Chapter 28
In truth, the Golden Pill Immortal Technique that Mari taught Yongno was considered an expert-level technique within the martial world. To be specific, only martial artists in the upper echelons of their field would practice it. The Golden Pill Immortal Technique utilized the creation of cores within one’s body, much like how animals and beasts created divine or spiritual energy cores over time. However, the production of internal force and energy was relatively slow. This was because one had to constantly gather and condense internal energy to form and develop cores. This process was lengthier than most other techniques, as they could directly imbue cores with internal energy from the environment.
Due to this drawn-out process, many outside observers considered the Golden Pill Immortal Technique to be an inferior and low-level internal force technique. If one’s internal energy development or replenishment rate were slow, one would inevitably face difficulties in battle. Yet, the Golden Pill Immortal Technique boasted a high output capacity and the stability to maintain that output.
A normal martial artist with an internal energy of 100 can usually only employ one or two points of their internal energy at a time. This was the critical weakness of most internal force techniques. Even if someone invested the time to gather additional internal energy, they would only be able to use five points of internal energy for an ability. By utilizing another skill on top of one’s internal force technique, a person would at best be able to output 30% of their total internal energy.
Put simply, the process of outputting internal force is similar to physical strength. Bench pressing 100 kilograms ten times and lifting a metric ton once are two entirely different scenarios. Since energy needs to be expended when lowering the weight, it is true that lifting 100 kilograms ten times may actually require more energy than lifting a single ton once. However, if someone capable of lifting 100 kilograms ten times were asked to pick up a metric ton, they’d probably shake their heads, thinking that the other person was crazy. It would be the same as asking a marathon runner who could run 20 kilometers in one hour to expend all their energy at once and run 20 kilometers in 10 minutes. It just wasn’t physically possible.
The utilization of internal energy followed the same concept. Telling a user who possessed 100 points of internal energy to output 50 or even all 100 at once was physically impossible, and even if it were feasible, the user would most likely suffer critical, unrecoverable damage to their dantian. In order to maintain stability under such a heavy output load, one would have to possess a firm stamina foundation.
Bam!
Yongno was able to sustain the blow, but he still couldn’t help but spit out blood. He was already in a tremendously weakened condition. Furthermore, he did not have any method or option to retaliate. In his current situation, it seemed likely that he’d be knocked around like a punching bag before dying.
‘Internal energy… I need internal energy. Damn it. What should I do? Should I try to utilize Dark Northsea Divine Technique to gather some surrounding internal energy?’
Of course, this wasn’t really viable. Though the Dark Northsea Divine Technique derived internal energy from the surrounding natural qi, the technique could not just operate optimally for those who didn’t practice or primarily use it. There was no such cheat to absorb qi quickly. Moreover, although natural qi existed everywhere, it still needed to be converted to internal energy using a separate technique and method of processing. Of course, a half-immortal may be able to skip this step, but that was just a pipe dream for Yongno.