Chapter 256: Artistic Conception Level Secret Manual (Seeking Monthly Votes)

With his Qi and Blood value increased by 5.4, Lin Qi subconsciously began to calculate.

If he followed his usual cultivation speed, it would have taken at least half a month to achieve such progress.

In Third Realm skin-tempering, the further one goes, the more source energy is needed to increase the Qi and Blood value.

His progress speed would inevitably slow down, but with stronger resources, he could maintain his rapid advancement, perhaps even faster.

And the 【Skin-Shedding Potion】 gifted by Dean Xue had helped him accelerate this process.

"It truly lives up to being a potion worth 10 million per bottle."

Lin Qi sighed. Indeed, there is a reason for things being expensive. In any case, it was impossible for him to spend money to buy this kind of potion at present.

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A few minutes later, in the spacious bathroom of the gravity ball building.

"Splash splash!"

Lin Qi let the hot water wash over his body, rubbing his skin with his hands, wanting to wash away the sweat and grime.

"Hmm?"

Lin Qi felt the texture on his hands was wrong; the skin on his arm broke instantly.

The skin became loose and wrinkled. He pinched it easily and tore off a large piece of skin tissue, feeling like a snake shedding its skin in his hand.

He continued to tear, and soon he had torn off all the old skin from his entire body.

Looking at the human skin in his hand, Lin Qi felt it was very strange, just like shedding skin.

Just like the name of the Skin-Shedding Potion, it made him shed skin.

He touched the skin on his arm; after shedding the old skin, the new skin became smoother and more elastic, and also tougher.

He looked at himself in the mirror, brand new and full of majestic vitality.

After being tempered, the skin was already tougher than cowhide. Ordinary people swinging a blade at his skin might not even be able to leave a wound.

This was the effect of his current skin-tempering.

Returning to the villa in the evening, Lin Qi felt intense hunger and only stopped after eating two portions of Level Four nutritional meals.

He returned to the martial arts room and practiced his spear techniques.

"My spear technique has not only broken through to the Third Stage, but the 'Mountain-Splitting Spear Art' has also reached complete perfection."

"I have also mastered the essence of the 'Meteor Spear Art' and 'Diamond Spear Art.' Continuing to practice them won't bring much improvement."

Lin Qi swung his spear, thinking of Han Zhen, whose spear technique realm was higher than his own, and who practiced a Silver-level secret manual.

If he wanted to surpass him, he should also practice a new spear technique manual—a Silver-level manual.

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The next day, Vault of Heaven Sixth Academy, inside the martial arts room on the top floor of the Cang Whale Building.

As soon as class ended, he bid farewell to Jiang Tao and the others, each seeking their own teacher to cultivate.

Lin Qi himself took his backpack and rode the elevator to a spacious martial arts room on the top floor.

"Shoo~ Shoo~"

As soon as he entered, he saw three familiar figures practicing spear techniques: Senior Brother Li Qing, Senior Sister Wang Zhixuan, and Teacher Mu Hong, who wore black martial attire all year round and had a tall, straight posture.

"Look, isn't this our National Freshman Competition champion, Lin Qi, who defeated the Ten Academies genius?"

Li Qing, who had a scholarly temperament, teased.

"Little Junior Brother, congratulations on winning the championship. Now, classmates in our grade often ask me about your situation." Wang Zhixuan also said with a smile.

Lin Qi shook his head and said: "Exaggerated, I'm still far from it."

"Teacher, you're back?" He looked at Teacher Mu Hong.

"Lin Qi, congratulations on winning the championship!"

"I watched your final match against Han Zhen. Your progress is faster than we imagined."

"I know you need guidance."

Lin Qi nodded: "I have encountered a bottleneck now. I may need to practice a new spear technique manual to allow my spear technique realm to continue to improve." Mu Hong took a training spear from the spear case nearby.

"When I saw you break through to the Third Stage of spear technique, I knew you would need my guidance."

"This is also one of the purposes of my return."

Li Qing nearby shook his head and said: "Little Junior Brother's progress is too fast. I feel like he will surpass me before long."

"My current spear technique realm is too embarrassing to guide him."

Wang Zhixuan also nodded and said: "I am not much stronger than Little Junior Brother either, and I dare not guide him easily. It still requires Teacher to provide guidance."

Mu Hong nodded after hearing this. He held the training spear with one hand, keeping it level with his shoulder in a straight line, and said:

"Third Stage spear technique is called 'Perfect,' meaning the perfect control of every muscle in the body to exert force."

"If our intent is the commander, the general, then every muscle is a soldier."

"When the commander issues an order, all the soldiers must operate together, just like a precise instrument."

"When the intent moves, the muscles of the whole body begin to exert force, controlling the operation of the force, condensing it into the unique force release of the secret manual."

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"But how should we walk the path after breaking through the Third Stage?"

Lin Qi shook his head. He didn't know; he only knew to continue controlling the force. He had no clue about the path after Third Stage spear technique and breaking through to the Fourth Stage.

Mu Hong held the spear and began to thrust. Every movement was plain and unremarkable, but Lin Qi felt that Mu Hong had suddenly merged with the spear, inseparable, as one.

There was even a formless force circling the spear technique—not force, but a kind of natural aura.

Seeing this, he spoke slowly:

"Third Stage spear technique, you need to continue to dig into the potential of the flesh and control more muscles."

"Breaking through to Stage Three is said to be about controlling every muscle in the body; in reality, it refers to the large muscle groups, but beyond those, there are also groups of minute muscles."

"Fine muscle groups?"

"Little Junior Brother, when you were in the First Realm, you should have felt it when tempering muscles. When the Qi and Blood value reaches 9.99, tempering fine muscle groups is an extremely troublesome task." Li Qing nearby said.

Lin Qi nodded. So that was it.

Mu Hong continued:

"We need to let our will thoroughly merge into the body and control all the fine muscle groups."

"In this process, the control over force also needs to become more precise and delicate."

"Being able to control all force does not mean your control ability is very precise."

"In the process of force control and release, more exquisite changes will appear, reflected in the precise control of every thread of force."

Lin Qi seemed to have realized something. In his battle with Han Zhen, he felt that the opponent's control over force was more exquisite.

Instead of being as rough as his own, releasing it all at once.

Mu Hong swung the spear, and the aura on his body became increasingly rich:

"Lin Qi, as your spear technique improves and your control over muscles and force deepens, you will gradually achieve deep integration with the spear technique."

"Let there be you in the spear, and the spear in you, reaching a state of being one, a true state of man and spear as one."

"When you merge, the connection between you and the spear technique becomes stronger, and the will's perception of the natural things of the world will also be greatly improved, and you can comprehend a unique artistic conception."

"That is when you break through to the Fourth Stage of spear technique, the time of artistic conception."

Mu Hong retracted the spear, and the aura on his body slowly dissipated.

"Artistic conception……"

Lin Qi exhaled and said:

"Teacher, was the aura on your body just now artistic conception?"

Mu Hong nodded: "Artistic conception is formless and qualityless, but it can be clearly perceived by us martial artists. It is a transcendent power. It can be anything, such as the natural world, Disaster Beasts……"

"This is the path you are going to take next: improve the mastery of spear technique, resonate with the spear technique, and comprehend your unique artistic conception!"

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