All the Humiliation of the Past Returned, Only When Seeing the Enemy's Despair Did True Joy Overflow!

Meng Chuan was to face Liaohuo in a great battle today, yet everything was as usual.

Calm in the face of danger, unruffled by change—he began the morning by practicing his stance.

His posture stood as steady as the Three Mountains and Five Peaks, the qi and blood throughout his body rising, falling, and flowing with the motion. Compared to before, it now carried an added hint of seamless harmony.

After countless days and nights of bitter cultivation, with progress every single day, his Three Talents Stake Technique had long since been practiced into his very bones.

He looked like a placid pool, without a ripple on its surface, but beneath his skin, every part of him—his sinews, bones, organs, and viscera—was trembling as it calculated and unleashed force, causing his Star Veins to grow and slowly extend.

From before dawn until morning, he stood for nearly half the night, only deeply exhaling a breath of stale air when the panel finally issued a prompt at a certain instant.

[Taiyi Three Talents Stance: Earth Stance (99%)→(100%) Pending Limit Breaking]

[Limit-Breaking Trait: Earth Fiend Precious Body (Intermediate)]

"Complete."

As the final, 199th Star Vein successfully condensed, Meng Chuan suddenly opened his eyes, joy showing on his face.

It was not merely that the Earth Stance had reached completion. Through this bitter training, he had also gained a few insights into the Stake Technique that were uniquely his own, which he repeatedly savored and pondered in his heart.

Until they finally became a gurgling trickle flowing into the depths of his heart.

"Motion and stillness complement one another; guard the center and embrace the one."

When he had previously broken the limit of the Human Stance, he had sought all manner of increasingly bizarre postures in pursuit of a breakthrough. That had