16 Chapter 16 - Comprehension

Cultivation...A hard, time-consuming process of becoming strong. That was what it meant to be.

But... Looking at the disciple in front of him, he just wanted to shout 'It's cheating!' Who can just break through one minor realm and one major realm in just two days?

Not to mention, he had heard he had just recently broken through to the mid-Qi refining level and is now directly into the foundation-building realm.

Not to mention, he himself spent a year or two just to break through a minor realm which was already called impressive, and his disciple who is also a small genius takes more than six months to break through and even those monster like a genius in the large sect takes more than a month even with the vast resources to break through, he has never seen, heard or even have thought of monster like him who can break through in just a day.

It was even hard to sort out his thoughts much less his emotions.

Sighing and taking a deep breath, he thought, 'I can't expose this monster to the outside world.' He can't imagine the number of large sects personally coming to recruit him.

"Go and rest now, and don't leave the sect without informing me in the future."

"Ok, master. I had just gone out to check my cultivation and wanted to experience some battles. Who knows, if I had to defend myself, so having battle experience is good for me."

Hearing that, Li Hongzhi's mouth twitched, "There are your senior brother, if they are not enough, I will send some elders to battle with you."

"Thanks, master." Liu Xin bowed slightly.

'Let's rest for now.' He thought. As he was going to his house, he suddenly found a small horde of disciples sitting with legs crossed on the ground.

An old man was standing and seemed to be saying something. Curious, he walked there and joined the disciples.

"Lighting Afterimage Footstep Technique is a mid-grade movement technique. However, it is difficult to learn it. It is hard to comprehend the essence of this cultivation technique.

The first way to cultivate it channeling your Qi into your legs and feet. The Qi shouldn't be fierce, instead, it should be light. Next is training your feet, even if you perfectly master the technique, if your leg isn't strong enough, it can't handle the speed and pressure and could lead to the breaking of the bones.

Second, make sure, after achieving small success, you should use it on a daily basis. If this technique becomes your habit, even in your daily life, you can become more proficient in it. Also, producing afterimage requires at least 80% of comprehension of this technique, so practice hard!"

"Ok elder!"

"Elder, the way you explain it was so easy to understand, thanks!"

"I will definitely master it!"

Disciples vigorously shouted and were cheerful. Liu Xin on the other hand was a little conflicted.

"I have complete mastery over the technique, but no comprehension." For him, downloading the data and learning the technique wasn't hard at all.

However, there was a flaw. He had no comprehension of the technique. Instead, it was like reciting. It was similar to those people who copy other answers. They don't know the meaning of the answer, nor have any understanding of it, but they copy exactly what others have written.

His situation was similar to that. He can copy the movement and everything about the technique, but if he was asked to explain, he can't. He didn't even know what was the main essence of his basic cultivation technique, not to mention upper-grade technique was harder to comprehend.

'I can't continue like this.' He thought. So he returned to his room and sat in a meditative position.

He remembers every letter and word of the cultivation technique.

Skin Hardening Technique.

This technique focused on hardening the skin and making it tough so no ordinary weapon can harm it. It also helps to protect from poison and not let any unknown substance enter the body through the skin.

He circulated the technique.

The first layer, the circulation of Qi on the outer skin and refines it. It was a painful method as it felt like the skin was burning.

The second layer, absorption of Qi and not letting it flow, instead accumulates the Qi in one place and refines the inner layer of the skin.

The third and final layer, refining both inner and outer skin in one go and shedding the skin to replace it with hardened skin. Also, blocking pores and opening as wished can control the flow of Qi inside the body.

He utilized the qi as he remembered and it was surprisingly easy to do so. For him, he didn't feel like it was hard at all. Maybe, he already know how to use the technique wholely, he performed the technique perfectly.

However, he didn't leave it. He understand every layer of the Skin Hardening Technique and had a whole comprehension of the technique.

Previously, he didn't know what was the meaning of every layer of the skin hardening technique, but now he understands.

The first layer was meant to make refine the outer skin so it could be tough however it was only temporary. The second layer was to refine the inner layer of the skin.

The first layer comes in part, with the hardened skin, it was hard for qi to flow out from the pore and could only be accumulated inside.

It also helped to have more good control of Qi and the third layer, which required him to perform both the first and second layers of the technique at once.

Achieving this layer was only possible if he had complete control of his Qi. Refining both layers helped his middle layer of skin to toughen, and skin shedding the outer layer made his middle layer the surface.

The middle layer was neither tough as outer skin nor soft as inner skin. He could easily soften the skin to open the pore and harden it to block them.

This was the main function of the Skin Hardening Technique. He wouldn't have known if he didn't comprehend it.

Because of this, Liu Xin began comprehending all his techniques.

He spent all night comprehending his techniques completely.