"So this is the Mana Combat Technique inheritance?"
Shi Feng stared at the virtual space that had appeared within his mind, his heart filled with shock.
Inside this virtual space, his own figure was automatically performing the three strikes that the Azure Saint had demonstrated earlier, as if someone were controlling his body — yet he could clearly feel the flow and manipulation of both his physical body and his mana.
This method of guidance was incomparably superior to watching holographic tutorials, especially when it came to the techniques of mana manipulation. He could actually feel every nuance with perfect clarity.
"No wonder so few people across the entire Divine Realm ever mastered the Mana Combat Technique. The way mana is manipulated here really isn't something you can learn just by watching," Shi Feng murmured to himself as he experienced the first strike's phantom execution, suddenly understanding why so few experts had ever managed to learn the Mana Combat Technique.
The technique not only pushed the movement principles of the four major magical elements to their absolute limits, but it also demanded a thorough and masterful command of the movement rules governing the three supreme elements.
After all, merely becoming a grandmaster of magic and controlling the four elements to draw magic arrays was already enormously difficult. To then base those arrays on each magical element's individual movement laws — that was like dancing with heavy shackles on both hands and feet, except the dance also had to be graceful…
Yet the Mana Combat Technique that the Azure Saint had imparted required grasping the movement rules of all seven elements and then guiding them through the Mana Body.
This demanded not only the ability to focus on seven things simultaneously but also to unify all seven into one — exponentially harder than the Bronze Rank combat technique Lightning Flash.
Lightning Flash was at least based on physical body movement, which was something players were already familiar with. Players spent their entire time controlling their own bodies, after all. Magical elements and the Mana Body, however, were entirely foreign concepts to players. Simply becoming accustomed to using them was already a tall order, let alone truly understanding them inside and out and performing with flair. The difficulty was unimaginable.
"Good thing the memory inheritance also includes foundational exercises for the seven elements. Otherwise, there wouldn't even be a chance of learning a Saint-tier combat technique," Shi Feng said with a small sigh of relief as he watched himself complete the first phantom execution and transition into the breakdown phase of mana application.
Still, Shi Feng didn't let himself relax. Instead, he threw his full concentration into studying the fundamental laws of the magical elements.
A memory inheritance session didn't last long — typically three to four hours, sometimes even less. Hoping to study from dawn to night was nothing but a fantasy.
All a player could do was absorb as much as possible within that limited time. The Memory Crystal didn't care whether the player had fully learned anything or how much they'd managed to retain.
As Shi Feng immersed himself in the ocean of magical element laws, time flew by at an astonishing pace.
Half an hour… one hour… two hours…
To outside observers, however, Shi Feng simply sat there motionless before the stone pillar, doing absolutely nothing — no different from a vegetable.
"Guild Leader, how much longer is this Black Flame going to drag things out? We've been inside the Star Tomb for over four days now. We can't just keep wasting time here like this," Thunder Beast said, unable to hold back as he looked at Shi Feng's unmaddressed figure before the pillar and turned to Hell Howl.
At least before they'd been able to farm monsters. They hadn't gotten any drops, but the experience had been generous, and it had even helped with their mana control. Wasting time on that had been acceptable.
But now things were different.
They'd been resting here for ages, and aside from the occasional patrol of Earth Giants that they'd cut down, they'd done nothing — absolutely nothing — just sitting here twiddling their thumbs.
Every major power's top players were either grinding levels like mad or frantically improving themselves. Who had time to just sit around doing nothing?