Returning to Source:Tao of Imitations!

If the level of strength and foundation was key, then it meant that even stronger individuals than Qin Lin where present in the higher levels.

"Master! Is it possible that the Academy has students at the 8th level of innate ability?" He was indeed tempted to ask this.

"Hehe! Are you mad? Do you think the 8th level is roadside garbage? The fact that this little girl is even going to this Academy is enough to show a lot of things. But from her words, its obvious that even at the fourth level of Innate ability stage, some are able to enter the fifth level. If that is the case, then it might not be shocking for others to even enter the 6th level. Those on the fifth and sixth level of Divine Ability should exist, but the seventh and eighth level is a completely different meaning." She replied with certainty.

It was just Wu Shuang couldn't be blamed, he had seen a little over the years, perhaps it is what makes him incapable of understanding the massive rift between levels of the Innate Ability.

Things where not the same for his master, as she had been able to gauge them basing on the martial arts scale. With the martial realm as basis, she can tell the level of combat power an eight level Innate Ability could unleash.

But the information he was provided with was enough to shock him. You must know that even fourth level Innate ability are considered strong individuals whose lifespan was already beyond the level of normal humans. Ofcourse the level can't match up to Martial artists, and this is probably something done intentionally by the Will of this world.

But from the information he had gathered, third level if innate ability has lifespan reaching as far as two hundred. Even though the increase in the fourth level might not be double, it should at least not be less than 300.

For someone Qin Lin's age, this was a long time to continue practicing and even reach a higher level.

The information Wu Shuang recieved was a lot and he had to spend some time digesting it. It was also educational as it showed him just how far the development of Innate ability had reached. Even his master was shocked.

But this didn't shake his determination to practice martial arts. The more he practiced the more he felt martial arts was like a puzzle slowly falling in place the more it was arranged.

The same couldn't be said about Innate ability path, but he didn't plan on giving it up. He was just going to seek treasures useful for allowing the evolution of Innate ability to the next stage.

Without even bothering Qin Lin, he closed his eyes and pondered over the information he had received and then went back into cultivation and meditation.

Just like that darkness slowly descended upon them, and he felt uneasy as though something was secretly observing him.

But he couldn't see anything, he just kept Qin Lin's words and didn't move around regardless of what he was feeling.

She was sitting in meditation and the massive wolf was also clearly sleeping, he just followed her actions too.

Just like that he stayed in meditation until he started hearing murmurs but they weren't clear in the slightest. He also didn't try to get what they were clearly, as he focused on his veins.

As he continued to meditate, he found the next vein, but just accumulated Qi inside his body.

"Once this is opened we will have five veins open and only four left before we can unseal the dantian and feel the uniqueness of martial artists." He indeed told this to himself.

He had been told by his master, the human body had numerous treasures and only after opening his dantian can he start to feel them one by one. He believed this and wanted to experience it.

Apparently opening this treasures would also bless him with unique abilities.

With his young age, he was still a hot-blooded young man that wanted to have numerous cool abilities.

He was indeed motivated, but also managed to keep himself calm. He wasn't going to accomplish anything in a rush anyway and he didn't know why Qin Lin who was two realms stronger than him was so cautious. He also played cautious.

He could already tell something was not right considering the murmurs in his ears that seemed to be getting closer by the second, clearer by the minute.

None of this was normal, as such he could only stay vigilant and at the same time, put himself into meditation.

This indeed proved useful as his mind was preoccupied to care about the murmurs sounding in his ears.

He then seemed to hear the sound of someone shouting, he wanted to ignore it, but it actually was just too clear.

Opening his eyes, he heard the sound coming from a certain direction, and with his strong senses, he could guess the direction.

Looking at Qin Lin that was still sitting cross-legged, he stood up.

"Master! Is that the sound of a person or my imagination?" He asked as he looked in the direction of the sound.

"Why don't you go over and look!" The voice sounded in his mind.

Without even thinking, he rushed out and the further he moved the darker it seemed to become as murmurs sounding in his ears become louder.

But he was able to see a figure struggling to move foward, he rushed out catching the collapsing figure.

He then dragged her by the legs, as for being injured, what a joke.

This is a world of cultivation, it was a good thing that he saved her, was for being dragged like a sack of potatoes on the ground, it was nothing.

Wu Shuang moved as fast as he could as he felt the murmurs were intensifying, as such rushed out. Luckily he wasn't affected much and was able to walk out of the darkness.

The murmurs also lessened slightly, it was also at this moment that he asked."Master! What are this murmurs? Why do they have this effect on people?"

"I don't know about this, but it seems that the little girl Qin Lin knows something. Maybe you can ask her about it!" After saying this, the voice didn't respond no matter what Wu Shuang asked.

After arriving near the wolf and Qin Lin, Wu Shuang dragged the unconscious fellow between them and ignored him.

Went back to his spot in meditation, as for Qin Lin, she seemed to be sleeping. But he didn't think so, it was just he probably wasn't able to understand it.

Closing his eyes he entered the state of meditation.

*6am*

The darkness was receeding and the murmurs had completely vanished. At this moment, Wu Shuang didn't know if he was imagining things, but his spirit seemed more refreshed than ever.

"What is going on?" He indeed was shocked wondering if it had something to do with the murmurs.

As he was still in a daze, feeling the changes in himself, he heard a suprised voice from the side.

"Huh! I'm still alive? Hahahahaha! I'm still alive" Opening his eyes, he looked at the person and discovered it was the woman he had dragged over from the darkness last night.

She was dressed strangely, in a black jumpsuit used by blacksmiths. Due being dragged into the dust, her face was covered with black spots, made entirely of dust.

After she finally got over the joy of having survived her eyes looked around and realized a massive wolf was looking at her blankly, probably wondering why she was so excited.

Qin Lin on the other hand looked over with a look that was saying, "Who are you?"

When Wu Shuang saw all this, he didn't rush foward to say anything about dragging her to this place last night.

But his face turned black when Qin Lin suddenly opened her mouth and said, "Oh! So you are that person Wu Shuang dragged over last night?"

'Cough! Cough! Cough!' he couldn't help but cough loudly, to stop this talk, but Qin Lin seemed to lack social intelligence or doing it intentionally.

"You must be quite heavy for Wu Shuang to avoid carrying you and just drag you along the ground right? But then again, how did you survive last night?" She indeed meant it with the last question.

You must know that the Wierd is not something that could easily be escaped, even she was able to stay safe partially due to the special bloodline of the wolf, and secondly the treasure she on her.

But the woman before her was just as the third level of Innate ability. In the martial arts realm it was someone at the Extreme Martial Realm.

For such a person to he able to survive long alone in the Barbarian domain, outside of the safety of Ancient God tree projection, was already miraculous.

"Hello! I'm Fu Qing! A blacksmith"She actually took her time to introduce herself.

When she said this, a small budge could be seen hanging on her waist, with three stars.

"I'm heading to the Nine Towers Academy,what about you two?" She asked as she looked at Wu Shuang and Qin Lin.

"That is not what I asked?"