I long to return home!

"I'll give you a month to think it over. Come back here to find me in a month and tell me your decision." Gu Changgeng said calmly. Seeing Huaizhen deep in thought, he chuckled, flicked his sleeve, and turned into snowflakes as he left.

When he reappeared, he was already on a mountaintop in the Star Watching Academy. He watched as an old man in white robes, sitting cross-legged in a Four Symbols Eight Trigrams formation, walked towards him with his hands behind his back.

“Young Chang Geng, I knew you were coming last night when I observed the celestial phenomena. A Foundation Establishment child can become a two-star Star Supervisor in two years, which is a year faster than you were back then. But do you think a pseudo-spiritual root can withstand the Heavenly Dao suppression required for a one-star Star Supervisor?” The white-robed elder suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Gu Chang Geng who was standing in front of him, and said indifferently, “Even if I agree to his assessment, the other four elders may not agree.”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changgeng smiled faintly, looked up at the starry night sky above, and said, "Elder, there is something you may not have calculated. Even I have to endure the suppression of the Heavenly Dao for my deductions, but that kid is like someone supported by the Heavenly Dao. No matter how big or small the deduction is, in that kid's eyes there is only whether he can calculate it or not. He doesn't need to bear the backlash of the Heavenly Dao at all."

The white-robed old man stood up, observing the night sky and calculating with his fingers, trying to figure out Huai Zhen's fate. But before he could finish, an even stronger pressure than before exploded from his body. This pressure came from his very origin and he could not resist it. He could not even see a glimpse of the past or the future.

A surge of blood rushed to his throat, but he swallowed it back down. This single incident caused his primordial spirit to feel shattered, and his cultivation level weakened.

The white-robed old man looked bitter. He took out a pill and swallowed it. He quickly sat down to meditate and adjust himself. Then he looked fiercely at Gu Changgeng in front of him, who had a premonition all along, and angrily scolded, "You brat, did you foresee this beforehand and deliberately not tell me?"

"How could a mere child with a pseudo-spiritual root and no powerful magic treasures trigger such a strong suppression from the Heavenly Dao?" The white-robed elder's face turned red, and it took him a long time to calm down. But what's lost is lost, and even if he tried his best to recover it, it wouldn't make much difference.

As a result, the lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator was reduced by ten years, and his cultivation level almost fell from the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

"You old codger, you still want to calculate?" Gu Changgeng looked at the white-robed old man with a hint of sarcasm, then his face turned serious and he said in a deep voice, "I respect you as an elder, so I will tell you. Even I cannot see his fate clearly. Do you remember my prophecy from decades ago? An unprecedented evil will wield a black knife, and behind him are countless wronged souls. It is a great disaster that can destroy two countries, and this person will be related to that evil."

Upon hearing this, the white-robed elder's expression turned solemn. After a long while, he pondered, "You mean, you want to use this boy's karma to deduce the karma of that great evil? You brat, he's only at the Foundation Establishment stage. Even if he didn't feel the pressure from the Heavenly Dao during his previous deductions, a one-star Star Watcher is no ordinary person. If something truly happens to him, not only will he be executed by the Heavenly Dao, but the entire Star Watching Academy will also be implicated. You're truly insane!"

Gu Changgeng couldn't help but laugh. The laugh seemed somewhat manic, yet contained an indescribable emotion. "Now, I am the one who controls destiny! My master and senior sister hope to protect the Yin Moon Empire for thousands of years. I don't care about the survival of the Star Watching Academy in your eyes."

"You have been trying to understand this Great Dao for so many years, but have you ever discovered anything about it? You have only been trying to understand your own Great Dao, but what I want is to understand the Great Dao that will save the world."

Gu Changgeng's gaze turned cold, a look that seemed to send one shivering into the depths of hell, making the white-robed old man tremble with fear. He said coldly, "I am the dean of the Star Watching Academy." As he spoke, his gaze swept across all the peaks of the Star Watching Academy through the mountains, and he said, "I don't care what you old fogies think. If you don't agree with me, you are welcome to discuss the Dao with me."

After speaking, Gu Changgeng turned around and gave a slight bow to the terrified white-robed elder, "Elder, this junior will take his leave now."

The stone chamber.

Huai Zhen sat cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed, in a cultivation posture. He was using all his spiritual power to cleanse his flesh and blood, hoping to comprehend a trace of the mysteries of the Golden Core of Power.

However, the spiritual power stored in a pseudo-spiritual root or innate spiritual root is not much, and it takes decades or even hundreds of years of accumulation to meet the conditions required for core formation.

Three days later.

Unable to withstand it any longer, Huai Zhen looked utterly exhausted, feeling weak and empty inside. He only felt much better after taking a second-tier spirit-replenishing pill.

Forming a Golden Core with a pseudo-spiritual root is indeed extremely difficult, but as long as there is a precedent, I can certainly do it too. With my current reserves of spirit stones, I can find some decent cultivation techniques, and with the help of elixirs and miraculous medicines, I am confident that I can powerfully break through to the Golden Core stage.

Huai Zhen coughed lightly a few times, gently wiped the corners of his mouth, and walked out of the room to find a quest in Jiangzhou and buy some elixirs at the local shop.

As they walked along, the cultivators from the Star Watching Academy who passed by were all talking about it. The scene was even bigger than when they first arrived at the Star Watching Academy. From the whispers of these disciples, Huai Zhen got a general idea of ​​what was going on.

The news that he was going to use his Foundation Establishment cultivation level to be assessed as a one-star Supervisor of Stars had somehow spread. After listening for a while, Huai Zhen could tell from their words that there were two factions.

One person found it unbelievable, their eyes filled with respect, while most others were full of sarcasm, thinking it was simply a pipe dream.

When they arrived at the task list, there were noticeably more people, and without exception, all eyes were on Huai Zhen. Among these people were several second-star Star Supervisors with disdain on their faces.

As Huai Zhen was selecting a task, a two-star Star Supervisor spoke up: "Isn't this Junior Brother Huai Zhen? So diligent! I heard you want to advance to a one-star Star Supervisor. Senior brothers and sisters congratulate you on your success once again. But I seem to remember that a one-star Star Supervisor must have at least the peak of the Golden Core stage. Hmm! Junior Brother's cultivation is only at the Foundation Establishment stage. How can you advance to a one-star Star Supervisor?"

Hearing this, the woman beside him, who was also a two-star Star Supervisor, sneered: "Junior Brother, you are already a two-star Star Supervisor with the Foundation Establishment cultivation. Moreover, when Junior Brother Huaizhen came, the Dean gave him robes that were different from ours. Is this two-star Star Supervisor title also a gift from the Dean?"

Upon hearing this, most of the disciples burst into laughter. Huai Zhen listened quietly without saying a word. He knew that this must be what Gu Changgeng meant by becoming the target of everyone's criticism. He glanced at the task list, took the Jiangzhou task, and left.

No sooner had he left than another woman's voice came from behind him: "Chu Jiang, Meng Yan, you guys have really gone too far. The academy has always been fair and just, especially the dean."

Huai Zhen turned around and saw that the person who came was the senior sister who had given the disciples on behalf of Gu Changgeng when he first entered the Star Watching Academy.