as a World Spirit, actually have the ability to comprehend the Laws by meditation but other Chaosworlds all attack and plunder each other to devour Laws and evolve! And of course, which Law has the greatest ability to snatch comprehension? Devouring, that’s what! My understanding of Devouring is only lesser to my World Dao! After we formed our bond of master and disciple, I have gained some insights into Fate Dao which I will tap into later.” Nineorigin’s face seemed to be red from boasting so much.

“Whatever. I will be entering my Black Phoenix Heritage Legacy in a month. Before that time, please teach me the best you can.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui bowed to Ninebless.

“Don’t worry, I’ll pass on as much as I can to you… Anyway, do you intend to keep our master-disciple relationship a secret?” Ninebless had a curious expression as she asked.

“I intend to reveal it after I enter the path of cultivation. The status of being the personal disciple of Nineorigin Sect’s master who personally quelled all the chaos after the arrival of the Era, reputed as the strongest expert surpassing all is too much to ignore.” Heifeng Jiansui did not let up on the praise.

Nineorigin blushed prettily as she answered. “You don’t need to suck up so much. Anyway, I don’t intend to teach you here. Let’s quickly send your disciples to the Supreme Couple and I’ll visit your home to grant you personal teaching.”

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After transmitting his command to both of them, the twins arrived before him. Bowing before him, they seemed enlightened after reading through his collection of Clear Jade Sword Dao foundation manuals.

“Both of you, do you think the Clear Jade Sword Dao is suitable to you? I only possess the foundations, do you think you can create the later stages by yourself!” Heifeng Jiansui’s expression was serious as he asked.

“Yes, Sect Master! We have full confidence!” The twins had determination shining in their response.

“Good girls! Break through to Perpetual Emperor and take that sword!” Heifeng Jiansui put spirit as he encouraged his disciples.

“Um, Sect Lord, I wanted to ask earlier but which one of us will wield the weapon?” The twins gave a competitive glance to each other before asking.

“I will say this, if any one of you two manages to even move a hair of the Clear Jade Sword Dao by yourself, you will have far surpassed me. I will be able to rest easy knowing that my disciples have reached heights that I never touched, freely controlling the sword that far surpassed me.” Hearing this response, the twins realized that their master never considered that one of them to be the possessor of the sword.

“That sword is the strongest weapon in this Chaosworld and when it gains a wielder, the defenses of our Nineorigin Chaosworld will get even stronger. For a calamity of extinction to never occur, you two have to wield it as soon as possible. That’s why, I will be sending you two to the Yin-Yang Supreme Couple to learn their Yin-Yang Coexistence Dao.”

“In any case, you two are my personal disciples so you will be half-disciples to the Supreme Couple. Don’t throw my face. In any case, you have stayed in this small Stellar Circuit like frogs in wells so broaden your horizons with the Supreme Couple.”

Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui motioned to Nineorigin who created a path to the Supreme Couple’s world.

After the twins departed, Nineorigin spoke to Heifeng Jiansui. “I sent a clone to explain their situation. Learning from the couple on the world their Perpetuity originates from will be effective for them.”

“Back then I thought of them as good seeds. Saving them was a good decision. Having two disciples who surpassed my cultivation speed and stepped onto their own path is gratifying…” Nineorigin couldn’t help nodding at his words, seeing that even Heifeng Jiansui was someone who depended on his disciples to succeed him.

“Anyway, it seems all my matters in this Ninelight World are done. It seems that this Ninelight Stellar Circuit will stay in desolation for quite sometime…” As he was saying this, Heifeng Jiansui suddenly detected an unknown lifeform wandering some distance away from him.

“Neither human or beast… What the hell did an Outsider come here for?” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui flew beside Nineorigin to meet it.