Chapter 1870 — A Genius?
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"Oh, you mean about practicing martial techniques—that is perfectly normal," Old Jiao said with a nod. "The Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art can produce universal true qi; in other words, it is a universal mental art, and where martial techniques are concerned, it can practice any technique at all! So it is not that the technique was made to measure for you—it is that you were made to measure for the technique!"
"What? No way!" Wei Zhao was shocked, and then wild with joy. Did that mean that whatever technique was powerful, he could practice it, without ever fretting over the need to deliberately seek out techniques that matched his mental art? "Just so," Old Jiao nodded. "Now do you see the advantage of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art?"
"Then... why could I not do it before?" Once he had calmed down, Wei Zhao was puzzled again. "I rehearsed the Frenzied Fire Fist countless times before, and not once did I get it down—it was always stiff and clumsy..."
"That is because you had not cultivated the martial techniques and the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Neither will do without the other," Old Jiao said. "The first layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art applies only below Earth-rank—the so-called Foundation Establishment stage. For a cultivator, everything before Earth-rank is the stage of laying foundations; only at Earth-rank can one practice martial techniques. That is the turning point."
"So that is how it is!" Wei Zhao said in sudden understanding. "In other words, it is only by cultivating the mental art of the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art that one has a mental art that can work together with martial techniques?"
"You could say so. But though the mental art is universal, it can only convert into universal true qi; to practice a martial technique, you must convert the mental art into the mental art that corresponds to that particular technique. So a separate conversion formula is needed here," Old Jiao said.
"Is it... that martial technique?" Wei Zhao thought of the "martial technique" he had practiced before, the one he had brought out of the cave.
"Exactly. That martial technique may also be called a universal martial technique. Once you have cultivated this universal martial technique, then no matter what technique you practice, it will automatically convert your mental art into the mental art best suited to cultivating that technique, so that the technique can display its greatest effect," Old Jiao said. "And that is also why you are stronger than the technique's original masters—because their mental arts, though tempered and matched over a very long time, were never so made to measure as an art that converts itself."
"...That is simply outrageous..." Hearing Old Jiao's words, Wei Zhao could find no other words to convey how he felt at that moment. What a phenomenal martial technique this was! He had once taken it for a useless auxiliary mental art, never imagining it could be so formidable!
It was a long while before Wei Zhao let out a long breath.
So it meant that not only could he use the Frenzied Fire Fist—as long as he had the corresponding martial technique manual, he could practice it. At the thought, Wei Zhao felt his blood race.