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'''<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Tenryū Kokyū Hō</span></u>'''<span lang="EN-GB" style=""> (</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">転龍呼吸法</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">, ''Art of Dragon's Breathing'')</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">㊙</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">: A method of breathing that allows the Hokuto Shinken practitioner to tap into their body's full potential. A normal human uses but 30% of their body's strength so Tenryū is used to tap into that other 70%. A technique of utmost secrecy, anyone who sees it being performed must be killed to protect one of Hokuto Shinken's greatest advantages over other styles. Use of this technique causes Kenshiro's jacket to burst. He only announces this technique twice during the series, however it is assumed that he uses it every time his jacket explodes when fighting against a strong opponent. </span>

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'''<span lang="EN-GB" style="">Musō Tensei<span lang="EN-GB" style=""> <span id="cke_bm_121S" style="display: none;"> </span></span><span style="display: none;"> </span></span>'''<span lang="EN-GB" style="">(</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">無想転生</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">, </span>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushin <span lang="EN-GB" style="">Nil-Thought</span>]<span lang="EN-GB" style="">''' <span id="cke_bm_121E" style="display: none;"> </span>'''</span><span style="display: none;"> </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebirth_%28Buddhism%29 <span lang="EN-GB" style="">Rebirth</span>]''<span lang="EN-GB" style="">)</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">㊙</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">: The ultimate Hokuto Shin Ken technique, which had never before been fully mastered by anyone in the 1800 year history of the style. Kenshiro was the first to master it, followed by Raoh. Ken achieved this by becoming consumed with sorrow to the point where he had achieved communion with the deathless absolute emptiness or void spoken of in Buddhism. At times it enables him to be at one with the spirits of deceased fighters (Toki, the Nanto Rokusei warriors), and in the second series, it enables his spirit to fight Kaio even though he is in a coma (following the first fight with Kaio, after Shachi escapes with his body). Its mastery was perfected after Kenshiro learned the secrets of the Hokuto Souke in Taiseiden, Asura, in the second TV series. </span>

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| style="width: 216.1pt; border: medium none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="288"|'''Tenrei no Ken''' (''Fist of the Blue Sky'')<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho";">㊙</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="">:</span> Used for Kenshiro Kasumi

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