Chapter 14: Imprint


    ude finally reached the outer edges of the Gryfino Forest and rushed back towards Dawsbury City.


    He returned home, took a bath and changed his clothes. After devouring an energy replenishment pill that he had bought, ude then sorted through his thoughts, summarizing his gains and losses during the training at Gryfino forest.


    He had defeated the beasts, but he realised that although hisbat experience was great, his familiarity with using cultivation techniques weren''t sufficient enough. He still needed more time to get used to the cultivation techniques. As he was previously living in a world where cultivation didn''t exist, his reflexes and first instincts naturally didn''t involve them. Although he had relied on his tyrannical sword skills andbat experience from his previous life, this wouldn''t be enough against a true cultivation master, where cultivation techniques make a huge difference.


    He couldn''t underestimate the cultivation masters of this world. He might have his previous life experiences to beat these kids, but it isn''t going to be enough when you''re up against a cultivation master, someone who he''ll have to face eventually. As all these thoughts shed through ude''s mind, he took a deep breath, went outside and carefully began cultivating. He needed to not only cultivate faster, but learn to familiarise the cultivation techniques as well.


    Thanks to the training in Gryfino forest, he had really improved a lot, and he had to put what he had learned into good use. As he cultivated, energy travelled throughout his body and stimted every single one of his cells, and his entire body felt really nice.


    ude wanted to channel this vital energy into his body and replenish his strength.


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    May Clifford was trembling in anger. She couldn''t believe that ude Rayforth could return alive. But he did. With her senior brothers'' strength, how could they possibly fail?


    "Not only did he not die, he became even stronger " May Stafford''s face was green. From what she heard, ude had brought back several beast skins to sell, most of which were high grade ones in the sixth rank.


    She had sent her senior brothers to assassinate ude, but not only did they fail, they allowed his strength to increase even more. She couldn''t believe what she was hearing.


    idents and even deaths were not umon in the Gryfino forest, which was why she had sent her senior brothers to take care of ude. But ude returned, unharmed from the looks of it, while her senior brothers didn''t.


    She waspletely helpless now that even her senior brothers were beaten by ude. And worse, they might even be killed by him. And it wasn''t like she could do anything about it. Even if she had the influence to force the elders tounch an investigation to search all of Gryfino forest in an effort to frame ude for their deaths, it would still be a fruitless effort. The Gryfino forest is a dense and dangerous jungle filled with wild beasts in every corner. It would be a miracle if a dead bodysted that long without being devoured by any of them.


    "Damn you ude Rayforth." May Stafford''s eyes glimmered with hatred and impotent fury. However, she didn''t dare try to mess with ude when he was staying in the academy, and could only gulp down her resentment.


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    Closing his eyes, ude began to try and gain insight from his experiences.


    For him to imprint cultivation techniques into his mind as a form of reflex, he needed to be extremely careful and not rush, so the improvement speed would be slow, while giving more importance to mental energy, reaction speed and analysis.


    He continued training for seven days, but the effect was very obvious. He hadpletely reconstructed his innate reflexes and reactions and had sessfully imprinted cultivation techniques into his mind.


    ude found that when he used Invisible Sword Technique with Floating Footsteps, it was even faster. By using seven days, ude had improved his speed to the high level.


    This meant that ude''s offense was even faster than before, and had the potential to dominate most, if not all of the outer section disciples in the Inner Disciple Exams.


    ude''s lips curled into a smile, "I am getting pumped up for this contest!"


    Those that could rank in the top ten were selected by the Academy to join the Inner Section. At least five hundred of the outer disciples entered thepetition in the hopes of bing an inner disciple. If the ude of the past was still the same as before, he would not even have the right to participate.


    "There are still a few days left until thepetition. I need to use my time wisely..." Soon, ude''s concentration returned to his cultivation, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had passed. The time for the inner disciple contest became closer and closer.


    Since he had already restructured his reflexes to include cultivation, ude put even more energy into cultivating. His key focus was the Invisible Sword Technique and his footwork. In just a matter of days, his cultivation had increased at an insane speed and easily broke through to the peak of the sixth rank, only half a step away from entering the seventh rank.


    "The inner disciple contest will start tomorrow.." ude took a deep breath and began concentrating.


    Swoosh!


    Using his Invisible Sword Technique, a sword was drawn in mid air, vibrating with loud hums as beams of sword light shed past. The sword intent in the air now was beyond terrifying, as the stream of resplendent light whistled through the air.


    ude stood in the middle with a calmposure, exuding an extraordinary aura. A cold light flickered within his eyes.


    He was ready to win!