That day, Lin Bai emerged from seclusion. At dawn, he stood at the edge of Moon Gazing Pond, watching the spirit fish swim back and forth in the water. Suddenly, he raised a hand and grabbed, clenching his five fingers into a fist. As his strength circulated through his fingers, he actually lifted a mass of pond water from the surface. The spirit fish within it leaped and thrashed, but could not escape his grasp.
Lin Bai then shook his fist, and the immense force blasted the mass of pond water into vapor, scattering it through the air.
"You're tempering your body?"
Just then, a clear and melodious voice came from behind Lin Bai.
Lin Bai stopped and smiled helplessly. "Senior Sister Jiang, did you know that watching someone practice from behind counts as secretly learning their techniques? It's a major taboo in the Martial World."
"Sorry." Jiang Xuansu smiled wryly as she apologized and walked over to Lin Bai. "Your body-tempering technique seems extremely profound, and you've already gotten a glimpse of its threshold?"
Lin Bai nodded with a smile. "Forget it, I've barely entered the field. But if I want to cultivate it to the minor or major accomplishment stages, I still have a long way to go."
Jiang Xuansu said in astonishment, "That's truly unbelievable. What kind of body-tempering technique is this, that allowed a Quasi-Dao Realm martial artist like you to possess physical strength comparable to that of a Five Tribulation Dao Realm expert merely upon getting a glimpse of its threshold?"
"Five Tribulation Dao Realm?" Lin Bai was taken aback. Last night, when he had just broken through to the mid-stage of the Five Elements Dao Body, he had only felt that his physical strength could reach roughly the level of the Three Tribulation Dao