I Can See Your Combat Power

“You’re right, neither the ‘Houtu Ring Pattern Body’ alone, nor the ‘Wuding Qiflow’ can withstand the ‘Seven Shards Return to Origin Slash,’ but do you still remember what I just mentioned about compatibility?”

Tang Luo explained to Li Xuanba, “The ‘Wuding Qiflow’ can be enhanced by both the ‘Cold Rain Wave Essence’ and the ‘Sunburn Extinguishing God Scripture.’ The original Qi shield, after receiving both enhancements, can transform into the Wave Overcoming Screen and the Sunburn Fire Ring. A protective martial art of such strength simply cannot be broken by the ‘Seven Shards Return to Origin Slash’ alone.”

“As for the ‘Houtu Ring Pattern Body,’ being a heavy earth attribute body refining secret technique, it is too rigid and easily broken and can be easily restrained, but with the addition of the ‘Sunburn Extinguishing God Scripture,’ it can evolve from an earth-drawn body into a Fiery Rock Demon Body, while the ‘Cold Rain Wave Essence’ ensures that the martial artist is not eroded by fire poison and becomes maddened, maintaining a clear battle consciousness. With such enhancements, the tenacity of this combination is quite exceptional, and the effects are indeed astonishing.”

“Having talked about the defensive side, let’s move on to the offensive side. The ‘Sunburn Extinguishing God Scripture’ is already an incomparably fierce fire attribute secret technique, but its fierceness cannot last long, and as it only causes spiritual injuries without any other effects, it is easy to end up in a situation where the spiritual power is exhausted but the opponent isn’t defeated. However, with the enhancement from ‘Wuding Qiflow,’ a Sunburn domain can be formed, which not only greatly enhances the power of the Sunburn Extinguishing God Scripture but also suppresses other types of spiritual power.”

“To simplify the compatibility analysis, after two enhancements, the ‘Sunburn Extinguishing God Scripture’ has a strength of 3; the ‘Houtu Ring Pattern Body’ has a strength of 4 after two enhancements; the enhancement effect of ‘Wuding Qiflow’ is the best with a strength exceeding 5; and the ‘Cold Rain Wave Essence’ has a strength of 1. The final strength of this combination can probably exceed 13. What’s more, these four combined techniques do not occupy each other’s meridian acupoints, allowing the martial artist who practices this combination to avoid exhaustion due to overuse of certain parts of the meridians, significantly enhancing their endurance in prolonged battles.”

“Congratulations, this combination should achieve good results in the third challenge.”

Having explained everything, Tang Luo congratulated Cui Haoran, while on the other side, Li Xuanba seemed forlorn and on the verge of tears. Cui Haoran only chose four secret techniques to combine but had a strength of 13, and he, having chosen five combinations, only achieved a strength of 3, which made him feel a profound sadness well up inside him.

“Is Old Cui’s strength that high? What about mine?” Xiao Ziyu, after hearing about the strength of his teammates’ combinations, quickly presented his own, “The ‘Lotus Holy Fire,’ the ‘Candle Dragon Yin Fire,’ the ‘Li Hate Poison Fire,’ the ‘Nether Ghost Fire,’ the ‘Yin Yang Sun Setting Formation Chart.'”noveldrama

“Actually, I’m not that proficient in spirit arts and I don’t understand many compatibilities and destructive cycles, but I feel that my understanding of spiritual fire and foreign fire is quite decent. These four types are what I’ve carefully selected from the ‘Secret Arts Catalogue’ that won’t conflict with each other in practice, please, captain, help me look at the compatibility and the final strength of the combination…”

In simple terms, it was just like Xiao Ziyu’s own path in the martial arts; in his world, there was only scorching blaze. Even for the final challenge of the Longzhou Youth Martial Arts Conference, he did not change his approach, and chose four kinds of spiritual fire secret techniques, along with a fire formation that could maximize the efficacy of the four types of spiritual fire, truly stubborn to a fault.

But who knew whether it was the favor of the heavens over Longxi or it was this young man’s destiny; the haphazardly assembled fire formation was surprisingly powerful.

“You’re really a genius…” Tang Luo, holding his forehead, incredulously said, “The ‘Lotus Holy Fire’ is a Supreme Yang spiritual fire, while ‘Candle Dragon Yin Fire’ is an extreme yin nether fire. Ordinary martial artists simply cannot practice both, but once the ‘Yin Yang Sun Setting Formation Chart’ is inscribed into the meridians, it can separate the two kinds of spiritual fire according to their yin and yang properties, which is a stroke of genius.”

“The other two spiritual fires you’ve chosen represent another yin and yang synthesis. Xu Sheng once marked resentment and loathing, two types of blazing anger, as yang fires in ‘Spiritual Power Analysis,’ so the ‘Li Hate Poison Fire’ is also considered a lesser yang spiritual fire, while the ‘Nether Ghost Fire’ is phosphor fire that clings to bones, also a lesser yin specter fire. ‘Li Hate Poison Fire’ can enhance the fierceness of the Lotus Flames, while the ‘Nether Ghost Fire’ can enhance the fury of the Candle Dragon Nether Fire. Once the Yin Yang Sun Setting Fire Formation is laid down, the practitioner hiding within the Formation Eye is almost invincible, which is truly ingenious.”