Melting Heaven and Earth, the Next Four Years

[Night fell low, and the stars shone like the Big Dipper.]

[Beneath the vast sky, you slowly circulated the Great Yellow Court. Blood and qi surged through you like roaring rivers, churning without end, while sweat poured down your body.]

[The Great Yellow Court had only thirteen levels, yet through extraordinary perseverance, you had developed it to an unprecedented eighteenth level.]

[At this moment!]

[The true qi within you was so powerful that even your master, Liu Jinchan, could scarcely match your cultivation.]

[No founder of the Three Truths Sect recorded in history had ever developed this art to the eighteenth level.]

[Beyond the eighteenth level lay the Martial Great Grandmaster.]

[The summit of martial arts in the mortal world.]

[Now, you were only one step away!]

[Only one word separated a Martial Grandmaster from a Grandmaster, but the gulf between them was as vast as heaven and earth.]

[You did not stop. Your fists rose again. The Empty Clarity Fist comprised eighty-one forms, advancing and retreating in a martial art that ranked among the finest of the age.]

[You drove out a swift punch, then turned and slowly threw another.]

[Some blows were light, others heavy; some swift, others measured.]

["Hoo—"]

[You released a long breath, and the true qi within you surged once more.]

[You raised your fists and turned. In a single breath, you moved through the twenty-eighth form, the thirty-sixth, the forty-fifth... all the way to the seventy-ninth, each one flawless.]

[You had practiced this fist art no fewer than a hundred thousand times. It followed you like your shadow, etched deep into your bones!]

["Hoo—"]

[A tiger's roar mingled with the rumble of thunder!]

[The last breath of true qi in your chest was spent!]

[Not enough!]

[Your aura had climbed to the peak of