As for Mentor Song Jun having already classified him as a "Mutated Martial Bone" and prepared to invest in him, Jiang Hao naturally knew nothing about it.
At that moment, only one thought filled his mind.
Breakthrough!
By the following evening,
Jiang Hao returned home and hurried straight into the courtyard.
It was time for his Stance Training to break through.
Jiang Hao first practiced the Nine Revolutions Stance Skill twice, adding the final two points of proficiency.
[Beep, completed one practice of "Nine Revolutions Stance Skill - Sixth Revolution"] [Proficiency +1] [Nine Revolutions Stance Skill Mastery - Sixth Revolution (99/100)]
Only one final practice remained.
Jiang Hao took a deep breath. In the sunlight, his gaze grew utterly focused.
Jiang Hao slowly sank his hips, bent his knees slightly, and assumed the Starting Stance of the Nine Revolutions Stance Skill.
This time, Jiang Hao didn't begin right away.
Instead, he closed his eyes and quietly sensed every trace of Blood Qi flowing within him.
Then.
He moved.
His movements were slower than ever before, yet impeccably precise.
Every turn and every lift of his hand seemed to have been honed through countless trials, precise as a textbook example.
Inhale.
Exhale.
His breathing shifted with his movements, growing long and rhythmic.
With every breath in, he drew in some invisible, diffuse energy from the world around him, absorbing it into his body.
With every breath out, impurities left his body.
As he actively directed it, his Blood Qi surged through his meridians with unprecedented vigor.
It washed over his bones and tendons, tempered his flesh, and made a faint rushing sound.
Jiang Hao was completely immersed in this wondrous state. He could clearly "see" his body growing stronger, bit by bit.
Jiang Hao had come straight home to train because he didn't want to attract too much attention.
No one was home now!
It was the perfect time to break through to the Seventh Revolution.
As his practice neared its end,
the Blood Qi within him had been stirred to a critical point. It was like a dam filled to the brim with floodwater, with only one last gate holding it back!
The instant Jiang Hao completed the final movement and slowly brought his practice to a standstill,
[Beep, completed one practice of "Nine Revolutions Stance Skill - Sixth Revolution"] [Proficiency +1] [Nine Revolutions Stance Skill Mastery - Sixth Revolution (100/100)]
Almost the moment the notification sounded!
Jiang Hao felt the invisible gate within him shatter!
His surging Blood Qi was no longer held back!
Like a flood bursting through a broken dam, it rushed through every meridian in his body at several times its previous speed!
At that moment, Jiang Hao's Blood Qi underwent a qualitative change!
It became more refined, more abundant, and more powerful!
[Beep! Congratulations, host! Your "Nine Revolutions Stance Skill" has advanced to the Mastery Realm - Seventh Revolution!] [Nine Revolutions Stance Skill Mastery - Seventh Revolution (0/100)] [Host: Jiang Hao] [Strength: Martial Trainee (Blood Qi Intensity 8.8)]
His Stance Training had broken through to the Seventh Revolution!
His Blood Qi Intensity had soared by 0.2 in that instant!
It had leaped from 8.6 to 8.8!
An unprecedented feeling of power filled Jiang Hao from head to toe.
Just as Jiang Hao broke through!
At that very moment.
"Click."
Someone pushed open the front door from outside.
Jiang Keke had come home.
Humming a tune, Jiang Keke was about to step inside. But the next second, she stopped short, her bright eyes snapping toward the garden in the courtyard.
"Huh?"
"What a powerful Blood Qi fluctuation!"
When she clearly sensed a Blood Qi fluctuation far stronger than usual coming from the courtyard,
curiosity stirred, and Jiang Keke instinctively lightened her steps as she entered the living room.
Through the living room's bright floor-to-ceiling window,
Jiang Keke saw at once the figure standing in the courtyard, having just finished his practice, and the stance he had yet to fully relax.
The moment she recognized Jiang Hao's finishing posture,
Jiang Keke's pupils shrank abruptly!
That posture!
That path of Blood Qi as it settled after the practice!
"Se...Seventh Revolution?"
Jiang Keke was stunned.
Her lively eyes widened slightly without her realizing it.
The Nine Revolutions Stance Skill had a different posture for every revolution. She practiced it herself; how could she possibly mistake one for another?
Her brother's Stance Training had actually broken through to the Seventh Revolution?
How was that possible?
Hadn't he only broken through to the Sixth Revolution half a month ago?
He'd broken through to the Seventh Revolution in just over half a month?
Even with the family's hundred thousand in funding,
and a supply of Low-grade Nutrient Solution,
that rate of progress was way too outrageous!
Yet that wasn't even what shocked her most.
When Jiang Keke carefully sensed the Blood Qi fluctuation still lingering around Jiang Hao,
"This intensity..."
"It's... it's almost at 9.0?"
Jiang Keke's brain short-circuited.
She stood frozen in the living room, staring at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure in the courtyard, and fell completely into a crisis of self-doubt.
Th-this was her brother with a Dust-grade Martial Bone?
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