"I broke through to the Qi Sensing Realm some time ago and developed Internal Energy."
Wei Tu spoke truthfully.
Compared to the immortal cultivation method Wei Fei was about to mention, there was simply no need for him to hide his Martial Way realm from Kou Liang and Fu Zhizhou.
"Internal Energy?" Kou Liang drew in a sharp breath, and the way he looked at Wei Tu immediately changed.
When the four of them had sworn brotherhood, he had thought Fu Zhizhou—the one who had become a Martial Graduate at eighteen—was the most important among them.
Wei Tu, Wei Fei, and he himself had merely been Fu Zhizhou's foils, and in the future, they would need to rely greatly on this younger sworn brother for advancement...
But at this moment, that belief was utterly overturned.
After all, a Martial Master who had gone from external to internal training and developed Internal Energy at twenty-two was worth far more than an eighteen-year-old Martial Graduate.
So long as Wei Tu wished it, the title of Martial Graduate in the Provincial Martial Arts Examination would be within easy grasp.
That was the gap between Martial Way prodigies.
Kou Liang was not the only one shocked by Wei Tu's words. Fu Zhizhou was as well.
Two years ago, stirred by a surge of hot blood, he had joined Wei Tu and the other two in standing against Prefect He at the Prefectural Yamen, and the four had sworn themselves brothers of the Righteous Society.
As time passed, although he had always honored their oath and supported his three elder sworn brothers, how could there not have been some regret in his heart...
—Their statuses were too far apart. Wei Tu and the other two elder brothers inevitably held him back somewhat.
Yet Fu Zhizhou