CHAPTER 38: QI PARALYSIS

"Wasn’t it too hasty to reveal your true power after hiding it for so long?" Yu Tian asked as the two flew back.

"Why do you think I hid my power before?" she asked.

Yu Tian thought to himself that it was because she had been weak.

Previously, if she showed her full peak Foundation Establishment strength, even though she would still be considered weak, she would also appear as a threat since someone of her age being at the peak of Foundation Establishment had too much potential to let be.

So she had hidden her strength to avoid appearing as a threat. But in the end, she was still considered a threat.

Yu Tian sighed. The cultivation world was really cruel.

"Are you strong enough now?" Yu Tian didn’t answer the question and asked a different one instead.

She seemed to think for a moment. "Not really. I’m still too weak," she said. "But that’s compared to my current opponent." She paused. "As for my previous enemies, now we’re equals, so they’ll think twice before they act."

Yu Tian thought it made sense.

"Besides, if I don’t show my true power, others will bully you when I’m not around," she said as they descended, landing on the training ground.

"Are you going to practice the mind realm?" she asked.

"I’ll watch you practice for some time first," Yu Tian said.

"Really?" she asked in excitement.

Yu Tian nodded with a smile. She quickly ran to the center of the training ground and drew her sword, starting her practice.

She thought to herself that having Yu Tian guide her practice as the maker of the technique would be really beneficial for improving her mastery. She couldn’t waste such an opportunity.

Yu Tian thought to himself that his mind level was close to achieving a breakthrough, and he felt he could breakthrough today. He had already calculated the amount of time needed, so he decided to use the extra time to read some of these manuals.

He felt that if he could read these manuals, which were created to be used by cultivators, he might understand cultivators much better and how to deal with them. It would also help in optimizing his own methods.

An hour passed. Yu Tian sat on the side of the training area, reading manuals and occasionally instructing Xueling on her form.

These manuals weren’t high grade like the one Xueling had, so they were much easier to understand. Most were low grade, there were some mid grade, and two were high grade.

He wasn’t looking into the high grade ones at the moment since they would take too much time. He would look into them when he upgraded his mind.

Now he was looking at the mid grade ones, which he had analyzed three of after an hour.

Yu Tian felt he had expanded his knowledge greatly. As he analyzed more and more techniques, he also got used to some patterns that he could use to analyze the rest much more easily.

After another two hours, he had analyzed twelve mid grade techniques and scriptures in total.

This covered all the mid grade methods. Now just the low grade ones remained, along with the two high grade ones.

...

Yu Tian decided not to go into the low and high grade ones at the moment. Instead, he pulled a different method he had in his spatial pouch. It was the poison method he had picked up from that guy running an inn in the mortal town.

Now that he thought about it, he didn’t even know his name. Not that it mattered.

He opened up the manual. The manual was a mid grade technique that used the wood element to create all sorts of poisons. Yu Tian felt this method suited his fighting style, so he was going to improve on it to create something that he could use.

Among the twelve other mid grade methods he had studied, there was also another poison method there, so he could draw some good aspects from both techniques as well as other benefits from techniques he liked and make something good.

He thought that for him, weapon techniques didn’t really matter since his weapon swings always followed the path with the most chances of success, and using a technique wouldn’t work as they each followed a specific pattern.

The only techniques he could use were support techniques like strengthening the body, enhancing his weapon with qi, and even poisoning, which he was pursuing at the moment.

After an hour, he had completed analyzing the poison method as well as made his first draft for the technique he wanted to make.

Now it was time for some refining and it could be used.

In another hour, he was done with the technique. He decided to name it the "Thousand Poisons Method."

The way the new technique worked was just like the original, using wood qi to create a sort of qi-based poison that targeted cultivators. The changes he had done to the technique were adding some new unique ways to target the bodies of cultivators.

With the knowledge he had gathered by analyzing how techniques worked in a cultivator’s body, he could accurately tell the best targets for his poison and how to make it so that it caused the most damage.

Currently, he had three sorts of poisons.

The first one was perception-based. This attacked the link between the mind realm and the qi pathways. When someone was infected with this poison, they would no longer be able to access their spiritual sea for some time, cutting off their access to spiritual sense and voice transmission in the process.

Though he admitted he had gone a little overboard with this one as all those were mostly abilities of the Core Formation realm. When used against opponents of his realm, it probably wouldn’t do much since there was nothing to block in the first place.

And qi sense didn’t rely on the mind realm, so it wouldn’t be blocked by this.

But this is where the second poison came in. He called this qi paralysis. It was just like its name suggested - a poison that paralyzed the qi in the body. This poison would enter the user’s body and move in such a manner that forced the qi of others to be paralyzed for a moment.

He could then use the chance to finish off the opponent.

Of course, all the poisons weren’t absolute and scaled with his strength. At his current strength, if he used qi paralysis on Xueling, it would just work for a split second before she could use her overwhelming energy to overpower it.

But against people in the same realm or those in the Foundation Establishment realm - that’s where his methods would shine.

The third poison was the deadliest of all...