"Were they really that proactive?"
Lin Qi was rather surprised to hear that. Originally, he had only wanted the players to harass the four major forces a little, to let those forces know that his side was not so easily provoked either.
He had not expected these players to be so serious, still keeping at it even now instead of following Li Ranxing and the others' example and breaking through to become Martial Artists as soon as possible.
He was now cultivating three training methods at once. With only Li Ranxing and the other two, they simply could not provide enough for him to extract every day. Especially the three corresponding secret techniques—relying on those three alone, it would take until the year of the ox and month of the horse for them to reach proficiency and use them without severe side effects.
Compared with ordinary martial techniques, secret techniques might possess greater power at the same level, but the backlash from every use was equally greater. After all, this was an extreme eruption of the body. The fiercer the eruption, the stronger the backlash the body suffered. Only upon reaching proficiency could the side effects be weakened to the greatest extent.
As for seventh-stage secret techniques, when merely at the introductory level, using one even once could leave one's entire body wracked with stabbing pain, taking quite a while to recover from. Using it consecutively could outright cost someone their life.
When Martial Artists fought, repeatedly using martial techniques was perfectly normal. If one repeatedly used a martial technique that was only at the introductory level and failed to kill the enemy, then the one who died would definitely be oneself.
"Hall Master, if those martial arts hall disciples had merely kept harassing the four major forces, that would