Chapter 2586 — Hibernation
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But today, when Wei Zhao invited her, Wang Xinyan had, as if possessed, agreed again. And right after agreeing, she was a little torn—how was she supposed to explain this to He Meiyue and Chai Xiaoling when she got back?
She couldn't be visiting relatives that often, could she? And before, she could say she'd been ill and gone to recuperate and recover her health, but now she was well—just a little drowsy. Going to a relative's house again made no sense at all.
Besides, these days Wang Xinyan fell asleep the moment she got back to the dormitory, with no time at all for anything else. If going to a relative's house meant nothing but sleeping, then what was the point of going?
Ah, forget it. Let things drift. Wang Xinyan sighed, took out her textbook, and focused on the lecture.
This joint-strike technique had some real depth to it. After only a few glances, Wei Zhao reached that conclusion. It was, after all, something handed down from the ancient era, completely different from ordinary techniques. Though it couldn't compare to the heaven-defying Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, it was still very formidable.
The technique was divided into several layers, though Wei Zhao wasn't sure exactly how many, because the hidden Zhuang family only had the oral formulas for the first two. Whether the rest had been lost, or simply never brought out of the Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow sect back then, or whether there had only ever been two layers to begin with, he didn't know.
Because Wei Zhao was viewing other people's techniques through the lens of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, he assumed theirs should also have several layers. In truth, most cultivators' techniques had only one layer—Wu Chengtian, for instance. Their strength could grow gradually, but the technique they used remained the same one throughout.
Yet this technique, heaven-defying as it seemed, had a flaw: when a person was alone, their combat ability dropped drastically, leaving them weaker than other cultivators of the same rank. As long as the opponent's technique and martial skills weren't utter garbage, almost anyone could beat either Zhuang Niaoqiang or Zhuang Niaopao one-on-one.
So in this way, the two of them were considerably lacking in one-on-one combat. With this information, Wei Zhao also understood why, at the Hidden World Clan Summit back then, Zhuang Niaoqiang and Zhuang Niaopao had never taken the stage in the singles matches, and other disciples of the hidden Zhuang family had fought instead—the two of them only appeared in the final doubles tournament.
The other flaw of this joint-strike technique was the one Old Master Zhuang had mentioned before: if only one person cultivated it, the stacked joint strike could still be achieved, but the effect was poor and the consequences severe. Not only would it fail to achieve the full stacked effect, but the cultivator would also suffer a severe loss of strength.