“H-how did you advance so fast?”
The rest were astonished.
Fast?
Not even close. The past Li Mo had a level of power beyond that of true qi, divine power. If even a sixth level wall was a grueling task, his six hundred years of cultivation in the past would’ve been a waste.
He didn’t push through it as soon as he reached the wall because Li Mo took true qi as divine power. If he’d done it, it would’ve been akin to a professional gamer making a smurf account. It wasn’t a nice feeling, that’s for sure.
“I’ve told you all my experience in the matter. Now it is up to you to advance.”
The panda howled as it plunged into the yellow level ancient battleground again.
He lost three times in a row and seeing Li Mo enter the sixth level had pushed his frustration over the edge.
Du Fei and Whitey were affected as well, throwing themselves into raising in stages in the ancient battleground.
A month came and went, with the panda’s ranking stabilized on the 8th stage in the yellow level. Du Fei and Madam Ning, as well as Whitey, reached the 2nd stage of the profound level. Li Mo was the only one in the 9th stage!
Such speed garnered a change in the ancient battleground’s speed ranking, making the name Arcane appear in the 7th place. This was a change happening less than once a hundred million years.
“Gods above! If it takes one month to be ranked 7th, what kind of freaks would that make those ahead of him?” Du Fei felt fear.
This month helped getting accustomed to the profound level ancient battleground. If not for the Sacred Light Physique, he wouldn’t have won once.
He barely entered the 2nd stage granted, but the downside was he had yet to advance to the sixth level. His spiritual qi remained unchanged, turning into a lamb the minute a sixth level being entered the field.
As the three worked hard in raising to the 3rd stage, Li Mo was challenging the earth level.
The hundred-man battleground was far bigger than a profound level’s. It had many obstacles and buildings, useful as cover or slinking into obscurity.
In the earth level, everyone had to rise above his 99 opponents to grasp victory.
The cruelty of such a skirmish could only be imagined.
Du Fei was sure Li Mo was going to lose. But Li Mo was smart in moving from cover to cover, until only he and one other person were left. And his opponent was on his last breath as well, teetering on the brink of collapse…
“Bro Mo, I think I get it now why you always say fleeing is more powerful than charging…”
Du Fei bowed before the master in respect.
“In the endless stretches of the universe, strong beings are everywhere. Facing those famous for hundreds of thousand of years, even tens of thousands of years, what would make us?”
Li Mo sighed, “You call yourself a genius, but how much of a prodigy one has to be to stand toe to toe with such beings?”
“Compared to those giants, having more life-saving techniques is of far greater value than having one more dominating martial art.”
Li Mo’s experience in the ancient battleground in this life differed from his past one.
His past self spent 210 years to overcome the profound level ancient battleground and 30 years to rise to the 9th stage of the earth level.
The reason for wasting so much time in the profound level was Li Mo being slow in entering the sixth level. With no one to guide him, to point him in the right direction, he only had himself to depend on.
Yet even so, it was a time well spent. If not for constant advancement in the ancient battleground, Li Mo’s strength wouldn’t have increased so fast.
The past Li Mo was slow in passing through the stages. He had no godlike power to rely on, only some random fleeing skills.
Li Mo went back into the earth ancient battleground, with his opponents in the 1st and second stages.
Pff…
Li Mo just entered when a red talon from a red-winged, black-feathered avian pierced his skull.
Li Mo collapsed…
Although one entered the ancient battleground with his mind, once you ‘died’, your corpse would remain.
The hundred-man battle continued for two hours. The winner panted, standing there baffle that the match didn’t end. Then Li Mo’s corpse stood up.
Li Mo didn’t move because he used Earth Fist to take on the avian’s strike and then Heaven and Earth Inverse to play dead.
One simple punch knocked the other out and winning the match.
“Despicable.” Du Fei was flabbergast…
“On the field of war, there are only two outcomes, winning or losing. Honor has no place there.”
“Perhaps. It seems I have much to learn from you.”
Li Mo entered again.
But this time, his acting fell through. A humanoid there had in fact a third eye on his forehead. His heaven’s eye trait allowed him to see through Heaven and Earth Inverse.
Pff~
The three eyed guy was vicious as well. He used a hat to cover his extra eye, making it a coincidence when he neared Li Mo and used a spear a dozen times on him, making sure he was deader than dead…
“You’re not the only sneak one here, but everyone is.”
Du Fei wiped his brow. As Li Mo was turned into a sieve, a way away was a dastardly turtle posing as a harmless rock. Whenever someone passed by, it would strike with uncanny accuracy every single time.
Some tens of people started blasting the turtle, but the latter hid in his shell, uncaring of the ruckus outside.
“He is a Black Tortoise. The Black Tortoise wasn’t classified among the ten sacred beasts in ancient times, but that could also be taken as its fortune. While the sacred beasts vanished into thin air, the Black Tortoise remained.
“This race isn’t that powerful but has one of the best defenses in the universe. The ones able to pierce it can be counted on one hand.”
“Won’t that make it invincible, just standing there?”
Li Mo smiled, “It still has a long way to go.”
As if to validate his words, a black sludge of a creature ran to the turtle. The turtle turned the sludge into a puddle with a strike.
But the sludge flowed through the turtle’s gaps and the turtle screamed as it clawed at the sludge on its face.
Unfortunately, the sludge didn’t just covered its face, but went into its mouth and nose…
Soon, the turtle slumped lifeless.
The black sludge crawled out of its skull and took his normal form.
“Holy Mother of God! What is that thing?” Du Fei jumped.
