Chapter 4 – Triple Tidal Palm Technique (2/2)
“Look at this stance!”
Zi Yan waved her slender hand. Invisible will-force condensing on the tip of her index finger, primal energy flowed from her dantian to her fingertips, merging with the will-force like ink onto a quill tip. And with her finger as a pen she drew the thirty-six runes in the air.
The complex and winding runes tangled together in a systematic way, forming a pattern that resembles offshore tides. Multiple hefty waves of force erupted from Zi Yan’s hands with a faint sound of crashing waves, echoing in the classroom. The students could almost smell the saltiness of the sea alongside the force of the rushing tide.
When performed to its full potential in real combat, the force of the rushing tide comes in waves, when the first wave impacts the target it creates a small vacuum, drawing the next wave towards the point of impact. The momentum this technique creates therefore ramps up and become stronger, as long as the dantian of the practitioner is not empty.
Unmistakably, it’s the low level spirit mystic stance, Triple Tidal Palm!
The class is looking at the rushing tide patterns in front of of Miss Zi Yan. The excitement make the early teenages look even younger than they are.
“Mystic stance, that was a mystic stance!”
Seven stars is usually the break point when Students start to have enough Qi in their dantian to support a stance, a point nobody in the junior class has yet reached. Even Xiao Qi, the best student here is merely at five stars and incapable of performing a stance. Seeing something out of their reach, the class is electrified from Miss Zi Yan displaying a stance.
“What do you think of this?!”
Miss Zi Yan cast Ye Wei a fiery glance, expecting to be impressed. What the class did not know was that this was a spirit sensitivity test for the celebrity of the day; while executing the stance, she intentionally left a flaw, reducing the power of her Triple Tidal Palm to one third its potential.
“Something is off!”
Unlike rest of the class, Ye Wei was not impressed. He frowned a little as his mildly suspicious eyes set on three specific nodes of the thirty-six runes drawn by Miss Zi Yan.
‘There are three distinct mistakes in your stance!’
‘Miss Zi Yan is a ten star elite from the gifted class, performing low Spirit level stances like Triple Tidal Palm should be a walk in the park, how could she make such simple mistakes?’
Ye Wei is confused but he smelled something fishy, for Miss Zi Yan to make three mistakes is simply ridiculous. He does not know what a perfect Triple Tidal Palm looks like, but this just felt imperfect, on a deeper level it even felt wrong, especially those three nodes!
What Ye Wei did not know was Miss Zi Yan intended to commit only one mistake while performing, not three!
“Miss Zi Yan…”
Ye Wei hesitated, not knowing for sure if his soul sensitivity was being tested, therefore unsure if he should point out the errors in her stance in front of the whole class.
After all it’s not very dignifying getting corrected by none but her own student, in front of the whole class!
“What’s the matter? Just tell us!” Miss Zi Yan could sense Ye’s hesitation, as an attempt to encouraging him, she put a heart-warming smile on her face and patted his shoulder gently.
The encouraging look of Miss Zi Yan only inches away from Ye Wei’s own, a faint hint of her fragrance picked up by Ye Wei’s nose, his face got a bit warm and he started blushing. He grinded his teeth then finished pondering. With certainty he pointed at one of the three ‘flawed’ nodes and started speaking: “This node… It is obstructing your qi flow, I’m guessing your could have gotten more out of Triple Tidal Palm if your qi flowed smoother, Miss Zi Yan…”