Hidden Weapon General Principles
The Martial Arts Secret Manual every Tang Clan Disciple carries, one of the two treasures alongside the Poison Classic.
Without teachers to pass down the Mental Formula and the methods of channeling force, self-study alone makes progress terribly hard.
You have read the opening On Forgetting Form until you know it by heart.
Effect
Requirement: LV1~5 - None, LV6 and above - Scholarship >= 10
| Level | Effect | Martial Points |
| LV1 | Qinggong 1 | 5 |
| LV2 | Qinggong 1, Hidden Weapon 1 | 1 |
| LV3 | Qinggong 2, Hidden Weapon 2 | 2 |
| LV4 | Qinggong 3, Hidden Weapon 2, Mind Battle LV1 | 3 |
| LV5 | Qinggong 4, Hidden Weapon 2, Mind Battle LV1 | 4 |
| LV6 | Qinggong 4, Hidden Weapon 3, Mind Battle LV1 | 5 |
| LV7 | Qinggong 5, Hidden Weapon 4, Mind Battle LV1 | 6 |
| LV8 | Qinggong 6, Hidden Weapon 4, Mind Battle LV1 | 7 |
| LV9 | Qinggong 6, Hidden Weapon 4, Mind Battle LV1 | 8 |
| LV10 | Qinggong 7, Hidden Weapon 5, Mind Battle LV1, Extra Hidden Weapon | 9 (50) |
- Extra Hidden Weapon: Stab and Hidden Weapon gain an additional Hidden Weapon attack with a 3T Countdown
Acquisition
- Initial acquisition
Notes
- Whether you Stab or use a Hidden Weapon, there is an extra attack, so Training it is recommended
- v1.0.5000 had a hidden bonus to Mouth Power (not visible on the Training page); v1.0.6000 removed it
- The opening On Forgetting Form (also called the Chapter on Forgetting Form in the story) holds that all things can serve as Hidden Weapons and that one need not cling to outward form. The rest of the manual's techniques and Mental Formula must be taught by teachers, and outsider disciples never learn them; Zhao Huo can only read this one chapter, and has it memorized cold.
- Masked Man's Guidance: the on the back mountain sets Zhao Huo straight: by the logic of On Forgetting Form, every sect's martial arts can be trained as Hidden Weapons, and what you use is still Tang Clan martial arts.
- Martial arts that follow the same logic as On Forgetting Form: the "Form of No Form" Tang Buyi grasped in seclusion, Xiang Wuyou's Formless Fist, and Throwing Stones to Question Heaven, which Tang Buyi uses at .