As George dozed off, two silhouettes emerged from the shadows. The taller silhouettes bowed towards the other as he expressed his thoughts.
"Miss Gold, It's been three years and no improvement. I know you made a promise to him, but it's impossible for him even to reach the peak of Body Tempering, let alone Qi Refining realm."
The 'Miss Gold' bit her lips and said bitterly
"I guess we're not fated to be with each other"
"Let's go, Albert."
And the two disappeared into the night skies.
Feeling the sun on his face, George shot opened his eyes to the blinding sun and abruptly woke up.
George was baffled.
'Shit, I woke up late.'
Usually, George has a biological alarm that wakes him around just before the sunrises but seeing where the sun is right now. It looks like he overslept by at least 2 hours which is unacceptable for George since he could've been training for 2 hours.
Nero instantly dashed out of the martial art fields and traversed through lush forest. After a minute or so, he came across a massive gate that's says
"HEAVENLY SWORD SECT'
But he paid no attention to that and continued running. If he had stopped and looked, he would have seen a poster that says's
"OUTER SECT EXAMINATION IN 30 DAYS - ONLY REQUIREMENT IS 9TH BODY TEMPERING AND SMALL SUCCESS IN ANY SWORD ART."
Another minute passed, and he finally reached it. He removed all of his clothes swiftly and jumped into the river. Every morning, George baths in the river to get rid of any dirt, sweat, or even blood left body due to training.
After cleaning himself, he put on a fresh set of white robes that he left under a large leaf a day before, with a small faint black sword embroidered on his chest. Then, strolled back to the martial art fields.
This is when George thinks about what he would do for training. Sword attacks are simplified into eight basic attacks: straight down, straight up, diagonally down to the right, diagonally down to the left, diagonally up to the right, diagonally up to the left and left and right strikes horizontally. These attack variants can be used as a defence against the opposite variant. So, for example, if your opponent slashes at you straight down to defend yourself properly, the only way to completely nullified the attack is by attacking straight down.
Since yesterday, he has spent all day practising his straight-down attack. After that, George decided to do the opposite variant, which was the straight-up's attack. When George reached the martial art field, he saw some familiar faces, the typical early worms, and went to his corner.
After cleaning his sword with a towel, George began his day with a tight grip on the hilt and swung upwards.
[Ding! You have once practised the basic sword technique, an unranked sword art. Your progress to small success has increased by 0.1]
[Ding! You have practised the basic sword technique, an unranked sword art, two times. Your progress to small success has increased by 0.1]
[Ding! You have practised the basic sword technique, an unranked sword art, three times. Your progress to small success has increased by 0.1]
With his very first slash, George entered his focused state, allowing nothing to distract him from swinging his sword all day.
Once again, the magnificent stellar body stood lofty above him as he dropped his body onto the cold ground.
Finally, George was just barely awake to hear this.
[Ding! You have practised the basic sword technique, an unranked sword art, 540 times. Your progress to small success has increased by 0.1}
'System?'
As he said this, A panel appeared in front of him.
Host of the Boundless Training System
Name: George Best
Age: 17
Cultivation: 6th Body Tempering
Body Tempering Techniques: None
Sword Techniques: Basic Sword Technique (Unranked) - 54% /100% from Small Success
Movement Techniques: None
Magical Technique: None
[Ding! You have a newies package awaiting. Do you like to open it?]
George was overwhelmed with information.
'When did I get so close to small success? I remember being far from attaining it.' Suddenly he remembered a ding last night. Did he obtain the system yesterday, which is why he improved so much? At this rate, I can reach small success by tomorrow.'
George was overjoyed seeing this. Even though he was unperturbed by external factors, the pressure of not improving has caused him to push his limits mentally and physically and see this. George couldn't help but smile as he said
'Open the newie package'.
[ You have received Eight Desolate Beast Body Tempering Technique ( Human Rank Body Tempering Technique]
The information about the techniques rushed within his brain.
'What a wonderful technique'.
Eight Desolate Beast Body Tempering Technique allows you to have the strength of 8 Demonic Beasts and potentially enables you to refine your body to the most perfect state. But to use it, you need blood samples of 8 Body tempering Demonic Beast; the more powerful, the better.
'If I keep practising my sword technique, I would be able to jump a few levels to slay some demonic beasts'
With the system bound to him, George's determination has rekindled again to what he was three years ago.