Matching hands.
In the martial arts of the Xia Country, there exists a courtesy known as matching hands. Without engaging in combat, practitioners can understand each other's abilities simply by a touch.
At this moment, Xie Feichen's gesture of matching hands was intended to help Jiang Shu further understand what it meant to have 'flexible sinews and bones, and skin and hair ready to attack.'
As his internal force circulated, his pores tightened and relaxed, as if containing myriad sharp steel needles that subtly pricked upwards, rising and falling, potent yet restrained. This exemplified the principle of 'skin and hair on the offensive'!
Jiang Shu, with their hands still matched, continued to sense Xie Feichen's state: externally hard, yet internally soft. It was like lead encasing mercury.
He closed his eyes and gradually relaxed his body, circulating his own force, trying to grasp the sensation.
