Xiang Yu felt an invisible barrier collapse within him as the surging qi that had started to overwhelm his ridians suddenly cald, settling peacefully into his dantian. He exhaled deeply, dissipating the excess energy that remained in his system. Feeling the change within him, he quickly checked his system status, confirming that he had indeed broken through to the second layer of the Qi Gathering realm.
Just as he had thought before, it seed his cooking profession was indeed worth a thousand tis more than his cultivation. Even though it was just a minor realm, breaking through just by eating was really incredible. He couldn't help but feel that he needed to gain more secondary professions.
After he was done refining all the leftover energy, Xiang Yu noted that it was nearly noon and decided to transition to technique cultivation in accordance with his new schedule. Maintaining his ditative posture, he began channeling fire qi into his palm. The familiar warm sensation spread through his hand as the energy concentrated, causing a subtle red glow to emanate from his skin.
After practicing this basic application for so ti, he suddenly had a bold idea. He reached into his spatial ring and retrieved the Fire Palm technique manual, examining it with a smile.
"If I understand the fundantal principles correctly," he reasoned, "the technique itself isn't inherently tied to fire." Since he had studied a palm technique before, he could tell that the technique, in its roots, was just a palm technique, the elental aspect was rely one component that could potentially be substituted. If he could use the Fire Palm as a base template and replace the elental aspect, he might gain five techniques from just one.
For most cultivators, such a task would be nearly impossible—requiring extraordinary comprehension abilities and deep understanding of elental theory. However, with his high-level comprehension combined with the enhancent from his Transcendent Dao Physique, Xiang Yu believed it was within his capabilities.
He began studying the Fire Palm technique with focus, scrutinizing every detail and annotation. His eyes traced the ridian pathways described in the manual, noting how the qi was directed and transford. He paid particular attention to sections describing the role of the fire elent in the technique's execution, ntally cataloging what aspects would need modification if he substituted a different elent.
Theory alone wasn't sufficient. Xiang Yu conducted nurous practical experints, attempting to apply water-natured qi using the sa circulation pattern designed for fire. Several attempts failed, so even resulting in minor injuries—backflows of unstable energy that damaged his ridians, unexpected energy explosions that burned his palm from the inside. Fortunately, his Transcendent Dao Physique's enhanced recovery capabilities quickly repaired these self-inflicted wounds, allowing him to continue his experints without significant delay.
Hours passed as Xiang Yu alternated between theoretical study and practical application. The sun began its descent toward the horizon, painting his bamboo dwelling with orange and red hues. Just as daylight was fading, a breakthrough occurred.
During one attempt, instead of the familiar red glow, his hand emanated a soft blue luminescence. The sensation was different—cool and flowing rather than hot and crackling. He had successfully adapted the technique to channel water qi.
Excitent surged through him as he quickly checked his system status. There it was:
[High-grade Water Palm: Beginner (1/100)]
He had succeeded in extracting a new technique from the original, proving his theory correct.
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Now that Xiang Yu had successfully created a technique based on a different elent, excitent surged through him. After creating the water palm technique, he could now determine which components of the technique were affected by elental changes and could now swap them out systematically to match the values of the elent he was creating a technique for. Now he possessed a genuine template for elental palm techniques.
Without hesitation, he applied the sa principles to the remaining three classical elents, filling in the template with precise adjustnts for each. One by one, new notifications appeared in his system:
[High-grade Wood Palm: Beginner (1/100)]
[High-grade Earth Palm: Beginner (1/100)]
[High-grade tal Palm: Beginner (1/100)]
He briefly considered creating techniques for mutated elents like wind, ice, and thunder, but recognized his understanding of these elents was insufficient to formulate proper techniques yet. Even so, his achievent was remarkable—he now possessed techniques to practice independently, without relying on his martial aunt for more techniques.
With multiple techniques now populating his system, Xiang Yu felt a deep satisfaction. The system's potential was no longer being squandered. More importantly, the process of analyzing and modifying the original technique had taught him invaluable lessons about technique construction and elental theory.
"Perhaps I should study more techniques," he thought, gazing at his palm. "I might eventually create techniques from scratch without needing templates." Such an ability would allow him to make full use of his system's capabilities. Even if his initial creations were diocre, he could employ the system's rging function to combine them into sothing truly powerful—just as he planned to do with the five elental palm techniques once they reached perfect level.
The prospect of what might result from rging all five perfected elental techniques intrigued him. "Would it create a divine-level technique?" he wondered.
Setting aside these ambitious thoughts for the future, Xiang Yu focused on imdiate practice. He systematically worked through each of his new techniques, cycling through the elents one after another. What had initially been challenging—the constant transformation of his qi between different elental natures—gradually beca easier and easier until it was second nature.
Throughout the night, his palms pulsed with different colored lights as he activated each elent in sequence. Rippling blue water energy, then green wood qi that spiraled like vines, earthy brown light, and finally tallic silver and grey lights.
The repeated practice reinforced his control, each cycle becoming more fluid than the last. The hours passed swiftly as Xiang Yu lost himself in perfecting these techniques, refining his control over elental transformations.
Finally, midnight arrived, and the system reset notification appeared:
[Body Refining: 11th Layer (70/11,000) ( 30/11,000)]
[Qi Gathering: 2nd Layer (50/200) ( 50/200)]
[Mind: Level 4 (42/4000) ( 40/4000)]
[Transcendent Dao Body: Level 1 (5/1,000,000) ( 3/1,000,000)]
[Enlightennt: High (167/3000) ( 43/3000)]
[Spirit Fla: Abyssal Void Fla: 6th Grade (1265/40,000) ( 5/40,000)]
[High-grade Fire Palm: Beginner (20/100)]
[High-grade Water, Wood, Earth, tal Palm: Beginner (10/100) ( 10/100)]
[Cook: 5th Grade (200/500) ( 20/500)]
[Experience Points Doubled]
[Cook: 5th Grade (200/500) → 5th Grade (400/500)]
[High-grade Water, Wood, Earth, tal Palm: Beginner (10/100) → Beginner (20/100)]
[High-grade Fire Palm: Beginner (20/100) → Beginner (40/100)]
[Spirit Fla: Abyssal Void Fla: 6th Grade (1265/40,000) → 6th Grade (2530/40,000)]
[Enlightennt: High (167/3000) → High (334/3000)]
[Transcendent Dao Body: Level 1 (5/1,000,000) → Level 1 (10/1,000,000)]
[Mind: Level 4 (42/4000) → Level 4 (84/4000)]
[Qi Gathering: 2nd Layer (50/200) → 2nd Layer (100/200)]
[Body Refining: 11th Layer (70/11,000) → 11th Layer (140/11,000)]
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Author's Corner:
I feel like I should clarify this: No! This does not an that he can make techniques from scratch, he was able to make these ones because he already had understanding of the palm technique and understood that the elent part was just an addition and he could swap it for a different elent. (He basically just copy pasted and changed a few things)
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