Top-Tier Blade Arts Introduction (Part 2)

When light slanted sharply into the corner of his eye, Li Wen finally stopped his mechanical repetition.

He wiped the dust-mixed sweat from his face and looked at the virtual clock on the wall showing the school dismissal time.

He had spent an entire afternoon, like the Foolish Old Man moving mountains, stubbornly breaking through more than half of those dozen or so barriers one by one.

Through this almost clumsy point-by-point breakthrough, the remaining roadblocks had been reduced to only the most challenging few stances—

The notoriously difficult Sixtieth Stance "Shadow," the Sixty-First Stance "Startled Swan," the Sixty-Second Stance "Thousand Illusions," the Sixty-Third Stance "Blazing Sun," and the ultimate burst point of the entire blade art—the Sixty-Fourth Stance "Piercing Sun."

Li Wen took a towel from his backpack and vigorously wiped away the sticky sweat from his body. Fatigue surged like a tide, his limbs growing heavy.

But he didn't hesitate. He walked straight to the control panel in the corner of the training room, skillfully input commands, and set a thirty-minute countdown alarm.

Time—the final sprint!

Taking a deep breath, Li Wen turned and steadily gripped the fast blade on the floor again. The cold touch once more transmitted to his palm.

"Activate—[Absolute Focus]!"

The thought was like a start button, and the skill activated instantly!

Whoosh—!

An invisible force swept through his mind in an instant, dispelling all fatigue, all distractions, all perceptions unrelated to the blade!

His slightly tired eyes, in that split second, became like polished obsidian—deep, cold, shining with an inhuman, pure gleam.

In his world, only the blade in his hand remained. His exhausted body seemed forcibly injected with a potent dose of clarity, every cell becoming intensely active.

His high-speed brain, like an overloaded quantum computer, frantically extracted, combined, deduced, and optimized the details of those few stances that had stumped him for so long.

Subtle deviations imperceptible under normal training conditions—was the muscle activation angle off by 0.1 degrees? Was the wrist rotation timing 0.02 seconds too fast? Was there a micro-delay in the coordination of ankle power and center-of-mass movement?

These tiny errors, usually overlooked, were magnified infinitely under the blessing of lv3 [Absolute Focus], dissected thread by thread.

Data streams surged through his mind; simulated trajectories were constructed at high speed.

He moved!

Li Wen's standing figure seemed pulled by invisible threads. Without any warning, it blurred instantly.

Swish—

Almost instantaneously! Like teleportation!

A moment ago, he was still in place; the next second, he had already appeared at the opposite corner of the training room, so fast that even the dust in the air couldn't react.

Even stranger—

"Clang!" A faint but absolutely clear sound of the blade returning to its sheath arrived belatedly.

The fast blade in his hand had, in an unknown moment, completed the full sequence of drawing, slashing, and sheathing.

Sixtieth Stance—Shadow!

The essence of this stance was the ultimate "speed" and "deception."

Fast enough that the enemy had no time to react, unable even to judge whether you had already drawn and attacked.

Fast enough that in the instant your figure moved, the icy blade might have already crossed their throat! This was the stance that pushed "deceptive speed" to its extreme within the Rainbow Light Blade Art.

This stance—mastered!

The moment Li Wen's body instinctively and perfectly reproduced the deductions under [Absolute Focus], successfully executing "Shadow,"

The passive skill [Once Proven, Forever Proven] inside him blazed to life like a divine rune branded into the depths of his soul.

All the "feeling of success" and "body data" regarding how to gather power, how to burst, and how to coordinate body and mind to perfect the movement were instantly and clearly imprinted into his neural memory and muscle instinct.

From then on, this experience was completely transformed into a part of his innate talent, never to be forgotten or degraded.

"Shua~"

Thoughts flickered in a hair's breadth. With his spirit highly concentrated, Li Wen paused not at all and immediately used the [Absolute Focus] state to begin assaulting the Sixty-First Stance "Startled Swan."

This time, reality showed him what true disparity meant. The Sixty-First Stance could not be completed in one go like "Shadow."

There were still subtle deviations in the rhythm of power application and the connection points of body movement transitions.

However, Li Wen at this moment had no concept of failure.

An absolutely focused mind had no emotions—only cold, efficient correction commands.

Failed once?

[Deduction: Wrist activation angle fine-tuned +3 degrees, right foot stomping force increased by 5%... Try again!]

Failed twice?

[Deduction: Core rotation advanced by 0.05 seconds, blade horizontal pull trajectory arc optimized by 0.8%... Start over!]

Three times, four times, five times...

Time slipped away silently with the ticking of the clock. When the piercing alarm entered its final ten-plus minutes of countdown—

"Got it!" An indescribable sense of exhilaration flowed through his body, and the imprint of [Once Proven, Forever Proven] fell clearly once more.

Sixth-first form, "Startled Swan" — mastered!

Repeat! Correct! Charge again!

Like a precision machine, tireless and devoid of emotion.

When the countdown reached the final five minutes, the blinding blade light of the sixty-third form, "Blazing Sun," accompanied by Li Wen's high-speed spinning figure and overlapping layers of saber shadows, truly tore through the air of the training room for the first time.

Last two minutes.

Li Wen's body trembled slightly from the intense exertion, and his mind approached some kind of critical threshold, yet the light of absolute focus in his eyes did not diminish in the slightest.

Only the final form remained — that ultimate strike of peerless power, piercing everything with extreme speed and force, said to dim the very sun itself.

The sixty-fourth form — Piercing Sun!

He poured every last shred of remaining strength, will, and all the mental power driven to its limit by lv3 [Absolute Focus] into this single blow.

"Haah—!" A suppressed, guttural roar burst from his throat.

His entire being transformed into a resolute streak of light, the swift blade in his hand seeming to drag the weight of a thousand jun, yet moving so fast it tore past the limits of sight, thrusting straight ahead.

"Hummm—clang!!!!"

A blade hum far surpassing the previous ones, a mixed resonance of force and speed, like the roar of a dragon or the cry of a tiger, suddenly rang through the excellently soundproofed training room.

The blade light was no longer a simple cold gleam; in an instant, it erupted like a miniature sun, filling the field of vision! Countless dazzling, snow-white afterimages of the blade interwove and flickered, as if about to slice space itself into fragments.

The sixty-fourth form — Piercing Sun! Successfully executed!

With this form unleashed, it also marked that the top-tier blade art, Rainbow Light Blade Art, was now officially declared in Li Wen's hands —

Mastered!

Hum!

In the instant that "Piercing Sun" was successfully executed, a profound and mysterious insight, like an electric current, coursed through every cell of Li Wen's body.

The basic framework of the entire sixty-four forms of the Rainbow Light Blade Art, the core methods of power release, and the essential essence of coordinating body movement with blade techniques — all of it suddenly and thoroughly connected at this moment.

They were no longer isolated moves, but an organic, interlinkable whole.

The embryonic form of the unique artistic conception belonging to a top-tier technique was clearly outlined in Li Wen's sea of consciousness for the first time.