Talent level increased by one, a transcendent Star Wizard

After all that effort, Xia Jian spent a lot of time practicing his skills.

However, the benefits are very obvious: having more skills means having more ways to deal with enemies, which makes it easier to fight against opponents.

In particular, the battle with the masked man made Natsumi realize his own shortcomings.

Although his base combat strength is very high, he lacks skills that can unleash power instantly.

If he had learned knightly skills back then, even if he couldn't defeat the masked man, he could have stalled him for a while and made him back down. Perhaps the wizard's notes wouldn't have been taken by the other party.

Therefore, in order to enhance their explosive power, they practiced knight skills more frequently.

Fortunately, Xia Jian was quite satisfied with his progress.

Knight cultivation can be honed gradually; after all, breaking through to the intermediate level isn't something one can do at will.

Especially now that basic swordsmanship is difficult to improve, it is difficult to break through the intermediate level barrier with only the current level 11 basic swordsmanship.

For Xia Jian, it would be better to pursue both sword skills simultaneously rather than frantically honing them later.

Besides Xia Jian himself, Leia's rate of improvement during this period was also terrifying.

Yes, it's absolutely terrifying!

Ordinary knights probably wouldn't even dare to imagine Leia's rate of improvement.

In just over a month, Leia transformed from a clueless little girl into a knight apprentice with attributes exceeding 9 points!

Xia Jian had previously calculated that although Leia had a basic talent for cultivation, the rate of improvement would slow down as time went on. One month should not have been enough to raise Leia's strength to its current level.

Phyllis seems to have really gone mad, spending exorbitant prices to buy a lot of rare and precious materials for cultivation.

Although some items were also given to Xia Jian, Xia Jian really didn't care about such a small improvement, which only increased his daily cultivation speed by about 0.01.

If it were anyone else, they would probably jump for joy, but for Xia Jian it would be a waste, and the price was really not cheap.

Xia Jian only did a rough calculation, and Phyllis had spent at least nearly a thousand gold coins during this period, which shows how much it takes to train a novice knight in a short time.

Ordinary families who lack money can only endure hardship, and their future achievements will inevitably be limited, making them incomparable to the knights trained by powerful families.

In addition, since Xia Jian has to consider the bottleneck issue, he rarely takes those rare and precious herbs, only occasionally taking a little to taste.

Unfortunately, Leia's limited talent in basic training resulted in her swordsmanship barely reaching level 3, even with Xia Jian's careful instruction.

It's not that it's bad, but it's probably difficult to break through to the intermediate knight level with this, so Xia Jian plans to take Leia out for training in a while.

As a model citizen who doesn't hold grudges, this is a good opportunity to deal with that blue-eyed, black-skinned man-eating tiger that tormented him for days last time, and also to test the power of his Knight Skill.

"Teacher, I'm ready."

At that moment, Leia, dressed in a white princess dress, walked into Xia Jian's bedroom.

Xia Jian nodded upon hearing this, put on the black suit that Phyllis had prepared for him, and then got into the carriage with Leia.

Today, the lord of Cherlan City has prepared a charity gala and invited the city's prominent clans to attend.

Phyllis was no longer a small merchant in the city, so he was among those invited by the lord.

Xia Jian and Lei Ya have been busy cultivating lately, so Xia Jian decided to go along to see the sights and change his mood, so as not to suffer from qi deviation during cultivation one day.

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Soon the carriage arrived in front of a huge mansion.

The entire mansion covers nearly twenty acres of land, surrounded by high white walls, and inside is a clean and magnificent ancient castle.

Phyllis was already waiting for Xia Jian and his companion at the gate, accompanied by a noblewoman in a purple dress and a neatly dressed but seemingly carefree young man.

The lady in the purple dress was Phyllis's wife, whom she had met during a dinner gathering in the summer; her name was Valerie.

As for that carefree young man, although Xia Jian had never met him, he knew without a doubt that he was Phyllis's son, Johnny.

"Hello, Mrs. Valerie."

Xia Jian smiled and stepped forward to greet him, then looked at the young man next to him: "This must be your son. He is indeed a handsome and talented man."

Clearly, Xia Jian's compliments had some effect, and Valerie couldn't help but smile.

"You do have some good taste."

Upon hearing Xia Jian's words, Johnny straightened up, adjusted his collar, and said matter-of-factly.

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean'? You took a few compliments seriously? Get lost!"

Phyllis didn't tolerate Johnny at all and shoved him away in a huff.

If Johnny hadn't been relentlessly pestering Valerie, he wouldn't have bothered bringing his son with lung disease to embarrass himself!

"Let's go inside first, Leia, come to my side."

Seeing the tense atmosphere, Valerie stepped forward and interrupted them.

"Don't cause trouble inside, or you'll end up like your uncle, kicked out of Chelan City!"

Phyllis glared at Johnny, then turned and led the way into the courtyard.

Johnny shrugged, smiled at Natsumi, seemingly unfazed, and offered no rebuttal.

Xia Jian blinked upon seeing this, and sighed, "Life really is like a play."

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Follow Phyllis into the castle, where a large crowd has already gathered.

These people were dressed in fine clothes, and it was immediately obvious that they were either rich or noble.

Several of them possessed a powerful aura, unlike those who had long held positions of authority. They gave Xia Jian a very special feeling, and were likely several powerful knight professionals.

As soon as Xia Jian and his group entered, Simon greeted them with his signature professional smile.

"Phyllis, how have you been lately? I heard you've been acquiring things related to knight training. As you know, we're professionals in selling these things, so perhaps we could exchange ideas."

Simon's opening remarks were full of hostility.

Xia Jian curled his lip behind Phyllis, thinking to himself that all the scheming and intrigue was really boring.

Recently, because of Leia, Phyllis has been aggressively acquiring cultivation resources.

As a family that sells elixirs, Simon naturally also deals in herbs.

After learning that Phyllis had purchased cultivation resources, Simon had secretly ripped Phyllis off at exorbitant prices several times.

The key issue is that there's no way to reason with this. Because of Leia's cultivation, she was tricked and has no one to blame but herself. Phyllis can only swallow her anger.

"I'm doing alright, but I heard your business isn't doing so well. Want me to teach you how to run a business?"

Phyllis retorted just as fiercely.

Thanks to the pills given to him by Xia Jian, Phyllis is now thriving in the pill business, while Simon's pill business has been significantly impacted.

If Phyllis hadn't only dealt in cultivation-related pills, Simon would probably be having an even harder time lately.

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