Seeing Chen Jue standing before her with no teeth in his mouth and a goofy smile on his face, Yun Xiaomei could not stop laughing. "Brother Chen Jue! You look like those old grannies in the village who've lost all their teeth!"
Chen Jue scratched his head sheepishly. Without his teeth, his mouth had lost some of its support, and the flesh over it naturally sank inward, making him look extremely odd.
Still, this did not affect his speech. "Yun Xiaomei, can you learn that martial art I spent so long practicing just now?"
Yun Xiaomei pondered for a moment, her large eyes shifting, then nodded. "That martial art you practiced looked like a tiger and a dragon, and also like a newly grown bamboo shoot! I watched for a long time before I learned a little."
As she spoke, Yun Xiaomei stood up and shook the power throughout her body, simultaneously performing Tiger Form Thunder Sound, Dragon Form Bone-Seeking, Snake Form Drilling Power, and the inward containment of Turtle Breathing that imitated Embracing the Elixir.
Besides these, her skin trembled slightly-not through the power-release techniques of Golden Bell Shield or Iron Shirt, but through the Old Bear Shaking Off Lice method she had learned.
In effect, she had directly reproduced and reverse-engineered Chen Jue's Dragon-Tiger Union Core Formation posture from the various Xingyi Fist forms she had learned and created. She truly deserved to be called an unrivaled prodigy.
"You're amazing, Xiaomei!"
"When I get back tonight, I'll send you all the materials on Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield and Dragon Roar Iron Shirt. Learn them when you have time. With your talent, you should pick them up faster than I did," Chen Jue could not help praising her.
Chen Jue's "meager" aptitude for learning was worlds apart from