Inside the tavern, quite a few martial artists were discussing Su Mo, yet they had no idea that the very subject of their discussion was right next to them.
Su Mo drank alone, secretly pondering to himself that only five months remained until the wedding date of Shangguan Hao and Xi'er, which was also the date of his arranged duel with Shangguan Hao.
Time was extremely tight, and he needed to fuse his spiritual vortices as soon as possible to raise his cultivation to the Martial King Realm; otherwise, he would undoubtedly suffer defeat when the time came.
Although his capability for out-of-realm combat was very strong, the gap between him and Shangguan Hao remained immense.
The strength of a Martial Emperor expert was far from anything a Martial King Realm martial artist could compare to.
Under normal circumstances, even a hundred Martial King Realm peak martial artists would not be a match for a single First Layer Martial Emperor Realm martial artist.
Let alone the fact that Shangguan Hao possessed peerless talent—how could he possibly be an ordinary Martial Emperor?
Better raise my cultivation first!
Su Mo pondered for a moment and still decided to prioritize raising his cultivation; once his cultivation broke through to the Martial King Realm and his strength surged immensely, he would then go to the Misty Mountain Range to search for a Blood Pattern Seed.
It was worth mentioning that although Su Mo had recently changed all of his Five Elements Attribute Cultivation Methods to Emperor-grade cultivation methods and had fused quite a few spiritual vortices, his overall strength had not increased by the slightest bit.
This was because the attribute Xuan energy within his body temporarily could not undergo attribute fusion.
Even though he had practiced all five cultivation methods to the First