Chapter 19: Halberd Technique

After a moment his father spoke "Although the inheritance will bring our clan to greater height, it is only in the future, right now only alchemy inheritance will bring immediate benefits. The weapon inheritance is not of much value to us right now, only short sabers are somewhat useful. If we had halberd inheritance, it would be immensely useful but even if we get one now it will take years to produce results. So our only option now is to collect resources for array and alchemy, other things can wait. I will give orders for our members in Bareback mountains to be on the lookout for certain herbs, minerals and blood essence." It was true, the weapon inheritance was somewhat of a letdown for the present Rijal clan. Looking at his elders, Amrit thought about the martial techniques and his cultivation technique. If his family member can cultivate these techniques, their strength would soar in short span of time. So although his spirit was getting somewhat tired he picked up a blank jade slip and tried to imprint his cultivation technique $@#$^@! Asura Divine cultivation technique. As he was about to engrave the technique, a sudden fear of death overwhelmed him. It was as if he engraved even the word of his cultivation technique, he would die for sure and a calamity would befall those related to him.

This fear was not from the world or Heaven, but from something far more ancient and primal. It was something from within himself, it was threat from Dao itself. His back was drenched in sweat and a chill went through his whole body. Seeing him sweating, his grandmother asked "What happened, have you overexerted your spirit again?" Looking at his grandmother he just shook his head and said "No, I am fine. Maybe it was because I have engraved a lot today but I can still engrave one more." He knew if he said he was not fine his grandmother will feed him another soul nourishing pill, which at this moment would be a waste for him. He can now only develop his soul when he breaks into violet soul realm. He looked at his father and said, "I do have halberd martial technique but I don't know how much effective it will be for our clan." He was in doubt if he could imprint the halberd techniques and Nine Nether Steps into jade slips. He then carefully summarized the Nine Nether Steps, as movement techniques would be immensely helpful for the clan but after looking at it carefully he realized there was certain condition for cultivating it. It required shadow attunement in cultivators which was rare in whole cultivation world. There was probably no one with shadow attunement in whole of Lunaris city. Feeling it will be useless he started to look into halberd technique. Since it was Heavenly grade technique, he wouldn't engrave whole inheritance. So he decided to downgrade it and make it a bit stronger than the techniques in the clan.

Downgrading techniques is not same as incomplete techniques, incomplete techniques, although may harm cultivators, contains little essence of the realm. Like the cultivation technique of Rijal clan, incomplete but still retains essence of spirit grade cultivation technique which is why his grandfather became half-step Core Formation cultivator. But to downgrade a technique, one had to completely master the technique. But Amrit due to his inheritance had already mastered the halberd technique. He already had muscle memory imprinted into him. To be proficient in using the technique, he just had to practice for few hours. Deciding to engrave the technique he first recited it in his mind, after replaying it few times he began to adjust it. After he felt like it was a bit better than the techniques in his clan he engraved it to the jade slip. This time it took almost all his spiritual energy to engrave it. Looking like someone who hadn't slept for three days he handed the jade slip to his father. He just looked at his grandmother and said "I will be fine after a good rest. I just spent a little more spirit than I expected." Looking at him suspiciously for a moment she also nodded. She knew that although using pill could refill spirit power easily, using one after another in a short period of time will cause in accumulation of pill impurities which in long term will hinder a cultivator.

Meanwhile his father was looking at the halberd technique with excitement. Although Amrit didn't know what different grade martial technique contained, his father knew. With excitement he shouted "It is a spirit grade martial technique. It is a spirit grade martial technique." Hearing this his grandparents also became gradually excited. The grading of technique was not just about strength it also came with few insights of corresponding realm. Any complete spirit technique, if mastered will help cultivator gleam into the intricacies of the Golden Core Formation realm. Although it would not help in effective breakthrough but even small help is enough in case of some bottlenecks. But the downside of this method was, in order to master higher grade technique, it may take cultivator decades to centuries, the higher the grade the more complicated they are. His grandparents leaned and probed the jade slip with their divine sense. They were excited and disappointed at the same time. If this was sword technique, their clan could have increased their top tier combat prowess in short time. Still having a spirit grade halberd technique was not that bad, they could take this as a reference and try to improve their own sword technique. It was a bittersweet moment.

After reading the technique they turned towards Amrit and asked "What is the name of this technique?" Hearing this Amrit didn't know what to say. He couldn't say he downgraded the Heaven grade technique to spirit grade, it was even more absurd than mastering heaven grade technique. Mind you even the genius in this world would not be able to master heaven grade technique at Qi Sensing realm. Forget about heaven grade, even spirit grade low tier is hard. Thus he could not say he downgraded it. Not only would they not believe it but will become suspicious whether he was possessed. So he just casually named it Spirit Halberd technique.

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