"Student Qin Feng, reporting on orders from Master Yu Han!"
Zhou Xiong slowly turned, his deep eyes—which seemed capable of piercing one’s very soul—falling upon Qin Feng.
His gaze was calm and gentle, yet it possessed an indescribable penetrating force, as if it could see right through to Qin Feng’s soul, laying it bare.
Under that gaze, Qin Feng felt as if none of his secrets could remain hidden.
"Mm."
Zhou Xiong nodded, his voice even.
"For your extra reward this time, I will personally teach you a unique skill from the Ultramarines Chapter."
He paused, then uttered a name that made Qin Feng’s heart skip a beat.
"—The Ten-Complete Hand."
"The Ten-Complete Hand?!"
Despite his disposition—honed to the hardness of Divine Iron through decades of solitary, arduous cultivation—Qin Feng couldn’t stop his eyes from widening upon hearing those three words. A look of utter disbelief spread across his face.
The Ten-Complete Hand!
It wasn’t some world-shaking Slaughter Skill, but among the top legacies of the entire Empire, its reputation was even greater than that of many legendary Forbidden Killing Techniques!
Because it was one of the signature Secret Techniques of the Ultramarines Chapter!
It was the fundamental technique that every Ultimate Warrior capable of traversing the Star Sea and surviving the cruelest battlefields had to master simply to stay alive!
"That’s right."
Zhou Xiong began to explain slowly.
"You have now cultivated the Great Sun Acupoint Opening Method to the state of Great Perfection, forging a flawless Fourth-Level Foundation. Your life force index has also reached the ’minor limit’ peak of 3,600. This foundation has barely granted you the qualifications to begin learning the Ten-Complete Hand."
He looked at Qin Feng, his tone turning serious.
"The Ten-Complete Hand is, in essence, not a refinement technique, nor a killing technique. It is a ’Nourishing Technique’ in the truest sense, one that targets the very source of life—the Life Origin."
"Its core lies in a single word: Control. It uses powerful Mental Power as a guide and special Spiritual Energy circulation pathways—far more complex than any ordinary Cultivation Technique—as a framework. Finally, it perfectly fuses Mental Power and Spiritual Energy in a specific ratio within your body, and even deep within your soul, to construct ’runes’ capable of directly connecting with and leveraging the energy from the shallow layers of the Subspace."
"These runes are consumed quickly, but they also drastically accelerate your body’s cellular activity, increasing your recovery speed after exhaustion by several, or even dozens, of times. They can soothe a weary mind, significantly boosting your absorption efficiency when using Mental Power Potions. They can even penetrate your meridians and bone marrow to perform the deepest level of cleansing and healing, purging all hidden injuries and purifying your Life Origin."
"You could say that any Ultimate Warrior who expects to fight long-term campaigns in the Star Sea must learn this technique. On the battlefield, the speed of recovery can sometimes be more important than the speed of killing."
Zhou Xiong’s words boomed in Qin Feng’s mind like the toll of a great bell.
Qin Feng forcefully suppressed his excitement and nodded emphatically.
He instantly understood the strategic significance of the Ten-Complete Hand.
It was a Supreme Secret Technique that could comprehensively boost one’s "Endurance"!
Take his recent acupoint opening process, for example. He had to spend a great deal of time waiting for his body to recover from severe damage and for his Mental Power to replenish from a state of depletion.
Even with top-tier deep repair packs and Mental Power recovery Potions, this process still consumed the vast majority of his cultivation time.
And the Ten-Complete Hand was the ultimate catalyst for this very process!
If he could circulate the Ten-Complete Hand while using a restorative bath, his recovery speed would see a terrifying increase!
If his stamina was depleted and his mind exhausted, using a recovery Potion while circulating the Ten-Complete Hand would drastically shorten the time it took to return to peak condition!
This Cultivation Technique had no direct offensive power, but its value to a Martial Artist—especially one who needed to undergo long-term, high-intensity training—was immeasurable!
"The Ten-Complete Hand has ten forms in total. First, you cultivate the body, then you refine the soul. It moves from outside to in, from the superficial to the core, until you finally reach the realm of body and soul becoming one—a state of ten-fold perfection."
Zhou Xiong continued, his expression growing ever more solemn.
"Mastering the basics of this Cultivation Technique is extremely difficult. The required precision of Mental Power, sensitivity to Spiritual Energy, and degree of control over your own body are all demanding to an almost draconian degree. That is why I’m teaching it to you now, but I don’t expect you to master it immediately."
"I want you to begin studying it now, simply to get a feel for it. Wait until you successfully break through to the Sixth-Level Soaring Martial Artist realm, when your Mental Power can influence the physical world, then you can slowly begin to truly learn it."
"If you can truly reach the ’initiate’ stage of this Nourishing Technique before you ascend to the Planetary-level, that would be considered excellent progress."
With that, Zhou Xiong took a step forward. The sheer size of his power armor-clad body exerted an intense pressure on Qin Feng.
"Now, open your Subspace Network. Activate the maximum-privilege recording function and record everything I am about to demonstrate down to the last detail."
Qin Feng immediately complied. A red recording icon began to flash on his retina.
Then, under Qin Feng’s intensely focused gaze, Zhou Xiong slowly began to demonstrate the legendary Ten-Complete Hand, one form at a time.