Signing

"Balance, balance—fuck!"

The "ripple" in his hand turned into a muddled mass again, while the negative life energy became a bloody lump of sludge.

But this time was far better than before. Before, it had exploded right in his face!

As he traveled, Lu PingAn floated atop his Seat Board, practicing silently as he headed toward his destination.

He had originally thought his appearance was strange enough, but one look at the bizarre, anything-goes street made him feel perfectly ordinary.

Floating on his Floating Board, his semi-mechanical arms and legs solved most of his problems. From a distance, judging by appearance alone, he really did resemble a mechanical knight.

He practiced as he traveled, but his progress was extremely delicate. He had invested in too few Law Decree-level Professionals before; while he had acquired some fragments of skill in this area, they had never formed a complete system.

Every "ability" was independent. Finding suitable "investment targets" with experience in twisting, reshaping, or even coating their abilities over their arms was simply too difficult.

Still, the key was that this was a foundational ability. The sooner he practiced it, the sooner he would master it.

The Four Skills were both the foundation and the upper limit of Law Decree-level Professionals. Lu PingAn had no reason to miss this lesson.

". Tsk, it exploded again."

This was another failed attempt at comprehension. Negative-energy sludge coated Lu PingAn's hand.

He had actually vaguely realized that this really was the domain of Law Decree-level Professionals. Low-level Professionals could not directly manipulate these "energies" and "elements"; they could only use a specific ability in a templated manner.

What Lu PingAn was doing now was extracting "life force (negative)" and then maintaining it in a stable material form.

To put it simply, it was like molding