Warrior’s Promise

Su Mo walked on the white jade path of Firmament Palace with a heavy heart.

The road ahead would be even more dangerous.

According to the Water One, he didn’t know much about the news and knew very little about the situation of the Sorcerer tribe.

However, the Test Taker’s arrival wouldn’t be for another ten years so it was too early to worry about it.

His immediate task was to enhance his strength and unify the Firmament World.

Of course, before he could unify the Firmament World, the Netherworld Devil Sect needed to be destroyed.

What was the nature of the relationship between the Netherworld Devil Sect and the Sorcerer tribe?

This was something worth further consideration, but one thing was for sure; the Netherworld Devil Sect had to be destroyed.

Su Mo sighed. Thinking too much would only put even more pressure on him. His thoughts wandered to how only through strength could one rule. “Let’s break through my cultivation first!”

Soon after, Su Mo returned to the palace, and then entered the Divine Map as he was ready to break through to Lv 3 Martial Royal Realm.

He had recovered a lot of his lost energy and spirit in the past month. Although he was a far cry from being fully recovered, its influence on one’s cultivation was not too great.

While in the Divine Map, Su Mo sat cross-legged and let his body take in the divine elixir.

The divine elixir in his body was already at a large amount as he had destroyed dozens of Netherworld Devil Sect strongholds and obtained thousands of divine elixirs.

However, thousands of divine elixirs from those in the Martial King Realm only equaled one divine elixir of a Martial Royal Realm expert.

Thousands of divine elixirs pilled up into a hill in front of Su Mo.

“Devour!”

Su Mo released his Devouring Martial Soul and began to devour.

He didn’t have the patience to devour it in parts and chose to devour it all at once.

Endless amounts of Dark Force immediately rushed toward Su Mo.

Su Mo’s cultivation had already reached Peak Lv 2 Martial Royal Realm and since he didn’t have enough resources before, he was unsuccessful in breaking through.

His cultivation has settled over the past two months and since there was so much divine elixir and spiritual stones, his cultivation was in a prime position to level up.

Two hours!

Four hours!

Six hours!

Even with all these resouces, Su Mo had been devouring for ten hours with little progress.

In the attempt, thousands of Spiritual Stones and divine exlirs were used and the vast majority of it was absorbed by his body.

The amount of Spirtual Stones that Su Mo had was astronomical as he obtained so many during the destruction of the Netherworld Devil Sect strongholds.

At this rate of consumption, few forces in the world could support the needs of Su Mo’s cultivation.

“Bleh!”

Su Mo opened his eyes and spit out some murky Qi. He had finally reached Lv 3 Martial Royal Realm.

Now he truly stood at the top. Even if his opponent was an Emperor-to-be, he wouldn’t be afraid.

Of course, he wouldn’t underestimate those people who had reached the level of Emperor-to-be as even that was a huge jump in power from someone who was at Peak Lv 9 Martial Royal Realm.

He learned this from the Second Demon Elder, an Emperor-to-be, as he was way stronger than Yan Tai and Lu Gui.

After consolidating his cultivation, Su Mo left the Divine Map and returned to Firmament Palace.

Su Mo summoned the nine puppets and asked about the arrangements for the wedding.

He had already handed out tasks for the puppets and some were already complete.

Afterward, Su Mo went around the palaces to see his father, Elder Wei, Qing Pingzi, Yue Qun, and other acquaintances.

Since the day of the wedding was fast approaching, everyone stopped cultivating and left seclusion in order to attend.

Although they were trying their hardest, the cultivation of Su Hong, Qing Pingzi, and the others was still below where it needed to be. Qing Pingzi was currently the highest of the group at Lv 9 Enlightment Realm.

Their talent was not very high to begin with and they had all passed the prime of their youth where the greatest jumps in cultivation could occur. Even if they discovered better methods and gathered more resources, they wouldn’t see much success.

Those of the younger generations that came had already surpassed these old masters.

For example, Luo Qianfan, Ling Muchen, and Fei Kuang had spent a great amount of money and cultivated to the True Darkness Realm. Luo Qianfan had already reached Lv 3 True Darkness Realm.

Su Mo stayed in the Illuminious Palace for a while with this group of familiar people. He took note of their cultivating progress and gave them pointers to help them out before leaving to go practice his swordsmanship.

His Grand Firmament Swordplay was an Upper Imperial martial arts technique. It was not a waste of time to practice such a skill.

Although he only just started to practice the beginning stages, its power was already really good. If he practiced all the way to Grand Completion then he will become extremely powerful.

Time passed by slowly and the date of the wedding grew ever closer.

It was only two days before the wedding when the people of Emperor Xuan Palace and Sky-sea Pavilion arrived at Firmament Palace.

Palace Master Di Shi along with dozens of other powerful people represented Emperor Xuan Palace.

As for the Sky-Sea Pavilion, it was represented by its Pavilion Leader, Hai Mingjiang. He was an old man with a very thin body.

The Deputy Pavilion Leader was not able to attend as he had to sit in for the Pavilion Leader and manage the Sky-sea Pavilion.

However, people who were familiar with Su Mo, such as Deputy Hall Leader Hu, did come.

Inside Firmament Palace.

Su Mo sat high above in a throne and below him were the leaders of the Sky-sea Pavilion and Emperor Xuan Palace.

“Welcome, everyone, to Firmament Palace!” Su Mo smiled and saluted with his fists.

“Palace Master Su is being so polite!”

“It’s been only two months, and Palace Master Su has upgraded again!”

“It’s really amazing! Congratulations!”

The strong experts in both Emperor Xuan Palace and Sky-sea Pavilion responded by saluting back. This caused many people to be shocked with looks of wonder in their eyes.

Everytime one saw Su Mu, the change was simply awe inspiring. It took him less than two months to break through to the next level of cultivation!

This was just too unbelievable!

If Su Mo was still in the Martial King Realm then this speed would still be reasonable, but this was the Martial Royal Realm! Such speed was simply unheard of!

Under normal circumstances, one could expect to go from Lv 1 Martial Royal Realm to Lv 2 Martial Royal Realm in two to three decades.

Even an incredible genius would take a year or two, but Su Mo did it in under a tenth of the time.

Even Di Shi and the Sky-sea Pavilion Leader were shocked.

“Congratulations, Su Mo!” said Di Shi with a smile, but he felt a hint of worry on the inside.

He allowed Su Mo and Xi’er to get married in order to form an alliance with Firmament Palace. They still had their own plans and this alliance would give them an endless amount of benefits.

If he managed to obtain a Medium Imperal cultivation skill or even an Upper Imperial cultivation skill, then he would benefit greatly as his chances of entering the Emperor realm would increase.

When Di Shi had been young, he had entered Firmament Palace and received a decent legacy on top of becoming a desciple of Firmament Palace.

Because of this previous experience, he knew the details of Firmament Palace.

However, Su Mo’s growth was simply too astonishing and while he was happy, he did have some reservations.

At this rate, it would not be long before Su Mo became practicially invincible in this world and he was worried that his Emperor Xuan Palace would be annexed by Firmament Palace.

This was not what Di Shi wanted to see, but he had to do so in order to get what he wanted.

His own future, in comparison to Emperor Xuan Palace, was much more important.