Martial Techniques

After allowing Bjorne to heal and gain back his Qi using pills the duo continued in search of more creatures to fight.

The next mid rank 2 creature they find is a Cave Lurking Bat. It had the advantage of flight, speed and ranged attacks using screech attacks infused with QI. It was found in a huge cave system underground and is many times taller than Bjorne, which allowed the bat to have a lot of flight movement.

Bjorne had a tough time defeating this creature as even though it didn't have a high attack its flight and ranged attacks caused a massive disadvantage for Bjorne.

The fight ended up lasting 30 minutes on two separate occasions. After the first 30-minute time Bjorne lost and was almost killed, so Fen Chang stepped in to take Bjorne back.

He then healed him up and gave some tips on what to look for and to look for ways to increase its attack range since the bat can fly. Feeling disappointed that his master had to take him away to save him Bjorne re-entered the fight with a vengeance.

He rigorously studied the bats attacks and movements and started to dodge attacks and even roar with Qi infused to cancel out the bats sonic attack.

The fight ended with Bjorne as the winner as in the end he learned how to manipulate its Qi a bit more and instead of the Qi going all into defence it learned instead how to add it to his legs allowing for more speed but most importantly for this fight jumping power.

After the fight Bjorne was too mentally worn down so Fen Chang decided to have Bjorne stay in the bats cave to rest for the night while he himself went back out to continue training till midnight.

Leaving Bjorne in the cave Fen Chang left and entered into the moonlit snowy mountains.

Wading through the-meter-deep snow he starts to think about what he wants to train next. He has already trained his senses in the night so that he can still avoid attacks as good as if it was day but he hasn't trained individual senses.

Thinking about this he heads towards the direction of the edge of the mountains on the border of the forest. He hopes to first train against a few mid rank 1 beasts before high rank 1 beasts with his new idea for training the senses.

He eventually comes across a lone wolf hunting in the dark. Still being quite far away the wolf has yet to notice him. Using this chance to get his training gear on he grabs a few things from his storage ring.

He gets a blind fold, nose plugs and a weird looking green and purple pill.

He plans to survive and fight using only a single sense at a time. Tonight, he plans to train his hearing. He will have no sight, no smell, no taste and no touch. Completely blocking off all his senses he can only rely on his hearing and mysterious sixth sense all cultivators have. The pill he brought out nullifies the senses of taste and touch, while the blindfold and nose plugs block the other two.

He has had a plan like this for a while but wasn't sure if he would actually go through with it since its very dangerous. The biggest danger is now that he has no touch it means he can't feel his body at all meaning he could be fatally wounded or covered in lots of scratches and his only indication is by using his ears to listen for blood or flesh ripping or his inner sense to let him know when he is nearly dead.

'Man, this training is going to be incredibly dangerous but its worth doing as if I can survive using only a single of the 5 bodily senses then if I combine them together it would create an incredible effect. This should also hopefully train my sixth sense a bit, although I will train it individually at some point by blocking all senses. But that's for the future, for now I should focus on the enemy in front of me, then continue walking using only my hearing.'

He had already angled himself facing the direction of the hunting wolf so he only had to walk forward for a few minutes. But these where not an easy couple of minutes.

Due to having no senses other than sound he tripped, bumped into a lot of trees and got turned around quite a few times. Eventually he completely lost the direction he was meant to go so he just shouted out to gain the wolfs attention since he recons he should still be at least within the area.

It didn't take long before he heard the sound of fast paced breathing, twigs being snapped and leaves rustling. He turned towards the direction trying to focus in on the rapid breathing he hears.

Focused on the hearing he pulls out his scythe and has it positioned defensively in front of him. The wolf bursts out from behind the trees and savagely charges towards him with saliva flowing out of its mouth.

Hearing the breathing getting nearer and nearer he waits in anticipation hoping to strike the moment the breathing is right next to him.

He slashed out when the breathing was in front of his face. The attack completely missed the wolf as although he knows the direction, he doesn't know the hight and the scythe went right under wolf as it was already mid-air from its jump.

Getting hit by the wolf he gets knocked back. The wolfs jaws manged to rip away a small chunk of flesh. Due to his fights his body strength is now enough to resists full attacks from mid rank 1 beasts now to a decent degree.

That bite was the wolfs strongest attack as it used its dagger like teeth and momentum, yet only caused a small chunk to be torn off. To any other cultivator of the same level their arm would have been bitten off at least.

Fen Chang quickly got back up and once again focused on the sound of the breathing while also circulating earth Qi within his body to increase his defence.

For the next 40 minutes he stood their taking a beating from the wolf slashing out when his hearing told him to. He kept on missing but by the end of the 40 minutes he manged to only narrowly miss the wolf this time.

A further 30 minutes later he was able to scratch the wolf and dodge more of its attacks. Which he could tell he hit it because of its yelp of pain. Unfortunately for him the wolf at this point was very exhausted which allowed him to kill it with his next swing due to it losing all its stamina.

Using his foot to find the body he collects it before jogging back into the forest allowing for a small amount of blood to be left on his body to entice new targets to find him.

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After his third creature killed with all of them dying from exhaustion, he heads back to the mountains using only his ears. He listens for the echo from the wind, trying to listen for the lack in trees and listen for the minimal difference in sound his footsteps would make.

It took him 2 hours to even find the mountains then using his memory and another 3 hours to find the cave. With only a few hours left till morning he took off his training gear and cleansed the pills effects from his body.

He washed up before sitting down to cultivate till morning.

The next morning Fen Chang and Bjorne continued their hunt each making massive progress. Bjorne was focused on learning how to use its earth Qi more effectively as well as tactics to deal with speed and flying type enemy's.

Fen Chang on the other hand was learning some martial techniques. Using the database, he finds 4 martial techniques that fit his needs. A movement technique, 2 sword techniques and a defence technique.

The movement technique was called Assassins Echo. It was a stealth type movement technique that caused zero sound without reducing any speed. Originally the database recommended a different technique called Myriad Elements Steps which allow him to travel using different elements as its base allowing for different effects but then he thought that an assassin type movement would be more useful as it still has the speed but with the extra of the stealth. So, he ended up choosing Assassins Echo which is a high immortal technique but he recons it can be upgraded once he gets some speed type elements such as lightning, light, wind and maybe a shadow element if one exists.

The sword technique is called Mantis Stalks Cicada. It is a fast and deadly type technique that focuses on a single extremely fast strike. He found it to be a great combination with a katana, which he now uses as his main sword as he thinks its just cool and more useful than a regular strait sword used by most swordsmen.

The second sword technique is a follow up technique called Elemental Frenzy. It is similar to the ones used in an anime he watched where depending on which element he imbues into his sword different styles will be used. If he used lightning then his attacks would be sharp and fast, water would be smooth and fluid, fire would be aggressive and overwhelming. He likes this as his main sword technique as he is able to get more elements and fits perfectly with that.

The defence technique he got is called Avatars Protection. It summons an avatar based off the inner conscious of the user and creates a giant form surrounding them. The form is great defence but can also be used to attack and move around in. Though right now all he can do is call forth the rib cage of the avatar as it requires more Qi and a greater understanding of the technique to progress further.

All of these techniques he is training are high immortal but recons that he would be able to improve them to a higher grade once he gets to the One with Technique stage which would mean he has mastered it to above perfection.

Due to the constrains of his understanding of these techniques and his Qi reserves being very low, many of the techniques are still weak and can rarely be used because they use a lot of Qi. So, he has temporary weaker level ones which he plans to use as a foundation for learning the others.

Silent Steps is another assassin type movement technique which will give him a good baseline for learning Assassins Echo. Falling Petals sword technique, which give him a good baseline on sword techniques in general. Finally, he has Giants shell which summons an illusionary giant which creates a strong defensive shell around him, but it cannot be controlled.

All of these are high sky level as they are just barely within the reach of his current Qi reserves but even then, he has to use them sparingly.