Noel had no doubts about Fane's skills after witnessing his first five days in the Array Eye Door difficulty level four but this time it seemed to have taken an emotional and physical toll on him. Noel quickly walk up to catch him before he fell. Fane exhaled gently and in a tired tone said," Don’t worry about me. I’m not hurt. It’s just that I've exhausted my spirit energy and true energy."
Noel raised an eyebrow and lightly pressed Fane's meridian point with his finger and just as he expected, the true energy inside Fane's meridian points had all been used up, and there was only a little spirit energy left. This made him become even more speechless.
"What could you possibly be doing inside to
have used up all your true energy and spirit energy?" asked Noel.
Fane chuckled softly and told him the truth. "I've broken through a bottleneck. That's all."
At this, Noel immediately raised his eyebrow. "I must say you’re both high in talent and courage. The soul-shockwave for difficulty level four in the Array Eye Door was enough to kill anybody and yet you’ve come out of it alive after breaking through a bottleneck. Anyone would have tread carefully but you didn't seem to be afraid that the soul-shockwave would damage your soul origins.”
It did cross Fane’s mind but he was so intent on condensing the third Soul Sword that he threw it to the back of his mind. It was only when he was out, that he felt afraid of what he had done. He made a note to himself that he should not do that anymore.
Noel shook his head. His understanding of Fane told him that some advice would just bounce off Fane. "Forget it. I'm just wasting my breath here. By the way, I've just received some news you might be interested in. Wesley is going to the wager battle arena tomorrow and his opponent is Dale Woodward who ranked 143rd place. I thought you might want to observe the battle so don’t forget to go."
Hearing this made Fane straighten his body and laugh coldly. It seemed Wesley did not view him as a worthy opponent at all. If not he would not have gotten into another battle just before his battle with Fane.
"Thank you, Brother Noel, you've been such a great help to me these past few days," said Fane.
Noel shook his head humbly and said, "It's no skin off my back. I'm only passing on what I know."
They talked for a bit more before Fane went back to his room. Ah, the beauty of having an abode to oneself—nobody could disturb you and there was no need to fear of one’s secret being exposed. The ten days of training had consumed all his energy, both spirit and truth, and not to mention the emotional toll on him.
He fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. Ever since embarking on the road to cultivation, he had not had opportunities to sleep on a real bed and had to resort to meditation to rest his body. Therefore, it was no surprise that he slept a total of one day and one night and when he woke up, it was already noon the next day.
His true energy and spirit energy was fully charged but he did not continue on with his training as he knew that there was no overnight success in this field and that he would only enter a dead-end if he immersed himself too much in training. Nash Wood had been a bundle of nerves ever since he knew of Fane's battle with Wesley so it was only natural that he would come out of Mustard Seed now that Fane had a little bit of free time on his hands.
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