The Way of the World, Part 1 (Thanks to Mengmeng Belia Debiluke for the Alliance Leader reward)

The Jiang Family.

Inside a spacious indoor training hall.

In one corner of the black, hardened clay floor stood a stick of incense, its smoke curling and swaying as it slowly drifted out through the window.

Jiang Yan, dressed in fitted martial attire, stood respectfully before a tall man with long brows, listening to his teachings.

"Your Huishan Fist still won't do. Its refinement and power, your reactions and responses—none of them are enough.

"What a pity. If you could practice the family's inherited martial arts, why would you have gone to the Outer City to learn such an neither-here-nor-there fist art?"

The long-browed man's hair was slightly white. He stood a full head taller than Jiang Yan, broad and powerful as a high wall, making people tremble at the sight of him.

He was Jiang Yan's father, Jiang Donggui. He was also one of the Jiang Family's only three Third Stage Qi and Blood experts.

It was precisely because of his father's guidance that Jiang Yan understood more clearly than Xiao Ran or Jiang Su just how difficult it was to break through to the Third Stage Qi and Blood.

"Father, with my talent, is there truly no possibility at all of breaking through?" Jiang Yan asked unwillingly.

"You eat exotic beast meat every day, every meal. Your qi and blood accumulate rapidly, and someone has pointed out every key to breaking through the Third Stage Qi and Blood for you. Yet you remain stuck at the threshold, unable to move an inch. Whether you can make it or not, don't ask me. Ask yourself!" Jiang Donggui replied coolly.

Jiang Yan had been stuck at the threshold of the Third Stage Qi and Blood for quite some time. Yet every attempt at a breakthrough had ended in failure.

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