CHAPTER 1019: CHAPTER 815: AN ABYSSAL RIFT APPEARS IN THE MOUNTAIN AND SEA REALM (SUPER CHAPTER)

After spending an hour in the Ice Plain Town, Vito and the three students gathered some intelligence on the ’Midgard world’.

Not much.

Due to limited manpower and strength, Ice Plain Town mainly focused on concealment and is located at the edge of the world, where traces of intelligent life are rare.

"Midgard world is a world where multiple races coexist, including the Human Race, but not in large numbers."

Ji Kaipeng looked at the scant few pages of intelligence in his hand.

"The rulers of Midgard world are the Black Horn Clan, a branch of the Horned Race..."

During their days in Void City, the students not only cultivated but also began to learn some ’cosmic knowledge’.

Vito and the three of them had some understanding of the Horned Race.

This is a race that considers horns as a beauty trait, similarly spread throughout the universe, second only in number to the Human Race, Spirit Race, and the other prominent races of the past.

However, their quality is much poorer, and the Horned Race has never produced forces at the level of a cosmic overlord.

"Even so, the Black Horn Clan are the absolute rulers of the Midgard world and should not be underestimated."

"Yes, and the Midgard world is an advanced world, with a 99.9% chance of having Domain Level strongmen, even peak strongmen, directly confronting us is totally out of our league."

"Wait, aren’t we just investigating the legend of the ’Divine Crossing Tree’? Why must we have a conflict with the Black Horn Clan?"

"Hey, you make a good point, I wonder why I didn’t think of that."

Since the Midgard world has Humans, the three of them did not need to disguise themselves too much, they simply donned the common clothing of that world and left the Ice Plain, heading towards the core area of the Midgard world.

...

In the Mountain and Sea World,

Since the Tao Sect displayed absolute power and crushed the hostile top forces such as the ’Dark Capital’, the entire continent, as well as the Endless Sea beyond it, has predominantly revered the Tao Sect and the Human Race.

At least on the surface, this is the case.

Nowadays, even ordinary people find that their Human Race identity grants them privileges in many Alien Race cities.

It’s been several years since that battle, and most ordinary people and ordinary Awakeners have forgotten the scene where the Tao Sect shrouded half the continent with its might.

But for the high-levels of various forces, they can’t forget.

Thus, although these forces engage in some small actions privately, none dare to cross the line, and the Mountain and Sea World has entered a rare period of peace, and regions where battles have changed the landscape began developing cities.

Southeast of the continent, adjacent to the Sky-cutting Mountain Range.

There is a small country named Nanze Country.

It is far from the core of the continent, more remote than the Dachang Dynasty where Tang Yu once stayed for some time.

The Source Qi concentration is thin, and there are only a few sporadic low-grade Source Crystal Mines in the surrounding area.

The entire Nanze Country is underdeveloped, whether in rune technology or in the number of strongmen, it lags far behind the Dachang Dynasty. But because it is located in a remote corner, there are not many intelligent tribes around Nanze Country, except occasionally a few not-too-strong Mutant Beasts come through from some offshoot of the Sky-cutting Mountain Range in the south, there’s no threat.

Over the centuries, Nanze Country has thrived, its population has multiplied several times and the nation’s scale has expanded significantly... but it remains an ordinary small country.

An Advanced Awakening is a major expert who walks with the wind.

Yuan Water Town is a characteristic town located in the south of Nanze Country, because it is near a branch of the Sky-cutting Mountain Range, and has a main road leading directly to several surrounding cities, Yuan Water Town has always been prosperous, with a strong martial atmosphere.

Everywhere you can see martial artists in sturdy outfits, carrying swords and sabers.

From time to time, you can see experts running on roofs, disappearing in a few leaps.

"Is that a Body-shaping Realm expert?"

"Ha, what’s a Body-shaping Realm, haven’t you heard we recently got a young Source Condensation Realm genius in Yuan Water Town?"

"What? Such a genius!"

The storyteller in the tavern spat words fervently, describing some experiences, and when mentioning that young genius, some gasped, but many martial artists from the nearby big cities looked disdainful.

Is it possible?

A teenager barely in his teens, cultivating to Advanced Awakening?

Even in big cities, the offspring of large families can’t do it!

That would already be an elite master in the Martial World, each Source Condensation Realm expert is renowned.

A young, green kid? If he has Awakening Fifth Tier and enters the level of a third-class expert, he’s already a genius among the younger generation.

The knowledgeable martial artists scoffed, but they did not refute, they felt no need to argue with the ordinary folks.

After all, what do ordinary folks know.

At this moment, in a spacious separate courtyard behind the tavern.

A young man sat cross-legged on a straw mat cultivating.

After a long while, he opened his eyes, as if a lion awakening, but the intimidating momentum was restrained in an instant, aside from a slightly mature look, he was not much different from other youths.

"Cultivating after entering the Source Condensation Realm is too slow."

The youth, Su Bing, frowned, "At this pace, I’ll need at least a year to break through to the eleventh layer of Awakening, perhaps five to six years, or even seven to eight years to reach Awakening Tier Perfection; whether I could impact the legendary Stepping Void Realm is unknown... why is it so slow?"

Su Bing’s parents were both strong Awakeners, deemed second-tier in the Martial World hierarchy.

But when he was still a child, his parents died in an accident, leaving a young Su Bing who had not yet Awakened.

Later,

For survival, and also to uncover the cause of his parents’ death, Su Bing became a professional hunter, specializing in hunting Mutant Beasts near the mountains or ordinary animals with a hint of Mutant Beast bloodline, selling them to local inns.

One time, not very luckily, he was chased by a Mutant Beast and fell into a mountain cliff, yet discovered a decaying skeleton, and on the skeleton’s finger...