At the Fire Vajra Court, in the small courtyard where Cheng Heng lived.
Since Cheng Heng had taken over as acting court master, he had chosen to seclude himself at the Fire Vajra Court.
Two months passed slowly in the outside world. Within the quiet chamber, he spent day after day honing his skills through grueling cultivation.
The foremost task of this seclusion was cultivating the Azure Sea Formless Palm.
This water-style palm art lacked a fierce, domineering force, but held the boundless sea within it. Formless and without shape, it used softness to overcome hardness, shedding force and winding around an opponent to trap them and seal off their movements.
It was precisely what Cheng Heng needed to remedy the weakness in his martial arts: his blade techniques were explosive and his fire arts fierce, giving him power to spare in a direct assault but leaving him wanting in a drawn-out fight.
When he first began, the Fire Vajra Energy in his body was domineering and scorching, while his Geng Metal Vajra Qi was keen and piercing. Both were forces of utmost hardness and yang, utterly at odds with the water-style martial truth of gentle flow and yielding to the current. Time and again, he struggled to bring them into harmony.
But he possessed Seven Qi Unity, and Water-Gang Qi had already taken root in his dantian, forming a cycle of its own. He needed only to set aside his instinct for forceful attacks and killing blows, follow the water's course, and let it flow as his heart willed. Then he could gradually grasp the palm art's true essence.
Day after day for two months, Cheng Heng traced the palm art's movements again and again, contemplating the martial vision of the surging sea and formless flowing water. He tempered,