447 Stable 1 (1/2)
Chapter 447: Stable 1
Several days later
Black Fire Palace back garden
Bam!
Garen thrust out his first and pulled it back slowly, as though pulling something from mid-air, countless white mists appeared in the air, like white ropes, and madly gathered in his hand.
Like a huge white web.
Garen wore loose white clothes, closing his eyes to concentrate, and then he swung out his left hand as a fist again.
Bam!!
There was another dull sound in the air.
”Do you need me for something?” Ivycius was slowly walking out from the corridor on the right of the garden. Looking at Garen, doing his morning exercises in the garden.
”How’s the situation on Beckstone’s side?” Garen asked with his eyes closed, never stopping his movements for a moment.
Turning around, thrusting his fist, reaching out his palm, as the white mist around him roiled around, giving off a foggy, blurry feeling.
The flowers and plants in the garden, and the surrounding varde flowers kept waving in the mist, whooshing as they went. The pebbles and dried leaves on the ground also formed whirlwinds of different sizes, constantly spinning.
Ivycius watched Garen train casually. He replied,
”My men have searched the whole area around their landing spot, we could only find the marks of their landing, they probably ran away. After all, Form Four fighters would have a few survival methods no matter what.”
”Then forget it, there’s no rush for now, when the time comes they will naturally appear, how about the Wells Castle?” Garen spread open his fingers and grabbed lightly, five little snakes made of white clouds appearing instantly and then disappearing as rapidly.
”The people from the Secret Service have all left. We didn’t find that Black Nesat you were talking about.” Ivycius replied calmly. ”What do you plan to do now? Just staying here and training?”
Garen gradually pulled back his stance and stood on the spot. Ever since his fight with Ivycius, he had obtained a brand new and deeper understanding of the secret techniques he had learned before.
”The situation has just only stabilized here, if we want to take root here, we have no choice but to stay temporarily and steady our forces here.”
”It’s not that easy to steady our forces, since we’re the ones controlling the palaces. As Palace masters, we had always been sponsored by the royal family, paid from the country’s coffers, but now that Avic is dead, our main source of income has been cut off as well.”
”Other than the royal family’s sponsorship, what other sources of income did we have back then?” Garen accepted some faintly salty water from a Black Fire Guard at the side, and gargled lightly, then he used a warm and damp towel to wipe the sweat from his body.
”There are also the offerings and teaching fees from our disciples.” Ivycius said mildly.
”Then we’ll start from there.” Garen smiled slightly. He was preparing to introduce the things he learned from the Secret Technique World to this world. Naturally, he couldn’t simply reveal his secret techniques, these were a form of martial arts that required a background in the culture, and wasn’t something one genius could invent by himself. Anybody with a good eye could be able to discover the completely different culture embedded in them.
But while the secret techniques couldn’t be taught, basic martial arts and fighting techniques would be fine.
Some totem users liked close combat as well, and although there were Master-level fighters among the normal people, their martial arts had never been appreciated by others. And they were an utter mess, with not a single unified system.
”Thankfully I have the Green Vine Sphere here, so other than the Black Fire Guards ability, I can also bestow Totem Light on regular armor. This will infinitely reduce the distance between normal people and regular totem users. Wouldn’t this prove to be the best basics?”
”Aren’t you afraid of raising a future threat? Since your father could create the Green Vine Sphere, surely someone would be able to neutralize it.”
”That was why Avic was too scared to use this on a larger scale, right?” Garen said calmly, ”If I don’t even have that much generosity, what right do I have to pursue the legendary Strongest Way?”
”The Strongest Way?” That was the first time Ivycius heard Garen mention his dreams.
”That’s right. I used to contemplate often, how the universe has limitless colors, limitless miracles, limitless mysteries, limitless horizons. Since I was already born into this world, if I don’t see and experience everything I find interesting, then wouldn’t I have come to this world only to waste my life?”
Garen had recently started fusing his fist fighting secret techniques, and in his silence, he had an enormous aura like the peaceful sea.
Every day, he would use his own body to channel the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, his unimaginably powerful Nine-Headed Dragon’s body had its blood qi rise and fall like the tide in the process of training with his secret techniques. It was enormous. It reflected back to nourish Garen’s spirit, until his spirit reached an indescribable level. He was also growing closer to the legendary Form Five.
Every time he channeled his blood qi and made it boil, Garen could feel the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon’s body slowly merging with his own. The huge totem power kept slowly nourishing and modifying his body.
If the other Form Five totem users could only start training their secret techniques after they achieved the highest form of merging, then Garen was approaching the peak of this step by using his level as the strongest secret technique practitioner, the King of the Century.
He just had to achieve Form Five, and then he could instantly reach the very peak of the Form Fives.
This was the base he had forged himself from the previous world. It was a spiritual level and height.
This was the powerful will that came from countless battles of life and death.