I'm not just human!

Holding the black glass bead-like "Eternal Secret," Xia Fa pondered.

After thinking for a few seconds, he decided to give it a try first!

With a quick glance, he spotted the little blue crab that had crawled past his head earlier.

The idea of ​​"keeping it secret" popped into his mind. Immediately, Xia Fa held the black glass bead-like "Eternal Secret" in his left hand and pointed at it with his right.

"secret!"

The next moment, something incredible happened!

As soon as Xia Fa pointed, a quiet, translucent light appeared around the little swimming crab, and then it really disappeared into thin air in front of Xia Fa!

Because he held the [Eternal Secret], Xia Fa was still able to sense the presence of the little swimming crab. He immediately put the [Eternal Secret] into his bag and sensed the general location of the little swimming crab again.

Sure enough, this time, he couldn't sense anything, just like the Soul-Destroying Bullet that the Crimson Agent had fired from his back!

"This is really useful... Wait, does this mean I've succeeded in my research?"

Xia Fa was quite surprised, and immediately took out the black glass bead-shaped "Eternal Secret" and tried it on himself again.

This time, he didn't shout out the word "secret" in a childish way. Instead, a thought popped into his mind, and he decided to keep himself a secret.

In an instant, tranquil, translucent light spots appeared around him, covering him completely.

With his spiritual intuition and third-person perspective, Xia Fa clearly saw that he had simply disappeared on the beach!

Moreover, this isn't "invisibility" or "stealth," but true "stealth."

The authority of secrecy encompasses all means of concealment and stealth, and can achieve even better results.

Or, to put it another way, if anyone dares to hide or sneak in front of me in the future, I only need to hold the [Eternal Secret] in my hand, or I don't even need to hold it in my hand, I can put it into my flesh and meet the conditions for contact, and I will be able to detect them immediately!

Not only can it detect them, but it can also directly use the "Secret" authority to remove their stealth and invisibility!

Xia Fa persevered and continued experimenting, trying hundreds of times. He hid on the beach, on the reefs, and even concealed his own secret abilities. Finally, he confirmed that as long as he made contact with the [Eternal Secret], he could use two to three tenths of the "Secret" authority!

Of course, this refers to 20% to 30% of those below the level of gods. If it were 20% to 30% of those at the level of true gods, they could easily hide countless star fields.

After playing with it for a while and confirming that he was familiar with it, Xia Fa then put the [Eternal Secret] into the time rift.

Immediately afterwards, he took a deep breath and took out the shortcut cultivation method for the critical second loss of control given to him by the ancestral outer god Gilgamesh.

Upon opening it, his pupils suddenly lit up, and his face revealed an expression of extreme surprise:

"So... that's how you cultivate?"

Chapter 344 Are all physical entities Xia Fa's pets? The unknown beings were all terrified!

The ancient scroll, with its matte black finish, revealed ancient secret texts when opened.

But surprisingly, there were only a few in total.

With Xia Fa's current strength and status, having signed five hegemon-level secret contracts, understanding these complex, profound, and obscure ancient texts naturally doesn't take him much effort.

Then, to his complete surprise, an extremely simple cultivation method that was on the verge of secondary loss of control was presented to him.

"By focusing on the first instance of near-loss of control, and combining at least five methods that can significantly increase strength in a short period of time, such as secret contract abilities, divine combat techniques, extraordinary talents, secret treasure abilities, secret arts, sub-secret contract abilities, etc., one can cultivate the second instance of near-loss of control."

"The critical second loss of control achieved by this method is no different in power from the critical second loss of control achieved by the orthodox method on the Golden Dao Beacon Scroll, but the risk of loss of control is slightly increased."

Five methods to significantly increase one's strength in a short period of time...

Xia Fa was increasingly delighted as he looked at the document, because, counting the critical moment when he lost control, he had a total of six types!

This is practically a shortcut prepared for myself!

He thought back for a moment, and first and foremost, one of his biggest secrets, was the burning sensation in his heart meridian.

In a sense, the burning sensation in his heart meridian has no upper limit to his strength; it only depends on the total amount.

Of course, since the total amount of burning sensation that can be mobilized at one time is limited, and it will be depleted for a period of time after it is all used up, under normal circumstances, the increase is slightly more than 1.3 times the critical loss of control.

Moreover, this is calculated by adding the burning sensation in every cell of the body.

As for the second method to significantly increase strength in a short period of time, it is naturally the process of reaching the critical point of losing control.

Now, Xia Fa had to admit that the Critical Loss of Control technique truly lived up to its reputation as a forbidden secret art jointly prohibited by the nine righteous gods. Its ability to enhance strength was unmatched by any other method.

In fact, without even mentioning anything else, just looking at the entry requirements for the critical point of losing control once is enough to tell you that even extraordinary monarchs have a hard time successfully cultivating it. With such high entry requirements, it is inevitable that it is powerful.

The third method is naturally the "Burning Blood of Living Silver," one of the original secret techniques of the Silver Throne. This method has the effect of almost causing a 70% loss of control upon one use.

It can only be said that the Silver Throne, which has the highest attack power among the top ten overlord-level secret contracts, is worthy of the title. Its original secret technique is almost on the verge of going out of control. I'm afraid the original secret techniques of other overlord-level secret contracts cannot reach this level.

As for the remaining three methods that can temporarily boost strength, they each have a chance to critically strike the fourth arcane secret of the Arcane Singularity.

And, similarly, the sub-secret ability "Silver Oath Zone" of the Silver Throne's original secret technique "Blazing Oath Spear"

The last type is the activated state of the [Ancient Treasure - Rhine Blade of Calamity]. In the activated state, that is, when the Rhine Blade and the Calamity Blade are wrapped in chaotic lightning threads and activated mercury mist, one's strength will also increase dramatically.

Therefore, the only question at present is which five of these six should be selected for fusion.

"Hmm... the triggering of the critical second-stage runaway might require these methods as a bridge. In other words, if the activated state of the [Ancient Treasure - Rhine Blade of Calamity] is chosen, then it's possible that when using the critical second-stage runaway, one will have to take out the Rhine Blade of Calamity..."

Based on this alone, Xia Fa decided to choose the first five options!

That is, the critical moment of losing control itself, plus the burning sensation in the heart meridian, the burning blood of living silver, the fourth arcane probability critical strike of the arcane singularity, and the silver oath zone.

Without hesitation, Xia Fa immediately prepared to begin the fusion.

But suddenly, he realized a detail, a very important detail.

"Wait a minute... This ancient scroll that my ancestor gave me doesn't seem to mention any other 'forbidden secret techniques' at all, but only refers to them collectively as secret techniques?"

There are countless secret arts in this world, but in essence, they are different methods of operating and using extraordinary power within the body, distinct from secret abilities.

Of course, secret techniques are generally not offensive; they are mostly used for escaping, saving lives, and hiding.

For example, the Scarlet Proxy's ability to shrink its own body to a size of a few centimeters and hide it in its brain, and then shrink it to a size of a few millimeters and hide it in the brain of an even smaller body in a crisis, is a kind of secret technique.

Furthermore, the "Eye of Faith," which was supposedly taught to him by Levimir of the Absolute Defense school to check the number of believers, is also a secret technique.

At this moment, Xia Fa thought back carefully and found that apart from being on the verge of losing control, he had indeed never heard anyone mention any other "forbidden secret techniques". They were all just referred to as "secret techniques" without the word "forbidden".

Even righteous gods like the Paradox Clown and celestial beings like the Wise One have never mentioned any other forbidden secret techniques.

Furthermore, none of the occult books I had read contained any records of any other forbidden or secret arts.

"Could it be..."

Xia Fa suddenly had a very bold conjecture.

Could it be that critical loss of control... is the only forbidden secret technique in the entire universe and the Protoss realm?

Or rather, because of the existence of the critical point of loss of control, other secret arts are not worthy of being called forbidden secret arts, nor are they qualified to be banned by the nine great gods.

Realizing this, Xia Fa, who already valued the cultivation of the critical second loss of control, couldn't help but look forward to achieving it even more.

"I remember that the orthodox cultivation method for critical second-stage loss of control seems to require using critical first-stage loss of control more than a thousand times."

"Then, you have to keep yourself on the dangerous edge of being on the verge of losing control but not really losing control for a full ten years."

"Finally, after doing all this, we still need to find a mysterious restricted area, and stay in the place where the pollution is most severe, in order to break through and control the critical second loss of control..."

The sheer difficulty of this orthodox cultivation method alone is enough to show just how powerful it must be once mastered…

"By the way, if the nine righteous gods tacitly agree that they all possess this unique forbidden secret technique, then to what extent have they advanced it? Five times? Seven times? Or even more?"

While thinking curiously, Xia Fa began his actual fusion cultivation.

……

Soon, an hour had passed.

"This is really difficult, it's unbelievably difficult..."

After taking out a wall of flesh and blood, as large as half a wall, from the copper box, Xia Fa wolfed it down while simultaneously conjuring clean, pure water spheres to wash away the sweat from his body.

He never expected that this second loss of control at the critical point would be so difficult, even with the shortcut to cultivation, it was unbelievably difficult.

In particular, whether it was trying to fuse the Rhine Silver Mercury of the [Silver Throne] with the Starry Body of the [Gate of Stars], swallowing that mysterious seed in an attempt to master the divine battle technique [Tree World], or researching how to use the authority of [Eternal Secret], he had never encountered any obstacles.

These are all very difficult.

However, the second time the cultivation was out of control, it became so difficult that it was probably dozens or even hundreds of times more difficult!

In the past hour or so, he tried to merge hundreds of times, but all he did was fail. Sometimes he was just close to succeeding, and other times he couldn't make any progress at all.

However, Xia Fa will not give up in the slightest.

Moreover, the more he failed, the more he longed for the effect of actually achieving critical secondary loss of control.

Therefore, after quickly finishing the flesh of the wall of flesh and blood, which was about half the size of a wall, he continued his cultivation.

……

Half a day later.

With a "thud," Xia Fa fell onto the beach, his skin cracked all over his body, and blood gushed from the cracks, almost turning him into a blood-soaked figure.

At the same time, the flesh of the wall of flesh in his stomach and second heart was being consumed at an unimaginable rate, replenishing his nearly depleted supernatural power.

And the extraordinary power he had just absorbed was rapidly healing his wounds.

"So close, so very close, where did we go wrong..."

Over half a day, Xia Fa made tens of thousands of attempts, and in the later thousands, each attempt was just a hair's breadth away from the target.

He tried changing the order, for example, first fusing the critical loss of control and the fourth arcane probability critical strike of the arcane singularity to get a glass ball that looked like it was covered in black oil and covered with tentacles, and then fusing the burning sensation, etc., but none of them worked.

He also tried slowing down each step, making each fusion extremely meticulous, and first letting the critical point lose control and fuse with the weakest Silver Oath Zone, then fusing with the Living Silver Burning Blood, step by step until finally fusing the burning sensation, but it still didn't work.

He even tried to take a risk and be bolder, directly merging the five methods together at once.

The result was that the five methods conflicted with each other, almost driving him to the point of physical explosion and mental breakdown.

After finally recovering, I am now in this state of having cracked skin, bleeding profusely, and completely exhausted.

"What exactly is missing..."

Xia Fa pondered and pondered, but could not find a solution. For the first time in his life, he had encountered such a major setback.

But he is not the type to give up easily; on the contrary, the more setbacks he faces, the more his courage to take on challenges is aroused.

"Never mind, keep trying. Today, even if it means exhausting all the flesh of the Wall of Flesh, we must succeed!"