Way of the Knights

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*Peng!!*

*Boom!*

The surrounding earth fiercely trembled after receiving a fearsome blow from Raven. 

On the vast and grassy plains, Raven was crouched slightly with his fists on his side. His expression earnest, his thoughts were empty, even his eyes were dull. It was as if he wasn't aware of anything that's happening right at this current moment. 

Despite being in this state, his aura couldn't be anymore chaotic. 

Some times, the air surrounding him would slow down or out right freeze, sometimes even without him moving, he'll appear on a different spot, as for the rest of the times, a tide of horrifying destructive force would pulse out from his body, causing everything around him to be devastated. 

Raven would occasionally throw out a fist. Sometimes, its just a simple one, no energy fluctuations or whatever. Most of the times though, it is the complete opposite. When he struck the air, the winds will scream and a wide-spread destruction will occur. If it weren't for the fact that this space was stable and completely capable of recovering, Raven's mindless actions would've probably reduce everything around him into rubble. 

It has been two months since Raven trained like a madman. After building a Temporal Array that slows down time into 5:1 ratio, Raven never stepped out of this place even once. Due to the conversion, he's here for nearly ten months. 

Forget about food, Raven didn't drink any water for days. He would occasionally a break once a week to relax but after that, he'll begin the hustle once again. Needless to say, his harvest was gratifying. 

In order to breakthrough to Champion Knight Realm, one has to not only deepen their understanding of their Laws but also fuse them with their own energy, effectively staining their Energy Essence and turning them into a Law Essence. 

Upon achieving Law Essence, then what comes after that is purifying it. This is where majority of the people gets stopped, unable to move any further. The reason behind this is that, in order to purify their Law Essences, they have to progress their law comprehension which creates a cycle. Comprehend Laws to convert Energy Essence into Law Essence, purify it by comprehending laws even more, rinse and repeat. 

Once one converted all of their Energy Essence into Law Essence, then it would start to overflow, cascading towards the entirety of their body, allowing their bodies to slowly be nourished until they could invoke the next baptism that would cause their breakthrough. 

Well, this method works for majority of the cultivators…except Raven.

See, there's absolutely no way that Raven could convert the enormous yet locked Chaos Force of his into Law Essences. Forget about a year, even if you give him a decade, it still wouldn't be possible. 

From the moment that Raven experienced his first transformation, thanks to the Book of Chaos, he's no longer walking on the orthodox cultivation paths. He's now walking down a unique road which is as strong, if not stronger than these paths combined. 

This energy - Chaos Force, is too mysterious. He's completely in awe towards the one who managed to fuse vital energy, essence energy and spiritual energy into one. Even Raven himself knew that his utilization of Chaos Force could only be called primitive. There are a lot of things that he's unaware as of now, and he could only hope that he'll be able to unfold these mysteries as he walked further down the road of Knighthood. 

From his current observations, as his understanding of Laws deepens, his Chaos Force is becoming more and more energetic and purified. In turn, since his Chaos Force doesn't only circulate through his inner energy network but also throughout his whole body and spirit, his whole entity is becoming stronger and stronger. This is why Raven had no need for Body Tempering Techniques, Energy Cultivation Techniques or even Spirit Forging Techniques. The Book of Chaos does it all! It is simply too miraculous and mysterious that nothing could compare to it, even though Raven only has the first chapter. 

If Raven wanted to breakthrough to Champion Knight Realm, he only needed to deepen his law understanding and wait until he gets the sensation of being bloated. Once that happens, he could invoke the Origin Energy Clouds of the Heavenly Laws to descend and forge a Champion's Physique with that. 

The grade of Champion's Physique he will get, depends on how large the Origin Energy Cloud he invoked. Unfortunately, Raven could sense a premonition that the Heavenly Laws won't make things easy for him. And this doesn't make Raven happy at all. Anyways…

During his ten month practice, Raven's Heroic Influence expanded from five kilometers to an impressive fifteen kilometers. Additionally, due to his Space and Time Laws Baptism, he also managed to condense the Heroic Influence of Space and the Heroic Influence of Time. 

Heroic Influence of Space allows him to effectively lockdown the space within fifteen kilometers, making everyone incapable of using any kind of spatial influences, this lockdown even influences the act of taking something out of a spatial ring. Raven is excluded in this effect, additionally he could influence the space within his territory. 

The Heroic Influence of Time on the other hand, is the probably the most pragmatic territory he has. Not only does he have a great influence of time within this space, he could also continuously corrode one's lifetime just by merely exposing them with it. Corroding one's lifetime, meaning that once one stepped inside his territory, their longevities will be drained at a faster rate. This is a terrifying thing, even Raven shivers whenever he thinks about this. 

Of course, as Raven's comprehension of Space and Time Laws deepen, the effects of these territories will only grow stronger. 

For the concepts of Space, they are: Spatial Folding, Spatial Expansion, Dimensional Forging, Spatial Genesis and Spatial Universe.

As for the concepts of Time, they are: Tempo, Loop, Temporal River, Perpetual Stasis and Eternal.

Raven's expertise on Concepts of Spatial Folding, Tempo and Breaking are nearly complete. There might even be chance that Spatial Folding and Tempo to be mastered before the Breaking Concept, simply because of Raven's Old Master - Tenrou's Bloodline, in addition to Inos' insights of Time and Space, there might really be a chance of this actually happening. 

Once all of the first of concepts of his Laws are fully mastered, then his Heroic Influence will transform into a Heroic Domain, something that only Champion Knights could have. 

The speed of his comprehension greatly benefitted due to several aspects, however the largest contributor is the Heavenly Laws of the Divine Realm. He had to admit that, his close observation of the Heavenly Laws really broadened his horizons, so much to the point where he often entered a delicate state of pseudo-enlightenment throughout the period of his training. 

There are factors aiding this state, first is the 'Ancient Art: Breath of Flowing Water' which allows him be in a perpetual state of Deep Meditation. The second one is his most recent acquisition of the Soul Attunement Praying Mat, which not only calms and heals his damaged soul, but also allows his senses to expand and whole heartedly focus on meditating on Laws. The third one is his recent observations of Divine Realm's Heavenly Laws which broadened his horizons greatly and finally, his natural talent. 

All of these factors allowed his understanding and deduction of laws to skyrocket in speed. Now, what he needs is to constantly apply it through training and he might just get a decent position on the Ancient Elysium Sect's disciple recruitment.

But just like they said, simply meditating and accumulating resources won't guarantee that someone will reach the apex. Sometimes, one needs to take risks and brave through dangers in order to squeeze out their potential and make breakthroughs. 

Well, thanks to the Ancestral Divine Crown for ensuring the Raven's potential will constantly be squeezed out of him. 

Compared to the Demonic Servants, which most of the Martial Emperor Sect's disciples fought, the remnant wills of the previous owners of the crown gives Raven more challenge. 

Raven's currently fighting in the 70th pocket dimension. His opponent is a female Champion Knight with a Deity Ranked Champion Physique. To top this all of, her achievements on Sword Laws are high, she even managed to merge two laws - Sword and Fire Laws, causing her Heroic Influence to become the Burning Sword Territory. 

Raven had lost count on how many times he was killed by this woman. Even with him going all out, he could only last for a couple of blows before she lands a fatal attack, killing Raven swiftly. 

Needless to say, Raven was used to him dying by now so it didn't bother him too much. Still, the sensation of immense danger and the feeling he gets whenever he's close to death, never gets old. The pressure is perfect for him, it sharpens his techniques, polishes his battle arts and refines his fighting instincts. 

As a result, even though Raven stayed secluded all this time, he didn't have to be worried about getting rusty at all. In fact, he's getting better and better each day.. And as time passed, the day of his breakthrough similarly comes closer. 

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