Green Mulberry Garden.
After leaving Year Festival Square, Lin Ke returned straight here.
Zong Ya, Lin Quan-meng, Shi Ping, and the other "shareholders" of the Great Wilderness Palace had been planning to throw Lin Ke a celebration and really liven things up.
But Lin Ke did not attend.
After returning, he headed straight for his cave abode and shut his doors to visitors.
He knew that although his ranking was very high now, his actual strength had not yet fully reached the standard that ranking demanded.
Setting aside other measures, he only had to compare his battle record with those of the top five.
Zhuge Qi Tian, Shen Wei, and the others all possessed strength comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators, and they even had records of killing Nascent Soul cultivators outright.
He did not possess that kind of strength yet.
With his body-tempering arts, combining dragon-elephant force with several major spell arts, he might now be able to put up a fight against an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.
But killing one was essentially impossible.
Yet amid the current crisis, if he maintained only this level of strength when he attended the Heavenly Pride Gathering, he would have absolutely no chance of winning.
Not only would he be unable to contend with those top Heaven's Chosen and even freaks of talent and bring Lin Xuanyuan into the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.
He would probably struggle even to kill those parasites lurking within the major sects, concealing their strength.
So, for the coming stretch of time, he had to devote all his energy to cultivation and raise his strength to greater heights.
And now, less than two months remained before the gathering began.
Time was tight.
There clearly was not enough time for him to cultivate new methods to improve his strength.