Chapter 2231 — The Fierce Fire Fist Again
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"Still, to repay you, I have here a martial-arts manual of you humans—left behind, once, by... my contracted master..." Here the Great Fire Lion's expression turned somewhat forlorn.
"Your master? You were someone else's contracted spirit-beast?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide.
"Several hundred years ago, yes," said the Great Fire Lion. "But he left... went off in pursuit of a higher plane, the so-called Way of Heaven... and he never came back. He was of an ancient sect here—its sect master, in former days..."
"Ah!" Wei Zhao sighed in astonishment. Higher martial learning—who would not chase after it? Yet how many ever truly attained it?
"This martial art was also that sect's core art, its treasure in former days, and one of the finest techniques among fire-attribute cultivators," said the Great Fire Lion. "You are an Earth-rank mid-stage expert—you should just barely be able to cultivate it to the fifth form. And once you do, you can, while unleashing the technique, at the same time discharge a Fireflow Divine Bomb, which will temporarily raise your technique's power to roughly the level of the tenth form..."
"Fireflow Divine Bomb? What's that?" Wei Zhao had never heard of such a thing.
"It is a fire-attribute attack weapon our Fire Lion clan produces with our breath—only a one-time-use weapon," said the Great Fire Lion. "Here in this central range of the mountains, our Fire Lion clan does have enemies. I myself am not concerned, but the little Fire Lion and my mate—they have no strong attacks, and can only rely on the Fireflow Divine Bombs I make to escape an enemy's assault!"
"So that's it!" Wei Zhao nodded.
"As for these Fireflow Divine Bombs, they take me a long time to make, and being consumables, I have only three finished ones on hand—so you had best use them sparingly!" said the Great Fire Lion. "With a Fireflow Divine Bomb, the fifth form equals the tenth form. The tenth equals the fifteenth, and the forms beyond follow the same rule... There is no upper limit, but the lower limit is the fifth form. Only when discharged together with a fifth-form technique can it achieve the effect of a tenth-form technique; otherwise, before the fifth form, this Fireflow Divine Bomb cannot be used."
"So powerful?" Hearing the Great Fire Lion's explanation, Wei Zhao could not help but click his tongue in wonder. This Fireflow Divine Bomb could instantly boost a technique by five grades—that meant one could keep fighting opponents above one's level indefinitely!
"Indeed. But the Fireflow Divine Bombs are produced too rarely, and we must keep two for ourselves against emergencies, so I can give you only three, benefactor," said the Great Fire Lion with some regret.
"Three... is already quite a lot!" Wei Zhao was not a greedy man. To have three of such a wondrous thing was already great fortune. Had he possessed such a thing earlier, when he crossed blows with the Fifth Protector, he would never have been so badly battered!
He only wondered whether that martial art would be hard to cultivate. As for what sort of art it was, Wei Zhao was not too worried—after all, he had studied the Fierce Fire Fist and the Myriad Transformations of Forest and Wood, and he was quite confident in his ability to unleash techniques.
But at present Wei Zhao could only discharge up to the fourth form. After advancing to Earth-rank mid-stage, he had tried releasing the fifth form of the Fierce Fire Fist and the fifth form of the Myriad Transformations of Forest and Wood, but had succeeded at neither—the reason, he guessed, being that he had not yet consolidated his Earth-rank mid-stage strength.
Now, however, it was different. Wei Zhao had consolidated his Earth-rank mid-stage strength. With some effort, he ought to be able to unleash a fifth-form technique now, no?
"This martial art was left by my contracted master, and is divided into thirty forms in all..." The Great Fire Lion had gotten this far when Wei Zhao suddenly cut him off.