Ye Family Martial Arts School,
In the largest square within,
Shen Changchuan stood amid a formation of people practicing the Shattered Jade Fist,
Punching the sandbag hanging before him again and again, feeling the changes in his force.
All around him,
He was far from the only one practicing the Shattered Jade Fist.
One after another, they shouted as they trained, striking the sandbags until they boomed with dull thuds.
In the formations farther away,
The burly men practiced their hands or trained their legs,
Filling the square with a vigorous masculine air.
Shen Changchuan was utterly inconspicuous among them,
But he did not care. He swung punch after punch, carefully sensing the changes in power within them.
In truth,
Shen Changchuan had long since cultivated his Shattered Jade Fist to the major achievement stage. The skin on his fists was as tough as cowhide, and with a swing of his arm, he could easily split rocks apart.
At this stage, if he wished to take another step forward and cultivate this fist art to the Perfect Level, he would have to spend ten or twenty years or more enduring medicinal baths and Tempering, forging his fists until they were like steel.
But that final step could be called a path of a thousand hardships and ten thousand difficulties.
As an unranked martial art, fist techniques like the Shattered Jade Fist circulated in unknown numbers among the bottom rungs of the martial world.
Yet those who could cultivate them to perfection
Could practically be counted on one hand.
That was enough to show just how difficult they were to cultivate.
In fact,
It was not only the Shattered Jade Fist that was like this.
Other external arts, such as the Iron Bridge Three Forms, Flowing Wind Step, Star-Treading Leg, and