CHAPTER 80: RETURNING TO MEDITATION

"Fufufu~~~ are you satisfied with this payment~?" hearing Azrael’s answer, Xue Qingyue smiles in satisfaction, having shocked him even for just a while, her smile growing even brighter as she sees him nod to answer her inquiry.

"Then, here’s the full technique" Azrael said as he then moves his index finger towards her forehead, a pale white light glowing as he did so, before she received notifications from the guide, indicating that she had already acquired the complete version of the Meditation Harmonizing Method.

[Detected a sudden increase in the ascender’s mental activity. Identified the reason for this to be a technique transference.]

[ Acquired the technique: Meditation Harmonizing Method]

"Great!! Let me try it out for myself! Let’s talk again before you wake up!" seeing the notification in front of her, the ethereal beauty exclaimed in joy and excitement, still having him in consideration despite the immense anticipation of trying it out as she intends to fly away just far enough not to affect his meditation, only for her to be stopped for a moment Azrael asked a question.

"How am I supposed to know when I will wake up, Miss Qingyue?" the young man asked curiously, stopping the beauty in her tracks, replying to him immediately in order to test the efficiency of the Meditation Harmonizing Method.

"You will know, anyways, I will return here in a few hours, if I don’t see you here, then you left, we’ll talk later then if it’s like that, see you later~~" she said in a hurried voice before her speed exploded in an instant, and all of a sudden, there’s nothing but a pure darkness allowing him to see only a few dozens of meters ahead of him.

Feeling the excitement of the lady, Azrael shook his head with a wry smile on his face, knowing that there’s nothing he can do if she doesn’t want to give a clear answer as she is just that much powerful compared to him, prompting him to shift his focus back to meditation after shrugging those thoughts off his mind.

"Before that... let’s check these upgraded techniques first..." he thought to himself with a hint of celebration in his voice as he navigated to the techniques section of the floating azure screen, clicking on the three SS-Grade techniques that he just got.

[Golden Immortal Forging Art (SS-Grade Technique)]

[Use the entire environment to one’s favor, defy the natural rules and transcend mundane mortality to ascend to the immortal and unending, forge one’s body with the heaven and go beyond to become ruler among the immortals.]

[Effects: Grants the ability to enter a meditative state for an indefinite amount of time. Once in this state, absorption and refining of surrounding life force to Immortal Energy will begin, the rate of improvement depending on the mastery of the technique.]

[Mastery: Entry-level (Increase maximum Immortal Energy by 10 points every hour)]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: Use the technique for a total of ten thousand hours.]

[Note: The absorption rate is also subject to the quality of the life force in the environment, with the rate possibly decreasing down to ten percent and increasing up to one thousand percent based on the location it is used. (Current rate of absorption 300%)]

[Indestructible Heavenly Body Tempering Method (SS-Grade Technique)]

[Utilizing Immortal Energy’s innate property of being nigh indestructible, a technique that uses Immortal Energy, circulating and covering the entire body to temper it until it eventually turns into its own heaven, free from the shackles of the rules.]

[Effects: Grants the ability to circulate the Immortal Energy through the entire body, and as an effect, tempers the body and allows it to break the limits imposed upon it by the Ethereal Tower. Allows its practitioner to increase the limit of their strength by varying amounts depending on the mastery of this technique.]

[Mastery: Entry-level (Passively increase the practitioner’s strength, agility, stamina and dexterity by twenty-five percent)]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: spend ten thousand hours tempering the body with this technique.]

[Consumption: 5 Immortal Energy per hour]

[Note: The rate of consumption will decrease with the increase of the technique’s mastery.]

[Immortal Soul Refining Art]

[Communing with the heaven and earth, uses the Immortal Energy as a pathway to forge the soul and increase its strength, utilizing the property of Immortal Energy to forge a divine and immortal soul]

[Effects: Grants the ability to turn Immortal Energy inside the body into forging tools to continuously temper and improve the soul, allowing it to break through the limits imposed upon it by the Ethereal Tower. Allows its practitioner to increase the limit of their soul by a varying amount depending on the mastery of the technique.]

[Mastery: Entry-level (Passively increase the practitioner’s intelligence and insight by twenty-five percent)]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: spend ten thousand hours tempering the soul with this technique.]

[Consumption: 5 Immortal Energy per hour]

[Note: The rate of consumption will decrease with the increase of the technique’s mastery.]

After checking the three of them carefully, Azrael finally realizes where that sudden boost of strength came from, his basic stats increasing by another fifteen percent from the upgrade of both the Indestructible Pure Body Tempering Method and True Soul Forging art, a significant increase that will give him an even greater chance against the treasure guardian of the second floor.

’After acquiring all these techniques, I should be able to fight against whatever guardian there is on the second floor on equal grounds, right?’ the young man asks himself, still hesitating as he can still vividly recall how absurdly powerful the Fortress Golem.

That is because he realizes that it is only due to some sort of extremely luck combination of chances that he defeated said guardian, and if not for some sheer dumb luck of him unknowingly hitting its sole weak point repeatedly with his maximum output for multiple times a day, for an entire decade, then he still couldn’t think of any way he can beat such monster in a fair fight.

’Well, I’ll know it when I start fighting against it, I should start practicing now’ pushing these thoughts to the back of his mind, the young man then starts meditating once again, trying to go and push his strength as much as he can before he goes out the next day, planning, as well as wishing to take down both the boss and treasure guardian of the second floor in the same trip.

[Detected that the ascender is currently using three SS-Grade techniques at the same time. The effects of the technique: Meditation Harmonizing Method starts to take place, the three techniques being used are in perfect harmony with each other, promoting their effects, now entering deep meditative state.]

[While in a deep meditative state, effects of all techniques related to energy improvement will increase three times, and effects of all limit-breaking related techniques will improve by ten times.]

[Detected that the ascender is in a deep meditative state, all increase in Immortal Energy is multiplied three times.]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +90]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +90]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +90]

[Detected that the ascender is in a deep meditative state, all improvements on limit-breaking related techniques are multiplied ten times.]