Since A Gu Zuo had made up his mind and would not be swayed, Huang Ji had to try another approach.
Persuasion was not the only way to make A Gu Zuo open the Great Wall himself. Huang Ji had plenty of options. He could capture him alive, for example, then use his perfect knowledge of A Gu Zuo's body to control him indirectly.
But capturing him alive would take more than restraining him. Two conditions had to be met.
First, A Gu Zuo had to expose his entire body so Huang Ji's influence could reach every part of him.
Though A Gu Zuo was now a Three-Dimensional Life, only a two-dimensional shadow of him could be perceived. No matter how others attacked, all they could destroy was a footprint.
And he had countless footprints. Even against the overwhelmingly powerful Huang Ji, the worst he stood to lose was one footprint and a negligible bit of mass.
The same went for Spacetime Reversal, soul cleansing, and data control. They could all affect only a fragment of him. Even rewriting the memories of the paper-thin figure before them would accomplish nothing.
That was the key reason Huang Ji could do nothing to him, no matter how formidable his abilities. Strength had nothing to do with it. Huang Ji could unleash everything he had against a shadow, but even if he grew a trillion times stronger, it would be useless.
Huang Ji could see all of A Gu Zuo, but only through his Information Sense. In reality, not even a Dimension Master could touch all of him.
Second, A Gu Zuo could not be suspended along the Tai Axis.
That meant he had jumped along the fourth dimension, leaving no point of intersection with Three-Dimensional Space-Time.
Normally, others could at least see