Summer Palace, Training Ground.
"Summer Palace's martial skills really are extraordinary. They can all be martial skills I already possessed, yet they raise my combat strength by at least threefold. Impressive, impressive."
Qin Shaofeng abruptly retreated. His steps looked chaotic, yet they carried an exceedingly strange rhythm.
Under normal circumstances, if a martial artist tried to attack him, they would surely be thrown into confusion by those footwork patterns and miss their strike.
He had used this footwork while retreating so often over the past few days that it had already become routine.
As early as seven days ago, Qin Shaofeng had finished everything he needed to do upon arriving at Summer Palace.
Yet for some unknown reason,
Emperor Jie of Xia had never announced a second audience with them.
Unable to see the Xia Emperor,
Grand Tutor Zhong and the others had no authority to let them leave either, leaving Qin Shaofeng's group with no choice but to remain in Summer Palace.
Fortunately, because of their performance, Summer Palace had truly accepted them.
The various martial skills of Summer Palace had all been opened to them.
The difference was that only Qin Shaofeng could gain access to the very best tier.
The others were each assigned according to some unknown criteria.
Other than Qin Shaofeng,
the one who received the highest standard of treatment was unexpectedly Chu Huan.
Whether in cultivation or in the help he had provided during the chaos at Summer Palace, Chu Huan had not amounted to much.
Yet he possessed something that none of the others had.
That was loyalty.
Loyalty to the Vast Void Realm, and loyalty to his friendship with Qin Shaofeng.
When they had been in the Vast Void Realm, they had never interacted.
Even after entering the Land of Shining Stars