Dark Iron Palm

Garen Garen found this technique along with three others in the White Cloud Gate's secret library. In the form of four books:

**Dark Iron Palm**, Iron Body, Lark Blade and Flame Fist.

Those Secret Martial Arts were common and almost all the Dojos had them. They were usually taught to the normal disciples, but the White Cloud Gate had the Explosive Fist Arts as the basic and the four low-level Secret Martial Arts were just kept in the library as part of the collection.

The four Secret Martial Arts were very similar to the Red Hand Fist Garen encountered before. They could not be put into skill combos, and it would take him a very long time to master them, so the benefit wouldn’t justify the cost.

Although they were put in the library, disciples read them just for fun. Secret Martial Arts like the four could be found anywhere, and they were just like the Iron Tunic that was in almost all the martial arts novels.

All of them required a lot of time for one to master. Disciples needed to spend at least five to seven years on the Level One Mastery of those arts. Even more so, Flame Fist required eight years for the Level One Mastery. It had four levels in total, and the required time doubled for each level, which meant it would take 64 years for one to finish the last one.

*"One won’t become any stronger if he can’t master one Secret Martial Art before the age of 25. No one is going to spend 120 years to master the Flame Fist. No wonder no one touches these low-level Secret Martial Arts…"*

Garen combines this secret technique and Firestream Fist to create the new secret variant/mutation technique the Dark Crimson Technique.

## Overview

Garen did not need any external support to learn the Dark Iron Palm. All he required was to learn a special stance and support it with his consciousness. It was a skill that gathered all the venom in his body into his palms, and then allowed him to use it to poison opponents.

It would take Garen some time, but he started the Level One Mastery with ease. He used the special stance he learned from the book and supported it with his consciousness.

After about two hours, he felt like his hands were paralyzed, and it meant that the venom in his body had gathered into his fingers.

Apparently, the Level One Mastery of the Dark Iron Palm would not do too much for him. He only needed to gather all the venoms from his body into his palms. The more Garen practiced the skill the more venom he would be able to handle.

The technique only had two levels just like the Mammoth Secret Techniques.

### After finding the missing part

The missing part of the training that Garen found in the Pink-eyed Royal General's notebooks:

'31. Dark Iron Palm: Need to be upside down when practicing.' After reading this short line of content on the deficiency, Garen searched his memory and recalled the method of training for Dark Iron Palm, and was instantly enlightened. Those training methods that seemed strange, if practiced upside down, would instantly make sense from the perspective of martial arts concepts.

Inside the rectangular yard beside the lake, Garen dangled from a black iron frame. Garen’s hands and face turned purple due to the exertion. He inhaled deeply and his stomach rose. The purple color disappeared slowly from his face and hands as he inhaled.

Garen exhaled all the air in his torso and started hitting his palms with his fingers. This repeated process was how he learned the Dark Iron Palm. In order to practice this low-rank Secret Technique, he had to hang from the frame.

The Dark Iron Palm was a low-rank Secret Technique and a lot of people tried to learn it. Martial Artists or people who were just interested in Martial Arts would try to learn it after obtaining the Secret Technique. No matter how weak a Secret Technique was, it would still be stronger than average Martial Arts.

Of the many people that practiced the Dark Iron Palm, the best of them had palms harder than iron and their palm skills could deal damage with their evil power. However, they were only slightly stronger than normal Martial Artists.

Low-rank Secret Techniques were created by Martial Artists that broke past their limitations. The Dark Iron Palm was a bit better than the Iron Body because it could convert the toxins and useless substances in the body into evil power. By practicing the Dark Iron Palm, Garen could better maintain his health. Garen kept repeating the procedure and would hit his fingers against his palms every time he exhaled all the air from his abdomen.

His long purple hair blocked his view, so he decided to close his eyes and check the skill bar. After practicing the basic training method for a while, some changes finally occurred to the bar.

The row for the Dark Iron Palm started getting blurry. The words behind the Dark Iron Palm changed quickly: "**Dark Iron Palm: Beginner Level (Two levels in total).** Garen felt something heavy and muddy inside his body that quickly travelled toward his hands. His body was relaxed but his hands became heavy.

He opened his eyes and looked at his palms. Garen’s hands had already turned grey as if they were soaked in ink. Garen looked at the attribute bar unintentionally and noticed that some of the attributes had changed as well. His Stamina increased from 2.09 to 2.15.

"Nice, I didn’t expect the Dark Iron Palm to help increase my Stamina," Garen observed his hands carefully. Garen reached at his feet and untied the rope. He landed on the ground and walked toward the tree quickly. He raised his palms and pressed them against the surface of the tree. Nothing spectacular happened, but there were two black handprints left on its surface after Garen lowered his hands.

Two black ants were climbing up the tree and they slowed down right after reaching the handprints. Their legs trembled, their bodies curled up, and then they fell from the tree after several seconds.

"That’s the poison from the Dark Iron Palm?" Garen glanced around. "I need something more than the ants. Umm…"Way too weak. Killing some small animals is the best it can do. Maybe it’ll work on a normal person, but all of the Grandmasters of Combat have high resistance and Dark Iron Palm will do no damage to them."

## Links and References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 98
2. ↑ Chapter 133
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 130
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 Chapter 132