Chapter 86 - 84: Martial Arts Expansion
Song Changming’s mind was filled with a few distracting thoughts, and this distraction caused the images reconstructed in his mind to dissipate.
Undoubtedly, this super ability to deduce required him to be extremely focused for it to manifest.
The distraction that just appeared in his mind was a spur-of-the-moment idea.
Since in reality, powerful martial arts legacies are hard to find, could he use this deducing ability born under ’potential activation’ to replicate the martial arts skills demonstrated by others in his memories, and thus master them!
Normally, martial arts techniques cannot be learned or mastered simply by a glance, as they contain many details and mysteries.
However, Song Changming’s current deducing ability defies common logic, and it might be possible.
Thinking of this, Song Changming’s heart grew eager.
This is worth a try, isn’t it?
After eating and drinking his fill, Song Changming immediately began deducing the images that appeared in his mind again.
The first thing he wanted to learn was Luo Haolin’s body technique and his superior swordsmanship mastery.
But after several attempts, the results were not satisfactory.
To learn the opponent’s entire martial arts skills this way is not impossible, but he needs a lot of material from the opponent’s moves to integrate and complete the deduction.
And his battle with Luo Haolin was only a few dozen rounds, accumulating only a few minutes of footage, far from enough to learn the opponent’s martial arts.
Next, he tried to reproduce scenes of other martial artists making moves from his memory.
He found that the older the memory, the harder it was to reproduce, and mere observation was not as profound as personal encounters.
In summary, using this deducing ability, the best learning target was Luo Haolin who almost put him to death.
Secondly, there were tonight’s experts he saw in the courtyard, which are fresh deducing materials.
Going further back, with time, the material is less reliable, and the effect is far inferior to the memories just experienced.
Moreover, he has already abandoned the idea of using this deducing ability to replicate a whole set of martial arts skills.
After all, the conditions were too harsh, and the sample volume was severely insufficient.
However, to settle for the next best thing, even if he can’t learn the whole thing, learning just one or two moves is surely a gain.
Whether it is the Dongcang Three Dragons or the master fighters at Xiao Mansion, almost everyone has skills worth learning from.
With repeated deductions, more and more information was integrated, Song Changming began to practice alone in the courtyard, verifying his insights in person.
He would occasionally stop, puzzled, and continue to deduce images.
Not only does he want to learn the form of the techniques, but also grasp the charm and essence within them, which is crucial.
As he dug deeper into his research, he discovered that the techniques learned from others, scattered and chaotic, diminished in power.
Then he had a sudden idea to integrate the sword techniques he learned into his complete study of Soul-breaking Saber and Flying Swallow Knife Skill to enhance the power of these two sword skills.
And the fragmented comprehension of the Light Body Skill was integrated into the set of Light Body Skill he had learned.
In a nutshell, he is willing to try innovative integration for any positive effect that could enhance his martial arts skills.
He knew that such ’potential activation’ opportunities are rare, and once the state ends, he admits it would be difficult to achieve such a level again.
He is not a person who adheres to conventions, nor does he carry the ancestral teachings of his sect, he can modify the martial arts however he wishes, unrestrained.
With a general goal in mind, the next day passed quickly.
A day of relentless practice without sleep, only stopping when the ’potential activation’ state was replaced.
At this time, he was already dizzy and exhausted, went back to his room, and fell asleep without even checking the results.
Until he slept until noon the next day, Song Changming recovered, woken up by hunger.
He reheated the leftovers from last night while feasting and then had the thought of opening the panel to check.
"Hmm!"
Song Changming quickly noticed the special changes on the panel.
[Soul-breaking Saber: Perfection Realm·Expansion (5532/10000)]
Originally, his perfected Soul-breaking Saber suddenly became... not so perfect.
The additional sword techniques he integrated seemed to have gained recognition from the panel, with an extra ’Expansion’ annotation next to the words supposed to be Perfection Realm.
And the originally unupgradable sword skill experience value unexpectedly increased from an original five thousand points to a total maximum of ten thousand points.
Good news, he can continue to grind again...
It’s worth mentioning that previously only high-level martial arts had a maximum of ten thousand experience points, while low-level martial arts seemed to have a maximum cap of only five thousand experience points to grind.
In other words, after integrating his Sword Form, the Soul-breaking Saber, which has reached the maximum ten thousand experience points, is likely to have evolved from a low-level Blade Skill into a high-level Blade Skill version.
As for the Sword Might he tested, it was indeed much stronger and more exquisite than before.
Defining this innovative and expanded Soul-breaking Saber as a high-level Blade Skill is quite reasonable.
Then there’s the two Flying Swallow skills taught to him by Liu Xiangnan.
[Flying Swallow Technique: Great perfection·Expansion (6210/18000)]
[Flying Swallow Light Body Skill: Minor Achievement·Expansion (3570/9000)]
Whether it’s the Flying Swallow Technique or the Light Body Skill, although the current martial arts realm hasn’t changed, the overall experience cap has been significantly raised, greatly increasing the difficulty of breaking through the martial arts realm.
Correspondingly, the power of these two martial arts has also increased significantly.
These two Flying Swallow skills were originally considered high-level martial arts, and this wave of enhancements can’t be defined by conventional high-level martial arts anymore.
In Song Changming’s understanding of martial arts, there is only a distinction between low-level and high-level, that is, Lower Vehicle and Upper Vehicle.
And above high-level martial arts is the legendary Martial Technique.
About the Martial Technique, he doesn’t know much; he only heard people talk about it after joining the Public Security Bureau.
It is said that only extremely profound martial arts can be classified as Martial Techniques, which have fundamentally different attributes from martial arts and very high thresholds for learning.
Theoretically, no matter how much he integrates and enhances his Flying Swallow Skill, it can’t reach the level of a Martial Technique.
After all, what he integrates are still Martial Arts Techniques; no matter how they improve, they are still martial arts.
Therefore, these two Flying Swallow skills of his are still considered high-level martial arts, at most improved and expanded versions of high-level martial arts.
Song Changming privately defines them as top-level.
Martial arts that transcend high-level.
Compared to the expansion of the Soul-breaking Saber, these two Flying Swallow skills are his biggest gain from this ’Potential Activation.’
In comparison, even the surge in martial arts experience value becomes a secondary gain.
The Soul-breaking Saber was not practiced much, so after the expansion, only about five hundred more Blade Skill experience points were added.
The Light Body Skill increased by over two thousand martial arts experience points, and the most was his Flying Swallow Knife Skill, which increased by almost five thousand experience points.
It seems that his ’Sword Practitioner’ trait, under the effect of the Potential Activation, was also magnified.
Practicing the knife felt very smooth, and even integrating Sword Forms seemed divinely assisted, more efficient and easy than integrating other martial arts.
Feeling refreshed, Song Changming came to the courtyard, drew out the Dragon Pattern Saber, and rehearsed the results of the previous day.
The Yin Ghost Blade Technique of the Soul-breaking Saber became noticeably more oppressive, with many more variations in Sword Form, the blade wind remained sinister, and was even more vicious than before.
The blade was silent, the blade light dim, with a hidden blade sense, making it hard to defend against.
Suddenly, Song Changming’s Sword Momentum changed, becoming high-pitched, like a hundred birds screeching, the blade path swift as lightning, exceedingly fast and indescribably wonderful.
Even the Light Body Skill under his feet seemed to be activated suddenly, and his whole aura changed dramatically.
His cutting speed seemed to have hit a fast-forward switch, far surpassing before.
Yet Song Changming was not satisfied with this; his eyes grew brighter, the Dragon Pattern Saber faster, the screeching of a hundred birds gradually mixed with a peculiar bell sound.
Flying Swallow Technique, Flying Bell Elegy!
This move was so familiar, it bore at least seven or eight-tenths resemblance to the stunning sword Luo Haolin last performed.
Since the Flying Swallow Technique can be both Sword Skill and Blade Skill, though this was a Sword Form, it was successfully integrated by Song Changming into his Flying Swallow Technique, perfectly merging into his Hundred Birds Blade Technique, seamlessly fitting.
With one slash, the airwaves rolled and surged, forming whirlwinds that swept past Song Changming’s eyes.
Song Changming exhaled a long breath, this move being one of the trump cards of the Blade Skill, each execution was very exhausting and burdensome to the arm, unable to be performed successively.
Yet the might of one slash was indeed powerful.
With a casual flick, the Dragon Pattern Saber instantly flew out, firmly pinning itself onto the courtyard wall in an instant.
He was very satisfied with the gains and results from this ’Potential Activation.’