From gods at the Seventh-Ring Tier down to Zero-Ring Wizard Apprentices, anyone who fought could lose—or even die!
But if you ran fast enough, there would be no fight. And if you didn't fight, you couldn't lose!
Escape techniques!
In Yin Ming's mind, they ranked second among his means of staying alive.
First place naturally went to Fate Principles. Destroy an anthill to save a levee stretching a thousand miles; catch a butterfly to still a hurricane ten thousand miles away. Remain unseen and take no credit. What could compare with that kind of invincibility?
But his current knowledge of Fate Principles was limited. Of fate, he possessed only a wisp of the laws behind the word. Of principles, he had only reached the Four Forms model of thought.
He still had to cast dice to tell fortunes, which made escape techniques all the more important.
"I don't know the Somersault Cloud, Earth-Traversing Golden Light, or Rainbow Transformation Technique. Of the escape techniques I do know, the only one I can reproduce at my current tier, put to good use, and potentially develop to the Seventh Ring is the Five-Elements Escape Technique!"
Yin Ming searched his memories and selected a suitable escape technique from the texts of the Immortal Path System.
He had not found the Five-Elements Escape Technique in an ancient book inside a cultivator's tomb. During the Age of Dharma Decline, a young priest from Pure Yang Monastery had uploaded it to the internet. It was one of the few valuable manuals available for direct download.
Its name was ordinary, but the technique was anything but commonplace.
The Golden Light Spell could be cultivated into the Golden Light Method, which even immortals considered a respectable protective art.
The Five-Elements Escape Technique likewise had two stages: Five Elements Minor