Spring had come to Linjiang again.
The plane trees along the river were lush and green, their branches swaying gently in the breeze. There were more sightseeing boats on the water than in previous years. Tourists' laughter and chatter drifted in from afar, rising and fading with the spring wind.
Xu Wuyi stood before the crystal wall of the training room, looking at its newest indentation.
Four months ago, when he had just returned to Linjiang, the wall had held only a dozen or so fist marks. Now it was so densely pitted he could no longer count them.
This newest indentation was unlike all the others.
Its edge bore a distinctive wave pattern. Layer upon layer spread outward from the point of impact, like ripples from a stone dropped into a lake, frozen in an instant.
It was the mark of Tenfold Stacking.
But not ordinary Tenfold Stacking.
He raised his right hand and looked down at his fist.
His knuckles were unscathed. A faint blue light flowed slowly beneath his skin. Order Force had circulated through his body for over four months, growing more refined and more efficient every day.
He had broken down more than a hundred Star Beast templates in the Beast Pool.
From the Golden-Scaled Beast to the Ironclad Rhinoceros, from the Riftsplitting Mantis to the Lava Giant Lizard, from high-tier Star Beasts to Beast King Tier Star Beasts, he had reduced each creature's blood-and-qi circulation to its smallest components.
Under the analysis of his Order Laws, those seemingly unrelated pathways had gradually revealed a shared underlying logic.
Every Star Beast with a powerful body followed the same core principle: blood and qi were not distributed evenly. They gathered wherever they were needed.
The Golden-Scaled Beast's scales grew from its bones because its blood and