From what John read in the scroll, the Supre Battle Art needed the Supre Battle Body to work, but John wanted to test if his Immortal Asura Body was capable of using the battle art, and his test had been a success.
'Although it's not the Supre Battle Body, the Immortal Asura Body is allowing to utilize this technique with no loss in efficiency and no drawbacks.'
The Supre Battle Body not only strengthened the body enough to handle the berserk power it channeled throughout the body, but slightly changed the body in ways that made it a requirent to use the Supre Battle Art to full effect. It also used its unique body Qi comprehensions for cultivating the dantian. Other body cultivation techniques were unable to learn the supre battle body effectively, which drastically reduced the power unleashed by the technique, but the Immortal Asura Body was different.
However, John decided to study the Supre Battle Body and see if he could learn anything from it.
'Maybe by learning how to cultivate the Supre Battle Body but not actually doing so, I can utilize the Supre Battle Art more effectively. I also want to see how it stacks up against the Immortal Asura Body.'
John spent the next few hours studying the cultivation technique and guiding his Qi according to it. Although he didn't actually cultivate it, he was able to get a feel for the cultivation technique based on both the profundities of the teachings and the effect it would have on his body.
Several hours later, John opened his eyes, an excited look apparent in his eyes.
'Although this is only the first stage of the Supre Battle Body, I can tell that the Immortal Asura Body is more profound. Not only is the Supre Battle Body not as profound, but the thods required to cultivate it are quite extre on the body. Only those who truly are body battle fanatics would be able to endure such a thod. It seems like the Immortal Asura Body is at a far higher level than what is available in the Yuan Continent Holy Lands.'
John couldn't help but be excited at this revelation. The more profound the Immortal Asura Body was, the stronger it would allow him to beco in the future. John didn't just want to beco strong, he wanted to beco the strongest. Anything to aid that was imnsely important.
'At first, my motivation for getting stronger was based on the desire to achieve things that I could only watch others achieve. After I started cultivating, I was entranced by the feeling of growing stronger, and fighting those who are strong. But after Austin died, I realized the most important thing of all. Only by having strength can I control my destiny, and the destiny of those around . Only by being strong can I truly be free and in control.'
After ruminating on the Supre Battle Body for so ti, John switched back to learning the Supre Battle Art.
'For the first stage of the Supre Battle Art, it mainly focuses on providing an intense power and strength boost to the body. It leaves absolutely nothing back for defense, and focuses only on offensive power. Based on what I can tell, using the Supre Battle Body is quite taxing on the body, and can only be used for around a minute before too large a burden is placed on the body. Lets try it out."
John took a wide stance and deep breath, his focus consud on executing the Supre Battle Art. Qi started to wildly surge from his body dantian, through his ridians and into his muscles.
"Waah!"
John was suddenly sent flying forwards after inadvertently putting too much power into his legs, which propelled him forward. After tumbling a few tis, John finally ca to a stop.
"This is going to be tough to learn" muttered John as he stood up and brushed the dirt off his robe.
"I sent Qi to my legs in accordance to the technique, but wasn't able to properly control both the Qi and my muscles during the fusion process, which resulted in losing control and jumping forward. Let's try it again!"
John once again started to use the Supre Battle Body technique, and yet again lost control during the fusion of Qi into the muscles, resulting in him falling over once again.
John smoothed back his hair which had fallen in front of his face and thought about the technique once more.
'When I used Qi to empower my body during my earlier fights, I was doing it in the most basic form, which not only wasted almost all the Qi I was using, it also only superficially increased my strength, as most of that Qi was sent explosively to my extremities such as my hands and weapon, instead of being fully harnessed by my body and muscles. Back then, I was most likely wasting over eighty percent of my body Qi, resulting in only twenty percent being used effectively. The Supre Battle Body allows to use almost one hundred percent of my body Qi efficiently, but as a result, it's also much harder to control properly. Again!'
John spent the next four days learning the Supre Battle Body. His sorry figure could be seen flying about the martial practice arena as he tried to control his Qi properly according to the technique.
On the fifth day.
Boom!
A large boulder that lay in Johns backyard exploded into bits, revealing a smiling boy standing behind it.
"Success! I finally learned the technique!"
It had taken five full days, but John had finally managed to learn to control the Supre Battle Body properly, which explosively augnted his body strength to levels far beyond what he was capable of before.
John looked further into the land behind his mansion and spotted another boulder in the distance.
'I wonder…'
A thought suddenly crossed John's mind as he took a focused stance and started channeling both essence and body Qi into his legs.
Imdiately after, a sorry figure was seeing tumbling violently across the land before eventually coming to a stop. John hastily stood up with an excited look on his face. Just now, he had tried to augnt the Five Step Movent Technique, which was an essence movent technique, with the explosive physical power of the Supre Battle Art. Although they were two different systems, and although he had failed, John could tell that it was completely possible to superimpose the power of both, which would result in a much faster movent technique.
"Although I failed, I can tell it's possible to combine the two. All I need to do is work on the timing, at which point my movent technique will evolve to a new level."
Once more, John spent the next day practicing using the two techniques at the sa ti, and was able to fully incorporate both techniques into a single movent technique.
'Success once again. This ti, it was much easier to be able to combine the two than learn either technique, since all I had to do was focus on the timing and make sure that I ti my powerful body movents with the Five Step Movent Technique at the exact sa ti.'
John practiced the technique for the rest of the day, making sure that he had it fully under his control. The sun was starting to set when John heard soone approach him from behind. John turned around and saw his father approaching him.
"John, how has your training been going?" asked Barden.
"Very successful. I learned both the Supre Battle Art, as well as how to incorporate it into my Five Step Movent Technique!"
Barden smiled and nodded his head. Utilizing both body and essence into one system truly was a good idea for John to do, and Barden was proud that his son had co up with this on his own. His thoughts drifted to John's comnts from earlier, at which point he realized that John never ntioned learning the Supre Battle Body, only the Supre Battle Art. Barden was just about to ask about this when John spoke up.
"So, what did you co to see for?"
Barden put his thoughts aside and responded to John instead. "I ca to tell you that we are going to head out to the tournant grounds tomorrow, as the tournant is in a few days. Make sure to be prepared to head out first thing tomorrow morning."
John nodded his head. "I'll be ready."
"Good. Now co inside and have dinner with your mother and I."
"Okay."
John followed his father back to his mansion and had a delicious dinner; Golden Ox Stew, before leaving for his room and getting into bed. Just before he fell asleep, resolute thoughts of the tournant crossed his mind.
'The tournant is almost here. I must win!'
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