CHAPTER 237 QUICK PRACTICE

Darren smiled and said, "Don't think too much about that. Let's pick a martial skill and begin practicing

it. Three years' time is too short for us cultivators."

Boyce looked at Darren and realized that he was serious. He began to look forward to seeing what

realm Darren would reach within three years here. 'Although neither of us have a cultivation base now,

Darren has a talent of level nine of the Earth Degree and he will make quick progress, ' thought Boyce.

"You are right. Let's begin our cultivating." Boyce turned to read the martial skills written on the big

stone wall. It didn't take much time for him to make a decision.

"Darren, I'll see you in three years," said Boyce.

"All right," Darren replied with a faint smile.

Boyce nodded slightly and left to look for a quiet place where he could practice the martial skill he had

chosen without being disturbed by the others.

Only Darren was left in the open space now. He scanned the stone wall. Thousands of martial skills

were recorded on it and all of them varied in levels. The best of them were the legendary martial skills.

He scanned them half-heartedly.

At the moment, he was not very eager about choosing a proper martial skill. Darren was worried about

a more pressing problem; he couldn't absorb spiritual energy.

"After three years of practicing, if I still have no cultivation base, I will be laughed at," Darren muttered

to himself and sighed deeply. He felt honestly sorry for himself.

"Never mind that! I'll have to at least try!" Darren decided to get up his courage and absorb the spiritual

energy from the world using his talent.

"Heh?" Darren stood there, surprised.

"The spiritual energy in this space is so rich and powerful. Besides, I didn't feel any pain from the sword

intent and the blade intent. The two intents didn't battle each other. But why?" he paused and muttered

to himself. And then, the answer struck him.

"Oh!" His eyes widened and he knew the reason now. "Our cultivation base was degenerated. Due to

that, my sword intent and blade intent have disappeared," Darren said to himself.

Darren was shocked. 'What a terrifying space the Ancient Void Battlefield is! It could easily eliminate

the sword intent and the blade intent!'

"The guardian has such powerful energy to make this happen," Darren whispered.

"Ha-ha. Young man. I am not as powerful as you think. You have cultivated conflicting martial skills.

How can I suppress them? All is because of the Ancient Void Battlefield."

The voice didn't shock Darren, but it was surprising that the guardian had showed up again.

Darren cupped one hand in the other before his chest as a sign of respect. "Sir, how did you know that

I am a sword and a blade cultivator? What makes the Ancient Void Battlefield so special?"

"Cultivating conflicting martial skills not only means cultivating sword and blade skills; it also means

cultivating ice and fire, light and dark, justice and injustice and so on. There are thousands of conflicting

skills.

But cultivating each of them is difficult in its own way because of the pressure from the conflicting

nature of the skills. Once a cultivator breaks the limitations and reaches the top stage, his cultivation

base will be terrifying and powerful. But in the Ancient Void Battlefield, the conflicting martial skills are

not suppressed by the nature rules."

A smile spread across Darren's face, and his eyes gleamed with excitement. "But sir, why?"

"Because the Ancient Void Battlefield does not belong to this world. It comes from the ancient world.

The rules formed by the later generations don't matter here. In the ancient era, many cultivators

practiced at least two conflicting martial skills, sometimes even three or four conflicting skills. They

were much more powerful than the grand warriors of this era."

Darren got sort of excited for no reason. He started to feel that he could find a way to solve his problem

of practicing both sword skill and blade skill. But the guardian failed to notice Darren's growing

excitement. He concluded, "Much time has passed. I will stop with this. Young man, try your best and

get through the thirteenth test."

Then his figure slowly started to disappear. Before he could completely vanish, Darren asked loudly,

"Sir, wait! Are you saying that I can practice the sword and blade skills in the Ancient Void Battlefield?

Can the others do it too?"

"You can, but the others can't. If they haven't practiced conflicting martial skills before coming here,

they wouldn't be able to do it in the Ancient Void Battlefield. This is one of the rules of this space. I don't

know the reasons either."

"Great." Darren's frown was gone. There was no anxiety on his face. His eyes found one legendary

sword skill and one legendary blade skill recorded at the top of the stone wall. He didn't think that he

would get two legendary martial skills in the Ancient Void Battlefield. He was wild with joy.

"Young man, don't get so excited. The martial skills here are just test conveniences. After the test, your

memories will be erased," said the guardian, realizing what Darren was thinking.

His warning swiftly extinguished Darren's passion and excitement.

"Oh… I see," Darren said with an embarrassed smile. He had thought that he could practice the skills

after he got out of the Ancient Void Battlefield. His happiness turned sour real fast.

But, he soon adjusted his mood and read the martial skills on the stone wall carefully.

The talents, who had entered the Ancient Void Battlefield with Darren, mostly chose one or more

suitable martial skills. Those who were confident about themselves were brave enough to choose the

supernatural martial skills. They knew that it was impossible for them to understand the legendary

martial skills and that they would just become idiots if they tried them.

Even supernatural martial skills were a bit much for a cultivator who had a talent of under level eight of

the Earth Degree.

Darren had a talent of level nine of the Earth Degree, so he could understand the legendary martial

skills. But of course, it would take him much time to practice it.

The speed of understanding the Nine Changes of the Demon was not too slow. But that should be

contributed to the demon core. It was not influenced much by the talent.

So, Darren decided to choose two supernatural martial skills. Besides that, he would memorize the

legendary sword and blade skills so that he could use any chance he got to understand them better.

The supernatural blade skill he chose was the Soul Killing Blade Skill, and the supernatural sword skill

he chose was the Unbeatable Sword Skill. After that, he took some time to memorize the two legendary

martial skills.

Then, he read the supernatural martial skills and figured that he could begin practicing the two skills

once he reached the Mysterious Realm. What shocked Darren most was that the Unbeatable Sword

Skill had only one movement from the beginning to the end. It was worthy of its name.

After reading the two skills, he left the open space and walked towards a desolate mountain—a good

place for him to practice alone.

"This place is perfect. There is more spiritual energy here compared to the other places." Darren

decided to practice there. As soon as he had made up his mind, he sat down with his legs crossed and

began absorbing the spiritual energy in the area.

"Wow! The speed at which I am able to absorb the spiritual energy is amazing!" His talent helped a lot

in absorbing huge amounts of spiritual energy at a faster rate. The energy flooded into his body like a

huge waterfall.

First stage of the Primary Realm... Second... Third…

The breakthrough in his cultivation base seemed as simple as counting.

Three months passed and Darren had reached the Mysterious Realm.

The pace of his progress was dramatic. Many cultivators who had entered the Ancient Void Battlefield

had a talent of level eight or nine of the Earth Degree. But they couldn't reach this level at such a short

time. They would need at least half a year or a year to upgrade to the Mysterious Realm. Darren had a

talent of level nine of the Earth Degree, the top level of the Earth Degree. His talent was already very

close to the Heaven Degree, so he made progress much quicker than the others.

But after reaching the Mysterious Realm, the pace dropped. If he had been able to continue the same

way through the Mysterious Realm too, then the people who had a talent of the Heaven Degree could

reach the Wonder Realm in just several months too, which was clearly impossible. The spiritual energy

received because of one's talent was limited.

Soon, nine months passed and all the talents had been in the Ancient Void Battlefield for almost a year.

"Whoosh!" Darren opened his eyes and said, "I reached the ninth stage of the Mysterious Realm. If I

had condensed the blade core or the sword core in this space, I would have reached the Wonder

Realm already.

Now, it's time to practice the martial skills and condense the blade core and the sword core."

Saying that, he took out the two martial skills, read them and started practicing.

Since he had mastered the blade intent and the sword intent earlier, it was pretty easy for him to

practice the skills. Only three months later, he was at the high level of the preliminary sword intent and

the preliminary blade intent. The sword and blade intent were as powerful as those he had condensed

outside the Ancient Void Battlefield.

He released his spiritual sense and searched for talents around him. There were six. The most

powerful among the lot was weaker than him; that talent was at the preliminary stage of the Mysterious

Realm.

"My strength is enough to kill a cultivator who is at the primary stage of the Wonder Realm using my

sword and blade intent. I wonder how much my strength will be increased to when I reach the Wonder

Realm." Just thinking about it excited him.

Now that he had cultivated the sword and blade intent, he decided to condense a sword core or a blade

core. No matter which one he received, he would have a chance to reach the Wonder Realm.

"I wonder what will happen if I condense a sword core and a blade core at the same time to reach the

Wonder Realm?" The idea came up to him out of the blue. Never had he condensed a blade core

before.

As excitement flowed through him, he continued to practice the sword and blade intent. As soon as he Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

reached the maximum level, he could condense the sword and blade core and reach the Wonder

Realm.