"And Fan Wubing's rhythm... is it like he treats everyone equally? Neither suppressing nor being suppressed?"
"It's quite strange."
The phenomenon that the disciples could observe, the elders were naturally even more aware of.
"So, what exactly is Fan Wubing's combat style?"
They truly didn't know.
So they called over Jiang Maodian, who was waiting below.
"Combat style?" Jiang Maodian thought carefully about Fan Wubing's performance when they fought side by side, "If only from an onlooker's perspective. Junior Brother Wubing's combat style is somewhat similar to Elder Lin Xing's."
"Yes, it feels like he's skilled in both immortal and martial. His body is extraordinarily resilient, at least at a top Martial Arts Grandmaster level. In battle, he mainly uses changes in his breath to fully utilize the environment's advantages. Often, the enemy doesn't even notice him before his move has already hit them."
"Has he used any divine techniques?"
"That... I haven't seen. I haven't seen martial arts techniques either. His moves are very plain, either using his fists directly or a frying pan."
"Yes, the frying pan from the set of top-tier mystical cooking utensils Zhao Yangxia crafted for him."
Beside them, Zhao Yangxia was somewhat puzzled,
"I don't recall the cookware I crafted having combat functions."
Jiang Maodian chuckled dryly,
"Junior Brother Wubing just uses it as a handy weapon. I think if he had something better, he certainly wouldn't use a frying pan. After all, it's top-tier mystical; it's hard enough."
"Then how many layers do you think he can reach?"
Jiang Maodian pondered,
"At least the eleventh layer. But it's hard to say... because Junior Brother Wubing is quite unstable. Sometimes he feels extremely strong, other times like someone with absolutely no cultivation."
His understanding of Fan Wubing didn't clarify the image for everyone; instead, it made it even blurrier and stranger.
All the way to the eighth layer, Fan Wubing could instantly kill the beast guardians.
Whether facing a single beast or a group of them, it was the same. After all, the eighth layer's beasts were only at Golden Core level.
Even back when his blood and qi strength was at Foundation Establishment, he could fight Golden Core, let alone now.
More time was spent setting up the Blood and Qi Cage in advance. As he climbed higher, the strength of the Blood and Qi Cage needed to increase.
He absolutely would not miss any trace of special aura containing the insights of the Demon Refining Tower, so he was particularly cautious, never starting a fight without setting up two or three layers of Blood and Qi Cage.
After dealing with the two Crimson Flame Giant-Armed Apes on the eighth layer, Fan Wubing began to absorb the special aura emanated from their corpses.
A little while later,
[Demon Refining Tower Insight]
[It seems to record a kind of divine technique involving positional changes, capable of exhibiting astonishing effects in combat]
The description became much clearer.
Involving positional changes?
Fan Wubing's heart sped up a little. This description... could it be a body technique divine technique?
Although Fan Wubing considered that with the Seven Luminaries Rain Control Skill and Unwarranted Qi Creation Skill, he could achieve ghost-like movements in battle by continually changing the environment and his qi in the rain.
But ultimately, it's not a body technique divine technique. If he encounters someone with a strong sense of qi perception or a divine technique with a tracking ability like Soul Daoist's Daoist Lotus, he'd still suffer a loss.
If the insight in the Demon Refining Tower truly is a body technique divine technique!
Then this journey would be absolutely worthwhile.
Even though the information is incomplete now, Fan Wubing can still feel that this divine technique is very powerful!
Not to say on par with something like Swallow Star, Chew Moon, but certainly not inferior to the Seven Luminaries Rain Control Skill.
His expectation for the divine technique far surpassed his desire for higher layer breakthroughs.
Fan Wubing's ranking was not rising quickly, but it was particularly stable.
After others had gradually slowed down, he still maintained his previous rhythm, steadily rising.
From the very bottom rank, he slowly climbed upward, and at this moment, he already made it into the top fifty.
"The guarding beast on the ninth level is at the middle stage of Golden Core. Can he handle it?"
In the Immortal Performance Square, discussions buzzed.
"He hasn't slowed much even in the high levels, very rhythmic. To reach the ninth, he should have at least second-layer Golden Core strength; it seems like the ninth won't stop him."
"If that's the case, why was his breakthrough in the previous Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment levels so slow? If he truly has Golden Core strength, he should have quickly passed those earlier on, but he seemed to perform as if he only had strength corresponding to those specific levels."
"It's still unclear what exactly he relies on to fight, hard to judge."
"But at this pace, he's probably only going to reach the eleventh level at best. The twelfth level might be hard to break through. He's running out of time."
"He might not be the type for quick decisive fights. The tower climbing trial has a time limit; it could be a disadvantage for him."
"That's one way to put it."
After a round of observation, everyone basically concluded that Fan Wubing's limit was probably the eleventh layer.
Ninth layer, cleared.
Fan Wubing then operated Swallow Star, Chew Moon to absorb the special aura captured from this layer.
[Demon Refining Tower Insight]
[It seems to record a body technique divine technique that, when invoked through special means, can create effects that are hard to discern during combat]
Body technique divine technique!
It's truly a body technique divine technique.
But, what does it mean by invoked through special means? Also, when it says it creates hard-to-discern effects, does it imply multiple illusionary manifestations?
Fan Wubing suddenly realized something, typical body technique divine arts rely on celestial qi flowing through the major and minor meridians, driving the body to make changes in posture, speed, and movement expression, achieving special displacement changes. Follow current novels on Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
He thought that since this body technique divine technique stated it relies on special means, it likely doesn't depend on celestial qi like ordinary body technique divine arts.
Indeed, while Fan Wubing can use Unwarranted Qi Creation Skill to convert blood and qi to celestial qi, it's not inherently part of his dantian meridian's composition. There's a conversion process requiring time, which cannot achieve the seamless unity of native celestial qi.
This would usually be fatal in combat.
Problematic enemies won't give you time to "chant."
Reaching the tenth layer.
The guarding beasts on the tenth level had already reached the late stage of Golden Core in strength.
Dealing with them required spending some time.
But, for Fan Wubing, the tenth level still wasn't much; he easily dealt with them in just a few moves.
He glanced at the countdown in the sect token,
Three hours had already passed nearly two hours.
"Not much time left; I have to speed up!"
Setting aside distractions, he quickly absorbed the special aura from the tenth layer.
The increase in life point cap at this level was quite considerable, even after discounting the effect, still offering over two thousand points.
Of course, the insight from Demon Refining Tower was the most critical.
[Azure Profound Thousand Transformations Skill]
[Type: Innate Divine Technique]
[Grade: Lacking key content, cannot be determined]
[A divine technique that exists relying on some innate object; it requires the acknowledgment of this innate object to be practiced. Currently, there's no way to communicate with this innate object]