"After succeeding yesterday, I wanted to replicate or even surpass that performance today. So, when planting the Gravity Seeds, I deliberately expanded the range and increased the density, hoping to make the interference effect stronger."
"But that caused the control precision for each seed to drop. And because I was trying to cover a wider area, my focus on the core zone was divided. As a result, my reaction was a split second too slow when the Illusion cut in."
A flash of admiration appeared in Wu Dingbo’s eyes. "Not bad, realizing the problem so quickly."
"My mentality," Xu Wuyi summarized. "I wanted to win, and I wanted to win quickly. That just made my execution sloppy."
Qiao Tongyu smiled. "So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Let it settle." Xu Wuyi stood up. Though his face was still a little pale, his eyes had regained their clarity.
"No more training today. I need time to digest what I’ve learned these past two days and readjust my approach to constructing the Gravity Swamp."
Wu Dingbo nodded. "A wise choice. In a Martial Artist’s cultivation, sometimes taking one step back allows you to take three steps forward."
...
For the next two days, Xu Wuyi didn’t go back to the basement.
He stayed in the small courtyard arranged by Linjiang Martial Arts University, preparing lessons and organizing his teaching plans during the day. At night, he would sit in quiet meditation, reviewing his battles against the Illusion.
Chen Mo came over on the afternoon of the second day, bringing news from Red River and some daily necessities.
"Martial Artist Xu, I heard you’re cooperating with the military on some special training recently?" Chen Mo asked while putting the things away.
"Something like that," Xu Wuyi said without elaborating. "A combat program. It’s quite difficult."
Chen Mo didn’t press for details.
"Oh, right, the feedback from Linjiang Martial Arts University has been excellent," Chen Mo changed the subject. "Teacher Li from the academic affairs office told me your class has become the most popular elective on campus. A lot of students from other departments are trying everything they can to sit in."
"Mm," Xu Wuyi nodded, not surprised.
"Also, Miss Qiao came looking for me yesterday. She asked when you’d be free. She wants to treat you to a meal."
Xu Wuyi thought for a moment. "Tell her after this phase of my special training is over. It’ll probably be a few more days."
"Okay, I’ll let her know."
After Chen Mo left, the small courtyard fell silent again.
Xu Wuyi walked over to a stone bench in the courtyard, sat down, and closed his eyes.
In his sea of consciousness, the great, dark-gold marsh breathed slowly.
He began to reconstruct the model for his Gravity Swamp.
He was no longer aiming for a wide range and high density. Instead, he returned to the core problem: how to use limited gravitational changes to create the most effective interference.
’The Illusion’s movement involves the use of space. Its trajectory is erratic and difficult to predict,’ Xu Wuyi deduced internally. ’But what if I don’t try to predict its "point" of attack, but instead predict its "plane" of attack?’
He recalled a detail from yesterday’s battle.
When the Illusion entered a dense gravity zone, although it could adjust quickly, for an extremely brief moment during that adjustment, its Body Technique would "switch modes," shifting from Space Folding to conventional movement.
That instant of switching was the flaw.
’So I don’t need to cover every possible path. I just need to set up gravity traps on the few "planes" it’s most likely to cut in from.’
’Once it enters and triggers a trap, forcing it to switch movement modes, I can seize that moment to counterattack.’
His line of thought gradually became clear.
Xu Wuyi began to adjust how he circulated the Power of his Heart Image.
The breathing rhythm of the dark-gold marsh changed. Its originally even and steady undulations became focused, pulsating waves.
Each pulse corresponded to "charging up" a gravity trap.
The placement of the traps was also no longer a uniform net. Instead, they were selectively concentrated in several key areas:
The core defensive circle three meters in front of him, the angles on his left and right most vulnerable to a pincer attack, and several key nodes along his rear retreat path.
Each trap was no longer a single gravitational change, but a combination of three to five Gravity Seeds with different directions and intensities, forming a three-dimensional interference field.
With this change, his control precision increased dramatically, and the drain on his Heart and Spirit was reduced.
Over two days, Xu Wuyi practiced this new method of constructing his Gravity Swamp over a thousand times, until the trigger timing and combinatorial changes of every trap were ingrained in his mind.
On the morning of the third day, he arrived at the Qiao Family’s residence once more.
In the basement, in front of the Virtual Cabin.
Wu Dingbo and Qiao Tongyu were both there.
"Are you ready?" Wu Dingbo asked.
"Yes," Xu Wuyi nodded.
"Any new ideas today?" Qiao Tongyu asked with a smile.
"Back to basics," Xu Wuyi said. "Using the simplest traps to seize the most critical moments."
He lay down in the Virtual Cabin.
The pure white space unfolded.
The Illusion coalesced.
Xu Wuyi didn’t move immediately. He first spent three seconds quickly setting up six gravity traps: two in front, one on each side, and two behind him.
Each trap only covered a range of three to five meters, but the combination of gravitational changes within them was far more complex.
After doing this, he stood firm, spear in hand.
The Illusion moved.
It was the same terrifying speed.
Xu Wuyi held his breath, Concentrating his Spirit, and tracked the Illusion’s trajectory through the sensory network of his traps.
’Here it comes.’
The Illusion chose to cut in from the left, which was one of Xu Wuyi’s preset trap zones.
The figure entered the trap’s range.
The trap triggered.
Gravity increased by 10%, direction skewed by 8 degrees, and a frequency interference was superimposed.
The Illusion’s figure faltered.
’Now!’
Xu Wuyi moved.
He didn’t use a complex Spear Technique, just the simplest direct Spear Thrust.
A dark-gold light flowed along the spear’s tip. Its weight changed twice during the thrust: light—then heavy.
Light to accelerate, heavy to impact with force.
The Illusion raised its sword horizontally to block.
CLANG!
The spear and sword collided.
The Illusion slid back a step.
Xu Wuyi didn’t pursue. Instead, he quickly adjusted his position while simultaneously activating the two traps behind him as a defensive barrier.
The Illusion stabilized itself, a flicker of fluctuation in its eyes.
It raised its sword again.
This time, the azure light on the sword was even more solid than before.
Xu Wuyi could feel the surrounding air begin to "solidify." It was the precursor to a lockdown by Sword Intention.
But he didn’t panic.
With a single thought, the two traps in front of him "charged up" simultaneously, raising the intensity of the gravitational change to its limit.
The Illusion struck with its sword.
The azure sword light sliced through space, aimed straight for the spot between Xu Wuyi’s eyes.
Xu Wuyi didn’t dodge or evade. He thrust his spear forward.
The instant the spear tip and sword’s edge were about to collide, the trap in front of him triggered.
The direction of gravity instantly flipped 180 degrees.
An extremely subtle deviation appeared in the Illusion’s Sword Momentum.
It was this deviation that allowed Xu Wuyi’s spear tip to precisely strike the weak point on the side of the sword’s blade.
CLANG!
The Illusion’s sword was knocked aside.
Xu Wuyi’s spear continued its forward thrust, aiming straight for the Illusion’s right chest.
The Illusion twisted its body to the absolute limit. Its sword’s edge swung back around, slashing toward Xu Wuyi’s neck.
But Xu Wuyi’s rear-left trap had already triggered. A 15% increase in gravity caused his body to naturally sink by a fraction.
The blade’s edge grazed past his scalp.
And Xu Wuyi’s spear had already pierced the Illusion’s right shoulder.
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