Chapter 1376: Chapter 1226: Thirteen Secret Techniques

How many secret techniques have you learned so far?

Upon hearing the inquiry from the Scorpio director, Leon opened the panel to browse through the badges related to secret techniques, and then replied: 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"About seven, I think."

"?!!" x N

Already seven?

Upon hearing this rather astonishing number, the faces of the directors present were all instantly filled with surprise.

Leon’s exceptional talent for secret techniques and the fact that he had learned more than one were no secret among the directors, but the fact that Leon had quietly mastered more than half of the secret techniques was still far beyond everyone’s expectations.

"Leon!"

Seeing Leon’s rather serious expression, clearly not joking, the Taurus director couldn’t help but ask:

"Which specific secret techniques of the twelve star palaces have you mastered, and when did you learn them?"

"Not just the twelve star palaces, but also the secret techniques of the Ophiuchus Palace."

After reminding the Taurus director not to forget the "unofficial" director of the Ophiuchus Palace, Leon furrowed his brow, recalling:

"The first one was the [Abnormal Creation] obtained from the former Aquarius, followed by the [Abnormal Forge] you taught me. During the selection of the latter five palaces, I consecutively learned Sagittarius Palace’s [Abnormal Enhancement], Pisces Palace’s [Abnormal Observation], and Cancer Palace’s [Abnormal Devouring].

That made five secret techniques, then after Capricorn returned from Heavenly Mountain and the meeting ended, I learned the [Abnormal Purification], and when I went to the Western Carlaywen Kingdom, I learned the [Abnormal Transformation] from the director of Ophiuchus, which made it exactly seven."

Creation, forge, enhancement, observation, devouring, purification, transformation... Hiss... With each secret technique Leon listed, the sound of someone drawing in a cold breath could be heard.

Although everyone knew you were impressive, truly, no one expected you to be this impressive.

The biggest trump card in the hands of the Cleaner Bureau is naturally the various abnormal materials, and when facing a True God with mastery of power, the efficacy of most abnormal materials greatly diminishes. It requires a cleaner with a Leon Value exceeding sixty points to "bless" them for normal effectiveness.

And when facing a pillar god with mastery of truth, even if directors with a Leon Value reaching seventy points enhance them, the efficacy of abnormal materials would greatly diminish. Only the secret techniques in the hands of the twelve... thirteen directors can boost various abnormal materials to a level sufficient to contend with the pillar gods.

If we only discuss destructive power and combat level, the twelve directors may not surpass the Zodiac Bureau heads by much, with the red-haired director having combat capabilities beyond most directors. However, when reaching the level of the pillar gods, only the thirteen secret techniques and the abnormals under their blessing can provide relatively effective damage.

And it is precisely because they possess means to damage the pillar gods that the directors are considered the highest combat power of the Cleaner Bureau, and each of these secret techniques representing the pinnacle of human achievement usually requires a lifetime of study and needs the blessing of the corresponding star palace; the difficulty of crossing domains is frightening.

Therefore, not to mention truly mastering multiple secret techniques, cleaners who can simultaneously "initiate" multiple secret techniques are rare. Before today, there were reliable records of five simultaneous initiations at best, and their mastery was not particularly deep.

However, listening to what Director Leon implied, he not only raised this record to seven techniques all at once, but even did so not merely by initiating a level but by reaching a point where they could function effectively. This... this...

"Such a big matter, Director, why didn’t you say so earlier!"

Truly shocked by Leon’s answer, the Scorpio director, after taking the largest gasp, couldn’t help but exclaim excitedly:

"Seven secret techniques! These are seven secret techniques! Ah!!!

If you continue to learn and even master all thirteen secret techniques, then even if all four supreme pillar gods encountered you, they’d probably have no power to resist, allowing you to kill at will, even risking going exposed would mean elimination, wouldn’t it? This really is..."

"Isn’t it the same now?"

"???"

"Did you forget? I hold the origin, don’t I?"

Raising his hand to summon a glow of origin that coated his palm, making a down-swipe gesture, Leon bizarrely questioned:

"Theoretically, the truth of a pillar god can be considered as fragments peeled from the origin, which means they can be forcibly erased by consuming the origin. As long as the replenishment speed of the origin keeps up with the consumption rate, even if the four supreme pillar gods become a hundred pillar gods, wouldn’t they still come to die as many as they show up?"

"..."

But that’s different! There are thirteen secret techniques! That... well, maybe there’s no actual difference...

Gazing at the shimmering, colorful flow on Leon’s hand, feeling that immense aura beyond truth, the excited Scorpio director couldn’t help smacking his lips, feeling even if Leon could truly learn all the secret techniques, it might not actually enhance his combat power much?

"Besides being somewhat impractical, the secret techniques I’ve learned are also a tad special..."

After internally evaluating his encounters with the twelve secret techniques, Leon couldn’t help but cough dryly, then glanced at the peculiarly expressive Taurus director and somewhat awkwardly explained to the others who were unaware:

"Aside from the Abnormal Transformation secret technique of Ophiuchus Star Palace, the secret techniques I’ve learned all... uh... have slight deviations from the originals."

"..."

A slight deviation... are you sure it’s just a slight deviation?

Hearing Leon’s rather "conservative" description, recalling his so-called Secret Smithing Techniques with a bunch of high-grade materials producing waste, the corners of the Taurus director’s mouth uncontrollably twitched, then with a toughened expression, he turned away... meeting the equally toughened expression of the Capricorn director.

Director Leon’s talent for secret techniques is truly strong, learning the Capricorn Palace’s purification secret technique in no time. Unfortunately, his definition of purification differed from others, nearly turning the entire Heavenly Mountain into pollution, and there’s still a large group of purple-skinned angels yet to be adjusted...

No wait!!!

Recalling those purple-skinned angels howling "Ang Shen above" while insisting on holding illegal gatherings at Heavenly Mountain, and the pure angels who just arrived recently, unaware of these purple-skinned oddities, the Capricorn director sucked in a cold breath, then instantly vanished in a flash.

"I have urgent matters to attend to, I’ll be going first!"

"?"

What’s going on? Why did Capricorn leave in a rush without much ado today?

Watching the Capricorn director, as if there was an explosion at home, hurriedly exit the meeting, the Scorpio director blinked in confusion, then under the knowing, empathetic gaze of the Taurus director, Leon was spontaneously invited to learn.

"Happens I’m free now... Director, would you like to learn the secret technique of the Scorpio Palace now?"