Although the woman's formation arts and swordsmanship revealed no clear origin, the movement technique she used—lightly stepping atop the trees, drifting like an immortal—felt somewhat familiar upon closer consideration.
The reason Lu Feng had not initially recognized this movement technique was entirely because he had considered the mysterious woman to be a formation master. His thoughts had therefore been limited to the various movement techniques suitable for formation masters within the formation arts world, preventing him from connecting them to what the woman had displayed.
But after learning that the mysterious woman was not merely a formation master, but also possessed considerable Martial Dao strength, Lu Feng could not help but form a new opinion of the movement technique she had used.
For Martial Masters, there were quite a few movement techniques that could make one drift like an immortal.
Flower Fairy Valley's Fragrant Splendor Spirit Severing Step, Great Free Will Mountain Manor's Wisp Light Vine Step, Hatred-Severing Hall's Ghost Meridian Night Walk, and Hai Mountain Sword Sect's Celestial Bloom Butterfly Shadow Step could all allow one to lightly tread upon treetops without revealing any aura, just like that mysterious woman.
Yet in their finer details, all of these movement techniques differed somewhat from hers.
As one of Flower Fairy Valley's three supreme movement techniques, the Fragrant Splendor Spirit Severing Step's power went without saying. However, it placed an enormous burden on the meridians, and its focus lay more in the transformation from utter stillness to extreme motion. In its state of utter stillness, one could indeed stand upon a treetop as the woman had, but its operation resembled teleportation, moving from point to point. It used the explosive shifts between motion and stillness in the spiritual energy around the body to elevate speed to the utmost limit. Moreover, it