The Kanryu that one starts learning at the Advanced level of the Water God Style is the first Secret Technique. When Kanryu is mastered, one can learn the finishing move 'Kanryu: True Mirror', which can turn Battle Aura into a 'mirror' to reflect the opponent's killing intent and intentions, throwing the enemy into confusion from their own predictions. Reaching this realm allows one to be called a Water Saint. Of course, I'm out of luck there.
Secret Technique Two: 'Time Flow'
By using Battle Aura to accelerate perceived time, one can reach up to ten times speed. It's a very strong skill. Deep study of Time Flow allows one to enter the 'Yellow Millet Dream' state, gaining insights from an ultra-long perceived cultivation time in a short period. When 'Time Flow' is mastered, one can use the finishing move 'Time Flow: Reverse Trace' to briefly reverse local time (such as repairing one's own wounds), but it significantly consumes one's lifespan. For someone like me who knows healing magic, this skill is also useless baggage.
Secret Technique Three: 'Counter Current'
Utilizing Battle Aura to simulate the siphon phenomenon in fluid mechanics to deflect all physical and magical attacks. Similarly, after mastery, one can learn the finishing move 'Counter Current: Vortex': storing and stacking the deflected attack power, finally counterattacking with a vortex-shaped Battle Aura. In the novel, Leda Lia used this move to kill Almanfi.
Secret Technique Four: 'Surge Flow'
Battle Aura turns into a continuous offensive like a violent current, suitable for offense as defense, but it has a massive consumption.
The finishing move 'Raging Torrent: Thousand Waterfalls' mimics the force of a falling waterfall, with each strike increasing in power, the final blow comparable to a mountain flood. Combined with 'Time Flow' to accelerate the charge, the skill becomes even more formidable. After use, the meridians are briefly paralyzed, and defense drops to zero.
Secret Technique Five: 'Thought Flow'
This requires integrating'Sword Intent' into all things in nature, reaching the realm where no-form beats all forms. As for what exactly Sword Intent is, Master Leda Lia said you have to realize it yourself; if you can't grasp it, you simply won't understand, and no one can teach it.
This move is extremely difficult; in history, only the first Water God and Master Leda Lia have learned it.
Her combo skill 'Deprivation Sword Realm' is based on 'Thought Flow', combined with 'Kanryu' and 'Counter Current', creating an absolute defensive circle where any movement entering the domain is predicted and severed.
As for the finishing move of Thought Flow, 'Thought Flow: Still Water', even Master Leda Lia doesn't know it. I heard her say that according to records, this move requires gathering all five Secret Techniques to use. No one knows what it actually looks like currently.
After hearing the explanation of these five Secret Techniques, my overall expectations and the ceiling for the Water God Style in my mind have been raised. If someone learned all five Secret Techniques, I reckon they could destroy the Sword God or north god with one hand.
Haha, that's an exaggeration. Until someone who has learned all five techniques appears, no one knows the result.
Generally, mastering one Secret Technique makes you a Water Saint. Mastering two makes you a Water King. If those two techniques are practiced to mastery, you reach the realm of Water Emperor. The current record is the Water God mastering three techniques.
For each Secret Technique, it's not over once you've learned it. You must practice until mastery, which means mastering the finishing move of that Secret Technique.
During the Advanced Water God Style period, one is only required to learn 'Kanryu', but the Saint level requires being able to use the finishing move 'Kanryu: True Mirror'.
Currently, I plan to focus on learning Secret Technique Three: 'Counter Current'. My idea is to use air elements to simulate Battle Aura and achieve the deflection of all physical and magical attacks. Master Leda Lia is very supportive of me and said that as long as I can learn 'Counter Current', I don't even need to learn the finishing move 'Counter Current: Vortex'. She would make an exception and name me a Water Saint.
Living these fulfilling days, my 10th birthday soon arrived.
The birthday process was similar to last time. My parents' gift this time was a deposit certificate for 100,000 gold coins from a bank in the Millis Holy Kingdom.
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