"So, what's the best thing you managed to snatch?" Jin Pei asked, his voice echoing through the vaulted corridors as he walked side-by-side with Ao Long.
And despite his injuries, his eyes held a glimmer of satisfaction. "I got a Grand Tier Heavenly Grade Battle Technique: Falling Heaven Palm."
In the intricate systems of the cultivation world, a distinction was always made between Cultivation Techniques and Battle Techniques.
While the former allowed a practitioner to gather Qi, expand their meridians, and step further into the path of immortality, Battle Techniques were the "expression" of that power—the means to shape and manipulate Qi into devastating physical and elemental effects.
Both, however, followed the same hierarchy of quality: Spirit, Earthly, Heavenly, and Supreme.
