Chapter 631: Chapter 256: Warfare is Deception, a Tactical Master

The playback slowed down again.

Everyone could finally see the true form of those afterimages.

They were strange, shuttle-shaped objects, each about the size of a palm.

Their forms constantly shifted between solid and liquid. Countless tiny blades flickered and reformed at high speed across their surfaces, and their entire bodies were a profound, pitch-black color that seemed to devour light.

Just a moment before Xia Lianxue was injured.

One of the pitch-black shuttles had cut into her from behind at an inconceivable angle, silently piercing through her elementalized chest and bursting out the front in a ghastly spray of blood!

PSHH!

PSHH!

The very next instant after everyone saw what the objects were.

In the real-time battle, two more spots on Xia Lianxue’s elemental body were silently pierced, blasting open two huge holes!

SHING!

Xia Lianxue’s figure, like snow scattered by a gale, instantly disintegrated into billions of light particles and reformed a hundred meters away.

Countless streams of elemental energy, like regenerating flesh and blood, frantically rushed to her wounds, attempting to patch the terrifying gaps.

’This... is impossible!’

Her mind was in turmoil. ’An elementalized body is immune to all physical attacks! How in the world did Lin Ye manage to hurt me?!’

Lin Ye had no intention of answering her.

With a thought, he recalled the pitch-black shuttles that had been carving paths of death through the air—the Profound. They hovered beside him, humming with excitement.

The next moment, they vanished again, melting into the battlefield at an even more terrifying speed, becoming venomous snakes lurking in the shadows.

Xia Lianxue gritted her teeth.

She could sense that Lin Ye wasn’t going for the kill; otherwise, those last few strikes would have been enough to severely injure her.

But it was precisely this mercy that made the humiliation and rage in her heart burn even more fiercely!

...

「In the conference room.」

"It must be... his Gravity Spirituality."

Yi Jiugao spoke faintly, cutting right to the heart of the matter.

Zhu Mingyi nodded and added, "He used a similar technique during the major exam when he fought that instructor."

"If I’m not mistaken, his Martial Arts Spirituality allows him to manipulate the Gravity Field on a microscopic level."

"Back then, all he controlled were some hastily formed purple crystals. Their durability and destructive power can’t even compare to these weapons."

Yi Jiugao’s gaze swept over the elusive pitch-black shuttles on the screen. "These things are at least Spiritual Artifact Level."

"As for why they can harm an elementalized Xia Lianxue..."

"The principle is simple. All the tissues that make up the human body—bones, muscles, cells—their very existence also depends on gravity to hold them together."

"Lin Ye must be directly disrupting the structural balance in parts of Xia Lianxue’s body on a gravitational level. Naturally, this bypasses her so-called Elementalization and wounds her very essence."

Yan Che, who had been lying on the sofa as if nothing could interest him, now sat up straight. He stared intently at the screen and spoke slowly, "Manipulating gravity on a microscopic level... To even begin to do that, you’d need to have developed your Martial Arts Spirituality to the third stage, Law Formation, right?"

Hearing this, Zhu Mingyi just gave a wry smile and said nothing.

He was grumbling internally.

’Are you kidding me? You think all that Asking Dust I’ve been giving the kid every day was for nothing?’

’Even if the kid hasn’t reached Law Formation yet, he’s definitely on the cusp of it!’

Sun Lie offered a different opinion. "I don’t understand all this spirituality mechanics nonsense you schemers are talking about, and I can’t be bothered to."

"But this kid’s fighting style... it has that classic signature of you sneaky bastards in the clandestine divisions. Haven’t you noticed?"

He pointed at the screen. "All those Energy Cannons, Pulse Waves, and light sword Slashes the kid was throwing out before, plus that giant energy shield—it all looked incredibly intimidating and drew everyone’s attention!"

"But what was really happening? He was using those incredibly flashy moves to hide his true killing blow! These few Spiritual Artifacts he secretly released have been constantly accelerating at the edge of the battlefield, waiting for the perfect chance for a one-hit kill!"

With Sun Lie’s explanation, everyone in the conference room instantly understood.

’He’s... actually right!’

For a moment, everyone’s gazes on Lin Ye, who was on the screen, became complicated.

This kid wasn’t just a master of frontal assaults; he was a tactical genius!

And all tacticians have dirty minds!

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

Just then, a series of crisp sounds, like shattering glass, suddenly echoed across the battlefield.

Everyone looked over in astonishment.

They saw the twelve dazzling Elemental Magic Balls above Xia Lianxue’s head suddenly shatter in unison!

The vast and pure elemental energy contained within them did not dissipate. Instead, it transformed into a seven-colored torrent that poured back, forming a giant cocoon that completely enveloped Xia Lianxue’s body!

Seeing this, the color drained from Zhu Mingyi’s face, and he cried out in shock.

"That girl..."

"She actually... destroyed her own Spiritual Artifact!"

He stared at the giant, seven-colored cocoon on the screen, his voice filled with disbelief.

"That Celestial Decree Spiritual Artifact must have stored a massive amount of elemental power, painstakingly collected for her by her clan’s elders!"

"It was meant to be her final trump card, a last resort to save her life in a crisis!"

"But now, just to beat Lin Ye..."

"She’s gone all out!"

The moment Xia Lianxue formed her cocoon, the pitch-black shuttles known as the Profound, which had been carving paths of death across the battlefield, suddenly lost their target. Like headless flies, they lost their aim and hovered blankly in mid-air.

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