"Horse Skin Shroud, Force Breaking Thousand Armies, Invite You to Die, Cold Blade Shakes the Moon, Phantom Moon Slash, Blade Controlling Galloping Thunder, Solo Step Through Linked Camps, Nether Army-Breaking, Ten-Step Consecutive Slash!"
Beneath the setting sun, Shen Mu held Moon Embroidery and practiced the Army-Breaking Saber Technique with his upper body bare.
Moon Embroidery swept through the air in a blur of afterimages, as though he were wielding a crescent moon in a dance.
If anyone had been there, they would have been astonished to discover that Shen Mu was using the Army-Breaking Saber Technique with proficiency at the minor mastery level.
For someone who had spent only half a year tempering his body, Shen Mu's rapid progress in martial techniques was enough to leave anyone dumbfounded.
He practiced now because he had confirmed there was no one nearby and wanted to test exactly how strong he was.
The Army-Breaking Saber Technique distilled a thousand variations into nine forms. Apart from Blade Controlling Galloping Thunder, which was defensive, the other eight were all killing moves.
This time, he was trying to execute all nine forms with his minor mastery of the Army-Breaking Saber Technique.
Yet as soon as he reached the fourth form, Cold Blade Shakes the Moon, Shen Mu found himself utterly exhausted. He could barely even hold on to Moon Embroidery.
"Haah... haah... haah..."
Shen Mu slumped to the ground, his face deathly pale.
"I never thought that after advancing to the Fourth Stage Boiling Blood, with nine hundred pounds of strength stored within me, I'd only be able to get through four forms even when giving it everything I had..."
Shen Mu panted heavily. Scarlet Mist streamed from every pore of his body.
"The ninth form, Ten-Step Consecutive Slash, requires you to unleash the first eight