Although Yue Chen had no idea why Long Tianyin had left looking so dejected, at least the rest of his time was now his own.
Yue Chen was no longer the man who had worried that leaving his team to cultivate would leave him bored out of his mind. He now had plenty to do. How could he spare any attention for what Long Tianyin, a man with nothing to do with him, was thinking?
After all, as far as Yue Chen remembered of this Holy War on the Holy Demon Continent, none of the fortress passes guarded by the Six Great Temples had ever fallen.
The Holy War was hardly something he needed to worry about. His immediate priorities were...
Breaking through to the seventh tier, signing summoning contracts with the Undead Lords in the Plane of the Dead, going to the Eternal Tower to pass the trials Yilikes had set for him and study his Necromancer Legacy, and mastering all the practical secret techniques in the Treasure Pavilion...
Yue Chen: "..."
After thinking it over, Yue Chen decided to spend some time in seclusion first and make further plans after reaching the seventh tier. After all, greater cultivation and mental power should allow him to accomplish twice as much with half the effort in everything that followed.
With that in mind, Yue Chen trudged into the meditation room Long Tianyin had specifically arranged for him...
Elsewhere, Long Haochen had parted ways with his teammates. Escorted by several eighth-tier King Assassins from the Assassin Temple and accompanied by his retainer knight, Han Yu, he arrived at the headquarters of their Knight Temple for the first time.
Imperial Dragon Pass lay shrouded in ice and snow year-round. Mountains of military supplies were piled atop its walls, as though everything was