Martial Research Master

Chapter 48

Chapter 48: STAR EMPEROR ACADEMY -

The intermediate level sword intent of the first level was much more ferocious than one could think of. To understand it, a general martial artist has to be at least a QI master realm expert.

But Long Tao was trying to temper his abilities with the help of it now.

“Boy, you need to be careful. An intent is a special kind of power realisation into a particular portion of martial art. When you try to advance your intent, the safest way is to train it, again and again, using techniques and learn more skills, meditate etc.”

“But the fastest way is what you are trying now. To temper your intent with the help of intent that is already more advanced than yours. Although it is a faster way, it comes with a lot of risks the greatest of which is the user’s physical body and soul being harmed.”

You are to be careful. I would recommend you to have all your clones’ practice alongside you in this area. It would be much easier to understand it then.” Long Tao understood the concern, but how could he miss two god-given opportunities like this.

The stele was good for his martial comprehension and improvement of understanding, but the thunder pool was extremely helpful in his body cultivation. If given a choice, Long Tao would choose body cultivation above the tempering of intents, because it was the difficult one of the two.

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In the thunder god academy-

Long Tao had already managed to open his 19th meridian. It had been half the time he was allotted by the elder.

The Crimson lord Artifact was madly absorbing the power of the pool. As the keeper had said, this won’t be able to give much of a qualitative enhancement to the Crimson lord world, like increasing the time ratio, but it could densify the Qi in the crimson lord world.

The continuous absorption had resulted in the formation of a thunder element pool inside the Crimson lord world. Long Tao verified it. Although the quality of the liquid was not like the one in the thunder-god academy, that was made up of natural oddities, but rather, was liquified lightning concentrated to a huge extent.

Long Tao was surprised by the phenomena, but the keeper said that this was just a minor benefit in front of the real treasures of the Crimson lord world. He asked Long Tao to concentrate on his cultivation.

When his cultivation grows to a certain extent, new areas will start to open up in the Crimson lord world. It was a treasure that was linked to the body of the user. The more powerful the user is, the more will be the utilities of the Crimson lord world.

Long Tao saw the pool being created and estimated that, after another 15 days, the power that was concentrated here would be able to help him break through around 3 more meridians. So, he concentrated on the breaking through of the 20th secondary meridian.

15 more days to go.

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Standing in front of the stele-

Long Tao took a long time to calm his berserk Qi down and slowly approach the stele. He meditated and tried to get closer. After an unknown period of time, Long Tao was finally able to have a seat near the stele.

He began to use his own intent to compete with the stele. His intent was been broken again and again. But he would re-forge it and start competing again. ZIt was a tiring and painful process.

The intent was a combination of both Qi and soul power. With each break and re-forge, huge amounts of Qi and soul power was being consumed. Thankfully Long Tao had the avatars, hence Qi wasn’t a problem.

The real problem was the soul power. After around 3 times of breaking, his soul power was wholly consumed, and Long Tao had to halt and recover his soul power. The Soul Nourishing Formula was automatically working and Long Tao began to chant it too, facilitating the speed of replenishment.

The recovery was slow, and it was even longer for Long Tao who had such a powerful soul. Finally, after he managed to recover all his soul power, Long Tao saw that the capacity of his soul world has changed and had become much higher than before.

The same went for his Qi. If compared to when he started, the Qi capacity of his individual body had increased. This was the benefit of consuming and replenishing while tempering with the help of stele.

Long Tao started the same set of actions again, but the limit this time had increased to the 4th try before being consumed. Long Tao was elated. He had initially thought of not showcasing too much talent in front of others, but this was a once in a lifetime opportunity for improving his limits.

There was no way he was letting go. He continued the process, until finally after an a picture began to form within his memories. It was the image of a sword slash.

This sword slash combined not only the principles of the last one he had experienced but even added the element of speed and agility to it. Long Tao started practising it, and slowly was finally able to grasp the art.

After multiple executions, finally, the realm of perfection was achieved. A name appeared within his mind.

“Sword hack. “was the name of the slash, and it was the only move of the stele. There was no name for the skill. But when Long Tao tried emitting his intent, he found that he had successfully managed to enter the intermediate level.

He moved on to the next stele, and after comprehending the learning, a sword move directly appeared in his mind. Long Tao was surprised that this was also a sword move and the intent was at an intermediate level.

“Sword stab”, “Sword thrust”, “Sword guard”.

Finally, after comprehending 4 steles, Long Tao had a new skill named in his brain “Basic Sword”. He managed to learn all the components of the skill.

Suddenly Long Tao had a premonition and a weird idea. He practised the multiple sword art consecutively, one after the other. After a period of practicing, Long Tao stopped and slowed his movements, bringing more fluidity into them. The fluidity continued to be more and more visible and speed was increasing little by little too.

Finally, Long Tao was able to merge the fluidity and speed into a perfect level and suddenly his intent was released unconsciously.

“Peak of intermediate sword intent of the first level.” The elders present were gasping for breath. They had expected him to be able to rise his intent to the intermediate level, but this boy was able to rise to the peak level.

Something unexpected has happened. Wouldn’t it mean that this boy would be able to rise all his intents to this level with the help of the stele. The elder in charge of the examination found that his message token was shining and as he picked it up, he heard the voice of one of the vice-leaders.

“The people who have come to test for the entrance have been lining up into a long queue now, why haven’t the test hall opened yet.”

” Master, the boy who is currently taking the test is still comprehending.”

“That bastard is taking so long. He is disqualified from the examination.”

“You misunderstood master.”

“Has he passed the test?”

“Yes, master.”

“Then kick him out and give him a token”

“Reporting to master, the boy is having some unprecedented level of result.”

“What is it?”

The elder reported the event to the vice-leaders and when he heard about the exploits of Long Tao to be able to get his intent from beginner to peak of intermediate level. The vice-leader was shocked on hearing such exploits.

He rushed out. How could he leave such a good seedling? He appeared before the examination hall and was now looking at Long Tao. Soon enough the other vice-leaders appeared too.

Long Tao had managed to already comprehend the sabre intent to the peak of intermediate level and was now trying out the spear intent.

The process continued. “Basic sabre law”, “Basic Spear”,” Basic hammer”, “Basic Force” and “Basic halberd”. Soon enough he was able to learn all the six techniques. All his six intents were now at the peak of the intermediate stage of the 1st level.

“Incredible, this is the greatest talent to have appeared in our institute. To have managed to not only comprehend six intents but raise them to the peak of the intermediate stage of the 1st level, while still being at Qi child realm, this brat is a gem.” One of the vice- leaders said.

“I would like to take him as my inheritance disciple. Hope all of you will not interfere in this regard.”, a vice-leader in red spoke. The elders were silent but another vice-leader said with a mocking voice.

” I don’t need to give you face. This brat will be my disciple,”. The vice-leaders started arguing within themselves.

Suddenly a loud gasp of shock left the mouth of one of the elders, and everybody stared at him. He was petrified, and when all of the others looked at what he was looking at, they were shocked to a standstill as well. Long Tao was moving towards the advanced steles.