New Technique

"Alright we will be leaving, we'll come back a week before the annual meeting." Xu Shuang stood up with Xu Tianshan and Ye Lingling.

"We should be prepared to leave immediately after I arrive, is that clear?"

"Yes, Princess! I will arrange everything so that we can leave immediately." Yang Wudi bowed and solemnly promised to arrange the matters needed.

Then, after reaching the garden, Xu Tianshan used his spirit power and flew back toward the clan.

This back-and-forth trip only took 2 days to accomplish, inside Xu Tianshan's courtyard stood Xu Shuang and Xu Tianshan.

"Xu Shuang, as the heir to the Mountain Shaking Clan, it's time for you to learn the clan's secret techniques gradually." Xu Tianshan seriously said, it created a tense atmosphere in the courtyard.

Xu Shuang nodded and stood straight waiting for the elder to say what technique he will teach her.

"Our clan has two secret techniques that you can choose from, one is called Eruption and the other is called Assimilation, these two techniques are the most suitable techniques for you."

"Eruption is a technique to compress all our power into a point, when doing this technique don't use the Seismic Hammer as it will scatter the gathered power into vibrations."

"Assimilation on the other hand is to fuse with the hammer, it's a technique that greatly enhances the body and is especially useful for those with martial spirits like yours."

"So, tell me Xu Shuang which one will you choose?" Xu Tianshan asked after introducing the two techniques.

The difference between the two techniques had Xu Shuang thinking, the two techniques had their own pros and cons.

Eruption can massively help her in her fights, but just from her grandfather's words alone she already had the qualification to develop her own compression secret technique.

She can just have Sam improve on Meteor and remove the aspect of the Seismic hammer to not scatter the impact.

But, Assimilation, on the other hand, can be used as a secret technique that surprises the enemy, as for the lack of a hammer, can't she just make a hammer for herself?

Although she does a lot of things every day she never neglects working at a forge, giving it at least 1 hour and 30 minutes each day.

Because she can use what she learns in blacksmithing as a foundation when she finally makes her own artifact, as upon reaching god level artifacts are things of great importance in every fight.

And fighting unarmed also has its advantages, at least in Xu Shuang's case, as it allows her to use the destruction element for more time.

Well, her hammer in spirit possession can't handle the destruction elements when it flows through causing cracks to appear on the hammer every time she uses it.

So, it's more beneficial for her to learn Assimilation between the two techniques. As for why not learn both techniques?

It's not like she didn't want to, it's just that her energy and focus are limited, she can only learn one technique and train it to be able to use it proficiently before the tournament starts.

She'll have more time to learn the other techniques after the tournament ended, clearly Xu Tianshan also had this intention.

"I choose to learn Assimilation, Great-Grandpa." Xu Shuang said after confirming that it's the technique that will benefit her the most.

"Very well then, I'll introduce the technique to you first, Assimilation is a technique invented by one of our ancestors whose martial spirit mutated like yours."

"His martial spirit mutate to be a lightning monkey wielding the mountain shaking hammer of our clan, and his agility improved with the possession of the monkey and the strength from our hammer, he was the strongest genius of our clan at that time."

"But, as he grew he discovered the disadvantage of wielding a hammer for him, it was too big to allow for him to move in a more agile manner."

"After many trials and errors he developed this technique, by assimilating the hammer with himself it provided him with great strength and defense making him stronger than before."

"When he traveled the land he was the ceiling, no one can compare to him, not the fools from the Clear Sky Clan, not the saints of Spirit Hall, not even the priestess of Sea God Island."

"When he walked on the land no one dared to claim to be the number one but, he disappeared after handing in the book containing the methods to use the secret technique of Assimilation."

Xu Tianshan was proud in telling the tale of their ancestor who was the strongest in the continent in his time, and sad when he got to the part where the ancestor suddenly disappeared.

Xu Tianshan then summoned his martial spirit, it was a plain white hammer, but it had an overwhelming presence that seem to press on everything, this was evident in how the ground five meters around him became dented by a depth of 4 inches.

Then he gave the hammer a little twirl as it turned into a white light and then fused with him, he then grew a quarter meter taller, and his hands and feet became longer as well, he has the heaviness of a hammer in his aura.

"This is the technique of Assimilation, the rate it raises one's physical attributes vary among people, to me it raises my attributes by 30 percent. But this is the highest most people have gotten."

"The only ones that manage to surpass 30 percent are people like you and the ancestor who have mutated beast spirits wielding a hammer."

"So, every mutated beast spirit wielding a hammer has been granted the right to learn this secret technique once they reach level 60."

"It's 10 levels earlier for you but, that's because you are the sole heir of the clan and that won't change even if you have siblings in the future."

After saying that he took out a dilapidated book from his spirit tool and handed it to Xu Shuang while saying. "Read this first and then ask me any questions you have after."

While reading the book Xu Shuang ordered Sam to record the contents, after she was done reading the book, she returned it to Xu Tianshan who stores it in his spirit tool.

She immediately tried to use Assimilation, but she sadly failed, Xu Tianshan instructed her upon seeing her failure.

This continued for a few hours with a break for eating lunch then continued until it was dusk, Xu Tianshan stopped instructing when he saw that it was getting dark outside.

"Go back home, Xu Shuang, and come here early tomorrow, I will be responsible for your training until the start of the tournament."

Xu Shuang nodded and went out of the house to head back to her home, while walking on the path toward home, she ordered Sam.

'Sam, compose a martial art fighting style most suitable for me, use every knowledge that I have.'

[Understood Mistress, I will create a fighting style for you that takes into account the different fighting styles that you saw in your previous life along with the different laws of physics and human biology.]

Xu Shuang nodded in satisfaction when she heard what Sam said and went back to her house with a smile on her face.