Chapter 161: Vermillion Bird Feather
There was only one Chinese medicine shop in March City. Duan Qing went to the medicine shop alone to get some medicine for Xiao Sheng's mother according to the prescription, and then went to the grain shop to buy some grain and dried fish for Xiao Sheng to take back.
After Duan Qing returned, Xiao Sheng's mother had woken up and was talking to Xiao Sheng who was sitting beside the bed.
"Brother Qing, you are back!" Xiao Sheng was very excited when he saw Duan Qing coming back. He quickly stood up and greeted Duan Qing, and then introduced him to his mother on the bed.
"Mom, this is the brother Qing I told you about."
Xiao Sheng's mother quickly struggled to get up and thank Duan Qing.
"Xiao thanks the immortal master!" The voice was very weak.
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After a few greetings, Duan Qing put down the grain and dried fish, left a few spirit stones for Xiao Sheng, and told him to take good care of his mother, and then returned to the second heaven first. After all, he was still injured at this time. Since he had helped Xiao Sheng, it was better to go back and heal his injuries as soon as possible.
After returning to the cave, Duan Qing was harassed by the fool again. He put some new grass and spiritual spring water for the fool, and changed into clean clothes bought when he traveled to Xiaonanjie with Xue Wanyun. Then Duan Qing began to retreat and recuperate.
He was not idle during the recuperation period. The battle with the scorpion-shaped monster made him realize that his attack methods were very lacking. Although he had the defense of the Vermillion Bird Armor, he could not break the defense of the scorpion-shaped monster with his top-grade flying sword.
Considering this, he took advantage of this period of recuperation to try to study the other two attacking techniques in the Vermillion Bird Transformation Technique, the Vermillion Bird Feather and the Fire Separation Technique.
The Vermillion Bird Feather is a single attack technique. The trick that Xue Wanyun used to kill the Green Water Dragon that day seemed to be the Vermillion Bird Feather. Judging from its difficulty, it is not as high as the Vermillion Bird Armor and the Vermillion Drive Technique, and it is not divided into stages.
The principle is to gather the spiritual power in the body at the fingertips, and then continuously condense it and shoot it out with finger techniques. Because the spiritual power with the burning power of the Suzaku Transformation Technique is fiery red after condensation, it looks like a red feather when it is shot out, so it is named Suzaku Feather.
The power of this technique is related to the degree of spiritual power condensation and one's own cultivation. The more spiritual power is condensed at the fingertips and shot out, the greater the power will be. The higher the cultivation, the more spiritual power can be used for condensation. Therefore, theoretically, the power of this method seems to have no upper limit.
Although it looks simple, Duan Qing still practiced for five days before successfully condensing the first Suzaku Feather at his fingertips. He shot this Suzaku Feather with finger techniques, and the fiery red Suzaku Feather dissipated before it hit the cave wall, like fireworks in the dark night.
He tried it several times in a row, and it was the same. After continuous attempts, his spiritual power in his body was also consumed by more than half. He found that every time he condensed a Suzaku Feather, he would consume almost 10% of his spiritual power. The cost of practice is still a bit high.
Fortunately, what he lacked the most at this time was the spiritual liquid and spiritual spring water to replenish his spiritual power. The spiritual power in his body was quickly restored by the spiritual spring water, and Duan Qing continued to practice.
Three days of uninterrupted practice again, and the spiritual power was consumed dozens of times every day. In addition to leaving some spiritual spring water for the fool, there was no more available. He even used the spiritual liquid to replenish his spiritual power.
The results were still very gratifying. The Vermillion Bird Feather he shot at this time could easily penetrate the cave wall within three feet. If it was farther, the Vermillion Bird Feather would automatically dissipate. In addition, the spiritual power he could condense at a time was no more than 20% of his total spiritual power. If it was more, he felt that he could not control it with his current physical strength, and it would only be wasted.
In addition, he carefully recalled the process of Xue Wanyun using the Vermillion Bird Feather that day, and found that the Vermillion Bird Feather he used was far inferior to Xue Wanyun in speed, but no matter how he tried, the speed was difficult to increase.
He thought that it might be because he had not condensed his spiritual power enough, which was probably the reason why his Vermillion Bird Feathers had a short killing range. Secondly, his cultivation and physical strength were not as good as Xue Wanyun's.
Therefore, if he wanted to increase the killing range and power of the Vermillion Bird Feathers, he had to either improve the level of spiritual power condensation or improve his cultivation.
The former can be improved through continuous practice, while the latter cannot be achieved in a short period of time. He had just broken through to the Transcendent Realm not long ago and was still far from the middle stage of the Transcendent Realm!
After initially mastering the Vermillion Bird Feathers, Duan Qing began to study the Fire Separation Technique.
The Fire Separation Technique seemed to be particularly simple compared to the other techniques. The principle was slightly similar to that of the Vermillion Bird Feathers. The Vermillion Bird Feathers condensed spiritual power, while the Fire Separation Technique compressed spiritual power.
After compressing the spiritual power to a certain extent, the spiritual power with the burning power of the Vermillion Bird Transformation Technique would be ignited and transformed into Fire Separation.
Duan Qing practiced for only one day before he compressed the spiritual power in his palm and transformed it into the first Fire Separation. The red was blue and flickered in his hand like a life. As he continued to inject spiritual power, the flames burned more and more vigorously. What was even more magical was that he was only a few feet away from the flames, but he could not feel any temperature of the flames at all. It seemed that the Lihuo in his hand was like a mirage.
With a light flick, the Lihuo in his hand flew out of his hand and attached to the idiot's fodder. In just a flick of his finger, he quietly burned a pile of fodder into ashes!
"Awoo awoo awoo!" The idiot who had just woken up was furious when he saw this. He yelled at Duan Qing and rushed towards Duan Qing while yelling. It seemed that his goal was to cut Duan Qing's head.
Duan Qing was so scared that he quickly dodged out of the cave. This idiot liked to use this trick when he got angry, and he couldn't change it no matter what!
After staying in the cave for nine days, his injuries were basically recovered. He tore open his clothes on his chest and took a look. The original penetrating wound was only a shallow trace. I don't know if it was the magical effect of the spiritual spring water treatment, or the excellent physical fitness of the master!
No matter what the reason was, he was in a very good mood. His injuries were basically healed, and he had learned two new attacking techniques, which undoubtedly improved his strength a lot.
After wandering around the second heaven, getting some fodder for the fool, and filling the empty wooden gourd with water, Duan Qing returned to the cave.
Although he had learned the two techniques of Suzaku Feather and Lihuo Technique, he was not proficient in using them. He planned to practice for a while and master the two techniques more thoroughly before discussing other techniques. If he went out with such a half-baked skill, it would be a matter of life and death if he lost the chain in actual combat.
Twenty days passed in a flash, and his injuries had completely healed. During these twenty days, he did not leave the cave, and spent all his time practicing and practicing Suzaku Feather and Lihuo Technique. Although his cultivation did not make much progress, he had some experience in the two techniques.
He had trained the killing range of the Vermillion Bird Feather to ten feet, and its power was determined by how much spiritual power he condensed. This technique would consume at least 10% of his spiritual power, and at most it could increase the condensed spiritual power to 20%, but the power did not seem to have doubled, and there would still be some loss.
As for the Fire Separation Technique, he could now compress his spiritual power three times in the blink of an eye and shoot out three Fire Separation. The attack range was far beyond that of the Vermillion Bird Feather, but the distance was shorter, with the farthest being only about three feet.