Ancient Strengthening Techniques
Chapter 13 – Third layer, Ghost Step
Chapter 13 Breaking through to Heaven layered .
At this moment, Qing Shui regained his composure, looking at the Golden Direwolf that was quickly approaching him. His body which was filled with energy, trembled slightly as his right arm burst forward with exploding speed.
“Xiu!”
The pebble was targeted to the jaw area of the direwolf, creating a very discordant sound as it floated through the air.
By the time the pebbles flew out, Qing Shui chose not to retreat but to advance instead, similar to an earthworm diving into the ground, instead, Qing Shui crossed both his hands and forcefully pierced into the back of the direwolf.
"Kacha!"
Aooooo! the wolf howled in pain (what did the wolf say?)
The sound of broken bones accompanied by howls filled with agonizing pain rang out.
Using his elbow, Qing Shui pushed the direwolf away, borrowing the power of that impulse to retreat from a distance. The severely injured direwolf was crouching with his hind legs, having an appearance of begging for mercy, staring fearfully at Qing Shui.
Qing Shui wasn't as calm as he seemed, the attack just now, was too dangerous! If it wasn't him who took advantage of the opportunity, fired the pebble at the exact moment where the direwolf was fully concentrating on his attack, instead, Qing Shui wouldn't have the chance to injure one of the direwolf's hind legs.
A wolf was basically cunning, and because of that, Qing Shui did not dare to be careless and underestimate his opponent. He carefully gazed towards the golden direwolf, while sweat soaked his entire body, as he entered an extremely intense state of focus.
At this moment, while gazing towards the golden direwolf who was severely injured by him, Qing Shui couldn't help but relax a little. A slight loss of concentration on his part gave rise to a stupefied feeling, causing his brain to enter a daze. While in that daze, Qing Shui couldn't even stand up straight.
Just when a wave of dizziness appeared, the worn and tattered jade pendant in front of his chest emitted waves of cooling energy, which quickly circulated throughout his body, propping up Qing Shui. This feeling can be analogized when the arid and arid desert land suddenly experiences heavy rain.
Waves of cooling energy were endlessly circulating within him, Qing Shui felt that his limbs were unable to gather any strength, even his body felt extremely relaxed, comfortable to the point of extreme laziness. Just when Qing Shui was about to fall asleep, a very strange thing happened!
Qing Shui's cultivation in the Ancient Strengthening Technique was currently at the peak of the 2nd tier Heaven realm. At this moment, in Qing Shui's calm and composed state, the Ancient Strengthening suddenly broke through to the 3rd layer! Qing Shui could feel a warm and gentle stream of Qi flowing throughout his body, quickly improving the toughness of his bones and energy channels. That strand of Qi after he broke through to the 3rd layer, had grown thicker. Undergoing the refinement process, Qing Shui was able to sense that his energy channels had expanded and become thicker as a result.
As his body gradually recovered its strength, Qing Shui realized that his strength had exceeded his previous limit by an enormous margin. The difference in strength was incomprehensible! Qing Shui knew that the Ancient Strengthening Technique had a total of 9 layers. Each 3 layers represents one level. 1-3 equals low level, 4-6 equals middle level, 7-9 equals top level. Now that he had cultivated to the 3rd layer, as long as he could break through to the 4th layer, Qing Shui did not even dare to imagine the benefits. As long as he could step through the doorway, there would be a whole new world in front of him. Although he had just broken through to the 3rd layer, Qing Shui had already anticipated breaking through to the 4th layer of the Ancient Strengthening Technique.
The moment the Ancient Strengthening Technique was disabled, Qing Shui felt excitement in his heart. No wonder cultivators fought for real, just through the battle experience gained from life and death battles that would result in the benefits one received was far greater than just training alone.
Looking towards the golden direwolf who was cowering meekly, his eyes looked around. Qing Shui could sense that the golden direwolf wanted to escape.
Qing Shui decided not to pursue, after all he, felt grateful in his heart. If not for the golden direwolf today, he would not have broken through to the 3rd layer of the Ancient Strengthening Technique so easily. Just when Qing Shui checked his energy channel and the Qi ball within his Dan Tian, he realized that the Blue Lotus Art had also reached the 3rd level! Qing Shui could faintly sense that, after the integration of the Blue Lotus Art and the Ancient Strengthening Technique, it resulted in a convergence of blue and yellow Qi, resulting in a convergence of blue and yellow Qi, there was a slight difference in the Blue Lotus Art that he trained in compared to the Qing Clan Members. But it's hard to pinpoint exactly where the difference lies.
He frowned, "Then, won't I become trash again?" Qing Shui didn't even notice when the golden direwolf escaped as he pondered this question.
“Forget, however, I still have the Solitary Quick Fist from breaking through the 2nd layered sky of the Ancient Strengthening Technique. Oh yea! I wonder what new skill came into my mind after breaking through to the 3rd layered sky! Qing Shui excitedly thought to himself.
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“Seconding techniques. This was a new skill he had gained from breaking through to the 3rd layer of the Ancient Strengthening Technique. As information about the escape technique flowed into his brain, Qing Shui was frustrated to the point of grinding his teeth.
“Arghhh, what do I want the current blurring technique for? Even if the reward was not more information about the pill potion, it should at least be another strengthening technique, he murmured listlessly. I don't even know how long it will take me to break into the 4th layer of the Ancient Strengthening Technique, when can I learn more about alchemy? His heart bled as he thought of the information about the various magic pills present in his brain. The Small Revitalizing Pellet, Glowing Buddha Seed, Dragon Martial Pill, and even 9 Souls Reincarnation Pellet, ARGHHHHH ”
Too bad, Qing Shui wanted to learn the pill concoction technique quickly because there was a large number of medicinal herbs in the Qing Clan, not to mention Qing Yi was a medicinal herb merchant, The Qing Clan should also have some more expensive and more expensive herbs valuable in their possession. That was why Qing Shui couldn't wait to get used to the alchemy arts. If he could concoct some medicinal pills, it would greatly increase his cultivation speed, if there was no external source of aid, based on his own calculations, it would take a long time for him to break through to the 4th layered sky. After all, the Ancient Strengthening Technique was extremely powerful, almost to the point of heaven-defying but at the same time, there were many restrictions.
“So, the escape technique is also not too bad, at least it is still better than nothing, after all the escape technique is not very suitable for me now, anyway, because I'd rather learn pill concoctions. I shouldn't complain much, after all, top-tier escape techniques are also extremely valuable, capable of saving one's life in times of danger. " Qing Shui knew that the escape technique that appeared in his mind could be considered one of the peak-level escape techniques. Even among top-tier techniques, it could be ranked as one of the first few techniques.
Qing Shui closed his eyes as he began to analyze the information on this escape technique, he realized that this technique was more suited to being a thief. The techniques recorded are very complicated beyond belief, there are a wide variety of complicated methods, designed to hide in various terrains, all kinds of secret art, design to blend in a person's body with the surrounding environment. All of this resulted in Qing Shui gasping in astonishment!
“Hmmm, can this be used for blurring? Are they not used to hiding, what should I do if I am found?: Qing Shui muttered to himself, he felt that there should be more to this technique.
Indeed, after Qing Shui quickly read through, the technique could be separated into 2 parts. The first part was about hiding techniques, while the second part was about the art of escaping. The recorded escape arts also required the activation of the Ancient Strengthening Technique before it could be used.
The name of this technique is very duhhh, just called.
Qing Shui did not care about the name of the escape art that appeared in his mind, as he had already managed to master many insights from the hidden weapon techniques and Solitary Rapid First. It could be said that Qing Shui also eagerly anticipated the insights he would gain from the Ghost Steps.
However, just trying to understand the basics, gave Qing Shui a headache. He knew that this technique was not easy to change. If not for that battle of enlightenment, he would not have been able to master the hidden weapon technique so easily as well, achieving a skill equivalent to 10 years of practice in just one day.
The escape technique, Ghost Steps, actually comes from the 9 Directions, 8 Trigram Calculations [1], a segment of the "Mystical Gate, Hidden Jia" [2] Divination Art. Qing Shui needed to learn the Calculation of 9 Directions, 8 Trigrams before even learning the basics of the Ghost Steps. All the information was already imprinted in his mind, but in order to digest and absorb it completely, he still needed a longer time.
Shaking his head to clear the waves of dizziness, Qing Shui departed from the Greenwood forest, he did not want to meet any other demonic beasts. Even though he had obtained tremendous benefits from this encounter, if there were 2 golden direwolves, or even a group of them, the Greenwood forest would become Qing Shui's burial ground.
“Ai, if that's the case, I can't even escape if I want to, it will be much safer once I master the Ghost Steps.
Another reason that prompted Qing Shui to master the Ghost Steps was because it could be used as an alternative for attacking purposes, when equipped with Solitary Rapid Fists, it was because it could be used as an alternative to attack, it is possible to double or even triple the power released!
When Qing Shui finally climbed back up to the top of the mountain near the Qing Clan, the sun had already set. Leaving only dusk, the western sky emitted a red glow, a beautiful painting above the sky.
Attacking while the iron was still hot, Qing Shui began to develop the initial basics of the Ghost Steps right now. Although mastering the Ghost Steps would require 9 Directions, the Calculation of 8 Trigrams to fully grasp the entire set of this technique, at first, was not necessary for it.
