30 Metal Wall Technique (1/2)

“You have a great advantage in speed and Inner Strength, but defense is your weakness.” Zhao Yufei looked at Zhao Feng.

“Yes! That is my flaw.” Zhao Feng wasn’t surprised. After he had merged with the left eye, his vision could see the smallest detail. Since Zhao Feng could easily see his opponent’s flaws, he could also see his own.

“Have you learned any body strengthening technique?” Zhao Yufei was slightly surprised.

“No.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, it was just that body strengthening techniques needed a long time to train and couldn’t be easily learned within a short period of time.

Normal skills and techniques only needed understanding and talent to easily train in them within a short amount of time. Only body strengthening techniques needed resources as well as effort to learn.

“The body is the foundation of cultivation. A high ranked body strengthening technique can not only help solidify one’s foundation, it can also improve one’s defense. Does big brother Zhao Feng want to learn one…?” Zhao Yufei gently smiled.

The ‘big brother Zhao Feng’ part made Zhao Feng’s heart beat. Instantly Zhao Yufei’s face turned red, as if it was dripping blood. Within the sect, the older disciples were called ‘big brother’. Maybe it was that Zhao Feng’s performance had been too shocking, letting Zhao Yufei miss this point.

“There are good reasons. Maybe I can consider it,” Zhao Feng nodded his head after some deep thought. Before, Zhao Feng’s forte was his speed. People of the same rank wouldn’t even be able to reach him, therefore he had neglected the uses of body strengthening techniques.

Now, with Zhao Yufei’s hint, Zhao Feng started to pay attention to it. If he didn’t have Inner Strength as his hidden card, he probably wouldn’t have been able to block Zhao Yijian’s Cold Flowing Sword.

Zhao Yue, on the other hand, without the use of Inner Strength, could counter Zhao Yijian for a while. This was all due to the fact that he had learned a body strengthening technique.

Sparring with Xin Tong yesterday made Zhao Feng realize the importance of body strengthening techniques.

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_The same afternoon that_ _day..._

Zhao Yufei invited Zhao Feng over to her place. Zhao Feng surprisingly found that Zhao Yufei’s house was next to his. Zhao Yufei had received the same treatment as Zhao Feng, both were highly looked upon by the sect.

“Grandfather!” Zhao Yufei yelled happily as she got back.

“Yufei is back.” From the room came out an one-armed old man, he didn’t speak more after casually glancing at Zhao Feng.

“I wonder what deal Zhao Yufei is talking about?” Zhao Feng finally went to the point.

“Please wait brother, Zhao Feng.” Zhao Yufei walked towards the old man and spoke a few words.

Finally the one-armed old man nodded and went back to his room to retrieve an old book.

“This skill is called Metal Wall Technique and it is quite famous within the Cloud Country. It is even better than Zhao Yue’s Metal Body.” The one-armed old man gently sighed as he gave the book to Zhao Yufei.

Zhao Feng immediately realized that this grandfather and granddaughter pair had already made plans, and had seen the Inner Strength advantage given by Air Crossing Breathing Technique. The reason Zhao Yufei wanted to spar with Zhao Feng was to point out his body strength was lacking, therefore proposing a deal.

“Metal Wall Technique?” Zhao Feng gently murmured. He had not heard anyone speak about this technique before. Zhao Yue’s Metal Body was a high ranked martial skill, Xin Tong’s Bronze Body was the same.

According to the old man, this body strengthening technique was much better than Metal Body.

“This body strengthening skill is a simplified version of the Holy martial skill Silver Wall Technique. Even though it has been simplified and only contains the first third of it, it can still be considered a peak high ranked martial art,” the old man said proudly.

_Holy martial art?_ Zhao Feng drew a cold breath and started to inspect the one-armed old man. To be able to take out such a high ranked skill, he could not have a simple background.

He used his left eye, but only found that the blood within the old man was similar to that of a commoner, it had no aura coming from chi.

“Ten years ago, I lost my cultivation in an accident,” the old man seemed to feel Zhao Feng’s inspection and explained.

“Sorry.” Zhao Feng felt guilty as he took back his eyes.

The one armed old man was expressionless and continued, “For my granddaughter today, I will give you this Metal Wall Technique in exchange for your Inner Strength skill. How do you feel about this deal?” This was within Zhao Feng’s predictions.

“Let me think.” Zhao Feng started to analyze the benefits and problems.

Air Crossing Breathing Technique was only a Inner Strength skill and easily surpassed high ranked martial arts, it probably wasn’t any weaker than peak ranked martial arts. However, this Inner Strength’s power needed Lightly Floating Ferry to be utilized to its maximum potential.

Obviously, Metal Wall Technique wasn’t bad either, it was a simplified version of a Holy martial art and had already reached the peak of the high rank, not far away from being a peak ranked martial art.

Thinking up that point, Zhao Feng soon had his answer.

“Yes.” Zhao Feng nodded and asked Zhao Yufei to give him some paper. Afterwards, he wrote down the contents of Air Crossing Breathing Technique.

Zhao Feng only wrote the contents of Air Crossing Breathing Technique, but didn’t write anything that linked it to Lightly Floating Ferry. This meant that Zhao Yufei would only get the Inner Strength skill, but would have no connections with Lightly Floating Ferry.