Chapter 947: Planning Ahead in the Blue Ocean Market
Ice Storm took the Bark Paper from Meng Chao with half-belief and half-doubt.
After only one glance, she was stunned.
The four flimsy sheets of Bark Paper recorded the crushing, millennium-wide advantage that a technological civilization entering the post-industrial, information age held over a clan civilization.
It was not that the Turan Civilization lacked such exquisitely marvelous moves.
In fact, Ice Storm could tell at a glance that Face-Splitting Wind Chop was merely an entry-level basic combat skill.
Put nicely, it was plain and unadorned.
Put bluntly, it was simple and crude to the extreme.
Raise the saber high with both hands, drive forward with both legs, borrow the momentum of the charge, and slash down viciously—any Carbon-Based Intelligent Lifeform with four limbs could think of such a commonplace move.
The military nobles of the Five Great Clans possessed countless Totem Combat Skills a hundred times more powerful than Face-Splitting Wind Chop.
Ice Storm had also seen similar things in the inheritance bestowed upon Turan Heroes by their ancestral spirits, including the principles of force exertion behind this move, anatomical diagrams of muscles, joints, and even nerves, along with all sorts of detailed information.
But she had never imagined that someone would painstakingly devote as much effort as researching Totem Combat Skills to studying the basic martial skills used by Ratfolk Servant Soldiers.
No, this was not merely for Ratfolk Servant Soldiers...
Ice Storm's thoughts raced, and in an instant she thought of several similar moves from the Five Great Clans.
To her surprise, she discovered that no matter which clan's slashing methods had been passed down for thousands of years, all of them paled in comparison to the Face-Splitting Wind Chop Meng Chao had drawn.
Closing her eyes, Ice Storm