<h4>Chapter 1247: Technique to Pass Tribtions</h4>


    “The second is regarding the cultivation of Martial Emperors and how to maximize the use of your Primordial Energy, not wasting resources.


    “The third is closely rted to you now, some techniques for passing tribtions.”


    Xiao Chen showed a stunned expression. These three things could even be called divine techniques, all of them extraordinary. Learning just one would already bring considerable benefits. The favor of the me Rock Sovereign was simply too big.


    The me Rock Sovereign continued, “However, my guidance will not be easy. You will have to suffer from great pain in every one of them. This is especially so for the third one. You might even die.”


    Xiao Chen did not feel any fear. His eyes remained resolute as he said, “Senior, rest assured. I have already grasped this principle on my path thus far. The greater the value of something, the greater the risk or price to pay. There is no such thing as getting something for nothing.”


    “First, I’ll teach you the Sharp Spirit Finger. Little Friend Xiao Chen, how do you think I managed to aplish my earlier finger move?” the me Rock Sovereign asked Xiao Chen while looking at him as if testing Xiao Chen’sprehension ability.


    Xiao Chen entered deep thought. After pondering for a while, he said, “On the surface, it looked like you continuouslypressed all the energy before gathering it at one point. Then, you unleashed it all in one go, disying an offensive power that far surpassed your cultivation.”


    Earlier, the me Rock Sovereign only executed his finger move with the cultivation of a half-step Martial Emperor. However, the offensive power far surpassed that of Xiao Chen’s Medial Grade Profound Martial Technique. This was the principle behind it.


    However, if it were that simple, it would not be anything special. It would be something that one would readily learn with one nce. What then would be the point of the me Rock Sovereign teaching Xiao Chen this?


    The me Rock Sovereign smiled faintly and nodded before saying, “Continue.”


    Then, Xiao Chen thought for a while more and said, “The actual situation is definitely not that simple. Law Energy flows in one’s body like water. The human body is like a water pouch. Once a certain ce is overfilled, the water pouch would deform.


    “If it were just by once or twice over, the body would be able to endure it. However, if it goes beyond ten times—one hundred times or thousands of times—the water pouch would definitely have problems that would cause it to explode.”


    The smile on the me Rock Sovereign’s face widened. “This is the first time for me to hear of such aparison. This is rather interesting. Go on. How are you going to ensure that the water pouch does not explode?”


    The me Rock Sovereign did not say whether Xiao Chen was right or wrong. Instead, he indicated for Xiao Chen to pursue this line of thought.


    Feeling encouraged, Xiao Chen said, “If you want to prevent the water pouch from breaking, there are two ways. One is to increase the toughness of the water pouch. That is to say, the strength of the physical body. The second method is to increase the density of the water. This means continuously refining the Law Energy and making it denser. A simr-sized strand of refined Law Energy would be able to bring out ten times—one hundred times—the corresponding might.”


    Xiao Chen’s line of thought became increasingly clearer. “My guess is that Senior used the second method. This is because Senior used only the strength of a half-step Martial Emperor and did not use the Golden Emperor Body.”


    The me Rock Sovereign startedughing loudly, confusing Xiao Chen. Was he right or wrong?


    “Senior, so was I right or wrong?” Xiao Chen asked carefully. Now, he could not figure out what the me Rock Sovereign was thinking.


    Afterughing his fill, the me Rock Sovereign answered, “Sorry, it’spletely wrong. However, I feel that your line of thought is a viable direction as well. Right, it can be considered.”


    Xiao Chen fell speechless. This was simply digging him a pit to jump into. At first, based on the me Rock Sovereign’s expression, Xiao Chen thought that he was right. Unexpectedly, the me Rock Sovereign said that in the end.


    “Senior, there is no need to fool me like that, right,” Xiao Chen said depressedly.


    The me Rock Sovereign said, “I’m not fooling you. This is the Martial Technique that Iprehended by myself, something belonging to me. Nothing canpare to something youprehended yourself.


    “Your line of thought is indeed correct. However, the physical body is a physical body after all; it is still somewhat different from a water pouch in the end. My method only utilizes one thing: speed!”


    Speed? What does that mean?


    “That is to use an extreme speed to gather a vast amount of energy. The physical body, indeed, cannot endure it. However, if it is just for a thousandth of a second, or even a hundredth, do you think that the physical body can endure it?”


    Xiao Chen’s brain lit up; he instantly felt enlightened. Certainly, if it was just for a thousandth of a second or even just a hundredth, given the toughness of the physical body, it would definitely be endurable.


    However, this was very close to the limit. Just slightly slower, and it could result in damage to the body; the losses would not be worth the gain.


    This was like dancing on a tightrope. If one got careless and fell, the consequences would be hard to recover from.


    “Let me demonstrate it to you a few times. Watch carefully!”


    The me Rock Sovereign’s expression turned serious. Then, he casually pointed. The sky immediately turned dark, preventing Xiao Chen from seeing anything. Aside from the bright light on the me Rock Sovereign’s fingertip—a light as bright as the sun—Xiao Chen could not make out even the me Rock Sovereign’s face and body. They were all overwhelmed by this bright light, merging into the darkness.


    The light shed, and a fiery light as bright as the sun appeared at the me Rock Sovereign’s shoulder.


    Many sun-like fiery lights appeared continuously on the me Rock Sovereign’s body, making him scintite without pause.


    Xiao Chen opened his eyes wide, watching the me Rock Sovereign’s patient demonstration closely. Finally, he discovered some of the tricks to it.


    A faint red whirlpool at the me Rock Sovereign’s chest spun continuously. No matter where the Law Energy flowed to, this red whirlpool never disappeared at all.


    It looked like the red whirlpool did not stop at all.


    However, in reality, the red whirlpool had been shing, moving incredibly fast, even faster than those resplendent sun-like fiery lights.


    The red whirlpool was merely too fast for the physical eye to capture its motions. This created the illusion that it never stopped.


    The lights stopped shing, and the me Rock Sovereign asked, “How about it? Did you manage to figure out anything?”


    Xiao Chen nodded and replied, “The core of Senior’s Sharp Spirit Finger should be the red whirlpool at your chest. Without being able to materialize that red whirlpool, even if others knew about the Sharp Spirit Finger’s principle, they would not dare to try it.”


    “That’s right. Iprehended this Sharp Spirit Finger before I advanced to Martial Emperor. Due to a stroke of fortune, I entered into the state of being one with heaven andprehended it after a sh of inspiration.”


    Xiao Chen said, “There is nothing that happens without reason in this world. Even for something like a sh of inspiration, without arge amount of umtions, one would not be able to obtain this sh of inspiration.”


    Thisment stunned the me Rock Sovereign when he heard it. Unexpectedly, Xiao Chen could see this so clearly. This was a principle that the me Rock Sovereign understood after living for more than five thousand years.


    “Right now, you have two paths that you can take. The first is to follow my methods, and I’ll teach you the Sharp Spirit Finger. The second is to perfect the direction that you found yourself. I’ll be around whenever you need me.”


    Xiao Chen did not hesitate for long before deciding. “I choose the second route.”


    The speed of his decision somewhat bbergasted the me Rock Sovereign. “Why? Have you thought it through? It was just a casual remark. The time is so short. It is too difficult if you want toprehend it on your own.”


    “I thought through it already. Senior is right. The Martial Techniquesprehended by oneself are more suited to oneself in the end. While choosing the first route seems simple and will allow me to learn quickly, Senior is a fire-attributed cultivator while I am a lightning-attributed cultivator. Although I would learn fast, it would require a vast amount of time to perfect it in the future.”


    Xiao Chen continued his analysis. “If I choose the second route, while learning will be very slow, once I’ve built the foundation, it will be perfectly suited to me, which will actually be more efficient.”


    The me Rock Sovereign smiled. “You are that confident that you canprehend it yourself?”


    Xiao Chen said calmly, “Senior already exined it so clearly to me and even personally demonstrated it. If I still cannotprehend it, it would only go to show that this Sharp Spirit Finger is not suitable for me.”


    The me Rock Sovereign said, “Good. In that case, I’ll give you ten days. Whether you seed or not, I will skip past this step and teach you the second thing, the usage of Primordial Energy.”


    Xiao Chen nodded but did not hurry to meditate and ponder. Instead, he got the me Rock Sovereign to exin in detail how the me Rock Sovereign had initiallyprehended the Sharp Spirit Finger.


    Two days passed quickly. Even the me Rock Sovereign was somewhat fatigued by Xiao Chen’s questions. However, Xiao Chen still tirelessly and patiently sought advice.


    As far as Xiao Chen understood, having such a Sovereign Martial Emperor by his side was much more useful than any secret manual.


    When the third day arrived, Xiao Chen stopped asking the me Rock Sovereign questions. Instead, a pile of books the height of a person towered beside him. These were all some Cultivation Techniques or Martial Techniques that the me Rock Sovereign mentioned while they chatted.


    This sight rendered the watching me Rock Sovereign somewhat tongue-tied. Even he could not remember all of them. However, Xiao Chen did not miss out on even one, gathering them all.


    On the fourth day, another pile of books appeared beside Xiao Chen. These were all lightning-attributed Cultivation Techniques and Martial Techniques that he borrowed from the me Rock Sovereign.


    As the me Rock Sovereign and Ao Jiao drank the Thousand Year me, they asionally nced at Xiao Chen, who was reading seriously at the drill ground.


    The me Rock Sovereign frowned and said, “Almost half the time has passed, and he is still reading. He is too calm and indifferent.”


    The me Rock Sovereign even started to wonder whether he made a misjudgment, running into a nerd who only excelled at theory.


    Ao Jiao scolded with a smile, “Just you wait. Xiao Chen never does anything he is not confident of. Since he chose the second route, he is definitely confident. You have no idea how strong hisprehension ability is.”


    The me Rock Sovereign said, “I also hope that he canprehend it himself. That way, it would be at its strongest. However, there are only six days left, and he is still so calm about it. I am really starting to get worried.”


    “Hey, Xiao Chen moved!” Ao Jiao said as she put down her wine cup.


    The me Rock Sovereign’s eyes lit up as he quickly looked over. However, he could not help feeling disappointed. After Xiao Chen put down the books, he started trying things out instead of quietly meditating and pondering.


    In the end, Xiao Chen did not seed even once. Instead, lightning-attributed energy opened various wounds all over his body. There were even several times when his internal organs sustained severe injury.


    The me Rock Sovereign wanted to put a stop to this. However, Ao Jiao intercepted him. “Don’t go. Given how stubborn he is, he will not listen to you at this moment.”


    Hence, this situation continued. Whether it was night or day, lightning shed and thunder roared in the drill ground. These mysterious phenomena startled all the cultivators and servants in the entire me Rock castle.


    When these people saw Xiao Chen treating himself harshly, they all showed incredulous looks on their faces.


    “What is he doing?”


    “I heard that he isprehending the me Rock Sovereign’s consummate skill, which the me Rock Sovereign does not teach anyone, the Sharp Spirit Finger!”


    “You must be joking. With how badly he is torturing himself, he still wants toprehend the Sharp Spirit Finger? Did he suffer a blow to the head?”


    As the thunder roared, it veiled the sky with a constant dark overcast churning continuously, day and night. Three days passed this way. Now, it startled not only the people in the me Rock castle but also all the cultivators in the entire Dark City.