Five Great Refinements, Leaping Dragon Gate

Five Great Refinements, Leaping Dragon Gate

Inside the training room, Xue Jing had changed into a Black Practice Uniform and assumed a stance. Strength coursed through his entire body, stimulating key points as he practiced the Hibernating Dragon Art stance.

Lv2 Moving Strength had taken his use of strength to another level, allowing him to stimulate the crucial points within his body with greater precision and subtlety.

His Body Temperature gradually rose. Sweat seeped from every pore, dripping onto the floor drop by drop and slowly soaking the solid wood beneath his feet into a puddle.

This time, Xue Jing held on for nearly an hour before he could no longer endure it and collapsed onto the floor, ending his Hibernating Dragon Art practice.

You performed a Hibernating Dragon Art stance practice. Fitness experience +198

You performed a Hibernating Dragon Art stance practice. Moving Strength experience +187

The results were equally gratifying—nearly twice the gains from his previous Hibernating Dragon Art practice.

"I'm gradually adapting..."

Xue Jing felt the swelling pain throughout his body.

Although he had practiced longer this time, the soreness was lighter. Besides the upgrade to Moving Strength, it was also because his body was gradually adapting to the Hibernating Dragon Art.

Xue Jing picked up the Sleeping Dragon Balm left over from yesterday in the training room and began applying it to himself while massaging.

If this keeps up, with my health-preserving recovery, I feel like I can practice once more today.

Xue Jing thought.

Applying medicine by himself was still rather inconvenient. After spending more than ten minutes barely managing to finish, Xue Jing let out a breath and lay on the floor to rest.

"Junior Brother, are you in there?"

Chen Fu Guang's voice suddenly came from outside the training room.

Xue Jing paused slightly, sat up, and said, "I'm here. Please come in, Chen Shixiong."

The door opened, and Chen Fu Guang entered with his hands behind his back, dressed casually. Seeing Xue Jing drenched in sweat, he smiled.

"Oh, training?"

Xue Jing smiled and nodded. "Just finished."

"I heard from Master that you lasted more than half an hour during your first Hibernating Dragon Art practice."

Chen Fu Guang said with feeling, "I thought Senior Brother, that demonic muscle freak, was already outrageous enough. I never expected you to be even more outrageous than him."

"To be ashamed of myself, when I first practiced it, I felt too much pain after three minutes and didn't want to continue. I made Master furious."

Chen Fu Guang shook his head.

"Though the Hibernating Dragon Art is much simpler and easier to practice than the Shaking Armor Skill, it is still far beyond what ordinary people can endure. Only people like you and Senior Brother can enjoy it."

The moment he finished speaking, someone suddenly leaped in through the open window of the training room.

It was a middle-aged man with refined features and waist-length hair. He stood around two meters tall, with an extraordinarily massive and powerful build that stretched even his oversized Training Suit taut. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing knotted muscles that seemed to shine like metal, carrying an immense sense of oppression.

After leaping in through the window, the middle-aged man landed as lightly as a cat. His toes touched the solid wood floor with barely a sound, forming a tremendous contrast with his build.

If he had merely climbed in through the window, it would not have been much.

The problem was... Hidden Dragon Dojo was located on the seventeenth floor of the Office Building.

"Senior Brother."

Chen Fu Guang seemed used to it and casually greeted the middle-aged man.

Xue Jing also snapped out of his shock and hurriedly said, "Senior Brother!"

Senior Brother Meng Bo Shang said nothing. He merely nodded at Xue Jing, the corner of his mouth lifting so faintly it was impossible to tell whether he had smiled or not.

Xue Jing was deeply puzzled, unable to understand Senior Brother's attitude toward him.

Meng Bo Shang still said nothing. He simply walked silently out of the training room, and no one knew where he had gone.

"Senior Brother is still as unconventional as ever. Every time, he circles around Hidden Dragon Dojo and enters through whichever window he finds open."

Chen Fu Guang remarked with a sigh.

Xue Jing walked over to the window and looked outside, confirming that it truly was the seventeenth floor high above the ground.

"The seventeenth floor... that has to be seventy or eighty meters up, right? How did Senior Brother get in?"

Xue Jing asked in confusion.

Chen Fu Guang smiled. "For martial artists like us, terrain has never been a limitation."

"Especially someone like Senior Brother. Leaping directly from the ground to the dojo on the seventeenth floor is no difficult feat."

"Jump directly to the seventeenth floor?"

Leaping more than seventy meters into the air from the ground—how much strength would that take? Two words surfaced in Xue Jing's mind.

Superhuman.

"Senior Brother has nearly reached Five Great Refinements Completion and is about to cross the Dragon Gate. Even when the Public Security Bureau encounters matters they cannot handle, they have to come ask Senior Brother to act." As Chen Fu Guang spoke, a trace of pride appeared on his face.

"Five Great Refinements? Leaping Dragon Gate?"

Xue Jing looked curious.

"Right, Junior Brother, you've only just joined, so you probably don't understand much about martial arts cultivation. Let me explain."

Chen Fu Guang sat cross-legged on the solid wood floor.

"For us martial artists, physical cultivation consists of the Five Great Refinements: skin, flesh, tendons, bones, and blood."

"The five are interconnected. There is no order of realms between them; they can be cultivated simultaneously, or one can focus on certain aspects."

"Our Hidden Dragon Style advances all Five Great Refinements together. It is the most versatile, without any particular focus. But because of that, those who fail to cultivate it properly have no distinguishing traits and become mediocre."

"Once the Five Great Refinements reach completion, the physical body has already reached the theoretical pinnacle of humanity. At that point, if one can take another step forward and break through the limits of the human body, it is like a fish leaping through the Dragon Gate, burning away its mortal tail. The entire body undergoes a complete transformation and can continue climbing to greater heights. It is said that Master reached this realm more than twenty years ago."

Chen Fu Guang spoke at length.

"Five Great Refinements, Leaping Dragon Gate..."

"So crossing the Dragon Gate is the highest realm of martial arts?" Xue Jing asked curiously.

Chen Fu Guang shook his head. "I asked Master the same question. His answer was that martial arts have no end."

It sounded like a meaningless platitude, but Xue Jing could only nod. After all, Master had said it.

"However... Master did mention some ancient legends to me."

Chen Fu Guang suddenly continued.

"It is said that ancient martial artists passed down a legend of an ultimate realm of the physical body, called—the Treasure Body."

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