Chapter 43 Teaching

Gu Fei didn't rush to start, but asked Jian Gui, "You've watched me fight monsters many times. Have you noticed the biggest difference between me and you guys?"

Jian Gui thought for a moment, "You dodge almost all of the basic monster attacks."

Gu Fei nodded, "That's right. I want you to focus on this point first. Of course, I know that most of the time you don't dodge attacks because you've calculated that the damage from that hit won't have much of an impact. Saving your attack time to exchange blood with your opponent is actually more advantageous and efficient. Dodging not only avoids damage, but also avoids a great opportunity to counterattack. But from a real-world fighting perspective, this kind of mutually destructive fighting style is a tactic only used when absolutely necessary. However, because you're playing a game, with replenishments and recovery, you're very used to this style. If you really want to improve yourself, the first thing you need to do is say no to this kind of fighting. In every exchange, whether with people or monsters, you should try to avoid losing health as much as possible. Of course, it's not that easy to do, but the important thing is to focus on it conceptually and try to do it as much as possible. Understand what I mean?"

"Understood," Jian Gui nodded.

"Good, keep that in mind and go fight a monster," Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui nodded and went up to attack a monster, constantly muttering "dodge, dodge" in his mind. Focusing on this, he completely forgot to attack, just staring at the monster's attacks, hoping to dodge every one. Even so, Jian Gui didn't expect to dodge every single attack from a level 50 monster. He lost half his health before he suddenly realized that he had been focusing on dodging and hadn't attacked even once. He glanced at Gu Fei, but couldn't tell whether his expression was happy or worried. Jian Gui continued to dodge and run while seizing opportunities to stab with his knife. But many times when the monster's palm came slapping, he had the urge to attack directly without dodging. But Jian Gui was indeed a guy with a strong will, and he forcefully restrained himself from this habit that he had cultivated in the game for who knows how many years. The end result was that he didn't launch an attack, but he didn't dodge the palm either.

With this extra rule, Jian Gui felt very constrained. The attack opportunities he managed to find after much maneuvering were disproportionate to the damage he failed to dodge from the monster's attacks. Slowly consuming like this, it was clear that he couldn't outlast this level 50 monster that he could normally handle completely.

The result was predictable, but Jian Gui didn't change his original intention and continued to grit his teeth and persevere, strictly following Gu Fei's instructions. Seeing that he was about to collapse, Gu Fei, who had been watching silently, suddenly took action and solved this monster, which had also been beaten down to half its health by Jian Gui, in a few moves.

Jian Gui breathed a sigh of relief, slowly eating bread to recover his health while waiting for Gu Fei to lecture him.

Gu Fei was actually very pleased, patting Jian Gui and saying, "Excellent, I was originally afraid that the concept you've formed over so many years would be uncontrollable even if you wanted to change it, but I didn't expect you to be able to restrain yourself so cleanly. You're too strong!"

"It's nothing..." Jian Gui didn't think much of it.

Gu Fei smiled. People who can do it, of course, won't think that what they're doing is difficult. Only those who can't do it can better understand the difficulty involved.

"But fighting like this, I can't even beat this little monster," Jian Gui said.

Gu Fei nodded and said, "It will definitely be like this at the beginning. Do you know why? Because your original fighting style, although not ideal, was at least a balanced attack and defense. But now that I've asked you to strengthen your dodging, you're over-focusing, and your attack and defense are out of balance, making it harder to deal with monsters that you could originally handle. What you need to do next is to fight with this concept and rebalance your attacks. There are many things to pay attention to here. First of all, the hardest thing for you to do right now is how to launch attacks while dodging."

"Actually, if you think about how I usually fight monsters or PK, I definitely dodge the opponent's attacks, but do I ever end up like you, unable to find an opportunity to attack because of dodging?"

"Dodging shouldn't be just for the sake of dodging. Sometimes it's a prelude to the next attack, and sometimes it's even part of the attack. It's too early for you to enter this stage. What you need to pay attention to now is to find opportunities to attack as much as possible while dodging, and even make your dodging cater to the attack you're about to launch. Okay, take a look at how I do it." As Gu Fei spoke, he took out his dagger and casually hooked a monster over to start fighting.

Dodge, attack; dodge, attack... Gu Fei seemed to be just doing these things, but Jian Gui didn't think he had Gu Fei's skills. Even if he saw it, he couldn't do it for the time being! After watching for a while, Jian Gui suddenly felt more and more familiar. Coward Savior had approached Jian Gui at some point and said to him, "Can you see it? Many of the situations he encounters while fighting monsters are exactly the same as yours before. The difference is that you simply dodged in those situations, but he found an opportunity to attack while dodging. I think that's probably what he wants you to pay attention to."

"Thank you!" After hearing Coward Savior's reminder, Jian Gui really understood a lot more. Especially since he had a few memorable moments from his previous fight with the monster. When Gu Fei recreated those moments in his fight with the monster, he clearly saw how Gu Fei gave a counterattack while dodging. Jian Gui immediately had the urge to try it out again.

After Gu Fei killed the monster, Jian Gui jumped out eagerly, "Let me try again."

"Understand a little?" Gu Fei smiled.

"Yeah!" Jian Gui nodded, attracted a monster, and started killing... As a result, doing it was different from watching it. Although he had repeatedly considered how Gu Fei used the counterattacks in the previous few situations, the thing Jian Gui thought about the most while fighting the monster was: "Oh no, I should have done this and that with that attack just now..."

In the end, Gu Fei took action again to get rid of the monster. Jian Gui felt frustrated this time, feeling like he was watching many opportunities pass before his eyes, but he couldn't grasp any of them.

But Gu Fei was very happy when he saw this, "Very good, very good. As expected, once you understand this principle, you'll improve quickly. Don't worry, I know you're feeling憋着一股劲 (biē zhe yī gǔ jìng – holding back a lot of energy) but can't use it, which is normal. Although you already have this idea, this awareness, sometimes it still appears a little slow, plus your body can't quite keep up with this awareness. There's no need to rush, take your time. The improvement I'm talking about is definitely not something that can be achieved overnight. If I just gave you a few tips and you reached my level, then our skills would be too worthless. This is a gradual improvement process. You may not even notice the progress yourself, but as long as you reach a certain level one day and suddenly look back, you will definitely find your amazing progress."

"Yeah!" Jian Gui nodded.

"Okay, this time, Coward, you go fight. Take off all your equipment, fight slowly, can you use a dagger?" Gu Fei asked.

"Ah... no..." Coward Savior was only an amateur after all. It was good enough to be familiar with a few routines. It was impossible for non-professionals to be proficient in everything.

"Then use your fists, the principle is the same anyway," Gu Fei said.

"Okay!" Coward Savior accepted the order and began to fight the monster. At this time, Gu Fei began to give Jian Gui a detailed explanation based on Coward Savior's monster-fighting routine. Jian Gui listened very carefully. At this time, he had already forgotten about any efficient leveling methods. Efficient leveling methods were just a means of leveling up, and the purpose of leveling up was just to strengthen oneself to strike others. Fighting monsters was never the ultimate goal of players. Learning practical combat skills from Gu Fei could achieve the same goal.

While Gu Fei was giving Jian Gui one-on-one special training, other figures were busy in various other places. Bai Shi Jing Lun was training the Extremely Cold students like students at his bodyguard school. From time to time, shouts of "Hey, ha!" could be heard in the dense forest of Lin Yin City, making people's hearts jump.

The others were leveling up in various places. In the end, a group of people all went to Youye Valley in Yueye City. Jian Nan You and Huo Ran Yi were leveling up here as partners, while You Ge and Zhan Wu Shang couldn't find partners, so they came up with the idea of the Ten Guild Alliance. Yun Zhong Mu would of course provide this convenience, selecting corresponding professions for them to cooperate with. But Zhan Wu Shang, this shameless guy, actually pushed his luck and asked Yun Zhong Mu if he could find him a beauty to pair up with.

Even if Yun Zhong Mu wanted to give him face, he didn't dare to agree to this request. There were already few girls in his guild, and with so many wolves and so little meat, giving the meat to the wolves outside would definitely cause his own wolves to revolt. In the end, Yun Zhong Mu could only laugh and tell Yun Zhong Mu that the girls in his guild were all already taken and he really couldn't find any leftover women. Only then did he send Yun Zhong Mu away.

At the same time, on the studio side, Wu Ye was rapidly coordinating. Because this project involved almost all the main cities and most of the leveling areas in the game, it was impossible to rely solely on Wu Ye and his six-city manpower. In any main city, the local population was of course the most familiar with the surrounding leveling area. Therefore, after Wu Ye reported the situation of the negotiations to the higher-ups, Ying Qi Studio established a special market research team, led by Wu Ye himself, with the full cooperation of the managers of each main city, to come up with an accurate plan as quickly as possible.

Three days had passed since Wu Ye completed these tasks, and he immediately notified Gu Fei and Bai Shi Jing Lun.

This matter was originally entrusted to Jian Nan You, but Jian Nan You thought about it afterward and felt that it was necessary for professional talents like Gu Fei or Bai Shi Jing Lun to follow, after all, they were the most qualified to speak on efficient leveling methods, and they might need to provide some professional knowledge from time to time.

And although it was reasonable for Bai Shi Jing Lun to go, everyone still unanimously felt that it would be best for the more shrewd Gu Fei to go.