Having made up his mind to accept Duke Chen's assignment, Chen Wu stopped overthinking and devoted himself wholeheartedly to grinding through practice questions.
Before long, Chen Wu had worked through every past exam paper from Wude Palace, and even casually helped grind through Sea-Pacifying Palace's test questions as well.
Only when even Wang Zhenyi felt that Chen Wu's level was more than sufficient did he finally stop his intensive question-grinding and turn his attention to something else.
Martial arts!
Though Chen Wu had been busy grinding through questions lately, he had not neglected his martial arts. He was still improving at a rapid pace.
Ever since he had used Master Nanlei's paperweight to borrow the Mystic, Chen Wu had not directly stepped into the fifth-tier Micro-Perception Realm, but he had thoroughly attained the realm of fully opened meridians.
Though this realm could not directly wield the power of heaven and earth like true Mystic attainment, it allowed one to absorb small amounts of that power through the meridians and accumulate inner force at a rate far beyond that of ordinary Meridian Opening.
Because traces of heaven and earth's power were scattered throughout his meridians, every gesture Chen Wu made carried immense destructive force. During his battle with Cai Qian that day, Monk Zhongcheng had been the main attacker, and Grandmaster fist arts had bolstered him, but without Chen Wu's Lesser Mystic Realm, they could never have beaten a Concentrated Spirit Realm expert like Cai Qian until he spat blood.
By Chen Wu's own estimation, if he went all out and combined it with Concentrated Spirit integration, an ordinary Micro-Perception Realm practitioner would likely be no match for him. As for the Circulation Realm, he would have to fight one to know who would win.
Yet lately, as his meridians filled,