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Reviewing what he had learned, Su Wen continuously adjusted his state, sensing the changes in his cultivation's effectiveness.
It had to be said, his extraordinary perception held immense benefits for Su Wen's cultivation.
While its direct impact on his combat strength wasn't significant, it provided an extraordinary auxiliary effect for his cultivation and research.
Opening his eyes, Su Wen let out a breath.
"Good. As long as I am genuinely and properly reviewing, the enhancement buff can reach its optimal state."
Even if he didn't gain new insights from reviewing old material, he was still thinking seriously, earnestly comprehending the knowledge he had previously learned.
A book is about recording.
Recording is for the sake of preventing loss.
Therefore, reviewing itself is also 'acting' out the spirit's characteristic.
Su Wen felt his understanding of the 'Acting Method' was becoming more and more thorough.
He didn't find this troublesome at all; on the contrary, he felt it couldn't be better.
Reviewing existing knowledge.
He no longer needed to consciously decide to review. He now had a direct metric—the demand for cultivation speed—pushing him forward.
While completing this "task," he was also pondering and exploring new theories. Perhaps one day he'd have a breakthrough and establish another theory beneficial to cultivation.
Perceiving changes in cultivation efficiency wasn't that simple. Even with his extraordinary perception, Su Wen needed to cultivate earnestly for a period to see the results.
The process of preliminarily mapping out the various techniques of the Acting Method lasted for three full days.
During these three days, Su Wen practiced the Flame Fist with Xiao Zhan during the day and cultivated his internal technique at night.
As for his external training, he interspersed it with his Flame Fist practice during the day.
On the sixth day of his arrival at Tian Dou Royal Academy.
"Old Jack's Little Sweet Potatoes finally arrived."
Su Wen had really missed the taste of the Little Sweet Potatoes.
"Although my overall cultivation speed during these past few months without the Little Sweet Potatoes was actually faster, that was only achieved with the Clarity Wine as a supplement."
For true, regular cultivation, the Little Sweet Potatoes were still necessary.
Bringing the sweet potatoes back to his dormitory, Su Wen read Old Jack's letter and was pleasantly surprised.
"The Clarity Wine's effect on Old Jack is pretty good."
He had mailed twenty jin of the Clarity Wine to Old Jack. Three months had passed, and Old Jack had already advanced by an entire rank!
One rank in three months, at the Spirit Master stage... for someone Su Wen's age, this would be genius. For someone Old Jack's age?
That was even more terrifying.
After all, Spirit Masters of Su Wen's age were still growing. This physical growth spurred on their spiritual and spirit power, and even the difficulty of cultivation was much lower, as nothing was yet fully formed.
But Old Jack was already old.
To be able to break through one rank in three months despite this, showed just how effective the wine was for him.
Old Jack had obtained his first spirit ring a year ago, and his spirit power had directly reached level twelve. In the following year, he advanced two ranks in the first nine months, and one rank in the last three months. He was now a level fifteen Spirit Master.
Advancing three ranks in one year was already an excellent speed.
And this was the result of Old Jack having only just mastered the cultivation technique.
Not every Spirit Master had Su Wen's talent, able to quickly grasp the internal technique.
The technique involved many meridians. It wasn't just about knowing their location; it required exploration. Everyone's situation was different. Even if the technique was taught, it could at best provide general locations. The learner still had to experiment and find the corresponding meridians within their own body.
When Old Jack broke through, he had merely completed one 'grand cycle,' just the main trunk of the circulation, and hadn't mastered the other meridian pathways.
It was only with the help of the Clarity Wine that Old Jack had finally and completely mastered the internal technique Su Wen had left for him.
"It's very likely he can maintain this speed of three ranks per year. In that case, Old Jack might have a shot at breaking through to level 20 within two years," Su Wen mused.
"Uncle Zhan, where are we practicing today?"
Xiao Zhan looked at Su Wen, whose desire to learn was overflowing, and felt slightly exasperated.
"Little Wen, your talent is beyond my expectations. I've already taught you all the techniques I can," he said with a wry smile.
Su Wen's learning ability was simply too strong.
Especially when it came to spirit power circulation techniques or flame control, Su Wen could grasp them almost instantly.
"What you need now is just repetitive training, to make all of this become your instinct."
The Flame Fist, the technique of fusing the flames into his fist... Su Wen had already completely mastered it. All that was left was adaptation.
"But Uncle Zhan, I feel like the power of the Flame Fist is a bit..." Su Wen felt it was lacking in power.
Xiao Zhan said: "Of course it's not enough! The real damage from the Flame Fist comes from the compression and excavation of the flame."
It wasn't just the Flame Fist; many of Xiao Zhan's self-created skills relied on compressing and excavating the flame, fully unearthing its explosive properties, and then continuously compressing it to produce detonation damage.
The only difference between them was the method and technique of applying this highly compressed, explosive flame.
Rather than calling "Flame Fist" his self-created skill, it was more accurate to say his entire system of compressing, excavating, and applying flames was his self-created skill.
It was an entire system.
"I'm also training the flame compression technique simultaneously, but I can't seem to achieve both compression and fusion at the same time," Su Wen said, confused.
"Correct. This requires adaptation. You need to practice constantly, allowing your innate affinity for fire to increase through this acquired method... or you could obtain a fire-attribute spirit ring in the future to boost it."
Su Wen's mouth twitched.
So, in the end, it still came down to his body's endurance.
So you just keep compressing the flame, digging out its explosive nature, and then unleash even greater power.
What's the difference between this and the Kaioken?
But, speaking of which, Xiao Zhan had likely already developed it to the point where it could still serve as a trump card, even at his Spirit Saint level.
"Of course, besides fire control, you also have wind element control." Xiao Zhan didn't forget the other element from Su Wen's second spirit skill. He rubbed his chin and said, "I can't teach you anything about wind element control, but you must not neglect it."
He himself had stumbled onto the path of fire control by chance. He had later tried to add other elements as support, but he had failed.
In an attempt to minimize the losses from a failed affinity acquisition, his fifth spirit ring had come from a spirit beast that possessed both wind and fire attributes.
He failed. He only gained an increase in fire affinity... and the skill 'Fire Demon Overlord Body'.
Of course, it was also this 'Fire Demon Overlord Body' from his fifth ring that caused him to gradually deviate from the path of a "mage."
Wind assists fire's momentum; fire borrows wind's power.
These two elements are complementary. If they could be developed together, the power they unleash would be even more terrifying.
Su Wen nodded.
He hadn't forgotten his control over the wind element either.
And he had always held expectations for the development of the wind element.
"If nothing unexpected happens, it shouldn't be too difficult for me to use my wind element control to develop the ability to fly."
(End of this chapter)