Brian Bennett's Cangxiong Body made rapid progress in cultivating the Bear Hug Technique. Naturally, his first choice was the Bear King Fist!

The thirty-six forms of the Bear King Fist—after flipping through them once, Brian Bennett felt as if the entire set was already imprinted in his mind.

In this not-so-large secret chamber, after carefully practicing the Bear King Fist once, he discovered that he had already reached the minor accomplishment stage with it.

What a marvelous Cangxiong Body—its effect on cultivating compatible techniques was truly extraordinary!

The Gale Leg could serve as both a footwork and an attack technique, which was quite useful for Brian Bennett at the moment. However, after carefully studying the Gale Leg technique, he set the manual aside.

The Gale Leg focused on agility, which conflicted with the Bear Hug Technique of the Zheng family. After reviewing the Gale Leg technique and trying two kicks, Brian Bennett felt extremely awkward!

At this point, however, Brian Bennett had already made up his mind about choosing George Thompson's card.

Given his familiarity with the Bear King Fist, the advanced stage of a basic fist technique was actually rather useless, so Brian Bennett decided to choose Jianghu Herbalism.

Out of more than a dozen manuals, aside from the Bear King Fist, only two remained in front of Brian Bennett!

Meteor Blade and Soul-Breaking Spear!

The tenth-grade lower-level martial art, Soul-Breaking Spear, was bold and sweeping, every thrust deadly. Once mastered, it could unleash five spear shadows with a single thrust, each shadow pursuing the soul.

Gavin Bennett had chosen the Soul-Breaking Spear, and Brian Bennett's older brother Henry Bennett also practiced the Soul-Breaking Spear. However, even after thirty years, Gavin Bennett had only reached the minor accomplishment stage.

But Brian Bennett was confident in cultivating the Soul-Breaking Spear.

Because he still had one card left to choose in his mind!

Charles Armstrong, with basic spear technique and basic throwing knife technique—he could still choose one of these two skills.

Although he didn't know exactly how useful the basic spear technique would be, based on his understanding of the Cangxiong Body, Brian Bennett believed that with this basic spear technique, he could quickly train the Soul-Breaking Spear to the subtle, or even insightful, stage.

There are five major realms in martial techniques, and each advancement doubles the power.

However, the level of the Soul-Breaking Spear was a bit low. This "low" was, of course, in comparison to the Meteor Blade technique.

A tenth-grade lower-level technique is three tiers below a ninth-grade intermediate one, meaning that at the same realm, the Meteor Blade technique is more than twice as powerful as the Soul-Breaking Spear.

If the Meteor Blade technique weren't missing its cultivation formula, Brian Bennett would have chosen it without hesitation.

Then again, if the Meteor Blade technique weren't missing its formula, it probably wouldn't have ended up in the Zheng family.

Meteor Chasing the Moon, Three Stars Accompany the Moon, Seven Stars Chasing the Moon, All Stars Surround the Moon.

On the incomplete Meteor Blade manual, the section for the cultivation formula had been torn off by someone, leaving only four moves.

Without the formula, the chances of successfully mastering a technique are truly slim.

If he used Charles Armstrong's basic throwing knife technique as a foundation, could he possibly master the Meteor Blade technique?

Brian Bennett hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and, on the only remaining Charles Armstrong card in his mind, chose the basic throwing knife technique.

Although the Soul-Breaking Spear was good, it would only be icing on the cake for the Bear King Fist. But if he could master the Meteor Blade technique, it would be a huge boost to his strength.

After Charles Armstrong's card turned into golden light and merged into his body, Brian Bennett's gaze once again fell on the Meteor Blade manual.

He felt that the once obscure illustrations had suddenly become extremely familiar. His fingers casually picked up a small paperweight from the desk and, without thinking, tossed it out.

Meteor Chasing the Moon!

Although it was still somewhat different from the Meteor Chasing the Moon described in the Meteor Blade manual, this was indeed Meteor Chasing the Moon!

A familiar-level Meteor Chasing the Moon!

A paperweight was, after all, not a throwing knife. Feeling a surge of excitement, Brian Bennett remembered that there were still ten throwing knives stored in his family's warehouse.

These throwing knives were probably forged by his ancestors after obtaining the Meteor Blade technique, specifically for training.

Overcome with excitement, Brian Bennett dashed to the warehouse. He wanted to use these throwing knives to test just how far the minor accomplishment-level throwing knife technique he had obtained from Charles Armstrong could take him with the Meteor Blade technique!

……

"Thud, thud, thud!"

With three soft sounds, three half-foot-long throwing knives embedded themselves into a tree trunk in a triangular pattern.

Three Stars Accompany the Moon—subtle-level Three Stars Accompany the Moon.

Standing on a tree stump ten zhang away, Brian Bennett's eyes showed a trace of dissatisfaction. He leapt to the base of the tree and struck the trunk hard with his palm, causing the three throwing knives to fly out in reverse.

After putting the three throwing knives back into his specially made pouch, Brian Bennett shook his head lightly.

He was a bit dissatisfied with his current results. This was already his third day practicing the Meteor Blade technique, but compared to the previous two days, there had been no significant progress.

If on the first day his practice of the Meteor Blade technique could be described as making rapid progress, then today, there was only one way to sum it up: no progress at all.