Extreme Spirit Chaos Technique

And so, the Son of Taotie dragged his scarred body into seclusion underground. If he couldn’t create the Secret Technique in a year, he wouldn’t emerge for a year. If he couldn’t create it in ten years, he wouldn’t emerge for ten years. And if he couldn’t create it in a hundred, he would never see the light of day again!

Time flowed by as he worked to create the Secret Technique. The Son of Taotie spent nearly all day and night comprehending the Sealing Technique. Ten years, twenty years, fifty years—every day, he repeated the same thing without ever stopping.

Finally, on a certain day in the eightieth year of the Son of Taotie’s seclusion, a spark of insight flashed through his mind. He had an epiphany—that’s right, just like Mu Chen’s epiphany back then! The Power of Nature the Taotie comprehended was the power of the earth—heavy and stable. But Earth Yuan Qi wasn’t always firm and dense. For example, the sand of a desert was loose and soft, lacking cohesion, but its quantity was immense.

Another example was dense earth, refined and solidified, with a hardness that surpassed even rare metals. It was this epiphany that allowed the Son of Taotie to finally create his very own Power Sealing Technique: the Condensing Power Seal!

Reading this, Mu Chen finally understood the complete history of this Power Sealing Secret Technique. But what he found extremely strange was how this Secret Technique scroll had ended up in Little Tiger’s hands.

’It must have been his destiny.’

After a sigh, Mu Chen once again looked over the second half of the scroll—the part detailing the Sealing Secret Technique. Mu Chen read this part with intense focus because this Seal was quite advanced. The contents were complicated and required careful study. Although Mu Chen had deciphered the ancient literature, the cultivation technique section was a different beast from the narrative section. The difficulty of the two parts was worlds apart.

After reading it over a dozen times, Mu Chen finally achieved a thorough understanding of the Secret Technique’s contents. It was only then that he discovered just how powerful this Secret Technique was. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

’He was a true genius. Simply incredible!’

Closing the scroll, a sharp light flashed in Mu Chen’s eyes. He had to admit, the Son of Taotie was truly worthy of being the heir to an Ancient Divine Beast’s bloodline. The Secret Technique he created was terrifyingly formidable.

The Secret Technique explained that although it was a sealing method, if used properly, it could also become a powerful Attack Secret Technique. This so-called Seal worked by gathering the body’s entire power into a single part and then locking it away, thus storing up all that power.

However, if all this power was gathered into one part of the body without being sealed—for instance, gathered in the legs—and then suddenly unleashed, the power in one’s legs would surge to a terrifying degree, granting them unmatched speed.

Or, one could gather all their power into their arm and throw a punch with enough force to shake mountains and rivers. Even challenging opponents of a higher tier would be entirely possible.

Normally, the power a person gathers when exerting force is a small amount. For instance, if you wanted to unleash a massive burst of power, you could at most gather an additional twenty percent of power from other parts of your body. Even if you unleashed all your strength, you could only exert one hundred and twenty percent of your combat power.

But by using the controlled transfer of the Condensing Power Secret Technique, one could gather all the body’s power to a single point and unleash it at once. In that case, the combat power unleashed in that instant wouldn’t be as simple as one plus one equals two; it could even be four or five times the normal amount!

Overcome with excitement, Mu Chen instantly simulated a battle scenario in his mind. At the moment the fight began, he would activate the Condensing Power Secret Technique to transfer all his power to his legs, exploding with several times his normal speed to close in on his opponent. Then, he would rapidly activate the technique again to gather that power into his arm, or even the single point of his fist, and strike.

If he became proficient, he could even achieve rapid transfers of his body’s full power. Combined with his Purple Sky Demon Pupils, Mu Chen’s strength would rise to another level!

Since he had finished studying it, Mu Chen decided to begin cultivating the Secret Technique to seal his power. The combat applications he just imagined were for after he had adapted to the power. For a Mu Chen who couldn’t even wield his own strength proficiently, the most important thing right now was to seal it away.

’Where should I seal the power?’

The Secret Technique stated that once the location for the Power Source of the seal was chosen, it could never be changed. Furthermore, there was a certain chance that the location of the Power Source would undergo a mutation. As for whether it would become stronger or weaker, the Secret Technique provided no examples, so there was no way to be sure.

Whenever it came down to a matter of probability, Mu Chen would just ignore it. He simply didn’t believe he had the luck to trigger such a mutation. Besides, the outcome was unpredictable. It was better to just obediently follow the Secret Technique and take a steady, practical approach.

’I’ll go with my arm.’

After careful consideration, Mu Chen decided to seal the source of the power within his left arm. Almost all of his Combat Skills were executed with his arms, so he had a preconceived bias on this point.

According to the Secret Technique’s description, to set the Power Source, one must first place a seal mark on the sealing location. Engraving this mark required not only a large amount of Primordial Power but also immense Spiritual Power. If even a single line was drawn incorrectly, the mark could not be placed, and the body part engraved with the flawed mark could never again be used to set a Power Source.

The pattern of the mark had already been clearly etched into Mu Chen’s mind while he was reading the scroll. With the assistance of a heaven-defying Pupil Technique like the Purple Sky Demon Pupils, plus a Spirit Realm at the Late Stage of the Kan Realm, engraving a single mark was still very easy for Mu Chen.

Silently reciting the Secret Technique’s mantra in his mind, his Extreme Spirit Chaos Technique began to operate on its own. The Nine Attributes Dantian inside Mu Chen started to spin wildly, and a large amount of Primordial Power surged from his Dantian, rapidly converging on his arm. The focal point of all this Primordial Power was precisely where Mu Chen wanted to engrave the mark—the outside of his upper arm.

He chose this spot because his left wrist was already occupied by the Star Mark of the Shattered Star Lock Chain. Fortunately, the scroll said the engraving wasn’t done with one’s fingers but was completed by using one’s will to control both Primordial Power and Spiritual Power to sculpt it. Otherwise, the one-armed Mu Chen would have truly been unable to use his left hand to engrave a mark on his own left arm.

Casting aside all distracting thoughts, Mu Chen’s eyes snapped open with a "SHWFF." Black, demonic patterns instantly covered his eye sockets, and a strange, violet light shot out from his pupils. Purple Sky Demon Pupils, activate!

The activation of his Purple Sky Demon Pupils allowed Mu Chen to see every single pore on his arm with exceptional clarity. Combined with his highly focused Spiritual Power, he was already repeatedly engraving the mark in his mind. Of course, this was just practice; he wanted to engrave the most perfect mark on his first try. White Light Arcs gathered and spiraled in his mind, extending and bending with the grace of flowing clouds and water.

In just a few seconds, Mu Chen had already practiced engraving the mark dozens of times. Once he felt he was proficient, he quickly mobilized his Primordial Power, gathering it on the outside of his upper arm to form a circular white layer. Then, his Spiritual Power, like an engraving knife, pierced into this circular area with a "TSS" and began to slowly carve.

Under the watch of the Purple Sky Demon Pupils, the engraving by his Spiritual Power was flawless. Bit by bit, stroke by stroke, the complex Talisman slowly took shape like a tattoo being drawn. There were no impediments, no interruptions, and not a single mistake.

With a soft "TSS," the final stroke of the Spiritual Power engraving was complete. A strange, symmetrical pattern appeared on the outside of Mu Chen’s upper arm. From its appearance, it looked like the head of a fierce beast, but at a glance, it also resembled a bizarre symbol. In short, what one saw changed depending on the viewing angle.

’The mark is complete. Next is sealing the power.’

After confirming once more that there were no errors in the mark, Mu Chen slowly sat down cross-legged. He gradually closed his eyes, and the purple gleam in them slowly faded. The black patterns around his eye sockets also receded swiftly, like melting snow.

The Secret Technique’s mantra repeated over and over in Mu Chen’s mind. Looking within himself through Introspection, he saw countless currents of red energy sweeping in from all directions. This energy was all too familiar to Mu Chen; it was his own physical power.

The first thing this energy did after being mobilized was to surge in unison toward the Power Source Mu Chen had carved, as if drawn by an endless gravitational pull that required no guidance from him. As Mu Chen watched in stunned silence, the seal mark on the outside of his upper arm rapidly absorbed these surging red currents.

And as this energy converged, the white seal mark began to undergo a massive transformation. First, it gradually turned from white to red. Second, it actually began to slowly float up from the surface of his skin! Streams of red energy seeped out from his pores, mixed with countless drops of crimson blood.

"Ugh..."

Suddenly, a bone-piercing pain shot out from his left arm. Mu Chen felt his arm go numb, and then he couldn’t move it an inch. But the excruciating pain came in wave after wave, flooding his skin, his meridians, his bones, and even his marrow.

Pain! The berserk currents of power, like ancient, ferocious beasts, relentlessly tore at the flesh of his arm, not even sparing the marrow. The mark, now red, continued to recklessly absorb these violent red currents.

"CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK..."

The continuous sound of his bones fracturing made Mu Chen’s arm shrivel like a deflated balloon, twisting into a grotesque shape. Mu Chen’s face was pale, his temples throbbed violently, and veins bulged on his neck. Anyone could see the kind of agony he was enduring. His back was already soaked in a cold sweat, and the sleeve of his left arm had been completely shredded. An arm, filled with berserk energy, was constantly twisting and changing shape, wreathed in red currents.

"Hmph..."

Gritting his teeth, Mu Chen’s entire body was pulled taut. At this moment, he could only choose to endure it in silence, bearing a pain like his arm was being completely reforged!

But this was just one part of the process, and it showed no signs of ending anytime soon...