After waiting a while longer—long enough for Daiyu, Tanchun, Zijuan, and Xueyan to puzzle over it for quite some time—Annie finally continued her explanation in an old-fashioned, pompous tone:
"The Eight Extraordinary Skills aren't ordinary cultivation techniques. They are eight abilities that break convention and represent the pinnacle of their respective arts."
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"The reason some people can't learn them isn't merely because the threshold is incredibly high. They are also limited by talent, temperament, opportunity, bloodline, and even... desire?"
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She paused, glanced at the four girls listening attentively, then pondered for a moment as though organizing her thoughts—or deliberately keeping them in suspense.
Then, noticing that Tanchun and Xueyan's hands had slowed, she gestured for them to continue washing and grooming her before leisurely going on:
"Most of the Eight Extraordinary Skills place great importance on aptitude and talent. You also need the right physique and disposition."
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"In other words, the better your compatibility with the creator, the greater your chances of successfully learning it!"
ヾo
"So, the compatibility rate for that stuff is very low. If you can't learn it, don't take it too seriously. It's not some amazingly impressive cultivation technique anyway."
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It really wasn't!
The Eight Extraordinary Skills were not proper immortal cultivation methods. They were merely a sort of opportunistic shortcut somewhere between mundane martial arts and immortal cultivation.
Besides, they simply had an extraordinary application of certain rules and methods of operation that exceeded ordinary people's imagination.
"Ah?"
"Not some amazingly impressive cultivation technique?"
"No way?"
"But I think that Like Flower is really incredible!"
"That's right!"
"Especially Like Flower—if we could make them ourselves and sell them in bulk, they'd definitely be worth a fortune!"
"Then we'd be rich!"
"Xueyan, can you stop being such a money-grubber?"
"No!"
Annie's