Chapter 256: Sending a Message
Benton handed Jin LiJuan a jade slip with her new cultivation method.
She cupped her hands. “Gratitude, Master.”
“The next issue is what to do about techniques.” He sighed. “I’d really prefer you got both your current ones to Large Success before giving you any more, but we need more information about how the fact that you don’t have a qi aspect will affect things.”
She stared at him, curiosity evident on her face.
“For cultivation methods and Qi Gathering level techniques,” he said, “your lack of an aspect is a definite positive. Basically, it allows you to use any literally any one that you find. If you were in a normal sect, that would be a huge advantage. In our sect, though, it’s only a tiny benefit, mainly to me.”
She nodded.
“Depending on how your lack of an aspect interacts with Foundation Level techniques, it could be an absolutely broken benefit or it could be a possibly hefty net negative,” Benton said. “We won’t know until I give you a technique and see what happens.”
“I don’t understand, Master. Why would it be a large benefit or an equally large negative?”
He paused for a moment, trying to come up with the best way to explain it. “Kang Lin uses Lighting qi, right?”
“Yes, Master.”
“When she triggers her shield,” he said, “the qi used takes on the elemental attributes of Lightning as it protects her. The shield is stronger against elements weak to Lightning and weaker against elements strong to Lightning. It also shares some of the physical characteristics of Lightning.”
Well, that last point was a bit iffy. If you tried to throw a rock through some kind of persistent lightning, not much would happen to the rock assuming it didn’t melt or something. It definitely wouldn’t bounce back like it struck a wall. It would if it hit a qi shield, though.