Chapter 76
Chapter 76.1: Upgraded Lightning Summoning Palm
Qin Fang's voice paused a moment before he said: "Learn to comprehend your elemental power first. From ancient times, people with useless spirit foundations had seen miracles happen before. You are of the Earth element and if you can raise your defensive abilities, you can become a very good supporting force."
"Thank you Elder for your pointers." Yan Xi Rou said submissively.
Qin Fang was exceptionally amiable towards Qing Bei and hence he gifted the youth a martial arts technique cultivation manual the first time they met called the <
Those actions had undoubtedly caused Yan Xi Rou and Yan Xi Wu to further hate the pair of siblings out of jealousy.
After that, the few of them then started with their first day's training while Qin Fang remained on the side to observe them in silence.
Firstly, on Yan Xi Wu's side, although her level of talent was average, she won out on being willing to put in effort. Under Qin Fang's guidance, from her ignorance of the Water element in the beginning, she was actually able to form up a stream in the end skillfully as she willed it, surprising even herself.
When she first just came to comprehend elemental powers, she was only able to form up a few droplets, which would disappear in a mere instant.
She was now actually able to call forth such a great amount of water, and all of that under her control. The discontent and disappointment Yan Xi Wu had felt before quickly evaporated, turning into such a huge surprise where she then said very gratefully: "Elder, have I improved?"
Qin Fang nodded his head solemnly. "Not bad, you aren't really all that dense. Continue practising!"
"Yes!"
In contrast, Yan Xi Ruo with her "useless" talent soon came to affirm her title as "useless".
Qin Fang had shown her extra attention and told her how to search for her elemental power in her sea of consciousness, to look for it bit by bit and capture them all in the end, to transform them into her own power.
"Close your eyes and keep your mind free of distractions. Cleanse out your consciousness. You cannot hear anything, you cannot see anything, and before you is just a endless sea of stars."
"There are some specks of light around you. Slowly go close to them and try to interact with them. That is the elemental power in your body and you need to get them all to return back into your body before you can completely awaken the Earth element….."
Yan Xi Rou did based on what Qin Fang told her but when she closed her eyes, it was pitch black before her, nothing that she could see. She knitted her brows together and tried very hard to calm herself down, as she attempted to sense the elemental powers around her.
"Now, do you see them?" Qin Fang's hesitant and friendly sounding voice rang out.
"No, there is nothing at all." Yan Xi Rou shut her eyes tightly and said in exasperation.
Qin Fang's brows furrowed together. "You need to search without any distractions in your heart. If your heart is not calm, you will not be able to come sense the faint elemental power."
Yan Xi Rou's brows knitted up more tightly together. But the harder she forced herself to calm down, and to not think of a single thing, her heart just grew more frustrated and angry which caused her eyes to flare open in rage. "No distractions in my heart. How can I not be distracted? My mind is completely filled with thoughts of those two bastards Qing Yu and Qing Bei! Based on what can those two who are of such lowly birth possess gifts so much better than mine! ? I cannot accept that! They should be the useless pieces of trash and I should be the prodigious one! !"
She had probably held everything inside for too long and Yan Xi Rou was not about to care about anything this time, but to vent everything she held repressed inside out.
Qin Fang was startled by her reaction and his already stern looking face then darkened further before he snorted derisively and turned around to leave, tossing out a single statement saying: "Nothing can be carved out of rotten wood."
Chapter 76.2: Upgraded Lightning Summoning Palm
With his identity as the Faint Mist Sect's Elder back then, he was well respected. As he was acquainted with Yan Su and he had tutored the greatest female prodigy Yan Ning Luo before, he then agreed to come give these few kids some pointers. But he had never thought that such a heroic figure like Yan Su who was so righteous and stalwart would have such a narrow minded daughter who would be such a failure.
It would still be alright if she knew she was not gifted and refuse to work hard but she still went on to blame the gods and accuse others, jealous of her younger sister and brother. A person with such character even if she made it into the Faint Mist Sect might very well go down the wrong path in future.
Qin Fang then went over to another side of the training grounds in a gloomy mood to where Qing Yu was practicing her cultivation.
Going over there, he was suddenly taken aback a moment, his eyes staring wide in astoundment.
He had initially thought it would be easier for him to observe their ability in comprehending their powers by separating the four of them but when he came over here, he saw the brother and sister pair here together. He did not even begin to throw a fit but just stood there staring incredulously at the scene before his eyes.
Qing Bei's legs had completely recovered several years ago and Qing Yu had naturally not let him slacken in his cultivation.
With the thousands and thousands of martial art secret manuals kept in the Qing Family's Library, it was only a matter of days for Qing Yu who had a photographic memory to completely memorize them all. She had made copies of a few of those manuals and given them to Qing Bei to practice and cultivate. To Qing Bei, the <
"What? Although that is just a low grade martial art technique, but learning another technique will not do you any harm. You can use it to hide your powers when needed. If those covetous and unscrupulous scoundrels were to discover that you possess such supreme grade martial art techniques, be careful that you might draw persecution upon yourself." Qing Yu said as she gazed at the youth who was looking rather haughty, and could not help but mock with a laugh.
Qing Bei raised an eyebrow. "I am not praising myself here, but a martial art technique like that is not worth learning….."
Upon saying that, as if afraid that she would not believe him, he raised his hand and struck a palm upwards into the air. His action looked to be gentle without having exerted any strength but once that palm struck, the lightning type strike resonated over a large area, the skies that were clear for thousands of miles suddenly rolling with the rumble of thunder, which startled a flock of birds to fly up into the sky.
And Qin Fang was completely stunned by that very scene he saw.
Others might not know it all that well, but that technique was the one he had just personally given out, so how could he possibly not know? When the Lightning Summoning Palm was cultivated to its highest level, one would be able to alter the weather, summoning lightning and thunder and they could direct the power lightning as an offensive attack that dealt great damage.
The name "lightning summoning", meant that one would be able to summon lightning and thunder at will. And the youth had not used much of his strength with that highly casual strike of his palm just now, but he had actually been able to cause thunder to rumble.
The Lightning Summoning Palm had not even been in his hands for an incense stick's time! It was impossible that he would be able to master it in such a short period of time. Then, there can only be just one other possibility. That boy possessed incredible powers of comprehension and was blessed with extraordinary gift, a prodigy that would come to shake the world!
However that was still not finished, and there was more that would astound him even more.
After Qing Yu saw the youth's strike of his palm, she raised up an eyebrow strangely. "It seems like the Lightning Summoning Palm….. still has room for further improvement."
She took the manual from the youth's hand and flipped through it with a glance before she discovered there was some parts that felt wrong. "This is incomplete."
At least a third of it was missing, or it could possibly be a medium of superior grade martial art technique.
"So it is an incomplete copy. No wonder I was feeling that there were some parts that did not make sense, and its power seemed to have been weakened by quite a bit." Qing Bei complained as he thought about it. "Could Elder Qin have hidden a part of it in secret?"
Chapter 76.3: Upgraded Lightning Summoning Palm
"What a rascal!" Qing Yu rolled her eyes at him. "Can't you see that it's because the old Elder likes you that is why he is giving such a precious martial art manual to you? What he had is just this incomplete copy and moreover he is not a Lightning element user wielder himself so what good will it do him to hide it for himself?"
Being admonished, Qing Bei pouted and said: "I was merely just saying that casually only!"
Qing Yu rubbed her chin thoughtfully, and looked carefully at the words indicated inside the manual. "Only when the powers of Lightning and Flame are combined will their powers be brought to its peak….. Could that really be the case….."
The frail and slender looking beauty then gathered her entire body's energies together and she swiped the tip of her finger over the centre of her forehead. When she opened her eyes again, gold and red light flashed for a brief instant before immediately fading away. She flipped her bare open palm over and a ball of red and golden light had formed up in her hand, looking even more bright and brilliant against the fair and white skin of her hand.
"The power of Lightning Flame….. generally calls for the Fire element to be infused within."
Qing Yu said softly, and then before Qing Bei's surprised expression and Qin Fang's stunned and incredulous stare from a far distance away, her palm then made a sizzling noise, clearly displaying the blue and purple coloured light of the Lightning element.
With her body straight and erect, she raised her palm up high, the power from the two elements fused together immediately causing the clear sky to darken, the ominous grey hanging up above suddenly rumbling with thunder before a bolt of lightning came striking down. Seeing that, Qing Yu quickly dispersed the power as that bolt of lightning had struck merely a few meters away from her and everything then disappeared, while the sky gradually went back to normal.
Here they were playing with the weather which properly terrified a whole bunch of people outside.
"What is happening! ? With such clear skies for miles and a bolt suddenly just appeared out of the blue! ?"
"Have I been possessed? I almost thought that I was going to be killed by that bolt! Never thought that I would still be alive!"
"Could it be possible that some unmatched experts are fighting a duel around here?"
"This is just too dangerous. I had better go find a safe place for me to hide before I get caught up in an unexpected disaster."
And over at the training square, Qing Bei looked at the skies that had returned to normal and suddenly gulped before he said mechanically: "That bolt of lightning just now, I almost thought I would not be able to escape disaster."
That feeling was just too real!
Qing Yu blinked her eyes, looking rather innocently at him. "I was merely showing you how it's supposed to be done. That Lightning Summoning Palm manual is indeed lacking and there is much room for improvement."
"But, with that huge commotion you summoned in just now, I would think that the Elder knows about it already." Qing Bei said in helplessness.
"So what? Just tell him that it was you who was practicing the Lightning Summoning Palm just now. With your prodigious talent, the old man will just think that you have very strong comprehension ability and will not suspect anything." Qing Yu said with an indifferent expression on her face.
"But Elder Qin seems to have witnessed it all." Qing Bei said with a shrug of his shoulders, and pointed his finger behind her.
Qing Yu had not noticed when Qin Fang had come as she had probably been too focused just now and her senses had dulled a little.
Hence when she turned her head around, she immediately saw that stern face of Qin Fang's staring at her like she was some monster, like he was thinking just how many kinds of elemental powers she was able to wield, and was also able to circumvent the Gift Stone's detection. It must be known that the Gift Stone he possessed in his hands was a lot more accurate than the one in the Faint Mist Sect.
Unless….. her real prowess had already far surpassed the boundaries that the Gift Stone was able to assess!