18: Chapter 18 Introduction to Top-Tier Swordsmanship (Part 2)

When the light slanted into the corner of his eye, Li Wen finally stopped his mechanical repetition.

He wiped the sweat mixed with dust from his face and looked at the school dismissal time displayed on the virtual clock on the wall.

He had spent an entire afternoon, like Yu Gong moving mountains, managing to conquer more than half of those dozen barriers.

Through this almost clumsy point-by-point Breakthrough, the remaining obstacles were reduced to only the most challenging few Moves —

The most difficult being the Sixtieth Move, "Shadow," the Sixty-First Move, "Startled Swan," the Sixty-Second Move, "Thousand Illusions," the Sixty-Third Move, "Brilliant Sun," and the final Move, which served as the ultimate explosive peak of the entire Blade Technique — the Sixty-Fourth Move, "Piercing Sun."

Li Wen took out a towel from his backpack and forcefully wiped the sticky sweat from his body. Fatigue surged like a tide, and his limbs felt heavy.

But he didn't hesitate. He walked straight to the control panel in the corner of the training room, skillfully entered the command, and set a thirty-minute countdown alarm.

Time, time for the final sprint!

Taking a deep breath, Li Wen turned around and steadily gripped the quick blade on the ground again. The icy touch transmitted to his palm once more.

"Activate — [Absolute Focus]!"

The thought was like a launch button; the skill activated instantly!

Buzz —!

An invisible force instantly washed over his mind, dispelling all fatigue, all distracting thoughts, and all perceptions unrelated to the blade!

His slightly weary eyes, in that instant, became like polished obsidian—deep, cold, and shining with an inhuman, pure brilliance.

In his world, only the quick blade in his hand remained. His fatigued body seemed to have been forcibly injected with a potent stimulant; every cell became incredibly active.

His high-speed operating brain, like an overloaded quantum computer, frantically extracted, combined, deduced, and optimized the details of the Blade Technique Moves that had stumped him for so long.

Subtle deviations that were hard to notice during normal training—was the muscle force angle off by 0.1 degrees? Was the timing of the wrist flip too fast by 0.02 seconds? Was there a tiny lag in the coordination between ankle exertion and center of gravity shift?

These minor errors, usually ignored, were infinitely magnified and dissected as if by unraveling silk under the enhancement of Lv3 [Absolute Focus].

Data streams surged in his mind, and simulated trajectories were rapidly constructed.

He moved!

Li Wen's standing figure seemed to be pulled by an invisible string. Without any warning, he instantly blurred.

Whoosh —

Almost instantaneously! Like teleportation!

One second he was in place; the next second, he had appeared in the corner of the opposite wall of the training room, so fast that even the dust in the air couldn't react.

Even stranger was —

"Clang!" A light but absolutely clear sound of the blade returning to its sheath arrived late.

The quick blade in his hand had actually completed the entire action of drawing, slashing, and sheathing at a moment unknown to anyone.

The Sixtieth Move — Shadow!

The essence of this Move was ultimate "speed" and "deception."

So fast that the enemy has no time to react, unable even to judge whether you have already drawn your blade to attack.

So fast that the moment your figure Moves, the icy blade edge might have already sliced across your throat! This was the Move in the Rainbow Light Saber Technique that pushed "deceptive speed" to its absolute limit.

This Move, mastered!

The moment Li Wen's body instinctively and perfectly reproduced the deduction results from the [Absolute Focus] state and successfully executed "Shadow."

The passive skill [One Proof, Eternal Proof] within his body flared up like a divine pattern branded deep within his Soul.

All the "feeling of success" and "body data" regarding how this Move gathered power, how it erupted, and how it coordinated body and mind to perfect the action were instantly and clearly branded into his nerve memory and muscle instinct.

This experience was henceforth completely transformed into a part of his innate instinct, never to be forgotten or degraded.

"Swish ~"

The thought flashed in a mere fraction of a moment. Li Wen, with his highly concentrated spirit, did not pause at all. He immediately used the [Absolute Focus] state to begin assaulting the Sixty-First Move, "Startled Swan."

This time, reality showed him what a true gap meant. The Sixty-First Move could not be completed in one go like "Shadow."

There were still deviations in the subtle connection points between the force application rhythm and the movement transition.

However, the Li Wen of this moment had no Concept of failure.

The brain under Absolute Focus had no emotions, only cold, efficient correction instructions.

Failed once?

"Deduction: Wrist force angle fine-tune +3 degrees, right foot stomp force increase by 5%... Try again!"

Failed twice?

"Deduction: Core area rotation advances by 0.05 seconds, blade horizontal trajectory arc optimized by 0.8%... Restart!"

Three times, four times, five times...

Time quietly slipped away with the ticking of the clock's hands. As the piercing alarm began its final ten-plus minutes of countdown —

"Done!" An indescribable sense of exhilaration flowed through his entire body. The brand of [One Proof, Eternal Proof] clearly fell once more.

The Sixty-First Move, "Startled Swan," was introduced!

Repeat! Correct! Attack again!

Like a precise machine that knew no fatigue and possessed no emotion.

When the countdown reached the last five minutes, the dazzling blade light of the Sixty-Third Move, "Brilliant Sun," accompanied Li Wen's high-speed rotating figure and layers of blade shadows, tearing through the air of the training room for the first time in a true sense.

Last two minutes.

Li Wen's body trembled slightly due to the high-intensity operation, and his spirit was approaching a certain critical point, but the light of Absolute Focus in his eyes had not diminished in the slightest.

Only the final Move remained — that peerlessly powerful final strike that pierced through everything with ultimate speed and force, rumored to be capable of eclipsing the Great Sun.

The Sixty-Fourth Move — Piercing Sun!

He poured all his remaining strength, will, and all the spirit and power maximized by Lv3 [Absolute Focus] into this one strike.

"Hngh —!" A suppressed low roar burst from his throat.

His entire person transformed into a resolute streak of light. The quick blade in his hand seemed to drag along immense power, yet it moved so fast it tore the boundaries of vision, stabbing straight ahead.

"Buzz — KRAAANG!!!!"

A blade cry containing a mixed resonance of power and speed, far exceeding anything before, suddenly rang through the entire, excellently soundproofed training room, like the roar of a Dragon or the howl of a Tiger.

The blade light was no longer just a cold glint, but momentarily like an erupting miniature sun, filling the entire field of vision! Countless bright, snowy blade-light afterimages interlaced and flashed, as if about to slice space into fragments.

The Sixty-Fourth Move — Piercing Sun! Successfully executed!

The appearance of this Move also signaled that the Top-tier Blade Technique, theRainbow Light Saber Technique, under Li Wen's hands, was officially declared —

Introduced!

Buzz!

The moment "Piercing Sun" was successfully executed, a profound and mysterious realization, like an electric current, coursed through every single cell of Li Wen's body.

The basic framework of all sixty-four Moves of the entire Rainbow Light Saber Technique, the core method of force application, and the essential meaning of coordinating movement techniques with blade strikes suddenly became clear.

They were no longer isolated Moves but an organic whole that could be strung together.

The nascent form of the unique Concept belonging to a Top-tier technique was clearly outlined in Li Wen's Sea of Consciousness for the first time.