Primordial God Of Time

The battle's outcome was soon decided. Just as Kranos guessed, both men continued battling with neither side emerging victorious. Kranos faintly felt this was a waste of time, but he didn't dwell on it too much. He then handed them 100 high-grade spirit stones each, then sent them away after giving them similar pointers. At this moment, all the others had fought between themselves; only the last lady remained. She seemed to have the highest realm, Kranos couldn't imagine what realm she might have reached by now.

He closed his eyes and focused on his cultivation. It was time to begin forming the faint outline of the fourth golden inscription of mana on his golden core. In the blink of an eye, another month had passed. At this moment, Kranos was interrupted by three figures. He was slightly surprised because it seemed the lady who had the highest cultivation was challenged by… these two?

Kranos recognized them at a glance. They were the swordsmen who had dueled in the previous round. He guessed that battle would be interesting. "A duel between you three," he turned to the lady and asked, "Do you accept?"

Without any hesitation, she answered with a nod, "Yes." She felt this was a waste of time and was in a haste to go back and continue her cultivation. Following her agreement, Kranos left the stage for them, and soon the battle ensued.

Following the commencement of the battle, the lady withdrew the long blade at her waist. She was also a blade user, just not with the sword. Immediately, the other two attacked simultaneously, as though they were in sync. Their attack was also coordinated, and they seemed to have taken Kranos's advice to heart.

Seeing both attacks coming towards her from different angles, the lady immediately slashed her blade at the young man to her right. The blade shot out like an arrow and in the blink of an eye, it destroyed the young man's attack, sending him flying. But she didn't stay to look at the outcome of her strike; she knew how strong she was.

She turned instantly towards the second attack on her left. The attack had almost reached her; fortunately, she was fast enough. Immediately, she swung her blade again. Kranos immediately recognized the cultivation technique she used as the Lionheart Sword Battle Technique. Read ahead and get updates at M*V*L*E*M*P*Y*R.

Immediately, with a roar, fierce winds swept out from the blade. At this moment, the cultivator faintly felt that the blade had turned into a fierce lion or tiger that was pouncing on him, a weak prey. He could only raise his sword weakly to block the attack, but just as he did so, he felt a scorching warmth emanating from the blade; his sword was slowly melting under the assault of the attack.

Kranos immediately realized that the lady possessed the fire element. The young man was immediately in despair. It was at this moment that an earthquake resounded, and the young man stumbled. But the next moment, he realized he was a distance away from the lady. He looked down and realized he was standing on a huge rock. It was this rock which had teleported him a distance away.

He turned to glance at his friend. He realized he was the one that saved him. His friend looked at him and smiled weakly before passing out. The young man sighed in relief; fortunately, he hadn't lost his life. But at this moment, there was a change in the battle: a wave of heat swept by and the lady was already in front of the young man who had just passed out.

Her expression was cold as she struck ruthlessly. Seeing this, Kranos immediately took action. With a flash, his figure appeared in the blink of an eye in front of the lady, and before any of them could react, he struck out a palm towards the lady.

The lady couldn't even fathom how she was attacked when, in the next moment, she shot backwards like a broken kite. At this moment, she felt that most of the bones in her body were fractured. It would probably take more than a month to heal herself.

After checking up on the young man, Kranos spoke towards the lady, "I said this should be a life-and-death duel, not one where you kill a defenseless opponent. Go back and reflect on yourself." After Kranos finished speaking, he tossed the storage ring containing her victory rewards and didn't pay attention to the lady anymore.

He turned to the other two, "Take him to rest. He has just overdrawn his elemental core, casting an ability which carried a great burden. After a day or two of rest, he should regain consciousness." After speaking, Kranos went back to his stool to continue his cultivation. He didn't have any comments on their battle because they barely displayed any move and only lasted an attack from the young lady.

Besides, after more than a month of cultivation, in about a week's time, he would be able to form his fourth golden core pattern. Time passed, and the rate at which the cultivators sparred became frequent. After more than five months of staying with them, Kranos decided to sharpen his sword techniques using them, seeing that they were all mostly in the late stage of Foundation Establishment realm, with the lady from before being at the peak already, just a step away from stepping into the Golden Core realm.

Thinking this, he called them over. After they arrived, he began speaking, "You have all done well in the past five months. From today, your sparring partner will be… me. We will spar daily, and your goal is to defeat me. Be familiar with each other's techniques, and if you can defeat me, I will give you all 1000 mana stones each."

Upon hearing Kranos's words, they were all shocked but also excited at the same time. But at this moment, one of them voiced out her doubts: it was the lady at the peak of Foundation Establishment. She could still recall how Kranos had magically appeared in front of her… and that strike. Even with her current cultivation, she felt that she would only barely be able to block that strike.

"But your realm is already far above ours, there's no way we could possibly win," the others nodded as well, agreeing with her.