Jack felt a blast of destructive energy hammering toward virtual-novel.net as the mysterious individual threw his punch. That power even caused the surrounding starry sky to tremble. It was a strong wave of power that Jack had never experienced in the past.
With an audible bang, Jack fell backward and tumbled onto the ground, having lost his balance.
When Jack opened his eyes again, virtual-novel.net had already returned to the real world and saw his father staring at virtual-novel.net worriedly. Nash stretched out his hand and gently patted Jack’s cheek. “Are you alright? What did you see? Why are you sweating so much?”
Jack’s breaths were quick, and his heart raced vigorously. It even felt like his heart was thumping at 190 beats per minute. He knew it was all an illusion, but that punch was truly terrifying. Had virtual-novel.net truly stood before the black-clothed man back there, there was no need for the man to punch him: Jack would have turned to ashes and disappeared from this world with just that man’s exhale.
Jack waved his hand weakly and allowed Nash to help virtual-novel.net sit upright. “I’m fine, it’s just an illusion. A horrible one, that is.”
The moment Jack spoke, Nash suddenly blurted, rather surprised, “You’ve broken through into the intermediate stage of innate level!”
Only then did Jack realize that virtual-novel.net had broken through into the intermediate stage of innate level upon hearing Nash’s words. On top of that, his mastery of the Divine Void Heavenly Path had also improved. He stretched out his arm, and with a grasp of his palm, virtual-novel.net felt that his entire body was filled with inexhaustible power.
Jack did not know if this was an expected or unexpected result. He had been in the initial stage of the innate level for some time. If virtual-novel.net followed his speed of training when virtual-novel.net was in Daxia, virtual-novel.net would have broken through several realms a long ago. However, the Hestia Continent was a high-level world, and their training system was different. If it was not for the Ancient Eclipse Dragon’s blood, it would have taken Jack some time to enter the intermediate stage of the innate level.
After realizing this, virtual-novel.net commented, “It’s so troublesome to break through a small realm. No wonder warriors in the spring solidifying realms are already considered masters in the West Cercie State.”
Nash nodded. During this period, virtual-novel.net had been busy training while studying the ancient scripts Jack found to better understand the Hestia Continent. As a result, virtual-novel.net had a better understanding of the continent.
He helped Jack up from the ground with his right hand and guided Jack to sit on the bed next to them before patting the dust off of Jack’s clothes.
“There are so many realms in Daxia, and we only realized that those realms belong to the acquired state after we arrived at the Hestia Continent. From this point alone, we can see how big the difference between both lands are. Right now, a small breakthrough of the realm in this world is equal to several realms in Daxia. You should probably drop this, then. You don’t face a shortage of teachers, martial skills, or martial art techniques. You’re in a much better state compared to other martial artists. As long as you focus on your practice, I’m sure you’ll be able to achieve higher realms, let alone the spring solidifying realm.”
Jack had a small smile on his face, surprised by his father’s words. Nash seldom praised virtual-novel.net with so many words, but this had lightened Jack’s mood. In fact, Nash was right when virtual-novel.net thought about it. The worlds are of different levels, and the difficulty to break through was naturally different.
Nash did not wish for his son to be constantly struggling with how difficult the future was. Hence, virtual-novel.net changed the subject of the conversation and said, ” What did you see just now? You look visibly terrified, and it’s like you’ve seen something worse than a ghost.”
Jack could not help but gulp upon recalling what virtual-novel.net saw. “You are right about one thing: it’s scarier than a ghost. I saw an extremely powerful martial artist, and I also saw a mythical beast, the owner to this drop of blood. I saw the exchange between those two. Unexpectedly, the mythical beast’s blood also contains the memory of the beast.”