If Xu Zhi had to describe what it felt like to stop bullets in midair, she would probably say—
Effortless!
This was even easier than she had imagined.
There was a hint of novelty in the girl's eyes, as though this were also her first time witnessing such a supernatural ability.
She looked at the three bullets. Though the bullets themselves had stopped moving, the flames burning around them still flickered.
This meant that what she had paused for now was only the bullets themselves. The supernatural ability attached to them had not been "frozen."
After thinking it over, Xu Zhi understood a little.
When she said "Stop," what she had pictured in her mind were indeed the three bullets flying toward her, not Chun Ming's active supernatural ability.
"So that's how it works?"
Chun Ming's eyes also revealed surprise at the sight, but his experience from many battles told him that freezing up from shock in a fight was never a good choice. He immediately pulled the trigger to follow up, only to discover—
It was useless!
For some reason, his bullets could not leave the chamber!
Xu Zhi saw Chun Ming's movement as well and understood again. It was not just the three bullets before her—even the bullets in Chun Ming's magazine had been "stopped," so naturally they could no longer be fired.
Cursed Speech was quite interesting.
Because [Cursed Speech] was not directly bound to Xu Zhi like [Eye of Secrets] was, but linked through a Familiar, Xu Zhi could not fully understand every method of using it directly in her mind the way she could with Eye of Secrets. She only knew the general idea, while some details still required her own exploration.
After all, Cursed Speech could be considered her mouthpiece in a sense, but