Three months later. Tang Ye gazed at the tree 300m ahead that was riddled with holes. A sword was floating before him, yet he just stared fixedly at the tree. At a certain moment in time, Tang Ye’s eyes focused, and then a ‘swish’ resounded. The sword before him left a string of afterimages behind as it instantly shot into the tree. “Five breaths of time!” Tang Ye took a deep breath, and then he shook his head. After three months of ceaseless cultivation, his Sword Control Technique could be said to have improved by leaps and bounds. His area of control had increased from the previous 30m to over 300m, and its speed was even countless times swifter than before. Of course, he owed a great deal of it to Elder Mu. Even though it was like this, Tang Ye was still slightly dissatisfied because Elder Mu had once said that he would have only grasped the basics of the Sword Control Technique when he was able to control a sword to traverse 300m in a single breath of time. In other words, he still couldn’t be considered to have grasped the basics.... However, he didn’t have much time any longer. Because the Ascension Rankings would be beginning in a month from now. Right, something worthy of mentioning was that his cultivation had improved, and he’d ascended from the first rank of the First Heaven Realm to the second rank. Moreover, it wasn’t just his cultivation that had improved, even his Sword Intent had risen to the peak of the 2nd level. So long as he grasped the critical factor for advancement, then he would be able to instantly break through to the 3rd level of Sword Intent! Besides that, his Dragonbreaker technique had arrived at the 1st level under Elder Mu’s guidance. As for its might, even Tang Ye was extremely shocked by it.... Tang Ye put his sword away and walked over to Elder Mu’s cottage, and then he cupped his fists towards it and said, “Elder Mu, I have to bid farewell!” The door slowly opened up before Elder Mu walked out from within. He stretched out his right hand and said, “This sword is for you!”However, the old man’s hand was completely empty. As he gazed at Elder Mu’s empty hands, Tang Ye didn’t understand what the old man meant. Suddenly, Tang Ye frowned because he’d sensed a sword, and it wasn’t a trick or formed with Intent. There really was a sword there! Tang Ye stretched out his hand to receive it. Sure enough, he came into contact with a sheathed sword. “Elder Mu, why... why can’t this sword be seen?” “It was created with special materials, and it possesses a concealing effect. So, this sword is also called the Hidden Sword. However, unfortunately, that person who forged this sword was unable to concentrate on forging this sword because an unexpected incident had occurred within his family. So, a Natural Sword Spirit wasn’t born within this sword. But it’s still not bad. After all, this sword can be considered to be at the mid-grade of the Earth Rank!” said Elder Mu. “The mid-grade of the Earth Rank!” Tang Ye was shocked. He took a deep breath and said, “Thank you, Elder Mu!” He didn’t refuse because he lacked a suitable sword, and it was obvious that this sword was very suitable to him! Elder Mu withdrew a list and passed it to Tang Ye before he said, “These are the spirit herbs required for the future tempering of your body. I don’t have these spirit herbs anymore, so head out to the outside world and get them somehow. Right, it’s best to get a little more, otherwise, it would be you who suffers in the end.” Tang Ye’s expression instantly became bitter when he glanced through the list. Because there were at least 20 types of spirit herbs that were Earth Rank spirit herbs. As for Profound Rank spirit herbs, there were over 100 types.... However, fortunately, he was able to endure it with his current wealth, or he could craft more talismans to be sold if worse comes to worse! The old man waved his right hand, and then a light blue circle appeared before Tang Ye. He said, “A sword that’s too hard is easy to snap. However, your Sword Dao requires such a character like yours. So, I can’t advise you to be more tactful. No matter what, don’t die young.” As soon as he finished speaking, Elder Mu didn’t speak further and turned around before he walked into the cottage. Tang Ye made the bow of a disciple towards the cottage, and then he didn’t stay here any longer and walked into the light blue circle........ Death Mountain Range. Atop an enormous tree. A woman that wore a black robe and a black mask was utilizing her Divine Sense to search the surroundings. This woman was none other than Feng Yi from Flower Palace. Because she was afraid of offending Lin Shan, Feng Yi could only spend money to hire the League of Doom to deal with Tang Ye. However, never had she expected that Tang Ye had actually jumped down Death Abyss. If the League of Doom didn’t have an extremely good reputation, she would have felt that the League of Doom was deceiving her. She didn’t know why Tang Ye had jumped down Death Abyss, but she knew that Tang Ye would definitely not seek death. Because Tang Ye wanted to save his mother! After hesitating for a long time, she was unable to resist the temptation of that technique to control Darkbeasts, and she’d come to the Grand Myriad Mountains by herself to search for Tang Ye. However, after staying for over a month in Death Mountain Range, besides a few Darkbeasts, she hadn’t even seen a shadow of Tang Ye’s. Moreover, she’d come to Death Abyss on many occasions, yet she didn’t have the courage to jump down in the end.