Chapter 192
On the boundless green grassland, dozens of cavalrymen were galloping wildly. Every now and then, they would draw their bows and nock arrows, hurling them dozens of meters away. There, a ghostly man was constantly flashing towards them.
Unfortunately, these arrows seemed to be under some kind of spell, and not a single one could hit its target.
The ghostly man showed no fear of his many times larger opponents, charging towards the cavalry with the ferocity of a tiger among sheep.
Seeing that the arrows missed, the cavalrymen immediately drew their scimitars and spurred their horses to charge at the man.
They let out emotionless battle cries, like fearless puppets, and charged at the man according to a predetermined program.
"The Seventh Sword!"
Feng Xue crossed several meters again, and the lead horse was almost in front of her. Her body seemed to transform into a soft and slippery tentacle, and she burrowed under the horse's belly at an extremely tricky angle.
The next moment, the horse let out a terrible wail and collapsed completely to the ground.
Feng Xue ignored the cavalrymen on horseback, instead weaving through the dust kicked up by the horses' hooves like a snake, dodging the scimitars coming from all directions while focusing on and efficiently killing the horses.
"Luckily I didn't bring a filter this time, otherwise I definitely wouldn't dare broadcast this scene." Feng Xue thought of the knight's posture under the filter before, and silently imagined the dozens of cavalrymen in front of her. It seemed... not so bad?
Despite his thoughts, Feng Xue's actions revealed no flaws. The individual combat strength of the clustered enemies was inherently inferior to that of the other guards. If it were before, he might have been flustered when faced with attacks coming from all directions at the same time. However, as the trial continued, his understanding of the Heavenly Sphere Star Shifting Technique was also rapidly improving.
Although his progress in divination is still slow, he has officially mastered the basics of movement techniques.
By using his movement techniques, he can ensure that he faces no more than three enemies at a time, which greatly reduces the pressure of combat.
Within a quarter of an hour, dozens of horses had fallen, and several cavalrymen even had their legs broken by their horses. The remaining cavalrymen, carrying scimitars, rushed towards Feng Xue, but under the highly efficient life-reaping Sword Technique of the Thirteen Swords of Life Taking, such a charge was nothing more than moths to a flame.
One after another, unhorsed cavalrymen fell. Covered in human and horse blood, Feng Xue looked at the few remaining riders pinned down by their horses and said with a sneer:
"I surrender."
The Trial Space began to fade, and everything became blurry. The pungent smell of rust and horse entrails rapidly diminished, and Feng Xue returned to the stairwell on the eighth floor.
Back on the seventh-floor apartment, Feng Xue, disregarding the stares of those around her, found a soft patch of grass and lay down, slowly calming down the radical emotions that had arisen from the killing.
Fortunately, he accidentally learned to Entering Stillness in the Garbage Mountain; otherwise, practicing the Thirteen Swords of Life Taking might have had an irreparable impact on his personality.
Murderous intent should only be directed at the person one wants to kill.
The rampant killing intent is nothing but meaningless violence.
The Spiritual Platform Bright Mirror emitted bursts of light, slowly washing away the murderous aura accumulated from the killing. As Feng Xue deciphered the Peerless Martial Art, many more blank spaces appeared on the Mirror for writing.
I engraved my Dim Sum and experiences on the mirror, but as always, most of them would gradually fade and disappear, with only a very few characters slowly twisting into strange scripts similar to seal script and remaining on it.
Feng Xue didn't know whether this meant he had truly grasped the content, or simply because it happened to align with the fundamental rule of "the celestial stars taking on written forms."
But these things weren't important; he was simply enjoying the thrill of seeing his own progress.
Yes, once you have a visible progress in your workout, the sensations become completely different.
For example, right now, he has completely forgotten that he came to challenge the Residence Right, and has devoted all his time to constantly defeating the guards.
Although only three types of guards remain—superpowered, hordes, and knights—each group is different. The variety of superpowered individuals is well-known, and the knights include archers, rangers, heavy cavalry, and many other branches. The hordes range from four or five to hundreds, with types ranging from hunting parties to Mongol cavalry, from English longbowmen to the Knights Hospitaller...
Feng Xue even encountered a small group of vampire infantry equipped with Panzerfaust rocket launchers and submachine guns, which still sends chills down her spine when she thinks about it.
This kind of combat not only increases the proficiency of various skills and combat experience, but also enhances Feng Xue's understanding of killing intent, allowing her to comprehend the true meaning of death through constant killing and being killed.
Flames scorched, blood flowed backward, hacked and slashed, and even torn apart and devoured alive.
All these pressures were transformed into resources for the Thirteen Swords of Life Taking. Naturally, he saw the green leaves growing from the roots. If he hadn't felt that his cultivation level was insufficient and he might not have been able to control his killing intent, he could have also found a trace of the red flower that bloomed after the fourteenth sword.
"My mental fortitude is still lacking," Feng Xue sighed inwardly, but she managed to allocate a few strands of her consciousness to the Real World Rules she hadn't had time to pay attention to during the challenge.
In the minds of Westerners, the reserved nature of Asians is often seen as a sign of weakness and incompetence. And when faced with someone who is weak but has a little money, there are always some ATMs who can't resist trying to get some deposits.
This has led to the fact that, even today, with Libra having become a global Weird Tale, his attendance rate on the Ambulance Demon is even higher than that of the Oath Keeper.
Of course, the executioners also helped him with the workload.
Shaking his head to stop thinking about it, he realized that this month was precious. Once the anger in his heart had completely dissipated, he stood up again and conveyed his desire to challenge the Tower of Babylon.
Main world, Yan Kingdom, Xijing City, Office of the Martial Arts Experiment Group Leader of the Supernatural Tale Countermeasures Bureau --
"Team leader, something's wrong! Something's wrong!"
"What's wrong?" Upon seeing his deputy rush in, the head of the Martial Arts Experiment Group immediately put down the meridian theory in his hand, his heart leaping into his throat. Although his deputy's expression didn't seem to indicate bad news, he couldn't help but feel worried.
"Progress... I don't know what's wrong with everyone today, almost everyone... everyone..."
Hearing his deputy's heavy breathing, the team leader felt like he was about to have a heart attack. He picked up his teacup, placed it in front of the man, and said with a serious expression:
"What's wrong with everyone? Speak slowly, don't rush me!"
Although he said not to rush, seeing the way the deputy's eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets, how could he dare accept the teacup? He forced out the words, holding his breath.
"Everyone's cultivation progress has skyrocketed! Li Wenquan, who was originally expected to take at least two months to break through to the fifth level, is already close to the sixth level! Moreover, their cultivation progress... is also much faster than before, it's almost like... like they ate some rare and precious treasure in a novel!"
"?" The team leader's expression instantly became interesting. After thinking for a moment, he immediately picked up the phone and dialed a number:
"Hey, Lao Liu, check the logistics team's orders from the past few days. Yes, check the sources for ingredients, drinks, and medicinal herbs. No, nothing went wrong. It's mainly to summarize the changes in various situations. Yes, okay, I'm waiting."
After making that call, the team leader still seemed uneasy and dialed another number.
"Hey, Old Wang, this is Lin Xinze. Our group's cultivation progress suddenly spiked today, and I'm worried something might go wrong. Okay, no problem, I'll keep a close eye on it. Uh? Pick another thirty people? Alright, I understand... I'll go hand out the volunteer forms right now..."
The description of "Hun Tian Yi Xing" in the original game is:
[Observing the stars above and discerning good and bad fortune below, this is a principle of directional change gleaned from the movement of the stars. The practitioner moves stealthily between light and darkness, as if entering a state of non-self and other, setting up situations according to circumstances, seemingly real yet illusory, coming and going without a trace, knowing ghosts and communicating with the divine.]
As for its effect in the game, in addition to the attribute bonuses that all normal martial arts techniques provide, its most distinctive feature is "locked distance," meaning that after a technique is used, enemies cannot actively move away from or approach the technique's caster.
In principle, this exercise consists of two parts:
First, this technique contains an "algorithm" that allows the user to predict the enemy's movement path through numerology and find the most suitable position to intercept them.
Secondly, this technique grants the user extremely strong displacement abilities, ensuring that after judging the opponent's movement intentions, the user can move one step ahead of the opponent.
Only by combining these two elements can the opponent be prevented from getting close or moving away.
The protagonist's skill in divination is mediocre, so the first part is his weakness. Moreover, because he cannot understand directions, he can only obtain a basic speed boost.
After understanding the correspondence between divination directions and reality, one can use the displacement ability in the second part. However, due to the weakness in the "algorithm," one can only use fixed patterns and cannot make adjustments according to local conditions.
It's like a skill that "dashes forward 1500 yards". A novice can only move 1500 yards, but an expert can use the game mechanics to move only 500 yards or change direction during the dash by using operations such as's' (cancel) and 'shift' (preset).