Night fell. Zuo Qianhu sat cross-legged in the barracks, six Steel Blades and a Pudao laid across his knees. He closed his eyes and focused, recalling the battle from earlier that day. Zhao Hu's way of wielding the Law of Earth had shown him the fundamental difference between cultivators of the Primordial World and those of the Red Dust Realm.
The Martial Codex is powerful, but its use of the laws of heaven and earth is still too crude. Zuo Qianhu had come to understand. To break through to the Taiyi Realm, I need to make up for this shortcoming. Tomorrow, I'll go to the Scripture Pavilion and study how to put the power of laws to use...
Unlike the Human Race of the Primordial World, whose members were born with innate laws, the people of the Red Dust Realm had to reach the Golden Immortal Realm and gain an initial grasp of the laws before they could enter the Primordial World without being treated as oddities.
Otherwise, if everyone was an Earth Immortal, and every member of the Human Race in the Primordial World possessed at least one law while Earth Immortals from the Red Dust Realm had none, wouldn't they stand out and attract attention?
Not long after the battle at the Protector Guard's training grounds in Luo Shui City, the news spread throughout Human territory as if it had grown legs. The story of a Golden Immortal Realm instructor crushing Taiyi Realm recruits became a hot topic over tea. Some marveled at the power of the Martial Codex; others speculated in secret that Zuo Qianhu must be the disciple of some reclusive master. A few quick-witted families had already begun plotting how to get close to the newly appointed instructor.
For now, though, none of this had