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GEV 033: [Blazing Solar Finger]
🕑 Added 2023-08-12 13:06:11 +0000 UTC"Even though you have improved significantly, you are still weaker than me it seems." Zhao Wei taunted as he clasped his hands behind his head.
"You really took my previous lousy teaching to heart and practiced everything I said without leaving anything out."
"Huff, your mouth never ceases to irk me. Can you for once put a filter on it?" Zhao Yufei grumbled in defeat as she laid on the inclined chair in a quite unlady-like posture.
They had just had a one on one battle spar but the results had been pretty much expected. It had been a one-sided beatdown with Zhao Wei being the one pulling his punches.
"Now I am not gonna sleep well tonight." Zhao Yufei slowly said in a voice full of frustration.
"As expected of a damsel in distress." Zhao Wei chortled.
Upon hearing his snarky remark, Zhao Yufei promptly adjusted her posture and shot him a withering glare.
"I am going. I have already caught onto what you are implying. I now have a faint grasp of your inner thoughts." Zhao Yufei rose up from her seat with a new kind of realization settling in her eyes.
Zhao Wei looked at her in curiosity. He hadn't expected his words to cause such an unexpected reaction from her.
"Then tell me what my inner thoughts are."
Zhao Yufei's lips gently curved into a delightful, refreshing smile, revealing a pair of adorable dimples on her cheeks.
"It. Is. A. Secret."
"I now know what I am supposed to do."
She then elegantly glided past him, leaving behind a trace of her exquisite fragrance that subtly captivated his senses.
Zhao Wei had a dumbfounded expression on his face.
"Well, I don't know how to respond to that."
"You aren't supposed to," she stated, her slender form fading into the distance.
Zhao Wei didn't turn his gaze to look at her leaving. He didn't need to.
"By the way, the change in her demeanor isn't just about her new mindset. I think I sensed something else."
"Could it be that her bloodline was unexpectedly stimulated? But this shouldn't have occurred at this juncture in the timeline," Zhao Wei mused, his eyes filled with a mixture of intrigue and curiosity.
"I can only speculate at this point, as I haven't thoroughly examined her. If my assumptions hold true, it appears that the more I engage with the characters from the novel, the more deviations manifest. Doesn't this add an element of... intrigue?" Zhao Wei's eyes shifted toward the advancing darkness in the sky, a slightly manic grin adorning his features
"Timeline instabilities may prove dangerous to my life but this only serves to make me more diligent and careful in my ardent pursuance of ultimate transcendence." Zhao Wei laughed with his arms spread wide.
"Let it rain." And it rained that night. Not because he had the power to summon clouds, move the wind and invoke the cries of heaven, Zhao Wei had just easily predicted it from simple observation. (A/N: Lol)
The following day, he decided to stop playing around with paints and calligraphy and put the story behind him.
There was no way his calligraphy strokes were going to have the intent of heaven like Nie Li's so soon. Or maybe he could try to master it faster but that would only serve to waste his precious time. (A/N: Tales of Demons and Gods protagonist. It was during the Heavenly Note and Skyblaze Sect Visit arc)
Presently, he already has sublime understanding of [Relentless Tornado Kicks], [Freezing Ice Spear Technique], and [Overworld Thunder Cry] and he is able to use them efficiently.
"Why the hell did they name it <<Spatial Cloud Finger>> when its attacks don't affect the structure of space in any way?" Zhao Wei wondered as he sat cross-legged in his garden.
He was about to gain some insights from both the utilization of the <<Spatial Cloud Finger>> and <<Star Finger>>, when this random thought settled in his mind.
"What am I thinking? The names of cultivation techniques often don't directly correspond to their effects in most cultivation worlds," Zhao Wei muttered, shaking his head and facepalming in self-amusement.
Zhao Wei then steadied his breath, closed his eyes and entered a state of concentration.
In his thoughts, he attempted to recall how Zhao Feng had employed the <<Star Finger>> technique in the novel. Fortunately, while he couldn't recall every intricate detail, he grasped the fundamental essence of the skill – the harnessing of intensely condensed penetrating power.
The [Primordial Stellar Energy Body Refining Art] primarily used the celestial energies of the sun, moon, and stars to strengthen the physique. It was a passive skill that could strengthen the body at any time of the day even when he was sleeping. But it had slow progression which really wasn't a worrisome matter to Zhao Wei. If the energies of the moon, sun and stars were at his disposal, then he would use his ingenuity to create a simple attack technique centred around them.
The blazing solar radiations from the sun descended on his body, making him look an eternal blazing sun.
His skin seemed to alternate between hot red and then returning to normal.
He absorbed everything according to the method of the [Primordial Stellar Energy Body Refining Art].
From his pores, through his vessels and then finally to his cells, Zhao Wei increased the number of stars inside them to a whopping 50 million. His previous number when he had been in the Blood Red Python's cave had been 15 million. The number of Illusory stars had continued to steadily rise as his cultivation strength also increased plus the passive boost.
But the fact still remained that the 50 million illusory stars were still a long way from 37.2 trillions.
Zhao Wei guided the fiery hot sun(yang) energies through his energy pathways to his fingers and then he suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes appeared to hold two miniature suns, emitting a radiant golden glow that could illuminate the entirety of existence for eternity.
He concentrated the hot sun energies into his index finger and pointed at a nearby rock.
"Blazing Solar Finger!"
SHWIIING!
And he released the energies that shot in a straight line like a laser beam and bore a hole through the rock unobstructedly.
Within seconds, molten magma began to ooze from the opening, its fiery red droplets splattering onto the ground below.
"This killer move is quite destructive but the enemy needs to be immobilized or be caught unaware. If these conditions aren't met, it would be quite easy to anticipate the attack." Zhao Wei analyzed.
"But the enemies capable of evading this technique that's faster than the speed of sound aren't going to be many at this point of my journey."
"Then unless it's light speed or refractive… refractive, yeah, refractive." His eyes shone in enlightenment.
Light speed was impossible at the memont but the other option…
If [Blazing Solar Finger] could bend and be unpredictable, then his opponents could only despair.
"Just like Darkseid's omega beams but from the finger!"
Zhao Wei then made multiple attempts to manipulate the shimmering beam of [Blazing Solar Finger].
Sadly, it wasn't as easy as it seemed.
Hypothetically, there was this matter of his attack losing some of its speed if he messed with its trajectory.
If he wanted his attack to be unpredictable, then he would have to understand more about the transformation state.
If Zhao Wei could successfully master the [Blazing Solar Finger] of the unknown rank to its utmost potential, it had the potential to become a truly phenomenal technique.
Meanwhile, the yearly Genius Summit held by the Qiu Clan was slowly nearing but Zhao Wei wasn't sure when.
But he had a feeling it was going to be pretty soon.
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