Chapter 136: The Cultivation Method for Spirit Weapons!
Back in his own room, numbered 404, Jiang Lin began his daily two sessions of cultivation.
After a week of practice, Jiang Lin discovered something quite interesting: the advanced Xuan-level fire-type cultivation method, Dragon Flame Technique, was actually one of the signature techniques within the Weapon Refiners' Guild. Master Hulei had also practiced the Dragon Flame Technique before, which is why he designed his graduation project at the Tiangong Pavilion as the Red Dragon Cauldron, which served as a summary of his past work.
However, later on, Master Hulei switched to another cultivation method at the Tiangong Pavilion—not Xuan-level but an Earth-level method given to him by his master.
Jiang Lin also learned the name of this technique from a casual conversation with Yuan Bao: Earth-level intermediate technique, Thunderstrike Technique.
This extremely rare dual-element technique, combining fire and thunder, was developed by Hulei through a moment of enlightenment about his own nature. He abandoned his previous fire-focused cultivation to pick up thunder and fire Dou Qi. In his early years, Hulei had practiced the Dragon Flame Technique all the way to Dou Huang.
What's even more fascinating is that the Dragon Flame Technique can be considered a half-body cultivation method. While practicing it, the body feels like it's being scorched by fire, much like Jiang Lin's Forging Fire Technique. The only difference is that the Dragon Flame Technique can be cultivated for a long time. Although it feels like the body is burning, it is comparatively gentler than the severe rejection reaction of the Forging Fire Technique.
At the moment, Jiang Lin only practices the Forging Fire Technique twice a day. He doesn't practice it outside of these sessions. He tried forcing himself to practice it more, but the result was that he felt mentally foggy for several days, like the technique had drained his spirit and energy. Without time to recover, it caused a depletion of his mental and physical state.
Both Hulei and Yuan Bao thought Jiang Lin was practicing the Dragon Flame Technique. After all, the Dragon Flame Technique from the Weapon Refiners' Guild was often copied by others, and Jiang Lin learning it was a surprise to them, but they didn't say anything.
Hulei had initially wanted to ask, but after seeing Jiang Lin pull out the Xuan Qi Umbrella, he gave up.
At this point, even if Jiang Lin claimed that he found the technique on a street corner, Hulei had no choice but to believe him. When Jiang Lin and the others were making the Fourth-Rank Four-Leaf Feather Sheath Wings for Yuan Bao, Hulei quietly went to Uktan City and inquired a little. He learned that Jiang Lin wasn't lying and that he actually loved finding good bargains at the market and always managed to find great deals.
Hulei could only sigh, thinking, "Maybe luck is part of strength too?"
He didn't know what else to say, so he just sighed and muttered a prayer to the ancestors before quietly returning to the Jia Ma Imperial City.
The next morning, Jiang Lin, guided by Brother Klei, took a scroll of the Dragon Flame Technique from the storage room. His reason was: "I once found a version of the Dragon Flame Technique, but I'm not sure if there's any content missing, so I wanted to see what the original looks like."
It was a flawless excuse because Jiang Lin's "Dragon Flame Technique" really was a bit different from others. It was more powerful, and he became more noticeable.
Heimo and the others had some doubts about Jiang Lin's luck, but when Jiang Lin told them that most of the blueprints he had learned were from finding them in Persona's storage ring, including finding the advanced Xuan-level flight Dou Technique and explaining the mutation of the Lan Ying (Storm Hawk), all doubts were replaced with admiration.
"The inner and outer cultivation routes of the Dragon Flame Technique actually have some connection with Forging Fire Technique?"
In his 404 room, Jiang Lin sat cross-legged on the floor, meditating and contemplating the Dragon Flame Technique in his mind. Through spiritual introspection, Jiang Lin found that the Dou Qi flow route of the Dragon Flame Technique in his mind wasn't completely unrelated to the Forging Fire Technique, but the connection was more like an accidental one.
To describe it, the Forging Fire Technique mainly follows the blood vessels. As blood flows, there is energy, and with energy, it can refine power. In contrast, the Dragon Flame Technique follows the meridians, and without enough Dou Qi, cultivation cannot begin. Meridians can contain blood vessels but are not solely blood vessels. Blood vessels, however, will work as long as the person is alive.
In other words, by comparison, Jiang Lin realized why Forging Fire Technique could be practiced at the Dou Qi stage. Most cultivation techniques in the world follow the meridians, and without enough Dou Qi, one cannot circulate the meridians to form the first Dou Qi cycle, which is why cultivation cannot be done at the Dou Qi stage—because the energy isn't enough to circulate the meridians and create a closed cycle, like how a circuit without enough voltage can't complete its loop to light up a lightbulb.
But Forging Fire Technique doesn't care about that. It follows the blood vessels. Unless you die and your blood stops flowing, it doesn't care about "energy"—as long as the blood flows, it can be practiced.
"I didn't realize this before because meridians contain blood vessels, which made me unaware that Forging Fire Technique only follows the parts where the blood flows and doesn't go through places where the blood doesn't circulate."
"But now another question arises."
"Master Yao said this technique isn't something ordinary people can practice. It's not that they can't, but it just doesn't work for them."
"So, why does it not work for ordinary people when they try?"
Jiang Lin raised his hand and looked at his fingers, lost in thought.
As his nail scraped across his finger, a drop of seemingly ordinary red blood appeared from his fingertip.
This drop of blood, seemingly unremarkable, glowed faintly with a golden light in Jiang Lin's spiritual sense.
"So, Forging Fire Technique's activation condition is that it requires blood that contains high energy? Ordinary people's blood energy is too weak, and they can't condense enough energy to ignite the engine of Forging Fire Technique and absorb the "oxygen" from the external world."
"But, I don't know if it requires specific blood or just high-energy blood to activate it. It should be the latter; the principle of Forging Fire Technique isn't too profound. At least for me, as long as I can ignite it, the engine can be started. Whether it's divine blood, spiritual blood, beast blood, or something else, it doesn't matter."
"And the reason that people with strong bloodlines rarely cultivate this technique is that creatures with naturally strong bloodlines don't stay in the Dou Qi stage for long. They're born as Dou Fighters or even Dou Masters. And these powerful bloodline forces already have a whole set of bloodline cultivation techniques that are more suited to them, with limits that can reach Dou Sheng or even Dou Di. So, this so-called, cultivation method that requires switching to another after reaching Dou Shi seems a bit laughable."
"But."
On the floor, as Jiang Lin compared the differences between the two techniques, a strange thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
The Dragon Flame Technique and Forging Fire Technique have different energy pathways, but their "concepts" are very close.
And then,
"Could it be that Forging Fire Technique is meant for cultivating spirit weapons?"
(END CHAPTER)
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