"Ah Cheng, do you have confidence that you can win this assessment?" Liu Yunfeng asked with a grave expression after inviting Chen Cheng to sit.
Seeing how seriously he asked, Chen Cheng answered solemnly, "I know Li Sheng's and He Zhiling's strength. Beating them shouldn't be a problem.
"But Zhou Fang comes from a major family, so his martial ability must be formidable. He also practices swordsmanship, and I'm unfamiliar with the sword. I wouldn't dare claim certain victory."
That was the truth. Chen Cheng had seen martial artists of the jianghu use swords several times before, but their swordsmanship had not yet reached mastery, so there had been little to learn from it.
As for actually fighting a sword-wielding martial artist, he had never done so even once.
"It's best that you think this way." Liu Yunfeng nodded approvingly, then continued, "I hadn't paid Zhou Fang much attention before, but after observing him carefully just now, I found his breathing steady and deep, his blood and qi robust. He may very well be a martial artist at the great completion of the Skin-Tempering Realm."
"The great completion of the Skin-Tempering Realm?" Chen Cheng had considered that Zhou Fang might be a Skin-Tempering Realm martial artist, but he had never imagined that Zhou Fang would be at great completion.
Liu Yunfeng said, "Martial artists who cultivate ordinary skin-tempering arts bear heavy traces of body tempering. Once they enter the Skin-Tempering Realm, their strength can easily be seen from the state of their skin membrane.
"But for those who cultivate top-tier skin-tempering arts, their skin membranes recover well, making it difficult to tell from their appearance. One can only judge from their aura and blood and qi.
"I can only hope I'm mistaken."
If Zhou Fang truly was a great completion