The Growth of a Titan-Chapter 441- A Tree That Sticks Out Of The Forest

Twenty minutes earlier at the Heavenly Strength stone stele...

A tall and handsome figure walked from the path leading towards the clearing to the Heavenly Strength stone stele.

This young man looked around sixteen or seventeen and he wore flashy robes. His long and neatly combed hair behind him swayed slightly as he held his hand behind his back and walked towards the Heavenly Strength stone stele.

He stopped in front of the rankings that detailed the Quasi-Heavenly Realm disciples and calmly looked up at Lan Hong-so’s name at the top. His gaze then drifted down to the bottom where his eyes barely make out a footprint.

The young man’s hands that were clasped behind his back involuntarily clenched tightly. Filled with emotions the young man choked out.

"Grandfather, did you know what was going to happen to our Clan? Did you also know what was going to happen to you?"

A sad and lost expression overcame the young man’s face.

If one looked closely, one would be able to see that a small jade slip was tightly clenched in his fists.

This young man was Haneul, the second disciple of the Shaolin Sect’s Sect Leader.

He also had another identity that many people did not know, and it was that he was the son of the Academy Leader. This was in addition to the fact that he was a descendant of the Lan Clan.

However, his father who had barely spoken to him in the past suddenly appeared in front of him a few days ago and threw him a jade slip before disappearing.

Inside this jade slip detailed a terrifying secret that no one could have imagined.

His father, Lan Tan-Mu, was never the younger brother of Lan Hong-so, rather, he was his son.

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"And who am I? Am I my grandfather or my father? Am I both? That monster, just what has he done to me?"

Haneul felt anger rise in his heart as he thought about the current state of his soul.

"If only I could get my hands on that Soul Minding Pearl, I would be able to heal my soul or at least halt this process to buy me some more time. However, that would mean I have to get a top-three position in this tournament. Not only that but would that bastard even allow me to use the Soul Mending Pearl if I got it?"

Haneul was so frustrated he grabbed his face.

With nowhere to vent his frustration, he was about to raise his foot and kick the stone stele as well. However, at that moment, a familiar voice was heard some distance away.

"Brother Sol, we’re almost there!"

Haneul frowned and looked at the path leading to this place.

"Woo-seong? What is that stray doing here, and did he just say Sol? Is it that nobody who thinks he’s on par with Byeong-ho?"

Haneul lowered his leg and thought about confronting the two. He liked playing the villain.

However, upon second thought, he decided not to. He had other things to deal with than concern himself with trash.

Haneul snorted coldly before placing his hands behind his back and vanishing from his position.

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Back to the present...

Sol withdrew his hand and then looked up at his name which was now in first place on the ranking.

"Four hundred and fifty thousand kilograms of force? I guess it should be around that number."

Sol was heard muttering to himself.

After absorbing two portions of his bloodline and refining his body twice, his raw strength was nearly five hundred thousand kilograms worth of force.

If he were to activate his Enigma’s power and increase his physical strength, his strength would undoubtedly double at the very least.

’I still haven’t absorbed the third and fourth portion of my bloodline. However, I haven’t been able to make any progress with that since I entered the Spiritual Realm. Rather than my body lacking in strength to handle my Enigma’s power, I feel it’s my soul that’s unable to handle my Holy Crest’s power.’

In the Spiritual Realm, one not only accumulated Aether Energy to break through, but they also strengthen their Soul Core.

If it’s strengthening his soul, the further Sol cultivated in the Spiritual Realm and breakthrough the stronger his soul would become. So, he concluded that during this step of absorbing his bloodline, he would need to take things slow. There was no way he could forcefully strengthen his Soul Core, at the very least he could use a few methods to help speed up this process.

As Sol was in his thoughts, Woo-seong came over to him still reeling from shock.

"Brother Sol how is your physical strength so abnormal?! The cutoff mark for a Fleshly Body cultivator in the Sky Expanse Realm is five hundred thousand kilograms worth of force! But your strength has almost reached that level when you’ve only just broken through into the Earth Expanse realm! That... that is simply monstrous!"

Woo-seong face was red as he grabbed Sol’s shoulder and noisily expressed his deep shock.

Additionally, Woo-seong wanted to point out that Sol’s strength was two times that of Hong-so. If rumors were true that Hong-so’s strength was greater than his score on the Heavenly Strength stone stele, then would it be more or less than Sol’s current strength?

However, Woo-seong didn’t dare say this, he couldn’t even imagine the commotion that would occur because of this. The Six Sects and Great Clans would especially pay attention to this.

All of a sudden, Woo-seong felt his heart turn cold. He now regretted bringing Sol here. If he knew that Sol’s strength would be this monstrous then he wouldn’t have made him test his strength, at the very least he would have told him to hold back.

But now it was too late!

Woo-seong suddenly sighed inwardly in relief that Sol didn’t use his real name. Sometimes it wasn’t a wise decision to stick out, especially when the tournament was coming up. That would be painting too big of a target onto one’s back!

Woo-seong suddenly curbed his shock at Sol’s strength and turned to look left and right before whispering to Sol.

"Brother Sol let’s hurry and leave before someone comes and sees us. You shouldn’t draw so much attention, Brother Sol."

Sol smiled and patted Woo-seong’s hand on his shoulder before saying.

"Thanks for worrying for me, but it’s fine. Someone has already seen us."

Woo-seong stiffened when he heard that and went on high alert. At the same time, Sol turned to look in a certain direction of the forest before saying calmly.

"Brother Haneul, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you face to face."

"Haneul?"

Woo-seong was dumbfounded upon hearing the person in hiding was Haneul and immediately turned to look in the direction Sol was staring at.

At that moment, Haneul walked out of the forest with his hands behind his back.

He had a frown on his face as he stared at Sol.

’How was he able to know it was me from such a distance away? I didn’t even feel any Soul Energy fluctuations in the area.’

Haneul wasn’t surprised he was found out, but rather the fact that Sol accurately guessed his identity.

’It must be a coincidence and he guess it was me.’

Haneul snorted inwardly before he took a step and vanished.

When he reappeared, he was standing a few steps away from Sol and Woo-seong. In the blink of an eye, he had crossed several hundred meters.

After appearing in front of Sol, Haneul looked up at the Earth Expanse Rankings. When he saw the bizarre name above Lan Hong-so, he felt slight displeasure in his heart.

Looking back at Sol he snorted and said.

"Haven’t you ever heard of the saying that a tree that sticks out in the forest gets chopped down?"