Chương 59: War God’s : — Chapter 59 - Secret Skill, Stacking Wave Force! Open Five More Divine Meridians! A

"Who? Who cleared the Skeletal Blade Tomb? Tell me!" The middle-aged man swept his gaze across the room and landed on Wang Xian.

"This is Chief Zhao..." the officer explained. Wang Xian nodded, then gave a rough account of what happened in the Skeletal Blade Tomb. It included detailed historical background on the tomb keeper, the X-class beast 'Dragon Owl Glutton Lord,' and other such matters. Also Long Yuan's identity, and the secret door. All of this could be verified through the club. The only thing he concealed was the Blood-Drinking Frenzy Blade. If he revealed that thing, it would be classified as high-risk material.

It would have to be recovered and destroyed. Wang Xian also didn't want to explain that he could control this demon blade. Far too complicated and troublesome, and it would drag in his Stellar Body Refinement technique. In the end, he only said that he'd killed Long Yuan, destroyed the secret door tomb, and completely cleared the relic. Because Long Yuan was the last generation of tomb keepers. With him dead, the relic vanishing was entirely plausible.

"The Dragon Owl Glutton Lord, I've heard of it... a legendary-class beast... I never imagined there was such a history behind it..." Chief Zhao nodded repeatedly as he listened.

"We'll verify the information you've provided through multiple channels."

"It'll take about a day. Once confirmed, your actions will be rewarded."

"You said you're a contract martial artist with the Heavenly Blade Club?" Chief Zhao looked Wang Xian up and down, frowning slightly.

"You seem a bit young. Are you a First Realm Martial Artist?" Wang Xian's expression didn't change.

"Yes."

"Interesting..." Chief Zhao smiled faintly. And so, one day later, Wang Xian returned.

"It's been confirmed. The Skeletal Blade Tomb has been completely cleared..." The officer's face was full of amazement.

"There are almost no beasts left at all. Only a very small number of Iron-Devouring Insects remain over at Broken Blade Cliff..." Actually, when Wang Xian left, he'd originally wanted to go to Broken Blade Cliff to kill a few Iron-Devouring Insects and take a look. But as soon as he pulled out the Blood-Drinking Demon Blade, the Iron-Devouring Insects just flew away. He didn't even get a chance to strike. Otherwise, he would've had even more materials.

"Clearing an F-class relic earns you 5, 000 Battle Merit points, and a third-class merit medal."

"Two third-class merit medals can be exchanged for a battlefield martial art, or one Secret Skill."

"Here's your Magnetic Crystal Card, totaling 8, 182 Battle Merit points!" The officer thought to himself: Over 8, 000 Battle Merit points! An ordinary squad might not accumulate this much in a year. Even Second or Third Realm Martial Artists couldn't accumulate this much in one go. This youth had gotten this much all by himself. Since when did the Heavenly Blade Club have such a formidable First Realm Martial Artist? Some talent from who knows where, and the Heavenly Blade Club had snatched him up.

Wang Xian took the Magnetic Crystal Card and went straight to the military camp's battle affairs zone. This was where you exchanged for various Secret Skills and martial arts. In his past life, Wang Xian went through all kinds of training in university, saving up for a full three years, before he accumulated 2, 000 Battle Merit points and exchanged them for that Thousand Army Spear Art. The university he attended in his past life was very ordinary, with no martial arts specialization.

The school barely had any martial arts to offer. Now in this life, after just one month, he held 8, 000 Battle Merit points, plus a third-class merit medal. Battle Affairs Zone. Wang Xian didn't hesitate to exchange for two Secret Skills:"Stacking Wave Force."

"Thousand Gravity." Both Secret Skills could be cultivated by martial artists below the Third Realm. The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. Among them, Stacking Wave Force was a method of force cultivation. Once mastered, when using any martial technique with continuous offensive moves, this force would continuously stack. This Secret Skill was the one Wang Xian knew to be most compatible with Flowing Water Blade Art.

For example, the first move, Flowing Clouds and Water, emphasized unbroken sequences of moves, pouring forth like flowing water. Paired with Stacking Wave Force, the power of each move would rapidly climb. The last move, Wave Roars Through Heaven and Earth, originally could only unleash power over five times greater. With Stacking Wave Force, after five blade strikes, the hidden force would erupt, unleashing power nearly ten times greater. In terms of power, it already rivaled advanced martial arts.

Most importantly, this Secret Skill wasn't just compatible with Flowing Water Blade Art. It was equally compatible with many other martial arts. The only drawback was how hard it was to train. It required swinging a blade over 1, 000 times a day in a high water-pressure environment. For at least about 100 days straight. One could say the training difficulty was extremely harsh.

"This Secret Skill, many of the spear arts from my past life would use it... it's just that in my past life, I never got the chance to learn it later..." Now he had obtained this Secret Skill. Not only would Flowing Water Blade Art become stronger. His spear arts would also receive a boost! And Thousand Gravity. This Secret Skill was equally extraordinary. Through extreme physical strain, it could increase a martial artist's limit strength.

For example, a martial artist with 10 life force has a limit strength of 10, 000 jin. After mastering Thousand Gravity to perfection, the martial artist's limit strength could reach 11, 000 jin. A one-tenth increase. Don't underestimate this mere tenth. A martial artist's limit strength is the foundation of martial art power. The stronger the foundation, the more terrifying the martial arts unleashed.

It's like the base attack stat in a game, the base value before any multiplicative or additive calculations are applied. With this extra tenth, the martial arts you unleash will be stronger than others. There are very few Secret Skills that can increase a martial artist's limit strength. Some extremely powerful origin force mental methods, when cultivated over long periods, can also increase it.

And Wang Xian's own Stellar Body Refinement technique, because it absorbs cosmic energy, gave him base values much higher than others. But Thousand Gravity was still necessary.

"These two Secret Skills improve all martial arts... they aren't as specialized as Butcher Dissecting Beast." The training for Thousand Gravity was relatively simple. All it required was long-term weight-bearing training. The more weight, the more extreme the strain on the martial artist's body, and the more one could feel the improvement Thousand Gravity brought.

"Thousand Gravity, I also learned it in my past life..."

"It can be considered one of the glorious Secret Skills of the Old Martial Arts era..." Wang Xian said softly. Not every weight-bearing training is called Thousand Gravity. It was a Secret Skill summarized by predecessors and ancestors. When to train, the precise weight in jin to use, how to progressively change the weight-bearing parts, how to breathe during weight-bearing, how long to maintain it, these and countless other experiences combined to form a complete Secret Skill.

Only after ingesting a memory crystal could one constantly perceive the state of training, and then make adjustments and changes moment by moment. If you just go and do random weight-bearing training, there's only one possible outcome: injury. Wang Xian had experience cultivating this Secret Skill in his past life. But the difference was: the state of his body during cultivation in his past life was completely different from the state of his body now.

Therefore, the training content would also change as the memory crystal was absorbed. That's right, the cultivation of many Secret Skills, because of the fusion process with memory crystals, varies from person to person. This is also what makes Secret Skills impossible to replicate. Unless there were two people in this world who were completely identical at every moment.

"Two Secret Skills in hand... the most important is Stacking Wave Force!"

"Next, I'll first absorb the spirit sha already stored in the demon blade and cultivate five Divine Meridians..."

"Then check on Insect Valley Town, or a few other relics, to see if there's any situation..."

"At least find a good place suitable for cultivating 'Stacking Wave Force'!"

"Additionally, for Flowing Water Blade Art, I can also try to comprehend a higher realm, Return to Simplicity..." The Blood-Drinking Frenzy Blade had already accumulated a large amount of spirit sha. Wang Xian estimated it was at least enough to let him cultivate five Divine Meridians. The remaining Conception and Governing Vessels would require quite a bit of spirit sha. He'd probably need to kill at least a few hundred more beasts to absorb enough. Or kill some higher-level beasts. Like C-class, B-class.

Killing those, maybe one or two would be enough. But beasts of that level...

"I'm still far from being able to handle them right now..." Starting from C-class, beasts are already matched against Fourth Realm Martial Artists. B-class matches Fifth Realm Martial Artists. Spanning several major realms, even the current Wang Xian couldn't handle them at all!

"First, let's cultivate those few Divine Meridians..." Another month passed. Insect Valley Camp, inside a lodge hut. Wang Xian, bare-chested, stood upside down on the ground. The Blood-Drinking Frenzy Blade was at his side. Threads of pure spirit sha flowed unimpeded from the blade into his body. The terrifying energy entered his meridians, continuously tearing and reconstructing them, causing a visible crack to appear on Wang Xian's back. It was the line of a meridian pathway.

But each pathway seemed to contain world-shattering power, continuously splitting and fusing. What kind of pain this required to endure, no one knew. As the spirit sha poured in, the color of the Blood-Drinking Frenzy Blade gradually faded. Until... the blade's color completely faded. Meaning all the spirit sha had been absorbed by Wang Xian. Six crystalline, dazzling Divine Meridians appeared within Wang Xian's body. Vast cosmic energy poured into his limbs and bones with the emergence of the Divine Meridians.

In that instant, Wang Xian felt his life force skyrocketing.

"10... 20... 30... 40... 50..." Abruptly, Wang Xian opened his eyes, as if galaxies were revolving within them.

"Around 50 points." Wang Xian took a deep breath.

"With each Divine Meridian opened after the first, the improvement is far greater than the first one... my life force was too low back then."

"Once the Conception and Governing Vessels are refined into Divine Meridians, my life force should approach 100."

"Then, it's time to set out and cultivate the Secret Skills. There should only be about two more months until the Martial Exam, right?" Feeling his skyrocketing strength, and with the Blood-Drinking Frenzy Blade in hand, Wang Xian was filled with longing for the cultivation of martial arts and Secret Skills ahead! ➤ Next: Primeval Cicada, Dimensionality-Reducing Strike. Treasure Acquired, Primeval...