The first book Tai Bàoli had considered was
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-Esoteric Phantom Strikes-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-4.5 strength-
-6.0 Dexterity-
-6.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Maneuver around the world unseen striking down your foes before they can sense your presence
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Tai Bàoli was heavily considering it, after all it would be synergistic with his Traceless Spectre Across the Void technique. And a non-weapon reliant attacking technique was something Tai Bàoli was needing quite a bit right now.
However this wasn't the only attacking technique Tai Bàoli had considered in fact there 6 other techniques that Tai Bàoli considered would also be attack related.
Each of them has their own benefits and domineering abilities.
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-Hammering Ogre Fist-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-8.0 strength-
-4.0 Dexterity-
-8.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Use your monstrous physique to crush all your opponents viciously
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This technique intrigued Tai Bàoli quite a bit.
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-Fused Tiger Palm-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-5.0 strength-
-5.0 Dexterity-
-6.5 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Utilizing fierce palm attacks dismantle and maul your opponents 1 v 100
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Again another eye catching monstrous technique.
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-Giants Horned Strikes-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-4.5 strength-
-4.5 Dexterity-
-6.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Strike your foes with vicious piercing strikes
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another outstanding technique
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-Exploding Palms-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-7.0 strength-
-7.0 Dexterity-
-7.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Use excessive force to flatten your opponents into smithereens.
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Its name was quite exciting, Tai Bàoli really wanted to test it out.
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-Suppressing Palm-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-4.5 strength-
-8.0 Dexterity-
-8.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Suppress all around you, using palm strikes to reign supreme.
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The description of this technique really did catch Tai Bàoli's eyes so much.
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-Lashing Dragon kicks-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-6.5strength-
-6.5 Dexterity-
-7.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Use the dominating presence of a dragon to viciously lash out with precise dangerous kicks.
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Of all the non-weapon reliant attacking techniques this one kind of caught Tai Bàoli's eye the least, but it was still impressive none the less.
The last three techniques were defensive minded techniques to help out his newly created basilisk hide technique. He really wanted his body to become a temple, uninjured by even the strongest techniques.
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-Esoteric Phantom Body-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-4.0 strength-
-8.0 Dexterity-
-8.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Your body becomes ethereal like that of a phantom, letting attacks pass through unhindered, the downside being you can't attack during the process.
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This caught Tai Bàoli's attention right away, wasn't this basically the same thing as his Traceless Spectre Across the Void technique? or was it different somehow?
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-Refracting Glass Body-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-7.5 strength-
-7.5 Dexterity-
-8.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Use illusions and change the structure of your body to distract and blind your foes.
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Tai Bàoli hadn't thought about the usage of illusions, but it obviously worked well for Zheng Zhoushi. Maybe Tai Bàoli could give it a chance.
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-Ever Shifting Body-
-High Mortal Rank-
-Minimum required Stats-
-Body Refining Stage 4/9, Altering Muscle-
-8.5 strength-
-8.0 Dexterity-
-8.0 comprehension-
-Technique Outline - Your body becomes as hard as the surface you stand on.
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Tai Bàoli was slightly confused at the concept of this technique, did his body passively change depending on what surface he was standing on? or did he have to activate the technique, and either way would he have to not wear shoes for it to actually work? it seemed like it could be an outstanding technique but it was just too weird for Tai Bàoli to put it at the top of his list.
After thinking for a long time Tai Bàoli decided on what he was going to do.
He bought Esoteric Phantom Body, Esoteric Phantom Strikes, and Hammering Ogre Fists. The two Esoteric Phantom techniques should synergize phenomenally with his Traceless Spectre Across the Void technique, after all the Traceless Spectre Across the Void technique was the evolved version of esoteric ghost steps. And even if they were too similar to his Traceless Spectre Across the Void technique and weren't useful to him he'd at least still get the experience learning high level techniques, and maybe he could eventually increase their level at some point too.
These three techniques cost Tai Bàoli 2900 of his 3000 Martial credits. Tai Bàoli had gone from absurdly rich to broke in a matter of moments. Even the elder at the library was quite surprised by Tai Bàoli's little spending Spree, not many outer disciples could afford to buy 3 high rank techniques.
And usually those that could afford it were young masters of one of the great clans.
Tai Bàoli immediately went back to his room and immediately started practicing the techniques he'd gotten one by one. To start he had begun practicing the Hammering Ogre Fist technique and within 24 hours had successfully cultivated it to the low mastery stage. His comprehension clearly showing now. Tai Bàoli was smiling Ear to Ear at his newfound explosive strength.
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-Unlimited Experience System-
-Host-(Tai Bàoli)
-Cultivation Stage-(Body Refining 4/9, Altering Muscle)
-Experience-(1.5)
-Upgrade Cost: 1, amount upgraded per, .1-
-Strength-(4.5)(+4 from Basilisk Hide, +1 from Traceless Spectre Across The Void, +2 from Hammering Ogre Fist)
-Dexterity-(4)(+6 from Traceless Spectre Across The Void)
-Comprehension-(8)
-Martial Arts-
-Cost to Upgrade: 5 experience per grade, per rank-
-Hammering Ogre Fist: Mastery ~Low~
-Traceless Spectre Across The Void: Mastery ~High~
-Basilisk Hide: Mastery ~Mid~
-Petrifying Mad Hammer Stance ~Mid~(Side Effects Detected: When used for more than 1 minute in combat consecutively the user begins petrifying themselves slightly. -1 dexterity for every minute after the user continues using the technique.)
-Martial Arts Eligible for Grade Increase-
-N/A-
-Upgrading a stat requires experience, gain experience in a myriad of ways-
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Tai Bàoli was in shock at his new strength, at just low mastery he'd been gifted an additional 2 strength. Had Tai Bàoli met Ju Yian now he'd be far more likely to actually attempt a fight. He even had some slight confidence he could win.
Over the next month Tai Bàoli continued cultivating and training. Finally by a months time he had learned all the techniques he'd bought earlier and he had even risen the Hammering Ogre Fist to Mid mastery.
The final thing he had gotten to mastery was the esoteric phantom body and as he did so he was ecstatic as a new message popped up.
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-Congratulations-
-+50 Experience-
-You've been rewarded 50 experience for gaining mastery in three techniques of extremely similar variety.
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-Congratulations-
-You've Unlocked a new system feature-
-System Feature: Fusion-
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Tai Bàoli immediately opened up his screen and took a look.
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-Unlimited Experience System-
-Host-(Tai Bàoli)
-Cultivation Stage-(Body Refining 4/9, Altering Muscle)
-Experience-(66.5)
-Upgrade Cost: 1, amount upgraded per, .1-
-Strength-(4.5)(+4 from Basilisk Hide, +1 from Traceless Spectre Across The Void, +4 from Hammering Ogre Fist, +1 from esoteric phantom strikes, +1 from esoteric phantom body)
-Dexterity-(4)(+6 from Traceless Spectre Across The Void, +1 from esoteric phantom body, +1 from esoteric phantom strikes)
-Comprehension-(8)
-Martial Arts-
-Cost to Upgrade: 5 experience per grade, per rank-
-Hammering Ogre Fist: Mastery ~Mid~
-Esoteric Phantom Body: Mastery ~Low~
-Esoteric Phantom Strikes: Mastery ~Low~
-Traceless Spectre Across The Void: Mastery ~High~
-Basilisk Hide: Mastery ~Mid~
-Petrifying Mad Hammer Stance ~Mid~(Side Effects Detected: When used for more than 1 minute in combat consecutively the user begins petrifying themselves slightly. -1 dexterity for every minute after the user continues using the technique.)
-Martial Arts Eligible for Grade Increase-
-N/A-
-Martial Arts Eligible for Fusion-
-Traceless Spectre Across the Void + Esoteric Phantom Body + Esoteric Phantom Strikes-(Cost 50 experience, Outcome = to Mid Earth Rank technique)
-Upgrading a stat requires experience, gain experience in a myriad of ways-
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Tai Bàoli hesitated for a moment, currently his stats were 15.5 str, 12 dexterity, 8 comprehension, and he knew if he cultivated all his techniques to max it would only be more monstrous. However Tai Bàoli had yet to see a single person with an earth rank technique, and from what he knew unless someone was a inner disciple in the Qi Gathering Realm or a direct descendant of some great clan they'd probably never get a chance to see a earth rank technique. So the thought of combining the techniques weighed heavy on his mind.
Tai Bàoli decided to spend 16 points on his comprehension, and then he'd wait some to carefully think and decide if he should combine the techniques.
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-Unlimited Experience System-
-Host-(Tai Bàoli)
-Cultivation Stage-(Body Refining 4/9, Altering Muscle)
-Experience-(50.5)
-Upgrade Cost: 1, amount upgraded per, .1-
-Strength-(4.5)(+4 from Basilisk Hide, +1 from Traceless Spectre Across The Void, +4 from Hammering Ogre Fist, +1 from esoteric phantom strikes, +1 from esoteric phantom body)
-Dexterity-(4)(+6 from Traceless Spectre Across The Void, +1 from esoteric phantom body, +1 from esoteric phantom strikes)
-Comprehension-(9.6)
-Martial Arts-
-Cost to Upgrade: 5 experience per grade, per rank-
-Hammering Ogre Fist: Mastery ~Mid~
-Esoteric Phantom Body: Mastery ~Low~
-Esoteric Phantom Strikes: Mastery ~Low~
-Traceless Spectre Across The Void: Mastery ~High~
-Basilisk Hide: Mastery ~Mid~
-Petrifying Mad Hammer Stance ~Mid~(Side Effects Detected: When used for more than 1 minute in combat consecutively the user begins petrifying themselves slightly. -1 dexterity for every minute after the user continues using the technique.)
-Martial Arts Eligible for Grade Increase-
-N/A-
-Martial Arts Eligible for Fusion-
-Traceless Spectre Across the Void + Esoteric Phantom Body + Esoteric Phantom Strikes-(Cost 50 experience, Outcome = to Mid Earth Rank technique)
-Upgrading a stat requires experience, gain experience in a myriad of ways-
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