A New Item Grinded Out: Death-Defying Protective Barrier!

Qin Yao had carefully done the math. If he kept his head down and grinded those "Heaven Rank Lower Grade" cultivation techniques and martial skills to "Perfection," it would take at least three to five months!

But even if he truly grinded those techniques and skills to the Perfection Realm...

There would not be the slightest further improvement to Qin Yao's martial cultivation realm.

At most, it would only make his combat methods a little more varied.

If he had nothing better to do, then grinding away like that would have been fine.

But the problem was, he was under enormous pressure!

Ever since Qin Yao had fought that Stone Sculpture Monster when he first arrived in Prosperous Peace Commandery, a taut string had remained wound tight in his heart.

He feared that Frost Kingdom might suddenly throw one or two Stone Sculpture Monsters at the city!

If that day truly came, Qin Yao, who had been painstakingly training Heaven Rank Lower Grade techniques yet struggling to make a breakthrough, would see almost no substantive improvement. He would most likely be dragged into an unprecedentedly bitter battle.

Yet Qin Yao had no idea what the situation inside Frost Kingdom was like now.

Thus, he could only infer from common sense that, after suffering such enormous losses in Nine Suns Commandery and Prosperous Peace Commandery, they would definitely not let the matter rest!

For all he knew, the maddest retaliation from Frost Kingdom might come bearing down on them in just a couple of days!

Time waited for no one!

So Qin Yao decisively changed his approach—rather than butting his head against techniques that could not bring "high growth potential" in the short term...

He might as well pick up "life skills" such as Lockpicking and Tracking again.

After all, the