Night had fallen.
By the time Huang Xiaolong stopped circulating the Asura Technique it was deep into the night, with a hazy moon hanging overhead occasionally obscured by a thin wisp of a black cloud drifting by.
He stepped into the courtyard, advanced his right foot and bent the knee, clenched his right fist, raising it towards the upper front, while his left arm bent behind his back. He began to cycle the Qi Force along the pathway described by the fifth posture of Yijinjing, breathing deeply. Instantly, torrents of nature's spiritual energy came rolling toward him.
In the year since he had left the Huang Family Manor, not only had Huang Xiaolong's Yijinjing broken through to the Reversed Nine Bull Tail Formation of the fifth posture, but he had also reached the peak of this posture and could break through to the sixth form at any moment.
