James Brooks didn’t say anything more and rode the motorcycle, taking Ethan Brooks toward the city.

On the way, Ethan Brooks asked, “The Thirty-Six Forms of Thunder are all training methods. Does our Brooks lineage have any combat techniques?”

“Combat techniques…”

James Brooks fell into thought, and after a while said, “If there are training methods, of course there are combat techniques. The most famous in our Brooks lineage is the Sixteen Swords of Thunder. But a skyscraper starts from the ground up—every combat technique evolves from the basics. No matter how things change, the fundamentals remain the same. If your basics are solid, you can turn any technique into something extraordinary. If you want to learn combat techniques, I’ll test your basics during winter break this year. If you pass, I’ll teach you the Sixteen Swords of Thunder.”

“Okay.”

A dozen minutes later, Ethan Brooks arrived home.

At home, Henry Brooks had already returned. When he saw James Brooks, he didn’t even greet him.

James Brooks just gave an awkward smile, dropped off Ethan Brooks, and left.

“Ethan, school starts in a week, right? You haven’t fallen behind in your studies this summer, have you?”

“Don’t worry, Father, I haven’t fallen behind.”

“That’s good. But you should also try to find some time to look at books on composition.”

“Okay.”

“Oh? You sound confident. Then here’s a task for you: write another song this month. I’m an amateur, so I can’t tell if it’s good or not, but your sister knows a bit. If she’s satisfied, that’s enough.”

Looks like he wanted to give him something to do.

“Okay.”

Ethan Brooks also needed to think about his own entrance BGM.

“Then go look for some inspiration. Come downstairs for dinner in an hour.”

“Got it.”

Ethan Brooks went upstairs, turned on the computer, and typed in Sixteen Swords of Thunder.

Whoa…

There it was.

Chapter 0011: Sword Rain Jianghu

Sixteen Swords of Thunder.

Ethan Brooks watched for a while but didn’t see anything particularly mysterious.

Fast, accurate, ruthless?

No!

Just fast and accurate is enough.

Ruthless?

Not necessary.

One strike, hit, kill—just that simple. This kind of ordinary swordsmanship doesn’t have so many fancy tricks.

If you really want fancy, wait until he can wield sword energy across thirty thousand miles.

For now…

His sword, nothing but speed is unbreakable!

At the same time, he discovered that the Thirty-Six Forms of Thunder body training, Thunder Breathing, Thunder Dominator Spirit Visualization, and this Sixteen Swords of Thunder all came from the same source.

Ethan Brooks followed the address and found it was a forum.

The forum was open for free registration; anyone could sign up, but there were requirements for the “lineage” field, which needed to be reviewed.

Ethan Brooks took a look and simply wrote Jiang’s Martial Arts School for the lineage, then browsed the forum as a guest while checking out the materials.

This was a forum formed by martial artists, mostly young ones.

If you’re not young, you might not even know how to get online.

The forum had only been up for three months. To promote it, they’d uploaded lots of body training methods, breathing techniques, even spirit cultivation methods. As for fist and sword techniques, there were even more.

While browsing, Ethan Brooks happened to pass the identity review and found that the forum had thousands of body training methods, breathing techniques, spirit cultivation methods, fist techniques, sword techniques, gun-fighting techniques, and mecha techniques.

And these body training and breathing methods weren’t just from the Kingdom of Xiya, but also from other countries, like the Aurora Empire, Golden Eagle Empire, Kalan Kingdom, and so on—though not as many as from Xiya.

“Ding.”

Ethan Brooks had been browsing for a while when a text message arrived.

“From Sumen City? We’re in the same state. Let’s add each other as friends and discuss martial arts sometime.”

Ethan Brooks accepted the friend request from this person calling himself The Young Adventurer, and sent a message: “Do you know who created this forum?”

“I actually do. You know the famous Sky Tower in our martial artist circle, right?”

Sky Tower?

He’d heard of Heaven on Earth, but this Sky Tower…

He was just a bystander, not a professional martial artist—who cared who Sky Tower was?

“I know.”

“Our Sword Rain Jianghu forum was created by the sixth son of the Sky Tower master, Pearl Flute. He set up this forum to break the old rules of martial arts sects and families, so everyone can learn martial arts and have techniques to practice. What a noble goal! Tsk tsk, Sky Tower really deserves its reputation as the place that collects all the martial arts classics in the world. Look, all kinds of breathing, body training, and spirit cultivation methods—there are already over a thousand. It’s just a pity that Pearl Flute later had his legs broken by his father and is still in the hospital. Otherwise, there’d be more than a thousand techniques on the forum by now.”

Said The Young Adventurer.

You could almost smell the regret through the screen.

“Sky Tower.”

Ethan Brooks nodded.

Sky Tower really had a complete collection of these techniques. The Thirty-Six Forms of Thunder and Thunder Breathing he knew were all there, except for a few key points. Even the lost Thunder Dominator Visualization from the Brooks lineage was found. Although it didn’t have the ancient thunder beast visualization image, the thunder beast images he found online worked even better—he’d already reached the fifth level of manifestation in just over a month.

But the sixth level of transformation would probably take a few more months.

……

A week passed quickly.