At present, several more days had passed since Xia Nan and his group left the valley.
They were not far from their final destination, Blood-Cast Fortress. Even in the hills and dense forests along the way, they occasionally found traces of intelligent creatures having passed through.
At Barbarian Fugan's suggestion, aside from traveling and the daily training needed to maintain his condition, Xia Nan had devoted much of his energy these past few days to developing combat skills.
As for the results so far—
All he could say was that it was nowhere near as simple as Fugan had made it sound that day. It was even more difficult than Xia Nan had imagined.
After all, he was not some peerless genius who could watch beasts hunt, or observe natural phenomena like swaying branches and spreading ripples, then somehow comprehend a top-tier combat skill.
The rational mindset cultivated in his previous life made Xia Nan instinctively approach combat skill development in a more planned, relatively scientific manner.
First and foremost, the most crucial thing was determining the direction.
As for the Quality Level of a self-developed combat skill, Xia Nan, who had always known his own limits, naturally did not expect to develop something on the level of [Gravity Control] or [Ember Echo].
Working toward that was completely unrealistic.
In his view, even if the combat skill's final Quality Level could reach the level of [Tooth Hunt], that would already be the best possible outcome.
Realistically speaking, if it could fulfill two or three of the conditions he needed and reach the level of [Whirlwind Slash], Xia Nan would already be more than satisfied.
Only after clarifying that could he move on to deciding what type of combat skill to develop.
The restriction here was that it could not overlap