Chapter 2306 — Hope Grows Dim
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Could it be that I am a genius?
Once he had calmed down, however, Wei Zhao suppressed that flush of pride. Whether he was a genius or not, Wei Zhao knew perfectly well. Perhaps he had a little more natural talent than an ordinary cultivator, but he could by no means be called a genius.
In truth, in the cultivation world of today, so-called geniuses were simply those born with special constitutions who had cultivated the corresponding special techniques, and who then displayed monstrous cultivation speed and strength; such people were generally hailed as cultivation prodigies.
And yet, precisely because of that, Wei Zhao had become a genius.
Only it was all thanks to the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art and the jade pendant's space. His own constitution just happened to suit the mental techniques of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, and so he had been made into a genius.
Dimly, Wei Zhao sensed that the reason he could create martial techniques at all, and why this new technique forged by fusing two others had burst forth so smoothly at the first attempt, was probably owed to that all-purpose "martial technique."
He had cultivated one "martial technique" with no practical combat value whatsoever, yet after cultivating it he could practice all manner of other techniques at will, and could even unleash techniques of entirely different elemental attributes with ease. Wei Zhao felt this had a great deal to do with that "martial technique."
And the reason he had been able to unleash that fabricated, integrated technique was most likely that he had cultivated this strange, all-purpose "martial technique."
If he wrote out the method for unleashing the Fire Dragon Eight-Trigram Palm as a technique formula and gave it to Uncle Qing or anyone else to try, they would surely not find it so easy—even Wei Zhao himself could feel the clumsiness and the flaws in the fusion of the two. And yet, despite all that, Wei Zhao alone could unleash it with effortless success; it had to be called a miracle.
After calming down, Wei Zhao thought it over again, mentally simulating and rehearsing the earlier unleashing of the Fire Dragon Eight-Trigram Palm. It was greatly different from Tagan Long's Five Elements Eight-Trigram Palm—at the very least, the color of the true qi on his palms was not the same: his palms had been red, while Tagan Long's had been a bizarre riot of many colors... Could it not be fire-attribute true qi, then? Wei Zhao carefully recalled the sensations from his exchange with Tagan Long the day before, but could summon little impression of them. The images of the fight were still in his mind, yet the feelings of it had already blurred beyond recall.
Then was it a wood-attribute technique, or water, or perhaps metal or earth? At that thought, Wei Zhao resolved to try and unleash the Five Elements Eight-Trigram Palm by coupling the mental technique formula of the Verdant Forest Myriad Transformations with the Five Elements Eight-Trigram Palm's method of unleashing, just to see what power it held.
The moment the idea struck him, Wei Zhao grew impatient to try. He rose to his feet and, with a silent shout in his heart, employed the mental technique formula of the Verdant Forest Myriad Transformations in concert with the Five Elements Eight-Trigram Palm's method of unleashing, and released the second stance of the "Verdant Forest Eight-Trigram Palm"!
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
Four great booms burst through the air, and Wei Zhao's two palms became four, loosing a mighty power into the empty air.
"Whoosh..." What formidable force—every single palm carried the power of the second stance of the Frenzied Fire Fist! That was to say, the power of an ordinary technique's third stance! Wei Zhao stared at his own hands in astonishment and cried out in wonder.