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Ezra still ended up rejecting Ash''s invitation, because he knew that though there was power in numbers, it also came with more disputes and troubles and he has to take care of his own force.
Ezra''s three main objectives in the Spirit Devouring Mountain were to reach the Foundation Establishment stage as soon as possible. Second was to rule this entire sect with his little army and the third was to find anything rted to fight between the sect''s patriarch and Bjorn''s 1st disciple.
He also has the thought of his kingdom in mind. Though the Brownmane Empire was currently doing all it could to stabilize the situation at its borders, once Emperor Bruce Brownmane got his hands free, he would surely turn his eyes to the Bloodfang Kingdom.
Therefore, Ezra needed to step into the Foundation Establishment stage before that happened. And there was an inevitable war with Duo Mountain Peak.
He did not wish to waste any potential training time on disputes and meaningless politics in groups such as these. He will simply make himself and his little faction more powerful, only then, he will step into the political power struggle.
Disappointment rose on Ash''s face in response to Ezra''s rejection. The former was not angry, however, only feeling that it was such a pity.
"Although I cannot join your group, I am willing to be friends with fellow brother. If we have any needs in the future, we can always help each other." Ezra gave a faint smile, his scarlet eyes glowed.
He did not want to tangle himself in the group and leave his people aside, but he was willing to be friends with Ash. Thetter''s character was pretty good, and quite to Ezra''s liking.
Ash also smiled when he heard this and candidly said, "That''s exactly what I''m looking for."
He did not try to persuade or force the prince, because he was confident in his judgment. Ezra might seem as if he had just reached the 2nd level Core Formation, but Ash had the feeling that thetter was not as simple as he appeared on the surface.
"Although fellow brother Ezra is not joining us, the others can still join us if they are interested." Ash indicated towards Xyr, Argus, Zulfi, Shifa and Theor with a grin.
After all, these five were also first ss disciples.
Argus shook his head, and Shifa red at Ash in anger.
Zulfi replied. "We will follow his majesty, his cause is ours. I must decline your offer."
"You shouldn''t recruit any Naran geniuses fellow brother Ash, it''s fruitless." Said Theor.
Xyr who spokete looked at Ash in his eyes. "You are not worthy to be my master, I am sure that if we fight a life and death battle, I can win."
Ash Bekham was stunned when he heard that, he remembered this guy who destroyed a 3rd Level Core Formation expert while being on 1st Level, he was someone that even Shiyan factions desired to have.
A rare prodigy with great aptness, an anomaly with two martial spirits.
"Why does someone like him is following fellow brother Ezra?" Ash thought.
Seeing the expression of Ash, Ezra lifted his cup and said, "I am thankful to fellow brother Ash Bekham for our friendship."
Ash chuckled, knowing that Ezra was trying to divert the situation.
Since both of them were now much closer, Ash could not help but ask, "Right… fellow brother, I''m dying to know since you brought back so much Heavenly Tribnce on your first try, how many spiritual energy gobs did you create?"
Xyr and the rest also opened their ears, evidently equally curious.<novelsnext></novelsnext>
Ezraughed and lifted his cup, downing in a single gulp, before he answered, "Only about a hundred."
~HAAHH~
A series of gasps sounded around the tablet, Zulfi and the rest dumbstruck.
They were also Core Formation practitioners, but the number of spiritual energy gobs in their core only numbered slightly over thirty.
Ash also opened and closed his mouth. In the end, he let out a bitter chuckle.
Let alone the rest, even a 3rd Level Core Formation expert wouldn''t have 100 gobs.
In other words, if they were topete purely based on the amount of spiritual energy, a 3rd Level Core Formation expert like himself may not be able to beat Ezra.
This caused him to sigh deeply. He was truly unable toprehend how Ezra''s spiritual energy had reached such a level.
However, this also made Ash Bekham rejoice. It seems that his judgement was right after all. The young man before him was indeed extraordinary. Though thetter currently did not have much of a reputation, Ash had a premonition that there would be no one in the future Spirit Devouring Mountain who would not know Ezra Zephyr.
He took his farewell and was about to leave when he stopped, a ponder haunted his mind as he pivoted back and looked at the sorcerer with the straw hat.
"Brother Xyr, what about you, how many gobs did you make when you called Heavenly Tribnce?"
Xyr replied indifferently. "79."
Ashughed bitterly and went on his way.
<Next Day>
After the Energy Mountain training, Ezra Zephyr headed straight for the Mystic Demon Library. He had been itching to visit this ce ever since yesterday.
The Mystic Demon Library was a majestic ancient looking building that stood at the peak of one of the towering mountains. From the seemingly unending stream of disciples moving towards it, one could see that this ce was undoubtedly one of the most popr locations in the outer mountains.
The Mystic Demon Library was extremely enormous, and was divided into three levels. Betayer and 3rd, 4th circles techniques were stored on the first level, Gammayer and 5th, 6th circles on the second, and it was said that the third held Deltayer and 7th, 8th circles techniques.
However, the rental fee was extremely high, and current disciples could not possibly afford them.
Hence, Ezra made a beeline to the second level.
A Gammayer technique was more than attractive enough to his current self.
There were very few disciples on the second level because although the Gammayer techniques here were powerful, they were even more difficult to learn.
Everyone currently did not have many Spirit jade pieces at hand, and thus did not want to waste them, nning instead to visitter on when they had umted enough.