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 Combat Techniques;
* Advanced Combat Techniques;
* Bronze Combat Techniques;
* Advanced Bronze Combat Techniques;
* Silver Combat Techniques;
* Advanced Silver Combat Techniques;
* Gold Combat Techniques.
* Advanced Gold Combat Techniques.
* Peak Gold Combat Techniques.

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

### 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

### Gold Combat Techniques

* Unnamed: Golden Law Tablet that Laura Crader offered to Shi Feng.
* Flowing Space: Gold Body Combat Technique created by the Goddess of Space.
* Demon Axe: Gold Offensive Combat Technique.
* Sword's Orbit (Shi Feng's 2nd Reincarnation)

* 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: 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.

## Exclusive Combat Techniques (Self-Created)

* Agile Thunder God: Advanced Combat Technique.

* Elusive Strike
* Swift Sword

Shi Feng created the following Combat Techniques:

* Sword’s Orbit: Advanced Defensive Combat Technique refined up to Silver rank, after reached the Advanced Silver rank. Currently is a Gold Combat Technique.
* Sword's Transmigration: Bronze Combat Technique.
* Divine Change: Advanced Bronze Combat Technique.
* Sword's Ripple: Advanced Silver Combat Technique based on modifying Sword's Transmigration.

## List of References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 2338
2. ↑ Chapter 2193
3. ↑ Chapter 1659
4. ↑ Chapter 1202
5. ↑ Chapter 1746
6. ↑ Chapter 1164
7. ↑ Chapter 1459
8. ↑ Chapter 632
9. ↑ Chapter 1234
10. ↑ Chapter 1746
11. ↑ Chapter 2308
12. ↑ Chapter 1583
13. ↑ Chapter 2448
14. ↑ Chapter 2037
15. ↑ Chapter 479
16. ↑ Chapter 2036
17. ↑ Chapter 2038
18. ↑ Chapter 2417
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Chapter 1261
20. ↑ Chapter 2194
21. ↑ Chapter 2417
22. ↑ Chapter 1584
23. ↑ Chapter 2309
24. ↑ Chapter 1323
25. ↑ Chapter 407
26. ↑ Chapter 1659
27. ↑ Chapter 2416
28. ↑ Chapter 2126
29. ↑ Chapter 2228
30. ↑ Chapter 2206
31. ↑ Chapter 3719/SS 793
32. ↑ Chapter 3649/SS 723
33. ↑ Chapter 1393
34. ↑ Chapter 1163
35. ↑ Chapter 936
36. ↑ Chapter 3162/SS 236
37. ↑ Chapter 3719/SS 793
38. ↑ Chapter 1983
39. ↑ Chapter 2645-2646
40. ↑ Chapter 2918