The one issue about him learning the techniques, was his dreams.
Like any other one of his dreams, he typically ignored it, but this particular dream he paid the most attention to. Every day for a year, after he absorbed wind energy and slept, he would get the same dream of a fourth technique book, compiling and utilizing all the other techniques. Even though this technique was a lower large marble stage technique, he knew that if he could burn the texhnique into his mind, he could have a great advantage over other people.
After two years of training in his room and absorbing energy, he was finally able to reach lower large marble stage, making it safe to use the techniques, and making him barely eligible to use his "secret" technique.
Over the course of five months leading to the breakthrough, he noticed that there was sounds of doors opening all around him and people rushing out.
He didn't know what caused this at all but he did know that there was a shake in the building when the first three people came out of their rooms, and there was a chill in the air when another person came out of their rooms, but their door opened hours before they left.
The very next day, Haman noticed that his room door seemed to be completely opened, and when he looked down, he notice he was quite a few feet up in the air.
The back of his door seemed to be made out of rocks, moss, dirt, and things like that, making it completely blend into the walls.
He looked around some more to find that they were in some kind of super deep cavern that had to be part of some mountain, because there was an even deeper hole from where he was in the place, and other than the ancimoss that was illuminating parts of the cave, the area seemed to keep going up infinitely.
"Let's get out of here" Haman said to himself as he was charging up an powerful wind palm and launched it at a nearby wall, but he came to find out that he should not have done that.
Suddenly, he heard screeches and howls, then pitch black money creatures with red eyes started to come from the top of the Cave/Mountain.
Haman wasted no time in dispatching the first twenty creatures, using Wind Palm to attack, then picking up a small sharp piece of rock to stab them while using Cloud Steps to dodge then attack, and he sometimes blacked with Cloud Sheath when absolutely needed.
Unless you reached past the tribulations, you were considered very mortal, even an arrow could kill you, unless you had a healing technique or a blacking technique activated you would die from any normal or abnormal attack from anything.
Anyways, Haman fought as hard as he could but realized that their seemed to be no end to the wicked beast, and he could not go on forever, so he decided to descend even lower, for a chance to escape or at least rest up a little bit for the battle ahead.
He descends using Cloud Steps to not just free fall down, while fighting the pitch black beasts which at this point, most of the red eyed ones have died or gone back up, and the bigger, stronger bright blue eyed ones started to show up.
Haman had to simultaneously use Storm Steps, wind palm and Cloud Sheath just to stay alive while descending down into the deep pit.
He soon realized that the pit became to curve in little by little, and the dirt around started to have more rocky bits in it as he descended, until it was basically a fully fleshed out tunnel with torch lights on the walls and entrensic designs all over the walls.
Haman could finally stop using cloud steps but at this point he was exhausted from using all thre of those techniques at once.
At this point, there did not seem to be any end to the vile creatures, so Haman had to use the past of his strength to use the secret fourth technique: Vorpal Atmosphere.
The technique looked like a ball made out of wind that once activated, looked like a dragon that was strouds in hurricanes like it was its regalia. The dragon figure soon flew out in the directions of the b pitch black monkeys and killed them all instantly, then, it flew all the way out of the pit and wrecked havoc on anything that it saw. Then it stopped and slowly dissipated until there was only a strong breeze left in the cave.
After he used Vorpal Atmosphere, Haman had no strength to fight anymore, he knew that if he used even one more technique, he would surely faint.
Knowing this, he perservered though the cave, until he could find somewhere to rest up.
At the end of the cave there was a large body of water that was so clear that you could see at the end of it, there was a small underwater path leading to somewhere else.
Haman realized that this was all a test to weed out the weak from the strong
The monkeys were for the people that tried to escape, if you though you were throng enough to escape, then you would probably try to break out, which would cause the monkeys to come. Haman figured that the first three people probably tried to escaped, which caused the monkeys to come, which when they fought it made a rumbling sound.
The only thing that confused him however, is why nobody else fought the monkeys after the first three people did, what what was that deadly chill that encompassed the whole facility that one time when that person came out of their room.
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He rested for a couple hours confidently, he knew that all the monkeys in the cave were either too scared to fight, or they were dead.
After he regained about fifty percent of his strength, he was sure in trying to swim to the other sides of where ever he was through the underwater tunnel
SPLASH!
He dived in and swam, he was actually a pretty alright swimmer, having some training swimming through sewer water to escape some kidnappers in his very early years.
He swam through the underwater path for what seemed like ages until he made it to some dark, sewer like hole with a ladder leading up.
He climbed and reached the top to find that there were many people around his age.
He looked at everyone in the eyes but only five people actracted his attention: a slightly taller girl with one blue iris and one pink and yellow mix iris, a dwarf with a red Mohawk that looked natural, a guy that had holes where his eyes should be but he had a bunch of bugs in his eyes that looked at Haman when he looked back, another really skinny tall bald guy that had a blood red skin colour with black and brown inscription-type markings all over his body,and lastly a girl that he knew all to well, Alyx!
When he finally locked eyes with her, they both smiled and walked toward each other and hugged.
" it's been so long, how have you been? "
"I almost died coming here but for the most part I've been good.." Haman stopped talking when he noticed something he should have noticed before.
Alyx's hair, which was once a brunette colour, was now white and sky blue.
"Hey Alyx, what happened when you got out of your room to come here, and what's your cultivation level"
"Well when I came out of the room, I could sense that there was something like a creature above me, so I sent out my attacking Ice technique but I used a bit too much power and cause the whole place to be ice cold, I quickly left the place and then went through the tunnel"
" also, my cultivation level is Upper Ball Stage, but everyone here is in the ball stage at the least though, why why did you ask"
Once Alyx saw the dreadful look on Haman face she quickly took Haman to a corner in the room and spoke to him softly."please tell me your door didn' t open before you reached ball stage, you are extremely weak in this place!"
Haman could almost throw up everything that he has eaten for the past years he has been here.
He had no idea that he was this weak! He's practically almost two stages below everyone else here, and he could already sense that other people realize that he's that weak!
His greatest fear came true."Ehh boy!" A familiar voice shouted at Haman's way, it was the die that told him to shut up all those years ago.
Haman looked at the direction the voice came in. The dude had dirty looking red hair, a diamond-type head shape, and he had flames coming out of his hands!
He launched an attack Haman's way, where Haman quickly put up his Cloud Sheath to effortlessly blocke the attack!
This had the whole room in a shock. Most people with Ball level cultivation can sense the cultivation level of others at the same level as them or lower, so they new that the attack that the red-haired guy threw at Haman was powerful enough to vapourize a normal large marble stage cultivator.
"HUHHHHH?!?"