Chapter 114 - Profound Movement And Footwork Techniques

Randy waited for the whole 5 minutes to pass and soon the notification from the system resounded along with lines of texts. 

[[Recording of 'Riley's Frost Magic Compendium' has been completed.]]

[[Please check the 'Record Section' on your status screen for more information regarding the recorded contents]] 

[[Reminder: Due to there being many spells and techniques, the system has compiled them under one name but containing more than one content after selecting the tab on your status screen]]

The system stated on the projected screen in front of Randy's eyes.

Randy read through them carefully without saying anything as he pondered something else instead. 

'So far, I have only mastered the Void Rippling Punch and am lacking a type of evading movement technique. Although it is not urgent since I have the Gale Riding Skill, but it is still necessary to have a set of movement or footwork techniques in case of an emergency where I could enter my assimilated state in time.'

Profound movement techniques are techniques that only cultivators use, and Profound footwork techniques are the specialty of martial artists. 

Although they both required the user to master a set of leg movements, however since the energy used is different, the effects were also different. 

For example, spiritual energy helps the user to execute impossible movements like traversing many distances without actually depending on the physical body or worrying about the limitations of one's physical body.

This was possible through the comprehension and mastering of a profound movement technique coupled with the supernatural effects of spiritual energy.

Due to this, as long as one has immense comprehension towards a certain movement technique, regardless of their body state, whether one is strong and sturdy, or weak and frail, they could still execute the movement techniques with the aid of the spiritual energy. 

On the other hand, Life energy allows the human body to move beyond the normal limits of a physical body, thus being able to execute footwork techniques using the actual body rather than depending mostly on Life energy to execute the footwork technique. 

The reason for this was because Life energy or Qi nurtures the human body directly and thus those who practice martial arts are immensely stronger in terms of their physical body than cultivators who, in terms of game terminology, are balanced in all their stats.

This just means that their physical strength is inferior to martial artists in general. But that was only in general, and not including those with certain physiques that made them have stronger bodies even as cultivators.

Nevertheless, both sides had disadvantages and advantages, so one could not simply judge the strength of both martial artists and cultivators just based on their realm alone but also based on their foundation and techniques.

Although both parties constantly argue that their side was supreme to the other, which was the reason why even the golden-robed man and the white-robed man always argue about this matter.

At the moment, Randy was neither a cultivator nor a martial artist. Well, he could say that he was somewhat a martial artist since it said on his status screen that he was at the 'First-Stage Martial Disciple Realm.' 

He does not know how he was able to reach the first realm in martial arts, but he could think of two possibilities as to why that happened.

The first possibility would be when he awakened his innate ability, he might have also awakened his martial talent, thus the reason why he broke through to the first realm in martial arts.

This was most likely the believable reason. 

And the other possibility was that he might have already been in this realm all this time, but it was just that he did not know about it since he had not awakened yet.

And the reason why he did not know was that he did not have the system to tell him about his combat power system realms or levels. 

The reason why he thought this might be the case was that before he awakened his innate ability, he used to train his body using mundane methods and even using the graviton which increase the pressure on the body for training.

And since the practice of martial arts means cultivating one's body to the limits, then there was no reason why he could not break through to at least the first realm of martial arts through the mundane method.

In reality, it does not make sense for him to not have any type of energy in his body in the first place. 

It was only after he awakened that he discovered that the reason why they could not measure his energy compatibility was most likely because of that physique of his, which constantly absorbed different energies, thus causing the measuring device to malfunction.

And ultimately, he was deemed as a trash who could not awaken his innate ability and even did not have energy compatibility which everyone was able to have despite them not awakening their innate abilities.

'Although this problem got solved thanks to the system creating those vessels to hold the various energies...' Randy thought in digression.

But since he now knew the reason for this misfortune of his, he had come to terms with it and decided to improve himself to catch up with those that are ahead of him in terms of experience. 

Because even if he was able to skip some steps in his strength acquisition, that does not mean that he could compensate for all those years that he had missed to improve himself with one or two techniques alone. 

He needed to comprehend the techniques and also increase the variety of the techniques to fit different circumstances.

Which brought him to thinking of learning a profound movement or footwork technique now that he had already learned a profound fist technique.

With all that in mind, Randy made up his mind that he would find a time within the week to purchase a profound movement or footwork technique.

Even if he end up with a low-ranking profound technique, it was still better than nothing. 

With all that decided, Randy went downstairs and was about to go give the grimoire back to his mother but then he decided against it.

Since it would be suspicious if he said that he had already memorized all the contents in a thick grimoire that was about 10 centimeters in thickness. 

Thinking about that, he went back to his room to sleep and then thought about finding some other time to give the grimoire back to his mother.

…

Just like that, the remaining days in the week passed with nothing significant happening, except that the following week would be the last in the academic year. 

After that, Randy's grade, or more precisely, the graduating class would take a two-week break to prepare themselves for the upcoming university entrance examination. 

And as for the other students in the lower grades, they were more excited about this break mostly because they had more days in their break. 

That was because they did not need to take the university entrance examination just yet, thus they had more than two months' worth of break, which was higher than the 12th Grade students' break duration that was only two weeks in comparison.