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Chapter 531: Stillness (II)
Chapter 531: Stillness (II)
“Everyone should focus on improving themselves over the next three days. Comprehending the aura is a hurdle, a massive hurdle! Only after sensing the aura can you all walk further. If it continuously remains out of reach for you...” Li Hao looked silently at the crowd for a moment. “Then it is only a matter of time before you are eliminated! Remaining at Sunderer is too weak. You can walk many more paths after you grasp the aura and break the limits of the body. There is Southern Fist, Golden Spear, and my master to use as reference. There are many ways to proceed.”
They would be forever stuck at this cultivation level if they did not comprehend the aura. The strongest they would be was a Sunderer, and facing off against Sunflare enemies would be their limit if they did not break the confines of their body.
Given the state of the world, unless Sunderers were equipped with black armor, they wouldn’t even be able to participate in a battle against pirates.
A strong sense of urgency rose in the crowd’s hearts. Would there be a place in this team for them in the future if they continued to fail to reach half step Dominator? There were only fifty people in the Demon Hunters, so Li Hao could be as generous as he wished and share any attribute of energy with them, dao comprehension weapons, mysterious power stones, black armor...
This led to a fast pace of improvement. But once they were eliminated... The consequences were impossible to imagine!
A strong sense of pressure brought the group back to reality after yesterday’s revelry.
“Leader, will it affect our future if we grasp the aura from the dao comprehension weapons?” Although hesitant, someone spoke up with their concern in the end. “Will our potential be less than other people?”
“Not necessarily!” Li Hao responded after some thought. “Comprehending the aura is the stepping stone to success. It doesn’t mean that you can’t grow stronger in the future or that you’re locked into a certain development. The sword aura I command comes from... a kind of dao comprehension weapon as well.
“But what you glean from the dao comprehension weapons may not be the best match for you.”
“Leader, if a defensive type like me grasps an offensive aura, will that cripple me?” asked the honest Chen Jian.
“Says who?” Li Hao laughed. “The aura lives in one’s imagination and is the manifestation of the heart and soul. Take an earth attribute comprehending a mountain, for example. Would you say the mountain is offensive or defensive?”
“That’s hard to say.” Chen Jian shook his head.
“That’s right, it’s hard to say,” Li Hao continued. “Even if it’s the strongest sword aura, who says it must be used to attack? Are there no defensive sword techniques? Both possibilities exist at the same time, so don’t seek to pigeonhole your aura with a meaning from the beginning. I understood the earth aura first and my thoughts then were that earth is suited for defense. But later on, I turned it into an earth sword aura for attack. It’s all in how you use it.”
The crowd nodded with some understanding. Though they didn’t fully register the meaning behind their leader’s words, they more or less understood him. No matter what, they were to comprehend the aura first and smash through this barrier to knock on the door to Dominator. As for everything else, that could wait. There might not even be a future if one did not cross the threshold first.
In that case, there would be no need to consider questions of potential.
“You’ve progressed well,” Li Hao continued. “When our ten late Sunderers utilize the Ten Rings Mountain Seal Formation and our formidable armor, they can put up a fight against an initial Solar. I don’t think they’ll be less than a Dominator, but that still isn’t enough!
There were one thousand people to a troop in the Battle Heaven Army and one thousand troop leaders. In other words, the Silver Armors that had been dead for endless years could still beat him senseless. There was no point in mentioning surpassing the ancients.
First came imitation, then catching up, and finally surpassing. That was the path of modern people.
Liu Long wanted to laugh when he saw how awkward Li Hao was. Everyone started off with the same thoughts—that they were much stronger than the ancients. They didn’t want to bother with the aura left by the ancients and wanted to directly outstrip them...
It wasn’t until they were mercilessly beaten down by society did they understand that they were just babes learning how to walk. How could they ignore that and want to imitate an adult by jumping ahead? That was sheer nonsense!
Whispers flurried below as some decided to borrow a dao comprehension weapon upon their return. Forty-nine martial masters had all made it to late Sunderer. One time each with the weapons made for forty-nine attempts. The strongest weapon that Li Hao had was a broken sword that Golden Spear left him. There were ten attempts in it. The others were even weaker ones from Golden Spear that could be utilized three to five times.
There may not be enough for all forty-nine members.
However, the young man felt that those who could comprehend the aura on their own might not need the weapons. That would leave enough tries for everyone.
“C’mon, onto the ship and let’s go! Hong Qing and the others will go directly to White Moon City, we don’t need to wait for them!”
The crowd swiftly filed on board. The ship rapidly expanded and shot out like a loosed arrow, quickly vanishing into the horizon.
Someone watched them from the shore, silently observing their departure. The two Sunflares from the Southern Ford Night Watcher branch were also watching. One was older, one was younger. The older one sighed, “We all felt so unsettled when Director Hou left. Although Director Hao is a Solar, he doesn’t offer us much security with the growing number of powerhouses in the world...
“This one has displayed immense strength prior to the director’s full departure and killed enemies with resolution. I trust that the Silver Moon Night Watchers will be quiet for a while and no longer see unrest.”
That was what everyone had been worried about before, but Li Hao appeared with swiftness and killed two Nova powerhouses, as well as five hundred supernaturals. It gave everyone a boost of confidence that the Silver Moon Night Watchers were still very strong.
This was extremely important at this point in time, and was something that Hao Lianchuan could not supply. A mid Solar director... somehow did not merit much respect anymore.
“Isn’t that right!” chuckled the middle-aged man next to him. “One has to say, Director Hou has a good eye for talent. He had this one promoted to deputy director before he left. I say, why don’t we let him...”
“Ahem!” coughed the old man. “Director Hao is not bad, he’s just a bit weaker. He’s a very nice guy, though.”
“That’s right!” The middle-aged man rapidly bobbed his head up and down. That was true, it was very fine that Hao Lianchuan was the director. He was a good man and it was a fine arrangement. However, that deputy director needed to step forward as well, to give everyone reassurance.