Chapter 378: Mystic Crystal Hand and Small Thousand Seal
When Yi Yun was in the Cloud Wilderness, he had trained together with Lin Xintong, and when he saw Lin Xintong use the Desolate Heaven technique, Yi Yun suddenly had the thought of becoming a Desolate Heaven Master.
Now, this thought was still rooted in Yi Yun’s heart. With the Desolate Heaven technique, not only could it supplement his own cultivation, he could also rely on the Desolate Heaven technique to earn resources.
Yi Yun had the Purple Crystal to control energy, so he enjoyed an exceptional advantage in learning the Desolate Heaven technique.
However in the past two years, as Yi Yun was too weak, he had been busy cultivating. He had only learnt a tiny bit of the Desolate Heaven technique and he had put it mainly on hold.
Now, Yi Yun wasn’t simply thinking of messing up the Desolate Heaven technique tea session. He also wanted to take this opportunity to learn the Desolate Heaven technique properly. This would greatly aid his future cultivation.
“Senior Su Jie, there’s only two months left till the tea session. I want to learn the seal for controlling the Power of Desolates and the forming of relics from you.”
“You want to learn these two in two months? You think you are learning Pai Gow?” Su Jie blinked with an expression of being defeated by Yi Yun. “There are thousands of hand seal techniques, which one do you want to learn?”
Yi Yun said, “I only want to learn two techniques. One that can control the Power of Desolates and another used to form a relic.”
Yi Yun knew himself. Although his perception was good, it was unrealistic for him to learn hundreds of hand seal techniques. Hence, Yi Yun had no alternative but to give up on his first choice, so he chose two!
However, by choosing two techniques, there were several limitations.
As Su Jie had just said, a Desolate Heaven Master of a certain caliber would grasp at least a hundred techniques at the beginning.
Just like a good cook, one could not just have one method of cooking like “stir-fry”.
Different dishes would made in different ways.
There were stir-frying, quick-frying, deep-frying, blanching, smoking, pickling, etc! One had to choose the most suitable cooking method for different ingredients.
It was the same with the Desolate Heaven technique. If a Desolate Heaven Master’s hand seal techniques were too uniform, then he would face numerous restrictions.
For example, some sealing techniques were only suitable for desolate bone relics of the lowest grade. The method was simple, consumed little of one’s mental strength, fast and it had a good success rate. However, against powerful Power of Desolates, this sort of sealing techniques could not control it at all and they were unuseable.
To refine high-grade desolate bone relics, one had to use more advanced techniques. These techniques were complex, slow and they extremely consumed one’s mental strength. Even a good Desolate Master would have to rest after using this technique as it was too draining.
And if this technique was used for refining low-quality desolate bone relics, it would be overkill.
There were other sealing techniques that were suitable for particular elemental energies, for example, some were suitable for fire, and others for ice.
If the elemental property was matched, the sealing technique would result in double the results with half the effort. The success rate would also be higher.
In conclusion, if one wanted to refine high-grade, the sealing technique was more complex and difficult to learn. The more techniques a Desolate Heaven Master had, the more flexible he could be when refining a desolate bone relic. Sometimes, they could combine several techniques to refine a relic. And it was up to the preference of the Desolate Heaven Master as to which technique to use.
If a sealing technique was chosen well, it was already half the battle won.
Since Yi Yun had already made his choice of choosing two techniques, he could only have one each for the Power of Desolates sealing and the forming of relics.
Then, there were a few features the two techniques needed.
First, they had to be widely applicable, and they could not be narrowed to a single elemental energy. They had to be able to be used for all kinds of elemental energies.
Secondly, these two techniques had to be applicable for the refinement of high-grade desolate bone relics. For the current Yi Yun, low-grade desolate bone relics were no longer useful.
Finally, the two techniques could not be too complicated. If they could not be learnt in two months, then they would be useless.
Yi Yun had a good amount of understanding of the Desolate Heaven technique, so before he asked Su Jie if he could learn the Desolate Heaven technique from him, he had already thought of the techniques he wanted to learn.
“Senior Su Jie, the two techniques I want to learn are, the Mystic Crystal Hand sealing technique for the controlling of the Power of Desolates, as we