The faint breeze blown by the air conditioner seemed to have turned into an icy wind.
His body's muscles began to tremble uncontrollably from the excessive cold.
Yet Hu Qi remained calm.
Thanks to the traits various Combat Techniques had layered onto his body, this degree of cold could not make him shrink back.
Time passed.
Inside the cage in the corner.
The Camphor Tea Duck had its head lowered and remained motionless, seemingly asleep.
Suddenly.
—Quack, quack!!
As if it had sensed an aura that made it feel danger, it jolted awake in fright, abruptly opened its eyes, and looked toward Hu Qi.
In the room.
Hu Qi stood utterly still, and even his hair seemed coated in a layer of white frost.
The next moment.
His expression changed.
In his perception.
Countless tiny hot spots suddenly rose beneath the soles of his feet.
The feeling was somewhat like the numbness from standing too long, yet also different.
He could clearly feel every sensation in his limbs, without the slightest trace of numbness.
He had felt this before, but never as intensely as now.
Before long, the hot spots grew more numerous and gathered into two slender streams of heat as thin as strands of hair.
They then slowly rose from the soles of his feet.
But upon reaching his knees, they abruptly stopped moving.
As though encountering some obstruction, the streams of heat that had formed began to recede.
Noticing this.
Hu Qi's heart stirred. His figure began to move, his hands curved into claws and his feet stepping forward as he flowed like a nimble snake.
He began practicing the Dynamic Stance: Serpentine Movement.
Coordinating it with the Snake Form Breathing Method, he continuously practiced Serpentine Movement.
The streams of heat that had stopped growing upon reaching