Vol Chapter 5 (1/2)

After was.h.i.+ng up, w.a.n.g Lin once again sat down on his bed to train.

A few days had pa.s.sed since the minor accomplishment. Today, he was about to break the sixty minute mark. Sweat dripped from his forehead like rain drops. His body had actually reached its limit three days ago.

For the next three days, the time needed to rest was shortened down to ten seconds. He never stopped finding ways to maximize his body potential. Without extreme perseverance, one definitely would not be able to have such progress.

Armed with an iron will, w.a.n.g Lin managed to keep himself going. This high intensity training was very taxing on his body. In just three days time, he had become so much thinner.

w.a.n.g Lin, who was originally not very fleshy, looked even skinnier now.

Real kung fu belonged to resolute people. In the evening on the next day, he managed to hold the pose for one hour as he hoped.

The feeling of ants crawling throughout his body, like the ones from his minor accomplishment resurfaced. But this time, the feeling was much more intense. After holding the pose for three gritting hours, the energy emanating from all of his organs, bones and muscles combined together, forming a faint but tenacious soul power.

At this point, he achieved major accomplishment for the first ill.u.s.tration of Spiritual Enhancement Technique.

According to the records of the spell, once major accomplishment for the first ill.u.s.tration was achieved, soul power would be produced. The production of soul power meant that one’s ability had reached Level 1.

Achieving the first level of soul power in just thirteen days would put one among the rare geniuses residing in the Empress Mainland. However, w.a.n.g Lin was not the fastest. The fastest one to achieve Level 1, did it in just five days!

After was.h.i.+ng up, w.a.n.g Lin changed into some clean clothes and walked out of the room.

The stars in the sky were s.h.i.+ning brightly. The autumn wind brought along with it the night’s chill. w.a.n.g Lin was not in a rush to learn the second ill.u.s.tration; but was instead, silently savouring the soul power within his body.

Just by thinking about it, the soul power flowed into his right hand. w.a.n.g Lin gently hit the corner of the stone table. He indistinctly felt the table shake and then, suddenly, the corner broke.

w.a.n.g Lin raised his eyebrows, secretly admiring the soul power. Although only at Level 1, it did so much damage. However, he could feel that his soul power had dropped by half. At the same time, he was bleeding from a cut on his right hand. Fresh blood slowly dripped from his hand.

“Merely one use took so much soul power……” w.a.n.g Lin blinked his eyes, looking at the wound on his right hand. He suddenly gained enlightenment, “No, it is the way I used it. If I did not use so much soul power hitting the stone table, the energy probably wouldn’t have depleted as much.”

Thinking about this, w.a.n.g Lin immediately started experimenting. He slowly tried to control the flow of soul power into his right hand in order to find the right balance point. However, getting the precise control of the energy was easier said than done. It would wildly flow into his right hand each time he tried to muster the energy there.

w.a.n.g Lin did not give up. He continued his attempts, but it was impossible to control the energy precisely. Unknowingly, a great deal of time had pa.s.sed. He let out a sigh, realizing that he had been impatient. It would take a long time to practice controlling his soul power.

Somehow he had the feeling that if he could control his energy precisely, he would only need one tenth of his soul power to break the corner of the table rather than just wasting half of it.

“It seems that from now on, other than routinely training Spiritual Enhancement Technique, I also need to use time to practice controlling my soul power. For now, the most important thing is to find a suitable method to use the energy for attacking. To muster it into both hands does not seem advisable for now, so how can I utilize this limited amount of soul power?”

w.a.n.g Lin muttered to himself. Suddenly, a light bulb lit in his brain. He recalled how some of his soul power leaked from the wound before reaching the right hand the last time he tried controlling it.

This gave w.a.n.g Lin an idea. Maybe, by using this, he could find a suitable offensive strategy!

Without hesitating, he mustered all of his remaining soul power into his left index finger. Then, he aimed it at the stone table and in a swift motion, cut up the end of his fingertip. He restrained his soul power, as to not use too much. A drop of fresh blood, saturated with soul power, shot out fiercely, leaving a small hole on the stone table.

At the same time, the small cut on his index finger slowly healed,stimulated by the soul power.

w.a.n.g Lin was excited. This method of attacking was ingenious; it did not require much skill to control but could also achieve the desired effect. At present, it would make for an excellent weapon to defend himself with. Moreover, the destructive potential was satisfactory.

w.a.n.g Lin believed that he could further increase the damage inflicted by this method of attack through practice and by adjusting the amount of his soul power output. Perfect timing in restraining the dispensed energy was also of dire importance.

Thus, besides Spiritual Enhancement Technique and precision control of his soul power, w.a.n.g Lin added “perfecting the restraint of energy” onto his training list.

“However this is but a cheap trick. My body obviously cannot cope with the conventional attacking method. Seems like the solution is to improve my body strength!” Previously, through the conversation with Chun Lan, w.a.n.g Lin found out that the so-called soul power was in fact, a type of energy. In this world, there were two main ways of utilizing the soul power, namely Spiritual and Physical.

w.a.n.g Lin did not have much knowledge regarding Spiritual techniques. On the other hand, from the term of Physical Technique itself, he deduced that these techniques utilized a person’s body as the weapon to project one’s soul power.

It was unfortunate that the bookstore did not have any books regarding Physical technique training. But from w.a.n.g Lin’s understanding, this type of technique centered around using all kinds of methods to improve the inner strength of one’s body.