Chapter 67 What Is She Doing

"Hey, hey... what's going on..." Feng Bujue, having dealt with the giant monster, stood in mid-air and turned to observe Ruoyu's side. "What's the meaning of that stance..." He muttered, already activating his Data Observation vision. "Oh... she can temporarily stop breathing outside air, relying on the first level of [Mingyu Gong (Bright Jade Skill)]... but that doesn't explain your current actions..."

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

Thump thump thump—

At this moment, the dull sound of water being struck grew closer, and the figure of "Daddy" was clearly visible.

Not long ago, this monster was indeed shattered by Brother Jue's [Xie Wang Yan Sha Lian Yu Jiao (Evil King's Flame Killing Purgatory Scorch)]... broken into many charred pieces of flesh. However, this level of damage was still not enough to kill it completely, because its bloated body was pieced together from many scattered pieces of flesh...

"Siyu! Be careful, that one on your side may be smaller, but it's even more troublesome than the one on my side." Feng Bujue took the pipe out of his mouth and shouted in mid-air, "It can regenerate even if you chop it into pieces!"

"Hmph..." Ruoyu's expression was icy, and she snorted coldly, "That's because... you're not chopping it the right way..."

As she spoke, she bounced off the wall in a series of jumps, as agile as a swallow, and swiftly arrived in front of the monster.

Sword up, air rippling, shadows flashing, breath ending.

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

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

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

"That's at least an A-level Fighting Specialization skill..." Oubu muttered.

"Yeah, dozens of sword strikes in less than two seconds... it's impossible with just physical skills..." Buu replied.

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

This time, Buu and Oubu turned their heads to look at Xiao Tan again.

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

"I didn't see it clearly." Xiao Tan replied, "Precisely because I didn't see it clearly, I said between fourteen and seventeen... if I had seen it clearly, I would be able to give the exact number."

"Hmm..." Oubu stroked his chin and pondered, "The members of Hellscream Frontline are indeed unfathomable..."

Just as they were talking, "Daddy's" pieces of flesh fell into the river one after another. Soon, a pool of blood spread from the bottom of the water, emitting a foul stench.

"This is how you chop it to kill it." Ruoyu sheathed her sword, flipped back to the wall, and said to Feng Bujue.

As the saying goes, the layman watches the excitement, while the expert watches the details.

At this moment, only Feng Bujue "saw clearly" every action of Ruoyu, and only he knew... 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—[Perceptive Initiative].

Today, Ruoyu's title is no longer [Swordswoman], after several changes, her title has become [Thousand Evil Slayer] (yes, she has slain more than a thousand monsters). And [Perceptive Initiative] is the title ability attached to this title.

[Name: Perceptive Initiative]

[Special Ability Type: Passive]

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

[Remarks: A realm that can only be comprehended by peerless swordsmen who have experienced hundreds of battles.]

This skill... simply put, is a weakened version of Zero Time Difference Calculation. Of course, even as a "weakened version," the advantage it provides in combat... especially in close combat... cannot be measured with data.

Secondly, Ruoyu's Soul Power, "Extreme Efficiency," has also been developed into an advanced usage—"Restricted Burst."

Because the complete version of "Extreme Efficiency" requires a high level of mental power and is not suitable for long-term use, Ruoyu has researched and improved it... After repeated thinking and practice, she found a more efficient way to use it. This... is Restricted Burst.

Taking the previous continuous slashes as an example, at the moment of launching the attack, Ruoyu did not put her whole body into the "Extreme Efficiency" state, she only released her sword-wielding right hand. In this way, she could unleash that ultra-fast slash without consuming extra mental power to enhance the state of her whole body.

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

"She's really amazing... so amazing that someone like me feels a little inferior..." Feng Bujue watched Ruoyu's figure and thought, "Using [Perceptive Initiative] to read the opponent's movements, and then releasing her right arm to unleash a series of incredibly fast and precise slashes (Brother Jue is also seeing Restricted Burst for the first time, so he was confused by Ruoyu's stance earlier, but after seeing it, he immediately understood the principle of this technique)... these two things alone are the work of a top-level expert.

However, the truly terrifying thing 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 is—she possesses an ability similar to the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception."

This matter... dates back to the "Seven Mysteries of the Campus" script.

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

At the time, I explained—"This is an innate talent, just like the top experts in martial arts novels can see through the opponent's 'fatal point' at a glance, thus winning with one 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... graffiti-like crisscrossing lines and points forming lines on the enemy's body...

At first, Feng Bujue did not notice this either, after all, even the person involved was not very clear about it. But as time passed, as Ruoyu killed more and more enemies in front of him, Brother Jue gradually noticed...

Conversely... only someone like Feng Bujue, who possesses "Zero Time Difference Calculation," "Data Vision," and extremely meticulous thinking... could deduce Ruoyu's ability from an observer's perspective.

Taking the previous monster as an example, if that monster was a model made up of a pile of building blocks, Feng Bujue's attack... would be to scatter the model and turn it back into a pile of intact building blocks, so that monster could re-"assemble" itself; while Ruoyu's attack would be to cut each building block open, turning it into a pile of broken building blocks, this way of chopping... it would naturally be unable to rise again.

"Whether it's Perceptive Initiative or the advanced application of Soul Power, to put it bluntly... they are all 'powers' that are only used when actually 'acting.' I also have that kind of power, all top-notch players have it, but the specific form varies from person to person." Looking at Ruoyu returning from the wall, Feng Bujue thought, "But the ability to directly see 'death' is something that belongs to another realm..."

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

"Ah... right." Feng Bujue responded, falling from the high place and standing on the water again, "Okay... I'll continue to drag the four of you along. Xiao Tan, you put on a respirator and follow us along the wall." With that, he put away his slingshot and relit his pipe.

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