Mountain Shaking Fist Breakthrough

[One year later, your cultivation had risen to the fifth level of the Body Tempering Realm. The main reason was still the improvement granted by spiritual medicine, but this result did not make you give up on continuing your cultivation. That same year, your father, Ye Changming, discovered how diligently you were cultivating and felt greatly gratified. Yet he was also helpless, and a trace of guilt rose in his heart. He believed that he was the reason your Bone Structure was weak. Before your mother, Lin Lan, became pregnant with you, Ye Changming had been injured while competing with others for a Mysterious Grade Treasure in a Secret Realm. Only afterward, while returning to the family to recover from his injuries, did he unite with Lin Lan and conceive you. Ye Changming did not know the true reason for your poor Bone Structure.]

[In the second year, you continued living the same life. There was no obvious change in your cultivation, and you estimated that under similar circumstances, you would need another two years to reach the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm. But you were not discouraged.]

[In the middle of the second year, you accidentally discovered that practicing the Mountain Shaking Fist went rather smoothly for you. This was a feeling you had never experienced before the age of eight. You noticed that this change had only come after awakening your memories, but you did not truly realize that it was caused by your Innate Dual Soul Talent. From then on, aside from cultivation, whenever you had spare time, you diligently practiced the Mountain Shaking Fist. Your days were very fulfilling.]

[In the third year... your realm did not change. Through practice, the Mountain Shaking Fist reached Initial Mastery.]

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[In the eighth year... your realm rose to the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm. Moreover, because you had practiced diligently day after day for several years, your Mountain Shaking Fist reached Initial Proficiency and attained its peak. Since you had always focused solely on cultivation, you failed to notice that your father, Ye Changming, had not returned to the Ye Family for three years. The other three great families had all secretly spread rumors that your father had died outside, seeking to use this to observe the Ye Family's reaction. They did this only because Ye Changming's aptitude rivaled that of the current Ye Family Ancestor, making them deeply wary. They wished that Ye Changming would truly leave and never return, and even the Lin Family, where your mother Lin Lan came from, was the same. Although the Lin and Ye Families were allies, with marriage ties from the direct lineages down to the branch families, the Lin Family high-level did not wish for the Ye Family to produce another figure like the Ye Family Ancestor. Once the balance of power between them was broken, the Lin and Ye Families would no longer be allies, but one would swallow the other whole.]

[You turned a deaf ear to news from the outside world and focused only on raising your cultivation. Since you had rarely seen your father to begin with, you did not find it suspicious that three years had passed without seeing him. To those with profound cultivation, three years was not much time at all. Only Lin Lan knew that Ye Changming had gone out this time to explore a Secret Realm, hoping to win you one of the few chances to improve your Bone Structure. Though the odds were slim, seeing you cultivate so diligently while your cultivation grew so slowly pained both your parents deeply. When one became a parent, one planned far ahead for one's child. Fearing that you would worry, they had not told you about this matter. Though Lin Lan felt somewhat uneasy within, she did not show it before you.]

[In the tenth year... you were already eighteen this year, yet your realm remained at the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm. The Martial Arts Instructor in the family could no longer teach you anything more. Your Mountain Shaking Fist had reached the Perfection of Initial Proficiency, but it had yet to break through. You had a premonition that before long, you would have a chance to comprehend Mountain Shaking Fist Intent and break through into the Perfected Mastery Realm. Even in the entire Ye Family, those whose Mountain Shaking Fist had reached Perfected Mastery were few enough to count on one's fingers. Of course, this was also because most experts with high realms went on to cultivate higher-grade Martial Skills. But as a Martial Skill inherited through the Ye Family's direct lineage, the Mountain Shaking Fist was not weak when cultivated to great depths. It was not even inferior to quite a few Mysterious Grade Martial Skills.]

[This year, you had come of age. According to Ye Family rules, those of ordinary aptitude had to undergo training in the outer region of the Fengyuan Secret Forest near Fengyuan City upon turning eighteen, and they had to kill at least three Mortal Realm Late-stage Beasts. As a member of the direct lineage, you had the right to refuse, but you believed that cultivators ought to undergo trials. The reason your realm had remained unable to advance beyond the seventh level of the Body Tempering Realm was partly because of this, and even your Mountain Shaking Fist had recently begun progressing slowly. It too needed an opportunity. Even though you knew that, given several more years, your Mountain Shaking Fist could still reach the Perfected Mastery Realm, you did not wish to wait.]

[In the eleventh year, your realm rose to the eighth level of the Body Tempering Realm, and the Mountain Shaking Fist also reached the Perfected Mastery Realm. Many Ye Family Elders marveled at your comprehension. Within the entire Ye Family's Body Tempering Realm, not even a single direct-lineage disciple was your match. The Mountain Shaking Fist was a Martial Skill passed down by the Ye Family's First Generation Ancestor. Though it was only Yellow Grade High Rank, when cultivated to profound depths, it could rival many Mysterious Grade Martial Skills. It was also an exceptionally suitable Martial Skill for Ye Family members to cultivate during the Body Tempering Realm and Blood Transformation Realm.]

[In the entire Ye Family, only the First Generation Ancestor had brought the Mountain Shaking Fist beyond Perfected Mastery to the realm of Peak Attainment. Apart from him, only three people in the modern Ye Family had reached the Perfected Mastery Realm: the current Ye Family Ancestor, Ye Guhong; the Heaven-tier Elder, Ye Can; and your father, Ye Changming. Now, with you included, there was one more person in the Ye Family whose Mountain Shaking Fist had reached the Perfected Mastery Realm.]

[You had also heard the legends of the First Generation Ancestor. In that era, using the Mountain Shaking Fist at Peak Attainment, the First Generation Ancestor fought three experts of the same Heavenly Origin Realm at once with his own strength. In the end, he seized the foundation for establishing his legacy in a Secret Realm and founded the vast Ye Family.]