Battle Through the Heavens: His comprehension is extraordinary, shocking Yao Lao from the very begin

Chapter 38 Burning Technique: Two Consecutive Advancements

Time passed slowly. Inside the quiet cave, Yao Lao sat cross-legged, suspended in mid-air, his eyes fixed on Xiao Yan.

"Judging by the time, it should be close to success," the old apothecary murmured.

Not long after Yao Lao finished speaking, the scorching temperature in the cave began to slowly recede into Xiao Yan's body.

The cave, which had just been scorching hot, suddenly became surprisingly cool.

The old apothecary smiled slightly: "Success! I wonder what level the Burning Technique has advanced to?"

The old apothecary speculated to himself, "In any case, it's impossible to jump directly to the Profound Rank. The leap between each rank of a cultivation technique is worlds apart. The Peach Blossom Flame might be able to evolve the Burning Technique's rank, but to evolve its class..."

The old doctor smiled and shook his head, not continuing the conversation; it wasn't realistic.

Beast fire and strange fire are essentially both strange flames, but strange fire takes longer to be born and contains far more energy than beast fire.

The energy contained in a mere fifth-order peach blossom fire is far less than that of a naturally formed, naturally nurtured exotic fire.

The reason why the Burning Technique is dangerous is that it requires devouring the most violent strange fire and using the powerful energy contained in the strange fire to evolve.

This is something that Peach Blossom Flame could never possess, and it is also one of the reasons why Xiao Yan's Xuanhuang Flame, which seemed to be reborn, could not be directly used to upgrade the Burning Technique.

Even among different types of fire, there are mature different types of fire and nascent different types of fire.

The Burning Technique aims to devour the mature and powerful strange flames on the Strange Flame Ranking.

Having witnessed the cultivation of the Burning Technique firsthand, Elder Yao had gained some understanding of this technique.

After merging with the Peach Blossom Flame, Xiao Yan focused his mind on his body.

The enormous, dark yellow vortex of fighting energy continued to rotate, and at the center of the vortex, a pink light spot flickered slightly.

Gazing at his own vortex of energy, Xiao Yan's mind stirred slightly, and a wisp of yellowish-pink Dou Qi flowed out from it, then began to surge along the path of the 'Burning Technique'.

Finally, as the Dou Qi flowed through specific meridians, Xiao Yan could detect that wisps of fire-attribute energy were also beginning to seep into the surrounding space. These wisps would then penetrate Xiao Yan's skin and eventually enter his meridians, where they would be carried by the purple Dou Qi, completing a perfect cycle of the cultivation technique.

Having completed one cycle of cultivation, Xiao Yan noticed that the wisp of Dou Qi that had separated from the Qi vortex was now much more powerful and abundant than it had been a few minutes ago.

Observing Xiao Yan's cultivation, although due to Xiao Yan's special physique, the cultivation method on him could not be judged by ordinary standards, Yao Lao had been by his side the whole time. After some deliberation, he finally determined the level of the cultivation method.

"Mid-level Yellow Rank, only evolved one level."

As expected, Yao Lao smiled. The evolution of a cultivation technique requires an extremely large amount of energy from a 'strange fire'. It's already quite good that the mere Peach Blossom Fire can barely allow the technique to evolve by one level.

Yao Lao somewhat overestimated the power of the Peach Blossom Flame. If Xiao Yan hadn't made some modifications to the Burning Technique, bringing it to level 2.0, the Peach Blossom Flame alone would have made it difficult for the technique to undergo an evolution.

As the Burning Technique 2.0 continued to operate, Xiao Yan's senses became clearer and clearer.

[Based on your experience cultivating the Burning Technique, you have had an epiphany; you have comprehended the Great Burning Technique.]

[Great Burning Technique: Derived from Burning Technique 2.0, it retains the advantages of upgrading fire attribute battle qi in Burning Technique 2.0, and retains the characteristic of devouring different flames to evolve. The initial level is low-level Xuan rank.]

[Note: The low-level Xuan rank of the Great Burning Technique is based on the host's comprehension of the Xuanhuang Flame and the integration of the Peach Blossom Flame.]

If one begins practicing this technique without the right opportunity, the technique's grade will be around high-level Yellow Rank to low-level Quasi-Profound Rank.

"This is the right way!"

"Since our predecessors were able to create the low-level Yellow Rank Burning Technique, then I can naturally comprehend a higher-level technique as well."

"The Great Burning Technique is just the beginning. The evolution of the technique can not only rely on the help of beast fire and strange fire, but also on my heaven-defying comprehension."

Innovation is essential for the flourishing of cultivation. If one merely relies on past achievements, the cultivation system will eventually come to an end as the tradition breaks down.

Having comprehended the Great Burning Technique, Xiao Yan immediately began to try cultivating it.

His fighting spirit circulated rapidly along the increasingly complex meridian pathways, and Xiao Yan's body once again seemed to transform into a giant black hole, frantically absorbing the energy of heaven and earth.

"As expected, another strange thing has happened!" Yao Lao's face instantly turned extremely ugly. He was almost used to Xiao Yan's cultivation encountering strange phenomena many times.

The terrifying energy of heaven and earth directly formed an energy vortex, causing the wind and clouds to change color.

A burst of dark yellow flames erupted, each wisp of flame seemingly bursting forth from Xiao Yan's pores.

The intense heat of burning muscles, bones, and cells allowed Xiao Yan to rapidly refine and absorb the rich energy of heaven and earth, causing his battle qi to increase at a visible rate.

However, Xiao Yan's strength did not improve.

After this increased battle energy entered the battle vortex, it caused the nebula-like battle vortex to release bursts of energy ripples in all directions.

The two palm-sized vortexes of fighting energy began to expand at this moment, and the quality of the increasingly deep yellow fighting energy flowing within them was far superior to that before.

In the Dou Qi Continent, the difference between cultivation techniques depends on four factors.

Firstly, the vortex's capacity to absorb battle qi. If two people are of the same level, the person who cultivates a Xuan-rank technique will definitely have far greater combat endurance than the person who cultivates a Huang-rank technique.

Secondly, there is a difference in the quality of battle qi. At the same level, if someone cultivating a Xuan-rank technique expends one unit of battle qi, someone cultivating a Huang-rank technique will need to expend ten times or even more to achieve the same effect.

Thirdly, the efficiency of absorbing and refining battle qi during cultivation. For the same person, the amount of energy absorbed in one minute of cultivating a Xuan-rank technique might take an hour or even longer to cultivate a Huang-rank technique.

Fourthly, in battle, those who practice Yellow-rank techniques cannot wield their battle qi as smoothly and swiftly as those who practice Profound-rank techniques.

In summary, the higher the level of the cultivation technique, the greater the benefits it brings.

After frantically absorbing the energy of heaven and earth for a while, when everything returned to calm, Xiao Yan silently stared at the vortex that was as spacious as a small lake. After a long while, he gradually came back to his senses.

With a slight shift in his mind, a wisp of Xuanhuang Dou Qi flowed out from the Qi vortex and then quickly flowed along his meridians.

As his fighting spirit circulated, Xiao Yan could clearly feel that the formidable power within his body was gradually rising to a peak he had never reached before.

With his mind focused intently on the flow of Dou Qi, Xiao Yan clearly discovered that although the evolved cultivation method was significantly more complicated than before, the time required to complete one cycle of the cultivation method was becoming shorter and shorter.

(End of this chapter)