A massive flood of insights surged into Zhang Wan's mind. It took him some time to fully digest and absorb them.
Afterward, Zhang Wan cast the Vitality Catalysis Technique. He could use it, but it was extremely awkward, and it had little effect when cast.
Zhang Wan had no intention of slowly investing experience points to master it completely, as he had with Bone Piercing Finger.
He directly invested another eleven experience points into the Vitality Catalysis Technique, bringing its proficiency to the maximum.
After investing a total of one hundred experience points, he completely mastered the incomplete version of the Vitality Catalysis Technique.
In the courtyard, Zhang Wan cast the Vitality Catalysis Technique again. This time, its use was incomparably smooth. A green radiance blossomed from his palm as he tried to use it to stimulate the vitality of the weeds on the ground.
After the green radiance shone over them, Zhang Wan felt that the weeds' vitality had become considerably more vigorous, but no other changes appeared.
"Just as I thought, the Vitality Catalysis Technique needs to be used together with the Extreme Growth Technique to display its greatest effect."
Simply stimulating vitality could not significantly accelerate a plant's growth.
Thinking this, Zhang Wan did not hold back. He directly invested a total of ninety-three experience points into the Extreme Growth Technique, maxing out both its insights and proficiency.
When it was time to save experience points, and when he needed to use them sparingly, Zhang Wan would slowly accumulate them.
When it was time to use a large number of experience points, Zhang Wan would not be stingy either.
After zoning out once more, Zhang Wan rubbed his brow.
Continuously digesting and absorbing all the insights from two techniques left him feeling dizzy and heavy-headed.
But it only lasted for a while. After resting briefly, he recovered.
Zhang Wan then used the Extreme Growth Technique on the weeds that had been treated with the Vitality Catalysis Technique.
A white radiance lit up in his palm.
In the blink of an eye, the weeds on the ground began growing wildly.
The weeds, which had originally only just poked their heads above the ground, immediately grew to half a meter tall!
Zhang Wan's eyes lit up. This Extreme Spirit Planter really had something going for it!
Although pseudo-spirit plants and spirit plants were far more difficult to grow than weeds, if weeds could grow so quickly, then with pseudo-spirit plants and spirit plants, the cultivation period probably would not be too long either.
Moreover, although he had completely mastered these two incomplete techniques, due to his cultivation and magical power, he had not been able to unleash their full power.
Once his cultivation improved, the might of these two techniques would rise as well.
After testing the might of the two techniques, Zhang Wan struck the weeds before him with one palm.
The force burst out through his body, and the patch of weeds was directly shattered by the surging power.
He fetched a broom and dustpan and swept away the remains, completely erasing every trace of the two techniques.
"The Extreme Spirit Planter is indeed formidable, but I'll still need to conceal the power of these two techniques in front of outsiders. After all, I only obtained the inheritance a few days ago. If I've already cultivated two crucial techniques to perfection, anyone could tell there's something wrong."
Zhang Wan did not feel depressed. After all, he had chosen to develop quietly, so matters like this were something he would often encounter.
Of course, this could not be considered a major problem.
If he had to hide his true cultivation abilities in public, he could simply use them in secret.
As for his second younger sister Zhang Lingshu and his third younger brother Zhang Yan, they were already exhausted and had gone inside to rest.
Zhang Wan was not careless enough to experiment with these two techniques in front of his younger sister and younger brother.
After dealing with the weeds and their remains, Zhang Wan opened the panel. He still had 8,610 available experience points—many, but if he squandered them by directly perfecting two techniques, he could quickly use them all up.
He had already used 193 experience points that night, so he did not plan to spend any more on improving his cultivation or martial techniques.
Just then, Zhang Wan discovered that a "+" symbol had appeared after both incomplete techniques that had reached perfection.
"What's this?" Zhang Wan felt puzzled. With a movement of his consciousness, he clicked the plus sign.
A line of explanation appeared: "Experience points can be used to deduce subsequent martial arts manuals."
Experience points could be used to deduce subsequent martial arts manuals? A new system function? A new use for experience points? Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Wan's mind.
He was surprised, but not overly so.
The system was mysterious to begin with. It was not strange for it to have gained another function now.
However, Zhang Wan felt that this probably was not a new function the system had suddenly acquired. Perhaps experience points had always been usable for deduction, but since he had never cultivated any martial art or technique in his possession to perfection, this function had not been triggered.
At the same time, Zhang Wan remembered that when the ordinary martial technique Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist had reached perfection earlier, no option to continue deducing it had appeared.
Could this also be related to my own thoughts? Zhang Wan muttered inwardly.
He guessed that the reason this function had been activated might be that both incomplete techniques had reached perfection, while he himself also wanted to obtain the subsequent martial arts manuals. The effects of both factors together had caused this hidden ability to appear.
Thinking this, Zhang Wan's mind stirred, and the hidden ordinary martial technique Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist reappeared on the panel.
As the thought of deducing the subsequent martial arts manuals for Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist actively rose within Zhang Wan's heart, a "+" symbol indeed appeared after Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist on the panel.
"As expected, it has something to do with my own thoughts." After confirming his guess, Zhang Wan hid Ox Demon Body Tempering Fist again.
This ordinary martial technique now only served to verify his guess. There was no need to deduce and improve it further.
It was not as though he lacked a cultivation technique for the Houtian Realm. There was no need to spend experience points improving an ordinary martial art.
Looking at the "+" symbols after the two incomplete techniques, Zhang Wan's heart stirred. He wanted to see how many experience points it would take to deduce the two techniques.
He clicked to open them, and the result made the corner of Zhang Wan's eye twitch.
Deducing the complete Houtian Realm version of the Vitality Catalysis Technique required six hundred experience points, while deducing the complete Houtian Realm version of the Extreme Growth Technique required five hundred and eighty experience points.
The cost was frighteningly high.
"The experience points required to deduce martial arts manuals are far too many!" Zhang Wan felt his teeth ache. Over the years, to prevent people from paying too much attention to him and discovering all the oddities about him, he had deliberately hoarded his experience points and used them cautiously.
Even now, he had only accumulated a little over eight thousand experience points.
He had originally thought that this was quite a lot.
After all, perfecting the First Level Postnatal only required 120 experience points, and he estimated that raising the entire Ninth Level Postnatal to its peak would probably require only a little over a thousand experience points.
Yet deducing two complete Houtian techniques required over a thousand experience points?
That was almost comparable to the number of experience points needed to raise his cultivation to the peak of the Ninth Level Postnatal!
Of course, Zhang Wan could understand why so many experience points were needed.
Although comprehending and cultivating existing martial arts manuals was difficult, it could not compare to the difficulty of creating martial arts manuals.
Deducing complete versions from two incomplete techniques was only slightly easier than creating martial arts manuals. It was perfectly normal for it to require so many experience points.
Understanding that was one thing, but after seeing the required experience points, Zhang Wan decisively abandoned the idea of deducing the two techniques.
The cost was simply too high. It was not worth it.
Moreover, the sect was not without the subsequent inheritance of an Extreme Spirit Planter.
There was no need for him to spend experience points deducing it himself. He could simply find a way to obtain the subsequent inheritance from the sect later.
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