Martial Research Master

Chapter 15: THE NEW MANIFESTATIONS

As he read about Origin Avatar art, he got to know that each of the avatar created will have a zero initial cultivation base, and he has to cultivate back from the mortal level.

He inspected his memories to try and find any new gains from the three manuals.

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As he approached the ‘Hell-forge’ manual, he got two new sets of arts called the ‘Weapon tempering technique’ and the ‘Hellspawn sutra.’

The ‘Hellspawn’ art was the cultivation art using the hell’s Qi to cultivate to the apex of the Qi child realm. It came with a mantra to invoke the Hell’s Qi and a circulation chart for cultivation.

Generally, the Qi child was also divided into nine realms, but the Hellspawn sutra had 12 levels to reach the apex.

It was already clear to Long Tao that the best place to practice this art was in hell itself because this originated and manifested from hell only.

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As there was a scarcity of hell’s Qi, a way of gathering Hell’s Qi with formations was included in the manual.

This formation was something that could be engraved by a formation expert, but its level was unclear.

It enabled one to create a connection to the hell world, directly summoning its Qi. It, along with the new sets of mantras that Long Tao got was able to boost the amount of hell’s Qi being gathered and enhanced the absorption rate, to increase the proficiency of the training.

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The mantra helped enhance the runes present inside Long Tao’s body from his previous practice in the foundation-forging realm.

Its work was to teach and characterize Long Tao’s body to be able to absorb hell’s Qi automatically.

The next part of the Hellspawn art was a detailed description as to how he was going to circulate the Hell’s Qi around, store it in which roles and how to enhance to the next stage.

It detailed on each step he needed to take on various levels and concluded with 12 levels of Qi child realm.

One could already imagine how majestic this art was just by sighting the achievements of Long Tao in the foundation forging the realm.

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The other set of art, the “Weapon tempering technique,” was having a unique definition.

It was not a cultivation art, but an auxiliary art that increased body strength, absorption rate, and many more things. This art had the characteristics of the Heavenly pestle formula; The weapon so formed grows with the user.

The first step in practicing the formula was to use the hell’s Qi, to open up the meridian channels of the practitioner.

One needs to know that after foundation forging, the Qi cultivation arts don’t concentrate on the cultivation of the body anymore. It is just that as one continues to step up in the Qi cultivation, one body also gains benefits and changes accordingly.

But the body cultivation realms were different.

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There were Qi arts that could increase the properties of the body, but these were at the end, Qi cultivation arts. Body cultivation was a whole path to take, and these were independent of each other. If one wanted to go ahead into body cultivation realms, one first had to open the meridian channels of his body.

There were eight primary meridians; one need to open, and then there were 32 secondary meridians and 108 tertiary meridians, to be opened.

The next part was to open up the acupoints that were in between these meridians, and the number of actual acupoints present in the body was unclear according to the art.

The higher levels of body cultivation were long lost now, and only one reaching the apex of the acupoint opening, are said to be eligible to search for the lost arts.

These figures are incredibly brutal, each of whose names are radiant throughout the history of hell.

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If Long Tao wanted to cultivate the ‘Weapon tempering’ technique, he first needs to clear the primary meridians.

Only after the clearance of primary meridian could one start sensing the location of acupoints and start opening them. It was also the reason that many cultivators stop the opening of meridians after central is opened and directly jump into the acupoint opening part.

Also, the first part of sensing an acupoint was complicated. Still, after opening one, the ability to detect the other ones becomes easy, whereas, at the same time, the opening becomes more difficult.

One could say that due to the lack of body cultivation techniques, the process of body cultivation was a prolonged one.

But the power increase, if practiced parallelly to Qi cultivation, was evident.

Only after opening an acupoint, can the practitioner start practicing the ‘Weapon tempering- formula.

Long Tao just remembered the flow of Hell’s Qi to open acupoint and rested the art, because he didn’t want to waste time on something which can only be practiced after some achievements in the future.

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The “99 stances of beast god also spewed two sets of manuals, both of them attack types.

One was called “the five animal stances: tiger, bear, crane, snake, and turtle. These were the set of attack and defense techniques derived with the animal’s movements and arts in mind.”

Each of the categories, e.g., tiger, had a different set of postures.

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The other set of art was the “Berserker technique’. After practicing the Blood tempering formula, a new type of bloodline had been developed in Long Tao’s body.

It was evident from the runes present in his blood. The berserker art was to summon the power of bloodline at critical instances and gain temporary power of great might. After the use, Long Tao again has to practice the blood tempering formula to nourish the bloodline and then improving it.

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After the reading, Long Tao had a conjecture that the 99 stances of beast god were an attack-type art and which except for foundation forging, concentrates on attack arts, not focus on the Qi cultivation realm of the cultivator. But Long Tao also knew that it affected the bloodline of the cultivator, enhancing it.

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The omnipotent soul art manuals also produced a new set of a technique called “soul manifestation.”

It was an art that concentrated on coagulating the soul energy, on projecting various types of items and use it to attack the opponent.

It was an extraordinary art too, given in the current cultivation art, where the soul of martial artists is weak; this type of attack art is hugely advantageous and incredibly efficient.

One could quickly kill numerous opponents of a low level than themselves with just the manifestation of their soul.

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Long Tao started grading them; in terms of cultivation, he had the Hellspawn art, the Crimson world art, and the Origin avatar art.

Attack and defense: 5 stances of animals, Berserker art.

Soul cultivation and attack: Heavenly pestle, soul manifestation art.

Body tempering art: Blood tempering / heavenly glutton art, The 12 forges of death, weapon tempering formula,

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Now he had to streamline all these art into the proper pathway to achieve the result.

He decided to cultivate the Origin avatar art first as the requirement is ‘after the break-through of a realm.’

It was because of a gut feeling that this should be the first step.

After the creation of his avatars, he will be able to divide the work amid them and design the cultivation framework, so that the most benefits and utilization of the avatar art’s specialty can be done.

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He decided to experiment on the various arts and attack methods after he creates the avatars. He needed more hands at work.