Nodding his head, Xue Ling who spent his whole life fighting for the Yueliang Empire completely acknowledged Jian Shen.
For men like him who lived their life on the battlefield while surrounded by blood and death, it wasn't words what they cared about.
They only cared about how strong the other one was.
If they were stronger than themselves, they'd listen to whatever they said.
But if they were weak, heheheheheheheh....
Anyway, once the battle which lasted for an instant was over Li Mei flew down and looked towards Jian Shen with narrowed eyes.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You held back when fighting against me!"
"What?"
"You didn't use the Intent of Lightning when we fought during that banquet."
Shaking his head and chuckling a little, Jian Shen chose to not answer and tell her the truth.
From what he learned previously it took almost a week for the regular ones to comprehend an Intent and anywhere between a month to a year for them to comprehend it enough to use it properly.
Therefore, by telling her the truth that he just learnt it wouldn't make her feel any better and just think that he was bragging excessively.
"Humph! Just for your information, I didn't use my full strength when fighting either!"
As the two of them were talking to themselves, Xue Ling who managed to recover his breath suddenly remembered the piece of news which he obtained from the capital city.
It was about the sudden appearance of a talented genius who was rumoured to be the youngest ever Dharma Realm Cultivator to exist.
And it was the same one who conducted a massacre of many Sage and Saint Realm assassins inside the capital city.
Could this boy in front of him by chance be the same one?
What was his name...
"Jian Shen! Don't think that just cause you... "
That's right, it was Jian Shen!
Eyes turning wide in surprise, Xue Ling no longer through much of Jian Shen ignoring him because those like him deserved to behave that way.
But who was that woman beside him?
Was she also an expert just like him?
With such thoughts, Xue Ling began walking towards the duo whereupon he led them towards where the boundary wall was at.
Walking quite a lot of distance, Jian Shen was about to say that they should have just chosen to fly when the group finally saw signs of a huge wall in the distance.
Now that he saw the wall, Jian Shen didn't bother being considerate enough to walk and instead started flying towards it.
Following his example, Li Mei and Xue Ling also began flying turning it into a race to see who'd get there first.
Pushing their strength to the limit, the three of them flew in their own special way.
Li Mei flew in the crudest way by only using her control over the Intent of Wind to fly. Xue Ling on the other hand despite having made his Domain with the Intent of Water used it to increase his speed by as much as possible and obtained an edge over Li Mei who had a higher comprehension of the Intent of Wind than him.
As for Jian Shen, he decisively chose to use the Wings of Kun Peng coupled with the Intent of Wind and the Intent of Lightning to move at a speed that wasn't easy to achieve for most of the ordinary Saint Realm Cultivators unless their Domain was specialized in the Intent of Wind.
Arriving on top of the wall first, Jian Shen looked below to see the ground littered with a few dead bodies every here and there and blood covering a lot of the ground close to the walls.
Those dead bodies most likely belonged to the Taiyang Empire's soldiers.
After that, nothing special happened that day due to which Jian Shen spent the whole day training himself on top of the wall.
...
Unlike what Jian Shen had hoped for, it had already been eight days since he had arrived near the boundary wall but not to talk about the enemy attacking there weren't even signs of random beasts attacking the wall.
Due to this, Jian Shen spent every single day using all the techniques he knew one by one to increase his familiarity with them.
As for the nights, other than the first day during which he anxiously waited for the Taiyang Empire to launch an attack in the night, Jian Shen spent the rest of them on a bed alongside Li Mei whose sole purpose in coming here seemed to be having sex with him.
"Sigh... Why is no one attacking us, Xue Ling?"
Imitating Jian Shen, Xue Ling had also spent the days by swinging his spear around and repeating the techniques he regularly used.
Due to this, even though Xue Ling's strength didn't increase by much he could feel himself getting closer to achieve a breakthrough.
"Ummmm.... Isn't it a good thing that no one is attacking us?"
"Huh? What the hell are you talking about?"
Training with the both of his swords at once, Jian Shen who was trying to create his own specific style of Dual Sword wielding shook his head towards Xue Ling.
"Despite being so old, you are still too green, newbie."
"Training on your own is great and all, but only by fighting against others can you truly hone your skills."
Bitterly smiling at how even the Emperor hadn't called him a newbie, Xue Ling suddenly turned and looked towards the horizon followed by Jian Shen who wasn't much slower than him in noticing the same thing.