Grand Void Transformation Art

The days of cultivation always slipped quietly by in an alternation of tedium and focus. In the blink of an eye, another eight months had passed. Including the time since he had first arrived, Wang Chuan had been at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for nearly a year.

Over those three hundred-odd days and nights, he spent most of his time immersed in his own world. At dawn, he could always be found practicing his blade on the Training Ground. Amid flashing cold light, his blade techniques grew ever sharper and more decisive. In the quiet room each afternoon, he devoted himself to refining his footwork, repeatedly pondering every shift and turn. He had not neglected his Soul Power cultivation either, and had now firmly reached the threshold of level nineteen. To touch the edge of level twenty at the age of seven was progress enough to shake any Soul Master clan. Across the entire continent, perhaps only that peerless prodigy with the Angel Spirit could stand alongside him.

More importantly, Wang Chuan had forged a path uniquely his own in footwork. At first, he realized that his blade techniques emphasized one word: speed. Under such swift, thunderous assaults, it was often difficult to account for agile evasion. During a break from blade practice one day, a thought suddenly came to him: since the ultimate purpose of dodging was to prevent the opponent from hitting him, why did he have to evade passively? Would it not be better to make the opponent's attack miss entirely?

That idea spread like a spark igniting a prairie fire, setting his inspiration ablaze. He began trying to integrate his unique ability over the void into his footwork. When his body swayed, it left faint afterimages behind. He seemed to be on the left, but had already reached the right. An opponent's attack appeared about to strike him, yet it would miss as though passing through thin mist. This newly created movement technique had no flashy name, yet it perfectly suited his fighting style, quietly blurring the boundary between evasion and attack, as though it had been born for his blade.

This technique was called the Grand Void Transformation Art.

The core of this art lay in the word "transformation." It was not simply high-speed movement or forcibly enduring damage. Rather, through the use of the void, at the instant he was attacked, it transformed his existence to the utmost between the states of "real" and "illusory," allowing the enemy's attack to pass through the "phantom" him without inflicting any substantial harm.

It was like the moon reflected in water. You could see it, but when you reached out to scoop it up, it would only shatter into light and shadow, while your hand touched nothing but water.

When an enemy attack approached, the practitioner would empty his mind and circulate the Grand Void Transformation Art. In that instant, his figure would become blurred and translucent, as though composed of countless tiny motes of light. Blades, swords, fists, and kicks would pass straight through, stirring only rings of rippling radiance, as if they had pierced a reflection in water. Yet the practitioner's true body had temporarily "existed" within the gap between reality and the void.

Once the attack ended, his body would instantly solidify, as though he had never moved at all.

Wang Chuan could also use the power of the void to unleash a Blade Qi at the instant an enemy's failed attack left them momentarily spent, delivering a fatal strike from the empty air. Wang Chuan named it Grand Void Flash.

However, its drawbacks were equally obvious. This movement technique consumed an enormous amount of Soul Power, making it impossible to sustain for long periods. It required ample Soul Power and Mental Power to predict and respond to the opponent's attacks. Moreover, it would be ineffective against mental attacks and spatial-type spirits.

However, Wang Chuan knew that as his power over the void and his Soul Power increased, this movement technique would gradually evolve. He divided it further into two stages:

Second Stage: Formless and Shapeless

It could evade most energy attacks and mental impacts. The body's state of intangibility would become even more profound, nearly resembling a transparent phantom. To a certain extent, it could distort targeting-type skills directed at him.

Third Stage: Grand Void Body

The body itself became the Grand Void, invulnerable to all techniques. There was no need to activate it deliberately, as the art would circulate on its own. Once it sensed malice or danger, the body would automatically transform into its most fundamental state of "void." Not only could it render most attacks ineffective, it could even "ignore" formations and barriers to a certain extent, allowing free passage through them.

Even so, facing mental attacks, spatial-type enemies, or enemies whose Mental Power far exceeded his own would still be extremely dangerous, and there remained a risk of the technique being broken. Bone Douluo had directly used his spatial ability to break this move. If Chen Xin did not use Mental Power, he truly would have been unable to strike Wang Chuan.

By combining this movement technique with the footwork his master had given him, Wang Chuan could achieve the effect of short-range teleportation while using the Grand Void Transformation Art.