I am an Eldritch Entity

A very easy way in which you could change your battle style so as to incorporate the Nine Suns Palm was to lower the center of gravity of your body while fighting.

In this way you could quickly hit the ground in case you determined that your palm wouldn't land on the opponent.

It would help you in not breaking the chain.

In Nine Suns Palm, once one reached the ninth palm, and successfully landed a hit, the next palm wouldn't reset to the first palm.

The next palm strike would still have the physical damage capacity and burn intensity of a ninth palm, just that the time available would be even lesser.

The subsequent palm strikes would all be at ninth palm as long as you managed to hit them within the available time which would be lowered and lowered until you finally won't be able to hit it within the timeframe.

At that point your palm strike would reset to first palm.

Nine Suns Palm didn't have a very high popularity due to its stringent use conditions.

As for its offensive capability, it was the fifth palm which had the same effect as the average offensive art of Qi Condensation level.

Which meant that one to four palms were on the weaker side, and sixth to ninth were on the stronger side, with ninth palm having one of the strongest damage capacity of all Qi Condensation realm offensive arts.

It was just that the usage conditions were so strict that the disciples would rather practice something else.

Then why did Eryndor pick it up? Because of the element.

In the fire category, this one had the highest damage capacity.

There were others as well with a high ceiling, although not as high as Nine Suns Palm, but since he was learning a cultivation art to mask the effects of fire version of Sky Piercing Palm, why not learn the strongest one?

So he picked this one.

It took Eryndor around an hour and a half to master it.

At the end, Eryndor strapped the daggers to his waist and completely straightened his posture.

He took ample amount of time to stretch his body, because while he was practicing the Nine Suns Palm, he had stayed close to the ground.

It required him to bend, or take unusual stances while moving around, making it uncomfortable since he wasn't exactly into stretching.

The increase in physical parameters after every breakthrough was raw. It was the raw capacity that was enchanced.

It didn't magically made your body more stretchable, or increase its dexterity. These were the things one had to put effort into.

Eryndor thought back to Kron's martial arts.

They allowed him to stretch and bend his body at unusual angles and take an abrupt turn even at high speeds. It was extremely convenient in battle.

One had to admit that even though Kron didn't have a huge arsenal of martial arts, what he had were rather fundamental and efficient for battle. He truly was a combat genius as well.

I'll have to see later if there are any cultivation arts for bending body at any angle, stretching, and for abrupt direction change at high speeds.

As he had that thought, Eryndor took out his badge once again to revise the next cultivation art.

Lightning Trap.

It was a cultivation art where the user used it on objects. After a period of time, normally called activation time, those objects would be ready to act as a trap such that if anyone made contact with it, they'd be stunned.

It wasn't a direct combat cultivation art like the lightning version of the Sky Piercing Palm, but rather something under the 'preparation' domain.

These types of cultivation arts quite overlapped with array formation in that both of them needed prior preparation to be used in battles.

Either that, or the user had to be discreet while using this cultivation in the middle of a battle.

Because if the opponent saw, or sensed you using the Lightning Trap on an object, they would simply never even go near it.

Or they might also take the initiative to destroy it before its activation time was completed.

There wasn't much to practice in this, as it rather depended on the surroundings and how the user used it in that specific situation.

If anything, Eryndor simply tested which objects could the cultivation art be used on.

Mmmm, so it can only be used on still objects?

Eryndor thought with narrowed eyes after experimenting with a few objects. It eliminated a few battle plans he had in mind.

Even if one already implanted the Lightning Trap in an object when it was immobile, it would be rendered ineffective if it later moved, regardless if it was in its activation phase or had activated already.

So I'll need to choose objects which would be immobile throughout the battle if I want to have a chance at stunning the enemy.

While he deliberated on how to use it, Eryndor didn't forget that his Sky Piercing Palm was a Qi Condensation level cultivation art.

It meant that he wasn't exactly out of options for stunning the enemy. He could still use the lightning version of the Sky Piercing Palm in a direct combat to stun the enemy.

After he finished using the Lightning Trap, Eryndor once again sat down to practice his power system.

He didn't practice the mentalist power system but continued practicing cultivation.

The last time when he practiced mentalism, he realized that it wasn't that the other three energies didn't exist here, but that they were so low in quantity that they might as well not exist.

It meant that the speed of progress of his mentalist power system would be incredibly slow without sufficient Spiritual Energy in the environment.

As he cultivated furiously without wasting any time, he realized something.

How will I practice the different power systems and reach level three in three different power systems if there isn't sufficient energy in the atmosphere in the first place?