Lu Zhiruo opened the door and Lu Lin entered.

  “Teacher!”

  After Lu Lin greeted, he felt ill at ease and stood at the side.

  “Mn!”

  Sun Mo nodded. After that, Sun Mo saw that he had opened a book shining in green light. It was extremely thick and could be comparable to two large idiom dictionaries combined.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations on obtaining the High-tier Botany Knowledge Encyclopedia. Proficiency level: elementary.”

  Sun Mo’s heart leaped with joy.

  (I’ve finally obtained this skill book.)

  This way, his knowledge of botany could be considered to have a breakthrough, and he could officially start a class of it to educate others.

  “Learn it!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  “Sorry, unable to learn. Your current knowledge of botany isn’t proficient enough.”

  The system reminded him.

  Sun Mo started and then realized it. If one wanted to learn a high-tier skill book, they first had to raise their previous knowledge to the grandmaster level.

  But to the current Sun Mo, this was no problem at all.

  As someone who had over 100,000 favorable impression points, he could casually buy as many time emblems as he wanted to.

  “Buy! Buy! Buy!”

  As he slammed the time emblems, the motes of light flowed into his glabella, and the knowledge was deeply imprinted in his neurons.

  Ding!

  “Congratulations, your mid-tier botany knowledge has risen to the grandmaster-level. Please continue to work hard.”

  The joy of spamming ‘money’ would truly cause one to be unable to extricate themselves.

  Sadly, the grandmaster-level was the max. If he wanted to increase his proficiency any further, he could only practice by himself.

  Sun Mo cast Encyclopedic Knowledge on himself and learned the encyclopedia. After that, he started to deepen his impression of the knowledge and did his best to memorize everything.

  Due to the amount of knowledge being too vast, Sun Mo only regained his senses two hours later.

  Lu Lin was very fidgety and he had an anxious look on his face as he waited. Lu Zhiruo sat cross-legged on the ground and was reading an encyclopedia about species of darkness.

  She wanted to guard Sun Mo to prevent Lu Lin from disturbing her teacher.

  “Lu Lin, you are a young man. Temper yourself more and learn how to keep your composure. Look at your appearance. The first impression you give others isn’t that good.”

  Sun Mo lectured.

  Humans were very subjective the vast majority of the time. Once the first impression of a target was bad, the target would usually have to spend a large price and a long period to reverse the impression.

  Why didn’t the teachers of the Westshore Military School like Lu Lin?

  It wasn’t simply because he was the last-ranker, but it was their impression of him.

  He was too anxious, too frantic, worrying and panicking too much.

  “Teacher, I know my mistake!”

  Lu Lin’s countenance dimmed. He didn’t have any friends in school. He had always thought it was because he was the last-ranker, but now, it seemed that this had got to do with his personality.

  “If you are my student, I will get you to stand outside for three days to temper your mentality.”

  Honestly speaking, Sun Mo also didn’t like Lu Lin.

  Qi Shengjia was also a fool with bad potential, but his simple and unadorned personality would make people fond of him. As for Lu Lin, he gave off an extreme sense of cowardice.

  Lu Lin fell silent.

  “Smile!”

  Sun Mo lifted his cup and drank a mouthful of tea.

  “What?”

  Lu Lin had an astonished look on his face.

  “Smile.”

  Sun Mo urged.

  Lu Lin didn’t understand why, but he still did so. However, it was just a perfunctory smile where his skin moved. There was no joy in his heart. He looked even more unsightly now.

  “Regardless of learning or cultivating. You first have to relax yourself and try to like it from the bottom of your heart. Don’t treat them as a type of torment.”

  Sun Mo sighed. “Look at how bitter your face looks. If it wasn’t for the fact your elders have expectations of you, you probably would have given up, right?”

  Lu Lin remained silent. Finding joy in cultivation?

  He had forgotten about this thing. Ever since he entered the Westshore Military School due to his aunt’s help, even in his sleep, he told himself he had to succeed and must not become a joke for his clan.

  “You should face the mirror every morning and try smiling three times for a minute each time. At the same time, tell yourself not to feel such great pressure.”

  Sun Mo saw Lu Zhiruo eavesdropping at the side and even taking notes in her little notebook. He was speechless and stretched his hand out to rap her head.

  (I understand that you are a happy-go-lucky girl, but do you have to partake in the liveliness like this?)

  “I’ve remembered it.”

  Lu Lin hurriedly bowed.

  “No one likes to mingle with people of great bitterness because such people would emit a type of negative energy that causes the atmosphere to become worse.”

  Sun Mo would never watch movies, music, or books with content that brought about negative energy because he felt that they would cause one to be very gloomy.

  “Speak, what is your matter?”

  “I wish to get Teacher to help me. How can I increase my strength?”

  Lu Lin spoke and he scrunched up his face in anguish. But after recalling Sun Mo’s words, he hurriedly squeezed out a smile.

  “Is it very painful when you are being beaten up by others?”

  Sun Mo glanced at Lu Lin’s chin and left eye. Both parts of his face had swelled up greatly.

  Lu Lin nodded. Actually, what was more unbearable was the fact that he was ‘useless’. He wanted to fight, but he would only be crushed.

  “What questions do you have?”

  Sun Mo asked again,

  “Why didn’t I improve despite having passed so many stages in the canyon?”

  Lu Lin didn’t understand.

  “Firstly, the first four stages mainly deepen your understanding toward combat, and they are more of a mental improvement. With regards to your actual combat strength, it wouldn’t help much.”

  Sun Mo explained.

  A last-ranker who had spent less than five days in the canyon wanted to win against a genius who had trained assiduously for a few years? Was he living in a fantasy?

  “Actually, you could clear the stages largely because of my guidance.”

  Sun Mo didn’t finish his sentence. (You are someone who copied answers, how much can you improve by?)

  “D……doesn’t that mean that the Battlegod Canyon has no meaning toward me?”

  Lu Lin had a disappointed look on his face.

  “Yes. At the very least, you have to reach the seventh or eighth stage of the Divine Force Realm before you will have some harvest.”

  Sun Mo spoke bluntly.

  A low cultivation base meant a waste of time here. After all, there was no way the ancient Battle God would want his ultimate cultivation art to be learned by a random person. Hence, he naturally had to set up some ‘barriers’.

  “.……”

  Lu Lin was completely stunned. He initially wanted to depend on the Battlegod Canyon to rise.

  “You should place your efforts on your daily cultivation.”

  Sun Mo gave a pointer.

  “I’ve already worked very hard!”

  Lu Lin felt sullen. The duration he trained per day wasn’t short.

  “Who taught you your cultivation art?”

  Sun Mo asked.

  “This……”

  Lu Lin was conflicted. His cultivation art was extremely rare and was something deciphered from a set of bells that his aunt had excavated from a darkness ruin 30 years ago.

  His aunt told him before that he must never tell anyone about this.

  This was because this cultivation art was an inferior-grade saint-tier cultivation art and it was too precious.

  But now……

  Lu Lin felt that Sun Mo was someone trustworthy, and Sun Mo had helped him before. “What I trained in is the Time I……”

  Before Lu Lin could complete his sentence, Sun Mo already spoke.

  “The Time Immemorial One Sword Art, right?”

  “Ah?”

  Lu Lin was stunned. He stared dumbfoundedly at Sun Mo. “H……how did you know?”

  That shouldn’t be the case.

  His aunt’s scholarly knowledge was ranked in the top three of the Westshore Military School. She was responsible for archaeology work, and this cultivation art precisely came from one of her findings.

  “Is it very strange that my teacher knows about this art?”

  Lu Zhiruo was a crazy fan and felt that Sun Mo was omnipotent.

  “No, I don’t mean it like that!”

  Lu Lin and no way to explain this clearly.

  “The person who gave you this art. Did he or she tell you how you should cultivate it?”

  Sun Mo could tell that there was something Lu Lin wished to keep a secret about. Hence, Sun Mo didn’t ask too much to prevent Lu Lin from being in a difficult position.

  “Yes. I was told that my sword should be like a gale. The faster the better and my sword attacks should be at the point where ten thousand sword strikes feel like a single sword strike, so I can kill my enemies formlessly.”

  Lu Lin didn’t hide this.

  “You have an expert guiding you, so why did you still come and consult me?”

  Sun Mo was speechless. “Can’t you simply train according to what this person has said?”

  “Yes, but I have trained in this art for so many years but haven’t improved much at all.”

  Lu Lin was depressed.

  Sun Mo wanted to tell him that his aptitude was too bad, but such words would be too damaging. Hence, he activated Divine Sight and continued to observe.

  After that, he discovered a problem.

  “Did he or she teach you a meditation art to increase your spirit qi reserve?”

  Sun Mo continued to ask.

  “Yes!”

  Lu Lin nodded.

  “Could it be that you didn’t train in it?”

  Sun Mo frowned. (Very good, he found the cause.)

  “I did train……!”

  Lu Lin’s voice grew softer because he lacked the perseverance for this. After all, meditating was too dull and boring.

  “This cultivation art needs an extremely deep spirit qi reserve to be able to display its greatest might. Your aptitude isn’t very good and your spirit qi reserve is lesser compared to your peers at the same cultivation level. However, that person has found a powerful meditation art for you to make up for your flaws, yet you actually didn’t want to train in that?”

  Sun Mo was helpless.

  If a student refused to train according to the guidance of a teacher, what was the point even if they had a more impressive teacher?

  “Ah? So that’s the reason?”

  Lu Lin was stunned. “What should I do then?”

  “For now, don’t comprehend the murals in the canyon and also don’t cultivate. Use this period to meditate and increase your spirit qi’s quality and reserves first.”

  Sun Mo then stood up. “Go and lie down, I will help you open up your energy channels.”

  “Many thanks, Teacher!”

  Lu Lin knelt first and kowtowed three times. After that, he moved over and lay down on a rug.

  Ding!

  Favorable impression points from Lu Lin +500. Respect (5,600/10,000).

  This caused Sun Mo to feel quite gratified. At the very least, this student knew gratitude.

  “Also, when you execute this cultivation art, your state of heart must be tranquil and at peace. You are too fickle and impatient. This will cause the might of your sword moves to be greatly reduced.”

  The Time Immemorial One Sword Art emphasized on killing your enemy with a single sword strike. Without a calm and composed heart, how could one achieve that?

  After two hours, Lu Lin left the campsite of the Central Province Academy. He felt very comfortable, and his perceptivity toward spirit qi also increased.

  “I should meditate more!”

  Lu Lin glanced in the direction of the Battlegod Canyon and felt somewhat conflicted. If Great Teacher Fu questioned him, what should he say? After all, the purpose of this tempering exercise was for the students to comprehend the murals in the Battlegod Canyon.

  “Forget it, I will listen to Great Teacher Sun’s advice.”

  Lu Lin decided that every time he headed out, he would find a remote place and spend more time meditating. He didn’t request for his combat strength to rise a lot. But at the very least, he didn’t wish to have a bad ranking during the combat test that would be held at the end of the tempering exercise. ……

  For the next few days, the number of people in Battlegod Town kept increasing.

  As for Sun Mo, he paid no attention to outside matters and was fully focused on unraveling the spirit runes.

  This wait lasted for a week.

  Gradually, some people said that Sun Mo couldn’t make it anymore, and that was the extent of his ability and wisdom. After all, how could the Battlegod Catalog be something easy to comprehend?

  The teachers and students of the Westshore Military School grew haughty again because Fu Yanqing was ultimately an absolute genius who had passed the fifth stage of the canyon. Some people provoked him so that he revealed the true meaning of this stage, but Fu Yanqing guarded his mouth like a closed bottle.

  “Teacher Sun, when will you be able to clear this stage?”

  Even people like Zhang Yanzong felt anxious and couldn’t help but seek more information during meal time.

  “How about tomorrow?”

  Sun Mo’s voice drifted out along with the night wind.

  Chapter 775: We Are All Great Teachers Yet Only He Stands above the Crowd?

  “Teacher!”

  After seeing Sun Mo walking over, the students on the scene all stood up. There was no need to bow, but greeting him was a normal gesture.

  “Just continue to enjoy your meal!”

  Sun Mo indicated that everyone should just be at ease.

  But now, everyone was already in no mood to eat.

  “Teacher, are you really intending to clear the stage tomorrow?”

  Zhang Yanzong didn’t know why, but he felt a little nervous. Although he had asked the question, it was merely something he asked in passing. When Sun Mo was really going to clear the stage, he actually felt flustered.

  “Is the timing too rushed?”

  The others subconsciously nodded.

  “It has already been a week.”

  Sun Mo felt that it had been long enough.

  “.……”

  After hearing this, the students didn’t know whether to feel impressed or helpless. When others were comprehending the murals, they would measure units of time in years. But as for you? A week would suffice?

  “Teacher Sun, if others heard your words, they would definitely want to beat you to death.”

  Jin Mujie rolled her eyes as she silently sighed in her heart.

  “We are all great teachers, yet only he stands above the crowd.”

  Gu Xiuxun mocked.

  “Teacher, please act cautiously!”

  Zhang Yanzong persuaded.

  “Eh? Weren’t you anxiously asking Teacher when he would clear the stage earlier? Why are you persuading him not to do so now? Could it be that you don’t want my teacher to be in the limelight?”

  Qin Yaoguang felt astonished.

  “I’m afraid Teacher Sun might make a mistake.”

  Zhang Yanzong grew anxious. “Don’t talk nonsense. Teacher Sun has no record of failing before in my heart. Hence, he has to succeed in one attempt this time around.”

  “That’s right, he has to maintain a perfect record.”

  “Either he doesn’t attempt it or he must pass the stage immediately.”

  The students started chattering and discussing. All of them wanted Sun Mo to wait a little while more.

  Seeing how concerned Zhang Yanzong was with regard to Sun Mo clearing the stage, Li Ziqi couldn’t help but survey him in astonishment. (Are you Teacher’s personal student or am I? Are you not afraid Teacher Gu would be jealous?)

  Zhang Yanzong naturally wasn’t afraid because he knew that his teacher was also concerned with Sun Mo. Also, both of them didn’t consider each other as outsiders.

  Maybe five to six years later, the two of them might become a couple and at that time, he could be considered as a half-personal student of Sun No

  At that time, he would be considered in the same ‘sect’ as Li Ziqi and the rest

  So even if he showed concern about Sun Mo’s reputation now, there was nothing wrong with it. ……

  Dawn arrived and the sun rose in the sky.

  When Sun Mo entered the canyon, Zha Liang and the other major characters at the Longevity Realm were already waiting here.

  “Good morning Teacher Sun!”

  “How’s your sleep last night? I’ve some alchemy pills that can calm one’s spirit and recover one’s mental energy. Do you want to consume one?”

  “Why is there a need to eat medicinal pills? He should just find a lady and release his stress. I dare guarantee he would have a good and comfortable sleep after that.”

  It was too monotonous to fight the soldiers for Sun Mo every day, but whenever everyone thought about the possibility that Sun Mo might be able to clear the stage, they immediately felt full of motivation.

  They had also discussed privately before. At the very least, they had to persist for half a year before asking Sun Mo if he had any good news.

  In any case, they would be satisfied as long as they could clear this stage within three years.

  “Later on, I have to trouble everyone to fight more seriously and target a more powerful soldier!”

  After Sun Mo spoke, everyone’s spirits stirred.

  “Great Teacher Sun, did you have a major discovery?”

  “How powerful can they be?”

  “Just you watch!”

  Everyone rubbed their fists, eager to get into action.

  Sun Mo also didn’t waste words. When he saw the teachers and students of the Central Province Academy arriving, he walked over ten meters along the stone wall and stopped before the mural of a blood-soaked general that was riding on a warhorse on the battlefield.

  After observing it for a few minutes, Sun Mo took out his chasing cloud dagger and sliced the skin of his index finger before wiping the blood on the general’s body.

  “What is he doing? Is he trying to summon it?”

  Zha Liang scratched his head. He didn’t know what was going on, and he also didn’t dare to ask. At this very moment, the general with the fresh blood wiped on it suddenly began radiating a red-colored light. With a woosh, it directly became alive and rode upon its warhorse as it charged out from the stone wall.

  Neigh!

  The warhorse whined.

  All the major characters felt great joy. Sun Mo could summon a general from the murals. Didn’t that mean that he already had a bit of understanding with regard to the true meaning of this stage?

  This was great news!

  “Great Teacher Sun, how should we kill it?”

  The major characters jabbered, competing with each other to express their loyalty.

  “Explode its armor!”

  Sun Mo instructed and retreated.

  Zha Liang was the first to rush out, wanting to display his strength properly and win Sun Mo’s admiration. In the end, he discovered that a few old men, who usually pretended to be weak, moved even quicker than him.

  “F***!”

  Zha Liang cursed.

  It was tough to kill the general, but there were many people on Sun Mo’s side, and using human wave attacks with Longevity Realm experts would naturally be very formidable.

  Gu Xiuxun was extremely envious as she watched.

  What was a famous great teacher of the Nine Provinces? This was it.

  Just a single sentence from Sun Mo was enough to make these major characters work for him.

  Three minutes later, the general’s armor exploded and it revealed a battle cloth with a diagram of dragons and phoenixes. Through the mist, it exuded a luxurious aura.

  “Ziqi, cast a Retentive Memory on me!”

  Sun Mo instructed.

  The little sunny egg lifted her hand and did so.

  Swish~

  With the great teacher halo reinforcing him, Sun Mo’s memory stat instantly rose to the max. No matter how complicated the things he saw, he would be able to remember them all.

  “Alright. Finish it off!”

  After Sun Mo spoke, he closed his eyes. In his mind, he directly stripped apart the useless bits on the scales and left behind the spirit rune.

  This entire process was very tiring, not in any way inferior to using mental calculations to do calculus. However, it would bring about a huge improvement to one’s standard of the study of spirit runes.

  Bang!

  As the general got its heart penetrated and exploded, a walnut-sized red-colored crystal fell onto the ground.

  This should be something good, right?

  Although everyone wanted to take it for themselves, they didn’t have the guts to do so. Zha Liang was the most decisive. He directly picked it up and passed it to Sun Mo.

  “Thank you!”

  Sun Mo received the crystal and injected his consciousness into it. He instantly felt the vast amount of pure energy contained within. This was a reward given by the ancient Battle God.

  This was to be bestowed on the people who were skilled in spirit runes and could achieve this step.

  Sun Mo wasn’t polite either and directly absorbed it.

  A moment later, a surge of energy filled his body. He felt like a desert traveler, who had suffered from thirst for many days and was on the verge of death, suddenly wandered into an oasis. Every single one of his cells received nourishment.

  The Battlegod Canyon had existed for several tens of thousands of years and had been basking in spirit qi. Although the efficiency of the canyon absorbing the spirit qi was low, given the long duration of accumulation, it would also be a terrifying amount.

  Right now, the energy essence was absorbed by Sun Mo into his body.

  Moreover, the benefits of the crystal didn’t end here. Because this was something the Battle God had created, as the energy essence entered Sun Mo’s body, he also gained a portion of the Battle God’s will and experience.

  The will was like a war hammer, tempering Sun Mo’s mind and spirit. The experience was like morning dew, enhancing Sun Mo’s combat strength.

  Sun Mo instantly gained more knowledge and had an epiphany.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Sun Mo who was at the peak of the seventh level of the Divine Force Realm directly started to break through after his bottleneck was shaken loose by this fortuitous opportunity.

  Rumble~

  A vast amount of spirit qi surged, they were akin to the tides and gathered over. There was a spirit qi tornado formed above Sun Mo’s head.

  “Teacher Gu, Teacher Mei, guard him!”

  Jin Mujie’s expression stiffened, and she immediately pulled her sword out and stared warily at the surroundings.

  Gu Xiuxun and Mei Ziyu didn’t dare to be careless. The moment when a cultivator was at their weakest wasn’t when they were injured. It was when they were breaking through to the next level.

  This was because any sort of influence could cause one’s breakthrough to fail. And the consequences were dire. Not only would the body suffer injuries, but even their mind and mental state would.

  Mei Ziyu grabbed a tiny human puppet from her bag and infused her spirit qi in it. After that, she tossed it out.

  Swish~

  A ball of black light shot out and after it landed on the ground, the light instantly expanded. A human silhouette could be seen after the black light vanished.

  Because it had a mantle on, its face couldn’t be seen.

  Eh?

  Li Ziqi and the other students were astonished because this fellow had participated in the students’ battle during the 2-star great teacher examination before.

  After Mei Ziyu tossed her puppet out, she was still worried. She took out another seed and flicked it out.

  Pak!

  When the seed landed on the ground, it immediately burrowed into the earth, and a ball of green light manifested. After that, a 3-meter-tall tree took form and started twisting and turning until it became a treant.

  Kacha, kacha!

  The treant glanced around with vigilance at the surroundings.

  “What the hell?”

  The surrounding people were dumbstruck and felt their scalps turning numb.

  What was this beautiful girl’s profession?

  She seemed like a mechanist but she was not completely that?

  “Take precautions!”

  Li Ziqi reminded her junior martial siblings as they did their best to act as protectors for their teacher.

  “Don’t worry, I will tear apart whoever dares to act recklessly!”

  Zha Liang’s voice was sinisterly cold as he expressed his loyalty.

  “Shush!”

  Jin Mujie spoke.

  Zha Liang immediately smiled.

  There was no solution, he didn’t dare to offend her.

  Although he wasn’t afraid of Jin Mujie, he was afraid of Sun Mo.

  One must know that the looks of beautiful women were their weapons. Moreover, Jin Mujie was someone with both beauty and a good figure. If she whispered a few words when Sun Mo was bedding her, Zha Liang would die for sure.

  But very soon, everyone had no mood to care about these matters. They were all shocked by the momentum of Sun Mo leveling up.

  Was he trying to drain the surroundings completely of spirit qi?

  Zhang Yanzong sighed in admiration.

  Because the spirit qi here was overly dense, not only was there a phenomenon of flashing light motes, but there were even huge wind currents so powerful that everyone found it hard to open their eyes.

  Three minutes later, Sun Mo completed his breakthrough.

  He was now at the eighth level of the Divine Force Realm.

  “My heavens……the duration of his breakthrough was normal but isn’t the amount of spirit qi he absorbed a little too much?”

  Zha Liang recalled the time when he was at Sun Mo’s level. During his breakthrough years ago, he couldn’t even absorb half of Sun Mo’s spirit qi. Hence, he grew depressed now.

  When humans compared themselves to others, it could be extremely infuriating.

  “Congratulations to Teacher Sun for leveling up!”

  Everyone hurried over to give their congratulations.

  “Many thanks!”

  Sun Mo nodded. He only wanted to test his research results of the spirit runes and didn’t expect there to be such an unexpected harvest.

  “Great Teacher Sun, what is that crystal?”

  Someone couldn’t help but ask.

  “It’s a type of energy essence.”

  Sun Mo didn’t say there was still the Battle God’s will because he still didn’t dare to be sure.

  “Wow!”

  The audience marveled.

  “How can we summon the general?”

  This was the main question. Hence, after someone asked, the canyon fell into silence as all eyes here turned to Sun Mo.

  “It isn’t that I don’t want to teach, but rather, you guys wouldn’t be able to learn it even if I taught it!”

  Sun Mo shrugged.

  “Hehe!”

  Some people coldly laughed, feeling that Sun Mo intentionally wanted to conceal this. There was even someone who ran toward the stone wall where the general was at, wanting to see if there were any traces here so they could pick up some clues.

  “Don’t judge a gentleman with the heart of a vile character. When I watched earlier, I could tell that the diagram Teacher Sun drew was very complicated.

  Zha Liang spoke a word of justice.

  “It’s fine, if you guys don’t believe it, you all can just go and test it out.”

  Sun Mo shrugged again.

  Because the general had been summoned earlier, its mural on the stone wall vanished. A few people with thick skin even went to search for other general murals, and then they cut their fingers and used flesh blood to dab on the murals.

  There were no effects.

  “Alright, I’ve wasted quite some time. I’m going to clear the stage now.”

  Sun Mo spoke a few sentences to Jin Mujie and then instructed his personal students. After that, he walked toward the mist-filled area in this part of the canyon.

  “Huh?”

  Zha Liang and the others had stunned looks on their faces. Did they hear wrongly?

  (Going to clear the stage now? Isn’t it a little fake?)

  Chapter 776: Wife, Quickly Come Out and Look. Great Teacher Sun Cleared the Stage Again!

  “Great Teacher Sun, please wait!”

  Completely due to instinct, these major characters directly rushed over, and some even anxiously used movement arts as they appeared before Sun Mo.

  “Mn?”

  Sun Mo frowned.

  “Great Teacher Sun, don’t misunderstand. We have no ill intentions.”

  Zha Liang smiled as he cautiously chose his words, doing his best to not make Sun Mo unhappy. “Mn……do you want to wait a little while more?”

  “Wait for what?”

  Sun Mo counter-asked.

  Yeah, wait for what?

  The major characters exchanged glances and didn’t know what to say.

  They also wanted Sun Mo to quickly clear the stage so they could benefit. But wasn’t a week too fast?

  One must know that the estimation in their hearts for Sun Mo to clear the stage was three years.

  (Isn’t the amount of time you need far too short?)

  “Great Teacher Sun, we are not anxious?”

  A major character spoke and hurriedly explained, “It isn’t that we don’t trust you, but we are worried for your safety.”

  Everyone was worried about this, hence, they started persuading him.

  Sun Mo was the last hope of all of them. If he died, they wouldn’t be able to solve this stage anymore.

  Honestly speaking, everyone was used to Sun Mo comprehending the true meaning of the stages rapidly before revealing it to everyone. They could simply benefit by waiting for him. Now if someone wanted these people to go and comprehend by themselves, they would lose their shit.

  “How much longer should I wait?”

  Sun Mo smiled.

  “At least three, no, six months?”

  “A year? I feel a year is about right.”

  “Great Teacher Sun, this stage isn’t a joke. Those who failed would die. Hence, if you don’t have a 100% certainty, you absolutely must not try.”

  Before this, everyone would hope for a person to be trying to clear the stage every day so they could accumulate more knowledge and broaden their horizons.

  However, they were reluctant to see something happen to Sun Mo.

  “Alright, don’t talk anymore. For a thing like comprehension, if you succeed, it means you succeed. If I wait any longer, it will only be a waste of time.”

  Sun Mo spoke. After that, he headed toward the mist.

  Li Ziqi smiled.

  To her teacher, this wasn’t comprehending. Rather, it was like solving a mathematical question. As long as he found the correct answer, he would be able to pass this stage.

  Honestly speaking, if it wasn’t for her teacher being too cautious and telling her not to do it, the little sunny egg would also dare to walk through the mist.

  This scene caused Bai Hao and the other people that were standing before the stone walls to turn and look at Sun Mo.

  “Should we tell Group Leader Fu?”

  Duan Hu’s gaze turned over and he asked in a low voice.

  Bai Hao was still in shock and he completely didn’t hear Duan Hu’s words clearly.

  (Is Sun Mo going to try and clear the stage? He would fail, right? It has only been a week!)

  Bai Hao had asked Fu Yanqing in private and learned that the latter had taken three years to clear this stage. But even so, this was considered a feat of glory that he could boast joyously on the wine table.

  After all, a lot of people wouldn’t be able to comprehend this stage even if they tried their entire lives.

  “Teacher Bai?”

  Duan Hu increased his volume.

  “Go and inform Group Leader Fu!”

  Bai Hao instructed.

  Duan Hu grunted, but he didn’t move because Sun Mo had entered the mist.

  Swish~

  Everyone instantly looked over.

  “If one failed, what sort of methods would they be killed by?”

  Someone was curious.

  After all, after reaching this stage, everyone was extremely cautious, so it wouldn’t be easy for them to see unlucky people who failed.

  “No idea!”

  A major character shook his head. “It’s said that a war painting exists in the mist. Those who failed their comprehension would ‘enter’ there, and the soldiers on the murals would shoot arrows chaotically to kill that person.”

  Everyone instantly pricked their ears and listened seriously. Silence was everywhere.

  So did he pass or not?

  Everyone felt very anxious from waiting. ……

  In the misty area, one wouldn’t be able to see their fingers even if they stretched out their hand in front of their face. Hence, only after Sun Mo counted 90 steps mentally did his vision clear.

  Wow!

  Sun Mo marveled.

  Was this paradise in the mortal world?

  This part of the canyon was covered with grass and flowers. The path was tree-lined with shade-giving foliages, and the clouds and mists slowly flowed through the path, giving one the feeling that they were in a celestial abode.

  There were little beasts frolicking around; the cries of bugs and birds could also be heard.

  A clear creek flowed through a meandering path, occupying the ground and reflecting the sunlight. There would also occasionally be fishes jumping out of the water, creating clear and crystalline waves.

  Sun Mo raised his eyes and looked, but he actually didn’t see any stone walls here. There was only a circular-shaped light-yellow transparent rampart that looked like a lid covering this celestial realm.

  “What the hell? A greenhouse?”

  Sun Mo frowned so severely that his brows could squeeze two crabs to death. The transparent rampart was so glossy that one could see their own reflections. There were no murals of any sort here.

  Sun Mo had planned to walk around here to observe the environment. But all of a sudden, he instinctively grabbed his weapon as his wariness rose to the max.

  He suddenly felt a sense of sharpness being targeted at him.

  Someone in the canyon was looking at him.

  “This gaze is so piercing.”

  Sun Mo mumbled. Through his pretty good sixth sense and sensitive observation prowess, he soon discovered three people.

  There was a three-meter-large rock beside the creek. A middle-aged guy with his hair tied in a bun was sitting cross-legged on it.

  He was like a rock himself. Even the little birds didn’t treat him as a living object and landed with no worries on his body.

  There was another old man sitting beneath a large tree with a fishing pole in his hands. He took the posture of fishing.

  However, there was no water before him. There was not even a line. What could he fish up?

  The last person was the fellow with a sharp gaze.

  His clothes were tattered and his hair was disheveled. Due to long years of not washing his hair, clumps of dirt had formed and his hair looked extremely disgusting.

  This fellow had a muscular build and through his tattered clothes, Sun Mo could see a large tattoo on his skin. He was currently lying down on a patch of grass and using a broadsword as his pillow, coldly looking over.

  His gaze caused Sun Mo to feel like his head was underneath a guillotine.

  There weren’t many people here and Sun Mo wasn’t surprised because of this. After all, this was the sixth stage of the canyon.

  Those who could enter would undoubtedly be geniuses with outstanding talent, and the vast majority of these people wouldn’t possibly waste all their lives here to comprehend something unrealistic like the Battlegod Catalog.

  Although saint-tier cultivation arts were rare, if one could train in one, their futures were basically secured.

  Geniuses who could walk into here would surely have accomplishments in the Middle Earth Nine Provinces. Hence, there was no need to doubt what they would choose.

  “Changdao, don’t act like this. It has been three years and a new person finally joins us. What should we do if you scare him off?”

  The old fisherman teased.

  “If he doesn’t run, he will die.”

  The beggar only said a few words, but his sentence was filled with killing intent.”

  “No matter how beautiful the scenery here is, we have looked at it for close to a hundred years. It’s rare for there to be new excitement, so it’s better not to kill him.”

  The old man persuaded. “At the very least, leave him alive for a year so I can hear him talk? If not, I may forget how to speak when I exit this place in the future.”

  “I thought you said you won’t leave this place if you cannot comprehend the Battlegod Catalog? So, it doesn’t matter if you forget how to speak, right? In any case, you will be staying here for your entire life.”

  The beggar had a cold look on his face, his tone tyrannical.

  “Scram or die!”

  The beggar ignored the words of the others and directly commanded Sun Mo.

  “Legendary Realm?”

  Sun Mo’s thoughts were meticulous as he asked the question. He didn’t carelessly activate Divine Sight or with the personality of this man, it was highly possible that this man might act to kill him.

  “You are overestimating him. He’s just at the Longevity Realm.”

  The old fisherman chortled.

  “Do you want to fight with me?”

  The beggar narrowed his eyes. As he asked the question, the atmosphere here turned tense, and even the bugs and birds departed the area.

  “Aiya, I hook a fish!” shouted the old fisherman excitedly.

  The old fisherman lifted his pole and did a motion of reeling the ‘fish’ in. If it wasn’t for the fact that Sun Mo could see nothing, he might have thought that the old man had really managed to catch something.

  “A silent guy sitting at a rock, a mad old man, and a tyrannical brute. Who are these people?”

  Although these three fellows didn’t look too terrifying, Sun Mo didn’t dare to be careless.

  There was spiritual qi in this world and the myriad of living things could cultivate. So, humans who had always been proud of their own intellect created many types of cultivation arts to break the shackles on their bodies, seeking to surpass themselves.

  And as time passed, it formed into a fixed world system.

  At the start, the cultivators strengthened their bodies for the sake of tempering their physical attributes, leading to them being untouched by illnesses. And after that, they started to meditate to strengthen their minds, souls, and spirits so evil entities like ghosts and demons wouldn’t be able to assail them.

  When one’s body, mind, and soul were strengthened to a certain extent, their fresh blood would enter the state of blood ignition and they would change their bodies and bones, obtaining a trace of divine force. When their divine force reached major completion and began to qualitatively evolve, they would be able to extend their longevity and step into the Longevity Realm.

  People at the Longevity Realm had to experience every joy and suffering in life. They would ultimately gain comprehension and step into the Legendary Realm.

  People who could cultivate to the Legendary Realm were considered hegemons of a respective area. They could simply wave their hands and destroy minor characters like Sun Mo effortlessly.

  “I’ll count to three. If you don’t leave, just die!”

  The beggar stared at Sun Mo and spoke in an icy tone.

  Three!

  Two! ……

  (Wow, you don’t even want to let me take a look? Isn’t this too tyrannical?)

  Sun Mo was speechless, but he knew that in the Darkness Continent ‘might makes right’. Strength was logic.

  Although the beggar had said he would count to three, he suddenly brandished his broadsword and slashed out before the count ended.

  Swish!

  A moon-shaped sword qi arced through space and directly appeared before Sun Mo.

  Sun Mo exerted force with his feet and shifted his body slightly.

  Woosh~

  The sword qi sliced past his face. It was just an inch away from severing half his body.

  “Yo, you actually missed?”

  The old fisherman taunted. He steadily surveyed Sun Mo before involuntarily exclaimed, “How old are you?”

  Sun Mo looked to be at most 20+ years old. (Being able to enter the sixth part of the canyon at such an age? He must have extraordinary talent!)

  No wonder Yue Changdao wanted to kill him.

  Such a person would definitely be a huge threat.

  Yue Changdao frowned. He also didn’t waste words and directly lunged over like a bullet, shooting straight for Sun Mo.

  BOOM!

  The grass on the ground was flattened by the wind he created from his movements.

  Sun Mo explosively retreated and activated his Divine Sight.

  Yue Changdao. Peak of the eighth level of the Longevity Realm. He trains in the Azure Mountain Tyrannical Art, an inferior saint-tier cultivation art.

  Personality: Explosive temper and has a ruthless and fierce character.

  Warning: Danger! Danger!

  A gigantic row of red words immediately appeared in Sun Mo’s vision.

  Yue Changdao was still around five meters away from Sun Mo, but he already slashed out with his weapon.

  Swish~

  Just this casual slash from him caused Sun Mo to feel an aura capable of toppling mountains and overturning seas. It was like a gigantic tsunami wave ruthlessly gushing over.