Over the next few days, scenes of Chen Shichong and Mu Bai braving the Hundred Puppet Path together spread throughout the Sword Sect, becoming the focus of eager discussion. The Sword Sect disciples naturally heaped praise upon their own Heavenly Pride, while their admiration for the youth from another sect was no less great.
Their fighting spirits soared, two youths of graceful bearing. Mu Bai and Chen Shichong became the focus of every eye in the Sword Sect, already hailed as two peerless prodigies.
Two days later, Mu Bai awoke. By the third day, his mind was clear, his body healthy, and his spirits radiant. Sensing carefully, he could tell that his physical strength had grown considerably greater than before.
Little did he know that in the great sects, disciples cultivated by taking pills, gradually developing resistance and accumulating large amounts of residual medicinal power within their bodies. The Sword Sect ancestor had forged the Hundred Puppet Path not merely to measure disciples' combat strength, but also to awaken challengers' potential, activate the medicinal power remaining within them, and help them improve further.
Of course, this required them to fight on to the very last step. Only those with tenacious resolve, such as Chen Shichong and Mu Bai, could obtain such a blessing.
As an Alchemist, Mu Bai owed his powerful physique in no small part to the various Body-Refining Pills he had taken, and naturally, considerable medicinal residue had accumulated within him. Forcing his way through the Hundred Puppet Path for five days and nights had transformed his body as profoundly as rebirth in a sea of lightning, as shattering his bones and forging them anew.
This was the opportunity Chen Shichong had spoken of.
Such an opportunity was a reward for those of great perseverance!
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