Sonic Power Skill

After half a year of secluded cultivation,

Wang Ming finally reached the eighth level of the Innate Skill, before his progress began to stagnate.

He understood that reaching the ninth level could not be achieved overnight, so he temporarily put aside breaking through the eighth level of the Innate Skill.

Even with only the eighth level of the Innate Skill, his current strength was enough to defeat Hong Qigong the first time they met, but Hong Qi had obtained the Nine Yin Manual, so his martial arts had undoubtedly progressed. If they fought again, the outcome would be hard to predict.

The remaining half-year of seclusion was spent studying offensive techniques.

Wang Ming had always liked sonic power skills, but their situation was rather awkward.

That was, clearing out fodder troops made it like mowing grass, but fighting peers was equivalent to tickling them with a scraper.

Therefore, he had never focused much on researching them. This time, taking advantage of the available time, he took out his sonic power skills to study them.

The Seven String Formless Sword was acquired from Huang Zhonggong in the Swordsman world. In combat, superior internal energy was infused into the zither music to disrupt the enemy's mind. The opponent's internal energy would resonate with the zither music, and they would unwittingly be controlled by it. When the zither music was soothing, the opponent's strikes would also become soothing; when the zither music was rapid, the opponent's strikes would also become rapid. Yet the moves on the zither were the exact opposite of the zither music. He executed his moves rapidly while the zither music became doubly leisurely, and the opponent was bound to be unable to block them.

The Seven String Formless Sword was merely zither music; the sound itself naturally could not harm the enemy. Its entire effect lay in stimulating the opponent's internal energy and disrupting their moves. The stronger the opponent's internal energy, the more intense the reaction to the zither music would be.

Lighter cases caused the victim's internal energy to riot, leading to reversed qi flow and interrupted attacks, while severe cases directly led to a deviation in cultivation, shattered dantian, and reduced them to cripples.

However, the weakness was also obvious: it was ineffective against those without internal martial arts. If a body-cultivation expert suddenly showed up, wouldn't he lose completely?

That weakness was too fatal.

The Blue Sea Tide Song was traded with Huang Laoxie, and it could be considered the only upright martial art in this world that could be openly used.

On the surface, it sounded like the mimicking of ocean waves, but it actually concealed a highly fatal martial art. The emotional tone was erratic, lingering and winding. If listened to without defense, it was difficult to restrain oneself, causing the listener to dance wildly, scratch their head and face frantically, and even feel vexed and stirred with romantic thoughts.

Yet it still had its weaknesses. As long as one's internal energy and mental fortitude were strong, they could immunize themselves against this sonic power skill. The core of this sonic power skill was illusion, which provoked human passions.

What was most crucial was that the sound waves themselves caused no damage, using illusions to attack people.

If he encountered eminent monks or Taoist priests whose faith in themselves was extremely firm, this martial art would also just tickle them.

As long as one's internal energy was higher than the performer's, they could also be immune to it, treating the performer as a street busker.

When the Seven String Formless Sword and the Blue Sea Tide Song were combined, they complemented each other's shortcomings. They could target those with internal energy and those without, and having strong mental fortitude was useless. Could you withstand a Husky in your dantian tearing up the house? Plus a group of beauties dancing in your mind?

Yet even so, there was still a huge problem.

That was, the sound waves themselves caused no damage. As long as the opponent's internal energy was stronger than yours, you couldn't even break a single hair of theirs.

Wang Ming thought of the Nine Yin Manual that he had discarded early on.

Without the general outline, he could not practice its internal energy, but there were still various offensive methods inside it.

Among them was a martial art: the Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar.

This skill belonged to the sonic power skills, injuring people with sound and claiming souls with sound, and it could also use sound to project gang qi. Its power was peerless, and its sound was like ghosts howling in hell, with yin winds blowing in gusts, making opponents retreat without attacking and shiver with cold.

This gang qi was different from ordinary internal martial arts true qi.

This gang qi was not simple. Gang qi was a Taoist term, also referring to the vigorous and unyielding qi, which was the qi of genesis and transformation that inherently existed between heaven and earth.

It was rumored that it could keep all evils at bay and promote longevity.

General true qi and primordial true qi were formed by the combination of inner qi within the human body—inherited from the innate qi of one's parents and the fine essence of food and drink—after absorbing the acquired qi of nature.

To put it bluntly, this gang qi was the Qi of Heaven and Earth and natural energy.

After carefully recalling this martial art, he no longer hesitated and immediately began practicing.

Unfortunately, Wang Ming lacked the Innate True Qi and could not successfully cultivate it. This Innate True Qi was not the true qi of the Innate Skill, but the true qi after breaking through the Innate Realm.

Helpless, he could only temporarily put aside the cultivation of this martial art. He was currently only at the late stage of the Postnatal Realm, and it would still take some time to break through.

However, it led Wang Ming to research a combination skill involving the Seven String Formless Sword, the Blue Sea Tide Song, and the Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar.

This was actually not difficult. These three martial arts had many similarities. The methods of adding internal energy to the sound waves were basically the same, except for their respective execution techniques: one stirred the true qi inside the human body, one produced illusions, and one could act directly on objects like ultrasound.

Therefore, Wang Ming did not necessarily need to use a zither to unleash the Seven String Formless Sword, and he could likewise use the other two martial arts without a xiao flute or roaring.

Of course, the effects would also be discounted.

Disrupting internal energy required constantly varying the tempo between fast and slow; illusions had to be played according to the score of the Blue Sea Tide Song; and without making ghost-like noises in his mouth, it would also lack deterrent force.

Fortunately, it was comprehensive.

Ultimately, Wang Ming chose to use a guqin as his weapon, though using a xiao flute would have been better, as it was easier to carry and could also double as a sword.

Unfortunately, the xiao flute had been ruined by modern people.

When using it, one's thoughts tended to drift, and then one would feel disgusted inside.

Wang Ming still quite liked this sonic power skill.

However, unlike in movies and television dramas, this martial art could not distinguish between enemies and allies.

It was indiscriminate damage and required caution, otherwise it was easy to act as a pig teammate and provoke public outrage.

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