Online: I Can See Health Bars Chapter 1548 - 690: Reading Books (Part 2)

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Previously on Online: I Can See Health Bars...
Nanyuan Xian makes a suspicious request for polluted water, hinting at a larger scheme against the populace. Meanwhile, Fang Yu explores the Nanyuan Family's library, finding the basic martial arts unimpressive and growing impatient to see their more advanced techniques.

I have the Three Thousand Wood-Blood Jutsu; chasing and traveling might be hard to say, but absolutely first-rate for escaping. Holding Ding Hui for a Blood Burst, protecting the lives of two people shouldn’t be a problem.

As for everyday pursuit, there’s the Primordial White Shadow Leg, not particularly bad either, only that without Bone Transformation, I might be slightly inferior among martial artists of the same level, but against weaker opponents, surpassing easily.

Thinking about it, if there’s no better Qinggong technique, this can be kept as a backup.

After all, the Nanyuan Family lets you choose freely, as long as it’s not too excessive; picking five or six cultivation techniques to take back should be fine, right? Otherwise, I wouldn’t have enough attribute points to use.

At Fang Yu’s current stage, at this strength, if the cultivation technique realm is too low, it hardly affects or enhances his combat capability.

Thus, the best choice would be to select a technique that can be appreciated, directly advancing it to the highest level, only then can it truly be effective in actual combat.

Previous techniques like Rooting into the Soil are becoming less effective for this reason.

If the cultivation technique level doesn’t keep up, everything is meaningless.

"Nanyuan Dialect Technique, using a unique tone and utilizing special Qi gates for vocal effects, can produce distinctive syllables. During conversations, without showing signs, it can silently disrupt the opponent’s internal organs, causing direct damage. By the time the opponent notices, the advantage is established, belonging to a sneak attack type of sound wave technique. However, this technique requires specific Qi acupoints, and if not practiced alongside similar Qi techniques, it might not be possible to cultivate."

Interesting, but my Qi acupoints, for the Qi Explosion Sky Spin, are all set in the Dantian, not compatible with such sound wave techniques.

Forcefully practicing it would work, but as mentioned, the power would not be as strong as techniques matching with the effect, it’s a case of working twice for half the results.

Such techniques requiring specific Qi acupoints are actually quite difficult to handle; without compatibility, it’s just sitting there gathering dust.

Still, the Nanyuan Family has a solid foundation; even on the second floor there are these Qi-related techniques, truly impressive.

Fang Yu began to look forward to the techniques on the third and fourth floors.

Nanyuan En knew of these restricted techniques, Fang Yu might not necessarily appreciate them, so he quickly switched to another.

Really, if he were to introduce them one by one, Fang Yu wouldn’t finish seeing all the techniques on this floor until who knows when.

Naturally, while Nanyuan En introduced them, Fang Yu also wandered around the bookshelves.

"Stop Focus": halting motion and sight for several days, months, or even years, accumulating power and momentum to unleash an amplified strike!

Fang Yu: ???

What stone sculpture person, standing as a target for several days, then exchanging for a powerful strike... Wait! If you calculated it, charging power while someone leads the target over, one strike to finish it... or plan an assassination where a target is sure to appear, charge on the spot, waiting for the target to bite...

How to say, not entirely useless, more like extremely situational.

Checked the bookshelf category, already belonging to miscellaneous studies, a type of unconventional martial arts.

Such techniques, no matter how advanced, only improve charging power; the waiting time cannot be reduced. A few days are manageable, Fang Yu can endure, but several months are unbearable, and several years...

Keep it for some family’s death soldiers to practice; ordinary martial artists are unsuitable for such techniques.

Glancing towards the next, Nanyuan En’s voice is also heard.

"Fire Worship Sword Technique, requires some special medicines for tempering the sword body. The technique will record detailed tempering methods; once the sword body is successfully tempered, it can ignite flames during swordplay, shrouding the form in fiery mist, and attacking enemies with a sword of fire, integrating offense and defense, a high-quality sword technique."

"Flowing Moon Dual Slash, dual cultivation technique for swordsmanship and bow technique, requires certain..."

Oh? This is interesting.

Fang Yu glanced back at Nanyuan En, secretly remembering this martial art.

Dual cultivating swords and bows, in some sense, I am just that; just unsure if swordsmanship and bow technique expertise can be simultaneously developed to create stacked power.

Returning my gaze, while Nanyuan En introduces techniques slowly and thoroughly, Fang Yu quickly scans martial arts secret manuals, making a rough judgment in his mind, much faster than Nanyuan En.

Indeed, Fang Yu has already scanned the conventional techniques, reaching the miscellaneous studies bookshelf now.

Among the conventional techniques, some are mildly interesting, but not yet to the point of deep desire.

On the contrary, among the unconventional techniques, those peculiar martial arts increase Fang Yu’s interest.

Many times, unconventional techniques do not represent weakness.

For example, the Lin Family’s Acid Blood Technique in Tianyuan Town, reportedly supplemented by unconventional techniques, completed with compatible techniques, forming the Acid Blood Technique, becoming the Lin Family’s family inheritance technique.

The current "Stop Focus," along with my Ice Blood Storm, all possess similar potential.

Only, Fang Yu himself lacks the ability to complete the complementary techniques; finding suitable techniques to fill the main technique’s gaps requires collecting numerous other techniques for research, adaptation, and even modification.

And Fang Yu, doesn’t have that time.

As for the system, it simply increases the cultivation technique level without filling technique gaps, thus investing attribute points alone is futile.

Self-contained systems, while power multiplies with remarkable effects, require substantial effort, better to save effort by advancing realm aggressively.

Fang Yu is a typical utilitarian; if left to his own research, who knows when it would be completed. Such meticulous work better suits geniuses like Ding Hui.

When researching the Two-Heart Lock earlier, it was Ding Hui who helped; she actually has talent in martial arts, or rather comprehends widely; she just doesn’t invest effort into martial arts training.

If she had time, she’d rather study demon materials, creating some novel creations.

"...Word Spirit Bow Technique, mimicking Believer’s power, through Qi Method, swapping for spiritual power, making arrows fired seemingly follow words, in actuality entwined in Qi power, influencing arrows with special Qi trajectory..."

Nanyuan En introduced until exhausted, yet no matter which technique, Fang Yu seemed somewhat uninterested, not impressed.

Really, he understands these second-floor techniques, though somewhat unique, generally mid-tier ordinary goods.

Slightly stronger than average, but the strength is limited.

"Instructor Diao, how about we proceed to the third floor?"

Fang Yu halted, turned back to him, and nodded slightly.

Then he placed the techniques back on the bookshelf.

Feather Color Garment, makes the skin adapt to environmental changes, creating matching colors for concealment. It records special silver needle techniques, targeting certain acupoints and skin areas, inserting custom silver needles, infusing specially dyed dyes into the body, fusing with blood, precipitating.

After roughly ten days, the dye completely intermingles with blood and skin, and can begin cultivating this technique.

Somewhat useless, but not particularly poor technique.

Among the needle techniques and special dyes, Fang Yu thinks Ding Hui might be interested, as for the technique itself, unnecessary to cultivate.

Secretly noted to take when leaving, Fang Yu followed Nanyuan En up to the third floor.

Indeed, upon reaching the third floor, the room feels significantly spacious, with many fewer bookshelves, only three or four.

Undoubtedly, the techniques on these shelves, in terms of rarity and strength, will experience exponential rises.

With intrigue, Fang Yu stepped forward, picked up the first technique from the first bookshelf.

"Nanyuan True Scripture..."

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