pappabearbooks Chapter 442 - 407: Arc and Steam, Mutated Spring!
Chapter 442 - 407: Arc and Steam, Mutated Spring!
Meng Chuan always felt this thing was too hot, as if it might damage his spiritual foundation, the "Cyan Stone Foundation"...
After thinking it over, he sought advice from Principal Sui.
After the secretary connected the call, Sui Chunqiu gave him another round of advice, which finally put Meng Chuan’s mind at ease.
Following the instructions, he proceeded as described.
His spiritual power transformed into a giant mouth, swallowing the small Golden Crow within his sea of consciousness whole.
The moment it was swallowed, Meng Chuan felt his head buzzing.
It was as if his brain had swallowed a ball of fire, and the torrential heat swept through his body.
His spiritual power felt like it was being washed by molten lava, and the searing heat exploded from inside out, even shaking his martial arts will.
Golden flames spewed from the pores all over his body, and his skin took on a red pattern, as if his entire body had become a burning furnace.
However, this burning sensation did not bring pain; instead, it tempered his spiritual foundation and even solidified his martial arts momentum.
This was a small "benefit" prepared for him by Principal Sui, and Meng Chuan quickly operated the core technique to absorb the energy the Golden Crow radiated.
Meanwhile, he received the teachings the small Golden Crow imparted within his spiritual power.
According to Principal Sui, under normal circumstances, when beginning the Secret Technique of Boiling Flame.
One would need to find a volcano that remains hot throughout the year, sensing the magma steam, concentrating on visualizing the flow of Qi and Blood within as starlike sparks, in order to learn and comprehend.
At this moment, the small Golden Crow’s demonstration within his spiritual power replaced this step, making it more convenient.
In Meng Chuan’s vision, the small Golden Crow spread its wings and circled, each golden feather flowing with fiery patterns.
The sight was reminiscent of what he had seen within the "Lotus Bud of Great Brahma."
It first transformed into a leaping flame that burned intensely, manifesting the circulation path of Qi and Blood as a three-dimensional diagram of starlike circulation.
Then it spread its wings again, sketching the linkage pattern of 361 acupoints and stars with the tips of its wings.
Every time the Golden Crow let out a long cry, a red character was spat out from its beak, sinking deep into Meng Chuan’s heart spirit.
These were the core formulas of the [Boiling Flame].
The small Golden Crow demonstrated how to merge Fire Attribute True Qi with Martial Arts Momentum in a peculiar way.
Finally, the Golden Crow folded its wings, transforming into a burning seed that took root in the spiritual foundation, continuously releasing scorching waves.
After watching the entire process, Meng Chuan imprinted it deeply in his mind, repeatedly pondering its points.
The more he thought about it, the more his gaze became somewhat excited.
According to the Golden Crow’s teachings, the Boiling Flame has four layers.
The first layer of perfection is the realm of [Qi Like a Candle Flame].
The second layer is [Blood Like Boiling Soup], the third layer is [Body Like Cauldron Cooking].
And the final fourth layer of great perfection is the realm of [Flame Breath Returning to Origin].
Qi Like a Candle Flame, where the internal Qi and Blood inherently possess a warm quality, immune to frost and resisting high heat.
At the same time, the inner breath is honed through secret technique practice, until the first layer is perfected, transforming the breath into a scorching sensation.
By then, regardless of which attribute power is switched.
Except for the Water Attribute, it would carry a slight burning sensation, beginning to take the form of a fledgling blazing fire in actual combat.
Meng Chuan attempted to start learning, gathering the fire attribute momentum in the magnetic field around his body as taught by the Golden Crow.
Internally, using a unique Qi and Blood circulation method, it navigated through various acupoints and stars.
After two and a half hours, he exhaled softly.
The inner breath, without evoking the Heart Fire, carried a warm texture.
Meanwhile, the mind panel sent out a notification:
[Boiling Flame: First Layer (1%)]
This secret technique’s first layer is not difficult to practice, especially since Meng Chuan is already proficient with fire attributes.
After another half an hour of practice, his proficiency increased successfully by one point.
Feeling the celestial stars of the martial arts firmament slightly heating up, following Principal Sui’s guidance, today’s practice comes to a stop here to avoid overdoing it.
"Today’s secret technique initiation took up a sizable portion of my practice time. If I fully dedicate my efforts to practice in the future, reaching the maximum of three hours daily.
Even if the difficulty increases later, within two months, the first layer should be perfected."
But he doesn’t have that much "spare" time, considering it involves martial arts momentum, Qi and Blood, and the 361 circulation stars, which can’t be entrusted to the Tao Heart for auto-cultivation.
Even though the effect of Boiling Flame is excellent, it cannot provide the Qi and Blood and Limit Breaking qualities.
Thus, it won’t become his essential "main course" of daily practice.
Meng Chuan currently has a plethora of studies, and even if the day had forty-eight hours, it wouldn’t be enough for practice.
Thus, he divided his daily martial arts practice time into main courses and supplementary courses.
The practice of the core technique focused on conquering the characteristics, fist skill practice, and hard skill courses.
These are the main courses that he must complete every day unless something comes up to delay them.
The secret technique, Qi Refining method, and other fist skill practices are supplementary courses done as best as he can.
Practicing according to the day’s condition, without pressuring himself to complete everything.
After all, he is human too, needing rest and can’t just grind non-stop for dozens of hours.
As for pile skill, it swings between the main and supplementary.
His meridian extension speed is too fast, far outpacing the efficiency of gaining Qi and Blood.
Daily, he tries to stand still as much as possible, and if he feels like practicing fists, he practices more and stands less, which is fine.
...
Returning to his senses, his perception passed through his sea of consciousness to the innermost place of the spring.
The spring was many times larger than during the first major limit.
There were faint electric arcs dancing, with a thin mist drifting above.
The former electric arc was the mutation born from the [Primordial Thunder Cutting Vein] trait, a faint thunder attribute in his inner breath.
The latter was the hot breath brought by the Secret Technique [Boiling Flame] practice.
Seeing this scene, Meng Chuan had a sudden realization:
"If one delves deep into the essence of the secret techniques, some have effects quite similar to traits.
In routine practice, they slowly mutate the body, transforming human capabilities."
This technique is just starting, and the spring has already become somewhat warm.
If he keeps practicing, as his proficiency increases and the secret technique’s level progresses, the inner breath in his spring will continue to mutate.
Being slightly warm, hot, boiling, to scorching hot.
This deepens the degree of mutation and represents a major change granted by the secret technique to the body itself.
Meng Chuan speculated that since the Boiling Flame originated from the divine skill cultivated by Principal Sui,
the practitioner of such divine skill may already have an inner breath like magma.
Principal Sui’s spring is likely like a volcano on the verge of eruption, with terrifying superheated magma flowing deep within.
Meng Chuan thoughtfully exited the introspection state.
Recalling what Principal Sui had said before, that after he breaks through to Grandmaster, he’ll teach him this divine skill,
he couldn’t help but look forward with some anticipation to the day he would master this Fire Attribute Divine Skill and the kind of grace and charm he would possess...
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Meanwhile, inside Fu City.
On the street, many pedestrians had excited looks in their eyes, and their faces were also somewhat unnaturally flushed.
This was a manifestation of excess spiritual power.
Inside a tea room.
Lu Ang looked out the window, conversing over tea with someone sitting across from him.
Upon hearing the other person speak, Lu Ang withdrew his gaze, picked up the teacup, and took a sip.
"Zhenshou, the status of Shen Da Wuguan and the public has long been figured out, when will the task be announced?"
The speaker was the commander of the defense army across the land of San Qin, the Fifth Great Limit Venerable.
Commander Qin knew that Lu Zhenshou was preparing to use this Fu City incident.
As a test for those youngsters in the national talent pool.
But the task was not yet announced, and he was worried that if delayed, changes could occur.
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