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Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Li Si swung the two laser swords in a flurry of light and shadow. Perhaps they lacked the immersive "bzzzz" of the genuine article, but the sharp whistles as they sliced through the air still carried a rhythmic cadence.
Although he had never deliberately studied swordsmanship, the saying that mastery of one art led to mastery of all was not entirely baseless.
In the early stages of normal mode, melee specialization was merely something akin to an instinct for mixed martial arts. Once full-dive virtual mode became available, however, it would become a talent for learning melee combat. Thus, most combat techniques in the later stages had to be learned independently.
He had studied a wide range of fighting styles, though his main foundations were the built-in mixed martial arts techniques and Chinese martial arts.
Chinese martial arts, born from China's thousands of years of cold-weapon warfare, were nowhere near as inadequate as they appeared in modern competitive arenas. The reason they had gradually become infamous and even been reduced to "dance arts" could only be credited to the restrictions of competition rules and the surviving "masters" shaped by the tides of the times.
There was no need to say much more about the latter. Take competitive rules, for instance. Martial arts had been created to kill enemies; the very purpose of techniques was to allow the weak to overcome the strong. In a fighting ring, the areas forbidden from being attacked were usually precisely the areas martial arts needed to target. Once one stepped into a ring where "competition came second," half one's effectiveness was already gone.
Furthermore, anyone who took the time to simulate Chinese martial arts would discover something quite interesting.
Looking across Chinese fist and palm techniques, most such forms