After Perfection, Mountain-Suppressing Fist

Twenty days of time.

In the day-after-day grueling training of Lin Ye, time slipped away quietly like fine sand in an hourglass.

Every week, he spent his time nourished by the Gravity Chamber, the Martial Arts Hall, the Recovery Room, and luxury-tier meals.

Linjiang District Third High School, fourth floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion, Gravity Chamber No. 2.

Lin Ye slowly retracted his fist, standing in the center of the gravity field.

At this moment, sweat had long since soaked through his training suit, clinging tightly to his increasingly lean and muscular body. A small patch of dark sweat stains remained on the floor beneath his feet, his chest heaving, and the rhythm of his breathing carried a peculiar cadence—long, steady, and calm.

With a slight movement of his mind, the pale blue system panel unfolded before his eyes:

[Name: Lin Ye]

[Realm: Mid-stage Body Tempering (275/500)]

[Martial Arts: Primordial Stance · Great Success (132/1000), Rolling Stone Fist · Perfection (1000/1000, Break Limit Available)]

His gaze first fell upon the realm column; it was even more useful than the blood-energy test, as the panel could track his progress in real-time.

Compared to the previous 218, his blood-energy value had increased by 57 points in about 20 days, an average increase of more than 2 points per day.

This amount of improvement might seem like a lot, but in terms of speed, Lin Ye was actually not very satisfied.

After all, back when he was mostly eating basic-tier meals and practicing proficiency-level stake training, he had still managed an increase of nearly 80 points in a month. Yet now, despite eating luxury-tier meals and practicing great-success-level stake training, his cultivation speed was basically on par with before, with only a slight improvement.

How could such a comparison satisfy him?

Although somewhat dissatisfied, he also knew that the further one went with blood-energy, the more massive the accumulation and tempering required for every single point of improvement. This fundamental law was not something that could be shifted by his will; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many students whose progress slowed down the further they went.

Fortunately, this speed was not considered bad.

Lin Ye estimated in his heart that if other martial arts students knew he was complaining about this rate of progress, they would probably doubt their lives, and the more emotional ones might even curse him for being ungrateful. After all, ordinary martial arts students, even with sufficient nutritional supply, could at most increase their blood-energy by 15-20 points a month. 57 points was their three-month improvement.

And this was merely the result of 20 days of Lin Ye's training under a sufficient supply of resources; even adding the few days he spent waiting for his results, it was only about 25 days.

He continued to scan downward, and when his gaze landed on the martial arts column, the word "Perfection" after Rolling Stone Fist seemed to shimmer with a warm and solid luster.

That's right, after these 20 days of hard work, his fist technique proficiency had reached perfection, a few days shorter than the estimated time. Lin Ye knew this was thanks to the Gravity Chamber. After the chamber exposed his flaws, he discovered that when he corrected the minor imperfections in his fist technique, his proficiency seemed to increase faster than before.

However, with his current level of insight, there were not many flaws left to discover, so after correcting those subtle imperfections, his proficiency returned to the slow +1...+1 mode.

Additionally, after reaching perfection, he had a new understanding of Rolling Stone Fist.

The most intuitive manifestation was in his strikes. Unlike the "Great Success" stage where he could handle the moves with ease, the Rolling Stone Fist at perfection now revealed a sense of smoothness in every move, allowing him to inflict maximum damage on his opponent while minimizing his own consumption.

But at the same time.

The proficiency value of Rolling Stone Fist was also fixed at (1000/1000), unmoving and unable to progress further.

Yet, there seemed to be a new change.

His attention was quickly drawn to the three small characters that had quietly emerged behind the proficiency bar of Rolling Stone Fist.

[Break Limit Available]

Regarding this, Lin Ye was somewhat confused; what did "Break Limit" represent?

With a slight movement of his mind, he focused his consciousness on those three characters.

In an instant, the text regarding Rolling Stone Fist on the panel rippled like water. Countless more profound and ancient fist technique light-shadows rose and reorganized from within, and a massive, pure stream of information, accompanied by a certain artistic conception as heavy as a mountain, instantly surged into his mind.

"Mountain-Suppressing Fist..."

A moment later, these three words were branded into the depths of his consciousness.

This was not a brand-new martial art that needed to be practiced from scratch, but a higher form naturally conceived after Rolling Stone Fist reached the ultimate perfection, combined with Lin Ye's own characteristics. It was born from the foundation of Rolling Stone Fist, sublimating the unstoppable fist intent of Rolling Stone Fist into a more steady, vast, and unshakable "mountain" intent, also known as Mountain-Suppressing Fist.

Every move and stance had been simulated in Lin Ye's mind. Although they were still the same basic fist frames as Rolling Stone Fist, the way of exerting force, the trajectory of blood-energy circulation, and the infusion of mental intent had all undergone fundamental changes.

When the fist was thrown, it was no longer just the impact of "rolling boulders," but carried the solidity and oppression of "a mountain suppressing the world." It was as if once a punch was thrown, it could suppress a region of mountains and rivers and stabilize a stretch of water.

Its power far exceeded that of the perfection-level Rolling Stone Fist, but according to Lin Ye's judgment, it should have reached the intensity of a D-grade martial art in terms of overall strength. However, what it was exactly would only be known after testing it out, though it should be weaker than a ranked martial art at the perfection level.

As for the reason, Lin Ye believed that he did not perceive the "logic" that ranked martial arts emphasized in the Mountain-Suppressing Fist.

However, it was not without advantages. Lin Ye believed its greatest advantage lay in the synchronization of realms; he did not need to start from the beginning and practice hard, as he had directly mastered the perfection-level Mountain-Suppressing Fist.

He looked at the panel.

[Martial Arts: Mountain-Suppressing Fist · Perfection (1000/1000)]

It was still perfection, but the three small characters "Break Limit Available" were gone; he couldn't exploit a bug.

However, even at perfection, its specific power and compatibility with him still needed to be polished and adapted in actual application; it just saved Lin Ye the most time-consuming accumulation process.

But this was already enough.

Originally, Lin Ye was worried about whether a perfection-level Rolling Stone Fist could hold the stage and deal with those opponents during the martial arts exam.

Now, it was fine; he didn't need to worry anymore.

With Mountain-Suppressing Fist, even if he couldn't compare to those top-tier candidates, he would at least not be weaker than the average elite student in terms of martial arts.

"Now, a lot of time has opened up."

"It's time to practice Lost Track Steps."

Lin Ye whispered. With the Mountain-Suppressing Fist at perfection, he only needed to perform daily maintenance practice from now on, without needing to invest a large amount of energy into it.

Then, the next step in his original plan could begin.

A moment later, he washed up, changed his clothes, left the Gravity Chamber, and arrived at a lounge on the third floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion.

There were several terminals here connected to the campus internal network, which could be used to look up martial arts materials. Opening a terminal, Lin Ye logged into his account, pulled up Lost Track Steps from his favorites, and formally clicked [Apply to Borrow].