Chapter 65: The Path After Becoming A Martial Artist
“Leaving a secret technique before the battle… it seems he knew this fight would be his death.”
Lin Qi looked at the disappearing hologram on his smart watch and could not help feeling a bit moved.
Secret techniques are not only precious, they are also not something every martial artist can learn, let alone create on their own.
In the City of Light Chasing, just being able to independently create an apprentice-level martial skill already makes one a genius-level figure. As for martial artist-level martial skills, anyone who can create one is a genius among martial artists.
Do not be fooled by how easily Luo Wu Shang and the others created martial artist-level martial skills; that was only because Luo Wu Shang and the others could resurrect infinitely and could afford to make mistakes.
For people of the high martial arts world, creating martial skills means that one careless move can lead to severe injury. When it comes to martial artist-level martial skills, one misstep can cost their life, just like Yi Ye Fu Yun.
To independently create a complete martial artist-level martial skill truly is something only a genius can accomplish.
Meng Changtian claimed that this secret technique was self-created, showing how formidable he was, yet such a genius still died under the monster tide.
The danger of the high martial arts world is such that even martial artists have no guarantee.
“Prairie Fire Three Forms, huh?”
Lin Qi tapped open the recorded data on his smart watch and began to read carefully.
Regarding the legendary secret techniques in the City of Light Chasing, Lin Qi was also full of curiosity. Not only because of how rare secret techniques are, but even more because of how much stronger they are than ordinary martial skills, to the point that martial artists who master them keep them tightly hidden.
Two hours later.
Lin Qi closed his smart watch and took a deep breath.
“Strong. Way too strong.”
He had not realized before, but after truly finishing the reading, Lin Qi understood how terrifying the secret technique was.
Compared to ordinary martial skills, secret techniques are indeed a complete system. According to Meng Changtian, the Prairie Fire Three Forms he created is an intermediate martial artist-level secret technique. Once fully mastered, it can unleash the power of an advanced martial artist-level martial skill.
And once martial skills reach martial artist level, they are divided into beginner level, intermediate level, and advanced level, with a huge gap between each stage.
According to the classification, Lightning Palm is a beginner martial artist-level martial skill. Its First Level, Thunderclap Realm, can double the speed and strength of both hands and adds penetrating force.
For an intermediate martial artist-level martial skill, the First Level can normally provide a threefold increase in strength.
For an advanced martial artist-level martial skill, the First Level gives a fourfold increase in strength. The difference in amplification between each tier is extremely obvious.
Of course, the stronger the martial skill, the greater and harsher its learning difficulty.
If a beginner martial artist-level martial skill like Lightning Palm can still be mastered by a beginner apprentice, then an intermediate martial artist-level martial skill requires an intermediate apprentice, and advanced ones demand a limit apprentice to have any hope of mastering them.
Once the intermediate martial artist-level secret technique Prairie Fire Three Forms is mastered, its First Level alone can unleash fourfold strength, and learning this secret technique does not require an intermediate apprentice; a beginner apprentice can master it.
However, learning Prairie Fire Three Forms requires one external item.
Energy crystals.
These are an energy substance that only rarely forms within energy veins; there are none for sale in the entire City of Light Chasing and they are extraordinarily precious.
Without energy crystals, the core of the Prairie Fire secret technique, the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method, cannot be learned at all.
The Prairie Fire Three Forms as a whole is divided into Prairie Fire Spear Technique, Prairie Fire Footwork, and Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method. The three complement one another; learning only one can produce only the effect of an intermediate martial artist-level martial skill.
But compared with the lack of energy crystals preventing him from learning the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method, what truly opened Lin Qi’s eyes was the cultivation method itself.
As a martial artist-level cultivation method, the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method is far superior to the Fitness Breathing Technique that even elementary school students can learn, and it even specifically explains the path after becoming a martial artist.
If the Fitness Breathing Technique works by absorbing free energy from the outside world to stimulate all the muscle cells, rapidly enhancing the body’s physical fitness,
then martial artist-level cultivation methods are on an entirely different level.
Although Lin Qi only obtained half of the Fitness Breathing Technique, which has six levels in total while he only has the first three, the essence of all six levels is the same. It is simply that the breathing becomes more complex so it can better stimulate all the muscle cells.
The first three levels push stimulation to the limit apprentice stage at most; the latter three are prepared for quasi-martial artists and can stimulate them up to their limit, making it a very basic cultivation method.
The Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method is completely different. It has only three levels: the First Level corresponds to those below martial artist, while the Second and Third Levels correspond to martial artists.
Meng Changtian also explained that normal martial artist-level cultivation methods use energy ore as an aid in training, and especially after reaching martial artist level, using energy ore for cultivation is a must.
Because upon reaching martial artist level, a martial artist must begin to stimulate the internal organs, strengthening them so that the power of the entire body can be further enhanced. Thus, simple breathing techniques that absorb free energy are no longer enough; one must use the denser energy in energy ore to stimulate the cells.
Different levels of cultivation methods strengthen the internal organs to different degrees. The higher the level, the more thorough the strengthening, and the greater the help for one’s future martial path.
As an intermediate secret technique, the Prairie Fire Body Cultivation Method’s training effect can rival that of an advanced martial artist-level cultivation method. In the City of Light Chasing, it would likely be hard to find a better cultivation method. The only issue is that energy crystals are hard to obtain.
After reading this, Lin Qi finally understood why major cities had to be built on top of large energy veins. Below martial artist level, energy ore is not strictly necessary, but once one becomes a martial artist, energy ore becomes indispensable.
Without energy ore, a city cannot continue to grow strong.
And if it cannot grow strong, the final result is destruction by a monster tide.
As for why the major factions in the City of Light Chasing valued the energy veins so highly, Lin Qi had previously thought it was merely to speed up improvement. Now it seemed that without energy ore, improvement was impossible at all. No wonder the various gangs in the wilderness fought to the death over energy veins.
“Good thing I took a 20 percent share in one go, otherwise after becoming a martial artist, energy ore would really become a huge problem.” Lin Qi felt slightly relieved, then his gaze swept to the system notification beneath his field of view. “What is going on?”
System: Congratulations to the host for discovering an intermediate martial artist-level cultivation method. This cultivation method is far superior in level to the method currently practiced by the host. Do you wish to fuse this cultivation method to optimize the existing one?
System: It is detected that the host’s permissions are at Level One. The cultivation method fusion and optimization permissions cannot be used. Please raise permissions to Level Two as soon as possible.
“Cultivation methods can be fused and optimized?” Lin Qi stared at the system notification, momentarily stunned.
He had originally thought this martial arts transmission system was already impressive, able to absorb players’ learning results, so that once he reached the limit of his own cultivation method, he would only need to find a stronger one for the players to train.
He had not expected this system to directly fuse and optimize more advanced cultivation methods. That ability was heaven-defying.
It meant that as long as he had enough cultivation methods in hand, he could continuously optimize his own, laying an ever more solid foundation on the martial path and raising his future limit.
Although he could absorb memory inheritance from players through the martial arts transmission system, in essence he was still cultivating himself; the system was not directly powering him up, so building a foundation was extremely important.
Otherwise, once he reached a certain point, even if he could absorb memory inheritance, if his body’s foundation was too weak, he would not be able to continue on that path.
“Level Two permissions, huh?” Lin Qi looked at the martial arts hall repair progress at 7 percent. This was already his fastest repair speed so far. “Looks like I need to give these players more motivation, raise the rewards for the martial arts hall repair tasks, and release the Prairie Fire Spear Technique and Prairie Fire Footwork as well.”
“Upper volume of Prairie Fire Spear Technique can be redeemed by ordinary disciples for three thousand points and two hundred contribution. Upper volume of Prairie Fire Footwork requires inner disciple status, fifty thousand points and one thousand contribution to redeem. This way, in the short term, these players should still focus on training Leopard Shadow Steps.”
Thinking this, Lin Qi quickly organized the upper volume of Prairie Fire Spear Technique and the upper volume of Prairie Fire Footwork, then posted the martial arts hall update item redemptions and the 50 percent increase in martial arts hall repair task rewards on the announcement board in the training ground, and left satisfied.
The passing players saw Lin Qi coming from the announcement board and, curious, walked over one after another.
In the players’ eyes, this NPC Lin Qi would not go to the announcement board for no reason; whenever he went there, it meant something was happening.
As the players gathered at the announcement board and saw the latest updates posted there, they were all stunned.
“A spear technique!”
“And it is an intermediate martial artist-level spear technique! Am I dreaming?”
“My god, the martial arts hall is actually willing to release martial skills that use weapons!”
