Refining the Heavens 2 (炼天二)

Chapter 94: Star Metal Insignia

Within the audience hall of the palace, Emperor Galahad looked at Kairos atop of his Bloodgold throne.

With a bemused look on his face, he said in a booming voice, "Kairos Astroire. You have returned," the Emperor paused, suppressing a smile that almost appeared, then continued, "We have expected to see you once again, but not this soon.

Tell us. Can you create a stronger stratagem for cultivation?"

Kairos nodded his head in response, and said honestly, "Yes your majesty, I can."

"Good, then will you create one in the royal training grounds?" It is a rare thing to do for an Emperor to ask, instead of command, his subject. And regardless the reason, it shows favour from the crown.

Kairos knows this as well, and he too had to hide the grin that is forming on his face, for his plans are beginning to come to fruition.

"My Lord, I can craft a Stratagem which brings cultivation to around three times the usual speed with the right ingredients," Kairos said to the Emperor.

He did not boast that he had already created an array that allows seven times the usual training efficiency, for it would amount to endangering his group in the future. Any Stratagem master that could create something like that would be vied by every superpower in the world. No nation could stop the allure of having seven times faster training speed than others, a benefit that would change the delicate power balance in just a few short years.

Many talented practitioners only require a hundred years of cultivation, to reach S ranker, but the royal family of Saint Empire does it even better. With their connection to the Immortal Realms, they have access to an exceptional training method which allows them to enter Pure Self cultivation using enough preparations, and it benefits them by increasing their training speed to a point where no other family in the Empire could match them. A staggering 1.5 times the rate of training compared to others.

But in front of Kairos, that 'staggering speed' has transformed into 'merely 1.5 times'.

One can predict how much unwanted attention Kairos would receive if he reveals his Crystal Valve Stratagem. In fact, most people would be unable to accept that such a thing is even possible. Of course, this doesn't mean that this sort of stratagem is unique but merely non-existent in the Mortal Realms.

Not only the training speed that the royal family has but even Kairos' stratagems, is a common thing within the higher realms. Previously when Old Ye was explaining to the boys, he had told them that even without using any resources and only with the Immortal Realm's cultivation methods, it is already possible to train at two to three times the usual speed. The reason is the cultivation methods in the Immortal Realms is far more developed than the ways of Saint Empire and the rest of the mortal world.

For Immortals who have so much more time on their hands, they could create unbelievable techniques that mere men can only dream about. A single immortal could refine a technique over and over the years until it is perfected in his hands.

Whereas, every cultivation method in Saint Empire had to be handed down through the generations, refined by different people along the way. Each change of hands inadvertently meant that a research was set back. After all, in the hands of a genius, much more could be done, but such a person in the Immortal Realm have far more time than his counterpart in the Mortal Realms.

The Emperor once again stood up from his throne from his excitement. When he first heard that Kairos created a cultivation circle that could improve training speed by two times, he knew that he had to get the boy to make one in the palace no matter the cost.

The training advantage of the Stratagem that Kairos made was so alluring that even the Emperor felt tempted to go into the city and join in the cultivators at the training hall.