Chapter 048 - Cultivation

Thinking of that night full of violence and bloodshed, Grue involuntarily shivered, took a large sip of wine to suppress the unspeakable panic in his heart, and looked up to Johnsan, ''As for the challenge we made to the people brought by Mr. Donald, yet it wasn't that simple. In the past, there was a Fa Shen among us who couldn't stand to watch and challenged the newcomers every day for a month in a row, killing thirty of them in a month. Later, he was called by Mr. Donald and never returned." Saying that, fear surfaced in Gru's eyes.

"Mentor, I'll ask two last questions. First, has anyone from the Scarlet Narrows gone out in these thirty years? Second, how many experts does the Scarlet Narrows have now? Mentor, you understand what I mean by masters." Johnsan stared closely at Gru, his mood a little tense.

"There are people who have gone out, and the rank is not low, all of them have broken through the Pan Dragon Cave with Mr. Donald's permission before going out, and none of them are top-notch characters. Otherwise over the years, how could those large and small empires and principalities keep sending geniuses here." Gelu slowly said, frowned and thought for a while, and said, "As for your second question, the characters above the Battle Saint and the Fa Saint, there are about thirty people in the Scarlet Narrows; the Fa Gods and the Battle Gods are a little less, fifteen, together with the newly advanced Bore is sixteen. As for the Patriarch level Alchemists and Apothecaries, there's no need to mention them."

Johnsan's breath came in sharply in an instant, and his mind went blank.

"The Lance Empire is so strong, I heard that there are only two Dharma Gods and four War Gods, and this little Scarlet Narrows even has as many as sixteen."

"What is the Cave of the Coil?" It took half a moment for Johnsan to recover, only to realize that his heart was still pounding.

"A cave at the southernmost tip of the Scarlet Narrows, Johnsan, don't ask about that, trust me, you won't even want to set foot in that place." With no intention of talking any further, Gru waved his hand at Johnsan and said, "Starting tomorrow, I'll teach you the art of Summoning, so go ahead and go down."

Johnsan saw that he looked sparse, and there was some sadness between his brows, so he also stopped talking and respectfully saluted and turned to walk out. Returning to the room, his mood could not be calmed for a long time.

"The root of all the unthinkable things in the Scarlet Narrows lies in that Holy Realm Magician Donald, take your time and learn more about it." Johnsan thought secretly in his mind.

The next day, Johnsan was called up early in the morning by Gourry, and a party of thirteen summoners followed Gru, traveling down the Narrows turnpike to the west.

"There's a forest over there that belongs to our summoner's practice, it's a nice environment." Gourry walked beside Johnsan and whispered to him.

"What rank are you now?" Johnsan asked Gourry in a low voice as he looked around at a few of his peers, old or young.

"Summoner." Gourry smiled shyly and said, "I'm the worst here."

"What about your summoned beast? What level magical beast is it?" Johnsan asked again.

Gourry saw an old man in front of them frown at them, so he winked at Johnsan and stopped talking.

Not long after, a group of people entered the forest from an exit on the west side of the narrow valley, and then not much longer to a clearing, the ground is full of green grass, surrounded by wildflowers, the environment is very beautiful.

"Everyone, let's practice individually." Gelu called out to the crowd, and the other twelve responded respectfully, finding a place to sit down, some meditating and cultivating their spiritual power, while others concentrated on practicing their summoning rune deed gestures.

Johnsan watched Grue wave him over and walked over, following him to a rock at the edge of the clearing, where Grue sat down and said, "Do the Grand Summoner's Rune Deed gesture again for me."

Johnsan did as he was told and never broke through, this Grand Summoner's Rune Deed gesture he had practiced I don't know how many times, his right hand flowing with skill as he demonstrated it.

"Hmm, not bad." Gru nodded, gesturing a series of movements in his hands, but it was like slow motion.The complicated and tedious gestures in Johnsan's eyes waved in Gru's gestures with an unspeakable ethereal beauty.

After Gelu finished his comparison, he looked up at Johnsan and saw that his eyes were a little misty, so he smiled slightly and said, "This set of summoner's rune deed gestures is dozens of times more complicated compared to that of a great summoner. To complete the six hundred and thirty-one rune deed line symbols in the shortest amount of time, you don't have to be in a hurry, take your time."

After saying that, he slowly demonstrated it again. Greed is not a good thing, Johnsan also understands this, only memorizing the first twenty or so gestures, he followed the gestures.

For half a month in a row, except for when he was eating, Johnsan was gesticulating the set of Summoning Saint Master Rune Deed Gestures, and he knew that he wasn't a genius, and he became more diligent than ever in order to survive better.

"Three hundred and twenty-three, three hundred and twenty-four ... "Johnsan sat intently inside the stone cave, his right hand traced out a faintly white lighted rune deed pattern in the air, and finally, when he traced out the three hundred and fortyth rune deed gesture, his spiritual energy was completely exhausted, and the mysterious The symbol contract pattern was scattered in the air like stardust and disappeared.

The entire group shriveled up, and Johnsan sighed helplessly, wiping the sweat from his forehead and laughing bitterly.

Mental power! It's still spiritual power! Everyone else could more or less gain something when they meditated, but it was just me who hadn't made any progress at all and kept stagnating.

Vaguely feeling that it was the alien genes within his body that were responsible, Johnsan couldn't be sure, frowning as he circled the room a few times and gritted his teeth as he made his way inside the Grue Stone Cave.

"Hello Mentor, I have some questions I would like to ask you." Johnsan said respectfully as he stood outside the stone room.

"Ah Johnsan, come in." Gelu was meditating while sitting on the stone bed, people in his realm had nothing more to attract them than breaking through the ranks.

Johnsan went in and sat down at the stone table and said, "Mentor, I have not been able to make any progress in my spiritual cultivation, and remembering some things from the past that I am not sure of, I would like to hear your opinion."

"Go ahead." Grue smiled slightly.

Johnsan then looked at him hopefully as he told Grue what happened during his first mental breakthrough.

"A breakthrough in spiritual power after cultivating fighting qi?" Gelu asked in shock, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

Johnsan nodded and said, ''It was just like now, no matter how much I meditated and practiced, my spiritual power just didn't progress at all. Later on, I was a bit disheartened, so I found a fighting qi booklet and practiced on my own, who knew that it didn't take long for fighting qi to form. And in that instant, the spiritual power increased by leaps and bounds."

"There is such a thing!" Grue muttered, frowning tightly in contemplation. johnsan didn't bother him and waited quietly beside him.

"I can't say." Gru eventually shook his head, shattering the hopeful bubble in Johnsan's mind.

"Perhaps you could find a warrior to ask and see if there's anything to be gained." Grue pondered for a long moment and threw out the words.

Johnsan laughs a few bitter laughs in his mind and stands up before excusing himself to Grue.

He was able to risk coming to the Scarlet Narrows thinking that the only Summoning Imperial Master in the continent that Randolph spoke of might be able to solve his problem, but he didn't think that it would still turn out this way.

"Johnsan, go to the Warrior Habitat and find Slambi, he's the only one I know who's a Warlord, maybe I can get some help from him."

Johnsan turned and nodded thankfully at Grue and walked out. It was late in the evening, and the various professions who had gone out to practice had returned, so Johnsan approached Gourry to ask for directions, and headed for the warrior habitat on the north side of the Narrow Valley.

Scarlet Narrows occupational habitat is divided into very detailed, as the cultivation of the same place, clearly separated. Not long after Johnsan arrived at the warrior habitat on the north side of the valley, he saw a few people chatting outside from afar, but it was the same as the summoner side, young and old.

Johnsan was about to walk over and ask if the Slamby was there when he heard someone call his name and looked up to see Robin standing in front of a stone cave smiling and waving at him.

"Big brother." Johnsan's heart warmed and he walked over.

"It's you from afar Johnsan, haven't seen you in half a month, are you used to being here?" Robin led Johnsan into his stone room.

Ishiguro was just as simple as Johnsan's, but the table had a lot more empty bottles, and Johnsan said as he walked, "That's pretty much it, there's not much to get used to, we don't have a choice."

Robin may have heard some of the news as well and shook her head with a bitter smile as the two sat down, Robin spoke up and asked, "Did you come over here to see me for something?"

"No, I'm here to see Mr. Slamby."

"Mr. Slamby? What do you want with him?" Robin was a little surprised.

Johnsan told Robin what he had said to Gru again, and finally said with a bitter smile, "I came here to break through, but I didn't expect to be in this situation."

Robin unconsciously touched the bottle in his hand and shook his head after thinking for a while, "I haven't heard of this kind of argument either, fighting qi can still affect spiritual power?"

"But it does." Johnsan grew more and more depressed.

"Mr. Slamby has gone to the streets for a drink, you have come at a bad time." Robin stood up and said, "Come on, let's go find him together."

The two of them walked and talked about what each had encountered in the meantime, and in a short time they reached the street, and looked for three or four hotels in a row, but they did not come across that Slamby, and they kept on finding the same hotel where they had been drinking when they first entered the Scarlet Narrows, and they did not find it either.

"There's no rush." Johnsan pulled Robin down and ordered a couple bottles of bloody Anya and the two of them drank slowly.

Casual small talk was going on, when Johnsan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stopped with his glass raised to his lips.

Two men enter the doorway, wands with magic crystals in their hands identifying themselves to Johnsan.

In front was a beautiful young girl, a long white dress that attacked the ground, and the black fox shawl draped over her shoulders swung out with a light tremor as her body moved.

The skin on her face was like the most crystalline white jade, translucent and incomparable, and her black eyes were looking around, full of spirituality.

Long black hair cascading down in a soft, luminous cascade, an Eastern face and a well-proportioned, shapely body made Johnsan's heart beat a couple minutes faster.