The Blade of Tides King thought for a long time, and his expression grew worse the longer he thought.
After all, this opportunity was far too precious.
For Luo Fan, if he could become the disciple of the Icepeak Lord, then with his talent, his chances of breaking through to Venerable would be extremely high.
He himself had not broken through to Venerable yet!
But the Blade of Tides King would not feel discouraged if his disciple surpassed him. Instead, he would feel extremely proud.
What teacher didn't hope for their disciple to surpass the master?
Seeing his teacher pondering so seriously, Luo Fan felt a warmth in his heart.
"Teacher, you don't need to be so worried. Have faith in my talent."
"For a Domain Lord to break through the sixteenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge, I do have a decent chance."
"After all, I've already passed the ninth level."
Hearing this, the Kaitian Venerable looked at Luo Fan with a hint of admiration in his eyes.
The Blade of Tides King had just opened his mouth to speak—
"But—"
At this moment, the Kaitian Venerable suddenly brightened.
"Wait, there is a method!"
The Blade of Tides King and Luo Fan immediately looked toward him.
"To pass the Domain Lord Level challenge of the Sky Mountain, one indeed needs the strength of someone who has passed the sixteenth level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge."
"But one's law comprehension does not necessarily need to reach the sixteenth level."
Luo Fan instantly understood.
"Amplification secret techniques!"
The Blade of Tides King said aloud the answer already forming in Luo Fan's mind.
"That's right!"
Luo Fan's eyes also lit up.
Indeed, passing the Domain Lord Level challenge of the Sky Mountain did not require possessing the law comprehension of the sixteenth level.
He only needed the strength equivalent to that.
The Kaitian Venerable assumed Luo Fan didn't know what amplification secret techniques were, so he began explaining.
Amplification came in two aspects: physical and soul.
For the physical aspect, there were power amplification and body amplification.
Power amplification was the technique Luo Fan had previously trained, the Ninety Nine Thunder Blade. (TL/N: Technique MC obtained from the system in the early chapters)
To break through to Immortal, one had to fully master every bit of their physical strength and raise their power amplification to one hundredfold.
Long before this, Luo Fan had already trained the Ninety Nine Thunder Blade to perfection.
After reaching perfect mastery, his power amplification reached one hundredfold, so he stopped training.
After all, after reaching perfect mastery, continuing toward absolute mastery was extremely troublesome.
A hundredfold power amplification equaled a onefold body amplification.
If body amplification reached twofold, then overall amplification would reach two hundredfold.
Body amplification could reach as high as one hundredfold.
In other words, the maximum amplification could reach ten thousandfold.
Soul amplification worked the same way, split into thought-force amplification and soul amplification.
To break through to Immortal, thought-force amplification also had to reach one hundredfold.
Luo Fan had already achieved this long ago.
One hundredfold thought-force amplification equaled a onefold soul amplification.
After the Kaitian Venerable finished explaining amplification secret techniques, he continued:
"If the amplification is high enough, even with inferior comprehension, you can still defeat your opponent."
"With a thousandfold amplification, it's possible to use the law comprehension of the fifteenth level to defeat the guardian of the sixteenth level."
"In that case, you would also have a chance of passing the Domain Lord Level challenge of the original Sky Mountain."
"With a ten-thousandfold amplification, you could use the comprehension of the fourteenth level to defeat the guardian of the sixteenth level."
"Of course, achieving a ten-thousandfold amplification is extremely difficult."
"So even with amplification secret techniques, you must still raise your law comprehension to at least the level equivalent to the fifteenth floor of the Sky-Piercing Bridge."
"This is the best possible method."
Hearing this, the Blade of Tides King's face showed a trace of joy.
Don't underestimate the difference of just one level of the Sky-Piercing Bridge.
At later stages, the gap between levels grew enormous.
Reducing even one level lowered the difficulty by at least half.
But at this moment, the Blade of Tides King suddenly remembered something, and his face twisted in frustration.
"Teacher, these amplification secret techniques are extremely hard to obtain!"
"And they must be suitable for my disciple!"
Amplification secret techniques were known by many, and everyone knew how important they were.
But how many people could actually cultivate them?
Ordinary Immortals had divine power roughly equivalent to one hundred thousand times the strength of a World Master.
But King-level Invincibles and some Peak King experts possessed power hundreds of thousands or even a million times stronger.
Why?
Aside from high genetic level, amplification secret techniques were the reason.
But how many King-level Invincibles and Peak Kings existed?
They were extremely rare even among Immortals.
This alone showed how difficult it was to obtain amplification secret techniques.
Even an ordinary amplification secret technique cost tens of billions of points.
And that was for the worst quality ones.
Even then, they might only increase amplification by a few times.
And they either had extremely high training difficulty, or required massive amounts of additional resources.
Body amplification and soul amplification generally had two training methods.
The first was like ordinary secret techniques—slowly comprehending and practicing them.
The advantage was that having the technique was enough. No extra cost.
The disadvantage was that the difficulty was extremely high; they were very hard to master.
The second method was to use resources to modify the soul or physical body.
The advantage was obvious, you didn't need talent.
But the disadvantage was also obvious.
It was expensive.
Extremely expensive.
Even increasing amplification by onefold could cost hundreds of billions, even trillions in resources.
Even some Venerables couldn't afford that.
So among Venerables, very few had cultivated amplification techniques to a high level.
Only the universe overlord-tier existences had noticeably high amplification.
The Blade of Tides King continued.
"And we can't buy resource-based ones. We must buy the manual-type amplification secret techniques."
Indeed, in Luo Fan's situation, resource-based amplification techniques were useless.
Because the Primal Sky Mountain had to be challenged inside the Virtual Universe.
And in the Virtual Universe, one's body was an ordinary body.
If Luo Fan used his real physical body, with a genetic level of fiftyfold, he would have long passed the tenth or even eleventh level already.
The law comprehension gap between the ninth and eleventh levels could be bridged by fiftyfold strength.
After all, the lower the level, the smaller the difference in required law comprehension.
Therefore, resource-based amplification techniques could not be used inside the Virtual Universe.
Unless the Virtual Universe simulated them.
But manual-type techniques had no such issue.
Manual-type techniques were pure secret methods.
As long as one learned them, any body could use them.
Even inside the Virtual Universe.
In the original novel, Luo Feng obtained the Mo Yin General's inheritance, which was this type of manual amplification technique.
That was why all three of Luo Feng's bodies could use it, and why it worked inside the Virtual Universe as well.
He used this to surpass levels in the Sky-Piercing Bridge.
But if it were a resource-based technique, especially physical amplification, neither the Virtual Universe nor other bodies could use it.
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