Three days later, at dusk.
Inside the Layered Cloud Pavilion.
Lin Guanhuo sat quietly with his eyes closed in the second-floor hall.
Ever since breaking through to Bone Forging Third Rank, Lin Guanhuo had remained seated here in meditation.
The tea before him had cooled and been reheated, reheated and cooled again—he had no idea how many times Momo had changed it.
At some point, Lin Guanhuo finally opened his eyes slowly.
A notification appeared before him.
[Draw Sword count consumed: 90000] [Demon Suppressing Saber, Level Five → Demon Suppressing Saber, Level Eight (0%)]
Lin Guanhuo spent ninety thousand Draw Sword counts to raise the Demon Suppressing Saber another three levels. The day it became a Golden Martial Art was not far off.
A Golden Martial Art was simply a martial art with maxed-out proficiency.
The path of martial arts consumed the labor of centuries and millennia. Some martial arts were not difficult to practice; what was difficult was mastering them.
Even the creators of certain martial arts might not necessarily reach Great Accomplishment.
As far as Lin Guanhuo knew, no one in all of Kaiyang County had yet cultivated the Demon Suppressing Saber to twelve light patterns and reached Great Accomplishment...
"M-Master Lin!!"
"Master Lin!!"
Just then, a wail came from outside. A Black Armored Guard came tumbling and crawling up to the second floor, his voice trembling. "M-Master Lin!! Commander has summoned all the Division's Gold Badge Holders to the Inner Courtyard Hall for a discussion. Something terrible has happened!"
The speaker was Zhu Bao, one of the Black Armored Guard captains!
There were over a dozen Black Armored Guard captains, all under Commander Zhou Tian's command.
However, the one usually assigned to Lin Guanhuo was another captain, Jiang Chong.
Lin Guanhuo asked, "Where is Jiang