High Black Tier Battle Technique: Snow-Treading Without a Trace

Seeing Chen Jiabao swiftly dodge his attack, Xiao Yang's pupils contracted.

A movement battle skill!

It seemed to be nothing more than the low Yellow Tier Four-Sided Step.

Even so, with Chen Jiabao's cultivation, dodging his attacks was extremely easy.

When Chen Jiabao had fought him earlier, he had not used the Four-Sided Step at all.

Because with a cultivation three stages above Xiao Yang's, Chen Jiabao could defeat Xiao Yang even using a low Yellow Tier battle skill.

But now that Chen Jiabao had used a movement battle skill, Xiao Yang immediately understood that defeating him would be extremely difficult.

Because he simply could not keep up with his opponent.

This also made Xiao Yang realize something.

When fighting opponents above his level in the future, he absolutely could not have any glaring weaknesses.

Once he had a weakness, his opponent could fully exploit their strengths to defeat him.

He would also need to train in movement battle skills in the future.

Only then could he truly fight when needed and flee when necessary!

Very soon, Xiao Yang took the initiative to concede.

After all, Chen Jiabao could be said to be in an invincible position, and his cultivation was higher. Xiao Yang could not afford to drag things out.

Seeing Xiao Yang concede voluntarily, Chen Jiabao said somewhat awkwardly.

"Sorry, Young Master Xiao Yang. I had an unfair advantage."

Xiao Yang waved his hand.

"Since you spent the effort to learn a movement battle skill, it does not count as an unfair advantage."

"This is a battle skill you mastered yourself. How could that be considered taking advantage?"

At the Dou Qi stage, relatively few people learned movement battle skills.

After all, movement battle skills could not display much usefulness at this level and instead somewhat wasted time.

Training battle skills would inevitably take up some cultivation time.

Therefore, cultivators at the Dou Qi stage—or rather, all cultivators—would not train too many battle skills at once.

Most cultivators at the Dou Qi stage only trained one or two offensive battle skills.

After stepping down from the stage to recover for a while, Xiao Yang challenged the other two Ninth-Stage Dou Qi cultivators from the Xiao Household present. This time, he won both matches.

As for the final Ninth-Stage Dou Qi cultivator at the Battle Skill Hall, Xiao Yang wisely chose not to challenge her.

Because the last Ninth-Stage Dou Qi cultivator was Xun'er.

After Xiao Yang defeated the last Ninth-Stage Dou Qi cultivator, he directly stepped down from the arena.

Previously, most members of the Xiao Household had looked at Xiao Yang with gratitude in their eyes.

Because he had made the Xiao Household wealthier, allowed its members to live better lives, and given them more resources.

But now, seeing that Xiao Yang could defeat a Ninth-Stage Dou Qi cultivator immediately after breaking through to the Seventh-Stage Dou Qi, quite a few Xiao Household members present looked at him with a trace of awe in their eyes.

The Dou Qi Continent was a world where strength reigned supreme. What people revered most was not the wealthy, but the strong.

At this moment, many Xiao Household members came to see Xiao Yang in a new light.

Xiao Yang ignored everyone's gazes and walked straight down from the arena.

He came to Xun'er's side and said with a smile.

"I'm planning to go to the Battle Skill Hall and choose another movement battle skill. You should go eat first."

The sun had long passed noon. Many people had skipped their meal to see just how strong Xiao Yang was, and Xun'er was no exception.

Xun'er shook her head and insisted.

"I'll wait until Brother Xiao Yang finishes choosing his battle skill, then we can eat together."

Seeing this, Xiao Yang did not try to persuade her further.

He went straight to Xiao Mingtian, intending to ask him to recommend a movement battle skill.

"Uncle Mingtian, which movement battle skill of our Xiao Household is stronger?"

"I want a high Yellow Tier one, preferably one that combines speed and agility."

"As for difficulty, that does not matter."

Movement battle skills were mainly divided into two types: one focused on combat and evasion, while the other was used for travel.

Xiao Yang could use experience points to raise his battle skill proficiency, so he did not care about the difficulty of training.

Hearing this, Xiao Mingtian began recalling the Xiao Household's movement battle skills.

Before long, he said to Xiao Yang helplessly.

"The Xiao Household does not have many high Yellow Tier battle skills, and movement battle skills are even rarer."

"If you want one focused on combat and evasion, you can train in Eight Steps Chasing the Cicada."

"If you want one more suited for support and travel, you can choose Wind-Treading Step."

After saying that, Xiao Mingtian pointed out where these two battle skills were located.

Hearing Xiao Mingtian's words, Xiao Yang was not disappointed.

After all, he knew that the Xiao Household did not possess many battle skills.

"It's fine. I'll go get it myself."

As he spoke, Xiao Yang headed toward the Battle Skill Hall.

Seeing Xiao Yang and Xun'er preparing to leave, the surrounding Xiao Household members also dispersed one after another to eat lunch.

Very soon, Xiao Yang arrived inside the Battle Skill Hall. Following Xiao Mingtian's directions, he came before a shelf containing high Yellow Tier battle skills and began searching for Eight Steps Chasing the Cicada.

He mainly wanted to find a secret technique for use in battle.

As for one for travel, there was no rush for now.

If he had enough Universal Experience, learning both would not be a problem.

However, just then, Xun'er, who had remained silent the entire way, spoke up.

"Brother Xiao Yang, if you don't mind, you can train in this one."

Xun'er extended a slender arm before him.

At some point, she had acquired a white scroll in her hand.

Xiao Yang did not even need to open the scroll to know what it was.

After all, as a player, he could easily see all kinds of information about characters and items.

He had not made much use of this function before, but since he was looking for battle skills now, he inspected the detailed information of every scroll.

[Snow-Treading Without a Trace: High Black Tier movement battle skill. When trained to its limit, it can even rival an Earth-Tier Battle Skill!

Base bonus: +310%

Shop points required to upgrade: 3000000]

Looking at the information before him, Xiao Yang could not help but freeze for a moment.

This base bonus was actually as high as 310%!

Normally, the base multipliers for low, mid, and high Yellow Tier battle skills were 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 respectively.

Meanwhile, the base multipliers for low, mid, and high Black Tier battle skills were 1.5, 2, and 2.5.

But the base multiplier of this Snow-Treading Without a Trace scroll had actually reached 310%, or 3.1!

Even a low Earth-Tier Battle Skill generally only had a base multiplier of around 4!

This was enough to show that this battle skill was indeed extremely close to an Earth-Tier Battle Skill.

Even among high Black Tier battle skills, one like this was considered quite precious.

If he wanted to raise Eight Steps Chasing the Cicada to this level, it might require five or six hundred thousand points!

"Brother Xiao Yang, if you don't mind, train in this high Black Tier Snow-Treading Without a Trace."

"You don't need to refuse because of pride. I know you are not a rigid person."

"Rather than wasting time training a high Yellow Tier battle skill, it would be better to directly train in a high Black Tier one."

Looking at the white scroll in Xun'er's hand, Xiao Yang smiled indifferently.

"Since it is Xun'er's kind intention, then I won't stand on ceremony."

"Thank you, Xun'er."