Chapter 185 - Epiphany

Translator: CKtalon

This staff technique… Liu Hai, Tu Ling, Miyagawa Meishin, Halu Singh, Tiger Fussen, and the other experts revealed looks of surprise. All of them were very talented in martial arts and had reached Lv. 5, so they could completely sense the uniqueness of this staff technique!

These staff afterimages were like dancing pythons; one couldn’t even tell the pattern. Every staff afterimage was unpredictable as they attempted to avoid Xu Jingming’s spear and attack him. Moreover, the staff afterimages fused perfectly into one—every move combined into one move that resembled a huge net that enveloped Xu Jingming.

Ambassador Tejano should’ve used the basics of some supreme legacy found in the universe. In the stands, Pang Ze confirmed it at a glance. In all my years, I’ve only seen that guest from the big family in the Great Horn Star Alliance using a similar move.

Pang Ze immediately determined the unique charm.

Ambassador Tejano has a very impressive background. It’s very normal for him to come into contact with the supreme legacies of cosmic humans. Pang Ze came to a realization. The chances of Xu Jingming winning this battle are slim.

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Tejano idolized his father the most. His father had spent a lot of effort to create three secret techniques for him, and he had also told him that by focusing on the three secret techniques, he had a chance of reaching Lv. 9!

His father had broken down the way to practice and the secret to improvement for these three secret techniques at every stage—from a planetary lifeform to a cosmic lifeform all the way to Lv. 9. He had provided his son with excruciating detail.

As the number one genius of a weak civilization, you should be proud to lose to my family’s secret technique, Tejano thought, but his expression quickly changed. This was because Xu Jingming had blocked every move of his Heavenly Python Series.

No matter how he attacked, Xu Jingming managed to parry every attack despite doing so with great difficulty.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Xu Jingming felt a terrifying pressure that was unprecedented. He also immediately used his strongest defensive move—Spatial Domain Style!

Of the five ultimate moves recorded in the Beam Transformation legacy’s first volume, only the Spatial Domain Style was purely for defense. It didn’t seek to dish out any offensive attacks but only defended against the enemy’s attacks.

As he executed this move with his spear, the spear afterimages seemed to form a shield that enveloped Xu Jingming. Moreover, the spear afterimage barrier had two layers. One layer was formed at the front half of the spearhead, while the other layer was formed at the end of the spear.

He tried his best to block the staff afterimages.

These staff afterimages weren’t too strong, only 30 to 40% stronger than Xu Jingming, but their trajectories were unpredictable—like venomous snakes that slithered in circles, searching for gaps in his defense! They would burrow into any they found.

The outer layer of Xu Jingming’s two-layered spear-afterimage shield would occasionally fail. Thankfully, the inner layer managed to mount a successful defense.

Xuan’s Spatial Domain Style requires one to control space completely, turning it into one’s own domain to block all attacks. Xu Jingming found it extremely strenuous as well. Tejano clearly only has one staff weapon, but it’s so difficult for me to defend with my full strength?

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“Xu Jingming is about to lose.”

“Blocking the attacks has been very strenuous on him; he feels like he will collapse at any moment.”

In the livestream, the battle between the two parties was also replayed at a slow speed. Through the slow-motion replay at 10x, countless viewers around the world could clearly determine that… Tejano had an overwhelming advantage. The staff afterimages attacked frantically, and Xu Jingming appeared clumsy, barely blocking them.

A prolonged defense will lead to a loss. Liu Hai frowned when he saw this. Being able to barely block for a moment meant that he was doomed the moment he made a mistake.

Tejano and Xu Jingming’s strength has indeed far exceeded ours. Tiger Fussen sighed with emotion when he saw this. I won’t even be able to withstand a single strike from Tejano’s terrifying staff technique.

“Jingming.” Li Miaomiao, Wang Yi, Dai Xiaoqing, and many of Xu Jingming’s relatives and friends became nervous. They could all tell that Xu Jingming was at an absolute disadvantage!

Huh? Pang Ze was a little surprised as he watched the competition carefully. In his eyes, the battle between Tejano and Xu Jingming was extremely clear. What astonishing perception! Xu Jingming’s spearmanship is clearly improving!

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When he first started blocking the Heavenly Python Series—one of the three secret techniques—Xu Jingming indeed felt a suffocating pressure. He even felt that he would be crushed and lose the competition.

But when his spear blocked the staff afterimages time and time again, he could also vaguely sense the force circulation of the other party’s staff technique every time he diverted its forces.

Just like how Liu Hai could imitate some staff techniques from fighting Tejano.

Xu Jingming’s Spatial Domain Style was also very good at deflecting force. The more he blocked, the more he understood Tejano’s staff technique.

Incredible staff technique. Xu Jingming sensed that every staff technique was interwoven with multiple forces. Sometimes, the staff technique only entwined three forces; sometimes, it could be a combination of five or six forces; sometimes, it was purely one force… The forces kept changing, but the might of every staff technique was terrifying and its trajectory unpredictable.

The forces are constantly changing. His staff technique is random and adapts to my spear technique; it’s very difficult to block. However, staff techniques require a core force. That force is the foundation of staff techniques, and the other forces are the variables in staff techniques.

The first is the core, while the second, third, and all the way to eighth are variables? Once you grasp the first one… the staff technique will be perfect as one.

Xu Jingming could only make a vague judgment. After all, the variations in staff techniques were too complicated; one couldn’t learn them without a detailed legacy.

But to Xu Jingming, this vague understanding opened a door for him. Grasp one? The second, third, and all the way to eighth are variations? Doesn’t Xuan’s Beam Transformation Spear also follow this principle?

Xu Jingming had once possessed the cosmic legend, Xuan, and he had felt Xuan use his spear more than ten million times! Although his stabs were just different ways of stabbing, it had a ‘core.’ Only by grasping the core would all the stabs become one. They could borrow strength from each other millions of times without end!

Of course, Xuan’s spearmanship at Lv. 10 was countless times more profound than Tejano’s. Xuan’s spearmanship was much more complicated, and more than ten million stabs were variables.

As for the core? There was no clear core, but a core formed naturally with the combination of countless variables.

Core and variables.

At this moment, Xu Jingming recalled the five ultimate moves in the first volume of Beam Transformation and gained new insights.

He used the Spatial Domain Style with a strange rhythm—either fast or slow—that changed unpredictably. The circles formed by the spear afterimages had the will of water, allowing him to defend more freely and perfectly. The outer spear-afterimage barrier blocked the staff afterimages.

In fact, the so-called five ultimate moves could be fused together. According to Xuan’s guidance, the final goal was to fuse them into Beam Transformation!

Now that Spatial Domain Style had naturally fused with Water Style, its might clearly increased. It was already close to achieving greater mastery.

Xu Jingming’s spearmanship is getting stronger! Tejano also discovered this revelation. He was using his secret technique to attack with all his might. He saw that Xu Jingming was at an absolute disadvantage and was about to collapse at any moment, but Xu Jingming’s spearmanship suddenly became stronger, completely blocking his attacks.

Xu Jingming even counter-attacked, his spear erupting like a volcano.

It was his ultimate move, Fire Style.

Tejano immediately blocked.

When the weapons collided this time, Tejano was sent retreating more than ten meters. He found it unbelievable.

Xu Jingming tapped his foot and caught up to Tejano. He then stabbed out with his spear one after another!

His spearmanship combined with the concept of Water Style! But when he stabbed out, it had the ferocity of Fire Style! Every strike borrowed the force and channeled it à la Beam Transformation, so the numerous spear techniques naturally became one.

What? Tejano blocked the attack narrowly. Every time he blocked, he was forced to retreat.

Xu Jingming’s spearmanship was terrifying, and his moves were fast and fierce. Tejano found it unbelievable that he was being constantly attacked.

He was clearly about to use the secret technique to end the competition, but why did Xu Jingming become even stronger?

Awesome, awesome. The softness of Water, the fieriness of Fire, the heaviness of Mountain, the control using Spatial Domain, and the acceleration of Beam Transformation. The five styles are one—only by combining the five styles can I truly master the Beam Transformation Spear Technique. Xu Jingming was delighted. I’ve gained some insights from this battle, allowing me to fuse Water and Fire into Beam Transformation.

The combination of the three styles and the circulation of strength made Xu Jingming feel closer to perfection. If he looked at his combat strength interface, he would discover that Beam Transformation’s spearmanship had jumped from ‘Lv. 5 39%’ to ‘Lv. 5 41%’ before jumping to ‘Lv. 5 43%’…

It wasn’t just Beam Transformation Spear either. For example, Astral Spear, footwork, and even his actual combat bonus kept rising..