Dawn had only just broken when Wang Yue opened his eyes from cultivation. He lightly tapped his knee with a fingertip and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
That breath carried a faint white glimmer, making the bluestone brick beneath it grow slightly warm when it landed.
"What matters most in martial arts really is one's natural endowment and comprehension."
He secretly marveled. The Extraordinary Bones and Analogical Insight he had extracted only yesterday had, after merely one night of cultivation, increased both the speed of his Blood Qi circulation and the efficiency with which he condensed his inner strength. Such immediate results would become astonishing once accumulated.
With another thought, he recalled today's Core Disciple gathering, and anticipation rose in his eyes. Core Disciples from every generation would be gathering; surely some would come from lineages in the prefectural city. Perhaps he could learn more clues from them about fallen households that still possessed original martial arts manuals.
If he could use this gathering to secure the chance to peruse one or two lineage secret manuals, it would be far faster than waiting for Wang Lianshan to investigate alone.
He raised a hand and inspected his dantian inwardly. The totem of Profound Edge Strength had only just taken shape, pale silver force slowly circulating around it. Compared with the already perfected Seven Kill Strength, it was clearly far weaker and lacked some of that rich, weighty feeling when activated.
Even so, when he tried to activate Seven Kill Strength and Profound Edge Strength at the same time, the two forces softly resonated within his dantian, as though invisible threads were drawing them together and nourishing each other.
Wang Yue was increasingly astonished. *What sort of expert created this fusion method for Seven Profound Edge Killing Strength? Merely entering the