It was four days later when Ning Zheng finally recovered after breaking through his realm.
He discovered that as he grew stronger, each secluded breakthrough took longer and longer.
The breakthrough took several days, and consolidating it took several more.
Most of the time was spent on the breakthrough itself.
For anyone else, breaking through required extreme caution, and it might take more than a hundred times as long as it did for Ning Zheng.
This was a happy worry.
Of course, Ning Zheng might just have been overthinking it.
His breakthroughs were fast now, but after passing the Three Disasters and Seven Tribulations, he would no longer be able to advance so quickly.
"No matter what, this whole period has been nothing but seclusion, seclusion, and more seclusion."
Ning Zheng opened his eyes, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. This was probably the happy worry.
He glanced at the sky and found that dusk had already fallen. The blacksmiths outside were getting ready to log off, chattering away as they chatted and bragged.
As for how the Bride Town Lord trio had spent the past few days doing odd jobs?
Ning Zheng logged onto the forum and looked through the posts, checking whether anything had changed for them during these few days of the open beta.
On the forum, the trio were all discussing their plans for impersonating False Humans.
Wu Shengjing in particular was furious:
"I'm so pissed off! Those bastards are insane! I actually came in third in the Wu Shengjing Impersonation Contest."
The more she spoke, the angrier she became:
"They don't understand Wu Shengjing at all! She's a smithing girl, not someone wearing a miniskirt and high heels while performing some so-called smithing mechanical dance! Although I do think that mechanical dance is pretty cool."
Clearly, Wu Shengjing