The second day's matches proceeded in an orderly fashion.
But Chen Jue encountered no more transforming strength experts versed in combat like Li Xiang-not even any hidden strength experts. The few opponents who faced him were ordinary martial artists; knowing a few bright force techniques was already quite an accomplishment for them.
Two matches in the morning and one in the afternoon ended quickly and decisively. Chen Jue then left the venue and returned to his room at the Guesthouse to rest, circulating his qi and blood and practicing the Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Orbits to steady his "Dao heart" along the way.
This Daoist Internal Alchemy art refined qi into spirit, awakened intelligence, and cleared the mind, subtly changing Chen Jue's will.
Although it was not an art primarily focused on mental willpower, it helped to some extent. The only pity was that he lacked some prerequisite for this art.
It was like practicing the Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill, which required striking the body with the corresponding conditioning bricks to unlock it.
Yet neither the original text of the Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Orbits Circulation art nor the Attribute Panel offered any direct hints, leaving Chen Jue itching for an answer with nothing to do but bury himself in practice.
By the time the final elimination round ended on the third morning, Chen Jue's only remaining opponent was Yantong, the Shaolin warrior monk he had previously seen by the strength-testing machine at the training grounds.
After watching Chen Jue's match with Li Xiang, Yantong had long since regarded Chen Jue as an extraordinarily formidable opponent.
He had gone back and studied the fighting methods Chen Jue had displayed in his several appearances with his fellow disciples. They discovered that, besides those peculiar Boat Boxing grappling techniques, the young man seemed to