Roaming the Four Seas, a Blade Fells Thunder God! (8,000 Words! Bonus for 22,000 and 23,000 Monthly Votes)

Chen's Rice Noodle Factory.

Li Xiuwen looked at the surface of his Skin Membrane. It shone with rich gold, cold black iron, and ancient, weighty blue-green light. The three gleams came from the three body-hardening martial arts he had mastered to Perfection.

Golden Bell Shield, Iron Cloth Shirt, and Iron Buddha Art.

With the advantage of seeing them from a higher vantage point,

going back to practice these basic and advanced Hard Qigong arts

and bringing them to Perfection was effortless.

Beneath such a dazzling jumble of effects, even an Inner Heaven and Earth expert would struggle to discern the true roots of Li Xiuwen's Hard Qigong.

His Skin Membrane's defenses had improved somewhat, but these three body-hardening arts were too low-level, while his own attainment was already high. At his current stage, the gains were barely noticeable.

"I'll stake it out again today. If I can't find him, so be it."

Li Xiuwen left the Rice Noodle Factory.

The oceans of this world were vast beyond measure.

Beneath the heavens lay two great continents.

The Eastern and Western Continents!

Each stretched endlessly, ringed by islands. The Prosperous State lay on the Eastern Continent, facing the Western Continent across the sea.

The Prosperous State had thirty-six "regions."

Each was hundreds or even thousands of times larger than the island where Fragrant Sea lay. The Lu Region, in Northern Sheng, was equivalent to two hundred Fragrant Seas.

The Lu Region's sixteen prefectures governed numerous counties. Martial Way schools born there had long since spread throughout the Prosperous State.

Mount Tai Prefecture.

Majestic Dai Mountain stood here.

This was the seat of the Mount Tai Way, the foremost orthodox school that had dominated the Lu Region for a thousand years and produced countless powerful figures.

A boy in white training