Chapter 75 Method

"Hey, hey... what's going on here..." Feng Bujue, having dealt with the giant monster, stood in mid-air and looked back at Ruoyu's side, "What's the point of that stance..." As he muttered, he activated his Data Observation vision, "Oh... she's temporarily cutting off external air supply with the first level of the *Mingyu Gong*... But that doesn't explain your current actions..."

The reason Feng Bujue was puzzled was that, according to the data, Ruoyu showed no sign of activating any skills at the moment. If she wasn't planning to use an active skill, why was she striking such a strange pose?

Bang, bang, bang—

At this moment, the muffled sound of water being struck grew closer, and the figure of "Papa" became clearly visible.

Not long ago, this monster had indeed been shattered by Brother Jue's Evil King's Flame Kill, Purgatory Scorcher... broken into many charred pieces of flesh. However, this level of damage was still not enough to kill it completely, because its swollen body was made up of many scattered pieces of flesh...

"Siyu! Be careful, the one on your side is smaller, but it's harder to deal with than mine." Feng Bujue took the pipe out of his mouth and called out loudly in mid-air, "Even if you chop it into pieces, it can regenerate!"

"Hmph..." Ruoyu looked as cold as ice, and snorted, "That's because... you're not chopping it the right way..."

As she spoke, she leaped from wall to wall, like a swift swallow returning, and quickly approached the monster.

The sword rose, *qi* surged, shadows flickered, and the attack ended.

Everything happened so quickly that the sound of the blade cutting through flesh became as light as the wind...

Before the monster could even launch an attack, Ruoyu had already unleashed more than a dozen sword strikes and flashed behind it.

"Holy crap..." Buu and Aub, who witnessed this scene, were dumbfounded. They uttered these four words in unison.

"That's at least an A-level Melee specialization skill..." Aub muttered.

"Yeah, dozens of sword strikes in less than two seconds... you can't do that with just physical skills..." Buu added.

"It wasn't dozens of sword strikes." Little Tan, who was washing his neck in the river, looked up and interjected, "It was probably between fourteen and seventeen strikes..."

This time, Buu and Aub turned their heads to look at Little Tan again.

"No way... Brother Little Tan, you could actually see that move clearly?" Buu exclaimed.

"I didn't see it clearly." Little Tan replied, "Precisely because I didn't see it clearly, I said it was between fourteen and seventeen... if I had seen it clearly, I could have given you the exact number."

"Hmm..." Aub stroked his chin and pondered, "The members of the Inferno Front are indeed unfathomable..."

As they spoke, "Papa's" pieces of flesh had fallen into the river. Soon, a pool of blood spread from the bottom of the water, emitting a foul stench.

"Chopping it like this is how you kill it." Ruoyu sheathed her sword, flipped back against the wall, and said to Feng Bujue.

As the saying goes, amateurs watch the show, experts watch the details.

At this moment, only Feng Bujue "saw clearly" every one of Ruoyu's movements, and only he knew that... what Ruoyu used was not an active skill, but a high-level combat method that combined passive skills and Soul Power.

First, she used a passive skill – Perception Preemption.

Today, Ruoyu's title was no longer Spirit Swordsman. After several changes, her title had become Thousand Evil Slayer (yes, she had already killed more than a thousand monsters). And Perception Preemption was the title ability attached to that title.

[Name: Perception Preemption]

[Special Ability Type: Passive]

[Effect: Senses the enemy's own energy, aura, and the flow of air around them, predicting the enemy's next move]

[Note: A realm that can only be comprehended by a peerless sword master who has experienced hundreds of battles.]

This skill... in simple terms, is a weakened version of Zero Time Difference Calculation. Of course, even a "weakened version" can provide advantages in combat... especially in close combat... that cannot be measured with data.

Secondly, Ruoyu's Soul Power, "Maximum Efficiency," had also been developed into an advanced usage – "Restricted Burst."

Since the full version of "Maximum Efficiency" required a lot of mental energy and was not suitable for prolonged use, Ruoyu had studied and improved it... After repeated thought and practice, she found a more efficient way to use it. This... was Restricted Burst.

Taking the previous series of attacks as an example, at the moment of launching the attack, Ruoyu did not enter the "Maximum Efficiency" state with her whole body, she only released the hand holding her sword. This way, she could unleash such a high-speed strike without consuming extra mental energy to enhance her entire body.

From this "advanced usage" alone, it could be seen that Ruoyu's combat talent was actually above Feng Bujue's. They had comprehended Soul Power almost on the same day, and whether before or after that, Feng Bujue's game time was significantly more than Ruoyu's. But now, Ruoyu was once again one step ahead, mastering new skills through cultivation...

"She's really amazing... so amazing that even someone like me feels a bit inferior..." Feng Bujue thought to himself as he watched Ruoyu's figure, "Using Perception Preemption to read the opponent's movements, then releasing her right arm to unleash an amazingly fast and precise series of attacks (Brother Jue was also seeing Restricted Burst for the first time, so he was puzzled by Ruoyu's stance earlier, but after seeing it, he immediately understood the principle of this technique)... these two skills alone are already at the level of a top master.

However, what's truly terrifying about her is not this skill, but something else..."

The "something else" that Feng Bujue was referring to was something that even Ruoyu herself was not aware of. That was – she possessed an ability similar to the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

This matter... goes back to that "Seven Unsolved Mysteries of the Campus" script.

When facing the final Boss "Huizi" in that script, Ruoyu completed the kill with a single move. And with her equipment, level, and basic physical skills at the time, that was almost impossible.

At the time, I explained – "This is an innate talent, just like those top masters in martial arts novels who can see through the other party's 'fatal flaw' at a glance, thereby winning with a single move."

That's right, this is Ruoyu's unique talent. As long as her mind is focused enough, she can see, in a very short moment... doodle-like crisscrossing lines and points forming lines on the enemy's body...

At first, Feng Bujue didn't notice this either, after all, even the person involved wasn't very clear about it. But as time went on, and as Ruoyu killed more and more enemies in front of him, Brother Jue gradually became aware of it...

Conversely... only someone like Feng Bujue, who possessed Zero Time Difference Calculation, Data Perspective, and an extremely meticulous mind... could deduce Ruoyu's ability from an observer's point of view.

Taking the monster from just now as an example, if that monster was a model made up of a pile of building blocks, Feng Bujue's attack... was to break up the model and turn it back into a pile of intact building blocks, so that the monster could "assemble" itself again; while Ruoyu's attack was to cut each building block into pieces, turning it into a pile of broken building blocks, and with this kind of chopping... it naturally couldn't rise again.

"Perception Preemption or the advanced use of Soul Power, when you get down to it... are all 'powers' that are used during actual 'action'. I have that kind of power too, all the top-tier players have it, only the specific form varies from person to person." Looking at Ruoyu returning from the wall, Feng Bujue thought to himself, "But the ability to directly perceive 'death' belongs to another realm entirely..."

"Guild Leader, can we continue on our way?" Little Ling's words pulled Brother Jue back to his senses.

"Ah... right." Feng Bujue responded, landed from the high place, and stood on the water again, "Okay... I'll continue pulling the four of you. Little Tan, put on a respirator and follow us along the wall." With that, he put away his slingshot and re-lit his pipe.

In the same second, Zhuan Jiezun's voice entered Brother Jue's mind: "You're not far from the end of this area, hurry up and leave, or its 'mother' is coming."