"Are you sure?"
Lu Li had grown increasingly respectful toward Whis. Their consecutive days of sparring had made him deeply realize that Whis truly was a master of battle.
"Of course. I simply want you to understand that in a real battle, you should never place any restrictions on yourself."
Whis instructed, "And I also want you to understand that your ability is not invincible."
Lu Li's competitive spirit was stirred by those words. Soul Intent rose around him, and with his next punch, he directly employed the techniques of Causality Soul Intent.
His Primordial Chaos Bloodline actually possessed a similar guaranteed-hit ability, yet Whis could still evade it. That had already struck him as strange.
This time, he drove Causality Soul Intent with all his strength, attempting to guide his fist toward an unavoidable outcome. He simply refused to believe it.
Whoosh—
Whis seemed to predict Lu Li's punch and dodged in advance. Lu Li then altered the trajectory of his strike through Causality Soul Intent, giving it the shameless feel of taking back a move in chess.
But in the next moment, something happened that surprised Lu Li. According to the route he had newly planned, with Whis's dodge direction already fixed, that punch should have been unavoidable.
Yet just as his fist was about to touch Whis, Lu Li's vision seemed to blur. Time seemed to rewind slightly. His fist continued forward—and missed once again.
"What was that just now?"
After missing his punch, Lu Li did not pursue. Whis did not attack him either, merely standing there with a smile.
"Within this area, I turned time back just a tiny bit."
Whis explained, "That won't cause any changes to the timeline, so it's an allowed little trick."
Lu Li fell into thought. So Whis had used