Mystical Journey

The two consecutive strengthening effects caused Garen to think deeper.

It was evidently the effect of totem fusion and martial art training. With his martial arts level, it naturally wasn’t hard to identify. Even if no adjustments were made to the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, there was already a feeling of beyond recognition.

"What if I had not fused with the Nine Headed Hydra but with other totems? Will the additional strengthening effects be different?" He gave some thought. "This fusion method could be a self-propelled evolution method. It changes to suit the user into a form that suits the user the most."

In simple terms, the Myriad Water Jasper technique was just the basic foundation. As different totem users reach fifth form and fuse with different totems, the effects of the techniques will also be different.

At this time, Garen had a subtle realization. If he passed on his techniques to a normal person and trained him to the peak, the person might have similar effects with himself. Even if the power was slightly lesser, it was just a matter of compatibility.

If he continued to fuse with the Nine Headed Hydra, even he himself wasn’t clear how his techniques would evolve and strengthen.

This effect was as if his martial arts were using the totem fusion to evolve itself into a higher level.

If ten thousand people were trained in the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, there might be ten thousand different skills.

"Are martial arts the ultimate foundation?"

Sitting cross-legged in the garden, confusion arose in Garen’s mind.

Martial arts, totems, and oneself. There was a mysterious connection between these three elements, although they seemed independent. In fact, they were one.

Within his churning mind, he secretly made a decision.

In this world, among totem users, martial arts peaked at the fourth form. In fact, only fifth form masters were qualified to train. Normal humans had no chance to even learn. Without sufficient abilities, there weren't much benefits in training. At most, it was to strengthen the body.

Among the normal humans, the Master-level elites had their own secret training methods similar to martial arts. It was just far less advanced compared to the level in his previous world.

It could be because of the existence of totem users, the martial arts of normal humans did not have a chance to shine.

But Garen could now see a silver lining for normal humans.

Initially the qualifications to learn the Myriad Water Jasper Technique were relatively demanding, but it was far simpler than a totem user’s qualifications. At least, the proportion among ordinary people would be far larger. There would be at least be one among a hundred who can train in this technique.

Now, the evolved technique had faintly surpassed the martial arts’ innate level.

The evolved martial arts could completely change the human structure. It has reached the level where it can evolve the body.

As Garen thought, he continued training the next level according to the instructions given by Celine.

Strangely, after fusing with the first dragon head, the Myriad Water Jasper Technique was no longer difficult for him. With only ten minutes or so, he entered the second level.

Initially he had completely understood the whole technique. As he was on the level of the King of the Century, the effects should have taken place long ago, but they've only happened now. Not earlier or later, but now.

This startled Garen a bit.

Since he was trained in the Divine Statue Technique, he had thoroughly opened the blood vessels within his body long ago. His vitality attribute was already strengthened until 10 points. In addition to the Nine Headed Hydra’s heart, he was on a mind boggling level.

These effects should be natural.

But Garen felt a little strange.

He quickly surpassed the second level. For a commoner-grade martial art, the Myriad Water Jasper technique wouldn’t be considered difficult to learn for Garen’s level. Next, it was the third level.

The third level took an hour. It cleared all the hidden vessels, and even some complicated vessels in the brain.

For a normal martial artist, without Garen’s foundation in the Divine Statue Technique, his elite control of blood flow and his deep understanding on martial arts, it might take ten years.

Next was the fourth level. He was on a roll. Few of the main blood vessels were the same as Garen’s Divine Statue Technique. He quickly surpassed that level.

For the fifth and final level, most of the effects were in the brain. It encompassed countless tiny blood vessels and nerves.

In summary, the fifth level used a unique method to activate certain areas in the brain to achieve the supernatural ability of controlling water.

This was the true form of the Myriad Water Jasper technique.

After surpassing five levels to the top in one go, Garen finally opened his eyes. The surroundings were in total silence.

It was already midnight.

The surrounding air was frigid. The garden of flowers and grasses let out a rhythmic sound in the wind.

The two oil lamps hanging on the roof glowed a faint yellow light.

After reaching the peak of the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, some combat skills would of course come as one.

Garen stretched out his hand and grabbed lightly. Droplets of moisture quietly gathered from the surrounding into his hand, forming water beads.

The perfectly round water beads floated quietly on top Garen’s palm. Their surfaces clearly reflected the surroundings.

Garen swung one of his hands.

Huaaa!!!

A clear stream of water gathered in the air before him to form a water dragon. The water dragon was circling around constantly like a clock.

Yet, Garen let out a sigh of disappointment.

In the Martial Arts world, a technique like this would be considered amazing and uncomparable. It was almost out of the human realm and could be known as a superhuman ability.

Once the enemy draws near, the blood all over his body would be controlled. Being free from the body’s control, it would be fully extracted. In the Martial Arts world, it would be known as the strongest assassination technique!

The Myriad Water Jasper technique was known as the best ambush technique. It indeed wasn't something to be trifled with.

However, although it was strong, it was still dependent on the environment it was in.

This was a world of totem users. A martial art like that wouldn’t cause fear to any totem user. It was a simple superhuman ability. If it could not penetrate totem light, everything would be useless.

The process of training the Myriad Water Jasper Technique was in fact a process that allows the human body to surpass its limits and develop superhuman ones.

The flow of water could also form a wall of defense by surrounding the body. Among the fighting skills that came with the technique, was the form of a high-pressured water gun, a skill that could suffocate the enemy to one that could quietly snap the opponent’s blood vessels.

Snapping different blood vessels would create different effects. All these needed a deep understanding of the human body. Unfortunately, the main opponents here were no longer normal people.

These methods had no value at all.

If it were in his previous world, maybe each of them would be elite techniques that could shock the world.

However, Garen subtly felt that he could surpass the limits of this technique through the fusion with the Nine Headed Hydra.

There were only eight heads left on the Nine Headed Hydra. It seemed a little depressed. Garen wanted to continue the fusion process but it seemed to be rejecting.

Since he could not fuse with the dragon heads in the near future, Garen did not force it, but instead diverted his attention towards researching the mystery of martial arts.

He noticed that although the Myriad Water Jasper Technique was already at its peak, but it was slightly different than the original. After adjusting it with the Nine Headed Hydra, there seemed to be space to continue progressing forward.

Since he thought about it, he decided to do it. Garen didn’t have to care about sleeping. He had incredible resistance and superhuman vitality. Not sleeping at this point of time will not bring any side effects to himself.

Step by step, he used the peak of the Myriad Water Jasper technique as the foundation and continued forward. With his nine lives, he wasn’t afraid of being injured or things going wrong.

He failed for more than ten times and was heavily injured up to the point of almost losing his life. However with his huge life force, he did not lose his life and managed to derive a new level for the Myriad Water Jasper technique.

Garen successfully connected it to his totem power.

The source of totem power was the brain.

Garen slightly adjusted the activation path for the Myriad Water Jasper Technique. He tweaked it to activate the part the produces totem power.

Under his constant experimentation, just like the Green vine Sphere, there was finally a glimmer of hope for normal humans to become strong.

It did not have an evil inclination like the Green Vine Sphere. The sixth level of the Myriad Water Jasper Technique that he derived allowed a normal human to activate totem power once they reached this level. They would then have the qualifications to be an actual totem user.

However, although this new technique was strong, it was difficult to find usages for it in a battle.

Garen thought for a moment and added in parts of the Divine Statue Technique that he was most familiar with. The Divine Statue Technique was formed by a combination of the White Cloud Gate and the Golden Statue Technique, to reach an level unreachable by mortals.

After all the incorporations, the Myriad Water Jasper Technique was totally unrecognizable. It had completely become a new martial art.

Garen wanted to carefully explore the next level. But without fusing with more dragon heads, he had no stronger path to base his derivation upon. He felt it wasn’t the best and forgot about it.

The new Myriad Water Jasper technique incorporated many of Garen’s martial art secrets. It gave normal people hope towards the peak.

Even then, this path was equally difficult.

The first step was to train the new Myriad Water Jasper technique to its peak as the foundation. Then only could they face the next key checkpoint - breaking through totem power.

Even after Garen’s adjustments and improvements, finally he could only simplify the Myriad Water Jasper technique into four levels.

Only by training these four levels, there was a chance to activate totem power.

This technique was based on Garen’s foundation. Its greatest effects were basically similar to the ones described in the ability pane.

Water control, toxicity and strong regenerative abilities.

In other words, Garen’s current state of martial arts was the peak state of this technique.

Garen had a feeling. After finalizing the martial art, for everyone training it in the future, those that arrive at the peak will become weaker versions of the Nine Headed Hydra….With another dragon heart transplant, sufficient state of mind and the same natural talent, he would be another "Mini Garen".

However to train the four level of this technique was incredibly difficult. It was only slightly simpler than the original Myriad Water Jasper technique.

The original Myriad Water Jasper Technique was already very difficult. Only during Neptune Fist’s peak, there was someone that reached its peak.

Now it was only slightly simpler. To succeed, without suitable natural talent, strong will and relentless determination, it was impossible to reach the peak.

The only thing Garen could do was broadening the scope of qualifications. By broadening the scope, it would increase the number of people. Surely a talented and strong-willed genius would appear one day.

Sensing the martial art that had been totally revamped, it could no longer be called the Myriad Water Jasper technique. There were too many elements mixed into it.

He stretched out his index finger. A crystal water snake crawled up, looking beautiful and pure.

"I am the Lord of Blackfire Palace. My body totem is the Nine Headed Hydra, which is the lord of the swamp and a water totem. This martial art can be called Black Water Technique."

He hesitated for a moment.

"Out of the whole wide world, this is the only martial art that allows a normal human to walk towards the path of an elite. It allows activation of totem power, I should add the word "True" to it."

"From today onwards, this martial art will be called Black Water True Technique!"