Mo Chen opened his eyes and gently exhaled a breath of stale air.
"Not bad, not bad! This time, it only took fifty-one years!"
Adding the thirty-seven years he had previously spent cultivating the Earthsea Dragon Roaming Step—
It had taken a total of eighty-eight years.
"The last time I deduced the Great Power Bear Demon Fist, it took me a full one hundred and eleven years. These eighty-eight years must be because my innate bones improved!"
Heaven-grade innate bones had indeed brought him many benefits.
The most obvious of them was the increase in his martial cultivation speed.
If his innate bones had still been merely average today, it would probably have taken at least one hundred and fifty or sixty years to deduce the Earthsea Dragon Roaming Step to the ultimate grade.
Feeling the changes in his legs, feet, and body, Mo Chen looked outside, his heart brimming with excitement and eagerness to try it out.
"Now that I've mastered this movement technique, there's no need for me to stay in this courtyard any longer!"
His master, Qin Cangying, had gone out on business, and the fourth stage of the martial examination would not begin until tomorrow.
There was nothing for Mo Chen to do while staying in this side room. It was purely a waste of time.
He might as well go out and test his ultimate-grade movement technique, gaining more precise control over his strength.
With that thought—
Mo Chen rose and headed outside.
At the courtyard entrance—
Beneath the shade of a tree—
Qin Feng was reclining in a rocking chair, leisurely cooling himself and reading a book.
Then he suddenly heard the creak of a door closing inside the courtyard.
His brow lifted as he cast a sidelong glance into the yard.
There, he