Time for the Tournament

When Meng checked on the branch of Xiao Sect he was shocked that they were doing as if nothing happened but after sneaking around for some time, he discovered that Xiao Sect actually refused their request to send one of their elders. "Not wanting to offend unknown cultivator who was capable of sneaking inside the treasury without making a single sound was one of the reasons. On top of that, if the matter of them sending Spirit Profound practitioner to kill Elementary Profound practitioner and even failed, got to the public, it would be extremely shameful even though a branch of their sect did it. They would still be accounted for it and lose their face.

Due to this, the branch of Xiao Sect was keeping a low profile as they had absolutely no idea how could anyone sneak inside the treasury without even opening numerous large gates. If that someone wanted to slit their throats, he could do it easily by sneaking inside their rooms without making a single sound.

Meng returned back to his clan and inquired about Hengjun's progress with his new Profound Art and discovered that he could already perform all moves which slightly surprised even Meng. However, he still told Meng that he is confident in using only 1st move for now.

Meng asked him for a quick spar but instead of trying all moves, he told him to directly try the 4th move. His Profound Art didn't have the same restriction as Meng had but at the same time, performing a lower move wouldn't enhance the next higher move. Since the 4th move instantly depletes all user's profound energy, there was a huge difference when one drains all of his profound energy at once or only the remaining 15%. No one would be crazy enough to use such a 1-time move while they would be full of profound energy, however the results...

Simply said, even though Meng was capable of sensing his attacks thanks to his Spiritual Sense, not always his body reacted and in the span of 5 minutes...It could be said that he was thrashed around, if he didn't have his Physique's defensive properties along with his superior profound energy, he would perhaps be defeated.

However, once 5 minutes passed by...

*HUFF* *HUFF* Hengjun was lying on his back on the ground, gasping for breath while sweating a lot. On the other hand, Meng was standing still with a few bruises here and there, smiling while looking at completely exhausted Hengjun.

"This is too crazy...Every time I previously used it, I thought that my speed became too fast even for me to control but I had no idea using that technique right off the bat would grant me such a speed. This technique is actually giving me creeps, haha" Hengjun said with a satisfied laugh while looking at the sky.

"Haha, yeah, your speed became probably comparable to low stages of Emperor Profound Realm...Even I had no idea it would be able to give you such a boost despite crea- despite training in it myself, haha!" Meng said with an awkward laugh as he almost slipped up and said that he created it himself but he knew that Hengjun was already slightly suspecting it.

By now, Hengjun's cultivation was the 1st stage of True Profound Realm yet his speed was comparable to someone of 1st stage of Emperor Profound Realm...If someone were to discover such a Profound Art...perhaps a little war would break out for it, however, such a boost in speed was expected after consuming his entire profound energy reserves. The sharpness of his attacks also became comparable to attacks of low stage Sky Profound Practitioner. Still, despite the results sounding wonderful, it was still full of weaknesses. Double-edged sword to be precise.

"How come brother Meng was capable of responding to my attacks for a few exchanges when even I had trouble following what I was exactly doing? Not to mention...I felt that my attacks also became numerous times stronger...How come brother Meng only has a few bruises from such violent and terrifying attacks? I was actually afraid that I would seriously hurt you for a while..." Hengjun sat up and asked with a tired smile.

"Well...I might have not received any injury but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt, hehe~" Meng said and approached him with an evil laugh while cracking his knuckles.

"Eh? Brother Meng, I already lost..." Hangjun replied with a bit terrified look in his eyes.

"Sure but you must be taught a lesson to never use it with your full profound energy reserves unless it being truly necessary. After all, we wouldn't want you to grow overly confident and die because of it, right?" Meng replied with a cold smile while slowly approaching Hengjun who couldn't even lift his arm.

"Brother Meng, wait! Let me recover fir- ugh!"

Meng thoroughly taught Hengjun a lesson to never use this move with his energy reserves being full unless truly necessary to run away as it granted him more speed than combat power.

4 months passed by in a flash and during those months, Meng focused mostly on his cultivation base as it was the easiest way for him how to become stronger since his Physique experienced a breakthrough not too long ago.

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[Name: Su Meng]

[Cultivation: 10th stage of True Profound Realm (Yin-Yang energy) 34 open Profound Entrances]

[Physique: Hell Suppressing Physique (Minor Completion)]

[Personal Skills: Cloud Steps(Lv. 8), River Crossing Slash(Lv. 4, Yin), One with the Shadows (Lv. 5), 7 Moves of Ferocious Sun (Lv. 4 - 4 moves, Yang), The Void Shattering Step (Lv. 4), Sacred Garden (Lv. 1)]

[Skill Points: 5.576]

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Meng put his focus on cultivation base but he never neglected any of his other skills. To be honest, in those 4 months, he spent probably only a few hours on sleep before nonstop meditating or training his profound techniques. He felt a bit tired from all this training but he knew that he can take a bit of rest once the matter with the tournament is over.

His proficiency using Cloud Steps was nearing perfection and his speed was also getting better each day. Meng also noticed that he can't use his skill points on advanced skills so he quickly started spending them, thinking about what he should do once all his skills will be on the Advanced level. Once his Alchemy and Harvesting hit the Advanced level, he gained skill or he would call it an item...It was a piece of mud that would normally leave him with a dumbfounded expression but he could feel extremely rich life essence inside it. When he was thinking about what to do with it, it suddenly went inside his body through his forehead. When he closed his eyes and focused his consciousness on his body, he actually saw quite a large sacred medicinal field inside his body. He immediately tried planting a few herbs and some of the very common ones grew within the span of a few hours which astonished him. He even tried planting different attributed plants as they all required different environments to grow but that was no problem inside that Sacred Garden.

With his Intermediate Crafting, he was capable of creating weapons with the help of metals and Profound Beast Cores but none of them could surpass his current weapon.

Meng was currently sitting in the middle of his room, meditating with a tranquil expression.

"HA!" Meng slammed his hands together and abruptly opened his eyes and with that releasing an absurd amount of energy into all 4 directions.

*rumble!* 1st stage of Spirit Profound Realm!

With the lousy disturbance coming out of his desolated room, another phenomenon appeared along with his breakthrough but no one in such a small city was capable of noticing it so suddenly...

The sun that was hidden behind many dark clouds suddenly penetrated through them with its sunrays, directing them all on the building where Meng was meditating before quietly disappearing after a few seconds!

'Finally 1st stage of Spirit Profound Realm! The last stages took much longer than expected but I managed to make it in time...I should be capable of performing the 5th move of my 7 Moves of Ferocious Sun...With that move, not even the thrones can act carelessly in front of me!' Meng thought as a cold smile unintentionally crept across his face.

[Quest: Promote Iron Spear Clan's strength and fame to be on par with 4 major sects. The clan's overall strength is combined with the host therefore if the host is famous and strong enough to contend with 4 major sects all alone, the quest will be deemed as completed.]

[The host's strength can be said to be on par with 4 major sects, the only remaining thing is the fame and reputation. The host can go completely wild during the tournament.] Vista's voice resounded in Meng's head.

'And how would you know how strong they are?' Meng asked suspiciously.

[It is widely known that each major sect has only a few thrones at most.]

'Riiight...Well, I will accept your answer for now' Meng thought before he sensed Hengjun in front of the building with help of his Spiritual Sense.

"I am coming, brother Hengjun. I will just dress up!" Meng shouted for him to hear so he doesn't have to call him. Today was the day they are going to set on the journey to the Heavenly Sword Mountain Range.

Outside of the building, Tie Hengjun who just recently broke through to the 6th stage of True Profound Realm stopped walking towards the building and looked puzzled at how Meng sensed him approaching. He looked at his father who was just the same surprised with a particular expression, it was something between confusion and helplessness at Meng's abnormality, still not being accustomed to it.

"Haha!" Seeing his son's expression, Tie Zhancang couldn't help but laugh aloud.

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