The Power of Sealing Seems a Little Overpowered!

But the problem was that once one reached the Dou Zong realm, Profound Tier High-Level Dou Skills could no longer determine the outcome of a battle.

This was the main reason Wu Yan wanted to change his cultivation method.

A high-level Earth Tier Dou Skill could influence the course of battle even at the Dou Zun realm.

And there was that cultivation method from the same lineage, which could make the power of this Dou Skill comparable to a Heaven Tier Dou Skill.

Note: only comparable.

Still, its power indeed far surpassed ordinary high-level Earth Tier Dou Skills. Even against a Heaven Tier Dou Skill, it could barely hold its own, rather than being defeated in a single move without any ability to fight back.

"Frozen Secret Canon, Freeze for a Thousand Miles. Just from the names, you can tell they really are cultivation methods and Dou Skills from the same lineage."

Wu Yan raised an eyebrow and activated the cultivation method first, planning to read through it in full before studying it slowly and carefully.

Frozen Secret Canon: High-level Earth Tier cultivation method. Upon mastering this method, the practitioner's Dou Qi gains the power of sealing, making opponents trapped in ice even more unable to break free from their restraints, ultimately becoming permanently frozen.

Upon seeing the introductory description of the cultivation method, Wu Yan abruptly stopped moving and sat there completely still.

His eyes were vacant, as if his mind had drifted into some distant realm.

No one knew how much time passed before the motionless Wu Yan finally moved.

He slapped himself.

Slap~

The slap was not particularly loud. After all, Wu Yan had no self-abuse tendencies.

"Holy crap, why didn't I think of this before? Damn it..."

For once, Wu Yan's normally expressionless face became a spectacular mix of countless emotions, making for a truly... remarkable sight.

All along, Wu Yan had felt that simply using his water attribute as he had before was somewhat wasteful.

He had always felt that his ice-and-water, same-origin Dou Qi had a perfect combination.

Yet he could never remember how it ought to be used. A layer of fog had always stood between him and the right answer.

It was not until he saw the opening description of this cultivation method that Wu Yan suddenly understood: sealing.

That was right.

Sealing!

But the sealing Wu Yan meant was not the kind described in the cultivation method. That kind was somewhat useless.

If I can already freeze an opponent, why would I need that little bit of sealing power?

The sealing Wu Yan envisioned was this: as long as someone fought him, the sealing power within his Dou Qi could seal away a portion of their strength. The longer the battle lasted, the more of their strength would be sealed.

And if the opponent was not powerful enough, that strength might even be sealed permanently!

If Wu Yan could cultivate the power of sealing to that point, then unless an enemy was strong enough to kill him instantly... hehe!

His opponent would grow weaker and weaker as they fought, until they became another defeated foe beneath Wu Yan's hands.

Of course, this was merely Wu Yan's projection, assuming everything went smoothly.

In just this short moment, Wu Yan had already formed a few ideas about cultivating the power of sealing.

Compared to the biting, frigid ice-attribute Dou Qi, Wu Yan felt that the gentler, seemingly harmless water-attribute Dou Qi was more suitable for wielding the power of sealing.

First, the two kinds of Dou Qi came from the same source. Ice-attribute Dou Qi was suitable for showing openly, while water-attribute Dou Qi could hide within it and infiltrate silently.

Besides, Wu Yan already had the title of "New Ice Emperor." Anyone with half a brain would know that his ice-attribute Dou Qi was formidable.

Second, water-attribute Dou Qi possessed greater carrying capacity, or perhaps greater compatibility.

In Laozi's Tao Te Ching, there was a famous saying describing water: "The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not contend." There was much more after that, but it was all used to compare virtue and had little to do with water itself.

The purest virtue was like water: it nourished all things in the world, yet never fought with them.

In Wu Yan's cultivation, "contention" could be replaced with "conflict."

Water could carry all methods in the world without conflicting with them.

Wu Yan's greatest problem right now was that when it came to "sealing," he understood nine out of ten openings—meaning he understood absolutely nothing.

Speaking of seals, his memories from his previous life contained many different kinds of sealing techniques.

Most seals were used against enemies who could not be defeated, forcing one to seal them as a last resort.

The most impressive use of sealing was probably the various sealing arts in the anime Naruto.

But that was the Naruto world. Whether they could be applied on the Dou Qi Continent was uncertain.

And he had only watched it; he had never properly learned it.

If he truly wanted to understand sealing, he still had to focus on the Dou Qi Continent.

Moreover, the power of sealing did indeed exist on the Dou Qi Continent. Its might was considerable, and its practicality went without saying.

Not long ago, the old Ice Emperor Hai Bodong had been sealed by Queen Medusa. His cultivation had plummeted, falling directly from a five-star Dou Emperor to the peak of the Dou Spirit realm, even dropping below the Dou King realm!

If Medusa encountered Hai Bodong in that state, the outcome needed no explanation. It would already count as Medusa being kind if she left him an intact corpse.

This showed that on the Dou Qi Continent, the power of sealing was also an extremely practical ability.

There was also Yun Yun, who had been sealed by the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Compared with Medusa's permanent seal on one's strength, the Amethyst Winged Lion King's seal was more temporary, but its effect was even more obvious.

After Yun Yun was struck by the Amethyst Winged Lion King's seal, her original three-star Dou Emperor cultivation instantly fell to rock bottom, turning her into an ordinary person with no cultivation at all.

Of course, that kind of seal could not last very long. Yun Yun broke through it after only a short time and recovered her cultivation.

Thinking about it carefully, that made sense. A sixth-rank magical beast and a Dou Emperor powerhouse existed on the same level. If one move could permanently turn an opponent into an ordinary person, then what the hell would there be left to fight?

If that were the case, this sealing technique would be far too overpowered.

"Based on the intelligence currently available, sealing techniques have two paths of development. One is permanent sealing, which correspondingly weakens the sealing effect and leaves the enemy with some strength. The other is to strengthen the sealing effect, sacrificing duration as the price."

"But no matter which kind it is, they both seem pretty overpowered..."

A faint smile curled across Wu Yan's lips. Overpowered was good. If it were not overpowered, he would not even bother spending his time and energy on it.

If Hai Bodong had not run quickly and hidden well, and if Yun Yun had not been lucky enough to be rescued, then after being sealed, both of them would have been finished if their enemies had caught them.

So the question now was: how could Wu Yan master the power of sealing like Queen Medusa and the Amethyst Winged Lion King?

Wu Yan had long since had the answer in his heart.

There was a saying: people can teach people ten thousand times and still fail, but experience teaches people once and they learn.

Why not experience it himself?

"But there's another saying: victory is already certain, so why rush for immediate gains?"

Wu Yan shook his head. He did not want to get himself killed through recklessness. He would consider the matter of sealing after breaking through to Dou Zong.