"Zhang Hu actually escaped?" Huang Xiao had never expected the movement skill Zhang Hu used at the end to be so uncanny that even Jiang Ying and Yan Zhong together failed to stop him. It was truly hard to fathom. It was only natural that the dozens of illusory figures that suddenly appeared had fooled him, but for even Peak Realm experts to be unable to distinguish them was extraordinarily rare.
"That's quite normal. After all, Zhang Hu possesses a cultivation method from the Heavenly Demon Canon. Even if he hasn't mastered it, learning just the barest fundamentals would give him power beyond our imagination," Zhao Yunhui said. "In my opinion, Zhang Hu must have learned one of its footwork techniques. Whether he has mastered it, however, is impossible to say."
"Footwork? At the end, he seemed to take one step but actually advanced three. He looked slow but was actually extremely fast. Those illusory figures we saw must have appeared because his speed reached a certain level, right?" Huang Xiao asked.
"Whether footwork or a movement skill is formidable doesn't necessarily depend on speed!" Zhao Yunhui could not help smiling at his words.
Seeing his puzzled expression, she continued, "Truly astonishing footwork is invariably combined with formations. Only with a distinctive understanding of formations can you combine the two, making substance and illusion shift and truth and falsehood indistinguishable. A formation might not let you escape a thousand miles in a flash, but covering several or even dozens of zhang in a single step is possible."
"Yes, formations!" Huang Xiao answered with deep understanding. Because of the Eight Trigrams Step, he had once spent some time studying formations, though he had made little progress. Now, after Zhao Yunhui's explanation and recalling Zhang Hu's final footwork, he understood. It was