Half-Step Human King

Among those seven hundred new disciples, a few of them were talented with a different physique or with a special talent in various occupations like alchemy, weapon refining, or formations. But sadly not talented enough to be his direct disciple.

This new addition in the number of talents finally made up for the shortcomings of disciples in various fields, which finally reduced the huge burden of the elders.

Although they are weak or have low accomplishments, it's only a matter of time before they can stand on their own.

But the most beneficial thing for Jing Chen is that now, with so many martial artists, his cultivation speed, which is already fast, will skyrocket again, and in a month, he will reach the peak of the spirit master realm. At that time, he should be able to battle with the late-stage human king realm or even higher.

Then he would be safer when he travelled to another kingdom to find talented direct disciples, as other bigger kingdoms and ancient cities are not weak like spiritual kingdoms without strong king-realm martial artists.

Time passed, and quickly, three weeks later, the White Floating City changed as countless martial artists continued to come to trade or sell different resources and treasures.

In just a month, White Floating City changed from a weak ordinary city to one of the busiest and most famous cities in the spiritual kingdom.

Many new houses, manors, and shops were opened as many martial artists came and settled here. Now the size of the city has already increased by five times, and it will continue to increase with time.

At that exact time in the sect, Jiang Chen was sitting with closed eyes covered in a powerful, mysterious qi of star and void. Like a universe with countless planets, suns, and stars in it.

The space around him seemed to have changed, as he did not belong to the same dimension. Jiang Chen was sitting alone, indifferent to the changes around him.

Zzzzzz! Zzzzzzz!

Instantly, the void disappeared, and space returned to normal as the mysterious starlight drilled into Jiang Chen's body.

And slowly, he opened his eyes, feeling the changes with a smile on his face.

"Good!"

He was now full of strength like never before. Even he could not believe that he would become this strong within a month. Right now, he can defeat hundreds of his previous selves without difficulty.

"Let's see how strong he has become", and he quickly opened his system panel.

[Sect Master: Jiang Chen]

[Martial Art Realm: Half-Step Human King]

[Physique: Sacred Sword Body]

[Martial Art Talent: 64]

[Innate Talent: Eye of Insight, Talent, and Cultivation Sharing]

[Bloodline: Heavenly Lightning King]

[Profound Truth/Intent: Slaughter Sword Intent (Second Layer Perfection), Reincarnation Intent (First Layer Perfection), Force Spear Intent (First Layer Perfection), Devouring Intent( First Layer Perfection)]

[Martial Art Cultivation Technique: Infinite Cosmos Sutra (First Part)]

[Martial Art: Seven Swords of Slaughter (Third Sword, Small Accomplishment), Heavenly Lightning Domain (Great Accomplishment), Lightning Sword (Perfection), Lightning Rush (Perfection), Flowing Light Sword (Perfection)... many more]

[Sect: Empyrean Celestial Sect (lower class)]

[Sect Prestige: 2940]

[Sect Disciple: 809]

Looking at his status window, he could not help but feel good, as in less than half a year after activating the system, he was able to reach the half-step king realm from the early innate stage.

Now not only his strength but also his martial arts realm have caught up to the strongest in the spiritual kingdom.

His slaughter intent has also, in these months, reached the second-layer perfection realm, which is an unbelievable achievement. With slaughter intent, he can easily break through the human king's realm without a problem, but he hesitates.

Although Slaughter's intent is strong, it is not his path but a path that the mysterious saint understood, and he still did not find the path that he wanted to follow.

So he did not break through to the king realm, as this stage is very important for the future of martial artists, and even in the universe, geniuses did not hastily break through to the king realm but took their time to understand and decide which path would be best for them.

It is also the most important reason why he is going to travel the world, as seeing and feeling different things can help in his enlightenment.

The time had come for him to leave. Before leaving, he met with his two direct disciples, Ye Feng and Yu Tianhao, as tomorrow they will also be leaving the spiritual kingdom to visit the Divine City, where the battle will be held.

"Good, you both worked hard this month."

The moment he saw both of them, he knew they had broken through and reached the second stage of the spirit master realm, which increased their strength.

"Don't worry, master, we will make sure everyone remembers the Empyrean celestial sect."

Both of them spoke with confidence and were eager to meet the genius of the divine continent.

"Hmm!"

Jiang Chen nodded as he could see his two disciples were confident in their strength and feeling good.

"Okay then, I will see you in Divine City three months later."

After saying this, he met with his ancestor to look after the Sect in his absence, and then he silently left the Sect and went towards the southern border of the spiritual kingdom.

With his strength now, he could tear space apart and travel many times faster than before, and in half an hour, he reached the city at the border.

The city is called Red Sand City because of the unique red soil of this place, which was said to be because of the blood of millions who died here in old times, changing the colour of the soil to red.

He originally wanted to directly leave the kingdom, but since his whole motive was to find disciples and understand the laws of heaven and earth, he decided to look around the city.