Seven days later.
Afternoon.
Huff...huff...huff...
Li Yuan, clad in deliberately heavy armor to increase his load, stood as if in reverence for Buddha, his toes barely touching the black stone floor of the training platform. His body was hunched and curled up, like a giant toad crouching on the ground, about to leap.
Heavy breathing came from his nose, and a faint rumbling sound emanated from his abdomen, like the low howl of a wild beast.
He felt the increasingly compressed energy in his abdomen, and his whole body felt anxious and boiling.
Time passed by, minute by minute.
As evening approached, Li Yuan finally stopped cultivating, removed his heavy armor, returned the cultivation manual to Master Li, and hurried towards the mooring area of the South City.
He walked quickly in
