Chapter 159

In a dojo surrounded by white mist all year round, a place no yokai could ever discover...

To say that he had completely stolen the Spirit Light Wave Fist from Genkai in just that short moment would be too much of an exaggeration; that kind of "Water Shadow Heart" was no longer a Super Beidou secret technique, but a Super Beidou immortal art.

Although it was practically the same. jpg

However, when Jia Ji was circulating the "Water Shadow Heart" just now, he wasn't focusing on the patterns of the moves Genkai used; after all, their cultivation systems were different, and even if he copied them, he couldn't use them with Dou Qi.

He was mainly trying to feel how "spiritual power" was actually produced, and what its essence and source were.

——A special power that is both related to the essence of life and bound to the strength of the soul.

It might not have been very clear just by observing with the naked eye, but after making physical contact and being struck by spiritual power, he could feel it much more clearly.

Such a trait... it's similar, very similar, good, very good.

An inexplicable impulse and spark, as if a new bud were sprouting, suddenly appeared in his heart.

Jia Ji's pupils suddenly contracted uncontrollably into pinpoints, and a tremor lurking deep in his spinal cord crawled up his vertebrae; the palm that had been struck by the Spirit Gun was trembling slightly.

He took a look, and in those palm lines that had been soaked in Dou Qi for years, little specks of green light were now seeping out.

As a successor of the Super Beidou Divine Fist, he was all too familiar with the signs of power boiling over.

The eruption of Dou Qi should be like bursting magma, gushing out from every cell, but what was surging uncontrollably in his body right now was clearly something he had never possessed before...

"Can it actually be compatible?"

Jia Ji became excited.

Oh oh, the ignoring of Imperial Arms, the discrimination of Noble Phantasms, the lack of Existence Power... he shed hot tears.

Let me see what form my, Jia Ji's, spiritual power takes!

Then... from the ten fingers Jia Ji extended, three inches of green radiance hung from each fingertip, condensing into pale green threads of light as thin as spider silk. As everyone present held their breath and stared at those threads, there was an inexplicable beauty to them, like stardust falling into the human world.

"Nothing to it, nothing to it!"

Botan looked at the fine, web-like threads of spiritual power on Jia Ji's hands and let out a strange exclamation of surprise, because she knew that this guy had absolutely no knowledge of any techniques related to spiritual power before this. Could it be that he had mastered all the mysteries of it right in the middle of their clash?

"Deng deng deng deng~"

In the blink of an eye, the web-like spiritual power threads had been pulled into the shape of a pentagram between his overly flexible fingers.

Then, as if possessed by a contestant who only shows their true prowess in a theatrical version, amidst a dazzling display, the initial ten threads of spiritual power divided into seven hundred and twenty, flying up and down at a speed that surpassed human limits... eventually turning into a miniature phoenix.

The intensity of the spiritual power wasn't high, as it had only just awakened; if calculated numerically, it was perhaps only around two hundred, but...

The cat's cradle skill, which was fully capable of applying for the position of ringmaster at the Puppet Circus or challenging some puppeteer in the Human Village, left the three spectators present with expressions of shock.

"How did you do it, to make spiritual power take this form... and this terrifying control?"

As a master in the field of spiritual abilities, Genkai naturally knew that everyone's spiritual power traits were different. Her spiritual power belonged to the type that could be highly condensed, which was also one of the keys to practicing the Spirit Light Wave Fist. Some people's spiritual power manifested as a spirit sword, others as ripples, and others...

But she had never seen this form of spiritual power.

The form of spiritual power is always a reflection of the soul. Could it be that beneath Jia Ji's rough exterior, there was actually such a delicate mind?

"Eww, such flexible fingers!" Botan's focus was rather peculiar; not knowing what she was thinking, she actually blushed despite being a spirit body.

"Hey, don't corrupt the others!"

Frowning, Jia Ji hurriedly shielded Yukina behind him, keeping her away from this female hooligan from the Spirit Realm.

However, when it comes to which part of his body is the most flexible, his golden right hand is not famous for nothing. He can poke whichever secret point he wants to poke, and there will absolutely never be a deviation of more than one millimeter.

After all, this is the tool of the trade for a Super Beidou successor. In the history of Super Beidou, there was once a test for juniors that required them to use their fingers to poke and explode a Taihu stone covered in honeycomb holes... If the end of the world is prevented in the future, he would have great prospects opening a massage parlor.

As for Genkai's doubt, he decided to answer the question with a question.

"What if... I had never used spiritual power before this, and this was the first time it was triggered?"

Jia Ji revealed a smug expression; it was obvious that this time, he really was a one-in-a-million martial arts genius.

"......"

Genkai fell silent. After hesitating for a long while, she finally felt a desire to cherish his talent:

"I hope to teach you some things."

Jia Ji nodded repeatedly, his eyes lighting up; he had been waiting for this sentence!

This was Genkai offering to teach him voluntarily, so it had nothing to do with him.

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Aside from special secret techniques that require specific spiritual power forms, some basic skills are common.

The Spirit Light Wave Fist has five modes: "Attack," "Defense," "Immortal," "Healing," and "Cultivation," each with its own unique abilities and effects.

The foundation among them, and the one most commonly used, is the "Attack" mode.

The "Attack" mode strengthens the body, needless to say, allowing Genkai, as a mere human, to go head-to-head with numerous yokai whose physical qualities far exceed hers without falling behind, and it is also of great use in auxiliary combat.

For example, the signature move—the Spirit Gun—is a technique where spiritual energy is gathered at the fingertip to form an energy ball and fired in one go. It has the characteristic that its power intensity is determined by the amount of spiritual energy gathered by the releaser. Although it is powerful, it consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

But through the Spirit Light Wave, one can effectively condense spiritual power to reduce the loss during the process of forming the Spirit Gun, significantly increasing its penetrating power and strength.

To exert ten times or a hundred times the power from a single unit of force... isn't this that thing after opening the fourth stage of the gene lock?!

It made Jia Ji, who had always relied on brute force and recklessly squandered his Dou Qi to crush his opponents, feel deeply moved.

Then there is the "Defense" mode. Although Dou Qi can also be used for defense, that purely belongs to hard resistance, equivalent to adding a defense value and using it as a shield, whereas defense with spiritual power is damage reduction.

At the very moment of being attacked, the Spirit Light, perfectly fused with the physical body, firmly fixes every part of the body within the "field" of spiritual power, and conducts the energy of all attacks to the whole body, turning attacks like "piercing" or "slashing" into "strikes" spread across the entire body.

At the same time, it can also be used in reverse; when facing wide-area kill moves, one can conduct the attacks covering the whole body and concentrate them on non-vital parts of the body, maximizing the reduction of injuries by sacrificing the pawns to save the king.

If one actively consumes spiritual power, one can counteract the damage of attacks; this technique can simply be called 【Unity of All】.

In addition, the "Immortal," "Healing," and "Cultivation" modes each have their own mysteries and can form an effective complement to Dou Qi.

"Come!"

In order to achieve a breakthrough.

The long-lost physical education student's sedimentation has begun.

Please see the next episode: Ultimate Sedimentation!!

(End of chapter)