"Bang-thump."
The wheels, spinning at high speed, crushed over the loose stones on the road, making the carriage rise and jolt.
Under normal circumstances, for a passenger sitting inside, if they failed to keep their center of gravity under control, that one bump alone would have sent them staggering.
With a little worse luck, if they hit something sharp-edged on top of that, it would not be strange for their head to be split open and bleeding.
Yet Xia Nan sat steady as a rock.
His body leaned against the padded backrest behind him, his hands overlapped and resting over his lower abdomen, his eyelids half lowered, as though he were taking a light nap.
It could be seen that he had not anticipated the carriage's jolt in advance, nor had he been fully focused, concentrating his attention on controlling his muscles and bones to maintain his center of gravity.
It was like "breathing" or "blinking." There was no need to spare extra mental effort. Under the effect of instinct alone, his body subconsciously entered a balanced state unaffected by changes in the outside world.
As for the reason behind it.
On one hand, it came from the Profession Feat [Tidal Shaping].
One of its effects was to grant Xia Nan stronger balance when he was on an unstable surface.
Previously, his understanding of this Feat had only been that it made him less likely to fall in battle and better at controlling his center of gravity.
After gradually testing it over these past days, he had also come to understand more about how its ability manifested.
To give a few simple examples.
If he could bring this skill back to his previous life, putting aside everything else, Xia Nan should be able to achieve a certain degree of success