The last page of the summer vacation calendar hung there like a plane tree leaf about to fall in autumn, trembling on the verge of dropping.
There were three days left before Lin Ye set out for Ningchuan City and Fenglei Martial University.
Inside the public Martial Arts Hall, Lin Ye slowly came to a stop.
Sweat trickled from his face along his jaw and dripped onto the floor, leaving a small dark stain. He didn't reach for his towel right away. Instead, he lowered his eyes to the light screen only he could see.
[Martial Art: Lost Track Steps · Greater Mastery (1363/3000)]
Although he had worked fairly hard for two months, practicing four hours a day, with his current rate of improvement—just over twenty proficiency points per day—there was no way he could reach Consummation before school started.
It wasn't that he hadn't tried his best. That was simply how proficiency improved: each session added one point, and an hour of practice could add six at most, sometimes only five. Under those conditions, practicing four hours a day for two months and reaching 1,300 points meant he had worked quite hard, even sacrificing a fair amount of his rest time.
Even so, he still hadn't achieved what he had initially hoped for.
The 3,000-point peak was simply too imposing.
Still, Lin Ye wasn't upset. He had a level head about it. It was summer vacation, and this much progress was already quite good. Once the school year began, he could keep working at it. He should reach Consummation after some time, and his progress wasn't bad.
There was no need to rush.
His path in the Martial Dao had never been something he could hurry along.
His gaze shifted right, scanning the panel beside the Martial