"A breakthrough?" Hong Yi exclaimed in delight.
His Subduing Dragon Palm had broken through, its power advancing another step.
As his palm technique broke through and the scale patterns spread, he needed more true qi.
This temporarily averted the danger of Hong Yi's body bursting once again.
Since he had just broken through, he needed a tremendous amount of true qi to consolidate it.
This could buy Hong Yi more time to widen his meridians and strengthen them.
Widening my meridians and breaking through in Subduing Dragon Palm have to happen at the same time, Hong Yi realized.
To withstand such a tremendous influx of true qi, he had to give it somewhere to go and divert most of it away.
That meant practicing Subduing Dragon Palm, consuming most of the true qi in the process so that he could use what remained to strengthen himself.
The highest realm of Subduing Dragon Palm was something his master had envisioned; even his master, Baili Zhen, had never attained it.
According to his master, the highest realm meant covering his entire body in dragon scales and tempering them until they were as strong as steel and iron, impervious to blades and spears.
Even some divine weapons would struggle to inflict the slightest damage, just as though they were real dragon scales. That was the realm he sought.
At that point, his body itself would be a divine weapon. His palms alone would suffice, without the aid of any blades or swords.
His master had probably only managed to cover his entire body in dragon scales. Clearly, he could not make all those scales as strong as steel and iron.
His master had later devised a method: strengthening specific areas, namely his palms, so that he could unleash the utmost power of Subduing