"Your second grand-uncle is usually very busy. He has a lot of things to research, and now that those older cousins of yours are back, he has to give them some guidance," Chen Yu said with a smile.
"Now I will introduce our Chen family's cultivation methods. They are called 'One Foundation, Three Pillars, Five Elements.'
The One Foundation is the root: the martial soul, the Seven Kill Sword. Your second grand-uncle described the Seven Kill Sword's characteristics just now.
The Three Pillars are soul power, physique, and Mental Power. In a soul master's cultivation, the three have always complemented one another. With a powerful physique and resilient Mental Power, cultivating soul power will also yield twice the result with half the effort.
That is why we had you soak in Medicinal Baths, eat medicinal meals, and start physical body training from a young age—all for the sake of your physique.
Moreover, the average Innate Soul Power of our Chen family is relatively high, and this is also related to that.
There is also another piece of supporting evidence: in the early stages, Beast Martial Soul soul masters cultivate faster than other soul masters as well, because the martial soul of a Beast Martial Soul soul master influences the growth of the physical body, making it easier to absorb the essence of soul rings and raising the physique more. Support Type Soul Masters are the slowest, and improving their soul power is more difficult, which is related to physique and martial soul.
At the same time, a powerful physique can also withstand soul rings of higher age. When releasing soul skills, speed and reaction are faster, one can endure more rapid and violent soul power, and the power displayed by the soul skill becomes stronger, with a higher upper limit.
The same principle applies to the spirit. Mental strength, tolerance, and cohesion all have different effects.
A soul master's so-called three great thresholds are closely linked to soul power, the physical body and physique, and Mental Power, are they not?
When soul power, physique, and spirit advance side by side, any soul master's future will not be poor. It can raise both the lower limit and upper limit of a soul master.
The Five Elements are heart, body, eyes, intent, and skill. They emphasize the unity of all five, precisely embodying the previous Three Pillars advancing together and combining with one another.
First, heart, which is the meditation method on the continent. There are all kinds of meditation methods across the continent, using Mental Power to guide meditation, circulate through the meridians, and absorb soul power.
Our family's Upright Sword Qi Technique, however, is a deep combination of a meditation method and a Breathing Technique. Divine breath depends on one another, guarding its natural state. This kind of top-tier meditation method is what we call a heart method.
Although the cultivation speed of our soul power is slightly slower than other top-tier meditation methods on the continent, it can drive the physical body and physique, as well as Mental Power, to grow together. In addition, the soul power also appears gentle, continuous, and incomparably profound.
This was tailor-made for our Chen Family Seven Kill Sword. When cultivated to a profound stage, one can guide the soul ring into embedding itself within the Seven Kill Sword—that is, the Ring Embedding Technique.
That is why members of our Chen family generally only break through to Level 90 and become Titled Douluo when they are over sixty or seventy. However, we have fewer bottlenecks, which is more beneficial for exerting strength in the later stages and contributes greatly to becoming a Super Douluo. This is our Chen family's fundamental great method, one of our two major foundations.
Second, body: Sword Shadow Body. After it is activated, a sword-type phantom appears behind you, adjusting your body's flexibility and force to an optimal state, reaching a state of blending with nature and increasing the compatibility between your body, soul power, spirit, and sword. This state is movement technique.
Together with the Upright Sword Qi Technique, it complements both combat and cultivation. This is a secret technique unique to our Chen family.
Its highest realm is called My Body as the Sword.
It has two attached skills. One is the sword steps, with eight forms in total, also called the 'Eight Sword Steps.' You have practiced the first three forms—'Starfall Thunder Strike,' 'Square Inch Lotus Sway,' and 'Swift Body Flying Duck'—quite well. Now that you can use them with soul power, their effects will multiply, enough for you to use until Soul Ancestor.
The later forms possess tremendous power and require a large amount of soul power to use. It would be better to learn them when you become a Soul King.
Unparalleled Sword Finger guides soul power through special meridians and sends it out from between the index and middle fingers of the right hand. It is swift and sharp, striking the enemy unprepared with a grand and forceful momentum. Because it starts from the Lower Soul Nest and is too powerful and violent, to avoid injuring the meridians, it can generally only be taught at the Soul Elder stage.
Once you train the Sword Palm Capturing Hand well, you will be able to use Unparalleled Sword Finger freely.
These two secret techniques are actually applications of soul power in the hands and legs. You can understand them as Self-Created Soul Skills unique to the Chen family.
There is also an advanced application, the Chanting Method. Using soul incantations as a template, our ancestors developed poems as incantations, allowing Sword Shadow Body to rapidly enter a special state of resonance with various soul skills, bringing out greater power and speed from those soul skills.
The poems of the Chanting Method are not fixed. They are a means of entering a certain state. It varies from person to person and does not require any specific line of poetry. It is just that when everyone uses a certain ultimate move, most of them use a commonly paired verse.
Third, eyes: Sword Eyes. Not only does it grant excellent vision and extremely long sight, which benefits Sword Control Technique—to put it bluntly, if your eyesight is bad, what Sword Control Technique are you even learning? When trained to a profound level, both eyes shine like brilliant stars, hence it is also called Starry Sword Eyes. It can even break through falsehoods and has wondrous effects when using Mental Soul Skills and illusions.
Starry Sword Eyes can spend several years nurturing and forming a sword of spirit called the Bright Star Primordial Spirit Sword. When the sword strikes, the soul of the one hit dissolves. It is incomparably ruthless.
Fourth, intent, which is one of our Chen family's two great foundations: Seven Kill Qi Concealment Technique.
It originated from our Chen family's original Seven Kill Meditation Method, using the Seven Kill Sword instead of the soul master to carry killing intent. Compared with the original meditation method, it strengthens control and the function of tempering Mental Power, turning killing intent for one's own use without harming oneself. Paired with the Upright Sword Qi Technique, it tempers the temperament and makes one less prone to losing control. At most, one's qi will go astray, but one will not fall into demonic madness.
As a soul master's cultivation grows, becoming entangled with killing intent year after year helps one comprehend will—that is, sword intent.
The Slaughter Word Art was originally the profound technique of the Seven Kill Meditation Method. Through improvement, it was integrated into the Seven Kill Qi Concealment Technique, multiplying its power. Once it erupts, it is astonishing.
Fifth, skill, referring to swordsmanship and Sword Control Technique, our Chen family's signature attack skills.
Apart from the profound technique Sword and Man as One, there are seven ultimate forms in total. They are scattered attack moves comprehended and created by different ancestors throughout the generations. In the end, the transformations of moves amount to either turning complexity into complexity or simplifying them: three complex, four simple.
There is no necessary connection between them. Comprehension depends on a person's opportunity. Their power is no less than soul skills of the same rank, yet they consume even less soul power. Their power increases with the soul master's Soul Power Level, and all of them can reach the level of a Titled Douluo's Ninth Soul Skill.
The ancestors developed these ultimate techniques not only to sort through their own careers as soul masters, but also to make up for the lack of Soul Bone Skills. After all, soul bones are held by only a minority. As a soul master's level and cultivation grow, their power can even surpass Soul Bone Skills, since the power of Soul Bone Skills is relatively fixed.
The profound meanings of the five—ring embedding, My Body as the Sword, Bright Star Primordial Spirit Sword, Slaughter Word Art, and Sword and Man as One—are closely linked, each ring interlocking with the next.
Using Sword and Man as One as the basis, for every one of the other four that is overlaid and fused with it, the power doubles. When all five unite as one into a seamless whole, it becomes our Chen family's legendary highest profound technique: the divine skill Sword God Descent, which only a Peerless Douluo can use.
Combined with a domain, our ancestors Chen Xili and Chen Feiyi used this move to kill Peerless Douluo of the same level, earning the title of living Sword Gods. This is also the source of the renown that our Chen family's martial soul is hailed as the Number One Under Heaven offensive martial soul."
(PS: In Chen Xin's anime setting, his strongest move is My Body as the Sword, Sword and Man as One. Here, the author separates My Body as the Sword and Sword and Man as One. My Body as the Sword is the highest movement technique, while Sword and Man as One is the highest sword technique. Therefore, in the author's setting, My Body as the Sword, Sword and Man as One has twice the power of Sword and Man as One. After all, at that time, Chen Xin had only broken through to Level 97 for a few years and was not the ceiling of the Chen family's combat strength.
In this book, the Chen family is to serve as the force to which the protagonist belongs: a hidden family. The Chen family cultivation system has been established, and as something equally famous as the Clear Sky Hammer, it must have its own methods and battle achievements capable of contending with it.)
"As expected, in Douluo I, Chen Xin was still far from reaching the peak of the Chen family's combat strength. His father and grandfather, Chen Jianjun and Chen Xun, were both Level 98 Supreme Douluo, with deeper cultivation, not to mention Sword God Descent, which represents the highest combat strength of a Peerless Douluo." Chen Xiaojun pondered, his heart filled with yearning. (PS: Chen Xun is defined here as Level 98.)
Chen Xiaojun tapped the chair with his fingers and thought to himself, Chen Xin's combat strength is about the same as Tang Xiao's. In my opinion, Tang Hao is a Clear Sky Hammer soul master who follows the path of strength, which is why Titan, an extreme Strength System soul master, is his worshiper and personal follower. Meanwhile, Tang Xiao, who is meticulous, patient, and able to endure, is skilled in Clear Sky techniques to the point of perfection. He is a balanced soul master who values both technique and strength, perhaps even leaning more toward technique.
If Chen Xin and Tang Xiao were compared with Tang Hao, then in a sparring match, Chen Xin and Tang Xiao would win. But if it were a Life-Risking Arts battle, they would die, though Tang Hao would also be crippled.
The Soul Master World uses soul power to drive the cultivation of the physical body and Mental Power, and the Chen family's cultivation system is even more so. It emphasizes uprightness and harmony, using a balanced heart to command the slaughtering sword. It is similar to the Daoists of my previous life and different from Buddhism and Confucianism. This cultivation method may also suit my concepts and understanding better.
Although that cheater Tang San came from the Tang Sect, which was both righteous and evil, it also had Daoist origins. Ancient people were very particular when naming things. The two words 'Mysterious Heaven' either meant profound and high-level, or the heaven of the north. Since ancient times, this term's usage has been related to Daoism, and it more specifically refers to that Great Emperor of the north. Here, the latter is more likely, because the characteristics of its martial arts are Daoist in nature.
It is understandable that the Tang Sect's ultimate art, the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, could produce tremendous effects in this world—especially the Mysterious Heaven Skill. Though it is quiet and unassuming, it is the foundation and heritage, playing the role of strengthening the source and solidifying the base. Its characteristic is Endless Growth, vast and boundless, and at its highest realm, it can manifest the phenomenon of Three Flowers Gather on the Crown.
As for your Recommendation Tickets and collections, I rubbed my hands together in anticipation. Hehehe.
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