Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 297 Entering A Three-Month-Long Cultivation

Ricky's eyes were full of expectations. Instantly, Doris knew what he wanted from her.

"Yes. You have seen through me, Doris. If you don't mind, I'd like to learn from your amazing castingskills. Please teach me," Ricky replied with a smile, admitting his purpose quite readily like there wasnothing embarrassing about it.

"No problem, no problem at all... It would be my pleasure if you're eager to learn more about it,"Doris chuckled. Her words were not just polite formalities, but came sincerely from the bottom ofher heart. The more passionate Ricky was about casting and the more he asked questions, the morehe would learn and the faster he would improve.

"But there is a problem,” she suddenly said. "Several parts of the manual you've been studying arevery profound and obtuse. Even I myself can't comprehend them all, at least not with my limitedknowledge. This manual is quite extraordinary. I'm afraid that I won't be able to help you much withit. All that I can pass on to you is what I already know about casting from my experience.”

She smiled kindly and continued, "Of course, I'd be glad to do my best if you still want to pursue themanual.”

"Thank you so much, Doris! I won't trouble you with that any longer. If you could just teach me thecasting skills, I'd be delighted,” Ricky answered with a big smile.

"It seems that you have the confidence to learn the manual by yourself! Good, let's focus on yourcasting skills then," Doris said, nodding appreciatively. "Well then, you can stay here before you replacethe chance to transit into an innate spiritual king. Just keep your mind on learning the skills,” shereminded him.

"That's very kind of you, Doris," Ricky said, his eyes lighting up with excitement. He couldn't wait tostart his cultivation immediately!

From what Ricky could tell, Doris was likely a strong warrior whose cultivation level was now beyondthat of an innate spiritual emperor. It was definitely a blessing that he had the opportunity to learnfrom such a master! He believed she would give him unimaginable and priceless knowledge.

After a few minutes of conversation, Ricky thanked Doris again and returned to the Manor Palace."Could you detect how high Doris" level is, Soar?" Ricky whispered to his demi-immortal friend as hewalked back.

"Not at all, brother.” Soar shook his head. "But since I'm a Great Dragon, I can vaguely detect acertain suppression from her in my blood power just now. So I'm guessing that she's surely beyondan innate spiritual emperor,” Soar replied. He grew silent, lost in thought.

"Ah, great minds think alike.” Ricky nodded satisfactorily. He was ecstatic. It looked like that he hadjust found himself a great teacher! "Do you think she has discovered that you are a Great Dragonthen?" Ricky asked after a while.

"Well...she might have perceived that my blood power of innate spirit wasn't run of the mill. Butsince I didn't activate it, she might not have seen that it's the Great Dragon kind," Soar said with afrown. "But I'm just speculating, of course. It was really hard to read the mind of someone sopowerful," he then added.

"Well, we can only hope that she is still unaware of your identity,” Ricky sighed thoughtfully. .

"Do we really have to do this to Ricky and make him stay here with us?" Tina asked as soon as Rickyhad left, sounding a tad guilty. She clearly didn't have the heart to treat the young man like this."To tell you the truth, forcing him like this is the last thing I want to do. But it's likely that he's youronly hope, Tina. I don't want to but I have to make this choice since we have finally found him.Otherwise, I would be too ashamed to face your parents when the time comes after forty years. I'msorry about it; I really am," Doris heaved a sigh, looking at Tina with desperation in her eyes.

"But it is truly selfish of us to do so, Doris. This will lie heavy on my conscience in the days ahead,”Tina confessed after a moment of hesitation, biting her lip.

"I know, Tina. But when it comes to things concerning your life, being selfish seems to be our onlychoice. I couldn't bear to watch your last days draw nearer and nearer without at least tryingsomething, anything! I swear to you that from this day on, I will treat Ricky as my own son. I wishthat will at least make up for things a little,” Doris promised, looking into the distance.

"I have to say that when he refused to go back to our clan with us, I was a bit annoyed. But I'lladmit--I was actually more impressed by this young man. He's strong-willed and knows what hereally wants, which can't be said of many people his age. Let's wait and see what he can achieveafter ten years" Doris said, a small smile curving her mouth.

"Ten years... I couldn't even imagine how hard these ten years would be for him to fulfill his promise.I hope that everything goes well, and we can succeed in the end, Ricky. Or else, I will never forgivemyself for doing this to you," Tina prayed in her heart, closing her eyes as if to hold back her tears. .Upon returning to the Manor Palace, Ricky told the others that the problem had been solved. Hebroke the good news that the Dahlia Palace was about to withdraw from the weapon makingindustry and allow the Manor Palace to grow to monopolize this market in the Chaotic Regionagain.

Naturally, Kristen and the other were overjoyed to hear the news.

But after their initial excitement wore off, all of them began to ask why the Dahlia Palace was willingto make the concession.

Ricky didn't tell them the whole story. Instead, he told them that the casting master from the DahliaPalace was selling the weapons she cast just to attract his attention. He said that she thought thathis casting skills were quite excellent and wanted to meet him in person. He also revealed that he'djust had an amicable conversation with the casting master.

Everyone was surprised to hear this, but they all believed in him. Patting Ricky's shoulder, theymarveled at how lucky he was to have gained the favor of such a high level casting master. Thewhole palace resounded with laughter and cheering.

“Don’t blame me for not telling you the truth, * Ricky thought in his heart, looking at Kristen and theothers. 'l don't want to, but I just can't tell you everything between Doris and me.’ His consciencesquirmed with discomfort at seeing that they all trusted his words without the slightest doubt.After celebrating with everyone for a while, Ricky excused himself. Making sure that no one wasfollowing him, he headed for the Dahlia Palace secretly. This time, he left Soar in the Manor Palaceto serve as a guard and protect the people.

Soon, the shocking news that the Dahlia Palace would stop casting weapons had spread like wildfirearound the whole Chaotic Region and was widely discussed by all the warriors. As an officialexplanation, the Dahlia Palace claimed that it was because their top casting master was merely atraveler who was just passing through the region and would soon be packing up and leaving.

This had surely sparked wild speculation among warriors in the region. Some of them had evenspied on the Dahlia Palace to dig up more information about the event. But their secret efforts wereall in vain. Whatever Doris wanted to hide from the public would become well-kept secret that noone, however powerful they might be, would be able to unearth.

Not a single warrior would have, in their wildest dreams, ever guessed that this happened allbecause of Ricky, nor could they foresee the consequences that might follow this sudden change.Because of this, Ricky expected that this news would gradually be forgotten by people as time woreon...

On the other hand, Ricky and Doris had secluded themselves in a bamboo forest, far away from theheated discussions out there.

After seating themselves comfortably in this peaceful spot, Doris told Ricky that she had set upmany arrays and wards around the area to protect them. Those arrays and wards were powerfulenough to hide the place from all the top warriors within the Realm of Wildness, with no one beingable to detect or break them. Thus, this place was of almost entirely impenetrable safety.

“That's good to hear, ' Ricky thought to himself. From his point of view, this forest would be aperfect place for cultivating intently before the opportunity of becoming an innate spiritual kingappeared. So although he had simply nodded when he heard about the arrays and wards, he was infact cheering on the inside at the timeliness of their place.

Curious, Ricky felt compelled to ask about Doris’ grade as a casting master. He chose his wordsextremely carefully, anxious that he might offend her.

But surprisingly, Doris made no secret of it and revealed that she was at the Demi-sage Level.

Ricky was astonished to know that her level was so high. But come to think of it, he should haveknown from the quality and workmanship of the weapons she produced.

In the next few hours, Doris had not only imparted knowledge of casting to Ricky, but also told himall the things she knew about martial arts. She was truly determined to keep her promise and tookRicky as her own beloved disciple and son.

Ricky could certainly feel her earnestness, and he was well aware that she might be doing all theseto compensate him or pay him back.

'I have no choice now. I know that I must give my best efforts to help Tina refine and dispel the evilspirit in her body, * Ricky decided determinedly, furrowing his brow. “Otherwise, I won't be able torepay Doris’ kindness of teaching.’

Several days into their teaching and practicing, Ricky found that Doris really lived up to herreputation as a great master. She was rich in experience, and had quite an insightful and profoundview of all aspects concerning casting and martial arts. Every time Ricky listened to her teaching, hefelt extremely enlightened. He experienced multiple epiphanic moments when it was like he had asudden burst of clarity.

Of all the knowledge Doris had passed on to him, the information about casting skills was apriceless thing for Ricky that would help him throughout his life. Some of them were Doris’ uniqueskills and secret weapons that she had planned to bring to the grave. But now, she did not holdback in telling Ricky about them.

In terms of martial arts, she too had given all she had to the young man, including fighting skills andtips about how to make big breakthroughs. She had literally shown all of her accomplishments tohim.

On top of it all, she had even spent a great amount of her spiritual energy most of the time to helpboost Ricky's refinement process. By intensifying his refining, Ricky had made big progress incultivating the Seventh Degree of Nine-degree Body Refining Formula

Because of Doris’ teaching, Ricky's progress increased rapidly. It was as though he kept improvingalmost every second! Importantly, Doris had offered to give Ricky many Treasures from Heaven andEarth of King Level several times, but he had refused to use them.

Who knew how much Ricky could have progressed had he accepted those gifts!

He declined them not because he was bashful, but because he had the wisdom to discern that hedidn't want to boost his cultivation speed by sacrificing the solid foundation of his cultivation.Three months flew by, and with the help of Doris' spectacular teaching, Ricky had leveled up fromthe third grade of Bone Reinforcement to the peak of the fourth grade. As for his casting skills, hehad become a casting master of Demi-spirit Level! For the amount of time he'd spent with her, itwas truly amazing and fruitful progress!