Chapter 621: Chapter 338: You Are Not Qualified Yet (Part 2)

But now Smiling Skull has attacked without a word, and it seems incredibly difficult for the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to get through this ordeal.

"Damn it! If only I had reached the Blood Coagulation Realm." Xia Ling, at the Initial Tier of the Bone Forging Realm, looked at the Ghost Hand hovering mid-air, inwardly lamenting how low her realm was, such that she didn’t even have the strength to resist against the people from Smiling Skull.

"It’s a pity; if I had just five more years, I might have been able to fight this person." Xiong Yuedie, also cultivating in the Martial Arts Hall, was striving to resist the suppression of qi and blood, looking at Ghost Hand with burning battle intent.

After joining the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Defense Corps, Xiong Yuedie was almost certain that with the Hall’s various cultivation facilities, the Blood Coagulation Realm would not be her endpoint, and achieving the legendary Heavenly Human Realm Grandmaster was very attainable. After all, in the Basic Meditation Room and Basic Martial Arts Hall, her progress was rapid every moment.

Moreover, the Martial Arts Hall provided special food specifically for the Defense Corps, allowing their improvement’s speed to soar at a rapid pace.

Facing a Grandmaster like Ghost Hand, she was quite confident she could surpass him within five years.

"To deal with him, why would it take five years? Three years would be enough for me." Xia Ling looked at Ghost Hand hovering in mid-air, gritting her teeth in anger, feeling that Smiling Skull acted without martial virtue, since they couldn’t defeat Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in a battle at the Wraith Mountain Range, they brought a Heavenly Human Realm Grandmaster.

"That’s right! Three years is enough!" Even Estina, who rarely communicated with others, nodded in agreement with Xia Ling’s words as she gazed at Ghost Hand.

However, no matter what Xia Ling and others said, they could only lay on the ground, unable to resist the suppression of Ghost Hand’s qi and blood.

"Three years to challenge Ghost Hand? Are all these disciples of Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall so arrogant?" Shadow Tiger, hearing the words of a few, couldn’t help but glance at Xia Ling and others, feeling that these Bone Forger Realm Martial Artists really talked big.

At their current age, Xia Ling and others reaching the Bone Forging Realm only qualified them to take exams in the Domain City, not to mention achieving the Heavenly Human Realm Grandmaster, even a Half-step Celestial Human was the lifelong dream for many super geniuses in the city.

But in Xia Ling and the others’ eyes, achieving the Heavenly Human Realm Grandmaster seemed as easy as eating and drinking, making him unsure how to even evaluate the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Clearly, the only notable experts from the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are the ones currently ranked at the top of the Half-step Celestial Human strength ranking, including a gray-clothed disciple and the Hall Master Lin Qi, whose strength is suspected to have reached Half-step Celestial Human. Yet, they seem almost dismissive of the Heavenly Human Realm Grandmaster. If they were disciples in the Domain City, they would have been mentally crushed by the myriad geniuses there.

While Shadow Tiger was thinking this, a group walked out of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s main hall, led by a young Human Race man who was just under two meters tall and wore a pitch-black martial arts robe.

However, Shadow Tiger’s gaze didn’t fall on this young Human Race man, but instead, he was astonished at the tall middle-aged Forest Race man following behind the youth.

"What’s going on with this Meng De?"

Shadow Tiger watched Meng De, who followed behind the young Human Race man and the earlier young Human Race woman, feeling bizarre and not understanding when this dignified quasi-elder of Mist Mountain Domain City became so humble.

Previously, being respectful to the young Human Race woman could be explained if her identity was extraordinary, but being equally respectful to another young Human Race man was surprising.

Before Shadow Tiger could prepare to ask, he saw the young Human Race man suddenly disappear from where he stood. When his eyes caught up, the young man was already floating above Red Moon Town, less than a hundred meters from Ghost Hand in mid-air.

"So fast! Who is this person?" Shadow Tiger was astounded.

He considered himself to have few rivals in the Blood Coagulation Realm apart from Half-step Celestial Humans, and speed was his forte. Yet the young Human Race man’s movement speed was so fast that he almost couldn’t match it. Things like this were what even those Half-step Celestial Humans could do.

"That is Lord Lin Qi, the Hall Master of Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall." Meng De, seeing the puzzled look on Shadow Tiger, spoke up.

Shadow Tiger of the Celestial River Domain City was very well-known in the Four Domain Cities, comparable to the peerless geniuses like Imilia and Xie Feina, with a high chance of stepping into the Half-step Celestial Human Realm before the age of forty. Anyone with even a bit of understanding of the Four Domain Cities would know this.

The Four Domain Cities frequently interacted, and Meng De had encountered Shadow Tiger during those exchanges several times.

"Lord?" Shadow Tiger gawked at Meng De.

Meng De, a Half-step Celestial Human and a master in the Mist Mountain Domain City already on the path to the Heavenly Human Realm, Shadow Tiger suspected he’d misheard because Meng De actually referred to the Hall Master of Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as ’Lord.’

"Yes, that’s right, it’s Lord Lin Qi." Meng De, looking at Shadow Tiger’s surprised expression, respectfully glanced at Lin Qi hovering mid-air, then turned to curiously ask Shadow Tiger, "This is the Mist Mountain Region. What brings you people from the Celestial River Domain City here?"

"My junior sister Ling Ye and I have collaborated often with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, so this time, before heading to the Forbidden Zone of the Wraith Mountain Range, we wanted to invite the Martial Arts Hall to join us." Shadow Tiger didn’t hide anything.

"Collaborating with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?" Meng De looked at Shadow Tiger and couldn’t help showing a look of appreciation, "You’re pretty sharp-minded. But we got here first, so you’ll have to wait your turn."

"This..." Shadow Tiger couldn’t help but glance up at Ghost Hand hovering mid-air, feeling a bit bewildered.

Is collaborating with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall the main focus?

Despite Ghost Hand, the vice commander of Smiling Skull, showing up, Meng De of Mist Mountain Domain City still seemed unfazed and was already thinking about discussing the collaboration with the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall afterwards.