Black Water True Technique

It is the improved form of the Myriad Water Jasper Technique that Garen created in the Totem World using his knowledge of Martial Arts, Secret Techniques, Totems and Luminarists. It is also the secret technique used in the Black Swamp Palace.

It has thirteen levels. Four base levels, that encompass all levels of the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, the fourth level in addition to the base ability to control liquids and poison resistance along with poison effects, causes the practitioner to be able to use Totem Light and become a Luminarist, and nine levels, each based on the heads of the Totem of Garen the Nine Headed Dragon. Each of these nine levels increases liquid control, the poison resistance and the poison effects.

## Overview

Garen noticed that although the Myriad Water Jasper Technique was already at its peak, but it was slightly different than the original. After adjusting it with the Nine Headed Hydra, there seemed to be space to continue progressing forward. Since he thought about it, he decided to do it. Garen didn’t have to care about sleeping. He had incredible resistance and superhuman vitality. Not sleeping at this point of time will not bring any side effects to himself.

Step by step, he used the peak of the Myriad Water Jasper technique as the foundation and continued forward. With his nine lives, he wasn’t afraid of being injured or things going wrong. He failed for more than ten times and was heavily injured up to the point of almost losing his life. However with his huge life force, he did not lose his life and managed to derive a new level for the Myriad Water Jasper technique.

Garen successfully connected it to his totem power. The source of totem power was the brain. Garen slightly adjusted the activation path for the Myriad Water Jasper Technique. He tweaked it to activate the part the produces totem power. Under his constant experimentation, just like the Green vine Sphere, there was finally a glimmer of hope for normal humans to become strong.

It did not have an evil inclination like the Green Vine Sphere. The sixth level of the Myriad Water Jasper Technique that he derived allowed a normal human to activate totem power once they reached this level. They would then have the qualifications to be an actual totem user. However, although this new technique was strong, it was difficult to find usages for it in a battle.

Garen thought for a moment and added in parts of the Divine Statue Technique that he was most familiar with. The Divine Statue Technique was formed by a combination of the White Cloud Gate and the Golden Statue Technique, to reach an level unreachable by mortals. After all the incorporations, the Myriad Water Jasper Technique was totally unrecognizable. It had completely become a new martial art.

Garen wanted to carefully explore the next level. But without fusing with more dragon heads, he had no stronger path to base his derivation upon. He felt it wasn’t the best and forgot about it. The new Myriad Water Jasper technique incorporated many of Garen’s martial art secrets. It gave normal people hope towards the peak. Even then, this path was equally difficult.

The first step was to train the new Myriad Water Jasper technique to its peak as the foundation. Then only could they face the next key checkpoint - breaking through totem power. Even after Garen’s adjustments and improvements, finally he could only simplify the Myriad Water Jasper technique into four levels. Only by training these four levels, there was a chance to activate totem power.

This technique was based on Garen’s foundation. Its greatest effects were basically similar to the ones described in the ability pane. Water control, toxicity and strong regenerative abilities. In other words, Garen’s current state of martial arts was the peak state of this technique.

Garen had a feeling. After finalizing the martial art, for everyone training it in the future, those that arrive at the peak will become weaker versions of the Nine Headed Hydra….With another dragon heart transplant, sufficient state of mind and the same natural talent, he would be another "Mini Garen".

However to train the four level of this technique was incredibly difficult. It was only slightly simpler than the original Myriad Water Jasper technique. The original Myriad Water Jasper Technique was already very difficult. Only during Neptune Fist’s peak, there was someone that reached its peak. Now it was only slightly simpler. To succeed, without suitable natural talent, strong will and relentless determination, it was impossible to reach the peak.

The only thing Garen could do was broadening the scope of qualifications. By broadening the scope, it would increase the number of people. Surely a talented and strong-willed genius would appear one day. Sensing the martial art that had been totally revamped, it could no longer be called the Myriad Water Jasper technique. There were too many elements mixed into it. He stretched out his index finger. A crystal water snake crawled up, looking beautiful and pure.

"I am the Lord of Blackfire Palace. My body totem is the Nine Headed Hydra, which is the lord of the swamp and a water totem. This martial art can be called Black Water Technique." He hesitated for a moment. "Out of the whole wide world, this is the only martial art that allows a normal human to walk towards the path of an elite. It allows activation of totem power, I should add the word "True" to it."

"From today onwards, this martial art will be called **Black Water True Technique**!"

### Progression

In the sealed room. Garen abruptly opened his eyes, the red light in eyes shooting out far, leaving two streaks of red behind them. The red strings stayed in the air for a few seconds, before slowly fading away. On his brow, the scarlet dot on the furthest right was vaguely becoming slightly darker. Raising his arms slightly, the red shadows of two salamander dragon heads appeared on each of his palms. Roar…

The deep dragon’s roar reverberated slowly in the sealed room. "The second dragon head." Garen murmured, his gaze once more falling onto his attribute pane.

‘**Black Water True Technique** (Originally Myriad Water Jasper Technique): Sixth Level (six levels in total). Forcibly controls all liquids.

**Poison Enhancement** level two, **Recovery Enhancement** level two.’

"I knew there would be a change, at first five levels was the limit, but after merging in the second dragon head, it actually automatically reached the Derivation’s sixth level. The Poison Enhancement and Recovery Enhancement were both originally my abilities, it doesn’t really make a difference if they get stronger."

Garen frowned slightly, the Black Water True Technique was the technique he himself trained in, it was the true full version, and not the one he was teaching others. At first he had created and merged this secret technique, only he had used the simplified secret technique as the base, but he was surprised to find that it successfully merged with his own martial arts essence, forming this peak-level secret technique.

But now, after merging the second dragon head, the final result wasn’t what he had expected. The Nine-Headed Demon Dragon had lost two dragon heads, both merged into him, but all he got in return were some not very efficient enhancement effects. After absorbing the Nine Headed Dragon, his secret technique shouldn’t have been that weak.

He fell into deep thought. He absorbed his totem in order to advance his secret technique, and then he meant to merge his totem and secret technique so that he could reach the peak of evolution. Could it be that something was wrong with my secret technique?

But according to theory, there should never have been a problem. "Since I’m already on this road, I don’t have to worry anymore, I might as well walk to the end and then see how it works." Garen settled his heart.

#### Levels

The Black Water True Technique was the easiest of first levels, but level two was different, to reach level 2, one needed to go through a session of attack endurance trainings, special medicinal baths, and depended heavily on the person’s willpower and strength of body. In a short span of two to three months, there would be no need to consider the possibility of a breakthrough. It would only get harder as the training progresses. The second level was an entrance test. To achieve breakthrough wasn’t bad, but for those who failed, they may take up to tens of years.

## Effect

Can **control all forms of liquid** within a specific area and add Poison effects.

Black Water True Technique could control all liquids in a certain radius, but due to the barrier of totem’s light, its effect wasn’t great, and could only be used as a distraction.

Black Water True Technique’s real selling point was that it could condense water literally out of thin air, but it would depend on the surrounding humidity. Plus, it may look strong during the condensation process, but its actual damage is very little. After all, it was not dense, and water is soft in nature. Overall, this technique is not considered strong at all in the Totem World.

## Moves

### Whiplash

"Black Water True Technique. Whiplash!!"

With a twist of his body, and a right kick, suddenly clouds of water vapor condensed on his right leg, accumulating rapidly, becoming a water pillar several meters thick and tens of meters long in just half a second. The large water pillar was like an extension of Garen’s leg and was launched towards Blizzard in an instant.

The splash from the attack scattered, and Blizzard was sent flying from this kick, having been lodged into a palace wall nearby. The entire courtyard vibrated slightly. Garen’s sweep was like a giant axe. The one hit brought with it a pillar of water. From a seemingly unimpressive side kick, water quickly condensed as his leg was swinging, accumulating into something bigger and longer! In an instant, it became over ten meters long!

The two spectators stood unblinking, their jaws slightly ajar. A stunned expression was on their faces, gawping at this form of strong, and impossibly accurate control. This was no longer a battle, but instead was an art form worthy of fascination. Only unleashing such explosive energy at one key point, meanwhile presenting no threat during peacetime, almost like he was an ordinary man. More than half of the layers upon layers of defensive tactics that were placed on the walls had also been obliterated.

## Simplified Version

Because the Black Water True Technique had a special characteristic, which was that he had invented it completely based on his own body, and it was the secret technique exercise that suited him best, so nobody could beat him at it. The Form Five fighters from the other powers all had special techniques that suited them, it just wasn’t convenient for them to spread it.

The only key difference between the Black Water True Technique and their secret techniques was that little bit of crucial technique required to transcend limits. This method was so that they could only transcend under Garen’s own hand, and it was only theoretical too, without any practical precedent. With his micro-control ability as the King of the Century, he needed to touch that most crucial point, and this was basically unreplicable. Because there wasn’t another King of the Century here in this world.

Of course, maybe many, many years from now, someone would be able to discover the mysteries of it, but understanding its mysteries did not equal to being able to practice it. Because that was a hand technique from another world, and wasn’t something that could be overcome with just imagination, it still required some immersion in another world’s Secret Technique system as well as their style and influence.

In order to prevent the secret exercises leaking out, Garen had used all sorts of methods. Other than this crucial hand he kept to himself, he also embedded all sorts of smokescreens and obstructions into the exercises. By putting in some useless hand techniques and training steps, he made it seem like a half-lie, half-truth.

And the Black Water True Technique was divided into two versions, one simple version that was only one of the moves from his Northern Capturing Hand plus a little bit of content from the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, this simple version couldn’t activate totem power, and its function was to allow the learner to be more suited to the Black Swamp Armor, so they can get used to the Green Vine Sphere’s power.

Garen divided his Ten Thousand Mammoths Battle Skills into individual moves, and each move was made into a simplified version as well, merged with the Myriad Water Jasper Technique, to form the four Palace Districts, North, South, East and West.

The four Districts trained in different types of the Ten Thousand Mammoths Battle Skills, and once one had learned them all, the result would be a totem user’s version, the Four Directions Battle Skills. East King Hand, West Phoenix Fist, Southern Double Fist, Northern Capturing Hand.

Garen himself was quite curious, he didn’t know how strong these simplified versions of his own martial arts essence would be once they were totemized. He called the simplified versions the Four Direction Ten Thousand Mammoths, and he had listed out a Four Directions Sky Warrior for each district, in a throwback to his title from the Secret Technique World.

## Evolved

This technique is then evolved to the Northern Trident Frost-Fire True Water Evil Technique, Garen first Soul Seed.

## Links and References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Chapter 454
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Chapter 460
3. ↑ Chapter 465
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Chapter 464
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Chapter 459