"Feel the Fighting Qi inside you, understand it, command it, make it move along the blade!"

On the vast snowy field, ten Extraordinary Beastmen were diligently swinging their swords in the wind and snow, the massive blades slashing down at great speed, producing sharp sword sounds, while waves of air blades were swept up.

Austin walked behind the Extraordinary Beastmen, constantly observing their sword movements and states, his calm voice echoing in their ears.

Recently, the Beastmen from the Gale Wave experimental group had finally managed to make the Fighting Qi cycle and flow along the sword blade, reaching speeds comparable to level five wind speed.

The rapidly rotating Fighting Qi attached to the Great Sword not only easily swept up air blades but also greatly enhanced the power of the rough combat technique of Fighting Qi Sword for the Beastmen.

The tough and sharp Fighting Qi cycled on the blade of the Great Sword, the feeling was as if a Great Sword turned into a chainsaw, its power not to be underestimated.

However, although it greatly enhanced the power of Fighting Qi Sword, the development of Gale Wave was still some distance away. At least for now, the Beastmen first need to be able to release the Fighting Qi attached to the sword blade.

Moreover, the Beastmen's sword-swinging speed was still far from achieving a vacuum and making the air blades rotate at supersonic speeds. The success in developing Gale Wave still had a considerable distance to go.

Yet, compared to the previous confusion, the Beastmen in the experimental group had advanced significantly, and Austin believed that if they continued, the successful development was not far off.

Suddenly, a sharp sound arose, the feeling like a rapidly spinning drill scraping on glass, and simultaneously a thin, eye-invisible slashing wave suddenly shot out, creating a line on the snow ahead.

"Hmm?"

Austin abruptly turned his head, seeing a leopard humanoid with spotted fur holding a Great Sword with both hands, staring in bewilderment at a finger-width, two-meter-long line in the snow ahead of him.

All the Extraordinary Beastmen stopped their actions, gazing at that leopard person.

After delivering that slash, the leopard person did not move, only closing his eyes to carefully recall the moment of bewildering action just now.

Austin said nothing, and neither did any of the Beastmen.

The atmosphere was silent, snowflakes gradually falling from the sky, as all the Extraordinary Beastmen, including Austin, quietly waited.

After an unknown amount of time, the leopard person reopened his eyes.

"Your Highness, I understand now!"

The leopard person showed an excited look; during the repetitive sword movements earlier, his numbed and weary arms moved mechanically, yet at a distracted moment, he intuitively managed to slash that sword. By recalling that moment, he seemed to have found his direction.

"Your Highness, let me try it first!"

The leopard person looked at Austin, and with Austin's permission, he held the Great Sword and walked to a half-man-high rock a short distance away, stopping three steps before it.

The leopard person leveled the sword at the rock, the sword tip about twenty centimeters from it.

He took a deep breath, tightly gripping the Great Sword in both hands.

Closing his eyes, the Fighting Qi quickly flowed and spun on the Great Sword, producing a faint sound of tearing through the air, with dim light flickering.

After an uncertain length of time, the next moment,

Swish!

A dazzling white light flashed in the air, a crescent-shaped arc of light descending like a cold crescent moon from the sky, gradually dissipating into the air thereafter.

After swinging the sword, the leopard person gasped for breath,

while the rock ahead appeared to be sliced diagonally from above, with its upper half suddenly sliding off.

"So that's how it is!"

In that instant, the keen-eyed Austin clearly observed that at the moment of the slash, the leopard person somehow channeled the Fighting Qi to extend more than a meter beyond the sword tip, and the rapidly rotating Fighting Qi carried a powerful cutting force, slicing the rock as easily as cutting tofu.

This wasn't the effect of the Great Sword producing a Slashing Wave, but the Fighting Qi breaking from the sword carrier, extending attack range and causing damage.

Although there was still some way to go before achieving the concept of a long-range flying attack like Gale Wave, at least the leopard person had taken a huge step forward in being able to unleash powerful Fighting Qi off the sword,

just one more step, and the attacking method of Gale Wave could be successfully evolved!

....

Just as Austin had the leopard person share his insights for mutual learning, he did not notice that at the gates of the council hall, the Mercenary Deputy Captain stood on tiptoe to see everything, his face filled with disbelief and shock.

"Secret Techniques! These are Secret Techniques!"

Gory shouted frantically in his heart, barely resisting the urge to rush over.

The leopard person's slash that cut the rock in mid-air was seen by him, and further off, he also witnessed those Beastmen standing,muscles bulging like steel giving off a faint white glow, while several Beastmen with Wooden Spears broke each spear upon lunging.

During this time, he had seen the power of the two prototype Combat Techniques Austin kept trying to develop.

As a result, a tidal wave of ambition and yearning surged within Gory.

Secret Techniques, truly Secret Techniques, and that Young Dragon was developing Secret Techniques!

What are Secret Techniques? In the Human World, they are Secret Combat Techniques handed down through powerful noble families! They are one of the bedrocks of a strong noble line lasting millennia!

Secret Techniques possess power far beyond ordinary Combat Techniques, which is why powerful noble families can maintain lasting influence, and why their members can easily defeat warriors of the same level. The existence of Secret Techniques is a part of this.

Secret Techniques provide family warriors with formidable combat power, making it incredibly easy to challenge ordinary civilian warriors across tiers.

To Gory's knowledge, within the Southern Countries, the newly established twenty-year-old Eagle Duchy's King, Grand Duke William, possessed a family Secret Technique called the Golden Eagle Thirteen Strikes. Grand Duke William, with unparalleled talent, cultivated the Golden Eagle Thirteen Strikes to an incomparably powerful level, achieving overwhelming victories against Legends at Golden peak tier, even vanquishing a Legend, albeit an aged one with fallen strength nearing pseudo-Legend. Still, that battle made Duke William a household name and led to the establishment of the Eagle Duchy.

This is the power of Secret Techniques!

If he could obtain these two Secret Techniques and return to the Human World, Gory might have the capacity to become a noble, or even to establish a noble family of his own!

At that moment, Gory's heart was brimming with rampant ambition and desire....

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