The intersection of the formation's patterns was moving.
Like a node constantly jumping along a closed orbit, it appeared in a different position with every flicker. The phase differences between the four patterns of Taotie, Qiongqi, Hundun, and Taowu were stretched into a randomly interwoven structure.
Qi Wu stood where he was, not attacking immediately.
His Six Eyes kept tracking the pulsing intersection, searching for a pattern in its movements.
He observed that although its movements seemed random, they were not entirely without a trajectory.
After every jump, it lingered briefly in one position before jumping to the next.
Its pauses grew shorter and shorter, its jumps more and more frequent.
Di Tian was accelerating it.
He was compressing the Four Fiends Formation's cycle, making the intersection move faster and faster-too fast for Qi Wu's Cursed Technique to hit it in time.
"You're compressing the phase differences," Qi Wu said.
Di Tian's projection shifted slightly. "You're right. Reaching a node and destroying it are two different things.
"But to destroy a node, it first has to remain stable.
"When the node itself keeps moving, you have to recalibrate every time you attack."
He paused. "And recalibration takes time. Time is my advantage."
The formation's patterns accelerated again. The intersection was now jumping dozens of times per second, almost too fast for the naked eye to follow.
Qi Wu's Six Eyes could still track its trajectory, but every time he locked onto it, the node jumped away before he could attack.
Di Tian watched Qi Wu. "How much longer can you maintain that speed of analysis?"
Qi Wu did not answer.
He simply kept trying, tracking it and adjusting the angle and timing of his attacks.
He launched several attacks in succession. The first few missed, the intersection jumping away an