"Such a fast sword!"
Seeing Gu Shen swiftly and cleanly defeat the three Red Shadows, Afu praised him with complete sincerity.
The Red Shadows were extremely formidable in close combat.
They were already the strongest individual combat units aboard the Initial.
Facing three alone and winning so easily without using any domain... that was something Gu Shen definitely could not have done a week ago.
"You're too kind."
Gu Shen drove the Wooden Sword back into the Snowy Wasteland.
It was not that his strength had surged again.
No matter how powerful the Red Shadows were, they were still robots.
No matter how great the God of Craftsmen was, he could not create perfect combat machines that surpassed "humans." In other words... the Red Shadows' combat patterns were fixed. Even if they occasionally changed formations, their "brains" could never be as quick as a human's. After so many battles, Gu Shen had gradually figured out their patterns.
With every strike and every parry, Gu Shen already had a predetermined "landing point" in mind.
That was the greatest benefit Gu Shen gained from dueling the Red Shadows.
He had begun trying to develop Blazing Fire.
Calculating the Red Shadows' attack points... was the answer provided by Blazing Fire's computational power.
At the same time, Gu Shen had come to understand the importance of seeing the bigger picture on the long road of transcendent cultivation.
If a transcendent merely wanted to reach the fourth tier... then all they needed to do was cultivate according to the trial standards set by the Deep Sea.
But if they truly wanted to understand this thing called "life evolution,"
then they had to understand
what significance every single thing they did at each realm truly held.
"My awakened ability is Blazing Fire, but because I obtained