Every slash, every finger, and the law-imbued essence contained in each of the opponent's attacks were repeatedly savored, dismantled, and comprehended under the enhancement of Absolute Focus and hundredfold time.
Those flashes of insight that had vanished in an instant during battle now became incomparably clear.
"A knife was not merely an instrument of slaughter, but also an extension of will, power, and law—" Li Wen murmured to himself, his wrist trembling slightly.
Buzz!
A blade light condensed to the utmost quietly slashed out.
There was no earth-shaking momentum, yet it carried a strange sense of "stagnation," as though the flow of time along the blade light's path had paused ever so slightly.
This was a new insight he had gained into "stillness" and "flow," combining the Annihilation Artistic Conception of the Myriad Phenomena Return-to-Void Finger with his hundredfold time perception.
He began moving atop the flowing Time River.
His figure was like smoke and illusion. His footwork seemed slow, yet within an extremely small area, it left behind layers upon layers of afterimages, as though he existed simultaneously in several fragments of time.
This was the embodiment of him combining his own movement technique with his evasion of the Heaven-Piercing Tower's attacks, seeking the utmost efficiency within the gaps in time.
The blade light grew brighter and more ethereal.
At times, it was like a galaxy pouring down, carrying an inexorable resolve; at times, it was as weighty as a mountain, containing the tenacity of protection;
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At other times, it became incredibly slow, the trajectory of the blade clearly visible, as though it were advancing with difficulty through viscous time.
Yet at some critical point, it suddenly accelerated, erupting with an edge that could rend everything apart.
This was the initial application of the differences in the flow