These countless experts all understood this reasoning, and they wanted to try and make themselves enjoy training and make training a source of pleasure, thus allowing themselves to train faster, gain insights more easily, and break through.
But whether or not you liked something was something determined by your nature and soul.
You couldn’t just choose to like something. For example, if you saw an extremely ugly woman, no matter how hard you tried to make yourself ‘like’ her, you wouldn’t be able to do it. The choices of your innate nature were unchangeable.
“Mr. Burgess, why have you come?” Bebe called out loudly.
Linley now opened his eyes and immediately rose up. With a laugh, he said, “Mr. Burgess.”
The bald man, Burgess, laughed loudly. “Linley, I know that you train in the Laws of the Earth. By coincidence, I too train in the Laws of the Earth. Let’s have a spar between you and me. What say you?”
“This…this is wonderful, of course.” Linley was very surprised and pleased.
Sparring with an expert who trained in the same Laws, especially someone much more powerful, was an extremely rare opportunity. After all, this meant the stronger person had to lower themselves to train with you.
Although it was described as ‘sparring’, in reality the other was helping him and guiding him!
“Haha…I’m rather stupid. I’ve only trained in two of the profound mysteries of the Laws of the Earth. One is the Profound Mysteries of the ‘Essence of the Earth’, while the other is the Profound Mysteries of Strength.
Linley’s heart leapt.
He now knew of yet another profound mystery of the Laws of the Earth; the Profound Mysteries of Strength.
“Rumble…” A large amount of earth elemental essence solidified, and the body of the bald man, Burgess, became covered with a sparkling earthen armor.
“Not the color of adamantine?” Linley was secretly surprised.
“Linley, against you, there’s no need for me to utilize the Profound Mysteries of Strength. I’ll directly utilize the Profound Mysteries of the Essence of the Earth. Careful!” Burgess laughed loudly, and as he spoke, he kicked off the ground powerful, charging forward while smashing towards Linley with his fist.
The sun reflected off of his sparkling earthen armor in a dazzling manner. Burgess’ right fist actually transformed into the head of a vicious wolf which opened its mouth and bit downwards.
“Hoooooowl!” The vicious wolf actually let out a howling sound.
Linley’s face changed. He wanted to retreat, but Burgess had actually utilized his Godrealm. As a God, Burgess’ Godrealm had caused Linley’s speed to drop dramatically.
“Clang!” Bloodviolet clashed against that vicious wolf’s head fist.
Linley was sent blasting backwards like a sandbag. With a ‘boom’, he smashed viciously into the deep pool of water like a meteorite, sending water spraying everywhere. Under the light of the sun, the water drops spraying everywhere seemed like sparkling jewels.
“Hey, that’s way too weak.” Burgess shook his head.
“Boom!” Linley erupted out from the surface of the water, then landed on the ground. Staring at Burgess, he immediately asked, “Mr. Burgess, how is it that the vicious wolf’s head which your fist had transformed into could have such power? How could its hardness be on a level with a divine artifact?” Linley felt utterly mystified by what had just happened.
Burgess quirked his lips. “Think about it for yourself.”
Linley’s smile froze.
“Alright. Let’s do it again.” Linley gritted his teeth.
From this day onwards, each day, Linley would be defeated by Burgess three times. Burgess never gave him any guidance. Any questions Linley had, he would tell Linley to go think about it for himself. Actually…even if Burgess had explained it, he wouldn’t be able to truly explain it clearly.
After all, in order to understand the profound mysteries of the ‘Essence of the Earth’, Burgess had spent over a thousand years.
Linley sparred with Burgess, while Bebe sparred with that white-robed man.
With this sort of continued ‘sparring’, Linley’s rate of improvement in understanding the ‘Essence of the Earth’ increased greatly.
Once again, Linley was sent flying. As he fell down onto the ground, a smile actually appeared on his face.
“I was wrong, wrong!”
Linley began to laugh loudly. “It isn’t dead. It isn’t dead.”
“I never understood what the power behind the throbbing pulse everywhere in the boundless earth was all about. Now, I understand. I understand. The Throbbing Pulse of the World. Haha. So this is the Throbbing Pulse of the World!” Linley seemed to have gone mad, as he raised his head and laughed wildly. And just as Linley began to laugh loudly…
An enormous, unique, irresistible surge of force descended. The space around Linley became distorted. In the face of this unique presence which was like the Laws, any creature, no matter how powerful, was like nothing but an ant.
Even Burgess couldn’t help but tremble.
The bald Burgess, who had just defeated Linley yet again and was preparing to delightedly lecture him, was stupefied. “This Linley, he…he broke through, just like that. This is too monstrous?” Burgess finally understood the difference between himself and a genius.