Xiong Yingtian looked at the opponent his student had chosen. He had only opened seventy-six apertures.
His brow relaxed slightly, as though he had let out a breath of relief.
"Why put yourself through this? Look at how awkward you've made the kid," Zhou Wuliang said after taking a sip of tea.
Xiong Yingtian sighed. "Old Zhou, there's nothing for us to hide from each other. This child is my grandnephew. He was born with a bone aspect, and his talent and perseverance are both top-notch. He's a clever kid too."
Hearing Xiong Yingtian's words, Zhou Wuliang's hand paused around his teacup.
After bone warriors tempered all the apertures throughout their bodies to completion, they could use the qi in their apertures to nourish their bones and awaken their own bone aspects.
Bone aspects varied from person to person and determined the direction of a martial artist's future development.
A small number of Heaven's Pride, however, were born with their innate qi still gathered within them, condensing over the bones in their bodies. They were born carrying bone aspects.
From the moment they entered the Martial Dao, they could comprehend their own bone aspects and develop techniques around them. Such Heaven's Pride might not be peerless in cultivation, but in one-on-one combat, they held a tremendous advantage.
"A natural bone aspect truly makes him fine material."
"But what does that have to do with you insisting that he fight my student?"
Zhou Wuliang took another sip of tea.
"The problem lies precisely in that bone aspect. This child's bone aspect is the Hundred Victories Bone," Xiong Yingtian said with a bitter smile.
At those words, Zhou Wuliang carefully examined the youth several more times.
"The Hundred Victories Bone? Then this child's personality really is rather unusual."
The so-called Hundred Victories