Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method

Tong Yuan looked at Ding Ling, his manner very amiable:

"If you didn't understand it, I'll explain it and demonstrate it once more."

Zhao Xiaoyu and Zhao Bingxuan instinctively nodded.

They truly had not understood it.

Let alone memorized it, comprehended it, or learned it!

Seeing this, Ding Ling asked Tong Yuan to demonstrate it again.

Tong Yuan's spear technique possessed an exceptional beauty.

He had already elevated martial arts to a level that could be called art!

It would not hurt to admire it one more time.

Besides.

It was truly difficult for Ding Ling to say that once was enough. After all, learning the Spirit Snake, Spirit Crane, and Spirit Phoenix Spear Techniques yesterday had already dealt Tong Yuan a heavy blow and deeply shocked him.

If this extremely difficult Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear could also be learned at a glance, mastered shortly afterward, and become instinctive upon reaching Perfection Realm—

What would Tong Yuan think then?

Even knowing that Ding Ling possessed extraordinary comprehension, Tong Yuan still believed that Ding Ling would most likely need around a month to learn the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique.

That alone showed how highly he regarded and affirmed this spear technique.

If Ding Ling learned it after Tong Yuan demonstrated it twice, Tong Yuan would surely feel better about it.

As for deliberately dragging things out for a month?

Ding Ling had never considered it. There was no need, and he still had a long way to go on the Path of the War God. He did not want to waste too much time.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Tong Yuan demonstrated it again, still wielding a piece of rotten wood.

After a while, he finished the demonstration.

He looked at Ding Ling.

Ding Ling closed his eyes slightly. The mnemonic verses entered his Sea of Consciousness, and the moves flashed through his mind.

A book quickly condensed onto a shelf in the Library:

"Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique!"

In an instant.

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Crack!

Rumble!

His bones rang out!

His internal organs trembled and hummed!

Ding Ling's body began changing again. Amid sounds like rolling thunder, he grew a little taller, while his frame became even more broad and muscular.

"This change?!"

Tong Yuan stood dumbstruck.

"No way?!"

Zhao Yun found it impossible to believe.

"Perhaps Brother Ding had accumulated enough foundation for such a transformation?"

Zhao Xiaoyu guessed.

"General."

The admiration in Zhao Bingxuan's eyes nearly spilled out of their sockets.

Boom!

Ding Ling abruptly clenched the spear in his hand. The spear moved with his body, and at that moment, he seemed to transform into a whirlwind between heaven and earth. Wherever he passed, spear force surged forth, puncturing brilliant flowers of spear light!

Like Wind Sweeping Away Remnant Clouds, nothing within ten meters around him remained intact; all of it was pierced through by the spear gleam!

Thirteen flowers of spear light bloomed in a single instant!

Each one blossomed in midair before finally gathering into a Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Picture!

This was clearly the signature image that only appeared when the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique reached major accomplishment!

"...!!"

Although he had expected it before.

When he truly witnessed this scene, Tong Yuan was still greatly shaken. Even his lips began to tremble, and for a moment, he did not know what to say!

"Th-this is real?!"

Zhao Yun's jaw seemed ready to hit the ground:

"I spent more than ten years learning this Spear Art before I nearly reached Perfection Realm. Yet I still had some way to go before it could become natural and instinctive. But look at Brother Ding now! He seems to have already reached the Transformation Realm before me!!"

"Unbelievable!!"

Zhao Xiaoyu's scalp went numb with shock:

"Although I had long known about Brother Ding's talent, only at this moment did I truly understand just how terrifying and extraordinary he was!"

There was a vast difference between running a hundred meters in an instant and running ten thousand meters in an instant!

But Ding Ling?

In their eyes, he was precisely that kind of person.

He learned the Spirit Crane Spear Technique and the others in half the time it took to burn an incense stick.

He learned the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear Technique in roughly the same amount of time!

Moreover, Tong Yuan and Zhao Yun strongly suspected that Ding Ling had only asked for another explanation to spare their feelings.

Otherwise.

He might have learned it after just one demonstration.

Thinking of this.

Tong Yuan was shocked, comforted, satisfied, and yet unable to stop himself from sighing in shame.

He was shocked by Ding Ling's terrifying talent.

He was comforted that this world would finally produce a true heaven-defying powerhouse.

He was satisfied that he could actually exchange insights on the Martial Dao with such a peerless genius!

His sighs and shame came from the fact that all he had learned in his life could not compare to the other man's half-incense-stick worth of comprehension and practice!

"Too monstrous—too absurd!"

Even Tong Yuan, a reclusive Spear God, could not help clicking his tongue and sighing:

"It is only because I am old now. If I had encountered a genius like you when I was young, I would definitely have been so crushed that I'd question my entire life."

Ding Ling found it difficult to say much, so he merely remained silent.

"Steady, proper, neither arrogant nor impetuous. Your future is limitless."

Tong Yuan lavishly praised Ding Ling:

"I originally thought that no matter how talented you were, you could not possibly learn it within a month. Yet you, you..."

He shook his head, clearly left speechless:

"Fine."

He sighed:

"I had originally intended to save the Breathing Method as my final trump card. But since you are so extraordinary, I'll teach you the Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method today as well!"

Ding Ling saluted him and offered his thanks.

Tong Yuan waved his hand:

"The moment you learned the Spirit Snake Spear Technique, you already qualified to learn the Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method. I simply never expected you to be this formidable."

He paused before saying:

"Listen carefully."

He began explaining and demonstrating the essence, mysteries, and methods of the Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method.

He still did not avoid Zhao Xiaoyu and Zhao Bingxuan.

Clearly, he did not believe they could learn it.

Although the Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method appeared to be a Breathing Method.

It was actually a method of using inner force to temper the skin, flesh, tendons, and bones!

It also required the use of ancient methods to brew medicinal ingredients. One would make the brewed ingredients into medicinal paste for bathing, then use the Breathing Method to absorb the paste's nutrients into one's skin, flesh, tendons, and bones.

In this way.

The skin, flesh, tendons, and bones would gradually grow stronger.

Once one reached a Transcendent and Sage Realm, one could naturally leap dozens of meters with ease, like a divine being walking the earth.

Ding Ling listened once.

Relevant books had already condensed onto a new shelf in the Library:

"Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method!"

In but an instant.

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All manner of related mysteries surged and swirled within his Sea of Consciousness.

They transformed into instinct and flowed into every part of Ding Ling's limbs and body.

At that moment, Ding Ling's manner of breathing was completely altered. With every inhalation and exhalation, every rise and fall, he resembled an Ancient Era Spirit Phoenix lying coiled in repose.

This was the outward manifestation of a Breathing Method penetrating deep into one's marrow and Spirit Soul.

With every breath.

Ding Ling felt himself growing stronger.

So this is the true essence of the Spirit Phoenix Breathing Method?

Ding Ling came back to his senses, deep in thought:

Unlike some external martial arts, it cannot make me stronger instantly. The essence of this Breathing Method is that it requires medicinal ingredients to work alongside it.

But since I have already cultivated it to Great Perfection, perhaps I will not need to brew medicines at all in the future. I can directly consume medicinal ingredients and still absorb their nutrients to improve my physical constitution.