"An Advanced Bronze Rank combat technique?"
"How is that possible?"
Shi Feng stared at the system notification panel, utterly stunned.
The whole purpose of creating combat techniques was simply to better control one's own body — which in turn would strengthen one's resistance against mental assaults.
In his view, managing to create even an ordinary Bronze Rank combat technique would have been impressive enough. Silver Rank techniques were something he hadn't even dared to dream about, yet the system had actually labeled what he'd created an Advanced Bronze Rank combat technique.
He had never even heard of an Advanced Bronze Rank combat technique before.
In his understanding, the tier directly above Bronze Rank was Silver Rank — there was no intermediate grade between them. The sudden appearance of an Advanced Bronze Rank technique was truly mind-boggling.
And more importantly, the technique he had created wasn't even finished…
"The technique I created is still far from completion. All I've accomplished so far is the force-exertion method for certain muscles throughout my body. You could say it doesn't even qualify as a proper move — at best, it's a half-finished product. Besides, I've never heard that the Divine Realm had Advanced Bronze Rank combat techniques."
"Could it be that because it's only a half-finished product, the system can't provide an accurate assessment? But since the power and effect fall somewhere between Bronze Rank and Silver Rank, it defaulted to Advanced Bronze Rank?"
Shi Feng recalled the punch he had thrown involuntarily while sitting cross-legged on the ground. The power behind it had been truly astonishing — it had actually caused ripples in the spatial fabric of Lightforged City.
Lightforged City was stabilized by the blessing of ancient gods, making its entire space incredibly firm. Forces that could shatter space in the outside world wouldn't so much as disturb the space here. Even peak Fifth-order powerhouses would be unable to break space inside Lightforged City — that was how stable it was.
Yet his single punch had managed to create spatial fluctuations. Such power was certainly no ordinary Bronze Rank technique — at the very least, the Bronze Rank secret technique Thunder Light that he had mastered couldn't compare.
"So a combat technique that channels force from all the muscles in the body toward a single point has enormous potential. Right now, it's only a half-finished product, and the total muscle engagement is at most around fifteen percent. If I could concentrate the power of every remaining muscle into one point, the resulting force might rival a Gold Rank technique." Shi Feng studied the system's evaluation and suddenly discovered a promising new approach to creating powerful combat techniques.
Currently, the Divine Realm had no shortage of combat techniques, but those above Bronze Rank were incredibly rare — let alone anything higher. Moreover, learning those techniques was extraordinarily difficult, even with inheritance stone tablets.
If he could create Silver Rank and Gold Rank combat techniques and hand them out to the guild's core members, the overall strength of the guild's experts would jump to an entirely new level.
Just as Shi Feng was thinking this over, the system issued another notification.
System: Please name this combat technique. If the player declines to name it, the system will assign a name automatically in ten minutes.
"Name it?" Shi Feng considered for a moment. "This technique was created to hone the spirit through the divine will. Let's call it Divine Transformation."
After naming the new technique, Shi Feng quickly shifted his gaze to the stone statue in the distance.
Ziyan Liuyun had already seated herself at a distance of sixty yards from the statue. Everyone else had made considerable progress as well — Watercolor Rose, Banxia Qingcheng, and Yi Luofei had all reached the seventy-five-yard mark. As for melee-class members like Fire Dance, Bai Qingxue, and Yan Tianxing, they were slightly behind but had still reached eighty yards — quite a bit further than him as guild leader.
And in the brief moment Shi Feng was watching, Ziyan Liuyun actually stood up and walked straight to the fifty-yard mark from the statue. The speed of her progress in mental fortitude was nothing short of inhuman…
"I suppose I need to go and try it for myself. Even though what I've created is still a half-finished product, it should be noticeably more effective than before." Shi Feng looked at Ziyan Liuyun sitting at fifty yards from the statue, then sighed with a wry smile and started walking toward it.
As guild leader, perhaps he didn't need to be first in everything — but he absolutely could not bring up the rear. Otherwise, it would be a serious blow to his dignity.
As Shi Feng stepped yard by yard into the hundred-yard range of the statue, the Zero Wing members seated before it all sensed his approach, and one by one, they shifted their attention toward him.