PFC Chapter 6986 The Collapse of the Dao Heart
Chapter 6986 The Collapse of the Dao Heart
Chapter 6986 The Collapse of the Dao Heart
Wei Shuang squinted. When he swung his spear earlier, he should have seized the opportunity to strike Tien's arm. Even though Tien's reaction speed was extremely fast and he withdrew his hand the moment he realized the possibility, he should not have completely dodged it.
Tien looked tense. The high-ranking wolf riders were too effective against him, a top elite force from the Xiongnu Imperial Guard. Many of the techniques that the Xiongnu had spent hundreds of years developing could be imitated and learned by the wolf riders in the instant of combat.
Therefore, after Wei Shuang taught him several practical combat techniques, Tien became somewhat hesitant in his fighting style. After all, these were techniques that the Xiongnu people had painstakingly developed over hundreds of years, relying on their military spirit and generations of hard work.
As a result, it was stolen by the Han dynasty's offspring. How could Tien accept this? As a result, Tien became more and more frustrated as he fought. After all, consciously suppressing the performance of his own skills would greatly affect Tien's actual combat ability. If he could commit suicide and run away, Tien would have done so by now.
After all, Wei Shuang was a genuine master of breaking through the limits of normal will. When Tien committed suicide in front of Wei Shuang, Wei Shuang's combo was enough to destroy Tien's will. Just because you can't release your will doesn't mean you can't destroy the opponent's will with a full-force attack. Both of them were masters of breaking through the limits of normal will, so who could be a piece of trash?
However, since Tine suppressed his own skills from the beginning, he fell into a disadvantageous position. Although his basic qualities were no less than Wei Shuang's and his talent development was even more advanced, his commonly used skills were banned one by one. How could he possibly fight like that!
As a result, Wei Shuang became more and more successful in the fight, and in some of his techniques, he had caught up with Tien's performance in this short period of time. As a result, Tien's original countermeasures quickly showed flaws in the face of the increasingly powerful Wei Shuang. For example, in the previous move, Wei Shuang could not have hit Tien, but the acceleration of the triple power, which was similar to Zhao Yun's Phoenix Three Nods move, made it impossible for Tien to dodge.
Left with no other choice, he had to resort to a new technique, making his arm, which was about to be struck, feel weak and let the airflow from Wei Shuang's strike push it away. This was a very advanced technique, and it provided a high level of response to many attacks that could not suppress the disturbance of one's own airflow.
This was an experiment by Tien. Although he had heard that the wolf riders could copy the work of their Xiongnu guards, he was not sure how far they could copy. So he was testing the limits, and now he had found out that Wei Shuang could not copy it!
"Clang!" With this realization, Tien swung his sword and deflected Wei Shuang's spear once again. The invisible waves spread in all directions. The combination of talent and skill amplified the sound several times in Wei Shuang's ears. Even with Wei Shuang's strength, he was still momentarily stunned.
Tien seized the opportunity to take a deep breath, his chest suddenly bulging, and his muscles trembled slightly with each breath. The fatigue and soreness disappeared, and while his strength increased slightly, his concentration also improved significantly.
However, these were things that Wei Shuang could not observe. All Wei Shuang could see was that Tien took a breath, and all subsequent actions were hidden from view. Combined with the previous method of dodging Wei Shuang's thrust, Tien basically judged that the Wolf Rider's ability to replicate had its limits.
In an instant, more than a dozen subtle movements appeared in Tien's mind, almost invisible to the outside, all of which were adjusted within his body and combined with his innate power to control force and exert force. Of course, Tien used about ten of these techniques less often, but after decades of honing his skills, his combination of these techniques was at least systematic and indeed usable.
With this understanding, Tien quickly created a complete system to kill Wei Shuang by using breathing, leg strength, airflow propulsion, and special perception techniques developed specifically for close combat.
With a powerful push from his feet, Wei Shuang barely saw how Tien moved before he realized that Tien was gliding across the ice at a speed that was not normal and in a very strange manner. Faced with this, Wei Shuang didn't hesitate and swung his gun with a triple wave followed by an air cut.
It has to be said that Tien's starting move was really good. It was powerful, instantaneous, and a three-hit combo. Wei Shuang liked it after using it once.
Seeing this, Tien raised his hand and followed up with a triple air slash. He might as well use the copied move again. Since it had already been copied, he went for it!
Seeing this, Wei Shuang sneered, grabbed his gun and lunged forward. As a veteran of the wolf riders, he didn't need any special effects. With his strength, speed and reaction all in a balanced way, how could Wei Shuang not know Tien's plan? But he wanted to see what Tien could come up with. Besides, when it comes to the margin for error, Wei Shuang was no pushover either!
In the clash of swords and spears, the battle of strength and skill, Wei Shuang quickly fell into a disadvantageous position after lacking a complete set of combat techniques. However, Wei Shuang did not panic in the face of this situation. To be precise, Wei Shuang not only did not panic, but also wanted to laugh. Could it be that the Xiongnu guard captain opposite him really thought that he learned it by seeing it with his own eyes?
What a joke! If such a complex skill could be learned with just one glance, would the Xiongnu have needed to spend over four hundred years developing it?
To put it bluntly, Zhao Yun's Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Spear technique is essentially the same as the technique used by Tien before. Tong Yuan spent decades creating this spear technique, while Tien has a bunch of similar-level weapons at his disposal.
The combination of multiple techniques theoretically requires a genius martial artist who has spent decades working on the combination framework and continuously optimizing it before it can be completed.
After all, mastering each skill takes a considerable amount of time, and turning it into instinct takes about three to five years. Therefore, mastering multiple skills alone takes more than ten years. In addition, there is the matter of combining these things. It should be noted that the biggest difference between skills and talent is that talent has a subjective aspect. You can directly interfere with violence and piece things together through cognition and strong belief and will.
In fact, most finishing moves do just that, and it's also a way to strengthen one's understanding of their talents and make those talents better suit them.
But as long as it's still talent, I have to say that even if you're completely different, as long as your domineering spirit is strong enough, you can definitely combine them. It's even perfectly normal for you to create effects from your talent that your talent shouldn't have at all!
For example, Miao Ran's talent doesn't actually include the structure of manipulating gravity and repulsion, but he forcefully manifests it in his finishing move through his own understanding and beliefs.
This is what is called the forging of talent; it is not only the forging of talent, but also the forging of self-awareness.
But techniques are different. There are truly contradictory situations when it comes to techniques. For example, one technique requires restraint, while another requires exertion. Combining these two can be extremely dangerous. Usually, it requires several genius martial artists, and even a generation of talent, to master them.
This explains why the techniques of the Han Dynasty, Rome, and Kushan Empire only involved a few commonly used combinations, while finishing moves composed of multiple composite techniques were extremely rare.
As for more advanced, supplementary combination techniques, there are very few, because these things are too dangerous; it's not something you can just do whenever you want.
Only the Xiongnu, relying on the military spirit of their imperial guards, managed to create finishing moves composed of skill combinations, as well as auxiliary combination techniques.
There was no other way; the unique characteristic of the Xiongnu Imperial Guards' military spirit was to manifest the skills mastered by their ancestors within themselves. So, one ancestor mastered this skill, another ancestor mastered another skill, and five ancestors possessed five skills, which were then forcibly combined and used, and then continuously optimized.
When General Wei first saw this thing, he was amazed. After all, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was too weak in that era, and skill was the core factor in truly analyzing a legion's actual combat performance.
At that time, General Wei's idea was to copy the mature and systematic techniques of the Xiongnu Imperial Guards. Unfortunately, in the final battle, the Xiongnu Imperial Guards faced Huo Qubing and were kicked to death by Huo Qubing like they were on the roadside. What kind of techniques are they? Isn't the point of battle to make my attacks break through the opponent's defenses and the opponent's attacks fail to break through the defenses? Can I catch up with all the enemies on the other side?
What's the point of skills? They're useless! Just die!
Then General Wei failed to enjoy the benefits of being a member of the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guard, and his all-around skills remained stagnant for hundreds of years.
This time, Wei Shuang finally saw a top-tier Northern Xiongnu guard who possessed multiple skills and could combine them completely. Could he really copy them just by seeing them? What a joke! If General Wei's customized talent was this complex, how could it live up to the title of "custom-made by a military god"?
Of course, the other party appeared in front of me and used some kind of thing, my 10-item all-rounder was automatically recorded, and then used his talent to forcibly control my body to start on its own!
Learning? Learning my ass! Just input your data into the app and start with one click!
This is the key to why Wei Shuang could use the same technique as Tien the moment he glanced at it. Relying on Wei Shuang himself? What are you thinking? Just practicing the basic techniques for building these advanced structures would probably take more than ten years!
Essentially, the decathlon talent is divided into two stages. The first stage is laying the foundation for the decathlon, honing your body so that it can adapt to all the skills. The entire process of the decathlon talent eventually dissolving is about completing this foundation.
After completing this foundation, you should find a Northern Xiongnu guard and attach all the skills that the guard has painstakingly mastered to your own talent tree as plugins. When you want to use them later, you can simply launch the app with one click.
In other words, the power that the app can unleash after it is launched with one click depends mainly on the extent to which the decathlon talent has been developed in relation to the body. For example, Wei Shuang and Bu Wan, who have participated in the decathlon twice, are definitely the best carriers for all skill combinations.
Basically, they can unleash the same power as the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guards, and with more practice, they can even surpass them.
Veteran players like Sun Er, who have only gone through the decathlon once, certainly have the foundation to start with one click and can unleash considerable power. But don't even think about perfectly replicating or surpassing the original; after all, the foundation required for these skills is only at this level.
As for ordinary wolf riders who are still on the path of becoming all-rounders, it depends on how many skills they can absorb. Although there is a one-click start after copying, whether their own conditions are suitable and whether they can use it depends on their own situation. However, they can definitely absorb some simple skills, and even some low-level skill combinations can be used directly.
Do you even know what it means to have a significant increase in strength? This is a significant increase in strength, okay!
Do you even know what a military god is? This is a military god, okay!
"Die!" Having successfully suppressed Wei Shuang completely, Tien used the power emanating from his body to propel himself around to Wei Shuang's blind spot, almost ignoring inertia. He raised his sword and slashed at the back of Wei Shuang's head. At this moment, Tien looked extremely ferocious.
Meanwhile, Yan Liang, who was crouching in the distance, was rubbing the only remaining God-Slaying Spear in his palm. His original idea was to help Wei Shuang kill Tien, but after Wei Shuang fought with Tien, he told him not to make a move. Even now, Wei Shuang seemed to be in a deadly situation, but Yan Liang still did not feel any danger. As someone who firmly believed in his intuition, Yan Liang finally chose not to move.
The materialized blade wind struck Wei Shuang first, and then Wei Shuang was as if he were standing on ice and being pushed by a huge force, going from stillness to motion, almost teleporting away from Tien's attack range.
Tien's sword froze in mid-air, and his entire body trembled.
"Is this the Flowing Wind Technique? As long as you can withstand the wind pressure, you can definitely dodge the attack. And this kind of perception is what is called the cicada sensing the autumn wind before it moves? And this..." Wei Shuang raised his hand and tapped lightly in the air. The movement of raising his hand was not fast, and there was no force exertion. But when he tapped in front of him, there was a loud bang like an ordinary person throwing a full-force punch.
"No, the most amazing thing is this." Wei Shuang smiled smugly and immediately began to imitate Tien's breathing. The interval between each breath became shorter and shorter, until it was almost against human habits and was done simultaneously. Power surged from his breathing, and the upper limits of his strength, speed and reaction were slightly raised. The fatigue from fighting such a strong person for a long time also quickly faded away.
“And this.” Wei Shuang’s muscles began to twitch, then tremble, then become a shudder, and finally a barely perceptible vibration. Accompanied by a wisp of white mist being released from the gaps in Wei Shuang’s armor, Tien realized that Wei Shuang had mastered something.
This is a defensive technique. It can directly decompose and transmit the immense force transmitted by blunt force, and it can directly concentrate muscle strength to withstand stabbing attacks. It can also dissociate itself from shock, piercing, and contraction attacks.
It can be said that, apart from attacks on willpower, this set of physical defensive techniques is effective against all kinds of attacks. It is the culmination of various defensive skills of the Xiongnu. In fact, in this era, there were only two or three people among the Xiongnu who mastered this move.
However, Tien, who now possesses this system of skills, sees the entire set of techniques in a Han Chinese, and despair fills Tien's heart.
“Really, there are so many good things.” Wei Shuang looked at Tien with a smile. “Right Wise King, you are truly a great contributor to our Han Dynasty. I will pass these things down to you. I have completely mastered them, so you can rest assured.”
"No, impossible!" Even with his death-defying resolve and iron will, Tien couldn't help but break down at this moment. As a member of the Northern Xiongnu Imperial Guard, even with the help of his military spirit, it had taken Tien almost sixty years to master so many skill combinations. Yet Wei Shuang, right in front of him, had learned, mastered, and used them completely in about six minutes.
This feeling was no longer just a breach of individual defenses, but made Tien question how these people had survived and how they were even here.
“Nothing is impossible.” Wei Shuang removed his gauntlets, shook his fingers, and entered a state of perception using special techniques. He easily sensed the information in the wind. Even without turning around, by moving his fingers through the air and by the vibrations in his skin caused by his defensive technique, a three-dimensional image was constructed in Wei Shuang’s mind, even though he couldn’t see it.
It's not big, only about ten meters square, but in close combat, it ignores blind spots and can naturally judge the direction and angle of the opponent's attack based on atmospheric flow. This combination of skills is enough to increase the survival rate of a normal veteran on the battlefield.
"It's really exaggerated. By changing the way of breathing, one can even draw a trace amount of essence from heaven and earth at the peak of Qi Refining, thereby strengthening one's own strength and basic qualities." Wei Shuang adjusted his breathing and felt it again. After confirming that his perception was not wrong, he looked at Tien with great shock and instantly understood why Tien's strength and speed were not much weaker than his own.
Compared to the veterans Tien had encountered before, Wei Shuang was a genuine seventh-level expert, and had received muscle-building and bone-strengthening injections, bringing his physical condition to its peak. Tien was only a little over 1.7 meters tall and weighed 150 kilograms. Given similar talent, Wei Shuang's foundation should have been able to overpower Tien. However, in the actual clash, Wei Shuang could only be said to have a slight advantage.
"You really are a treasure trove. Thanks to you, I was able to master these skills that I never dared to even dream of before." Wei Shuang spread his hands out as if embracing the sun, with a wild smile on his face, while Tien gripped his knife, tightening and loosening his grip repeatedly, his whole being on the verge of his Dao heart collapsing.
Even with an iron will and having led the Xiongnu through countless trials, Tien was now on the verge of his moral collapse. These techniques, painstakingly perfected by the Xiongnu ancestors over hundreds of years and meant to be passed down to the Xiongnu to help them rise to power, had now become resources for the Han Dynasty!
The last and unique path to power that the Xiongnu people held onto also became part of the Han Dynasty.
"Am I 40% stronger, or 50% stronger?" Wei Shuang put his gauntlets back on. Although he could use his special skills to sense his surroundings more clearly through his skin, he wouldn't sacrifice his defense for that. Besides, wearing armor didn't mean he couldn't sense anything; at most, it would just be a little blurry.
"It's really exaggerated. There's clearly no way out after the seventh level, yet I can still strengthen myself so much. It's a waste to leave something like this in your hands." Wei Shuang glanced at Tien. If Tien had given Wei Shuang a sense of danger when they first met, now Wei Shuang was absolutely confident in killing him.
Wei Shuang even clearly felt that he had surpassed Sun Er. Even if Sun Er could replicate these techniques from him, Wei Shuang was now absolutely confident in defeating Sun Er.
"I..." Tien's hands trembled as Wei Shuang swung his gun in his usual move, which passed by Tien. Tien was already somewhat distraught.
"I won't let you take these away, I'll kill you here!" A strong conviction erupted from Tien, followed by a towering pillar of light that burst forth from his body. With his intense will, his inner energy already accumulated to its limit, and his body, which was exactly the same as his original body and honed to its peak, Tien put aside his self-blame and embraced the destruction of Wei Shuang. In an instant, he broke through to the point where his inner energy left his body.
Moreover, unlike Qiu Linnian who had weaknesses, Tien's essence, energy, and spirit had reached perfection, and the power he unleashed was comparable to that of the top generals and officers at Hulao Pass.
"Should I kill him?" Lu Bu turned to Liu Bei and asked. He was very satisfied with Wei Shuang's performance, but now that Tien had broken through his limits, he was no longer someone Wei Shuang could handle, so Lu Bu naturally planned to take matters into his own hands.
Regardless of whether it's the Three Cultivations of Internal Energy Leaving the Body, as long as it's not Zhang Fei, it's a one-hit kill for Lü Bu, there's no need to get entangled.
“Sun Er will be here soon. Let’s assess the situation. After all, this is worth the title of Marquis.” Liu Bei and Chen Xi exchanged glances, signaling Chen Xi to speak. Chen Xi then told the truth.
The Right Wise King of the Xiongnu was a true marquis, and at the very least, if Wei Shuang killed Ti En, he could be promoted directly to marquis.
On the contrary, even if those people in the stands killed Tien, nothing would change. After all, they were already marquises. To be promoted to county marquises, they needed the Chanyu. As for adding some fiefs, these days, adding fiefs was meaningless.
"Is the Right Wise King worthy of being ranked as one of the two marquises?" Chen Xi asked Liu Tong.
“Two Marquises within the Passes,” Liu Tong said after thinking for a moment. The main reason was that he didn’t lead any troops. If he did, there wouldn’t be a problem, but this lone Right Wise King was only worth two Marquises within the Passes because Tien had advanced to the point of separating his inner energy from his body and clearly had the talent to lead an army.
"Let's see if Sun Er and Wei Shuang can kill Tien, who has advanced to the Inner Qi Separation stage, by joining forces." Chen Xi thought it was a bit too much, after all, the Marquis of Guannei was a highly sought-after character, but after thinking about it, he didn't object, since Tien really was worth the price.
I'm shocked! After three years, the system told me they gave me a recommendation. I'm speechless.