Chapter 2389 — Wei Zhao's Deduction
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But the Verdant Forest Phantom Thousandfold Transformation was different. That was a wood-attribute mental cultivation method, not of the same attribute as the fire-attribute Heaven-Splitting Earth-Rending Claw. So when the two were fused together and the technique failed to activate, that had to be the reason!
At this thought, Wei Zhao's mind suddenly lit up. He combined the Frenzied Fire Fist with the Verdant Forest Phantom Thousandfold Transformation and tried to activate them—and sure enough, the attempt ended in failure! Moreover, whether he paired the mental method and chant of the Frenzied Fire Fist with the activation method of the Verdant Forest Phantom Thousandfold Transformation, or paired the mental method and chant of the Verdant Forest Phantom Thousandfold Transformation with the activation method of the Frenzied Fire Fist, neither succeeded in activating. This indirectly proved that Wei Zhao's earlier conjecture and judgment had been correct!
Only martial techniques of the same attribute could be fused and activated together; techniques of different attributes could not be fused and activated at all! In other words, if Old Sixth Pu's technique today had not been fire-attribute or wood-attribute, but rather one of the metal, water, or earth attributes, then Wei Zhao truly would have had no way to imitate it—when the time came, it definitely would not have activated!
At this thought, Wei Zhao inwardly breathed a sigh of relief at his good fortune and his narrow escape. What luck—Old Sixth Pu's technique just happened to be fire-attribute. Wei Zhao had stumbled onto the right approach by pure chance, directly using the Frenzied Fire Fist he knew best to form the combination, and then it had activated successfully!
If Wei Zhao had used the Verdant Forest Phantom Thousandfold Transformation for the combination at the time, and the activation had failed by some mischance, then in that moment of urgency, if he had been unable to think of anything else and had given up on continuing to experiment with the Frenzied Fire Fist for the fusion, today would truly have ended in disaster!
But once Wei Zhao had worked this out, a new question arose: why could Tagan Long's Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm be fused with both the Frenzied Fire Fist and the Verdant Forest Phantom Thousandfold Transformation?
And just what attribute was this Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm?
Five elements... Wei Zhao unconsciously grimaced. Surely it was not really of the five-element attribute? Could it be that this was a martial technique that could be activated and cultivated under any of the five elemental attributes? At this thought, Wei Zhao could not help clicking his tongue in secret amazement. Tagan Long really did have tremendous luck to have cultivated such a martial technique!
Still... Wei Zhao suddenly recalled the multicolored true qi on Tagan Long's body. Could it be that he had a five-element constitution, and used five-element true qi to activate the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm? The more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed—otherwise, why would this martial technique's power be so monstrous?
If Tagan Long truly had a five-element constitution and possessed five-element true qi, then the third stance of the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm ought to be as formidable as the fifteenth stance of an ordinary superior martial technique. But clearly, Tagan Long had not achieved that!
Of course, these were only theoretical figures. Although the strength of a martial technique had much to do with the technique itself, it also depended on the practitioner's mastery. Take Wei Zhao's use of the Frenzied Fire Fist—his mastery surpassed even Uncle Qing's. That was why, when Wei Zhao used the Frenzied Fire Fist, its first stance carried the power of an ordinary technique's second stance, and so on by the same reckoning. Uncle Qing, however, could not manage this.