The First Leg Dao Divine Ability, Godly Movement!

Cloud-Stepping Technique!

After Wei Jinlin left, Lu Ming was still somewhat shaken.

He couldn't help recalling the image of Wei Jinlin leaping from flat ground, soaring dozens of meters into the air like a bird, vanishing into the distance.

No wonder it was a top-tier lightness skill—this Cloud-Stepping Technique was far too powerful.

Compared to it, even Grass Gliding seemed crude.

Lu Ming immediately decided to switch his training to Cloud-Stepping. He still had two hours of cultivation time today, plus tomorrow and the day after—all of it would go to the Cloud-Stepping Technique.

First, he would go all out to prepare for the Li Family Bank arena battle three days from now.

"Tighten the anus, gather breath, pass three barriers; dantian burns warm, feet harbor elixir. Step down like treading cotton fluff; lift the foot like pulling a kite string. In midair, borrow your own force; tread once more on clouds beyond the sky..."

Once mastered, the Cloud-Stepping Technique was extraordinarily powerful, but it was not easy to cultivate.

Lu Ming carefully recalled Wei Jinlin's earlier explanations, silently recited the formula, assumed the first stance—Cloud-Accumulating Stance—and slowly groped his way through cultivation.

In the courtyard, the youth sometimes leaped, sometimes held a single pose without moving, frowning as he sensed.

After a long while, he finally managed to complete a full run-through of the technique.

[Evolving Leg Dao Divine Ability (94/100)...]

Just as Lu Ming was reflecting on the feeling of practicing the Cloud-Stepping Technique, checking for gaps, a message suddenly came from the Divine Ability Panel.

Instantly, he was overjoyed.

He remembered that after finishing his last round of Grass Gliding, his Leg Dao experience had only reached 90.

Now, after just one round of Cloud-Stepping, it had jumped to 94—a full increase of 4 points in a single go.

The Divine Ability Panel's multi-technique bonus counted as long as a technique was mastered. If it wasn't mastered, the bonus only applied during active cultivation.

He had already mastered Grass Gliding, so even if he didn't practice it, every time he evolved his Leg Dao Divine Ability, it would add the 1-point experience bonus from Grass Gliding.

Excluding that 1-point bonus, the Cloud-Stepping Technique itself had given him a full 3 points of experience.

Earlier, when evolving the Acupoint Divine Ability, the Bone-Unraveling Technique's finger method had only provided 1 extra point.

The Bone-Unraveling Technique's finger method could barely be considered a third-rate martial art—meaning third-rate arts only gave 1 bonus point, while first-rate arts gave 3.

The higher the grade of the martial art, the more bonus experience it provided!

It seemed he would need to collect as many high-level martial arts as possible in the future. Excited, Lu Ming silently made up his mind.

Of course, low-level martial arts could also provide bonus experience—once mastered, they counted even without practice. So he planned to take them all.

He just needed to distinguish carefully when collecting: only similar martial arts with different core concepts could increase bonus experience.

Then Lu Ming suddenly realized that if he practiced the Cloud-Stepping Technique just two more times, he could evolve his first Leg Dao Divine Ability.

Instantly, he was filled with renewed vigor and immediately continued cultivating.

[Evolving Leg Dao Divine Ability (98/100)...]

[Evolving Leg Dao Divine Ability (102/100)...]

[Evolution complete!]

[Obtained Leg Dao Divine Ability: Godly Movement.]

[Godly Movement]: All motion in the mortal world carries inertia; when the body stops, it dissipates. Godly Movement's inertia does not dissipate.

[Leg Dao Divine Ability]: Godly Movement (Initial Mastery).

Godly Movement!

Seeing the effect of this divine ability, Lu Ming widened his eyes in disbelief—could it really be what he was thinking?

He couldn't hold back. He sensed a new force within his body, which should be the power of the Godly Movement divine ability. With a thought, Godly Movement!

Instantly, he felt the divine ability's power empower him as he began running around the courtyard.

He clearly sensed a strange force on his body, growing stronger as he ran.

He circled the courtyard wall a few times, then tried stopping abruptly.

The force immediately stopped increasing, but it did not dissipate. Carrying that energy, Lu Ming's body seemed about to move forward uncontrollably.

He tensed every inch of his skin, using the power of Skin-Refining Force, just to resist that pushing force.

Then he continued running, circling a few more times. The strange force on him grew stronger. At a certain moment, he stopped again.

This time, even using all his strength, he could barely resist the force. His body involuntarily moved forward, slowly walking.

As the force grew stronger, even with his full resistance, he was compelled to start running.

That force would never weaken—so it would only get stronger!

If he now released all his resistance, he suspected he would fly straight out.

Lu Ming was both shocked and delighted. With a thought, he dismissed the Godly Movement force.

The next moment, the strange force vanished instantly. Lu Ming fell backward, crashing to the ground with a thud.

Because the Godly Movement force had dissipated, but his resisting force hadn't been withdrawn in time, throwing his body off balance.

He rubbed the slightly aching back of his head, stood up with a grimace, but inwardly he was ecstatic.

After testing it, he discovered that the Godly Movement divine ability was exactly as he had guessed.

The "inertial force" mentioned in the ability's effect was somewhat similar to the concept of inertia he had learned in his previous life, but not quite the same.

In his past life, inertia referred to the inherent property of an object itself, unrelated to motion.

The inertial force of Godly Movement, however, specifically referred to the force that makes an object lurch forward uncontrollably when it suddenly stops while in motion.

For ordinary people, once they stop or slow down, the inertial force weakens or disappears. But when he used Godly Movement, the inertial force never weakened—it even gradually grew stronger.

In other words, he would run faster and faster, faster and faster!

As long as he had enough time to accelerate, he could reach the speed of light. This ability truly lived up to the name "Godly Movement."

Of course, that didn't mean his body could withstand such speed.

After just over a dozen laps around the courtyard, he already felt he couldn't take much more.

If the inertial force increased to the point where his body couldn't handle it, his life would be in danger.

Regardless, this was an extremely powerful divine ability, and at a critical moment, it might just save his life.

For this first Leg Dao ability, Lu Ming was quite satisfied.

He suddenly looked up at the clouds in the sky, half bright and half dark, and thought to himself, maybe one day, he really could achieve a smooth ascent to the clouds.

"Borrowing my own strength from the air, stepping once more into the sky beyond the clouds!" Lu Ming softly recited the mantra of Smooth Ascent to the Clouds, his mood light, and began cultivating again.

[Evolving Leg Dao divine ability (6/1000)...]

[Evolving Leg Dao divine ability (10/1000)...]

[Evolving Leg Dao divine ability (14/1000)...]

[Evolving...]

Three days later.

[Evolving Leg Dao divine ability (328/1000)...]

In the courtyard, Lu Ming had gotten up early and practiced for an hour. Seeing that in just three days, his Leg Dao divine ability experience had already surpassed three hundred, he felt a secret thrill.

At this rate, in another six days, he would be able to evolve the next Leg Dao divine ability.

He almost couldn't resist continuing to cultivate and max out today's experience.

But seeing that the sky was fully bright and today was the day of the arena matches, he had to suppress that urge.

Changing into a set of white training clothes, he left the courtyard.

By now, everyone had gone to the Martial Arts Arena. He walked quickly through the empty Military Service Bureau and soon stepped out of its main gate. Outside the gate was a bridge.

A ray of sunlight shone down. He stood on this stone bridge, squinting slightly as he looked ahead.

On the street by the Red River, traffic was heavy. Tea houses and taverns on both sides had banners fluttering in the wind. Rows of bluish-gray roof tiles stretched in neat order, and an ancient, rustic county town rushed toward him.

Lu Ming stepped on a cracked stair on the stone bridge. The black gaps in the crack scattered slightly, then slowly gathered again.

Accompanied by a wisp of gray wind, Lu Ming stepped into the splashed-ink, vibrant world of the riverside marketplace.