Chapter 941: Six-Star Famous Teacher

Two months later.

The Elder Council Hall.

Elder Mi, Zhao Bingxu, and others were seated in the hall.

After Lu Feng resigned from his position as the Dean of the Pill Academy, Vice Dean Zhou Qing took over. Chen Chengxun, from the Formation Master Academy, also stepped down and was replaced by a Vice Dean. This meant that all ten deans were now in place.

“Elder Mi, what stage has the Dean’s assessment to elevate a kingdom to an empire reached?” Zhao Bingxu asked.

The Dean’s assessment for a Six-Star Master Teacher was the Master Teacher Academy’s top priority. Elder Mi had been overseeing this matter, as others had their own duties and were not well-informed.

“Alright, let me explain!”

Elder Mi stood up and said, “The Conferred Kingdom the Dean chose to elevate is… Xuanyuan Kingdom! It’s a very remote and barren country under the Myriad Kingdoms Alliance, which is subordinate to the Huanyu Second-Tier Empire!”

Everyone nodded. To be honest, they had never even heard of such a small kingdom, which spoke volumes about its remoteness. The Master Teacher Continent was simply too vast, with too many classifications of kingdoms and empires. Even with their extensive knowledge, Master Teachers couldn’t possibly know about every single one. They had heard of the Huanyu Empire, but very little about its subordinate Myriad Kingdoms Alliance, let alone the even lower-ranked Xuanyuan Kingdom. For a Six-Star Master Teacher, it was already considered a remote and undeveloped region.

“The Dean arrived in the kingdom two months ago. Without announcing his presence, he went straight to the local Master Teacher Pavilion!” Elder Mi seemed very familiar with Zhang Xuan’s actions and explained in detail: “The Pavilion Master of that Master Teacher Pavilion, Luo Qianhong, is a peak Three-Star Master Teacher. She once had a conflict with the Dean, and the Dean successfully ‘challenged’ the Pavilion!”

“Challenged the Pavilion?” Everyone was stunned. As Master Teachers themselves, they naturally understood the difficulty of challenging a Pavilion. It required facing all the Master Teachers in the entire Pavilion, and even the numerous consciousnesses remaining within it. According to what they knew, when the Dean was in Xuanyuan Kingdom, he was only a Two-Star Master Teacher. If he successfully challenged the Pavilion at that time, didn’t that mean… that even peak Three-Star, or even Four-Star Master Teachers, were no match for him?

“A Master Teacher whose Pavilion is successfully challenged must unconditionally obey the victor’s commands. What did the Dean instruct them to do?” Wei Ranxue asked. Challenging a Master Teacher Pavilion was like challenging a martial arts school: the loser had to accept punishment and unconditionally obey the victor’s commands.

“The Dean didn’t give commands. Instead, he first lectured them. Three days later, all the Master Teachers in the Xuanyuan Kingdom Master Teacher Pavilion not only improved their cultivation but also greatly increased their understanding of Master Teachers. Especially Luo Qianhong, who directly applied to be assessed as a Four-Star Master Teacher. She not only passed but also reached the peak of the Four-Star realm!” After a slight hesitation, Elder Mi revealed the information he knew.

“Three days to allow a peak Three-Star Master Teacher to reach peak Four-Star?”

“This… isn’t that a bit too fast?” All the elders were dumbfounded. Master Teachers found it difficult to advance. It wasn’t just about the increase in strength; insight, knowledge, mental fortitude, and auxiliary occupations—each required a significant amount of time. To teach for only three days and have Luo Qianhong go from peak Three-Star to peak Four-Star, wasn’t that progress a bit too rapid?

“Not only that, before this, Xuanyuan Kingdom had a total of over a dozen Three-Star Master Teachers. After three days, eight of them actually broke through to Four-Star. Although they were only at the initial stage, it was still terrifying enough!” Elder Mi said with a wry smile. When he first heard this news, he was also full of disbelief. It was only after confirming it multiple times that it was indeed true that he finally understood… the world of geniuses was beyond the imagination of people like them.

“Eight breakthroughs, plus the Pavilion Master, that’s a total of nine… Even with nine Four-Star Master Teachers, it’s still not enough foundation to elevate a kingdom to an empire in a short period…” an elder remarked. Although the foundation for a kingdom to advance to an empire was its Master Teacher Pavilion, it required gradual changes accumulated over time. Achieving it quickly, relying solely on a few Master Teachers, was simply not possible. Precisely because of this, advancing to an empire was the most difficult assessment, bar none.

“That’s true, it wasn’t enough. However… on the tenth day after the Dean arrived in Xuanyuan Kingdom, many Master Teachers from various small, unremarkable empires and similar sects and powers in the surrounding areas, along with cultivators and experts of the Leaving Aperture realm, flocked to the kingdom, requesting to join and become its members…” Elder Mi continued.

“Joining Xuanyuan Kingdom?”

“Many? How many?” Everyone frowned.

“Even if some people wanted to join, it wouldn’t make much difference! A Conferred Kingdom has at least hundreds of millions of people. A few Master Teachers or cultivators joining wouldn’t help much…” Someone shook their head. Powerful individuals had their pride and rarely joined lower-ranked kingdoms. Doing so would be like cutting off their own path, making it even harder to advance further. Therefore, in their view, even if some people joined, it certainly wouldn’t be many—a few dozen Master Teachers, a few hundred experts at most… Such a number, in a kingdom of hundreds of millions, would be like a drop in the ocean, insignificant. A kingdom’s elevation to an empire involved the improvement of the entire populace’s quality and the advancement of overall national strength, not just the addition of a dozen or so cultivators.

“A few Master Teachers? A few cultivators?” Elder Mi gave a wry smile. “You underestimate the Dean’s influence in the Myriad Kingdoms Alliance! Within ten days, over 3,000 Four-Star Master Teachers arrived, along with nearly 100,000 experts of the Leaving Aperture realm and above…”

“Over 3,000 Four-Star Master Teachers?”

“One hundred thousand experts of the Leaving Aperture realm and above?” Everyone was startled. Even an ordinary small, unremarkable empire wouldn’t have so many Master Teachers and experts, would it?

“With so many powerful individuals joining Xuanyuan Kingdom simultaneously… how would the kingdom maintain balance if they harbored rebellious intentions?” Jiang Qingqin couldn’t help but frown. Although he didn’t pay much attention to many matters, he was very clear about the balance between nations. “So many experts would be more powerful than all the kingdom’s ministers and His Majesty the King, wouldn’t they? If the cultivation of the governing officials didn’t rise, and their strength was even lower than that of ordinary citizens, how could they govern? How could they ensure compliance with decrees and make people submit?” In an ordinary Conferred Kingdom, the ancestor-level figures were only at Leaving Aperture First Realm, and very few kings could even reach Half-Step Leaving Aperture… For such a kingdom, the allegiance of over 100,000 Leaving Aperture experts was not necessarily a good thing.

“We don’t need to worry about that. The Dean had already thought it through,” Elder Mi continued. “In the seven days between his departure from the Master Teacher Pavilion and the arrival of these adherents, he primarily stayed in the Xuanyuan Royal Palace… Within a few days, Her Majesty Mo Yu, the King of the kingdom, had already become an expert of the Leaving Aperture Fifth Realm! Many other ministers close to her also raised their cultivation, gaining strength at the Leaving Aperture Second and Third Realms…” In just seven days, the entire Royal Palace underwent earth-shattering changes, with everyone’s cultivation greatly increasing… In the past, this would have been unimaginable. However, having personally witnessed the grandeur of the Dean’s public lectures and seen countless animals break through to become savage beasts… they knew that whatever happened to him was simply normal.

Elder Mi continued: “Not only that, the Dean also brought many spirit beasts from Cloudmist Ridge, numbering over a thousand. Each one possessed the combat power of the Leaving Aperture Sixth Realm and was tasked with obeying only Her Majesty Mo Yu’s commands… With this reliance, even some Second-Tier Empires wouldn’t dare to easily invade, let alone these cultivators…”

“Over a thousand spirit beasts at Leaving Aperture Sixth Realm? Only the Dean could be so generous!”

“Indeed, if it were anyone else, even if they wanted to, they couldn’t produce so many loyal spirit beasts!”

“With such protection for the royal family, one could say it’s impregnable…”

Everyone was speechless, unable to utter another word. Ordinary beast tamers usually only had one or two spirit pets and certainly couldn’t give them away… But the Dean was different. With one hundred thousand spirit beasts from Cloudmist Ridge submitting to him, casually giving away a thousand weaker ones was nothing! It was nothing to him, but for Xuanyuan Kingdom, its effect was immense. Spirit beasts inherently lived longer than humans, and with their strength far surpassing the kingdom’s strongest individuals… using them to guard the royal family, absolutely no one would dare utter a single word of dissent.

“After such a large number of people entered Xuanyuan Royal City, the Dean first gave a lecture,” Elder Mi continued. “As a result, his voice covered hundreds of kilometers, and all the cultivators in the entire city greatly benefited, with almost half of them breaking through… Moreover, his words gathered spiritual energy that lingered, instantly turning the entire royal city into a spiritual energy-rich holy land…”

“His words gathered spiritual energy, bringing forth a shower of heavenly flowers… The Dean has the ability to allow many people to advance quickly, and he possesses such a skill. But… to elevate to an empire, it’s not just about having many cultivators and increasing overall strength; national power must also be enhanced, and various professions must flourish…” Song Danqing, Dean of the Calligraphy and Painting Master Academy, said. Measuring a nation’s strength by the overall strength of its populace was only one criterion. More importantly, it also required strong national power and the vigorous development of various professions. National power referred to a country’s economy, culture, and the consumption level of its people. Various professions involved much more. Any empire, even an unranked one, wouldn’t just have a powerful Master Teacher Pavilion; Calligraphy and Painting Master Associations, Pill Master Associations, Artifact Forger Associations… would all exist and attract countless people to learn.

“Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention recently,” Elder Mi said. “On the very day the Dean left Hongyuan City, the Shen and Liu families—two of the four great clans of Hongyuan City—announced their intention to establish trading companies and open trade routes in Xuanyuan Kingdom… As soon as this news broke, it attracted economic entities from countless subordinate empires, all rushing to set up operations… At this moment, Xuanyuan Kingdom, solely based on the number of newly established businesses, is in no way inferior to some Second-Tier Empires!”

“As for other professions, the Dean spent ten days lecturing on various occupations such as calligraphy and painting, pill concoction, artifact forging, demonic music… This garnered the attention of numerous professional guilds, and currently, seven types of professions have newly opened branches in Xuanyuan Kingdom…”

“The strength of the populace, national power, economy, auxiliary occupations… everything has been achieved. If that’s the case, then Xuanyuan Kingdom is now fully qualified to be elevated to an empire!” an elder couldn’t help but murmur after hearing his words. The criteria for measuring a nation’s strength were simply these few things. The Dean had been there for less than two months, yet he had brought about such tremendous changes. Could it be… that the elevation had already succeeded?

“Yes, twenty days ago, the headquarters already sent people to investigate. The reason I gathered everyone today is to tell you the result…” Elder Mi nodded: “The Dean’s… Six-Star Master Teacher assessment, the elevation to an empire… has been completed! In other words, he is now a Six-Star Master Teacher!”