Ice Coffin

the Ice Coffin was. After all, it was also an Inherited-Level technique, so it had to have some level of standard. The Ice Coffin was in fact not a rare technique, it was more commonly found in snow-type sects. It could only be considered a second-grade secret technique, that was purely supportive.

This training method/technique improves the body, mind and purifies the Cold Radiation that other techniques produce, making it more effective and increasing the life of the Energy Machinist. The greatest difficulty of the technique is the time it takes to cultivate it to the highest level, since it takes 1840 years of constant training.

## Overview

'Cold Secret Technique -- Ice Coffin: Inherited-Levelled Snow Exercise, altogether a complete version of three levels. 300 golden crystals per unit.'

This secret technique was very interesting, it first required him to release his chill, creating something like a coffin of ice around him to completely surround himself, and isolate himself from the outside world. And then, he needed to constantly create yet another specially-constructed ice coffin inside, this specially-constructed ice coffin could greatly increase the quantity of his chill, all the way until he could create something called a Heart of Ice.

Although the name was very clichéd, but according to the descriptions in the secret manual, this thing was extremely over-powered. As long as he could create it, he could drastically increase his chill, and upgrade the coldness of his chill even further. In other words, this secret manual was completely a support-type secret technique, it was a secret manual that Aine had specially chosen to complement Garen's Scarlet Snow Technique.

Garen just followed a few of the steps described in the secret manual, and gathered up an ice coffin. Within ten short minutes, he had created a material layer of ice around himself, and completely sealed himself off. He was emitting a chill, and had basically frozen himself into a block of ice.

Garen felt the Ice Coffin technique forming within him quickly, resulting in a moving flow. This flow quickly created a little transparent ice coffin around his Scarlet Mist technique. Every time his Scarlet Snow Technique came or went, it would naturally pass by this layer of the ice coffin, and would be filtered through. The impurities would be excreted outside his body, and although the technique would be reduced slightly, it would end up becoming purer and cleaner.

Ice Coffin was just a support technique, and its principles were not very difficult either. It mostly depended on grinding, constantly creating little specially-structured coffins inside his body. After he collected a certain number, the filtration through the different layers would finally result in a purified technique.

"And according to the categorizations, Ice Coffin should be a second-grade technique in the Secret Technique World. It's a more accessible secret technique." Thinking back carefully, Garen realized that back then, Senior Sister Rainy, Aloran, and even Carthage also seemed to have practiced this secret technique, using it to filter their own power. Because their power seemed to be purer than his, this purity could be used to nurture their own computing power, increasing their computing power at a higher rate, and raising their abilities.

"This Ice Coffin technique is easy to learn but difficult to master, many people stop at the second grade, and just use it to filter the impurities out of their power, to decent effects."

"This technique is a slow grind, the first grade is still okay, since it just requires eighty years, whereas the second takes 160. The third grade actually needs up to a thousand years, you could completely master any other technique in such a long time, so who would want to practice this thing? That's why we usually stop at the second grade."

## Cultivation

Garen uses his Potential Points to skip the 1840 years it would take to cultivate this Energy Machinist Secret Method to its maximum level.

### **Secret Method – Ice Coffin**

#### Beginner

Frost-type secret technique, may filter frost-type power, three levels in total. Legend has it that at the highest realm, it can filter out 100% of the impurities, and reach a realm of purity. Increases own aptitudes. The first grade requires eighty years of extensive training, the second grade requires 160 years, and the third requires 1600 years. To complete the whole training, you will need at least 1840 years.'

Garen looked inward, and could clearly see that the ice coffin inside him seemed to have become slightly more complicated, and had gotten more transparent.

#### Second Grade

In practically an instant, Garen saw many miniature ice coffins appear inside his body, floating in his blood densely along the flow of his blood. These coffins were extremely tiny, and could even squeeze into the capillary ends that were as thin as a hair. They constantly purified the chill in his blood, and even helped to slowly upgrade and improve the quality of this body of his.

"It really is impressive!" Garen sighed in admiration inwardly. "No wonder so many people choose to cultivate this accessible support technique, it even has this side-effect, slowly improving my body. Right now, it doesn't look like much, but as time goes on and it accumulates, it will be significant indeed!"

According to his calculations, at this slow rate of modification and purification, his Vitality would be increased by one point after just two years. It was indeed worth it to use a hundred years to reach the second grade.

"Even the weakest Energy Machinist can live for several centuries, if they just use more than a hundred years to reach the second grade, and slowly upgrade their Vitality, they would be able to benefit from the several hundred years later, and would surely be able to reach the limit of another technique." If the second grade already had such an effect, Garen was even more interested in the third grade now.

#### Third Grade Complete

Heart of Ice obtained. 100% filtration for frost-type power, highly resistant toward hypnosis-type attacks. Greatly increases Vitality and Intelligence (one point per year, for twenty consecutive years).'

"One point a year!" Garen was overjoyed, trying to wrap his mind around it. A one-point increase in Vitality and Intelligence every year, that was borderline terrifying! Putting aside Vitality for now, just consider Intelligence.

Garen's Scarlet Snow Technique gained a new quality. "I got the Coldness Strengthening and Sharpness Strengthening when I absorbed that wisp of Inherited power, and I think that **Purity** Strengthening came from the **Heart of Ice.**"

'Scarlet Snow Technique: eleventh grade, Two-Moons level. (**Coldness** Strengthening third grade, **Sharpness** Strengthening third grade, **Purity** Strengthening third grade.)'

The **Heart of Ice** that was produced by the perfected **Ice Coffin** was not just used to purify Cold Energy. It could also strengthen and amplify the efficiency of the chills that Garen released. This allowed him to have a perfect command of these chills.

## Links and References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Chapter 1057
2. ↑ Chapter 1046
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Chapter 1058
4. ↑ Chapter 1074