Chen Lin sat quietly in his room for a while, then took out the mutton-fat jade bottle Jin Ruhua had given him.
After giving it a shake, he opened it.
It was more than half full of liquid.
It looked just like clear water, with nothing unusual about it.
Only careful probing revealed its faint fluctuations. Had he not known it was Tianyi Divine Water, he would have treated it as an ordinary liquid.
"Hm?"
Suddenly.
A look of shock crossed Chen Lin's face.
He discovered that, in time with those fluctuations, the spot between his brows had begun to swell.
The mighty power of Death Gaze was actually about to form on its own!
His eyes lit up.
With a property like this, there was no need for further examination. He could be certain that this substance would have an effect on Death Gaze.
Furthermore.
Through the Refining Method Jin Ruhua had given him, Chen Lin also understood how it worked.
What Tianyi Divine Water enhanced was "mighty power."
Not the Unique Secret Method itself.
It treated the symptoms rather than the root.
To fundamentally raise the secret method's level, he would need an exceptionally deep understanding of it, know the elements that made it up, and then refine and improve them.
That was absolutely beyond him.
And not just him.
Even those in the True Realm, or even the Eternal Realm, lacked such an ability.
The origins of Unique Secret Methods were shrouded in mystery.
No one knew how they formed.
Nor did any texts explain it.
Even more ancient written records contained no mention of such secret methods. All accounts of them dated from after the Eternal Great Tribulation.
Thus, some people speculated.
These methods had been left behind by experts from a high plane who appeared