After returning to his villa, Wang Cheng hadn't gone back to the Wilderness Area.
The monsters there weren't completely useless to him, but they didn't mean much anymore either. So Wang Cheng's Main Body spent a peaceful month at home.
Wang Cheng's Main Body might not have done much that month, but his three thousand Clones had been busy.
They absorbed Cosmic energy and studied all kinds of secret manuals. It had only been a month, but Wang Cheng had progressed far faster than before!
His progress with the laws had been especially remarkable.
"Time... so that's how it works!"
Wang Cheng's Main Body stood in the Training Room of his villa. The light around him was faintly distorted. Anyone watching closely would have noticed that everything within the distorted area—including Wang Cheng's movements—was moving at an extraordinarily rapid pace, as if someone had pressed the fast-forward button.
In fact, that was exactly what was happening!
After studying it for three days through more than a thousand Clones, Wang Cheng had already grasped the basics of the time-related manual Eternal Void. More precisely, it was a manual on researching Time Acceleration!
Wang Cheng had grasped the basics in three days, and then he discovered that his earlier guess had been right: in addition to his unusually clear perception of the Lightning Law, he had the same clarity when sensing the Time Law.
Now, after a month, Wang Cheng could already accelerate time slightly in the area around himself!
It might not seem like much, but in battle, it meant that Wang Cheng's explosive speed, attack speed, and other abilities would all be considerably faster than before. With so many things sped up, Wang Cheng could now deal with his month-ago self with ease!
The Time Law was a High-level Law. Even a tiny grasp of it could produce an incredible effect!
"Still, Time Acceleration takes too much Gene Energy. I'm only at the Stellar level—I can't afford to use it freely. At most, I can speed things up around myself. Widespread Time Acceleration is out of the question for now!" Wang Cheng assessed his current condition. Before long, he had a thought and withdrew the field of Time Acceleration surrounding him.
Aside from the Time Law, Wang Cheng had also made astonishing progress in the Lightning Law and Wind Law over the past month. In fact, his progress in those two areas was far more impressive than in the Time Law.
Time was far more abstruse, so Wang Cheng didn't feel that his progress there was all that incredible. But with manuals to guide him, he'd advanced at a truly astonishing rate in the Lightning Law and Wind Law!
He'd practically shot forward!
However, Wang Cheng couldn't test those two laws in his small villa. If the power of wind and lightning laws erupted there, the little villa would be reduced to dust in an instant!
"I should go out for a bit." Wang Cheng made up his mind.
The World Ring had more space, but there wasn't a single living creature inside. Wang Cheng had been cooped up at home all month, with all three thousand Clones training intensely. The mental strain had been considerable.
Under the circumstances, he naturally wanted to go out and clear his head.
He left an Apprentice level Clone at home, while he himself soon departed Yangzhou City.
Without choosing a direction on purpose, Wang Cheng subconsciously headed toward City No. 016, where he had left from last time. But he didn't fly at full speed. He'd come out to relax, after all; flying too fast would defeat the purpose.
As he flew, Wang Cheng observed the sights along the way.
He wasn't interested in watching Warriors fight monsters, so he quickly passed them by. But when he spotted Warriors fighting one another—
"Hm?"
Wang Cheng abruptly stopped and looked down in surprise.
Two groups of Warriors had clearly come into conflict.
And there were people Wang Cheng knew in both groups.
At that moment, on a small hill below,
Jiang Mingyue stood at the top, surrounded by six people who had her trapped. There were four men and two women, and the one leading them was none other than Silvia, who had once shared an intimate moment with Wang Cheng.
Silvia and the other five had surrounded Jiang Mingyue. They clearly weren't there to joke around. They had come looking for trouble!
"Jiang Yueming, do you dare claim that you weren't responsible for the beast horde attacking my teammates and me last time?" Silvia glared at Jiang Mingyue and demanded.
"If I say it wasn't me, then it wasn't me!" Jiang Mingyue replied calmly. "You just want to take my prey. Why make up another excuse?"
"You wretched woman! If you won't admit it, we'll make you!" Silvia waved to the teammates she'd recently recruited. Six black Flying Daggers glinted as they rose behind her.
"Go ahead and try!" Jiang Mingyue said, unfazed by the others' eagerness to attack. She took the iron staff off her back and gave it a slight pull. In an instant, it extended into a long spear.
"Grab her!"
At Silvia's command, she and her five teammates attacked all at once.
Whoosh!
Jiang Mingyue moved in the same instant. Faced with six opponents at once, including High-level War Generals and a Mental Master, she didn't panic in the slightest. Instead, she met them calmly.
Compared to her previous fight against Silvia and the others, Jiang Mingyue's movements were now far more composed and even more ruthless.
She was like a nimble black cat, darting around the cramped space while continually fending off all six attackers.
"Her movement technique has reached Perfect level!" one of Silvia's teammates cried out.
"Don't panic. Surround her and leave her nowhere to dodge!" Silvia ordered, keeping her composure.
"..."
This time, Silvia's teammates were clearly much weaker than the ones she'd had before. On top of that, Jiang Mingyue had fully mastered Perfect level movement. So she didn't lose right away.
"Tsk. Still, this woman won't last much longer." Wang Cheng watched the fight from above, wondering whether he should help Jiang Mingyue in a bit.
Silvia had once shared that sort of intimacy with him, but Wang Cheng wouldn't compromise his principles because of it.
Jiang Mingyue was a Warrior from Huaxia Country. Wang Cheng wouldn't stand by and watch while a group of people captured her and took her away.
"Hm?"
As Wang Cheng thought this over, he suddenly looked into the distance in surprise.
"Interesting!"
Wang Cheng smiled, then stayed where he was and continued watching.
A short while later, just as Jiang Mingyue was locked in a bitter struggle and nearing her limit, a dark figure suddenly dropped from the sky.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The figure blurred from place to place. In an instant, five of the people attacking Jiang Mingyue were kicked away, and the Flying Daggers Silvia had been controlling were all seized by the newcomer.
Whoosh!
The figure landed in front of Jiang Mingyue. He wore a black combat suit, stood nearly two meters tall, and was built like a hulking bear.
"A War God?" Silvia's expression shifted.
"You're surrounding a Warrior on our territory in Huaxia Country. Don't you think that's a bit too brazen?" The dark figure spoke calmly, but Silvia and the others immediately felt an overwhelming pressure.
"Respected War God, we had no intention of offending your country's Warriors!" Silvia replied gravely. "Besides, with the monsters as our common enemy, why should Warriors from different countries draw such clear lines? We attacked Miss Jiang Yueming only because she once lured a beast horde into attacking me and my teammates, which led to five of them dying—"
"She's lying!" Jiang Mingyue interrupted at once. She spoke calmly:
"I never did anything like that. You can accuse me of anything if you want, but that doesn't make it true. I think you just want to steal my prey and take revenge while you're at it!"
"You—"
Silvia was furious. She had gathered these people because she was eighty or ninety percent certain that the person before her had been behind what happened. When she went looking for teammates afterward, she'd found plenty of clues.
But who could have expected her to deny it so shamelessly—and then turn around and accuse them instead?
"Enough. I don't care about your grudge, but this ends here today!" The dark figure was domineering, putting a stop to the matter with a single declaration.
Silvia and the others were furious, but they knew they were no match for a War God and couldn't afford to provoke one. For now, they had no choice but to swallow their anger.
Just then—
Without anyone noticing, holes suddenly opened in the ground. The next instant, countless dark shapes swarmed out, making straight for Silvia, who was caught completely off guard.
Sensing danger, Silvia immediately used her Mental Energy to form a barrier behind herself. Countless dark shapes crashed into it and tumbled to the ground, but even more surged out and rushed at her in a frenzy.
"What are these?"
Silvia's mental barrier didn't hold for long. Soon, the unrelenting tide of dark shapes overwhelmed it, and the others finally reacted.
"It's a pack of rats!" The War God, who had just forcefully put a stop to the dispute between the two groups, suddenly turned grave.
"Everyone, come over here! If this Mental Master dies, none of you will get away!" the War God shouted. Everyone immediately reacted.
Even Jiang Mingyue hesitated only briefly before charging over with her spear in hand.
Jiang Mingyue didn't like Silvia in the least, but she knew that if this turned out to be a Rat Disaster rather than a small pack, then unless a Mental Master who could fly gave them a way out, they were almost certain to die.
Whether Silvia would save her later didn't matter. For now, she had to save Silvia first!
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