Combination Skill

Name: Zhang Qingyuan

Realm: Spirit Essence Realm Seventh Level Early Stage Peak

Cultivation Method:

Water Essence Art: (Fourth Layer: 213/10000 (+185))

Techniques:

Spring Breeze Fine Rain Technique: (Third Layer: 897/1000 (+10))

Light Body Technique: (Third Layer: 17/1000 (+6))

Growth Induction Technique: (Second Layer: 94/100 (+3))

Spring Return Technique: (Second Layer: 54/100 (+5))

Manifestation Tracing Technique: (Second Layer: 5/100 (+2))

Martial Skills:

Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist: (Great Accomplishment: 979/1000 (+147))

Cloud Smoke Steps: (Minor Accomplishment: 11/100 (+7))

Cloud Water Thirteen Sword Styles (Great Accomplishment: 36/1000 (+23))

Combination Skill:

Collapsing Mountain · Modified: (???/???)

Inside the quiet room of his residence, Zhang Qingyuan stared blankly at the panel in his mind.

Headmaster Liu's personal guidance, coupled with the five days he had spent consolidating and comprehending it after returning, had improved the proficiency of every item on Zhang Qingyuan's panel. The Cloud Water Art and Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist in particular had seen tremendous growth.

Such progress

was almost comparable to the effort Zhang Qingyuan had put into diligent cultivation over the past two or three months!

"If only I could improve this quickly every day!"

Involuntarily, such a thought flashed through his mind.

Of course, Zhang Qingyuan knew

that it was nothing more than wishful thinking.

Not to mention that Headmaster Liu could not possibly give him personal guidance every day; even if he did, cultivation ultimately depended on oneself. It was absolutely impossible to improve by relying solely on the guidance of an expert.

This harvest

was merely the culmination of the steady accumulation born from two years of unrelenting cultivation!

Gathering his thoughts, Zhang Qingyuan looked once more at the proficiency data on the panel, and his heart relaxed as well.

Whenever he saw the numbers on the panel rise, a sense of satisfaction would naturally well up within him.

It was precisely this sense of satisfaction

that allowed Zhang Qingyuan to find his motivation anew whenever he felt like slacking off in cultivation.

"But what exactly is this Combination Skill?"

The suddenly appearing line on the panel

left Zhang Qingyuan somewhat puzzled.

Actually, Zhang Qingyuan had noticed the newly appeared Combination Skill line long ago.

It was just that he had been receiving Headmaster Liu's guidance at the time, so he had merely glanced over it without giving it much thought. Only now did he have the time to pause and ponder it carefully.

"Collapsing Mountain · Modified? Was it that one move from that day?"

Recalling that day, he had used the fourth layer of the Water Essence Art to command his spirit essence and unleashed the final stance of the Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist, forcibly smashing head-on the Human-tier Low-grade Martial Skill Yao Ping had used.

The power of that move

was likely no weaker than an entry-tier martial skill.

Recalling the feeling from that day, Zhang Qingyuan stretched out his hand, The spirit essence inside his body circulated.

Whoosh, whoosh!

Inside the room, the sound of surging water suddenly rang out, while ripples of water visible to the naked eye spread through the surrounding air.

Using the spiritual power of the fourth layer of the Water Essence Art, he drove the final stance of the Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist.

Rumble!!!

Overwhelming force

erupted through the space in an instant, like rivers and mountains crashing down. The surrounding air seemed to transform into incomparably heavy currents, bursting apart in all directions!

Not good!

If that immense spirit essence fully erupted, this room and secret chamber would probably be destroyed on the spot!

At the crucial moment, Zhang Qingyuan drew back the immense spirit essence inside his body!

Yet that terrifying power

still whipped up a violent gale within the room. Like a mountain flood pouring forth, it battered everything around it.

The tightly shut door of the room

shook violently

under that ferocious impact, nearly breaking apart as it trembled on the verge of collapse!

"So strong!"

Even though Zhang Qingyuan had been prepared, the sight before him still left an unconcealable look of shock on his face.

This one move

was already in no way inferior to the power of an Entry-tier Martial Skill!

"With such tremendous power, this is practically my strongest offensive method. It should be listed separately as an ultimate skill!"

Zhang Qingyuan's heart shook, his eyes full of delight.

Moreover, this Combination Skill possessed an advantage that Entry-tier Martial Skills simply could not compare to.

That was the difficulty of use and the expenditure involved.

For Spirit Essence Realm cultivators, Entry-tier Martial Skills

were like a child wielding a massive hammer. They were extremely difficult to execute, and even if one managed it, unleashing power over-level and beyond one's control would inflict considerable harm upon oneself.

Take Yao Ping, for example.

That day on the arena, he had forcibly unleashed the Tiger Sha God Slaying Claw.

Afterward, it was said that his meridians had suffered the impact of baleful qi spirit essence, leaving him bedridden for at least a month!

But Zhang Qingyuan's Combination Skill was different.

Whether it was the fourth layer of the Water Essence Art

or the Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist at Great Accomplishment, both were powers he was already exceedingly skilled in wielding. It was merely that, through a fortunate coincidence, he had undergone enlightenment and thus been able to fuse them together as one.

In other words, Collapsing Mountain Modified, this Combination Skill, could be unleashed by him with almost no great cost at all.

It possessed the destructive power of an Entry-tier Martial Skill, yet none of the cost of using one.

With this one move, Zhang Qingyuan's overall strength had increased by at least double!

"Come to think of it, this is more like a combination technique brought about by a fortunate coincidence, with the fourth layer of the Water Essence Art and the Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist working together, rather than a true Entry-tier Martial Skill. Perhaps that is precisely why the proficiency behind this Combination Skill is a question mark."

Faintly, Zhang Qingyuan had already come to a realization.

At the same time, He suddenly thought:

"If the Fourth Layer Water Essence Art could merge with the final move of the Nine Refinements Bone Forging Fist and produce power comparable to an Entry-tier Martial Skill, then could this Fourth Layer Water Essence Art also be combined with other martial skills to enhance their own power?"

Within the shadows, Zhang Qingyuan's eyes shone brighter than ever before.

No sooner thought than done!

Thus, Zhang Qingyuan threw himself into experimentation, filled with excitement.

Three days later, Zhang Qingyuan, wearing a dejected expression, opened the door to his dwelling.

He had still been thinking too simply.

The Cloud Water Sect had stood upon this land for over a thousand years, which meant the Water Essence Art had been passed down for over a thousand years as well.

Over those thousand years, how many people had cultivated this cultivation method?

Too many to count!

Among them, although it was difficult to break through to the Fourth Layer of the Water Essence Art, with such an enormous number of people, there were surely quite a few disciples who had reached it.

But why had no one else thought of this?

Could it be that those disciples who had cultivated the Water Essence Art to the Fourth Layer or beyond were fools?

That was simply impossible!

The only possibility was that

creating a Combination Skill by fusing techniques together and multiplying their power

was incredibly difficult!

Three days earlier, with the exemplary Collapsing Mountain · Modified before him, Zhang Qingyuan had originally been brimming with confidence.

But after three days of attempts, he had completely shut himself away.

"It seems that being able to form that ultimate skill in that battle really was an accident!"

A Bitter Smile appeared on Zhang Qingyuan's face.

In this world, there truly was no such good fortune as reaching the heavens in a single step.

After three days of failure, Zhang Qingyuan had also gained a vague idea of why he had been able to achieve sudden enlightenment that day and naturally unleash that ultimate skill.

Perhaps

it was because his State of Mind at the time had happened to gain some insight, perfectly aligning with the characteristics of his Fourth Layer Water Essence Art cultivation method.

Back on the arena, he had abandoned evasion

and chosen to face his enemy head-on.

The insight within his State of Mind, as if carried along by the current, allowed him to unleash Collapsing Mountain, which underwent a mysterious fusion with what had come before.

Only then was this Combination Skill, whose power rivaled an Entry-tier Martial Skill, born!

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