Chapter 411: Invincible Return, Complete Secret Art

Xiao Xun, just watch closely, this is the Instant Character Secret.

Inside the Fu Clan's Training Hall, Old Master Fu personally demonstrated the Instant Character Secret.

The Fu Clan's Nine Heaven-Battling Secrets each consist of a single character.

As for the secret to executing it, there is one, but to learn it mainly relies on oral instruction and hands-on teaching.

Old Master Fu didn't expect Lu Xun to learn it right away, so he prepared to personally teach Lu Xun for a few days, then have Fu Yue and Fu Xue continue the instruction.

All that was seen was Old Master Fu's figure vanishing in an instant; when he reappeared, he was already kilometers away.

This Training Hall naturally employs spatial expansion; its interior space is far larger than its actual size.

"I just suppressed my strength to the Fifth Realm to perform it; how about it, Xiao Xun, did you see clearly?"

Old Master Fu returned once more to stand before Lu Xun.

"Hmm! Grandfather, this Instant Character Secret is amazing."

Lu Xun praised.

He possesses the Chaotic Eye; even if Old Master Fu uses his Eighth Realm cultivation to perform the Instant Character Secret, Lu Xun can still see it clearly.

Old Master Fu demonstrated it only twice, and Lu Xun could already perceive its remarkable aspects.

The key point of the Instant Character Secret lies in the word 'instant'.

That is, in a single instant, it grants you extreme speed in the world.

After execution, speed is not increased incrementally; it is instantly raised to the extreme.

It is equivalent to instantly raising your speed from zero to hundreds of miles per second.

That is already impressive.

For cultivators, as long as they don't spare the cost, flight speed can keep increasing.

If a Nine Realms cultivator keeps accelerating, even within the Spirit Star, they might not be unable to reach a thousand miles in an instant.

As for the starry sky, there's no need to say more.

In the starry sky, the gravitational pull from celestial bodies is small, so accelerating becomes even more swift.

But there is finally a process of acceleration.

Unlike the Instant Character Secret, which instantly boosts your speed.

In terms of effect, besides the Instant Character Secret, there is also the martial art divine ability Shrink Ground to an Inch that can achieve such an effect.

However, Shrink Ground to an Inch is not a speed-type divine ability; it involves the spatial aspect.

Itself is not used to burst speed; ultimately there are some differences.

In combat usage, there are also some differences.

"Hahaha, that's good; I was afraid you'd find it just so-so. Come, Xiao Xun, let me explain the Instant Character Secret to you."

"The secret to executing the Instant Character Secret lies in these four lines of poetry."

"Intent moves the body ahead; divine travel shatters myriad voids; a thought passes over a thousand mountains; instant light sweeps the nine layers."

"When performing the Instant Character Secret, intention precedes the form; a single thought moves the mind, and the body is already at the target—this places extremely high demands on both body and will."

"When executing it, one must compress the body's true qi at key meridian points such as the soles and waist-spine, then release it instantly via a special 'Instant Meridian'; the true qi must burst forth all at once, not be continuously output, otherwise the 'zero to extreme' speed leap cannot be achieved."

Old Master Fu began to explain the key points of the Instant Character Secret to Lu Xun.

"Instant Meridian?"

Lu Xun was somewhat puzzled.

"Hmm, it's not a Martial Meridian, just a special true qi circulation route; your cultivation has reached the Fifth Realm, so operating it is no problem."

Old Master Fu said.

Lu Xun understood.

Each secret art requires a different true qi circulation route.

Within a martial cultivator's interior, besides the eight formal Martial Meridians, there are also the Twelve Primary Meridians and some minor meridians.

These meridians are not without function.

They are used when performing some secret arts.

Some secret arts are difficult to train because they have special requirements for specific meridians, necessitating the strengthening of those meridians.

They even require strengthening to a strength comparable to that of Martial Meridians.

Hmm, it's merely strength.

The Martial Meridians have many uses; they are not only for combat, but more for cultivation.

"Don't rush, I will explain them one by one."

Old Master Fu said kindly.

He is very patient, treating Lu Xun as a junior of the Fu Clan, and carefully explains the essentials to Lu Xun.

Compared to the meridian circulation, he spoke about the application of true qi and the key points of burst.

"Well, to learn this secret art, without ten days or half a month it's basically impossible."

Lu Xun's comprehension is not bad.

After a rough hearing, Lu Xun knows the difficulty of cultivating the Instant Character Secret.

The main difficulty lies in the 'Instant Meridian' true qi circulation route.

Although it is a true qi circulation route, it is called the 'Instant Meridian' because cultivating the Instant Character Secret requires continuously strengthening all meridians along this route until they form a whole.

At that point, these meridians amount to roughly half a complete Martial Meridian.

Thus, when performing the Instant Character Secret in this way, it proceeds without obstruction; even on the surface of the Spirit Star, one can achieve a thousand miles in an instant.

If in the starry sky, this speed must be multiplied by dozens or even hundreds of times, or even higher.

Specifically, it depends on how high the Instant Character Secret has been cultivated and one's own cultivation.

The higher the cultivation, the better the effect of executing the Instant Word Technique naturally.

As for the level of the Instant Word Technique itself, it is divided into entry, minor accomplishment, major accomplishment, and great accomplishment.

The division of levels depends not only on one's own comprehension, but crucially on the "Instant Meridian."

The better the Instant Meridian is tempered, the more powerful the Instant Word Technique one can execute.

"Are Ah Yue and Ah Xue only at the entry level now?"

"Yeah, the Instant Word Technique has high demands on the Instant Meridian; the Instant Meridian connects many small meridians, so tempering it takes considerable time. They're busy cultivating, so they don't have much time for this."

"Fu Yue and Fu Xue currently have only entry-level proficiency in the Instant Word Technique."

"But they're about to reach minor accomplishment, so I planned to personally teach them this time. Unfortunately, we can't contact that Saint-rank alchemist; otherwise, having a Saint-rank Mystic Meridian Tempering Spirit Pill of grade five or higher would speed up their progress."

Old Master Fu let out a sigh.

Mystic Meridian Tempering Spirit Pill?

This should be a pill specially for tempering the Instant Meridian.

Some small meridians are different from the Martial Meridian.

The Martial Meridian belongs to the regular meridians and is inherently extremely sturdy.

Small meridians are very fragile, and since they're seldom used, tempering them is quite difficult.

The Instant Word Technique emphasizes explosion, instantaneous explosion, placing excessively high demands on the meridians.

If the strength is insufficient and one forces its execution, it will damage the meridians.

"Little Xun, this is the Mystic Meridian Tempering Spirit Pill. After you take it, temper your meridians once, and after taking it for three consecutive days, you may then begin preliminary True Qi circulation."

Old Master Fu handed over a pill.

"All right, Grandfather."

Lu Xun took it and swallowed it.

But he didn't actually swallow it; he only pretended to.

This Mystic Meridian Tempering Spirit Pill, Lu Xun can study it and then refine a Saint-rank version.

As for the Instant Word Technique, Lu Xun doesn't want to cultivate it himself.

Fu Yue and Fu Xue are both about to reach minor accomplishment.

Rather than cultivating himself, Lu Xun would rather wait for Fu Yue and Fu Xue to achieve minor accomplishment in the Instant Word Technique, after which the System will return the rewards.

Although he isn't cultivating, he still needs to put on the appearance of doing so.

So after taking the pill, Lu Xun sat cross-legged and pretended to temper his meridians.

Seeing this, Old Master Fu gave Fu Yue and Fu Xue each a Mystic Meridian Tempering Spirit Pill and instructed them on cultivation.

Three days passed in a flash.

"Little Xun, now I will teach you True Qi circulation."

"All right, Grandfather."

Lu Xun continued to pretend to be a well-behaved student.

He learned whatever Fu Old Master taught.

After teaching Lu Xun for most of the day, Fu Old Master continued to guide Fu Yue and Fu Xue.

Both girls had good aptitude, and being already near minor completion, their progress was swift.

"Grandfather, I've broken through!"

A few days later, Fu Yue's Instant Word Technique broke through first, reaching the minor completion level.

【Fu Yue's Instant Word Technique breaks through minor completion, you gain seventy times Fu Yue's harvest.】

The system's return followed.

The returning heat flow surged into Lu Xun's body.

"Good partner."

Lu Xun directly called out, "Good partner."

Because, after this heat flow entered the body, it began to strengthen Lu Xun's Instant Meridian.

The Instant Meridian connects five major Martial Meridians and eight of the Twelve Primary Meridians, plus over ten minor Meridians.

That makes a total of twenty-eight.

At this moment, all twenty-eight of these big and small Meridians are undergoing rapid strengthening.

Among them, the strengthening of the Martial Meridians is the smallest, because Lu Xun's Martial Meridian strength is already abnormally high.

The heat flow mainly strengthens the over ten minor Meridians.

The human body has too many Meridians.

The Eight Extraordinary Meridians and the Twelve Primary Meridians are the most common.

Besides those, there are the Twelve Divergent Meridians, Fifteen Collateral Meridians, Twelve Meridian Muscles, Twelve Cutaneous Regions, and so on.

The function of these minor Meridians is actually not small either; many secret techniques require their use.

Under the strengthening of the returning heat flow, Lu Xun's Instant Meridian strength surges wildly.

And as the Instant Meridian's strength increases, a large amount of information floods into Lu Xun's mind.

This information includes the various execution essentials and experience of the "Instant" Word Technique, etc.

This lets Lu Xun instantly learn the Instant Word Technique.

Not only did he learn it, but after entering the door, his Instant Word Technique began to rise, quickly reaching minor completion.

This directly caught up to Fu Yue's progress.

It's still far from the end.

After catching up to Fu Yue's progress, Lu Xun's Instant Meridian inside his body continues to strengthen.

The intensity quickly reached a certain level, Lu Xun's Instant Word Secret was able to further improve, breaking through from minor accomplishment to intermediate accomplishment.

The returning heat flow remained huge.

After all, this was a seventyfold return.

Under the effect of this heat flow, Lu Xun made further progress, and his Instant Word Secret directly leapt to the great accomplishment stage.

After reaching great accomplishment, there remained plenty of the returning heat flow.

「Huh? The complete Instant Word Secret? 」

At this moment, new information appeared.

The Fu family's Instant Word Secret was actually incomplete.

Now, with the system's return, Lu Xun obtained the complete Instant Word Secret.

Its power surpassed that of the Fu family's Instant Word Secret by another level.

However, perhaps because deducing the complete Instant Word Secret consumed too much of the return heat flow, the return heat flow couldn't deduce much more and was thus exhausted.

「Unfortunately. 」

After the return ended, Lu Xun felt it was a pity.

「Will Fu Xue be about to break through? 」

Lu Xun couldn't help but look at Fu Xue.

This return, Lu Xun took more than ten hours to fully absorb it.

「Sister, your meridian strength has already reached the required level, but there's still a slight issue with the use of true qi... 」

Fu Yue was imparting her experience to Fu Xue.

Fu Xue studied very earnestly.

After studying for a few hours, her figure flickered and she disappeared from the spot.

「Done. 」

Fu Yue's face showed joy.

After her Instant Word Secret reached minor accomplishment, she could naturally discern Fu Xue's changes.

【Fu Xue's Instant Word Secret broke through minor accomplishment; you obtain seventyfold of Fu Xue's gains.】

The return came again.

After this heat flow entered Lu Xun's body, it began to continue deducing the complete Instant Word Secret, further enhancing Lu Xun's mastery of the Instant Word Secret.

「This return is invincible now! 」

Lu Xun couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

At the same time, he became curious again.

If Lu Xun completely masters the complete Instant Word Secret, and if the two girls' Instant Word Secret further improves, what will the system's return become?

It should let the Instant Word Secret undergo a transformation!