Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the day Chen Fan and Mu Lei had agreed to fight.
Mu Lei had trained bitterly for more than ten days before finally leaving seclusion.
"How is it? How has your training been progressing?" Xiao Chunkong looked at Mu Lei, who had just emerged.
Mu Lei nodded. "After I used up the Gathering Origin Pills, my tempering speed dropped considerably. From then on, it was nothing but slow grinding work. Completely tempering my muscles will take another two years... But with my current strength, defeating Chen Fan will absolutely not be a problem!"
Xiao Chunkong, however, sighed.
"What a pity my strength is too high instead. I completed muscle tempering long ago and am even close to completing viscera tempering. My martial skills have all reached great mastery of the basic realm. I could easily defeat Chen Fan, but there's no way he would agree to fight me..."
Xiao Chunkong was only twenty-three or twenty-four, yet he had nearly completed the third stage of martial cultivation. His strength far surpassed Mu Lei's!
But precisely because his cultivation was so much higher than Chen Fan's, he could never take the initiative to challenge Chen Fan to a wagered fight.
It would be more like Chen Fan challenging him.
Mu Lei's eyes turned sharp.
"Don't worry. My true art has reached the second stage, and I've mastered the secret technique of the Great Strength Eagle Claw Technique. Among the core disciples, there aren't many at the second martial stage who can stand against me. I can even fight those at the third stage. There's no way I'll lose to an Internal Breath Realm martial artist!"
At the agreed fighting arena, rumors of Chen Fan and Mu Lei's match had