Origin Ember Heart Law
A technique that allows the practitioner to use their heart as a source of power.
Its function was surprisingly like his ability to rage.
Rage pumped life force to enhance the body, while this technique transformed the heart into a second mana pump.
It sounds like double power, but the source is still the same body. So, it's more like a twenty-percent increase in raw output, otherwise you burn yourself out.
At noon, back in his room inside the Luo clan's cultivation tower, Wu Han recalled the details of the Origin Ember Heart Law he had stolen from Mianyu.
He wasn't surprised by the concept of using the heart as a control point instead of a magic circuit or the "dantian" this world used.
Dragons used their hearts, mermaids used their vocal cords, and other races had their own centers of power.
Each race produced different results through different organs, and there were whole methods dedicated to stealing those parts and forging them into weapons in his old world.
But turning a human heart into a functioning core?
That was unheard of even for him.
'Let's see what happens if I train it.'
He closed his eyes and expanded his senses into the wave of energy within the tower.
At this time of night most disciples had already returned to their rooms, and only a handful had permission to stay.
Origin Ember Heart Law!
To sum it up, the process was simple: pull a vast amount of energy into the heart and set it ablaze, like waking up a sleeping engine.
Or put even more simply; it was like manual breathing, but with the heart.
Wu Han's divine eyes awakened as he guided the flow of energy condensing inside the tower into his body. The method demanded a huge amount of qi, so he took all of it for himself.
Energy rushed into his room like deep water, submerging him in a sparkling sea of flowing qi.
He sat at the center like a whirlpool, absorbing everything through his eyes, ears, mouth, and skin as the condensed qi poured straight into his bloodstream.
Controlling blood was within his expertise.
Controlling energy inside the blood; he was second to none.
Following the technique, the first step was to flood every inch of his body with energy.
His veins began to glow under the dim moonlight. His skin looked like a pale map of some luminous immortal realm as the energized blood spread outward like canals filling with water.
Sure enough, the surge reached his heart.
His eyes snapped open.
"Now we're really cultivating. To think it was this simple to achieve what the dragonkin had!"
The difference was exactly what he expected.
A small twenty percent increase in flow.
But what came with that increase was something far more valuable, the ability to control his own energy with finer precision.
Wu Han stood up. He reached into the depth of his memory, deep enough to brush the fragments he kept from the dragon he killed long ago.
Once stolen, a soul never returned.
His fingers glowed as he drew qi into them. With a sharp motion, he swiped at the empty air.
Dragon Claw!
The air split.
A clean vacuum tore open for a breath before collapsing.
He grinned. "Not a spell. Turning your body into the spell itself. Knights back home would go insane for this."
Before, he could only cast a simple buff and rely on external magic for everything else
But this… this let him run energy through his blood, shape it inside the body, and force it outward like a beast striking with its own limb.
Mystical-beast level power.
And the best part? It stacked on top of his dantian cultivation.
He now had two power systems running at the same time.
"Wait... Maybe this could fix my problem with using martial technique."
He had been struggling with this world's fighting methods for a while.
It got so annoying that he had to invent his own technique, like Sky Piercer, just to keep up.
But using that too often would drag in unwanted attention, so it was time he took martial arts seriously instead of relying on shortcuts.
"Let's see…"
What surfaced is a technique from the Flaming Cloud Sect.
Blazing Cloud Palm, a mid-level technique.
The original version worked by gathering qi into the palm and compressing it into a dense blast.
The strike hit with brute force on the outside and tore through an opponent's organs with the shockwave that followed.
A heavy, violent technique meant for killing.
Wu Han copied the motion and fired it out the window. His hand glowed with fire; the blast erupted exactly the way it was supposed to, and at a glance it looked flawless.
But it was too rigid.
Striving for perfect form was something rooted in him.
Years of using a magic core made him chase absolute precision. He always calculated before acting. That habit made him strong as a caster, but it ruined him as a close-range fighter.
Now he had a new core to rely on.
He decided he would dedicate this core to martial techniques.
Blazing Cloud Palm!
His second attempt moved smoother and faster.
The strike didn't freeze into a perfect snap. It flowed.
"Now we're talking."
A slow grin crept across Wu Han's face. His confidence in close-range combat had never been this high. For the first time, he felt like he could trade blows instead of relying on spells.
Maybe it was time to test his new skills!