The Taiyi Sword Technique was undoubtedly the strongest skill Wang Chen had mastered.
Reaching the proficient level from beginner alone required a full million points of Heavenly Merit. Its difficulty was easy to imagine.
This sword art was simply of too high a rank. He estimated that without cheating with the Cultivation Panel, he would need at least eighty to a hundred years of diligent practice before he could hope to break into the proficient realm.
And beyond proficiency came minor accomplishment, Great Accomplishment, grandmaster...
Time to kill.
Wang Chen felt his life-bound Flying Sword, nestled within his Dantian, stir restlessly!
After some serious thought and deliberation, Wang Chen visited Xiong Liangpeng three days later.
Xiong Liangpeng's Cave Mansion was not far from his own. One step through Myriad Mile Leisurely Court would bring him there, making them neighbors of a sort.
Yet this was Wang Chen's first visit.
Xiong Liangpeng was delighted to see Wang Chen. "Fellow Daoist Wang, have you made up your mind?"
"Yes."
Wang Chen nodded. "I'd like to meet your family's Kirin Son first."
The Xiong family's Kirin Son was Xiong Zhaoyuan, the Golden Core in whom this Nascent Soul ancestor and the entire clan had placed boundless hopes.
"Good."
Xiong Liangpeng agreed without hesitation. "Let's set out now!"
Guest elders needed to file a report before leaving the boundary. Without approval, they could not use the grand teleportation array leading to Nine Provinces City.
Both Wang Chen and Xiong Liangpeng were Nascent Souls, and the two of them requesting leave at the same time would affect the defenses of the garrison city.
Fortunately, Dique Boundary Pass had remained calm and uneventful recently. There had been neither harassment from void creatures nor trouble stirred up by Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, so their application was swiftly