Night fell.
Across Huaxia, countless military camps blazed with light.
Millions of soldiers stood on parade grounds and began their first session of Breathing and Qi Circulation, following the strange poses broken down in the video.
Sweat soaked their training uniforms.
The agony of tearing muscles made countless hardened men grit their teeth until they nearly shattered.
But no one backed down.
Because at the end of the video, there had been a clip just ten seconds long.
In it, the young man who had seemed like a god above the East China Sea used no spells at all. With nothing but the raw strength of his body, he shattered a hundred-meter granite peak with a single punch.
"This is the technique Advisor Chen passed down!"
"Master it and kill the sea beasts!"
Fanatical conviction ignited in the hearts of millions of soldiers.
Chen Family Village, Yicheng.
Inside the master bedroom.
Chen Lin sat cross-legged on the rosewood bed, his eyes closed as he circulated the Azure Origin Sword Art.
Suddenly.
His eyes snapped open.
The Imperial Seal of China, which had been hovering quietly above his palm, erupted without warning in a dazzling blaze of golden light!
The golden radiance streamed out through his body and shot into the heavens.
The entire Song-Style Courtyard House, and even all of Chen Family Village, turned dark gold in that instant.
"Roar!"
A faint dragon's roar thundered through Chen Lin's sea of consciousness.
Chen Lin looked down.
The eight characters carved into the bottom of the Imperial Seal of China-"Mandated by Heaven, blessed with longevity and everlasting prosperity"-had actually begun to writhe slowly.
A suffocatingly vast torrent of power of faith surged in from every direction like floodwater bursting through a dam.
The power was immense!
So immense that even Chen Lin's