15 Storm Riding Footsteps

"System, open the heaven-defying shop!" As soon as Ling Tian's voice fell, a transparent screen containing a list of martial skills appeared in front of him.

Without any hesitation, Ling Tian chose the option of movement skills and the contents on the screen were replaced by a list of movement skills.

Ling Tian was somewhat surprised to find that the price of the martial skills was much lower when compared to the cost of cultivation resources like medicinal pills and herbs, but his surprise lasted only for a moment and soon he recovered his calm.

After spending a few days with the system, Ling Tian somewhat understood how it worked. The Heaven Defying points were nothing more than a form of energy used by the system to synthesize the items, every time Ling Tian kills, the system plunders the true qi of his victims and converts it into heaven-defying points.

Cultivation resources were physical objects, while cultivation techniques were nothing more than just a set of information, so naturally, the amount of heaven-defying points required for synthesizing cultivation resources was also much higher.

Ling Tian scrolled through the list and soon found a movement skill suitable for him.

"Storm Riding Footsteps (Heaven Rank, Peerless Grade)

"Description:- A wind element movement technique divided into three layers. It uses the wind attributed true qi to make your body as light as the wind and increase your movement speed, this technique is not the fastest but its agility is unmatched.

1st layer: Stepping on the earth without leaving footprints:- It is equivalent to a spirit-grade movement technique.

2nd layer: Stepping on the water without causing ripples:- It is equivalent to an earth-grade movement technique.

3rd layer: Riding the storms:- Gain the ability to fly and travel without leaving a trace. When cultivated to the realm of perfection, it allows the user to enter a formless state similar to that of the wind, becoming partially immune to the physical attacks for a short time. It is equivalent to a heaven-grade movement technique."

"Price:- 13,500 Heaven defying points"

Although this skill cost 13,500 heaven-defying points but Ling Tian found that he could still buy its first level just for 1,500 heaven-defying points, he had more than 16,00 heaven-defying points right now so he knew could afford it.

There were two reasons why Ling Tian chose this martial skill, the first being the fact that this skill had the same attribute as his only offensive skill — the wind attribute, this would prevent others from knowing that he could use multiple attributes.

You have to know that the cultivation techniques that could allow one to use multiple attributes were treated as priceless treasures! If others saw that Ling Tian using two attributes at the same time then it would surely arouse their greed, although he was pretty strong for his age, he was still far worse when compared to the experts of the older generation.

So even though Ling Tian despised it, he had no choice but to maintain a low profile.

Ling Tian's second reason for choosing this skill was the fact that it was a part of a heaven-grade martial skill, although it was just the first layer, it was much better than the movement skills of the same rank and it would also greatly ease the difficulty of mastering the second layer.

Although it would still take some time before he could completely master the second layer of Storm Riding Footsteps, it would be much easier than practicing a brand new earth-grade martial skill.

As soon as Ling Tian extracted the movement skill, the information regarding the first layer of storm-riding footsteps immediately appeared in his mind, Ling Tian closed his eyes as he went through its contents.

After a short while, Ling Tian already had some idea regarding this movement skill.

The first layer of the storm riding steps was further divided into two parts. The first part contained some basic footwork which mentioned the most efficient and quickest ways of changing one's direction while maintaining speed and momentum while the second part was the true qi circulation method that cooperated with this footwork.

Although it was just some basic footwork but Ling Tian didn't dare to ignore it, without mastering this footwork even if someone practiced the first layer of Storm riding footsteps he wouldn't be able to display even a tenth of its full might.

Opening his eyes, Ling Tian took a deep breath and looked at the forest in front of him, moving through the forest he would encounter a tree at every second step, leaving him no choice but to change his direction, which made this forest a perfect place for practicing the first layer of storm riding footsteps.

Realistically speaking, an ordinary martial artist at the body tempering realm shouldn't be able to practice a spirit-grade martial skill, because the true qi consumption required by a spirit grade martial skill was something far from what his spiritual veins could bear.

That's why forcefully practicing a spirit grade martial skill at body tempering realm could even cause one's spiritual veins to be injured.

But who was Ling Tian? He was the owner of divine veins, the strongest spiritual veins under the heavens! He firmly believed that his divine veins would allow him to do what others could not!

Thinking of this, Long Tian didn't intend to delay any longer, while moving forward at his full speed he followed the instructions of storm-riding footsteps and started practicing the basic footwork, he made use of the system to avoid the fierce beasts.

In the beginning, his movements were extremely awkward making him look like a drunkard who had completely lost his senses, sometimes he would stumble, sometimes he would fall, sometimes he would even run straight into a tree.

But although he failed many times, the fire in his eye never showed any signs of diminishing, his eyes were still firm without any trace of fluctuations.

He steadied himself when he stumbled, he rose back up when he fell, he ignored the pain when he ran into trees but he never gave up.

Long Tian's hard work was not in vain, little by little, he gradually became used to this technique and his movements were slowly showing signs of improvement. Although he would still stumble once in a while but he never fell again.

Immersed in the mysteries of storm riding footsteps, Ling Tian seemed to have lost his senses of time and before he realised, it was already evening and the orange sun was slowly sinking into the horizon.

By now Ling Tian has completely become used to the footwork of storm riding footsteps. His movements that used to be clumsy now looked very exquisite, his figure was moving through the forest like a gust of wind and even when he changed his direction his speed didn't decrease in the slightest.

His whole body was covered in sweat, but he didn't look tired at all, instead, his lips were curled upwards, with the dark steel sword in his hands, he looked like a war God that was about to descend into battle.

Ling Tian knew that he had already gained a certain mastery over the basic footwork, he decided to strike while the iron is hot and started running the wind element true qi according to the instructions mentioned in the first layer of storm riding footsteps.

Suddenly a few slightly grey wisps of qi condensed under his feet, with just a light tap of his feet, Ling Tian's speed immediately skyrocketed by at least two times and he felt as if his body was as light as a feather, even his footprints on the ground became much fainter.

At this moment Ling Tian didn't feel like he was running at all, he felt as if he was flying. it was as if he had transformed into a bird, this feeling was extremely surreal, like a dream, making him not want to wake up anymore.

"As expected, the divine veins are indeed something else!" Ling Tian was extremely satisfied with the performance of his divine veins, although a spirit grade martial skill did put some strain on his body but it wasn't much, on the contrary Ling Tian even felt that he could use it to temper his divine veins and further enhance their durability!

But Ling Tian knew that it was far from enough, right now he was only at the small accomplishment of the 1st layer of storm riding footsteps, he knew that once this skill is cultivated to the perfection, his footsteps would completely disappear and his speed would increase by at least four times!

Thinking of this he became even more excited and continued his practice, his feet once again tapped on the ground, and his figure completely disappeared in the horizon.