This won't improve his strength, but it will allow him to further understand visualization techniques, which might help with his fifth breakthrough.

The fifth breakthrough will be difficult, and anything that might help is worth trying.

"What are you doing?" Yaochi asked, seeing him staring intently.

“Desert,” Li Changzhou replied.

Is there a more realistic visual representation than the desert itself? It's right before our eyes.

What is a desert like? Li Changzhou first thought of scorching heat and aridity, which has some similarities with the "Divine Fire Diagram".

Secondly, because of "Giant Kun", it reminded me that the desert can also devour everything.

From the perspective of "Yin Yang Twin Snakes", the desert belongs to the fire element in the Five Elements. If it were Yang Qinglan, she could easily manipulate its massive fire energy and unleash fire-attribute skills. According to the principle of "mutual generation of the Five Elements", she could even cause a flood.

No, that's not right, it shouldn't be like this.

Li Changzhou emptied his mind, allowing his pure consciousness to directly contact the desert.

The method of visualization seeks 'truth'.

The key to mastering the "Thunderbolt Painting" is to believe that lightning really strikes you; any attempt to distort the concept—such as past experiences of electric shock—is unacceptable.

There is no way to learn from other methods of visualization, at least not for him now. He can only seek the 'truth' and the 'sole essence'.

In Yaochi's eyes, Li Changzhou's eyes were slightly narrowed, leaving only a slit, as if he were half asleep.

A full hour passed before Li Changzhou finally abandoned all his previous impressions of the desert and "looked" at it with the awareness of an infant.

The boundless desert, like an endless universe, pressed in from all directions, and even with his physical condition, he couldn't breathe.

Li Changzhou was not flustered at all; on the contrary, he was pleasantly surprised. His mind was interfering with reality, which was the beginning of his visualization technique!

His breathing suddenly became smooth, as if he were floating on the surface of the water. He quickly composed himself, recalled the experience, and sank back into the water.

After practicing for half an hour, he opened his eyes. His body hadn't changed at all, but he had added one more move... It didn't have an official name; in his words, it was 'bullying the weak with the strong'.

It's not about actually getting bigger, but about creating a psychological deterrent. When you fight someone, if you throw a punch at them, they'll feel a sense of powerlessness as if they're facing a vast desert.

Just like the "Snake Step" I learned from Liu De, the ultimate undercover player, back in 1928, it wasn't very useful.

I never expected it to be of any use to him in the present.

Li Changzhou closed his eyes, reviewed his experiences, organized his knowledge, and combined it with the several visualization techniques he had already learned to see where he could find inspiration.

He opened his eyes only when he heard Yang Qinglan's voice.

Yang Qinglan was talking to Qingshui.

The sand beast only had the three of them and Little Carrot. Aferona went to the tribe that used whips, while Little Five and Biscuit went to the tribe that used bows and arrows.

"Your body is stronger than other Sand People, what kind of training do you use?" Yang Qinglan asked her.

“Carrying a sword every day naturally makes one’s body strong,” Shimizu replied.

Li Changzhou glanced at her lips; they were so red they looked like they'd been smeared with blood. Had she eaten spicy hot pot?

Shimizu knew what he was looking at; she had seen the lips of other people in the tribe before. She pursed her lips, not letting them show.

Licking and drinking pure white water—cow's milk or goat's milk—didn't work; she had tried.

Li Changzhou ignored her lips; his gaze shifted downwards, fixing on her chest: "Your heart is three times stronger than others. Is that something you developed from carrying swords?"

"...I was born this way."

“That sword might be the key.” Yaochi reclined on the chair, her fingers twirling the ends of her white hair, her long legs spread out like a delicious meal. “Just like in ‘The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber,’ what’s hidden inside the sword? Let’s break it and see.”

Qingshui didn't know what "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" was, but she understood the phrase "break the sword".

"you!"

“In this booklet—” Yang Qinglan took out a thin booklet.

Shimizu recognized the thing; it had just been taken from her.

"—It records everything that has happened to you in the last three days."

The last three days?

Shimizu's heart clenched, and he gritted his teeth. His stomach, which had been burning from eating, was now filled with waves of nausea.

She recalled the incident last night where they had pretended to be dead and escaped, and it was as if she could already see them turn to ashes in Li Changzhou's sight.

Yang Qinglan glanced at her ashen face: "You practiced the 'Guiding Technique' facing the sun this morning."

Shimizu didn't believe it. He took two steps forward, snatched the booklet from Yang Qinglan's hand, and stared at it intently.

"Can you understand it?" Yang Qinglan asked calmly.

“This is written here…” Li Qianxia stood next to Qingshui and read the contents of the document to her.

It's one thing to encounter Earthlings, but the events before their arrival are also clearly written down.

This is nothing.

Having witnessed the interrogation of the sand bandits, Shimizu believed that if these Earthlings wanted to, they could get everything they wanted from other Sand People, but this... contained a secret known only to her.

It wasn't that she was practicing "Guiding Techniques"; it was that she woke up in the middle of the night, and due to a strange impulse, she reached into her pants and secretly...

When Li Qianxia read this part, she used "that" to refer to it.

Shimizu didn't know what to say, but she believed him completely.

After a while, she suddenly looked up at Li Changzhou: "Didn't you say you like fair trade?"

“We won’t act until we see the rabbit,” Li Changzhou laughed. “Alright, tell me about the ‘Guiding Technique,’ and I’ll teach you something.”

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