"A spar?"

The next day, Oh Kang-Woo was given an unexpected offer when he arrived at the training room with Kim Si-Hun.

Kang-Woo looked at Tian Wuchen, surprised.

"Why so out of the blue?"

"I wanted to see for myself how you can be so confident in front of me," Wuchen said with shining eyes.

Kang-Woo stroked his chin.

'It's a good opportunity.'

He had been wanting to test the power of his demonic crystal. If his opponent was the Sword Emperor, he would be able to test it without restraint. Even leaving that aside, he still wanted to see how powerful a World Ranker was.

"Oh, Father. Don't be so childish. What if Kang-Woo gets hurt while sparring with the Sword Emperor?" Tian Suyan asked with a worried expression.

Kang-Woo turned to her.

"Please forget what my father just said. I don't want you to get hurt in a pointless spar," Suyan said while carefully touching his arms.

"…"

Kang-Woo kept his mouth closed; then he smirked and said, "I don't like it."

"Pardon?"

"Your trivial acting. I don't like it."

"What do you…"

On the surface, it looked as if she were trying to stop them from fighting,...