92: Select innate martial arts

Movement Techniques.

[Shifting Shadows: Acquired Martial Arts. When Cultivated to Perfection, movements are like shifting shadows.]

[Phantom Demon Step: Acquired Martial Arts. Dreamlike and illusory, like the netherworld.]

[Yin and Yang Eight Steps: Acquired Martial Arts. A movement technique created based on the changing patterns of Taiji Yin and Yang. Within eight steps, no one can rival it. It is an essential movement technique for close-quarters combat.]

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The dazzling array of movement technique descriptions made Shen Xi feel a bit overwhelmed.

Each of these movement techniques was no less impressive than his Meteor Step, and each had its own strengths.

For example, Shifting Shadows and Yin and Yang Eight Steps were short-distance movement techniques.

In close-quarters combat, they could maximize speed and allow for agile responses to enemy attacks.

Phantom Demon Step, on the other hand, focused more on duration. While its burst speed might not be as good as the first two, it could maintain a Martial Artist's speed at a certain limit for a long time, making it perfect for long-distance pursuits or escapes.

However, Shen Xi did not immediately make a decision.

In fact, these movement techniques were, after all, only Acquired Martial Arts. Even with their respective strengths, they wouldn't be much stronger than Meteor Step, and their improvement for Shen Xi would be negligible.

He wanted to purchase an Innate-Grade movement technique even more.

Thinking of this, he continued to flip through the pages.

[Netherworld Movement Technique: Innate Martial Arts. Transforms the user into an envoy of the netherworld. Not only possesses extreme speed but can also conceal the Martial Artist's whereabouts, making it most suitable for assassination.]

[Azure Lotus Sword Step: Innate Martial Arts. Uses the sword as a step, treading on a sword formation. When combined with swordplay, it can unleash boundless power and is extremely offensive (Who says movement techniques lack power? Azure Lotus Sword Step will give you the answer)]

[Limitless Eight Steps: Innate Martial Arts. An advanced version of Yin and Yang Eight Steps, faster and stronger!]

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This is it!

Shen Xi's gaze fell on Azure Lotus Sword Step and he couldn't tear his eyes away.

This movement technique was simply made for Sword Cultivators.

Combined with Azure Lotus Sword Step, it could maximize the power of swordplay. This alone made Shen Xi love it.

One must know that Sword Cultivation is inherently a path of extreme offense. The sword in hand is meant to destroy all enemies.

Therefore, Sword Cultivators care more about offense than defense, or rather, offense is the best defense.

Now that Shen Xi had One Sword Eight Desolations, coupled with Azure Lotus Sword Step, his combat power would definitely increase significantly. This was not one plus one equals two, but one plus one is greater than two.

If he added Sword Intent, Shen Xi was confident he could contend with a Houtian Major Completion powerhouse.

After some more selection, Shen Xi also decided on a body technique—Eternal Undying Body, and an eye technique—Taiji Yin-Yang Eyes, all of which were Innate-Grade.

Eternal Undying Body, as the name suggests, when Cultivated to Perfection, the physique becomes like an eternal, undying body. Even a Later Heaven Transformation Realm expert would be unable to break Shen Xi's defense.

Taiji Yin-Yang Eyes, sees through all illusions. Even an illusion can be seen through at a glance, making it very suitable for Shen Xi to use in some special circumstances.

For example, previously in the Forbidden Ground of the Demon Swamp Mining Area, if he had Taiji Yin-Yang Eyes, Shen Xi would have been able to detect the abnormality of the withered tree at the first moment.

"These three books then."

After selecting the Cultivation Techniques, Shen Xi said to the receptionist.

The receptionist glanced at the items Shen Xi had chosen, her pupils contracting.

Three Innate Martial Arts. Their value had already reached billions.

This young man in front of her was actually so rich?

A transaction worth billions, even for the receptionist, was something she wouldn't encounter more than a few times a month.

What shocked the receptionist even more was that these three Innate Martial Arts seemed to be for this young man's personal use.

Did he really have that much energy to Cultivate?

One must know that the difficulty of Innate Martial Arts was more than ten times that of Acquired Martial Arts.

Any Innate Martial Art would require decades, or even a century, to Cultivate to Perfection.

Moreover, this was assuming one dedicated all their time to the Innate Martial Art without eating or drinking, and the Martial Artist's talent could not be poor, to achieve it.

Shen Xi bought three at once. Was he planning to waste his entire life on Innate Martial Arts?

By the time these three Innate Martial Arts were Cultivated to their peak, Shen Xi would already be on his deathbed. What would be the meaning of such Cultivation then?

To give a simple example.

Take Zhao Delong, for instance. He could afford a house worth trillions, so how could he not afford a few Innate Martial Arts?

Yet, during his fight with Shen Xi last night, he used only Acquired Martial Arts. Was it because he couldn't afford them? No, it was because the difficulty of Cultivation was simply too great.

With Zhao Delong's Realm and talent, even just to get started on an Innate Martial Art would take over ten years. He naturally wouldn't waste time on that.

Ten years would be enough for him to Breakthrough from Initial Stage of Acquired Realm to Houtian Lesser Stage.

It was precisely because of this that Innate Martial Arts were so cheap, with a market price of only a few hundred million to over a billion per book.

The difficulty factor was too high, so naturally, fewer people bought them.

And now, Shen Xi was actually going to buy three Innate Martial Arts at once. The receptionist was naturally too shocked to close her mouth.

"Is there a problem?"

Shen Xi looked at the receptionist and asked.

The receptionist naturally wouldn't voice her doubts. When doing business, one doesn't say things that would upset the customer; one only agrees with them.

"No, there's absolutely no problem. It's just that these three Cultivation Techniques are top-grade even among Innate Martial Arts. The price would be... 3.2 billion."

Hiss!

There were still many customers in Star Zenith Department Store.

Hearing the receptionist's words, they all gasped.

3.2 billion. Even for Inner City residents, that was an astonishing fortune.

Not everyone was like Zhao Delong, casually buying a house for trillions.

The vast majority of Inner City residents used their life savings to barely afford a house in the Inner City. While daily expenses and income were much higher than in the Outer City, they weren't always in the hundreds of millions.

According to records, a family of three in the Inner City spent roughly 200,000 to 300,000 a month, which included various fixed costs like head taxes.

This, in fact, was also a manifestation of extreme wealth disparity.

Some people might spend millions, or even tens of millions, on a single meal, while others only spent two or three hundred thousand a month.

And the Outer City couldn't even compare, with monthly expenses only a few thousand.

It was precisely because of this extreme wealth disparity that currency was divided into copper coins, silver coins, gold coins, crimson gold coins, and diamond coins.

Otherwise, if transactions were always in hundreds of millions of copper coins, even storage bags would require carrying a dozen or more to hold them all.

"No problem, wrap them up for me!"

As Shen Xi spoke, he pulled out a black card from his Pregnant.

This was a Supreme-Grade membership card for Star Zenith Department Store, which Ye Zirou had given him when he left Zhu Feng City.