5: Chapter 5 Wedding Dress Divine Skill

After Meng Li returned to his room, he closed the doors and windows, sat on the bed, and immersed his mind into his consciousness.

Before long, the opportunity options that had been temporarily hidden deep in his consciousness surfaced one by one:

Yi Hua Jie Mu Version of the Marrying Clothes Divine Skill, Hun Yuan True Qi, Heart Shattering Palm, Mi Xin Great Technique, Divine Sword Technique...

Looking at these various Martial Arts, Meng Li felt a surge of excitement.

Because these Martial Arts were all top-tier ultimate techniques in the original show, and the most formidable among them was the Yi Hua Jie Mu Version of the Marrying Clothes Divine Skill.

In the original show, it was simply called the "Wedding Dress Divine Skill." Meng Li reckoned that the current option added the "Yi Hua Jie Mu Version" prefix because its effects were vastly different from the original Wedding Dress Divine Skill, and the Golden Finger did so for easy differentiation.

As far as Meng Li knew, the original Wedding Dress Divine Skill originated from the Gu Long novels "The Legend of the Great Banner Heroes" and "The Handsome Siblings."

Its full name was "The Zen Sect of Martial Dao, Wedding Dress Divine Skill," a secret technique created by the founders of the Iron-Blood Great Banner Sect, the Two ancestors Yun and Tie.

After the two created and mastered it, they became invincible under heaven, but they later deliberately lost it.

Because the original Wedding Dress Divine Skill was too much of a trap!

First of all, it was incredibly profound and extremely difficult to Cultivate; ordinary people couldn't master it.

Even those with great wisdom would need at least twenty years of hard work to master it.

Secondly, the True Qi of the original Wedding Dress Divine Skill was extremely masculine, yang, overbearing, and violent. Once mastered, the True Qi would become as fierce as flames; not only could the practitioner not use it, but they would also suffer its torment day and night.

There were two ways to solve this problem:

One was to follow the technique's instructions by transferring one's power to someone else and then starting the Cultivation from scratch. After years of hard work, it would ultimately benefit others, truly embodying the sentiment: "Year after year, I bitterly press the golden thread, only to make a wedding dress for someone else." The words "Wedding Dress" in the skill's name were derived from this.

The second was to destroy all of one's power after reaching sixty or seventy percent completion, blunting its sharp edge, and then start Cultivating anew.

This method was accidentally discovered by Yan Nantian.

After the original Wedding Dress Divine Skill went through this setback and was mastered again, the edge of its True Qi was blunted, but its power was not diminished in the slightest. Because the practitioner had practiced this skill twice, they naturally became more familiar with the properties of this True Qi. Not only could they exert its maximum power, but they could also release and retract it at will, using it as they pleased.

However, whether it was transferring power to others or dispersing it to restart, it was inevitable that years of progress would be lost in an instant.

Most people would find this situation hard to accept, so the original Wedding Dress Divine Skill was considered a trap.

However, the Yi Hua Jie Mu Version of the Marrying Clothes Divine Skill was somewhat modified. It was one of the Legacy divine techniques of the Yihua Palace in the original show, divided into nine levels. Once mastered, one could invisibly absorb an opponent's Internal Energy and steal their Martial Arts Mind-Cultivation Technique and Moves during combat.

This version of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill reversed the original's miserable intent of "Year after year, I bitterly press the golden thread, only to make a wedding dress for someone else" to "You all press the golden thread year after year, only to eventually make a wedding dress for me." In Meng Li's view, compared to the original, it was more deserving of the title "Divine Skill."

But, this version of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill also had its traps!

Its final level was called "Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees," the highest Realm of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill and the most superior technique. Before it was mastered, it could not undergo Fusion with any other Internal Energy. To Cultivate it, one needed to cripple their own Martial Arts; if one forcibly Cultivated it without doing so, not only would they fail, but they would also suffer Qi Deviation—at best becoming hideous, and at worst dying with all Meridians severed.

This so-called "other Internal Energy" also included the first eight levels of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill.

In other words, if a practitioner of this version of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill followed the step-by-step Cultivation model and wanted to master the ninth level, they would have to discard the power of the first eight levels. This also meant that years of progress would be lost in an instant.

If one couldn't bear to let go, stopping at the eighth level was also an option.

This version of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill was incredibly powerful; the eighth level alone was enough to dominate the Jianghu.

In the original show, the leader of the Eastern Depot, Liu Xi, practiced the Absorbing Qi Technique. He would absorb anyone he caught, making him a true absorption maniac. However, when facing Yao Yue, who had mastered the eighth level of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, he was completely terrified. Even when Yao Yue became his prisoner and could not use her skills to resist, he didn't dare to absorb her power.

Because if he tried to absorb Yao Yue's power, not only would he fail, but his own power would also be absorbed back.

At that time, Yao Yue couldn't circulate her power; this counter-absorption effect was purely an inherent mechanism of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill.

The overbearing might of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill was evident, serving as a natural counter to Liu Xi's Absorbing Qi Technique.

However, the ninth level of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees, countered its own first eight levels.

To be more precise, it was a unique existence within the Wedding Dress Divine Skill that could be mastered without the first eight levels.

Once mastered, even the eighth level of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill could not stop its absorption.

Yao Yue in the original show was the best example.

She had practiced the Wedding Dress Divine Skill to the eighth level, yet her Martial Arts were easily drained by Jiang Yuyan, who had only just begun mastering Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees and had little power to her name. While it was true that Yao Yue was suppressed by drugs at the time and couldn't use her power to resist, compared to Liu Xi's situation, there must have been a countering factor involved.

Even though it was a single Martial Art, it had a disjointed split. Without knowing the inside details, anyone who Cultivated it according to common logic would 100% be trapped.

To truly master all nine levels of this Wedding Dress Divine Skill, one must either have no prior Martial Arts or first discard their Martial Arts, then practice Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees before Cultivating the first eight levels.

As for why one should Cultivate the first eight levels after reaching the highest Realm, it was to be safe just in case.

Because Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees itself had a weakness.

When performing it, it would leave one's front and back vulnerable.

At this moment, if someone attacked the Yuzhen point, the practitioner's power would vanish, and they would die.

This was the method to counter Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees recorded in the Liu Ren Divine Dice in the original show—Empty Wood Buries Flowers!

Therefore, in Meng Li's view, it was best not to use Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees frequently to avoid being caught in a vulnerable moment. The first eight levels of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill didn't have this weakness when used and could serve as a regular means to substitute for Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees.

Thinking of Empty Wood Buries Flowers, Meng Li remembered seeing a rumor about it and Hun Yuan True Qi on the internet in his previous life.

In the original show, when Lian Xing taught Hua Wuchuan the Hun Yuan True Qi, she said that the Legacy Internal Skills of Yihua Palace were divided into the Overbearing Way and the Kingly Way. The Overbearing Way referred to the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, while the Kingly Way referred to the Hun Yuan True Qi. The first eight levels of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill could absorb many Martial Arts under heaven but could not absorb Hun Yuan True Qi, unless it was the ninth level, Transferring Flowers and Grafting Trees.

Hun Yuan True Qi didn't have the ability to absorb power, but it was also a bug-level Martial Art.

First, when Cultivating it, the efficiency of power growth was twenty times that of ordinary Martial Arts!

In other words, the power gained by someone practicing Hun Yuan True Qi in one year was comparable to twenty years of power for someone practicing ordinary Martial Arts.

Second, Hun Yuan True Qi could extend the life of someone whose Internal Energy had been drained.

This was a chance for salvation intentionally left by the founder of Yihua Palace to prevent the Wedding Dress Divine Skill from accidentally harming good people.

Because of this, some people believed that the Wedding Dress Divine Skill and Hun Yuan True Qi had mutually countering properties. Additionally, during the final battle of the original show, Hua Wuchuan shouted "Hun Yuan True Qi, Tenth Level," and the final outcome was Jiang Yuyan being killed by him, leading some online to say that Empty Wood Buries Flowers was the tenth level of Hun Yuan True Qi.

In fact, this claim was a complete rumor.

Because the original show had a very clear introduction to Empty Wood Buries Flowers.

During the final battle, although Hua Wuchuan used his Tenth Level Hun Yuan True Qi, he was sent flying by a single Move from Jiang Yuyan in the next second.

At that time, Jiang Yuyan was the ceiling of combat power in the entire show.

She was called "Yan Emperor," not just because she wore the Dragon robe and intended to ascend the throne as Empress, but more so because her combat power at that time was truly formidable.

Thinking about the issue of combat power, Meng Li couldn't help but sink into thought once again...