Chapter 52: Fight Between The Disciples…

The young man swung his spear, shattering all the silver needles hurtling toward him and sending their fragments scattering in all directions. Without hesitation, he lunged forward, closing the distance between himself and the woman. With a sharp cry, he swung his spear at her waist, aiming to cleave her in two.

The lady was immediately shocked and filled with rage. She faintly felt the feeling of death for a moment there, and she immediately executed the movement techniques, appearing a few feet away from the man, creating some distance between them.

Her green Daoist robe fluttered in the air as she raised her hand. She thrust her hand forward, and in an instant, more than twenty needles flew out. They converged mid-flight and formed something similar to a shimmering shield that surged toward the young man like a meteor.

“This is bad.” The man could immediately see the crux of the problem: The needles had converged, and he knew if the shield hit him, he would definitely be pierced in different parts of his body. Besides, the attack was too fast; he didn’t believe for a moment that Kranos could save him in time.

His mind moved rapidly, and he thought of a countermeasure. Immediately, his eyes lit up, and, gripping his spear tightly, he shot it forward. The ’shield’ was barely a few feet away when the spear rushed towards it at greater speed.

In the blink of an eye, the two weapons collided and both attacks were destroyed but just as the man sighed in relief, a gust of wind blew by… the next moment, his hair stood on end.

He felt something sharp prickling his neck. He turned around and saw that the female cultivator had unknowingly, at some point, appeared behind him in a gust of wind. At the same time, a needle was held in her hand, which pointed menacingly towards his neck.

If she wanted, in that moment, she could have killed him, he could faintly guess some things and had a rough idea of how he was defeated.

“Wind element? How nice,” Kranos praised from the side as he approached the two. They were both evenly matched, but because of the fact that the young lady possessed the wind element, she was able to take her movement technique to a new level, while the young man, without an elemental affinity, could only let his life be in her hands.

Upon seeing Kranos approach, both cultivators immediately bowed in respect, “This disciple dares not accept the esteemed one’s praise.” The lady shook her head in response.

Kranos smiled faintly and tossed her a spatial ring. Catching it, she quickly probed its contents and gasped. Inside were three hundred high-grade mana stones. Her eyes widened in delight, and she couldn’t stop expressing her gratitude.

Kranos then tossed a smaller pouch to the young man, containing a hundred mana stones. “Cultivate more diligently,” he advised.

Then he began to advise them on their cultivation techniques during the battle, “Young man, you seem to be fearful to head into the battlefield and engage in a head-to-head confrontation. If you were willing to endure some minor injuries to your body, you would have emerged victorious in this duel.”

Although Kranos wasn’t a grandmaster adept at cultivation techniques, he could roughly see the flaws in their battle techniques and the way they fought due to his high cultivation.

He then turned to the lady, “Although you did quite well in this battle, you only won due to your elemental affinity. You should also cultivate a short-distance battle technique in the situation that your opponent closes in on you; also, try your best to maintain distance between your opponents and when they least expect it, attack them with all your might.”

“If you had closed in on him before using that secret technique of the silver needles, he wouldn’t have had a chance to escape at all or use his spear to block the attack,” Kranos continued, pointing out their inadequacies to their surprise. They couldn’t help but stare at Kranos, stunned; he had told them many things they didn’t even realize.

After Kranos was done, they immediately bowed deeply once again, genuine respect blooming in their hearts. At this moment, they truly realized that Kranos actually cared for them, he wasn’t as heartless as they had guessed. After thanking him earnestly, they returned to their chambers, reflecting on his advice as they resumed their cultivation.

As soon as they left, Kranos exhaled a breath of fresh air, after which he appeared beside the stool, took it, and appeared beside a tree in the courtyard the next moment. Seated under the tree, he continued his cultivation.

In the blink of an eye another two weeks had passed, and just as Kranos smoothly advanced to the third stage of the Golden Core Realm, he was interrupted by two cultivators. this time it was the remaining two young men, one of them was fair with black hair, dressed in a blue turquiose robe and had a sword strapped to his waist, the other was dressed similarly and also had a sword strapped to his waist.

“A duel?” Kranos immediately asked as soon as he opened his eyes and glanced at them, he also took the moment to study their cultivation realm; they were both at the fourth stage of foundation establishment.

“Yes, esteemed one,” the two nodded. Kranos immediately flashed and appeared at the edge of the courtyard, giving them the same advice he gave to the two cultivators from before.

Immediately, they both faced off, they seemed to have cultivated similar sword techniques from the cultivation manuals. The fair young man immediately drew out his sword and lunged forward, rushing at the man opposite him. He then swung his sword, executing the Fierce Slicing Technique.

With a swing of his sword, the air was sliced! The other cultivator, seeing this, immediately withdrew his sword and slashed upward, executing the same technique but from a different angle. Immediately, a battle between both parties ensued. From their matched techniques and cultivation levels, Kranos surmised that this battle would likely end in a draw… except one party made an error, which would make them lose.

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