Chapter 27: Overlapping Waves Heart Palm

The Scripture Pavilion of the Danwu Academy had three floors. The second floor was open to those at the Liquid Spirit Realm, and Ye Yuan naturally had no qualifications to enter.

The first floor housed only first-rank martial skills, which were just right for Ye Yuan's current use.

This first floor was filled with bookshelves, containing cultivation methods, martial skills, and books on first-rank pills, all categorized and comprehensive.

These books were copies; the originals were naturally kept at the Youyun Sect headquarters.

As for cultivation methods, Ye Yuan had already trained in the "Lingzhe Nine Yang Divine Art," so there was no need to train in others.

And these books on pills were not even considered introductory for Ye Yuan, so he automatically filtered them out.

Only first-rank martial skills were most useful for Ye Yuan at present.

Ye Yuan went to the area where martial skill books were stored and began searching for a suitable martial skill.

He casually picked up a book titled "Flame Palm," a first-rank mid-grade fire-type martial skill.

Flipping through its contents, Ye Yuan shook his head. This martial skill was too crude, with no difficulty for him, and its power was too weak.

Although the book boasted extravagantly, how could Ye Yuan, with his insight, look favorably upon such a martial skill?

Putting "Flame Palm" back on the shelf, Ye Yuan casually flipped through a few more martial skills, which were essentially on the same level as "Flame Palm"—flashy but impractical.

Time passed minute by minute, and Ye Yuan had looked through dozens of books, but none caught his eye.

Ye Yuan couldn't help but sigh that this Youyun Sect was really stingy, using these common goods to put up a front.

But thinking about it, he understood. Cultivation methods and martial skills were the foundation of a sect; how could truly important techniques be casually placed in the mundane world?

Ye Yuan knew he wouldn't find the martial skill he wanted on these shelves, so he walked deeper in.

The martial skills on these shelves were noticeably fewer, but their quality had risen a level, mostly reaching first-rank high-grade.

Ye Yuan flipped through a few but still wasn't satisfied.

He wasn't just killing time; he wanted to see if there were any highlights among these martial skills.

For Ye Yuan, there wasn't much difference between first-rank mid-grade and first-rank peak-grade. A lower-grade martial skill wasn't necessarily bad, and a higher-grade one wasn't necessarily good.

Take Flash, for example. It was only a first-rank mid-grade martial skill, but it had some unique aspects, so Ye Yuan had figured it out on his own.

Ye Yuan had just seen the Flash technique and, after a brief look, knew that the creator's vision was too limited. His own modified version was already much stronger than the one in the book, so studying it further was useless.

Going further in, there were no books on the shelves, only scattered jade slips. Ye Yuan knew these were the essence of the first floor.

Profound cultivation methods and martial skills couldn't be recorded on paper; only jade slips could record or copy them.

Ye Yuan probed several jade slips with his primal power. These martial skills were all first-rank high-grade, which were already quite rare.

Any one of these jade slips would be priceless in the outside world. After all, in the Qin State, the largest group was still those at the Primal Qi Realm, and most of them trained in low-grade or mid-grade martial skills.

A high-grade martial skill jade slip was a dream for them, allowing their strength to immediately rise a level.

But Ye Yuan had little interest in these first-rank high-grade martial skills. After a few glances, he put them back.

Ye Yuan had reached the deepest part of the first floor. If he couldn't find a satisfactory martial skill, he would have to settle for these high-grade ones.

On the last shelf, there were only three jade slips.

Clearly, these three jade slips were different from the others.

Ye Yuan picked up the first jade slip, infused it with primal power, and the information flooded into his mind.

"Leap a Thousand Feet" was a movement technique!

When mastered, it could shrink the ground to an inch, instantly moving a thousand feet.

"Interesting."

Ye Yuan probed the information on "Leap a Thousand Feet." This movement technique had its unique merits. Compared to Flash, "Leap a Thousand Feet" was superior in linear movement, useful for ambushes or escapes.

This movement technique was close to first-rank peak-grade.

Putting "Leap a Thousand Feet" back on the shelf, Ye Yuan picked up the second jade slip. It was a very rare lightning-type martial skill, extremely difficult to train, and its grade was similar to "Leap a Thousand Feet."

Difficult as it was, it didn't arouse much interest in Ye Yuan.

He casually picked up the third jade slip and probed it.

"Hmm? 'Overlapping Waves Heart Palm,' an incomplete martial skill? Estimated to be at least third-rank, but due to severe incompleteness, it's classified as first-rank high-grade?"

Ye Yuan was attracted by the introduction on the jade slip.

Not because of the high grade of this technique—third-rank martial skills weren't too high-level for Ye Yuan.

What truly attracted him was that this martial skill focused on force application techniques. If mastered, it could unleash several times, even dozens of times, one's own power, with considerable might.

The introduction on this jade slip was likely left by a formidable figure from the Youyun Sect or Danwu Academy, but with Ye Yuan's insight, he could tell that this technique's rank might be far beyond third-rank!

"This is it! The creator of this martial skill is a genius. If such force application techniques were pushed to the limit, fighting across ranks would be as easy as eating and drinking." Ye Yuan praised.

Of course, Ye Yuan also knew that such martial skills became increasingly difficult to improve later on, with difficulty increasing geometrically.

Simply put, doubling the force was easy to master, but quadrupling was harder, then eightfold, sixteenfold—the later stages were terrifying, and the difficulty became increasingly exaggerated.

Even so, this was a formidable martial skill, but unfortunately, it was too incomplete.

...

"Hmm? You chose this martial skill?" Seeing Ye Yuan's choice, Zhao Chunyang was very surprised.

"That's right." Ye Yuan had long known Zhao Chunyang would be surprised.

"But... this martial skill is powerful, but it's incomplete." Zhao Chunyang advised.

"I know, but this martial skill looks very powerful. I'll make do with it for now and think about it later." Ye Yuan smiled.

"But it's not only incomplete but also very difficult to train. You know the Dragon Hall senior brother? He once trained in this technique and eventually gave up. This technique looks powerful but is thankless. In three days, even if you're extremely intelligent, you'd only master one layer of wave, which would be useless against an opponent, right?"

Zhao Chunyang was actually being quite tactful. In his view, even if Ye Yuan spent a month, he might not master one layer of wave.

What was one layer of wave? It only doubled the force, which couldn't bridge the gap between Ye Yuan and Fei Qingping's strength.

Instead, it would be better to train in some practical martial skills.

Ye Yuan had a good impression of Zhao Chunyang, at least he wasn't like others who laughed at his misfortune. So he smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, senior brother, but I have my own plans. As for the life-and-death battle in three days, I think I can handle it."

"Well... alright, since you insist, I won't persuade you further. Take care." Zhao Chunyang shook his head and sighed.