Chapter 58 Old Divine Power, New Interpretations (2/2)

”Dantian?” I thought about what Yan had said. Suddenly my eyes lit up, and I asked meticulously, ”Then what if one use Divine Power of the North to absorb other people's inner strength and expand his own Dantian?”

”What are you talking about?” Liu Shuai was confused this time, so did Zhang Quan. Yan seemed to be able to understand what I was saying, but he was also looking at me with a puzzled expression.

Looking at their expressions, I smiled bitterly in my heart. It was not surprising. They didn't read Mr. Jin’s novels or at least did not read those stories carefully. I thought for a bit, then explained in detail, “Do you know the Divine Power of the North in Mr.Jin's novels? According to the novels, this technique can absorb other people's inner strength.”

I saw the three of them nodding their heads. While sighing over that everyone read Mr. Jin’s books, not matter he was a human or ghost, I continued to explain, “Don't you feel it strange? In Mr. Jin’s novels, when the inner strength of the martial arts expert was exhausted, after resting for a while, his inner strength would recover. However, the inner strength that was absorbed by the Divine Power of the North could not recover at all, so the person was crippled. Why is that?”

“Well..” Liu Shuai was the first to understand what I meant, and he thought deeply, ”Right, I've never paid attention to this question before. It doesn't follow logic.”

“You're discussing logic with an Imbedding Body than can borrow mana. why aren't you discussing acting skills with a star?” I found it funny and borrowed Zhang Chi Hang's words here. Seeing Liu Shuai scratching his head, I laughed and continued to explain, ”Just like how the Avalokiteshvara acquired time-related mana because of the strange accident in the 13th year of Zhen Guan in Journey to the West. There is also a way to explain the absorption of inner strength by Divine Power of the North — —”

”What explanation?” Yan seemed to be the most interested in all of them, so it was no wonder that the first person to ask this question was Yan who liked to read TopBuzz and watch variety shows. He must be very curious about these issues.

“When one uses the Divine Power of the North, he not only absorbs the inner strength, he also absorbs the space of inner strength storage with inner strength as a lead line, which allows the user to expands his own space of inner strength storage.” I explained as I pondered.

”Dantian!” Yan's eyes lit up, as if he understood something, ”You're saying that by using Divine Power of the North, you absorb the opponent's Dantian to expand your own?”

”What are you talking about?” The more Liu Shuai heard, the more confused he became. ”What do you mean by absorbing the opponent's Dantian to expand your own?”

”Err …” I thought for a moment and rubbed my forehead, then told him, ”Just like when you were playing a game, the opponent's mana value was represented by blue bar, right?”

Liu Shuai nodded.

”For example, if you have 10000 points in the blue bar, and normal mana consumption would mean that you have used up all the mana in the blue bar. As long as you rest, after a period of time you would be able to increase your points.” I felt that it was easier to explain with video games, so I continued, “But user of the Divine Power of the North directly suck all the 10000 points of the opponent's blue bar, then expand his own blue bar by 10000 points so that the opponent's blue bar will be zero. Then, no matter how much the opponent rest, he won't recover his strength. This blue bar, according to Yan's explanation, stand for Dantian.”

“Got it!” Liu Shuai shouted, ”That means by using Divine Power of the North, you absorb the opponent's Dantian to expand your own! If you had said it so earlier, I would have already understood! ”

”That's what I just said...” I muttered in my heart. Yan and Zhang Quan had also understood.

”But what does that have to do with you?” Liu Shuai continued to ask.

“This is all thanks to Yan. ”I smiled as I looked at Yan, who seemed to have understood something,” That night in the plaza, when I was fighting with the two soul hunters, my inner strength was insufficient. In a moment of desperation, I used the Divine Power of the North and slowly absorbed the opponent's inner strength. At that time I only felt a warm stream flowing into my abdomen, but I did not know—”

”You didn't know that you have used this method to expand your Dantian!” Yan laughed, ”So you are capable of storing mana!”