The day passed, Vlad didn't feel like training, but he still practiced with the new pills he got from Alice yesterday, he got the bone enchantment pills and an upgraded version of the stamina regeneration pills called rejuvenating pills, plus Ria also got Alice to practice with Vlad.

The rejuvenating pills were way better, but the bone enchantment pills were way too painful to eat, especially as his first time.

Vlad also started practicing the basic sword arts with Alice, he was surprised to see Alice was also a cultivator and a quite powerful one, definitely way better than him.

His practice with Alice started with a rather fast initial growth, as he learned a lot of things about basic fighting, but later it stagnated. His basic sword arts also gained a little bit of improvement, he noticed the main requirement for this technique was the mental focus, so you can study your opponent's next move.

Alice was also a little surprised at Vlad's improvement and his commitment to practice both the spear and sword arts. She herself only mastered sword arts.

After a long day of hard work, sweat covered both their bodies, both Alice and Vlad washed and showered after Vlad asked her if she wanted to accompany him to the city.

Ria had already told Alice to go with Vlad outside to take care of him, but she was a little surprised at how Vlad asked her out.

'I need someone to protect me until I have sufficient strength.' Vlad thought and Alice was the perfect companion.

As Vlad and Alice both enjoyed their meals in a large restaurant, Vlad was delighted with the food, the meat and vegetables had a new and refreshing taste, this was supposedly the meat of beasts in this world. Vlad knew from his memories about tales of these legendary beasts.

Although the World of Parthia was ruled by humans, there still were large areas that were controlled by these large beasts, humans also supposedly farmed them for their cores and resources.

Vlad looked out the window, as he saw a large bustling city, people were shopping, feasting and just having a time of their life, this was similar to the new york square he visited in his previous life, where you could see people enjoying all day and night.

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Time passed and almost a year went by.

Vlas had made a lot of progress in this period, he was at the edge of the blood tempering realm, his progress was quite fast and it shocked Ria and Alice, even her Uncle was surprised.

Vlad could now perform all three stances of this wrathful spear arts, he got quite proficient in the basic sword arts especially after breaking through the mind tempering realm as his focus and mental ability improved significantly.

Vlad has practiced with Alice for the majority of this time, he finally got to know that she was a 3rd stage core creation cultivator, his relationship with her also improved quite a bit, to the point that they spent a lot of time in bed together, Vlad had already realized this was Ria's scheme to hold Vlad's loyalty, but he didn't care, after all, if he had enough strength to destroy Ria and her uncle, would these things even matter.

Vlad was at the edge of breaking through to the core creation realm, so he practiced even more, the main goal of the blood tempering realm was to increase the quantity and purify your blood, Vlad had already been practicing the breathing technique all this time, so increasing the quantity wasn't hard, but purifying his blood could only be done with pills and intensive training, and this requires quite a lot of time.

Vlad ate the pills and trained continuously for a couple of hours, his stamina had also improved, so he didn't have rest or eat the rejuvenating pills, he practiced all three stances with his new spear.

Vlad had also gotten his weapons personally ordered by Ria from a professional blacksmith, this spear had a long golden handle with a dragon inscribed on it with a strong white blade, his katana handle had a golden dragonhead, but its blade was a quiet eye-catching, a pitch-black blade with small white dots life the night sky, his blade also had a golden sheath with the rest of the dragon's body, when together it made a complete dragon which had quite a threatening look.