As Qin Shaofeng headed toward the small courtyard, he had no idea that someone was already secretly preparing to deal with him just after he finished studying with Old Man Thousand Battles. (Due to caching issues, please visit the .COM website directly through your browser to view the fastest chapter updates.)
A hundred years.
To others, that was already an exceedingly distant stretch of time. But if Qin Shaofeng had known, he would surely have been delighted by it.
Even though his studies in the Ten Million Great Mountains now often consumed several years, or even more than a decade, at a time.
That was only because his understanding of restrictions had been insufficient.
What he needed most now was a deeper study of restrictions, as well as attempts to begin crafting them.
For someone like him, who in the Starry Sky World had risen from nothing in mere decades to the point where he could decide the war among the Starry Sky World's three great emperors, a hundred years was absolutely an abundant span of time.
As he walked along the pebble-paved path through the courtyard, like a trail winding through the countryside, his Soul Master Realm soul gave him a faint warning sign so subtle it was nearly impossible to detect, though he knew nothing of what was happening in the shadows.
That was a special ability that only gradually emerged after one's cultivation reached the Soul Master Realm.
Yet because such warnings were truly too faint, few experts would genuinely pay them any heed.
Unfortunately, Qin Shaofeng was the exception.
The instant the warning appeared, Qin Shaofeng's heart tightened.
Whether there really was a problem or not, he became even more cautious.
But since this was the first time he had experienced such a warning, he instinctively