Profound Escape Arts

However, once it came to fighting others or needing to flee for one's life, the speed of one's escape would determine life and death.

When cultivators fought others with magic.

Escape speed was actually extremely important.

Even if one's cultivation was merely at the Qi Refining stage, the advantage of movement speed could display immense power in a cultivator's battles.

After all, Qi Refining cultivators had yet to condense divine sense and lacked the ability to lock onto an opponent with divine sense before launching attacks.

Most Qi Refining cultivators relied on their own eyesight and judgment when fighting others.

Under such circumstances, if one side's movement speed vastly surpassed the other's.

Then the cultivator with greater movement speed would hold an enormous advantage.

Greater movement speed meant it was harder for one to be struck by spells.

Battles between Qi Refining cultivators mostly involved predicting the other party's movements, then controlling spells to bombard them from every conceivable angle.

Yet predicting an opponent's movements and controlling spells to turn and strike them.

Required sufficiently strong judgment, as well as familiarity with one's spells.

After all, maintaining a spell's operation while controlling it to pursue an opponent.

Could not be done without some judgment and familiarity with spells.

Otherwise, let alone killing someone with a spell, one would probably struggle to kill even a chicken.

And under such circumstances.

The cultivator with greater movement speed could naturally make use of that advantage, relying on faster movement to evade others' attacks.

And while dodging those attacks, circle around to the opponent's flank, or even behind them, before launching an attack.

Because of the limitations of a human cultivator's field of vision.

So long as someone circled around to the opponent's side, or even behind them.

The opponent would certainly need to