Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 69: After 11 Months

Jiang Hao shook his head and began reading at a normal voice; it was enough for her to listen.

Since today Huan Caiyi was creating a proper place for them to live in, they were free to do whatever they wanted, so learning a profession wasn’t a bad idea. As he was still a beginner at swordsmanship and without guidance, there was no need to practice that for now.

Although he wanted to learn the way of the sword, he still preferred fighting with his hands for the time being. Since he had used only his hands till now, he just felt natural with them.

They read for the whole day before night came. This book contained simple arrays which were for beginners and apprentice-level array practitioners.

To become a beginner-level array practitioner, you have to master at least 10 arrays which are Grade 1 or Qi Refinement realm. For apprentice level, you need to learn 10 Grade 2 and 10 Grade 3 arrays.

This book contains 30 arrays exactly, and if they are able to master them, then they will become apprentice-level array practitioners.

It has explanations about further stages: for Expert level, you need to master 10 arrays of Grade 4 and 5; for Master level, you have to master 10 arrays of Grade 6 and 7; similarly, for Grandmaster level, you have to master 10 arrays of Grade 8 and 9; and finally, Saint-level array practitioners need to master 10 arrays of Grade 10 level.

This classification is similar for alchemists too. They have to just master making pills instead of drawing arrays. Also, success rates may differ from alchemist to alchemist, but that is a different matter altogether.

"Hnghhh.... it was really tiring," Ming Yue stretched herself while saying.

Jiang Hao wanted to ask when does listening and watching him draw some arrays become tiring—were her eyes and ears tired?

"Junior brother, let’s go. Comprehending 10 Grade 1 arrays in 1 day is quite good progress. We have passed the minimum requirement for Beginner level."

Huan Caiyi and Zhi Hui had gone to the other side of the peak, so they weren’t visible.

Jiang Hao nodded and put the book inside his ring. He had learned some protective arrays, illusion arrays, and killing arrays. All were at Grade 1 level and the easiest to master. The maximum arrays in this book fall into these categories.

Since they had mastered 10 arrays, only 20 more were left. But the amount of time required to master them will definitely be higher, as they will be quite complex compared to Grade 1 arrays.

They came to the other side of the peak. Four caves were visible when they had just arrived. Huan Caiyi seemed to be sitting without doing anything, while Zhi Hui still hadn’t completed drawing the array. It was an array meant to cover the whole peak in an illusion, so it was really quite big.

When Huan Caiyi saw them, she called them over.

"Once this array is complete, even a Grade 7 beast won’t be able to find us, unless they deliberately come over this peak. The chances of that are very low as it isn’t the biggest peak among all the other peaks nearby.

So, for the next one year, we will be here. As we have more than enough resources to cultivate for a year without problems, one year will also be enough for you guys to develop a rudimentary level of battle sense. I must say that the speed at which you guys have developed your battle sense is even surprising for me.

After one year, we will actively search for resources in the forbidden zone, because we can never have enough resources with you two here. Well, it would have been the most dangerous thing to do, but with Nirvana’s Veil, it is quite the opposite now.

Also, Jiang Hao, tell me what else your ring has to offer."

Jiang nodded and started explaining.

"Senior, other than teleportations using my own strength, it offers 10 Minor teleportations with each covering 1000 miles and 1 Major teleportation covering up to 1,000,000 miles.

The best part is that once I use this function, I can take more than one person with me, but the distance will be halved with each addition.

These functions don’t require my qi to function, but they have a time restriction per use.

If I use one Minor teleportation, then it will take 24 hours to be available again for use.

If I use the Major teleportation function, then it will take 10 days for it to become usable again.

Other than the teleportations, this ring can also create a barrier around me to protect me from attacks. This barrier is strong enough to handle the 3 strongest attacks possible under the rule of this heaven, so I doubt attacks of a lower level even put any effect on it."

Huan Caiyi nodded and said, "So, you are saying you have a supply of an unlimited amount of Major and Minor teleportations, which is even better than Major and Minor Transference talismans. Are you sure this ring isn’t some heaven-defying treasure which would even cause a massacre in the upper world?"

"Well, it would, Senior," Jiang Hao was honest here; after all, it was related to one of the universal treasures.

"Forget it. But it really is quite amazing. It really will come in handy once you reach the Core Formation realm," she said with a smile.

Jiang Hao and Ming Yue immediately understood she had thought of something fun which she will definitely execute.

Jiang Hao had one question in his mind, so he asked, "Senior, since we are able to come inside the forbidden zone, wouldn’t they be able to do so too? What if they started searching for us on the borders?"

"Yep, they will come, but how many? If they entered in large numbers, then the chance of encountering a Grade 7 beast will also be high. Not to mention they can’t use their spirit senses either as that is easily discoverable. Also, I doubt they will have a skill comparable to Nirvana’s Veil.

Let’s say they avoided all these and are able to enter, but then what? This illusion array isn’t something a Heavenly King realm cultivator can see through, not to mention we will be drawing a restriction array too. In fact, I will be happy if they really came inside this restriction array.

Since we had already planned this for long, we had collected a lot of things for our protection, so don’t worry too much about it. Enjoy all you want tonight, because from tomorrow you won’t get the chance to."

Jiang sighed while thinking about 1 year. It wasn’t much in a cultivator’s life, but to a mortal, it was quite long.

He was worried about one particular thing: the Truth Seeker.

It was a really troublesome treasure.

For the time being, these sects will focus on them, so the questions they will ask will be related to them. But eventually, they will try other methods to force them out if the result they wanted isn’t achieved, which is their death.

So, they will definitely wait for 4 or 5 years.

If we are able to survive 4 or 5 years in the forbidden zone, they will definitely figure it out—that we have some means which is enough to survive in this deadly zone.

After they become aware of it, they will try to figure out other ways to target us. Like, what if they asked questions to figure out blood relations and found out that he has a mother?

Although they won’t be able to pinpoint her location with the Truth Seeker if its abilities are really limited, they can still ask if she is near any village around the city.

The answer to this question will be yes.

Then they can capture people of all the villages nearby. After all, they are just righteous in name only; they can use any reason to capture the villagers, and who will really question them for some common mortals?

This will really be the worst situation for his mother and also him. He wanted her to live carefree and happy, so he didn’t want to involve her in this kind of mess.

The best thing he can think of is to keep distracting the cultivators of both sects, and he has the means to do so. He sighed and waited for at least this year to pass peacefully.

Eventually, a new day came, and their general routine began.

In the morning, they practiced the way of the sword; after that, they got beaten thoroughly till evening; after some rest, they practiced and learned arrays.

Time passed gradually... and 11 months passed peacefully...

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"Junior brother, I will go first."

"Good luck, Senior Sister."

Ming Yue moved to the center of an open training ground which they had used for the past 11 months.

They had completed their brutal training sessions with Huan Caiyi and finally were able to enter the most rudimentary stage of battle sense. After this, how they will grow their battle sense is up to them; every successful battle will become their learning point.

They had also mastered all the 30 arrays in the book and reached a proper apprentice level in their journey as array practitioners.

He had also learned a technique which can be used to discern the realm of other cultivators, even if they are hiding their cultivation realm.

Unless they are stronger than him and have a better technique than the one he had learned, they won’t be able to hide their cultivation realms.

His sword way hasn’t improved much as it wasn’t his main focus; only 2 hours per day isn’t enough.

But it’s not like he didn’t improve at all; he is already quite deep into the sword beginner level.

The reason why they had gathered here is that both of them were already at the peak stage of the Foundation Establishment realm, and today they had decided to breakthrough to the Core Formation realm.

Sister Ming Yue is going to do it first, and he will do it after her.