Chapter 2361 — A Failed Martial Technique
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After all, Wei Zhao's own strength was what it was—only mid-Earth rank. If he wanted to wipe out Old Master Zhao, he would have to raise his power a bit more first.
Speaking of strength, Wei Zhao had been stuck at mid-Earth rank for some time now. From the Hidden World Families Summit until now, his power had long since stabilized and accumulated its gains—especially through those several all-out battles against the Fifth Protector, the First Protector, Tagan Long, and the Third Master. Wei Zhao had already touched the barrier of peak mid-Earth rank strength, but he was still just a little short.
It was like the last straw that breaks the camel's back—without that straw, the camel would not fall.
He hoped that before joining the trial, he could spend another stretch of time cultivating while holding Wang Xinyan, pushing his strength up to peak mid-Earth rank.
The moment the thought surfaced, Wei Zhao felt it was a little sordid. Cultivating while holding a girl in his arms—however you put it, there was something not quite right about it. Did he want to cultivate more, or did he want to hold Wang Xinyan more?
Shaking his head, he set the thought aside for the moment. Wei Zhao picked up the support-and-recovery martial technique he had copied down in the Hidden Han Family—Spring Rain from Heaven—opened it, and began carefully studying the mental formulas and oral mnemonics within.
Wei Zhao's memory had always been good. The ten sections of oral mnemonic were not long—it took only a short while to commit them.
Once he had memorized them, Wei Zhao set down the copied martial technique and began preparing to trigger the first form, Spring Rain from Heaven. As for the first form, triggering it was actually no difficulty at all for Wei Zhao—except that this was a martial technique that could only be triggered by someone possessing both water- and wood-attribute constitutions at once!
It seemed this martial technique was not something just anyone could cultivate. If a sect could train so many deathsworn who possessed both water- and wood-attribute constitutions, then that sect's scale truly could not be underestimated...
One could imagine how magnificent and mighty those sects must have been in the true ancient era—to say that real experts were as numerous as clouds would not be an exaggeration! In this age when Heaven-rank experts were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns, when all of them together did not exceed three digits, there had once been a time, perhaps, when Heaven-rank was as common as dogs, and above Heaven-rank, the legendary Heaven-Dao experts were the true powerhouses!
But as time passed, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth in the natural world grew thinner and thinner. Never mind Heaven-rank—even Mystic-rank and Earth-rank were experts only families of the Hidden World Family level could possess.
After his sighs, Wei Zhao began attempting the trigger. Of course, he was actually still somewhat uneasy, because this martial technique stipulated a constitution: wood attribute, water attribute!
If he went by the fact that he could trigger Frenzied Fire Fist and the Myriad Transformations of Forest and Wood, and could also refine the jade-pendant space—those three things—then the constitutions he possessed should be metal, wood, and fire. Yet this martial technique's requirement added water attribute. Did his body also contain a water-attribute constitution?
Even Wei Zhao himself found it hard to believe! Dual-constitution alchemists were already very few; triple-constitution artificers were basically nonexistent. Four constitutions—what sort of concept was that?
Still, Wei Zhao did not give up on that account. Following Spring Rain from Heaven's mental formulas and oral mnemonics, he began circulating them within his body. The mnemonic circulated quite normally—he just did not know whether he could ultimately succeed in triggering it.