A direction

Matthew was not expecting Natasha to ask such a question, he could only praise her in his mind.

'As expected from someone who can turn fiction into reality, your focus is definitely different from what other people would focus on.'

Thankfully Matthew had been through a lot this year, so he wouldn't fumble to such a small thing.

The first step in his <> is to deploy a time delaying maneuver, this helps him get more time to think.

He looked at Natasha with gratified in his eyes, as if he was satisfied for her critical thinking, and responded:

"You being able to ask this question at this time means that your comprehension ability is not bad, and you have taken the first critical step to understanding the technique."

His thoughts spun quickly and he already had a reasonable explanation in a few moments.

"Have you ever heard of fighting poison with poison?"

Natasha shook her head.

"Well, there are some very strong poisons that cannot be cured by conventional means, and in order to cure the poison doctors would use other poisons."

It was the first time that Natasha had heard about fighting poison with poison, and she found the idea very novel.

She knew for a fact that her family's pharmacist, Franky, did not have such means.

Natasha even suspected that the imperial doctor of the Botala royal family did not have such methods.

'As expected of the teacher, he is very knowledgeable!'

"Dragons were so powerful that people from ancient times believed that only a dragon could defeat a dragon, hence the existence of the dragon subduing palm technique."

"At the highest mastery of this technique, the dragon force would be similar to a real dragon, and you would be able to subdue dragons with it."

Natasha was excited by such a prospect.

'I must practice the dragon subduing palm seriously, if I encounter a real dragon in the future, I will use this palm to subdue a dragon as my mount!'

"Teacher, I understand, I will definitely master this technique!"

Natasha said with a strong conviction in her voice.

"Good, I believe in you!"

"Did you understand and remember everything that I told you about the dragon subduing palm?"

Natasha shook her head and nodded before responding:

"Although I might not have understood all of your profound meanings, I have remembered everything."

"Ok, good!"

"Next, I will impart the knowledge necessary to comprehend your own movement technique."

"We live in a plane of existence with three dimensions."

Matthew pointed towards one direction and continued to speak.

"One dimensions is from the east were the sun rises to the east were the sun sets, another is from the south to the north, and the last dimensions is from the sky to the ground."

"From these dimensions we can derive the six main directions."

"East, west, north, south, up, and down."

"Any other direction you can think of is a derivative of these six directions."

"For example. The direction between the north and the east becomes north east."

"At your level, you are restricted to this truth, as these are laws of heaven and earth."

"You must observe and comprehend these laws and the general nature of the world to come up with a technique that will increase your speed of movement."

Before he had transmigrated, Mathew had read novels in which cultivators would have a special technique that would boost their speed, although he didn't know if such a thing was possible, he decided to let Natasha give it a try.

He didn't really understand what the principle for such a technique to work would be, so he just said a bunch of words that sounded right.

If Natasha can come up with such a technique, everything would be fine, and if she fails then it would be due to her poor understanding.

'Either way. It is a win situation.'

Natasha felt her head become dizzy, the more she thought about Matthew's words, the more mysterious they became to her.

'This is must be the mage arts mentioned in those books!'

Seeing Natasha seemed to be already lost in thought, Matthew kindly reminded:

"Don't forget to cook, feed the rabbits and chickens, and take care of the vegetables. You should manage your time we'll."

Although his body had started to depend less on food and he would be ok with one meal a day, he had to make it seem as if he had not changed.

"I understand!"

"Ok, keep up the good work."

After saying so, he left with his hands behind his back, at a leisurely pace.

After sitting back on his reclining chair, Matthew went back to reading his book.

…

After Mathew left. Natasha followed his instructions and made a timetable for herself to follow.

"Today, I will practice the dragon subduing palm."

After sorting out her schedule, Natasha started to practice the palm technique.

After taking a deep breath, she slapped out some mana out of her palm, and her mana blasted out like a torrent.

"No! This is just the power of mana not the power of the dragon force that the teacher spoke of!"

Natasha frowned and fell into deep thought.

Unable to think a direction to follow, Natasha decided to try and make the elements that Matthew made on his palm before.

She sat down cross legged and started experimenting.

'How did the teacher form a flame with his mana?'

It took Natasha over half an hour and she finally managed to condense a flame from her mana.

"So that is how it is!"

"So taking mana of a single elemental attribute and compressing it at different pressures would give different effects."

After she managed to form the flame, Natasha compressed the mana further, and she found the results to be very satisfactory.

She gathered the compressed mana in the palm of her hand and shot it towards a nearby tree

Click!——

Boom!——

Swoosh!——

The tree broke in half, fell to the ground, and started to burn.

Ssss!——

Natasha involuntarily took a deep breath as she had not expected it to work so well.

Not wanting to start a forest fire, Natasha hurriedly condensed some mana with elemental attribute of water, and shot it towards the burning tree.

The tree was smashed to pieces by the power of the palm force, and the fire was put out

Seeing this, Natasha became interested in the different kinds of effects that the different kinds of attributes of mana had.

Boom!——

Natasha threw a metal attributed palm force towards the ground and a small crater was made on group.

Natasha compressed some earth elemental mana and shot it on another place on the ground.

Boom!——

The crater formed was bigger than the previous one, and the soil where the force landed actually seemed to have become much more softer.

"Wow! This is so interesting!"

"Then what happens if I compress two or more mana attributes at the same time?"

She tried, but Unfortunately her control over her mana was just not good enough.

"Well, at least I finally have some superficial understanding of the technique."

Natasha spend most if the day on the hillside, blasting one hole after another on the ground, and breaking trees.

It was not until it was late at night, that returned to the village with some reluctance.

The next morning, Natasha was back at it.

Boom!——

A pit opened up a few meters away from Natasha.

"The power has increased…"

Natasha looked at the pit with a thoughtful expression.

"I should still have a lot of room for growth in this aspect."

…

During the day. Matthew came over to check on Natasha's progress and was pleased to see that she seemed to be making some progress.

He gave a few motivational quotes to her and went back to his leisurely life.

…

In the following time, Natasha practiced the dragon subduing palm in the morning, comprehended and tried to come up with a movement technique in the afternoon, and did her best to increase her mana in the evening.

In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

The hillside that Natasha practiced on was already densely covered with pits of all sizes, and all the trees within a hundred meter radius had disappeared.

Natasha had made great progress in her practice of the dragon subduing palm.

She could swiftly release a palm force with a single thought, as if it was instinct, and it's force had increased exponentially.

However, she had not yet managed to shape the power in the form of a dragon, all she could release were torrents of compressed mana.

"How should I condense this force into a dragon shape?"

"Why do I need to condense it into a the shape of a dragon?"

"How can successfully execute this technique?"

On this day, Natasha was in deep thought.

She kept picturing the drawings of the eastern dragons that she saw in the drawings.

As she pictured what she wanted to make, she circulated her mana, drove it to her palm, and tried to condense a dragon shape.

However, the result was that the mana was only condensed into a snake like form.

"I understand!"

"The reason for shaping one's mana into the shape of a dragon is so that one can improve the control of mana!"

"Only by improving the control of mana can I make the shape of a dragon."

"And by improving the control of my mana, I will be able to make more powerful moves at the expense of as little mana as possible!"

"Being able to control my mana better will only bring me benefits…"

Natasha finally knew the direction she had to work towards.