"Bzzzz..."
The Battle Intent seed, which had long since transformed to the third stage, began to grow the little flower blooming atop it.
Bigger! Bigger! Bigger!
The flower shot skyward, forcing aside the crushing boulder. Its trunk lengthened, its branches spread—
The flower became a sapling!
The third-stage Intent seed became a Battle Intent sapling!
At last, Battle Intent had fully matured!
Bai Zhou stood motionless, his expression dazed, his mind utterly immersed.
This ancient gladiatorial arena ruin was welcoming its first visitor in countless years in its own unique way.
The Last Wills covering the ground and the marks covering the walls presented the events of the past before Bai Zhou. Scenes of life-and-death struggles flickered hazily before his eyes, while roars and the sounds of slaughter rang endlessly in his ears.
"What pure combat. What a powerful fighting heart!" Bai Zhou felt every drop of blood in his body burning and boiling.
Surging Battle Intent transformed into a hot current that coursed through his limbs and torso. Watching the countless movements of those people fighting, Bai Zhou suddenly felt that something within those movements looked familiar.
"This is...?" Bai Zhou froze abruptly.
Every punch, every saber strike, every sword stroke, every claw swipe—the secret arts they used in battle carried blazing Intent, yet they also seemed to contain parts of the techniques of Basic Nine Slashes!
Though those techniques only resembled it and were not wholly identical, it was as though... Basic Nine Slashes contained all the variations of those secret arts, as though it were the progenitor and source of their secret arts!
"That makes sense. Basic Nine Slashes is vast and profound, and it is also a legacy secret art of the Sun Temple..."
"In the Troy Civilization, the secret arts mastered by these level 6