After confirming that battles offered little assistance in refining his spirit power beyond the seventh stage of Qi-Refining, Luo Chen quickly lost interest in battle contests.3

In the days that followed, he buried himself once more in the Alchemy Hall, falling into a rhythm that suited him perfectly—cultivation, alchemy, reading… and digging tunnels.2

Yes, digging tunnels!0

With painstaking effort over the course of half a month, Luo Chen successfully carved out a narrow passageway that connected Crescent Moon Valley to the Howling Moon Mountains.0

The project cost him a first-tier low-grade flying sword, reduced to a splintered husk during the excavation. But the gains were more than worth it. One unexpected benefit was that the effort pushed his auxiliary martial technique, the Mountain Cleaving Monument Breaking Palm, to Grandmaster level.0

He had to admit, the Grandmaster-level Mountain Cleaving Monument Breaking Palm was indeed impressive. With just one palm strike, he could unleash a concentrated wave of spirit energy, compressed and devastating.0

The only drawback was its limited range of just ten zhang [1], but otherwise, it was nearly flawless. The strike's power was almost equivalent to that of a top-grade enchanted artifact.0

"No wonder Brother...0