Primordial God Of Time

"In that case, I won't use my cultivation to suppress you all, and I won't use my elemental affinity." The main purpose of Kranos doing this was to deepen his swordsmanship skills along with how he used it with his time techniques. So, in this battle, he was going to fight them using just his sword techniques and time element.

Just as he expected, upon hearing Kranos's words, the eyes of the cultivators lit up. They felt this was their chance to finally defeat him, especially the lady who had asked the question; she felt she could finally put Kranos in his place!

"Go and rest, we will begin our training tomorrow." What these cultivators didn't know was that while cultivating, Kranos had also studied their fighting techniques, and he could roughly discern their thoughts now. There was no way Kranos would endanger himself and do something he wasn't confident in. Reader support at M*VLEM*PYR made this translation possible.

The next day arrived in the blink of an eye, and at this moment, Kranos was standing with a sword in his hand. It was the Azure Sky Sword. He didn't use the time sword, which was for battle, after all, he didn't want to rapidly drain their lifespan and feed it to his sword. This was just a friendly spar.

Although the cultivators were slightly nervous, they couldn't suppress their fighting spirit. With a loud shout, the young lady was the first one to rush forward. This time, she didn't take any chances, immediately using her strongest technique along with a fire elemental attack.

Immediately, she was surrounded in a sea of flames as she rushed forward. Kranos could only stare helplessly as she approached him in the blink of an eye but… pause! Kranos muttered inwardly, and before the lady could react, she was frozen. The next moment, Kranos's sword moved as fast as lightning. He immediately struck her, sending her flying a distance back. Although he could have knocked her out, this fight was to hone his swordsmanship, not to display his strength.

The others immediately realized what happened and their expressions changed drastically. They couldn't believe that the strongest among them was almost incapacitated in the blink of an eye. And… they still couldn't see how Kranos moved. They even felt for a moment that Kranos used his space element, but they realized that how he appeared was vastly different from when he usually teleported.

It seemed as though he had always been there and the lady just had to run straight to him, but of course, they knew that wasn't what happened. They could only speculate in their hearts. Kranos didn't give them time to think too much and immediately used another basic sword technique which had reached the expert realm.

With a horizontal slash, he sent a couple of needles that were flying towards him flying away. Then he used a chop to cleave the spear that was coming at him from a distance. Even though he wasn't actively using his cultivation, his physique, which had been enhanced by his cultivation, wasn't something that the cultivators could compare to.

Kranos paused the two swordsmen that were coming towards him, then deflected their sword attacks. He then struck fiercely at them, creating distance between them. At this moment, warning sounds blared inwardly from Kranos, and without any hesitation, Kranos muttered inwardly, rewind!

As though everyone was moving backwards, the ferocious Lionheart Sword attack that was aimed at Kranos's head retreated along with the lady who sent out the attack. Kranos immediately turned around to face her and struck out with a stab. Immediately, the hand which she used with the sword was injured. Though Kranos only gave her a slight injury which would heal in about a day's time, he still needed her to hone his sword techniques.

The fight grew more intense with different elements raining down and different attacks going about in the courtyard. Kranos could feel pressured, after all, he wasn't using his full strength, but at the same time, his comprehension of the sword techniques was improving by leaps and bounds.

The way he transitioned between the time element and his sword techniques became smoother and smoother. But he wasn't the only one that was improving; the others had roughly begun to guess Kranos's movement and could now block a strike or two from him before being sent flying.

After creating some distance between them, Kranos announced, "That is enough for today. Go and digest your gains from the battle." After advising them, he tossed them 100 high-grade mana stones. He then sat down on his mat and began cultivating, trying to correct the flaws in his cultivation techniques.

The others took their mana stones, looked at each other, and walked away. Kranos could faintly guess their thoughts. After all, he too would have been surprised if he practiced a cultivation technique only to end up defeated by someone that used basic sword techniques.

Kranos continued absorbing his gains from the battle. At the same time, he could feel that the condensation of the fifth golden core mark was in its final stages. Over the period of five months, Kranos had already broken through to the fifth stage of the Golden Core realm. Because of the fact that he had watched over the cultivators during their battles, he had to remain in peak condition, so he didn't cultivate his time element for the meantime.

In the blink of an eye, a month flashed by. Kranos spent his days fighting against the cultivators. He even felt his sword techniques rapidly approaching the profound level, as though he had touched upon some truths, but he couldn't grasp it. It seemed illusory for now. He didn't dwell on it; since he couldn't grasp it now, he would sooner or later grasp it.

In the meantime, the cultivation of the others had improved drastically. Two of them were now at the peak of Foundation Establishment, while the other two were slightly lower, being at the eighth stage and seventh stage Foundation Establishment realm respectively. There was also the lady with the fire element, who had stepped into the Golden Core realm. Kranos praised her inwardly; she was truly a rare genius!