For the next while, Kahn continued resting.
He occasionally got together with Ty Lee, Mai, and the others, then continued studying bending at home.
As an advanced bending art secretly passed down within the royal family, Lightningbending was extremely powerful, difficult to learn, and dangerous. Even he and Azula had not had an entirely smooth time learning it. Their progress was not slow, but it certainly was not fast either.
That was because derivative arts such as Lightningbending, Heatbending, Healing Waterbending, and Plantbending (controlling plants) did not actually count as complete bending arts in the strictest sense.
Each of the Four Bending Arts was a complete system, with comprehensive learning methods and techniques for practical use. Derivative bending arts fell far short in that respect. Rather than learning, it was more like feeling their own way forward.
Besides, for certain derivative bending arts, techniques really were unnecessary.
For instance, Lightningbending was already somewhat dangerous to perform. Elaborate techniques would only put the user in greater danger; a single, unremarkable yet unstoppable, ferocious lightning strike was better.
Or take his Thermal Bending: imparting, changing, and extracting. Those three techniques alone offered endless ingenious applications. Anything more would just be bells and whistles.
Back to the point.
Although their progress in learning Lightningbending was average, he and Azula were growing increasingly proficient with Reverse Lightning Fire. They could even pass it back and forth as though playing catch.
At this point, although Kahn did not dare call himself the strongest, claiming the title of a god of in-house combat should not have been much of a problem.
During this time, he and Azula consulted the records again, hoping to find more information about the Mother of Faces. The final result was quite unexpected-
According to one document, the Mother of Faces seemed