Chapter 73 - Entering the Arcane State (1/2)

As soon as Qin Nan flipped the book open and saw its content, it felt like his whole mind exploded, causing his scalp to turn numb.

On the first page of the ancient book was a sentence comprised oflarge-sized words: “Living of the world, are countless; possessions of man, are limitless; the vast oceans remain endless, the ancient mountains remain puzzles; with my grasp of the Daoism, I invented this technique; accumulate the oceans, accumulate the mountains, accumulate the living, accumulate all that within a billion miles, accumulate the Heaven and Earth: the Heavenly Accumulating Strike!”

With such a brief sentence, an enormous figure appeared in Qin Nan’s view.

The figure accumulated the vastness of the oceans, the weights of the mountains, the purity of the living, the endlessness of the Earth, the Daoism of the Heavens—combining all these into a strike, bringing destruction upon everything.

Such force, such imperiousness; it felt like nothing could stop it among the Heavens and Earth.

“What kind of skill is this?”

Qin Nan was completely astonished; he could not find words to describe his feelings.

Even now that he had mastered some Ultimate Techniques and had seen many of them before, they seemed miniscule like dust before this Heavenly Accumulating Strike, uncomparable at all.

After half an hour’s time, Qin Nan recovered from the shock and mumbled, “No wonder the old man was only willing to give me this technique after the Violet Ocean Full Moon Boulder was shattered into pieces.”

Qin Nan took a deep breath and calmed his thoughts, before immersing himself in the learning process of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike.

At that moment, Qin Nan showed no intention of concealing himself; he entered the state of One with the Mind while unleashing his Divine Battle Spirit, boosting his Martial Skill Talent to his maximum potential to do his best at comprehending the Heavenly Accumulating Strike.

This lasted for five whole days.

In these five days, it felt like Qin Nan was entirely in his own world, trying to consume all the knowledge and secrets from the book, before he finally grasped the basic understanding of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike. Knowing the basics of the technique was his limit, as the secrets withheld by it were far from reach with his current cultivation.

“This Heavenly Accumulating Strike is indeed overwhelming.” Qin Nan opened his eyes slowly, with a complicated expression in them. He said, “But even though the beginning of the book is presented domineeringly, the content at the back is nowhere near the accumulation of the oceans, the mountains, and the living, neither the Heavens nor Earth. It’s not enough.”

After saying this, Qin Nan displayed a disappointed expression.

Qin Nan was immediately attracted by the imperious feeling of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike at the start of the learning process, causing him to have a high hope in it. However, after grasping the basics of it, he realized that the power of this Heavenly Accumulating Strike was only 0.1%—or maybe even 0.01%—of what was described in the introductory chapter.

It felt like this technique was just a prototype, with countless flaws.

At that instant, the old man’s cold voice was heard, “Young lad, this Heavenly Accumulating Strike, is only a fragment of the book I found coincidentally; despite that, do you know how many Martial Artists desire it?”

“A fragment?” Qin Nan understood after hearing this. He then ignored the sarcastic comment from the old man and switched the topic, “Elderly Mister, why are you still here?”

It took him five days just to get a sneak peak of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike, and this mysterious old man with terrifying strength waited on him this whole time?

The old man glanced at him and said, “I’m a man of my word. I gave you this book of Heavenly Accumulating Strike, but I knew you could only grasp the basics of it. I’ll now demonstrate the technique once. As for how much you could learn from it, is none of my business.”

“Demonstrate once?” Qin Nan was stunned, before exclaiming joyfully, “Thanks, Elderly Mister!”

Qin Nan was excited; this mysterious old man before him possessed incredible cultivation; watching his demonstration was far more precious than reading all those cultivation notes of Martial Emperor cultivators. The secrets and knowledge revealed through his demonstration would be extremely useful toward the understanding of the Martial Skill.

“Heavenly Accumulating Strike!”

The old man did not waste any more time; he waved his hand, and a gigantic arm about ten meters long appeared. Following this, an arcane force could be felt from the arm, absorbing the Qi from the Heaven and Earth.

At that instant, the gigantic arm began to shrink, before eventually turning into a dot of light about the size of a thumb.

The old man then flicked the dot of light, firing it into the ground three miles ahead.

Following this, a loud rumbling noise could be heard all of a sudden; a devastating light appeared from the ground three miles ahead, as if a huge ball of lightning descended from the Heavens and detonated.