Several days passed, and the turmoil surrounding the Green Scale Gathering gradually subsided.
Meanwhile, the Gaolin Chamber of Commerce was in full swing.
Before anyone realized it, the year's end was drawing near.
Chen Family courtyard.
Chen Qing stood in the courtyard, practicing Tongbei Fist. His movements flowed like drifting clouds and running water; shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers linked seamlessly, every joint seeming to become a supple channel for transmitting force, without the slightest stiffness or snag.
His arms maintained a peculiar "softness," as though they were not flesh and bone, but leather whips filled with mercury.
At the start of each exertion, his movements even appeared somewhat "sluggish." Yet when his arm cleaved to its highest point, at the instant before it dropped and erupted, the rigid force hidden beneath that utmost softness suddenly burst forth.
Crack!
A sharp explosive sound rang out, like the tip of a whip splitting the air.
The sound was brief and concentrated, not the impact of muscle against muscle, but the boom of Internal Force piercing the air over an extremely short distance at extreme speed.
His shoulder blades slid beneath his clothes like living fish, his spine rose and fell like a great dragon, and every joint in his body seemed to become a precise pivot, circulating power between hardness and softness, gathering and releasing.
The occasional crisp crack of bursting air proclaimed the terrifying penetrating force contained within.
After finishing the set, Chen Qing slowly withdrew his stance and stood still once more.
His expression remained unchanged, his breathing steady and deep.
Golden light surfaced in his mind.
[Heaven Rewards Diligence, and there will surely be achievement] [Tongbei Fist Complete (1/5000)]
*My fist technique has reached the Complete realm as well. If I encounter Qu Yaohui again, I