Combat Techniques

First mentioned in chapter 257, when Shi Feng dueling with Zhang Luowei in the Jin Hai Fellowship Party.

Combat Techniques are techniques that can be incorporated during combat in God's Domain, allowing a player to exhibit higher combat power. Based on the information known so far,

Ranks

Based on the ranks of Secret Technique Tablets, Combat Techniques can be categorized into the following ranks:

• Basic
• Advanced
• Bronze
• Advanced Bronze
• Silver
• Advanced Silver
• Basic Gold
• Advanced Gold
• Peak Gold

This can be further broken down based on the strength of each combat technique. For example:

• An ordinary Advanced Combat Technique would allow a Half-step Refinement Realm expert to fight on even grounds against a Refinement Realm expert.
• A first-rate Advanced Combat Technique would allow a Refinement Realm expert to fight against a Flowing Water Realm expert.
• A top-tier Advanced Combat Technique would allow a Flowing Water Realm expert to pose a threat against a Void Realm expert.

The strength of a combat technique is determined by the number of pages it possesses. Using an Advanced Combat Technique as example, an ordinary would consist of six to eight pages, a first-rate would possess nine to twelve pages and a top-tier would possess thirteen pages and more.

Types

Combat Techniques fall into various categories, each rarer than the last:

• Offensive Techniques;
• Defensive Techniques;
• Footwork Techniques;
• Physical also known as Body Techniques;
• Legacy Combat Techniques.

For example, a Footwork-type Combat Technique would be capable of improving a player's combat power significantly, allowing them to take the initiative in battle and take advantage of openings. A Basic Footwork combat technique would be comparable to an Advanced Offensive or Defensive combat technique.

Legacy Combat Techniques are the rarest and most unique of all combat techniques. Each of them is limited to specific classes and players without the appropriate class cannot learn it. Legacy Combat Techniques do not have fixed ranks and instead the standard is based on the user's mastery of them. The basic power of the technique is equal to a Bronze rank Combat Technique. A player who has fully mastered a legacy combat technique will possess the ability to transcend tiers even without relying on special tools of Fragmented Legendary items.

Acquiring Combat Techniques

Combat Techniques can be obtained by:

• Exploring ancient ruins.
• Killing Field Bosses.
• Purchasing from special maps and NPCs.

For example, on the West Continent, many of the Advanced Combat Techniques originate from Primordial Divine Ruins.

Learning Combat Techniques

In order to learn combat techniques, it requires one to comprehend the truth of the technique as well as heavy practice. Most experts would be capable of learning Basic and Intermediate techniques(Needed reference, where did Intermediate combat techniques pop out from?) , which would be considered their trump cards. For peak experts, they would be capable of using Advanced and even Bronze techniques.

However, in order to use a Silver Combat Technique, it would require one to have a physique at the Tier 3 standard and enought brain capacity to process the complex actions.

Tablet vs. Book

A complete Advanced Combat Technique (book) was different from a Secret Technique Tablet.

Although the combat techniques one could learn from a Secret Technique Tablet were more powerful than Advanced Combat Techniques, very few players could learn them. It was impossible to share those techniques with a significant number of players.

However, a complete Advanced Combat Technique took the form of a book. Shi Feng could store the book in the Guild Warehouse, and Guild members could read it as they wished.

Known Combat Techniques

Basic Combat Techniques

• Lightning Speed
• Nine Extreme Slashes
• Omnivision
• Phantom Snakes
• Second Acceleration
• Six Extreme Slashes
• Split Spear
• Treating Retreat as an Advance
• Phantom Steps: Footwork Combat Technique
• Residual Steps: Footwork Combat Technique

Advanced Combat Techniques

• Eight Extreme Slashes
  • When fully mastered, has the power of a Bronze Combat Technique.
• Snake Bite
• Spell Combination
• Storm Barrage
• Strength Combination
• Triple Cut
• Triple Moon Strike
• Phantom Assault
• Windwheel
• Vanishing Cloud
• Wolfpack
• Firm Wall: Defensive Combat Technique.
• Iron Wall: Defensive Combat Technique.
• Flowing Shadow: Footwork Combat Technique.
• Ghost Steps: Footwork Combat Technique.
• Void Steps: Footwork Combat Technique.

Bronze Combat Techniques

• Lightning Flash: Offensive Combat Technique.
• Flame Serpent
• Nine Phantom Steps
• Nine Phantoms, One Kill
• Twisting Space

Silver Combat Techniques

• Twelve Extreme Slashes

Advanced Silver Combat Techniques

• Absolute Techniques

• Black Moon

• Unnamed: Advanced Silver Footwork (Laura Crader).

• Void Annihilation: Advanced Silver Combat Techinque (Laura Crader).
  • Soul Break is the second form of Void Annihilation.
• Thousand Mirages

Basic Gold Combat Techniques

• Unnamed Technique: Golden Law Tablet that Laura Crader offered to Shi Feng.
• Demon Axe: Offensive-type.

• Void Walker: Gold Body Combat Technique, suspected to be one the legacies from the Goddess of Space's Sixth Goddess Tablet.
  

Advanced Gold Combat Techniques

• Nine Sword Eradication: suspected to be created by the Goddess of Space.
• Fleeting Thunderclap: Offensive-type. One of the legacies from the Goddess of Space's Sixth Goddess Tablet.
• Nine Revolutions: One of the legacies from the Goddess of Space's Sixth Goddess Tablet.

Peak Gold Combat Techniques

• Flowing Space: Peak Gold Body Combat Technique created by the Goddess of Space.

Exclusive Combat Techniques (Self-Created)

Shi Feng

Shi Feng created/developed the following Combat Techniques:

• Sword’s Orbit: Defensive-type that can be used also offensively. Originaly, it was an Advanced Combat Technique.
  • Refined up to the Silver rank.
  • Reached the Advanced Silver rank.
  • Currently is a Basic Gold Combat Technique.
• Sword's Transmigration: Bronze Combat Technique.
• Sword's Ripple: Advanced Silver Combat Technique, based on modifying Sword's Transmigration.
• Divine Change: Advanced Bronze Combat Technique.

Others Players

• Agile Thunder God: Advanced Combat Technique.
• Elusive Strike
• Swift Sword