Today's fourth update: Chapter 3684! 4/4!
"It seemed your tricks... were already exhausted!"
Amid the fierce battle, Xu Caiyi's sharp cry pierced through the chaotic explosions and howling winds, carrying a chilly finality.
To her, the Eight Sons of Flowing Clouds were certainly troublesome opponents. They had forced her focus and skills to heights she had never reached before. Yet after two and a half hours of airtight offense and defense, her keen battle instincts had already caught a trace of fatigue and sluggishness beneath their seemingly flawless combined formation.
Just as even the most precise gears would wear down after prolonged operation, the Eight Sons of Flowing Clouds relied on their highly coordinated and ever-changing relay wheel tactics. They had fully exploited the strengths of all eight fighters and successfully forced Xu Caiyi into passive defense for a long time, but the demands this placed upon their mental strength, spiritual power, and the precision of their coordination were equally extreme.
Their constant high-speed shifts in position, split-second judgments, and transfers of power were like eight people jointly steering an unstoppable precision war chariot. If even one link suffered a slight lapse in focus or fluctuation in spiritual power, the entire chariot's smooth operation would be greatly compromised.
And Xu Caiyi, the opponent they had intended to wear down and even drag to collapse, was like a strange stone cast into a raging current. Rather than having her edges ground away, she had become increasingly hard and radiant beneath the battering waves.
Throughout this long "defensive lesson," she had not only integrated the vast assortment of techniques she had learned in the past, but had also, with an insight that was nearly instinctive in battle, reverse-engineered, adapted to, and even anticipated the rhythm of the eight-man formation.
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