Four Divine Techniques—Learn to Run First!

Having obtained Profound Ice Dragon Soar and Tread Snow Without Trace, Bing Tianxiao did not leave immediately.

He suddenly remembered that he still had two pieces of equipment.

He could not exactly use two Divine Artifacts as fire pokers when he could not use spirit energy...

He turned a corner and headed straight for the most secluded corner of the Technique Repository.

The manuals there all belonged to unusual weapons.

"Archery... archery... Found it!"

Bing Tianxiao's eyes lit up as he pried a Jade Slip from a shelf.

Extreme Ice Shattering Star Arrow: Mid-Grade Divine Technique.

This technique focused on compressing all the spirit energy in one's body into a single point, granting it extremely powerful piercing force.

What satisfied Bing Tianxiao most was that, after learning it, an arrow could undergo a second explosion and turn into fine ice crystals to strike the enemy.

"Tsk, tsk. One arrow from this thing could probably punch someone's defenses full of holes, right? I like it."

Bing Tianxiao chuckled and put it away without hesitation.

Next, his gaze began searching for a technique suited to a long halberd.

After searching for quite a while, he found a cracked stone box on the highest shelf. Inside lay an old, damaged scroll that faintly emitted the sound of a dragon's roar.

Destruction Halberd Seven Forms: Incomplete Volume (Rank: Low-Grade Divine Technique).

The scroll's description was simple: One halberd strike, and heaven and earth split apart!

"An incomplete volume? It's a bit of a shame, but this kind of incomplete beauty usually means its upper limit is astonishing."

Bing Tianxiao glanced over its contents.

Mm, there were only three forms.

And they looked very difficult to cultivate...

Though its cultivation difficulty was high, that made it a good choice for him instead.

Having chosen four Divine Techniques, Bing Tianxiao happily patted the token in his robes and hummed a tune as he headed out.

When he emerged from the stone tower, Elder Bai was resting with his eyes closed, while Elder Hei gave him a sidelong glance.

When he sensed the few obscure fluctuations in Bing Tianxiao's robes, the corner of his mouth could not help twitching.

"You brat really didn't hold back. You took four Divine Techniques in one go. Don't ruin yourself playing around with them!"

Elder Hei warned him irritably.

"Hehe, don't worry, Elder Hei. I may not have much else, but I'm tough as nails—and especially afraid of dying."

Bing Tianxiao grinned as he moved closer. "Besides, I'm definitely not in a rush."

"Get lost, get lost! You stinking brat, never serious for a moment!"

Elder Hei waved him away as though swatting a fly.

Elder Bai opened his eyes and watched Bing Tianxiao's departing figure, smiling softly. "This little fellow may seem carefree, but every technique he chose complements the others perfectly.

Movement technique, powerful offense, long-range attacks, heavy weaponry... He's planning to arm himself into a monster with no weaknesses."

"I'm just afraid he'll bite off more than he can chew."

Elder Hei snorted, though his eyes were filled with anticipation.

Bing Tianxiao did not go home. Instead, he headed for the back mountain—Cold Ice Secluded Valley.

The place was covered year-round in azure Profound Ice, and the cold was so dense it nearly condensed into mist.

It was highly suited for ice-attribute cultivators.

Bing Tianxiao sat atop a massive floating chunk of ice and took a deep breath, letting the frigid air travel down his throat and into his lungs.

"How strong my attacks are is a matter of pride; whether I can get away is a matter of life and death."

Bing Tianxiao muttered to himself as he casually opened Tread Snow Without Trace.

Without any hesitation, he decisively chose to cultivate his movement technique first.

As a Mid-Grade Divine Technique, its profundity far surpassed any spirit technique Bing Tianxiao had encountered before.

Its core was to transform the Ice Attribute Spirit Energy within one's body into an exceptionally light form of "buoyancy" capable of high-frequency vibrations, thereby ignoring resistance and traveling a thousand miles in an instant.

"Activate!"

Bing Tianxiao shouted inwardly. A faint dark-blue glow lit up along his spine—it was his Ice Spirit Meridian rejoicing.

As the spirit meridian began operating at full force, the surrounding cold energy surged madly toward him, gathering beneath his feet into two faint ice-blue clouds.

"Tread Snow..."

His body moved, and he shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow.

Bang!

With a muffled bang, Bing Tianxiao lost control of his strength and slammed headfirst into a distant ice wall, blasting out a huge crater.

"Pah, I put too much force into it."

He crawled out looking thoroughly disheveled, wiped the ice shards from his face, yet his eyes had become exceptionally bright.

That was Bing Tianxiao. Usually, he was all smiles and jokes, but once he entered a training state, the ruthlessness with which he pushed himself was terrifying.

Over the next three days, the sounds of heavy impacts constantly echoed through Cold Ice Secluded Valley.

From being utterly bedraggled at first, to stumbling about later, and finally moving as smoothly as flowing clouds and water.

Within the secluded valley, Bing Tianxiao's figure had already become a faint dark-blue afterimage.

Each time he landed, even the shape of the snow beneath his feet remained unchanged, let alone leaving footprints.

He was like a snowflake swept up by a gale, yet he possessed lightning-like speed.

"Traceless!"

Bing Tianxiao's figure abruptly vanished. In the next instant, he appeared directly on the lake's surface a hundred meters away.

He stood there quietly, his toes touching the water without raising even a single ripple.

"Hah... I've finally gotten the hang of it. This Mid-Grade Divine Technique truly lives up to its reputation. With my spirit veins, even someone in the Heaven Transformation Realm probably couldn't run faster than me."

Bing Tianxiao struck a narcissistic pose.

Having finished training his movement technique, his gaze fell upon the remaining three Divine Techniques.

He first opened the dark-blue scroll of Profound Ice Dragon Soar. After merely glancing through it a few times, the corner of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.

"This thing... not only requires constructing complex spiritual power circuits, but also condensing a force of ice? In the short term, I'm afraid I won't even be able to condense a loach."

Bing Tianxiao was pragmatic and knew full well that biting off more than one could chew would only lead to failure.

Although Profound Ice Dragon Soar was incomparably powerful, it was a finishing move that required time to hone.

What he urgently needed now was a method that could immediately be converted into combat power.

So he decisively shifted his gaze to the archery Divine Technique.

"My old trade is still more reliable. Back on the Spirit Road, my title of 'Cold Arrow King' wasn't earned for nothing."

With a flip of his palm, a longbow that was crystal-clear from end to end, as though carved from ice crystal, appeared out of thin air.

A faint chill flowed across the bow's body, and fine runes could vaguely be seen flickering over it. It was the longbow—Ice Crystal Annihilation.

As this divine bow appeared, the already frigid air around him instantly dropped several degrees.

"Old friend, now that we have spiritual power, let's try something more advanced."

Bing Tianxiao took a deep breath, spread his legs slightly, and stood firmly atop the floating ice.

Following the method of Extreme Ice Shattering Star Arrow, he began to mobilize the river-like spiritual power surging through his body.

Bzz!

As spiritual power poured into it, Ice Crystal Annihilation let out a crisp hum.

Bing Tianxiao held the bow in his left hand and drew the string with his right.

Upon the previously empty bowstring, a dark-blue arrow formed entirely from spiritual power condensed out of thin air.

On the Spirit Road, spiritual power could not be used, so he had needed to make his own arrows.

But now, he could condense arrows with spiritual power alone!