Over the following days, Jiang Man began practicing the sealing methods.
The beginner level was far too simple. It required no foundation at all and was easy to understand.
So after reading it once, he began practicing that same day.
On his first run-through, he reached the beginner level.
On the second, minor accomplishment.
On the third, great accomplishment.
On the fourth, perfection.
He had finished learning the beginner material.
There was no difficulty whatsoever.
He did not even feel like sharing it with Old Huang. It was far too easy.
There was no point in sharing it, either.
Next came practicing the second stage.
The Sixteen-Direction Sealing Method.
This method was somewhat harder.
It performed the seal through sixteen directional nodes, spiritual qi, and its circulation.
It resembled formation arts rather than spell arts.
The beginner material, by contrast, resembled spell arts-spell arts even simpler than the Simple Method.
After spending a day studying it, he discovered that it still posed no difficulty.
Then Jiang Man began practicing.
He discovered that the Sixteen-Direction Sealing Method had nine layers.
On the first run-through, the first layer.
On the second, the second layer.
Three run-throughs, the third layer.
Six run-throughs, the sixth layer.
Seven run-throughs, the seventh layer.
Nine run-throughs, the eighth layer.
Thirteen run-throughs, great accomplishment.
Jiang Man marveled that he had spent less time practicing than understanding it.
Next came the Eight Trigrams Sealing Method.
Jiang Man read it once and discovered that the difficulty had increased.
It took him two days just to understand it roughly.
Only on the fourth day did he understand it thoroughly.
Fortunately, he was usually diligent and also studied cultivation realms.
Otherwise, without a foundation in cultivation, he really would have been stumped.
Of course, the main reason was that the sealing method