Sucking Palm, Fire Blowing Palm, Flame Fist

After leaving Xun Er's room, Xiao Yan headed straight back to his own, shutting the doors and windows.

Turning around, he looked at Old Yao, who had appeared at some point, and took out the Black Iron Fragment.

"Teacher, what do you make of this?"

Xiao Yan could actually guess what was inside, but he could not let it show.

Old Yao grinned mischievously and teased him.

"You need to work hard. If you stand at the summit with no one by your side, I'll be very lonely!"

Hearing that, Xiao Yan curled his lip and rolled his eyes at Old Yao speechlessly.

"I really underestimated you, kid. Just based on those words, you'll have no shortage of women in the future!"

Old Yao teased with a grin.

"Teacher!"

Xiao Yan called out helplessly.

"Haha, I'll be very lonely!"

Old Yao repeated himself, then burst into laughter again.

"..."

Xiao Yan fell silent.

Laugh it up, old man. When I meet your old flame someday, you'll learn what it means to twist words and turn black into white!

After laughing for quite a while, Old Yao finally closed his mouth. He casually took the iron fragment from Xiao Yan's hand and said,

"There seems to be a Dou Technique stored inside. But the person who made this iron fragment may have been an alchemist as well, so only someone with exceptional soul perception can sense it."

"A Dou Technique? What grade?"

Xiao Yan asked.

Old Yao turned the fragment over in his hand. A moment later, he smiled. "Sucking Palm: low Mystic Tier!"

"Low Mystic Tier?"

Xiao Yan nodded, a faint smile appearing on his face. He then said to Old Yao,

"I never expected this junk I bought on a whim to hide a Mystic Tier Dou Technique. The Xiao Family's most profound Dou Technique is only mid Mystic Tier, and only the family head and a few elders are qualified to learn it."

Old Yao neither agreed nor disagreed. He continued, "When mastered, this Dou Technique can draw in a boulder weighing a thousand jin. Against an enemy, its violent suction can forcibly tear the blood from their body!"

"In my view, this can only deal with opponents weaker than me or around my level. If I encounter someone stronger, they could just use the pull to close in. By then, my death record would gain an entry for assisting my enemy in killing me."

Xiao Yan shook his head, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Mm. The fact that you realized that shows your combat awareness is quite good."

Old Yao was somewhat surprised that Xiao Yan had immediately recognized the flaw.

"I've sparred with a Dou Emperor, after all. I understand that much."

Xiao Yan shrugged, then looked at Old Yao with a beaming smile. He rubbed his hands together, his eyes filled with unmistakable longing.

"Teacher, you wouldn't want me to get killed after someone uses that chance to close in during a fight, would you?"

Old Yao frowned slightly. "What do you mean?"

"Teacher, do you have a Dou Technique that creates a pushing force? That way, with one pull and one push, it would definitely make the opponent's blood and qi churn inside their body. The effect would surely be excellent!"

Xiao Yan said with a shameless grin.

"Hmm... You aren't the first to think of that, but both of these are rather useless support Dou Techniques and difficult to find. Very few people have ever truly gathered both."

Old Yao rubbed his forehead with his fingers as he pondered.

"Come to think of it, someone once asked me to refine medicine for them, and I seem to have accepted a Dou Technique like that as payment. If I hadn't happened to have an unused pill on hand, I wouldn't have traded with that person. It was so long ago that, if you hadn't reminded me today, I might really have forgotten."

"All right, I found it."

Old Yao lifted his fingers from his forehead, then lightly tapped Xiao Yan between the brows under his ecstatic gaze.

As his forehead was tapped, Xiao Yan's head swelled slightly. A flood of information poured into it. After taking a moment to adjust, he finally came back to himself.

Fire Blowing Palm: low Mystic Tier. Capable of producing powerful wind pressure.

The simple description and old-fashioned name made the words "low Mystic Tier" seem utterly shabby.

"It really is plain and unadorned, huh!"

Xiao Yan scratched his head and said.

"The creator of this was a blacksmith. He spent his whole life forging iron, and because of the needs of his furnace fire, he somehow created this fire-blowing Dou Technique."

Old Yao said with a teasing smile.

"That's still impressive!"

Xiao Yan did not look down on the origins of Fire Blowing Palm. Being able to create a Dou Technique to make life more convenient was, in truth, the same kind of thinking as developing technology to change life. It deserved respect.

Sucking Palm and Fire Blowing Palm were not difficult to learn. Under Old Yao's guidance, Xiao Yan grasped their essentials after two hours.

Standing in the room, Xiao Yan looked at the only vase inside. He took a deep breath, swept his palm, and unleashed a wild suction force.

Sucking Palm!

Drawn by the powerful force, the vase shot straight toward Xiao Yan.

His eyes fixed tightly on the flying vase, Xiao Yan hurriedly withdrew Sucking Palm with his right hand. Then the Dou Qi within his body flowed out along the circulation path of Fire Blowing Palm.

Fire Blowing Palm!

Just as the vase was about to smash into Xiao Yan under its own momentum, a powerful wind pressure erupted violently from his palm. In an instant, dust filled the room.

Bang!

After a crisp muffled sound, the vase was blasted into fine powder by the two opposing forces.

Covered in white powder, Xiao Yan dashed out of the dusty area. Looking at the result, he narrowed his eyes.

This technique of pulling and pushing reminded him of certain things from his previous life.

If he could combine them, perhaps he could create a close-combat Dou Technique of his own!

Brushing the white dust from his clothes, Xiao Yan knew that he had gained another training task for the days ahead.

"Not bad. These two Dou Techniques are a perfect match. But the Dou Technique scroll you obtained from the Dou Technique Hall seems more interesting."

Old Yao nodded and reached out to pick up the "Flame Fist" scroll.

A moment later, he nodded with some emotion and said,

"Compressing Dou Qi into specific meridians to form flames, then releasing it in an eruption—the person who created this Dou Technique was a genius. But if the compressed Dou Qi accidentally explodes after entering those meridians, the meridians will be destroyed.

"No wonder no one cultivates it. Risking crippling oneself for a Yellow Tier Dou Technique truly isn't worth it. But this Dou Technique is quite suitable for you.

"Because you possess Heavenly Flames, even without compressing your Dou Qi, simply layering the Heavenly Flames and Dou Qi together and releasing them according to this technique's method would give it power comparable to a Mystic Tier Dou Technique. If you nurture your Heavenly Flames in the future, perhaps Flame Fist could truly reach the level of an Earth Tier Dou Technique!"

"Mm, I think it's worth trying. Teacher is here anyway. Even if something goes wrong with my meridians, you can save me. Besides, I don't think this seems all that difficult..."

Xiao Yan nodded, though he held a different view from Old Yao.

He had just read Flame Fist's cultivation method as well. Compressing Dou Qi was indeed difficult, but his soul perception was far stronger than that of cultivators at the same level. That would give him a uniquely advantageous edge in cultivating this Dou Technique.

Even if the compression failed, with his soul perception and Heavenly Flames protecting him, the damage to his meridians would remain within an extremely controllable range. Thus, the so-called flaw would basically cease to exist.