When Linley sat down to comprehend the Earth Movement Technique, he felt as if his mind were about to explode.
Every so often, the sensation would flare up again, as countless specks of insight into the Laws and Mysteries rushed to burrow into his mind.
He had expected it might take a hundred years to master the Earth Movement Technique, but he had fully comprehended it in just five.
During that time, he had also gained some insight into Gravity Space.
Perhaps influenced by his Earth-style Divine Clone, Linley had found his confidence. Even his Wind-style Divine Clone and Fire-style Divine Clone seemed to be comprehending their mysteries much faster than usual.
The reason Linley's original body and Earth-style Divine Clone were progressing so quickly, of course, was that Garen was "pulling strings behind the scenes."
Over the past five years, Garen had checked Linley's System Panel every so often.
Each time, he added a little experience for Linley.
Whenever he added experience, he would look at Linley sitting with his eyes closed and a confident smile on his face, then glance at the System Panel. It gave him the satisfying feeling of playing a character-development game.
Linley, Bebe, Ulunisen, Pusluo, Jenny, and the others were all characters in his hands. Their progress was entirely under his control, and the feeling was incredibly satisfying.
If Garen hadn't been worried about making things too obvious, he could have given Linley all twenty million experience points needed to master the Earth Movement Technique in a single second.
But the System couldn't be exposed yet, and this was, after all, Chief Sovereign of Bauhinia's territory. If she had been paying attention to the two of them from the beginning, things could get complicated.
It was better to keep a low profile. He didn't