Mysterious Tier Dou Techniques and Earth Tier Dou Techniques

[Mission: Use Mountain Splitting Fist to defeat Xiao Ning in a sparring match. Reward: Mountain Splitting Fist Proficiency +1, one Body Recovery Elixir. Completed. Claim reward?]

Hearing the familiar voice in his mind, Xiao Yang was instantly delighted.

If he wanted to complete a Proficiency mission, it might take him Three days.

Yet now, he had completed one simply by sparring with Xiao Ning once.

This was far easier than practicing Mountain Splitting Fist a thousand times.

Xiao Yang turned to look at the Combat Skills Hall instructor not far away and tried to create a mission.

Unfortunately, if it was merely a sparring mission, he could not create it at all.

As for other missions, he could create them, and the rewards were plentiful, but...

[Mission: Defeat the Xiao Clan Combat Skills Hall instructor using Mountain Splitting Fist in a sparring match. Reward: Mountain Splitting Fist Proficiency +5, Body Recovery Elixir +1, one specially processed First-order Monster Beast Essence Blood.]

He truly coveted that Mission Reward.

But this instructor was a Dou Zhe!

Moreover, the man had taught the Xiao Clan juniors in the Combat Skills Hall for over twenty years.

He had long since cultivated several of those Yellow Tier Dou Techniques to Major Accomplishment.

The reason Xiao Yang had been able to defeat Xiao Ning, aside from his recently enhanced Physique, was that the power of his Major Accomplishment Mountain Splitting Fist had increased considerably.

Only then could he defeat Xiao Ning despite being at a lower realm.

But defeating an instructor at the Dou Zhe level was simply wishful thinking.

He glanced at the other Xiao Clan juniors around him.

Unfortunately, their cultivation was even lower than his. He could not even create missions to defeat them.

After shaking his head, Xiao Yang Then prepared to return to his Small Courtyard.

Since he could no longer find anyone to complete sparring missions with, he might as well go back and cultivate.

Just as Xiao Yang was preparing to return and claim his rewards, he spotted the rows of bookshelves on the East side of the Combat Skills Hall and suddenly had an idea.

He did not immediately return to his Small Courtyard, instead walking into the East side of the Combat Skills Hall.

Xiao Yang arrived before a massive wooden bookshelf and casually pulled out a black scroll.

Slowly unrolling it, he saw several large yellow characters.

"Yellow Tier Low-level Dou Skill: Stone Shattering Fist."

Seeing those words, Xiao Yang's eyes flashed with disdain.

After tidying the scroll, he placed it back where it had been.

Yellow Tier Low-level Dou Techniques were extremely weak and could only mobilize a small amount of Dou Qi.

Generally, only Cultivators in the Qi Cultivation Stage practiced them.

Once one reached the Dou Zhe realm, the power of a Yellow Tier Low-level Dou Skill was practically the same as a casual strike from a Dou Zhe.

It merely consumed slightly less Dou Qi.

Xiao Yang walked toward the bookshelves farther back.

The farther back the bookshelves were, the fewer scrolls they held.

The ones at the front were all Yellow Tier Low-level Dou Techniques.

The ones in the back were Yellow-tier Mid-grade and Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Techniques.

As for Mysterious Tier Dou Techniques, there were none here at all.

Xiao Yang came before the last bookshelf and casually took out a black scroll.

"Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Skill: Dragon Subduing Leg."

"Cultivate it to the extreme, and it can rival a Mysterious Tier Dou Technique!"

He flipped through several scrolls and found that many of their descriptions claimed that, when cultivated to the extreme, they could rival Mysterious Tier Dou Techniques.

In truth, to attain such power, one would need to cultivate them to at least beyond Major Accomplishment according to the system's grading.

For an ordinary person to reach that level might take decades.

They might even fail to succeed.

Xiao Yang felt somewhat helpless. These were the only Dou Skills he could choose from.

He had no choice but to rely on the system.

He began creating a mission.

[Mission: Obtain the Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Skill Dragon Subduing Leg. Reward: one pair of Special Iron Shoes.]

Looking at the Mission Reward, Xiao Yang was a little dumbfounded.

What the hell were Special Iron Shoes?

He did not stop and continued trying to create missions.

[Mission: Obtain the Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Skill Wave Stacking Fist. Reward: one pair of Specialized Gauntlets.]

Xiao Yang sighed as he looked at the Mission Reward.

Unfortunately, he had thought he might directly obtain Mysterious Tier Dou Techniques.

Still, since he had already created the missions, he might as well take these two Dou Skill scrolls back and have a look.

After registering them, Xiao Yang returned to his Small Courtyard with copies of the two Dou Skills.

Two System Prompt Tones also sounded in his mind.

[Mission: Obtain the Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Skill Dragon Subduing Leg. Reward: one pair of Special Iron Shoes. Completed. Claim reward?]

[Mission: Obtain the Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Skill Wave Stacking Fist. Reward: one pair of Specialized Gauntlets. Completed. Claim reward?]

Before long, Xiao Yang returned to his Small Courtyard carrying the two Dou Skill manuals.

After tossing the two manuals aside, Xiao Yang eagerly claimed the rewards for all three missions.

Soon, his Mountain Splitting Fist Proficiency became Major Accomplishment 1/10.

The System Space also contained an additional bottle of Body Recovery Elixir, a pair of iron shoes, and a pair of gauntlets.

Xiao Yang took out the Specialized Gauntlets.

The moment he removed them from the System Space, he realized something was off.

The gauntlets were extremely heavy, and he had no idea what material they were made from.

Despite their weight, they remained very soft.

Then, Xiao Yang took out the iron shoes and inspected them.

Sure enough, although the iron shoes were heavy, they did not feel uncomfortable when worn.

He immediately formed some guesses about the gauntlets and iron shoes.

They should have been specially made for training Dou Skills.

He tried modifying his previous Proficiency mission.

[Mission: Practice Mountain Splitting Fist 300 times while wearing the Specialized Gauntlets. Reward: Mountain Splitting Fist Proficiency +1.]

Sure enough, just as Xiao Yang had expected, the required number of practices had decreased significantly!

However, he did not begin cultivating immediately.

He wanted to first see what benefits there were to cultivating Mountain Splitting Fist beyond Major Accomplishment.

If the Mission Reward was mediocre, he felt that Major Accomplishment Mountain Splitting Fist was currently enough for him.

Rather than waste time continuing to practice it, he might as well cultivate Dou Qi first and wait until he obtained Mysterious Tier Dou Techniques in the future.

[Mission: Cultivate Mountain Splitting Fist to Perfection. Reward: Beginner Fist Technique Talent +1, Mysterious Tier Mid-grade Battle Skill: Blazing Mountain Fist.]

[Mission: Cultivate Mountain Splitting Fist to Supernatural Proficiency. Reward: Beginner Fist Technique Talent +3, Earth Tier Low-level Dou Skill: Mountain Burning Fist.]

Looking at the Mission Rewards, Xiao Yang froze.

Cultivating Mountain Splitting Fist to Perfection could actually earn him a Mysterious Tier Mid-grade Battle Skill!

Not only that, cultivating it beyond Perfection, to Supernatural Proficiency, could actually earn him an Earth Tier Dou Technique!

At that moment, Xiao Yang's eyes burned with excitement.

Practice!

He absolutely had to practice Mountain Splitting Fist!

As long as it did not kill him, he would practice himself to death!

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Yang prepared a bath barrel and water, then put on the Specialized Gauntlets he had just obtained and began practicing Mountain Splitting Fist.

Very soon, he discovered that practicing Mountain Splitting Fist while wearing the gauntlets was indeed much harder.

These gauntlets were not light.

Wearing them while punching made his movements easily deform at first.

The mission list on the system interface could display mission progress.

If his punches were not executed properly, they could not count as one practice.

Every movement had to be performed correctly for it to count as one.