King Time

Training of martial skills

Night had arrived, when Shun Long and Liu Mei returned to the inn.

As it was already night, Liu Mei sat on a white meditation pillow, as she began to circulate Moonlight Sigil.

At the same time, Shun Long once again entered the foggy place inside the 'Time Stone' as he circulated the property of the 'Sand King's Hour'.

More than half a year passed like this for Shun Long, while a little over half a month passed in the outside world.

After consuming countless top-tier 'Burning Blood Pill', as well as over 900,000 spirit stones, he had reached rank 6 in the Heaven class.

However, although time flowed 10 times faster in this place, Shun Long also noticed a glaring problem. Without using spirit stones, there was no other way to obtain qi to cultivate in this place. This meant, that now that it was almost out of spirit stones, Shun Long was unable to advance his cultivation in this place any further.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, innumerable thoughts flashed through his mind

''Selling Mystic grade cultivation techniques is actually not a good way to obtain spirit stones. After all, I don't have many of them left to begin with. As for auctioning off more 'Blood Burning Pill', since the Silver sword clan had obtained the first batch, the other families would not want more spirit stones anymore.''

After knowing it for a while longer, Shun Long decided to cultivate in the outside world during the day, and practice martial skills as well as gain a deeper understanding of the Dao of Time and Dao of Space at night.

2 months quickly passed like this, when the time for Xie Rong to execute her plan finally arrived.

In these 2 months, Shun Long's cultivation had broken through to the middle of the Heaven grade 7th rank, the,

Thanks to their dual cultivation of these 2 months as well, Liu Mei was very surprised to know, that her cultivation had also been trusted to reach rank 5 in the Heaven class.

During these 2 months, Shun Long had also refined countless pills, 'sunskirt grass' ranked 4th many rank 4 'sun healing pills', along with many other pills, like anti-toxin pills and so on.

He had also reached a certain level of proficiency, in each of the Mystic high-level martial skills he had gained from Cui Guoliang all along.

Surprisingly, 'Gale Steps' is the easiest of these 3 techniques to apply.

Shun Long understood that there were 7 different ranks for 'Gale Steps'.

After spending over a year in the misty place inside the 'Time Rock', Shun Long had mastered the 3rd rank of this movement technique.

Although he could not become as invisible as Cui Guoliang when he used it, Shun Long could move very quickly in the 'Domain King' when he used this martial skill.

However, both the 'Thunderbolt fingers', as well as the 'Destruction Staff', proved much more difficult to master.

Thunderbolt fingers were only split in 3 different ranks.

Shun Long was already ranked first, allowing him to gather the qi on his finger, and turn it into lightning, before firing a powerful lightning bolt towards the enemy.

Moreover, even though this martial skill required more qi compared to 'Gale Steps', Shun Long could still use it when the 'Domain King' was active.

These martial skills were divided into 6 different ranks, and each rank was followed by one stick punch.

After training this martial skill the most of the three, Shun Long had reached the 2nd rank of his 6th rank. However he was convinced, that paired with the 'Purple Flower Staff' as well as the middle third stage of the 'Eternal Body King', the power of the 'Destruction Staff' would be stronger than the 'Thunderbolt fingers'.

Standing up from the meditation cushion, Shun Long and Liu Mei knew, that it was time for them to go to the 'Pale Moon guild' today.

'The 'Silver-winged panther king' was still lying on the ground, in the courtyard outside the room.

Shun Long walked over there and slapped the head of the black panther, before he and Liu Mei climbed onto his back and left, heading for the 'Guild Pale Moon'.

Inside the empty private space in the depths of the guild, Xie Rong stood in front of the 30 men and women wearing purple and red robes.

This, was the strongest member of the 'Guild Pale Moon', as well as Xie Rong's most trusted aide.

Looking at the people observed, a sharp glint flashed across Xie Rong's eyes, as he took a deep breath and said in a cold voice.

'' You all know why you gathered here today.

Some of you have followed me from the beginning, while some others joined me on the road, but you are all just as important to me.

But after today, our 'Guild Pale Moon' will officially disband, no matter if we succeed or fail.''

The people in front of Xie Rong, nodded their heads solemnly, when suddenly, a red-robed Elder walked into the private room.

He rushed hurriedly at Xie Rong before he said

''Union lord! The people you were waiting for, have arrived at the guild entrance!''

Xie Rong nodded his head as he looked at the red-robed Elder, and said

''Alright, guide them here.''

The red-robed elder nodded, as he personally led the way for Shun Long and Liu Mei to the private room where Xie Rong and the others were.

Shun Long was slightly surprised by the serious atmosphere in the room, when Xie Rong looked at him, before he said in a slightly warmer voice than before.

''Young master Shun, young miss Liu, welcome.''

Shun Long's eyes leaked out the beautiful blonde lady at the discussion, who then continued speaking

''I'm sure that you also want to know why I need your help. Since you came here today, I have no reason to keep anything secret anymore.''