Peerless Technique!

Zhang Su and Chu Dachuan walked back toward their residence together.

Along the way, Chu Dachuan remained silent.

Yet in his heart, towering waves had already been stirred.

The Triple Wave Sword Technique had actually reached perfection again?

He knew very well that Zhang Su's Nine Shadows Sword Technique had long since reached perfection.

In other words, Zhang Su had now mastered two sword techniques at the perfection level, and both were superior techniques.

Though he might still fall short of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples.

Two perfected sword techniques could still reveal, more or less, just how extraordinary Zhang Su's talent with the sword truly was.

If Zhang Su tried cultivating a top-tier sword technique, he might not be unable to cultivate it to the major achievement stage, just like the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples!

When that time came, perhaps he could truly contend for a place among the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples.

Zhang Su had no idea what Chu Dachuan was thinking, because he was carefully inspecting the System Panel.

Host: Zhang Su

Cultivation: Blood Qi Realm Ninth Layer

Triple Wave: Compatibility 91% (Perfection)

Compatibility Points: 2

The first thing Zhang Su focused on was the Compatibility Points.

With the Triple Wave Sword Technique reaching perfection, his Compatibility Points had increased by another point. He now had two Compatibility Points.

If he added them to a cultivation technique, they could raise its compatibility by 20%.

But was a 20% increase in compatibility enough?

No, nowhere near enough.

Zhang Su knew very well that if he intended to cultivate top-tier or even peerless techniques, his compatibility would be extremely low.

Most likely, unless the compatibility reached 80%, he would have to accumulate even more Compatibility Points.

"Chu Dachuan, go back first. I'm heading to the Scripture Pavilion."

After saying that, Zhang Su parted ways with Chu Dachuan and headed straight for the Scripture Pavilion.

Before long, Zhang Su arrived at the Scripture Pavilion.

Upon reaching the Scripture Pavilion, Zhang Su did not immediately begin looking for martial techniques.

Instead, he selected several books on cultivation.

These books contained the cultivation insights of Guiyuan Sect's predecessors. They had been compiled into volumes and placed in the Scripture Pavilion for free, open for anyone to read.

Zhang Su thought of a question.

Why could each of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples reach two hundred strands of Blood Qi?

Yet after the Blood Qi in Zhang Su's body reached one hundred strands, he vaguely felt that he had reached his limit.

It seemed that even if he continued circulating the Taotie Blood Nourishing Technique and swallowing Blood Replenishing Pills, it would be meaningless.

Zhang Su still only had one hundred strands of Blood Qi.

There were many cultivation books.

Zhang Su opened a volume that gave a detailed explanation of the two major realms: Blood Qi and Internal Force.

The book described two methods for producing Internal Force.

The first was to slowly temper one's Blood Qi after it reached a critical point. Though the quantity of Blood Qi would not increase, if its quality improved to a certain degree, Internal Force could be born.

However, this method was difficult.

It required tempering over years and years.

It could even require ten years, twenty years, or an even longer period of tempering.

Most martial artists basically used this method.

This was also why many Blood Qi Realm Ninth Layer martial artists had failed to produce Internal Force even after many years.

The second method was to pile up the quantity.

Cultivate as many strands of Blood Qi as possible—two hundred, three hundred, four hundred...

Once the amount of Blood Qi was sufficient, Internal Force would naturally be born.

This method was as natural as water flowing into a channel.

The Internal Force produced would also be extraordinarily robust, with immense potential for further development. It would lay a solid foundation for future Internal Force cultivation and even higher realms.

But producing enough Blood Qi was difficult!

Ordinary techniques and superior techniques could at most cultivate one hundred strands of Blood Qi, or slightly more than one hundred.

Top-tier techniques could cultivate two hundred to three hundred strands of Blood Qi.

Peerless techniques were said to be capable of cultivating more than five hundred strands of Blood Qi.

The richer one's Blood Qi, the greater the potential of the Internal Force it produced. The road of martial arts ahead would become smoother, and one could travel farther!

Zhang Su understood.

No wonder the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples all possessed at least two hundred strands of Blood Qi.

They had most likely cultivated top-tier techniques.

They most likely wanted to produce Internal Force as naturally as water flowing into a channel.

"By the looks of it, if I want to build a solid foundation, it would be best to cultivate a peerless technique! But peerless techniques... even people with exceptional talent like the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples cannot all cultivate them..."

"Then can I cultivate other ordinary techniques and stack my Blood Qi?"

Zhang Su thought of a method.

The book also mentioned this point.

Clearly, Zhang Su was not the first person to think of stacking Blood Qi.

Unfortunately, it would not work.

Once one reached one hundred strands of Blood Qi, that was almost the limit.

That was the limit of the human body.

It could not be stacked.

And the reason top-tier techniques and peerless techniques could surpass one hundred strands of Blood Qi was very simple.

Top-tier techniques and peerless techniques had been created specifically for geniuses to break through the limits of the human body and forge a sturdier martial foundation.

Cultivating top-tier techniques and peerless techniques was, in truth, an attempt to break the limits of the human body.

That was why top-tier techniques and peerless techniques were so difficult to cultivate.

Take Zhang Su, for instance—he had cultivated the Great River Divine Art for a year without even entering the beginner stage.

Therefore, if one was not a true genius, one should not choose a top-tier technique.

Choosing one would be useless. One would never master it.

No amount of Blood Replenishing Pills would help.

Resources alone could not pile one's way upward.

The mark distinguishing geniuses from ordinary martial artists was whether they could cultivate top-tier techniques.

Zhang Su put down the book.

Of the two paths for producing Internal Force, Zhang Su would obviously choose the second.

So should he choose a top-tier technique or a peerless technique?

There was nothing to hesitate over.

It had to be a peerless technique!

However, the Great River Divine Art Zhang Su had cultivated previously was actually a peerless divine art, yet he had failed to even begin after a year.

The difficulty of peerless divine arts had to be taken into consideration.

"The Great River Divine Art was completely incompatible with me. Its compatibility was too low... I can choose the peerless technique most compatible with me!"

Zhang Su immediately headed toward a corner on the first floor of the Scripture Pavilion.

There was only one row of bookshelves there.

Yet the shelves held nothing but peerless techniques.

Zhang Su began taking out one secret manual after another to inspect them.

He was mainly looking at the techniques' compatibility.

"Blazing Fire Divine Art, compatibility 18%."

"Blood Jade Divine Art, compatibility 13%."

"Tiger Demon Divine Art, compatibility 16%."

Zhang Su inspected many divine arts one by one.

In the end, almost none had compatibility above 20%.

Such low compatibility was about the same as the Great River Divine Art.

It meant that no matter how long Zhang Su cultivated, he would be unable to enter the beginner stage.

This once again made Zhang Su experience the difficulty of peerless divine arts.

If they were top-tier techniques, their difficulty probably would not be so high, and their compatibility should be somewhat greater as well.

There were not many peerless divine arts on the shelf.

He estimated there were no more than fifty in total.

When Zhang Su inspected the forty-third manual.

His eyes finally lit up.

"Heaven-Swallowing Blood-Nurturing Technique, compatibility 25%."

Of all the peerless techniques Zhang Su had examined, this was the only one with compatibility exceeding 25%.

"No rush. Let's see whether there's a technique with even higher compatibility."

Zhang Su immediately continued inspecting the peerless techniques.

He examined almost all fifty peerless techniques.

In the end, Zhang Su discovered that the Heaven-Swallowing Blood-Nurturing Technique still had the highest compatibility.

"This is the divine art!"

Zhang Su had made his decision.

However, with only 25% compatibility, even reaching the beginner stage would likely be difficult.

Even if he could enter the beginner stage, it would probably take more than a year.

As for perfection, he could forget about it.

He still had to find a way to raise the compatibility of the Heaven-Swallowing Blood-Nurturing Technique as quickly as possible.

To raise it to 100%, he would need at least eight Compatibility Points.

Even if he did not reach 100% and only raised it to 95%, he would still need seven Compatibility Points.

Of course, to ensure he could definitely reach perfection, he would need eight Compatibility Points.

"Eight Compatibility Points... I currently only have two. I'm still six short, which means I have to pick another six martial techniques and cultivate them to perfection!"

"Six martial techniques won't be easy to find..."

Zhang Su knew it would be difficult.

After cultivating for some time, he had also figured out a few patterns.

If compatibility was above 90%, then by relying on himself and catching a few flashes of insight, there was a high chance of reaching perfection.

Like the Triple Wave Sword Technique and the Nine Shadows Sword Technique.

If compatibility was between 80% and 90%, then reaching major achievement was basically not a problem.

But it would still require some time.

Perhaps a year, perhaps three to five years.

But major achievement would definitely be possible.

As for perfection, there was a sliver of possibility, but it was vanishingly small.

If compatibility was below 80%, even reaching major achievement depended on luck, let alone perfection.

Moreover, Zhang Su also wanted to cultivate top-tier, or even peerless martial techniques.

That would likewise require Compatibility Points to increase his compatibility with those martial techniques.

Otherwise, he would not be able to cultivate top-tier or peerless martial techniques either.

"Compatibility Points..."

Zhang Su sighed.

Compatibility Points were now the key.

He had to think of every possible way to obtain as many Compatibility Points as he could.

"Search! Even if I have to turn the entire first floor of the Scripture Pavilion upside down today, I have to find every martial technique with compatibility above 90%!"

The Scripture Pavilion had martial techniques too numerous to count.

If one day was not enough, then two days. If two days were not enough, then ten days.

Going through every martial technique was not such a difficult task.

As soon as Zhang Su thought of it, he acted, immediately beginning to browse through the various Blood Qi Realm martial techniques on the first floor of the Scripture Pavilion.