Peerless Battle Spirit Chapter 73 - Entering the Arcane State

As soon as Qin Nan flipped the manual open and saw its contents, it felt like his entire mind had exploded, causing his scalp to turn numb.

On the first page of the ancient manual was a sentence comprised of large-sized words: “The living of the world, are countless; possessions of men, are limitless; the vast oceans remain endless, the ancient mountains remain puzzles; with my grasp of the dao, I invented this technique; accumulate the oceans, accumulate the mountains, accumulate the living, accumulate all that is within a billion miles, accumulate the Heavens and Earth: the Heavenly Accumulating Strike!”

With such a brief sentence, an enormous figure appeared in Qin Nan’s view.

The figure accumulated the vastness of the oceans, the weight of the mountains, the purity of the living, the endlessness of the Earth, the dao of the Heavens—combining all these into a strike worthy of bringing destruction upon everything.

Such force, such imperiousness; it felt like nothing among the Heavens and Earth could stop it.

“What kind of skill is this?”

Qin Nan was completely astonished. He could not find words to describe his feelings.

Even now that he had mastered some Ultimate Techniques and had seen many of them before, they seemed miniscule like dust before this Heavenly Accumulating Strike, uncomparable at all.

Half an hour later, Qin Nan recovered from the shock and mumbled, “No wonder the old man was only willing to give me this technique after the Violet Ocean Full Moon Boulder was shattered into pieces.”

Qin Nan took a deep breath and calmed his thoughts, before immersing himself into the learning process of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike.

At that moment, Qin Nan showed no intention of concealing himself; he entered the state of One with the Mind while unleashing his Divine Battle Spirit, boosting his Martial Skill Talent to his maximum potential to do his best at comprehending the Heavenly Accumulating Strike.

This lasted for five whole days.

In these five days, it felt like Qin Nan was in his own world entirely, trying to consume all the knowledge and secrets from the book, before he finally grasped the basic understanding of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike. Knowing the basics of the technique was his limit, as the secrets held by it were far out of reach with his current cultivation.

“This Heavenly Accumulating Strike is indeed overwhelming.” Qin Nan opened his eyes slowly, with a complicated expression in them. He said, “But even though the beginning of the book is presented domineeringly, the content following it is nowhere near the accumulation of the oceans, the mountains, and the living, neither the Heavens nor Earth. Something doesn’t fit here.”

After saying this, Qin Nan was overwhelmed by disappointment.

Qin Nan was immediately attracted by the imperious feeling of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike after reading the introduction, causing him to have high hopes in it. However, after grasping the basics of it, he realized that the power of this Heavenly Accumulating Strike was only 0.1%—or maybe even 0.01%—of what was described in the introductory chapter.

It felt like this technique was just a prototype, with countless flaws.

At that instant, the old man’s cold voice could be heard, “Young lad, this Heavenly Accumulating Strike is only a fragment of a manual I found coincidentally; despite that, do you know how many Martial Artists desire it?”

“A fragment?” Qin Nan understood after hearing this. He then ignored the sarcastic comment from the old man and switched the topic, “Elderly Mister, why are you still here?”

It took him five days just to get a glimpse of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike, and this mysterious old man with terrifying strength was waiting this whole time?

The old man glanced at him and said, “I’m a man of my word. I gave you this book of the Heavenly Accumulating Strike, but I knew you could only grasp the basics of it. I’ll now demonstrate the technique once. As for how much you can learn from it, it’s none of my business.”

“Demonstrate once?” Qin Nan was stunned, before exclaiming joyfully, “Thanks, Elderly Mister!”

Qin Nan was excited. This mysterious old man before him possessed an incredible cultivation. Watching his demonstration was far more precious than reading all those cultivation notes of Martial Emperor cultivators. The secrets and knowledge revealed through his demonstration would be extremely useful toward the understanding of the Martial Skill.

“Heavenly Accumulating Strike!”

The old man did not waste any more time; he waved his hand, and a gigantic arm about ten meters long appeared. Following this, a magical force could be felt from the arm, absorbing the Qi from the Heaven and Earth.

At that instant, the gigantic arm began to shrink, before eventually turning into a dot of light about the size of a thumb.

The old man then flicked the dot of light, firing it into the ground three miles ahead.

Following this, a loud rumbling noise could be heard all of a sudden; a devastating light appeared from the ground three miles ahead, as if a huge ball of lightning had descended from the Heavens and detonated.

Suddenly, all the land within a mile of the explosion was destroyed—not a single trace of life could be seen.

Qin Nan’s mind went blank upon witnessing this.

He did not expect a dot of light the size of a thumb would unleash such devastating force.

With this force, even Martial Emperor experts would be destroyed without leaving a single trace.

After going blank for a moment, Qin Nan slowly collected his thoughts. At that instant, he clenched his teeth and used all of his focus to restrain the shock and astonishment in his heart and sat down while unleashing the Divine Battle Spirit; he soon entered a state of One with the Mind and became lost in his own world.

In Qin Nan’s mind, the attack of the mysterious old man kept repeating.

A gigantic arm, floating in the air, accumulating Qi from the Heavens and Earth, which then turned into a dot of light the size of a thumb...

Qin Nan remained sitting with his legs crossed and interpreted the looping scene in his thoughts; no matter if it was hailing storm or blinding sunlight, his figure remain stationary, as he was fully immersed in the learning process of the skill.

When night came, Qin Nan finally opened his eyes.

At that moment, he had comprehended it.

Initially, after consuming the petal of the Golden Lily, he had achieved the half-arcane state. After witnessing the demonstration of the mysterious old man, in addition to the fact that he had fully immersed himself in learning the skill for a whole day, he had finally broken through the barrier.

His comprehension skyrocketed, bringing him into the Arcane Realm.

BANG!

With a loud noise, endless streams of Perfection Stage saber intent were emitted from Qin Nan’s body. Following this, the saber intent began to clump together, compress and condense, forming the blurry outline of a saber.

The saber contained all of Qin Nan’s saber intent.

This was the Arcane Realm—his might and his comprehension transformed arcanely into a single dot, without wasting any energy.

Seeing this, the mysterious old man nodded his head.

Qin Nan took a deep breath to hold back his joy while he withdrew the saber intent into his body, before saying in a low tone, “Elderly Mister, thank you for your advice, I truly appreciate it.”

These were honest words from Qin Nan.

The demonstration from the old man was not only about the Heavenly Accumulating Strike. It also showed him the Arcane State, explaining it thoroughly so that Qin Nan would witness the secrets of the Arcane Realm himself.

With this, Qin Nan had been able to succeed in breaking through the barrier and had stepped into the Arcane Realm.

The old man had put a lot of effort into teaching Qin Nan with this single demonstration.

“Silence, I have fulfilled my promise. You can leave now.” The old man glanced at him and said, while waving his hand calmly.

“Uh…” Qin Nan was going to ask some questions but he did not expect the mysterious old man to ask him to leave at once. He shook his head helplessly and said, “If that’s the case, I’ll excuse myself.”

Saying this, Qin Nan inhaled deeply, and gave the old man three deep bows before leaving the place.

The mysterious old man stood at the peak of the hill, staring at Qin Nan’s disappearing figure. Half an hour later, the cold expression on his face vanished and was replaced by a burst of laughter, “HAHAHAHA, you won’t believe I have managed to find such a talent at last! Three hundred years, it has been three hundred years. God has finally given me a chance, the chance that I have awaited for so long!”

The laugher felt like thunder, shattering the entire hill into pieces.

Translator: XephiZ

Editor: DOCuinn