"So-called moves are nothing more than accumulated experience."
"You can think of a move as a technique that lets you inflict greater damage."
"Moves and cultivation methods are all forms of experience and technique."
"If the weak wish to grow stronger quickly, they must draw on techniques left by their predecessors, or distill their own experience into moves."
"But once the weak become strong, those moves and routines become shackles that bind them."
"Because their patterns are fixed, an opponent can read them. When two equally matched fighters clash, victory sometimes comes down to who figures out the other's patterns first. The first to be read loses."
"So once the weak become strong, if they wish to grow stronger still, they must forget their moves and fight on instinct. That is the pursuit of what is called [Return to Simplicity]."
Xiao looked coldly at Ellin.
"To be honest, I find you irritating, loud, and obnoxious."
"I have no desire to teach you. I only want to be rid of you as soon as possible."
"But I am also being entirely serious. You have no need to learn spear techniques."
"I do not know how you manage it, but your free-form fighting style, unbound by established patterns, is genuinely useful."
"With no patterns, there is nothing for an opponent to read."
"In a sense, the state you have achieved is a realm countless martial artists dream of reaching."
"Your greatest advantage is the array of strange attacks you produce by combining your varied fighting methods with your multiple kinds of Elemental Energy."
"So there is no need for you to learn spear techniques, or even any moves at all. Doing so would only constrain your fighting style and erase your greatest advantage."
"I see! As expected of the valiant Conqueror of