Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

Chapter 157 Improvement In Strength

"Zhan Chen, are you going to the ancestoral palalace of Cleansing Incense ancient sect?", Shen Ruyan looked towards Zhan Chen.

"Yes, but that has to wait. Let me cultivate awhile first", Zhan Chen replied.

"Well then. We can go after you finish your cultivation", Shen Ruyan spoke.

Zhan Chen nodded his head and walked towards a nearby place. He was indeed in a hurry to cultivate. There were huge changes in his soul after he absorbed the soul essence of the blue haired devil.

Moreover, Liu Nanxi was a fifth stage expert and she still had her primordial yin energy intact. Zhan Chen didn't want to waste the opportunity as he started to absorb the yin energy that he had absorbed from Shen Ruyan and Liu Nanxi.

He operated the Celestial yin yang sutra and the divine yin Yang diagram on his dantian lit up. Pure streams of true essence energy started to came out from the divine yin Yang diagram.

Before today's incident in mist forest, Zhan Chen was at second stage of Core condensation realm. Now, with the support of primordial yin essence of Liu Nanxi, his cultivation started to increase steadily.

'Third stage of Core condensation realm.....'

'Fourth stage of Core condensation realm.....'

'Fifth stage of Core Condensation realm.....', Zhan Chen's cultivation finally stopped at peak fifth stage of Core condensation realm.

Zhan Chen opened his eyes slowly. A deep and profound look appeared on his eyes before his expression turned normal in an instant.

Li Han who was observing Zhan Chen for a while, shuddered slightly after noticing the deep and profound look on the face of Zhan Chen. Although Zhan Chen's expression turned normal in an instant, it left a standing impression inside the mind of Li Han.

Li Han knew Zhan Chen was mysterious and abnormaly talented but he still saw him as a junior. Afterall no matter how talented Zhan Chen was, he couldn't possibly match the cultivation level of his own which was at peak of Martial ascension realm.

But now, after seeing the earlier look on Zhan Chen's face, Li Han doubted himself. The earlier impression that Zhan Chen had gave to him was of an invincible expert. Even with his peak fifth stage cultivation, he felt a sense of trepidation in his heart. Such a sense only occured to him when he faced those unfathomable seniors of his Shen clan.

But those seniors of Shen clan were king tire cultivators. Moreover, none of them were young as all of them were old monsters of previous generations. So, Li Han couldn't understand why he felt such a familiar feeling of opperessiveness from Zhan Chen.

"Congratulation!", the voice of Shen Ruyan came. Zhan Chen turned his head and looked towards the place where Shen Ruyan was resting.

"Thanks, young miss", Zhan Chen smiled towards Shen Ruyan. Shen Ruyan blushed lightly but he hurriedly adjusted her appearance before anyone could notice her expression.

'How shameless! He still keeps calling me young miss after all of these happened between us', Shen Ruyan snorted inside her mind and looked away.

Zhan Chen laughed lightly and didn't look towards Shen Ruyan anymore. There was a reason why he was still maintaining an appearance infront of Shen family cultivators. There was too much stakes involved regarding Shen Ruyan. So, Zhan Chen was not in a hurry to publicize their relationship. Moreover, he didn't want to put Shen Ruyan in a difficult position.

"Young master Chen, shall we leave?", Zhen Wang asked. Zhan Chen looked towards Zhen Wang and nodded his head. Ever since, he had caught Zhen Wang and Shen Rou in action, his relationship with Zhen Wang was growing better with time.

The other cultivators also felt excited as they looked towards Shen Ruyan. Shen Ruyan didn't have any reason to stall for time. So, she commanded all of them to go towards the ancestoral palace of the Cleansing Insense ancient sect.

Zhan Chen followed the group of Shen clan to the place of the ancestoral palace. He was walking slowly behind the group of Shen clan and all of his focus was on the state of his soul.

"How is this possible!", Zhan Chen cried out with excitement.

"What is the matter?", Zhen Wang stopped to look towards Zhan Chen.

"It is nothing", Zhan Chen spoke and behaved like nothing happened. Zhen Wang threw another look towards Zhan Chen and then continued to follow the group of his fellow clan brothers.

No matter how calm Zhan Chen was, he lost his composure at this moment. He was feeling really happy. The gift of his teacher was really wonderous.

'The peak of sage realm! My soul is really at the peak of sage realm", Zhan Chen looked at his soul with disbelief in his eyes. After double checking that he was not seeing things, Zhan Chen became assured that his soul had really reached the peak of sage realm after he absorbed the soul essence of the blue haired devil.

A huge grin appeared on his face as he walked behind the group of Shen clan experts. The peak of sage realm could be considered as the epitome of this cultivation world. Although, Zhan Chen's cultivation was still at fourth stage, he had managed to reach the peak of cultivation in terms of soul cultivation.

Zhan Chen wondered 'how lucky he is at this moment'. A hopeless situation turned into a great blessing and what was expected to be an unavoidable calamity turned to be a please surprise for Zhan Chen. His teacher had appeared and subdued the devil. The soul essence of the blue haired devil became his and he unexpectedly reached the peak in terms of soul cultivation.

Zhan Chen took some time to calm down completely. To enable him to reach the peak of sage realm, the soul of the blue haired devil needed to be at a higher level. But how is possible for a cultivator to reach higher level than sage realm?

Afterall, sage realm was the limit of this world. From this, Zhan Chen became sure of the origin of the the blue haired devil.

The blue haired devil had come from higher world. That immortal realm of legends where powerful cultivators gathered for supremacy.

'But is not it said that cultivators of that realm can't decend to a lower world like us? Then, how is it possible for that blue haired devil to be here in our world?', Zhan Chen wondered inside his mind.

"We have arrived at the ancestoral palce", a clear shout from a Shen clan cultivator brought Zhan Chen from his reverie. He looked around and an old looking three storied palace appeared Infront of his eyes.

(To be continued...)