Chapter 063 – Fire Scythe Demon Claw (2/2)
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Tang Tian stared blankly at the Spirit General besides Bing, and after a period of time, he rubbed his eyes. Was he seeing things?
The floating Spirit General besides Bing, was actually Senior Nong’s Spirit General which he encountered in the pathway.
“Bing… Uncle Bing, what… what is going on?” Tang Tian asked while stammering.
“I already told you not to call me uncle!” The dark line on Bing’s forehead jumped, and he calmly continued: “The recruit training program has a specific ability, and that is ‘Martial Spirit Projection’.”
“Martial Spirit Projection?” It was the first time Tang Tian heard of that.
“As long as there is a bit left of the Martial Spirit, the training barracks can project it out completely. From the start, we had planned to use it to make up for our lack of instructors and manpower. But later, we realised that its use was not limited to just that.” There was not a bit of expression on Bing’s blank face. Even his voice was like a white blank board, flat with no undulations.
Just as Tang Tian was anticipative and listening seriously, Uncle Bing’s topic took a turn.
“But that does not concern you one bit right now.” Bing blatantly said: “Even the [Fire Scythe Demon Claw], for the time being, you are unable to practise it. I have already seen it before, it is the kind of claw technique that is formidable in its precision to kill and heavily wound.”
To be unable to learn the Fire Scythe Demon Claw, Tang Tian was already prepared for it, so he continued to ask: “Then what do we learn now?”
“You have to observe your Crane Body.” Bing said: “Your Crane Body has absorbed over a hundred waves of energy. If you do not digest them in the next ten or so hours, they will thoroughly explode inside of you. You will then become a matured pomegranate, exploding and splitting open.”
Tang Tian turned pale with fright: “Such an important matter, you actually did not remind me!”
“That is common sense.” Bing was stiff: “I did not expect that you would use such a dangerous method to activate your Crane Body energy.”
“Then what do I do now to start digesting?” Tang Tian immediately asked.
“Repeatedly beating you!” Bing coldly said.
After that, Tang Tian saw the sea of light balls that hid the sky and covered the earth, whistling as they sped towards him.
Oh, no!
Tang Tian’s sad and shrill blood-curdling scream was immediately drowned out by the concentrated ‘bang bang bang’ sounds.
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Three hours later, Tang Tian, with his whole body swollen like a bun, stared angrily at Bing.
“The energy absorbed by the Crane Body has completely scattered.” Bing’s manner of speaking was like he was discussing the heat control on cooking a beef steak.
“Rafter rhat (After that)?” Tang Tian’s articulation was unclear as he asked. His face was beaten to a pulp, and he could not speak properly.
(Here’s the funny thing, the two syllable chinese words is nan hou, but the actual chinese of after that is ran hou, it is written as a different word with similar pronunciation but it cannot be expressed in english.)
“After that? It actually helped you big time.” Bing stiffly said: “All the energy is congealed to a solid degree, and it far exceeds the average fourth level of True Power. On average, this kind of energy is absolutely difficult to absorb, and its destructive power is very astonishing. But now, after over seventy thousand strikes, it has already been thoroughly crushed.”
Listening the ‘over seventy thousand, Tang Tian’s eyes turned green.
“Now all this crushed True Power, to you, is basically a very nourishing elixir.” Bing stiffly said: “The problem now, is that it is too concentrated.”
“Phorry, abain (Sorry, again)?” Tang Tian used his ambiguous speech, asking for a repeat.
“That’s right. Too concentrated!” Bing said seriously: “Now you have to consistently use your Crane Body, and absorb all these pure essences of True Power. This should require about ten days.”
“Pho wong (So long)?” Tang Tian’s awkward pronunciation, was vague and queer.
“Exactly that long.” Bing explained: “Although your True Power, compared to other third level True Power, is much stronger and purer, your True Power absorption rate is very slow, and the essence elixir is actually equivalent to the seventh level!”
“Sev… seventh level!” Tang Tian was shocked to the bones by it, he actually defeated a seventh level Spirit General? That must be a joke!
“The person’s True Power, when alive, was at the seventh level.” Bing’s tone of speech was firm and undoubtful, as though he was thoroughly confident of his own words: “You could defeat the Spirit General only because it’s power had declined by a lot. But all the energy inside it has extremely thin traces of seventh level true power.”
Seventh level…
To someone who was striving to climb up to the fourth level, the seventh level was as high as the mountain peak.
“And, the guy was right, the Fire Scythe Demon Claw is not a rank five claw art, but a rank seven! It is an extraordinary rank seven martial technique!”
Tang Tian was once again mind blown and shaken.
If the Fire Scythe Demon Claw was at the fifth rank, then he had some hope… the seventh rank… that was god knows how many times harder…
He went through so much trouble for this absolute art, but was suddenly ripped off, this absolute art was more than he could ever think of. Although it was something that was already in his mouth ready to be eaten, to suddenly be told that it could only be eaten next year….
Tang Tian’s swollen bun face was filled with grief.
“These few days, you will be unable to train.” Bing suddenly said: “You have to quickly absorb all the scattered True Power. If in ten days, you are unable to completely finish absorbing it, all the seventh level True Power will become like poison, and start to break and corrode your Dantian pool.”
Tang Tian brought his grief and asked: “How can i quicken the absorption rate?”
“You can consider high intensity battles.” Bing gave his own suggestion.
“I understand.” Tang Tian nodded his head and fiercely said: “Then let’s fight!”