Watching Senior Brother Xu Chang walk away, Lin Yin's gaze flickered.
He realized that his Cloud Palm, which he had trained to Minor Accomplishment, seemed subtly different from Senior Brother Xu Chang's. Certain special, minute variations would be magnified infinitely in a real fight.
Lin Yin didn't know whether Senior Brother Xu Chang had noticed. At the very least, the fact that Lin Yin's newly achieved Minor Accomplishment palm technique had forced him to use "Collapsing Cloud," a Great Accomplishment technique, offered a glimpse of the difference.
Perhaps the Heaven Rewards Diligence Destiny is far stronger than I imagined. Whatever martial art I practice, it subtly shapes it into the Combat Technique best suited to me!
What did it mean to have the Combat Technique best suited to him? Every move, every shift of qi—even his transitions of force—was faster, more agile, and even more powerful than anyone else's!
After their spar, Lin Yin had gauged his own level, as well as Senior Brother Xu Chang's.
He estimated that if he went all out against the renowned Senior Brother Xu, a Ming Jin Disciple, he had an eighty percent chance of winning in three moves!
Over the next few days, Lin Yin continued his regular practice of Cloud Stance and Cloud Palm at the martial arts school. Whenever he got home, he focused on training the Golden Bell Shield and Vajra Stake Technique.
But as he practiced techniques at Minor Accomplishment, Lin Yin found them increasingly difficult.
That day, dusk deepened over the courtyard.
In a corner, a youth in a short Green Robe stood in the middle of the courtyard, the wind lifting the ends of his hair.
He touched his toes to the ground and raised his hands, his five fingers loosely curved into a ring, as if