Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations

Since the warriors of the Deserted Sea Realm were still in the early stages of development, their combat force was one large realm lower than cultivators. However, this system and calculation method didn’t apply to the Spiritual State.

According to the legends, the warriors in the Ultimate West Realm had inherited an ancient system. In the distant past, the sky knights rode huge dragons and flew from the western snow mountains, creating a long period of prosperity. No one knew why they had later fallen into a decline, but they still had a system as powerful as that of the cultivators.

In this perspective, the warriors of the Deserted Sea Realm who were in the early stages of development were no match.

The King of the Ultimate West Realm was a top-level existence called the Blood Dragon Grand Warrior Empire. He was the most powerful warrior in the Ultimate West Realm, and he and his mount ‘Blood Dragon’ were among the most powerful existences in the world.

In the past hundreds of thousands of years, they had developed steadily in the bitter cold northwest and built cities in the ice-covered world. The brave warriors guarded the natural strongholds on the cliffs among the glaciers which were fraught with natural barriers, storms, and fierce beasts. The extremely cold ice and snow could even freeze the spiritual essence in cultivators.

It was true that cultivators were usually more powerful than warriors, and a western warrior was no match for a same-level cultivator of the Spiritual State. However, the western barbarians lived with their neighbors, the horned dragons in the ice-covered mountains, for generations, and they had signed the covenant in the distant past to co-habitat, which was why they were named after dragons. The two species had deep bonds and fought shoulder to shoulder in battles.

This was the background of the four dragon families of the western barbarians.

As for the warriors of ordinary families, they had a system to tame fierce flying beasts and fought enemies together with their mounts.

When fighting two-vs-one battles, there wasn’t only the numbers advantage. The pure-blooded horned dragons not only had powerful combat abilities but also excelled in casting spiritual spells as well, eliminating all the disadvantages that warriors had against cultivators. In fact, the cultivators would be at the absolute disadvantage.

It was why only western barbarians had invaded other territories and not the opposite where other people invaded the ice mountains in the northwest. Even when the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace was in its prime, its cultivators didn’t dare to go into the Ultimate West Realm by crossing that foreboding ice mountain range. That was why they didn’t chase wanted criminals when those people escaped to the Ultimate West Realm.

If the big families of the western barbarians were counted as separated family, their general strength would be no less than any of the seven ancient families with great inheritances in the Spiritual State.

Now, the Ultimate West Realm was like a lion wide awake while the Spiritual State was like a huge dragon falling into a deep sleep.

“It’s said that… while we were on the way to Spiritual State, the number of ancient families in the Spiritual State was reduced from seven to six?” In the hotel housing the guests from the Ultimate West Realm, some elders of the Frost Dragon Family were talking about the situation in the Spiritual State.

“I heard of it too.” Another elder looked grim. “I wonder if it’s true. If it is, it’s truly unbelievable…”

“It’s most likely true. I’ve sent the information back home. I’m surprised that an ancient family in the Spiritual State could vanish so easily; it is a big incident that had never happened in the past.”

“It’s said the Nangong Family had the ambition to conquer the world; it seems that the other ancient families are not weak, and their combined force is naturally stronger than the Heaven-Seeking Sword Palace.”

“No, no, no. I heard another version of the story. It is said that their destruction was triggered by an outlander.”

“Outlander?” the elder sneered, “An outlander?”

In their eyes, the cultivators of the Spiritual State were the most powerful ones in the whole world.

“If it’s true, the cultivators of the Spiritual State have weakened greatly and are living backwards!”

“From the looks of it, the Spiritual State has indeed declined. I think they are postponing the Martial Dao Exchange to wait for the arrival of the people of the Deserted Sea Realm to help them not lose much face.”

The brass bell sounded outside.

“The time is up; it’s time to go.”

“The people of the Spiritual State are boring,” an elder said, “They want to hide their weakness and not lose face, but we’ll humiliate them in public even more!”

“Hehe…”

…

In the Martial Dao Field of the Heavenly Academy, the atmosphere had become livelier than ever.

Sword energies danced on the field with loud noises resonating all over the Martial Dao Field.

On the field, a valiant-looking girl attacked and blocked with a double-handed heavy sword almost instinctively, timing each move perfectly.

With his usual cold arrogance and a somewhat wicked expression, Gabriel sat on the high stand and looked down at the Martial Dao Field with disdain.

Mr. Fang had just arrived at this moment. By the time he took a seat groggily, the Martial Dao Exchange had already been going for a while.

“Boss!” Jiang Xiaoyue called to him in a low voice while patting the seat next to her. “Here.”

“Hey!” With a frown, Gabriel watched as the young man wearing a blue and white robe walked up with hands in his pockets and took a seat behind him.

He was angry that this newcomer missed seeing his excellent performance before now.

More infuriating was that this man looked as if he hadn’t woken up completely.

Before he lost his temper, the girl wearing a red dress and black armor walked off of the field and took off her helmet adorned with beast horns. Then, her blonde curly hair fell and fluttered like a waterfall, revealing the gorgeous face of a wild beauty.

“Finished?” Gabriel said teasingly, “I’m surprised that it took you so long, Ms. Sia.”

“It’s a shame. I thought I would taste defeat for a moment.” Sia sat down next to Gabriel and asked, “My opponent was good with double-handed sword techniques. He said that he learned them from a person named Cloud. Do we have such a swordmaster in the Ultimate West Realm?”

“In my opinion, he is someone from an unorthodox force. However, if he could force you to use your full force…” Gabriel smiled and said, “Then, the Martial Dao Exchange is a bit interesting.”

Mr. Fang was yawning, but he suddenly froze as he gaped and looked at them, wondering how she won this match!

Although real geniuses are much stronger than ordinary people, this exotic girl must be a genius among geniuses…

Seeing the astonishment in Mr. Fang’s eyes, Gabriel snickered. “What? Is that warrior very famous here?”

He looked disdainful as he continued, “But different warriors have different strength. I hope you people of the Spiritual State understand it.”

“Um…” Mr. Fang scratched his head and said embarrassedly, “I’m not from the Spiritual State.”

Gabriel’s narrow eyes looked more disdainful. “Are you from the Deserted Sea Realm?”

“May I ask if you guys from the Deserted Sea Realm know martial arts? Maybe you just know dances?”

TL Note: Martial arts is pronounced in Chinese as ‘wu shu’, and dance is also pronounced as ‘wu’.

“Hahaha!” Sitting behind him, a few young people of the Frost Dragon Family burst into laughter with him.