Precious Technique

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Classification

• Inherited racial methods: Primordial precious bones carry the primal rune imprints inherited by a creature’s race. Other practitioners can study those imprints to obtain its technique 10.
• Ancient Species and pureblood versions: Techniques bearing the same creature’s name need not contain the same inheritance. The Suanni Playing with the Heavens Diagram records an Ancient Species method, while the Human Emperor possesses the true pureblood divine ability 9.
• Incomplete techniques: Missing bone sections or runes can leave an inheritance defective. The Stone Kingdom’s nation-protecting Bian Technique remains exceptionally valuable despite its omissions 9 10 54.
• Ten Fiends techniques: The Grass Character Sword Art and Kun Peng Precious Technique belong to the legendary Ten Fiends inheritances. The former represents a pinnacle of offensive power; mastery of the latter is said to provide the means to contend for supremacy 36 119.
• Standalone moves: An inheritance may preserve individual attacks rather than an entire technique. True Dragon Claw and True Dragon Tail Sweep are separate moves from the True Dragon Treasure Technique 68.
• Heavenly arts are distinct: A heavenly art is not itself a Precious Technique or divine ability; it is a method of wielding them. The Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art activates, merges, and stacks six techniques simultaneously 32.

Acquisition and Transmission

Precious Bones and Recorded Legacies

• Primordial Remnants generally destroy their own Treasure Bones before death to prevent other races from obtaining their inherited runes. This makes primal bones rare and Precious Techniques priceless 10.
• Even an intact primal bone can lose its vitality. Its rune imprints then dissolve into the bone and become invisible, leaving a usable artifact but no accessible technique 10.
• Techniques can also be copied onto another bone. The Bian Treasure Bone given to Shi Zhao is a recorded inheritance rather than the original bone of a pureblood Bian 10.
• The Supreme Hall preserves techniques on beast hides within the Mountain Treasure, including the Bifang and Immortal Silkworm inheritances 42 43.
• Void God Realm rewards include technique-bearing bones and standalone divine abilities 14 68.

Direct Teaching

• A Martial King Manor elder teaches Shi Zhao the Peacock Technique through demonstration and explanation 9.
• Shi Zhao teaches Shi Yi the incomplete nation-protecting Bian Technique, prompting his concern about whether the Royal Family would object 54.
• The Willow Deity transmits a technique directly through a branch touching Shi Zhao’s brow. Its many golden symbols ultimately gather into one primordial rune 106.
• Qin Yining and Shi Ziling possess two techniques that require them to work together 5.

The Tattered Cloth

• Records technique imprints from Ancient Species diagrams, including the Peacock, Golden-Winged Roc, Suanni, and True Hou 10.
• Draws out the pureblood Suanni inheritance from a Scripture Temple wall, bypassing the normal requirement to use the Human Emperor Seal 10.
• Turns recorded imprints into beast manifestations that Shi Zhao can battle with her primordial spirit 12.
• Is called upon to imprint the Kun Peng Technique from the rune-filled Blood Pool in the Demon Transformation Cave 123.
• Shi Zhao’s idea that it might copy an opponent’s technique after a single glance is speculation, not an established ability 10.

Abilities & Skills

Manifestation and Offensive Power

Precious Techniques can produce creature manifestations, elemental attacks, weapons, or transformations of the practitioner 10 29 42 73.

• Shi Zhao manifests a golden Bian from her hand and later transforms into one during battle 10 29.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow combines rune-bearing black feathers into a colossal Heaven and Earth Furnace 28.
• The Heaven-Splitting Demon Butterfly turns its translucent wings into crossed immortal swords 73.
• Technique power can be concentrated into a physical strike rather than released as a separate manifestation 42.

Healing, Concealment, and Transformation

• The Immortal Silkworm Technique conceals Shi Zhao’s presence; its ultimate mystery concerns reversing life, escaping death, and transforming into a divine embryo 43.
• Golden Cicada and Immortal Silkworm methods heal injuries, preserve life, and enable genuine transformation. Shi Zhao finds these aspects more remarkable than their offensive methods 69.
• The Golden Cicada, also called the Void Cicada, can merge its body into the void 80.
• Golden Light Body Protection is not merely a defensive move: it cultivates a supremely powerful body 68.
• The Willow Deity Method combines recovery, offense, and defense, with the potential for endlessly flowing vital essence once mastered 126.

Combination and Tactical Use

• The Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art lets Shi Zhao combine the Peacock, Golden-Winged Roc, Bian, Suanni, True Hou, and Grass Character Sword Art into one attack 36.
• Six techniques applied separately to the Mountain Treasure’s six faces open its bone cube and reveal the Supreme Hall legacy 32.
• Drawing on the Pu Demon King’s Technique, Shi Zhao creates a combat will and stores magical power in her Bian Battle Spear, enabling brief Venerable-level attacks 110.
• Combining the Kun Peng Technique with Shrinking the Ground to an Inch pushes Shi Zhao’s movement speed to its absolute limit 157.

Limits and Risks

• Comprehension is not immediate: Shi Hao memorizes the Suanni Technique before he can understand its complicated principles 24.
• Meditation is not always sufficient: Some killing techniques require bloodshed and battle to grasp their deeper essence 120.
• Combined power can injure the user: Shi Zhao’s six-technique attack destroys a mountain forest but leaves her arm split with wounds containing several lingering energies 36.
• Healing has limits: Severe injuries prevent the Immortal Silkworm method from restoring Shi Zhao completely in one attempt; she follows it with Golden Cicada Shell-Shedding to achieve rebirth through Nirvana 126.
• Advanced methods can demand destructive cultivation: Mastering the Willow Deity Method requires destruction and rebuilding, including burning one’s own body 126.
• Interpretation can become dangerous: The Willow Deity warns that Shi Zhao’s Kun Peng-derived devouring method may lead to the demonic path and bring heavenly punishment if abused 138.

Notable Precious Techniques

Shi Zhao also cultivates the True Hou and Azure Luan Precious Techniques within her Cave Heavens, though their individual applications are not detailed in the supplied passages 60.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Stone Kingdom Scripture Temple

Access to powerful techniques is controlled by the Royal Family. Shi Zhao receives special permission to study the Bian inheritance, while the true pureblood Suanni method normally requires the Human Emperor Seal to reveal it. Her Tattered Cloth extracts the Suanni method, and she spends nearly half a year studying the temple’s scriptures and techniques 9 10.

Supreme Hall Legacy

Shi Zhao uses six Precious Techniques to open the Mountain Treasure and obtain the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art. The legacy expands both her repertoire and her ability to combine techniques, but her first major combined attack demonstrates that its power can exceed her body’s capacity 32 36.

Contest for the Kun Peng Inheritance

The Kun Peng Technique attracts pureblood creatures, regional rulers, and Venerables to the Northern Sea. The exposed Treasure Bone contains only part of the inheritance and is divided into six fragments; even assembling all six would yield less than a third of the true technique 119 122 128.

Shi Hao reaches the inheritance through the Demon Transformation Cave, while Shi Zhao has the Tattered Cloth imprint its runes. When Shi Hao later tries to present the technique to his sister as a gift, she demonstrates that she already knows it 121 123 130.