Spiritual Metamorphosis

"Puchi--"

The distance between the two was still too close. Even though Xiao Yan had a moment of enlightenment, at the very last second, he only had time to dodge his head, and the dagger ultimately pierced through Xiao Yan's shoulder.

"Bang!" Accompanied by blood spraying into the air, a severed arm fell to the ground.

"Ah--" The intense pain caused Xiao Yan's face to contort. Looking at the ambusher before him, Xiao Yan's face was filled with endless killing intent.

"Die!" Consumed by rage, Xiao Yan's figure flickered like a ghost, instantly appearing behind the ambusher.

Fiery red battle qi condensed, and he slammed a palm onto the ambusher's head.

The gap in their skill and realm was like heaven and earth. Having lost the initiative, in a direct confrontation, the ambusher was slapped to death by the enraged Xiao Yan before he could even react.

"Bang!"

The battle ended, and Xiao Yan dragged his broken body away quickly.

Night fell in a dim cave.

Xiao Yan, with the build of Yang Guo, leaned against the wall, bandaging the wound on his shoulder by the faint moonlight.

Having lost an arm and not yet adapted to it, Xiao Yan's combat power was greatly reduced at this moment. It was his weakest point; he didn't even dare to start a fire, fearing it would attract the attention of powerful magical beasts.

In the dim cave, after finishing the bandage, Xiao Yan touched his wound, his eyes deep.

In his mind, he kept recalling the dagger that had almost pierced his eyeball during the day.

This strike was a lesson in humility.

It completely severed the trace of pride that Lynn had hidden deep in his heart as a transmigrator.

This was a real world; everyone would die. Ordinary people would die, gods would die, and even Ao Fu, who had gathered the three supreme artifacts, would die. Even Lin Lei, on his path to transcendence, did not have a smooth journey and often encountered crises.

Even though more than half a day had passed, Xiao Yan still felt lingering fear. It was so close... just a hair's breadth away. If it hadn't been for the final moment when Xiao Yan successfully grasped the momentum of the world and controlled his body to shift slightly to the left, what he would have lost would not have been as simple as just his right arm.

"I still underestimated the enemy." Touching his wound, Xiao Yan sighed softly. "I should have understood long ago that the bandits in the Sunset Forest are a completely different concept from those outside the Sunset Forest."

The bandits outside the Sunset Forest mostly moved in groups, often twenty or thirty at a time. Most were level three or four warriors, with very few level five or six experts. Their targets were mostly young, inexperienced adventurers, commonly known as greenhorns.

These greenhorns were often talented students from academies or noble children out for training, possessing significant wealth; each one was equivalent to a walking magic core.

The middle-aged man who killed Caesar's group outside the Sunset Forest belonged to this type of bandit.

However, the bandits roaming within the Sunset Forest, due to the complex environment and the abundance of magical beasts, were at least level five warriors. The strong ones could even reach level seven or eight. Each was rich in combat experience and incredibly difficult to deal with.

If one were to lump these two types of bandits together, they would surely suffer a great loss.

Recalling the details of the day, Xiao Yan examined his own shortcomings and put away the contempt in his heart.

"Next, I will find a safe place to rest and recuperate. Once I am familiar with fighting with one hand, I will leave the Sunset Forest." Xiao Yan thought to himself, not overly worried about the severed arm.

After all, although Xiao Yan had lost an arm, he had also gained a blessing in disguise by grasping the momentum of the world.

Next, Xiao Yan only needed to accumulate battle qi step by step. It wouldn't be long before he could break through to the Saint realm and complete the evolution of his life level.

By then, not only would the number of his clones increase, but Xiao Yan's own white talent could also be refreshed into a higher-level talent.

As for the lost arm, although it temporarily affected his combat power, as long as he found a high-level light or life mage after leaving, it could be regrown.

Time flew by. On the thirty-third day of Xiao Yan's arrival in the Sunset Forest, he was treating his wounds by a water source. Beside him lay seven or eight corpses dressed in black.

"The seventh batch. There really are a lot of bandits in the Sunset Forest."

Xiao Yan calmly treated the old wound on his shoulder. It was left by that level seven warrior and had damaged the bone. With Xiao Yan's current recovery rate, even after a month, it hadn't fully healed and still required constant attention.

As for the surrounding corpses, they were only level five or six warriors in life and posed no threat to Xiao Yan at all.

After losing his arm, Xiao Yan did not hesitate to leave the core area of the Sunset Forest and chose to recuperate on the periphery. The bandits he encountered were mostly level five or six warriors and could not threaten him.

"Now that I have a good grasp of my body and the pain from the shoulder bone has been reduced to a minimum, I should be fully recovered in a week or two at most. It's about time." Xiao Yan began to think about leaving the Sunset Forest.

Xiao Yan did not intend to return directly to Starfire City.

It had been a month since he left the Dragon Knight Warrior Academy, which meant Xiao Yan hadn't shown his face for a month. As long as the Church of Light wasn't stupid, they would surely guess that Xiao Yan had gone out.

Outside Starfire City now, there might be spies from the Church of Light everywhere, just waiting for Xiao Yan to return so they could kill him in the wilderness.

"After leaving the Sunset Forest, I will find a safe place to focus on accumulating battle qi. At my cultivation speed, I will definitely break through to the Saint realm within five years!"

Just like that, the Sunset Forest lost a trainee named Xiao Yan, and Panshi Town gained a young man named Yang Guo.

Spring passed and autumn came; in the blink of an eye, more than half a year had passed.

In the meditation room of dormitory 9527 at the Imperial Capital Magic Academy of the Roland Empire, Lynn opened his eyes from his cultivation, his eyes filled with irrepressible joy.

"After grasping the momentum of the world, I didn't expect my mental strength to improve so quickly when training it. In just half a year, my mental strength has broken through to a level three mage, and my magic power accumulation has also reached level three!"

"The most critical thing is that ever since my clone grasped the momentum of the world, the quality of my soul seems to have vaguely improved. Now I can control two clones at the same time, without having to give up one while controlling the other like before."

"And..." Lynn tapped his feet lightly, his whole body turning into a ghost, flickering in the meditation room. "With the shared insight into the momentum of the world, even though my main body started cultivating battle qi from scratch, it has now reached level three, and it is very likely that I will reach the Saint realm even before my mage cultivation!"

Thinking of the immortal Saint realm, Lynn felt a surge of excitement.

"However, because of the cultivation technique, it is best not to expose my warrior cultivation. When outside, I will just show my mage cultivation." Suppressing the agitation in his heart, Lynn, whose expression gradually calmed down, thought to himself.

"Snap--"

Just at this moment, the door to the meditation room was pushed open.

"Third brother, Senior Xili is hosting a party tonight, want to go together?" Leiluo said boisterously.

Faced with the invitation, Lynn shook his head in refusal. "Forget it, I plan to continue my cultivation."

"Alright then, I'll go with Gates instead." Seeing that Lynn had refused, Leiluo didn't insist, turning around to go find the second brother, Gates.