Sitting at the desk in my dorm room, I closed my eyes as the newly formed "Star Map" in my Sea of Consciousness slowly revolved. Tian Meng, Ice Empress, Elder Yi... they were all asleep, digesting the earth-shattering meeting we had held last night.
But I was wide awake.
"Soul Skill Structure Optimization"... The moment those words left my mouth, even I trembled. This was not merely a plan—it was a complete betrayal and reconstruction of everything I had once believed.
If someone asked me what it meant—
I would tell them that... I had always thought of the soul skills in my hands as hammers.
My "Spirit Detection" was a hammer that could see the location of every nail.
My "Ice Empress's Claw" was a heavy hammer capable of smashing through any solid ice.
Wang Dong's "Butterfly Goddess's Light" was a hammer of thunder that could trigger violent explosions.
All this time, we had done everything possible to make those hammers heavier, harder, and sharper. We believed that as long as the hammers were powerful enough, they could smash through every problem in the world.
Until Ji Juechen appeared.
He told me I was wrong.
He showed me that no matter how powerful my hammer was, he could always find the most fragile thread in the nail, then give it a light twist with a tiny screwdriver and render all my strength meaningless.
At that moment, I understood. We were fighting on entirely different levels.
I was still thinking in terms of "strength," while he was already thinking in terms of "logic."
So, "Soul Skill Structure Optimization" was a complete industrial revolution for my hammer factory.
First, I had to change the production philosophy.
I would no longer pursue the creation of an all-purpose heavy hammer. I wanted to build a Tool Library. My Soul Power was the raw material for making tools. What I needed to learn was how to precisely forge the most suitable tool in real time, based on the "parts" before me.
This morning, Wang Dong's "Butterfly Goddess's Light" flew toward me. In the past, my first reaction would have been to smash it with my ice hammer or disrupt it with my mental hammer.
But this time, within that brand-new Spiritual Net, we "saw" the inside of that sphere of light together. It was not a single whole. It was composed of countless streams of Light Element energy arranged according to a particular Spherical Structure model.
Where there was "structure," there were "seams" and "stress points."
So I did not create another hammer. I forged a scalpel from my Soul Power on the spot—the rapidly spinning "Ice Ring."
My goal was not to use "cold" against its "heat," but to use the rule of "cutting" to destroy the "structure" on which it depended. I did not eliminate it. I merely made it fall apart.
Second, I had to upgrade my Operating System.
In the past, my way of fighting was like an outdated computer, its desktop cluttered with various App icons—soul skills. In battle, I had to select the appropriate icon according to the situation. The process came with delays and costs, and the functions were fixed.
But Ji Juechen's combat was like that of a top hacker, operating directly at the underlying code level. He was faster than me, and more fundamentally effective.
So I had to become my own programmer.
My Combat Operating System would turn all my Soul Power and all my perceptions into a code library that could be called upon at any time. In the future, when facing flames, I would no longer click the "Ice Wall" App. Instead, I would write a line of code on the spot: "Reduce the Oxygen Concentration in this area." When facing a Mental Attack, I would no longer resist it head-on. I would write a line of "Garbled Data" to contaminate the attack.
This was the core of Structural Optimization: moving from "using functions" to "defining rules."
Ji Juechen could analyze the "structure" of all things. That was his path.
And I would reshape the "structure" of my own power, making every attack a "new structure" he could neither predict nor analyze.
He held his screwdriver, intending to dismantle this machine of mine.
But I would turn myself into a mass of Liquid Metal with no fixed form, capable of reconstructing itself at any moment.
The moment you found my interface, I would already have changed into something else.
This was my answer.
This was the true meaning of God Creation Plan 2.0.
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