Skill Mastery
Bi Family mansion,
A Middle-aged man around 40 years of age was standing in the middle of the mansion hall as he looked at the swollen cheeked fellow before him with disappointment. He has a bear-like figure, dark-skinned, black eyes with black hair.
"Father, you have to help me to kill that devil, Ye Xian. He injured uncle Wen and slapped me in front of the crowd of people." Bi Jen screamed at the figure before him – his father, Bi Rong.
"Shut up, you good-for-nothing son of mine. I already told you to keep your ass away from him. Do you think the Hal family's late patriarch and his son's died due to illness? No, they died in the hands of Ye Yonghai - without even able to retaliate. Because, Ye Xian was poisoned by the Hal family's scheme, only I know about it other than some core elders of Hal family."
"Even till today, we don't know the strength of Ye Yonghai, where he came from and why the Kingdom gave him the position of Pearl city's – city lord."
"You are grounded for three months. Guards, throw this son of mine into his room and lock him up; He shouldn't leave his room for the next three months." After calling the guards, Bi Rong didn't even give another glance at Bi Jen as he walked towards the window, while his mind is completely filled with terror.
The truth is, Bi family and Hal family joined hands to deal with Ye Yonghai; The first part of the plan is to poison Ye Xian and test the strength of Ye Yonghai but the result was outside of their expectation.
When Ye Yonghai, learned the news his son was poisoned by Hal family, he straight away went to Hal family. The Aim of both Hal family and Bi Family is to lure Ye Yonghai to them and kill him.
The Hal family will take the leading role, while the Bi family will ambush him at the critical situation.
When Ye Yonghai descended upon Hal family, nobody wasn't able to lift their fingers because of the formidable pressure released by Ye Yonghai.
Both Bi Rong and Hal family's patriarch reached Spirit elemental realm so they are very confident in their strength but before Ye Yonghai, even they are no exception.
Ye Yonghai killed Hal family's patriarch and his sons and warned everyone before he left the place. Bi Rong, who laid in ambush some distance from Hal family didn't even close his eyelids for some time, in fear, Ye Yonghai will discover him.
From that onwards, Bi Rong secluded himself in the Bi Family's mansion informing everyone as he was in an important part of his cultivation; Other families also stopped their power struggles in fear of losing their life's.
Whenever he remembers that incident, his hands and legs will tremble in fear. The reason is, if someone is stronger then him by some levels, he wouldn't be this afraid. Even if the other party is one realm higher than him, he will think of ways to kill that person.
But if the other part is stronger than him by multiple realms, he can only tremble in fear. Even till today, he couldn't understand why such a powerful person is staying in a remote city.
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As soon as, Ye Xian entered his mansion, he began his procedure in making the 'Seven point mortal elixir.
With the number of herbs he brought, it's more than enough for him to last for one month. The making process of the elixir is rather simple, Ye Xian used one set of herbs to concoct one bottle of elixir.
One bottle contained more than 200 drops of liquid. The usage of the elixir is to mix two or three drops of liquid in the hot tub and soak in it.
If one wants to make use of the full effects of the medicinal elixir, they have to exhaust their muscles and body strength, before they soak in it.
The best way is to train their physical body to its limit or practice any taxing skills which will wear down the muscle strength.
Ye Xian decided to practice his skills which will be of hitting two birds in one stone. When he was cultivating in the past he used the same method. He only knows about two skills which his father taught. One is Snow tiger fist and other is Traceless Wind steps.
Skill mastery is divided into many levels like Skill control, Initial mastery, Intermediate mastery, Advanced mastery, Perfection and finally the 'Way'.
The Might of one skill will increase as their mastery of the skill level. Everything in this world has it's own 'Way'; For Example, Way of the sword, Way of the fist, Way of poison, Way of Wind...etc.
One will create their own way when one reaches a certain level in what they are doing. For Ye Xian, 'Way' is a far away concept. Only emperor level powerhouses are capable of comprehending the 'way'.
Even Ye Xian, who practiced the above two skills for many years haven't attained the Skill Control stage. But no one knows, his sword practice already reached Skill Control stage, due to him not knowing any sword arts, he wasn't able to bring out its full potential.
Ye Xian searched the memories of Saint Redwood in hope of finding any good skills. Most of the techniques and skills, based on Divine way are erased so he can only curse him in his mind.
But, he found one low-level skill called 'Falling leaf' which is a leg based technique. Without any choice, he decided to learn it.
After learning the skill, Ye Xian began his skill training and practiced daily from morning to evening; In Night, he will soak in the elixir bath and cultivate his Divine star constellation technique.
Day passed by one by one, swiftly one month passed.
Unlike before, his training in the skill's improved tremendously. If one compares the Ye Xian's comprehension speed from 3 years ago to the current Ye Xian; The difference is that of heaven to earth.
His skill's Snow tiger fist, Traceless steps, and Falling leaf entered Skill control level. The surprising part is the 'Falling leaf' skill, it's might is ten times greater than that of his snow Tiger Fist.
The First stage of the Falling leaf skill is called 'Leaf falling from the tree', just a single kick from his leg, he will be able to blow anyone under soul realm into that of minced meat. This skill's might and advantage rely on the part flexibility, like the free-falling leaf, able to change its course according to the wind.
Only, when one reaches the skill control level in the 'Falling leaf' skill, they can learn the 'Leaf falling from the tree' stage.
The same goes for his other two skills. Every skill has different stages but what distinguishes between them is the mastery.
For Example, Everyone can practice the first stage of the 'Falling leaf' skill but if one wants to learn the second stage then they should have reached 'Skill control' level.
What caused Ye Xian a headache is the progress of his cultivation, even after one month of continuous use of Medicinal elixir, he only reached Level 5 of the mortal realm.
The reason is, his Divine star constellation technique concentrates on both Essence energy and physical body. So every time he cultivates, most of the energy will go to his physical body while the remaining to his dantian.
He was sure without using any Alchemy pills, high-grade medicinal herbs, and fruits, he won't be able to improve his cultivation speed any further.
Even though he was only at level 5, the pureness of his essence energy gave him strength equal to that of level 9 mortal realm practitioner; His dantian is also capable of storing essence energy three times as that of normal practitioners.
With this much advantage, Ye Xian didn't mind his cultivation slower than normal people. If other's heard his thought, they will choke him to death. In one month, going from level 2 to level 5, if this cultivation speed is considered slow then what will be considered fast!
Moreover, in this one month he improved his Soul arrow spirit technique; Now, his soul arrow is that of the size of a horse nail. It's more than enough to puncture the initial soul realm practitioners.
He also tried to learn another Mysterious spirit ability, Myriad healing, but he wasn't able to learn it. The reason is, he needs some kind of stimulus or enlightenment in the field of healing only then he can learn this ability.
Two days ago, the effect of the elixir also began to diminish in his body so hereafter the elixir is nearly useless to Ye Xian.
"If I want to improve my cultivation any further, I need to leave this city and enter top grade academy. Only when I compete with many geniuses, I can bring my body's full potential."
"I better go and ask father since he knows everything about this continent. He will surely know which is the best academy for me to join. " Ye Xian mused for some time and decided to go and meet his father.