Chapter 405: Deducing Sword Techniques

After receiving the prompt, Lu Li checked his personal interface and realized what was going on.

He was previously the top player in the third-level arena and had an unparalleled title that increased all attributes by 1, so the basic panel he saw was the one with the title effect.

If he didn't have this title, his comprehensive attributes would only be 90 points.

After his return, he was promoted to the fourth level, but the update of the first-name mechanism in the arena of the End Space seemed to have a slight delay in the promotion. And because no one dared to challenge him, the title was completely invalid after midnight today.

This space mechanism seems to have taken some special situations into consideration. For example, there may be explorers who have completed the advancement requirements while on a mission outside and have advanced, but have not returned and are still continuing to perform missions.

If the explorer's enhanced title is suddenly erased during a battle, it would be equivalent to murder, so there will be a certain delay and the title will only be deleted after the explorer's safety is guaranteed.

Without the Wushuang title, Lu Li's attributes couldn't be sustained, nor could he rely on Bankai to directly break through the barrier, so he had to get a new title.

Fortunately, he felt that clearing the fourth-level arena alone shouldn't be a difficult task, it would just take a while to win.

Thinking of this, Lu Li gave up going back to his room and headed straight for the arena.

He hasn't taken any action since his attributes were greatly improved, and he needs to adapt to the normal state and previous changes.

Arriving at the fourth-level arena, although it was evening time, the naked eye could not tell the difference between day and night in the space. There were still many people sitting in the arena's spectator seats, they were both spectators and players.

Some people will take a break after ranking, watch other explorers fight, learn from them, and then go in and fight themselves.

Lu Li took a few quick glances and felt that the battle being played on the screen was nothing interesting, as it was basically just a bunch of average guys. So he gave up watching the battle and prepared to start ranking directly.

[Pioneer 008, your current ranking is 65517, do you want to start matching your opponents? ]

"match."

Lu Li confirmed that he wanted to reach the top of the fourth level as quickly as possible.

【Matching...】

A matching animation appeared in front of Lu Li's eyes, with various descriptions flashing on the horizontal bar, such as "opponent picking his feet" and "opponent with super strength" etc...

[You have been matched with an opponent of equal strength. ]

The final scene froze, and along with the prompt sound of the end space, Lu Li was teleported into a random simulation venue in the arena.

The waves hit the beach, and the light of the setting sun shone down on the two of them.

Standing opposite Lu Li was a swordsman with a cold expression. He crossed his arms over his chest with the sword clamped between his arms and chest, as if he was not at the seaside but on the top of Mount Hua.

"Newcomer, it's your bad luck to meet me, just back out."

The cold swordsman spoke up. He had not played in the arena in the few worlds after he reached the fourth level. Now he was already a level 35 explorer. It was impossible for someone who had just entered the arena to beat him.

He is the kind of person who pursues efficiency. When he first reached the fourth level, he felt that he could not get a decent ranking. It would be better to spend his time on other things and wait until his strength is similar before playing again. He rose to the middle ranking in one go.

There are actually not many people like him, so he doesn't think he will encounter any opponents in today's ranking process.

The opponent in front of me looks very... Hey, why can't I see his attributes?

He observed carefully and discovered the trick. It turned out that the mask on the other person's face seemed to have the function of blocking detection, making it impossible for him to see his attributes.

It’s great to have such good special equipment, but it’s a pity that it’s useless. It can only hide your strength but won’t increase your real strength.

"Why, do you have to wait for my sword to send you out?"

Seeing that Lu Li had no intention of admitting defeat, the aloof swordsman frowned slightly and stepped forward, looking helpless, "I really have no choice but to let you see the true meaning of swordsmanship..."

Lu Li was a little overwhelmed. In his view, the opponent was just an ordinary explorer with a comprehensive attribute of 85 points, but he made him admit defeat voluntarily.

But in a sense, the two of them are indeed evenly matched opponents. After all, they are both far beyond the beginner level of level 4 and can be considered as fish bombing in the low-level segment.

But if we have to make a metaphor for the current situation, it’s like Xiao Dai encountering Tong Tian Dai.

Shila-

A tiny sound of electric current was heard, and an inconspicuous electric current instantly extended out and touched the cold swordsman.

The next moment, the cold swordsman's skill failed.

"Fuck!"

His aloof image collapsed in an instant because he saw numbers in the combat assistance panel that he couldn't understand.

[You were attacked by the enemy's weak electric current, and your life value dropped by 0.03%]

Well, he thought this one was quite funny. In fact, when he was hit by the electric current from his opponent, he just felt a little numb. He was thinking about praising the opponent next, "As a fourth-level primary explorer, you are already very good."

After all, his attributes are much higher than those who have just entered the fourth level. He thinks it is normal that the opponent's attack cannot cause effective damage to him.

But he couldn't understand the numbers that popped up on the panel next.

[Due to the damage, the enemy's 'Psychic Energy Surge' skill effect was triggered, and your life value dropped by 99.27%]

The cold swordsman's mind was filled with only one word at this moment, "Ah?"

But he couldn't utter any other emotion except "Wow", and died right there.

Lu Li won the first battle so easily. He originally wanted to test the effect of the Soul Eater after it was strengthened, but he forgot that the opponent was too fragile. As a result, after activating the Soul Eater's active ability, the damage only jumped once and the opponent was killed instantly.

"It's over... I won't be able to enjoy fighting anymore, right?"

Lu Li began to feel really worried. He seemed to have become too strong. He began to understand why Kenpachi Zaraki had to restrict himself with an eyepatch.

Of course he wouldn't do such a stupid thing, but he felt that if the space didn't throw him into a world of high numbers and high pressure, he would probably kill all opponents of the same level with one sword.

"Zhongyan, continue to help me match." Lu Li put away his distracting thoughts and continued to gain points.

…………

"monster!"

Before the dark knife light fell, the woman holding the staff roared, and then her head and body were separated.

This was the original number one in the fourth-level arena. He had great strength. After Lu Li activated his Bankai, he took three of Lu Li's swords before dying.

[Pioneer 008, your current ranking has been promoted to 1, and you have obtained the title of 'Unparalleled' in the fourth-level arena. ]

After Lu Li got the new title, he felt like he was in sage time, boring.

Being the first in the so-called fourth-level arena did not give him any sense of satisfaction. If he had to say it, he might not be as tough as Gu Qiusha.

Lu Li spent three days to reach the top of the arena, but he felt that his fighting skills were not honed much.

The main reason is that the combination of the Demon Prisoner and the Soul Eater is too strong. Once the opponent is hurt by them, he is basically dead.

Moreover, when facing most opponents, he doesn't even need to draw his sword. The lightning ability of the enhanced Thunder God Fruit is already quite considerable. The lightning that is released in seconds is difficult to avoid, and unless you can predict the direction of his attack, you will basically be hit.

Once hit by lightning, there will be a chain of electric shock damage and the Soul Eater's true damage flash, and the battle will basically be over within a second.

When encountering someone with special defensive means or extremely strong resistance to lightning, Lu Li would personally pick up the sword and chop the person, and usually the battle could be resolved with just the initial release.

From this perspective, the mage who ranked first in the arena was indeed very strong, as he could even use Bankai.

"Drip-drip-"

The voice prompt sounded, Lu Li picked up the phone and found that it was Brother Gong contacting him.

"The pills have been refined. I'll have someone send them to you at the fourth-level trading market."

Brother Gong seemed to be very busy. He just explained the situation and hung up the phone without talking to Lu Li for a few words.

Lu Li followed the coordinates sent by the other party, went to the fourth-level trading market, got the elixir, and ended the contract.

After finishing all this, he returned to his room and prepared to start the next plan.

A few days ago, before playing in the arena, he had already used the spirit gathering item he bought from Brother Gong. After a period of irrigation and absorption, the fairy spirit seed has now grown to the third stage, with a soul source recovery speed of a thousand times.

To be more specific, if Lu Li does not suffer any special damage and recovers naturally, it will take twelve hours for him to fully recover his soul source. But now he only needs about 43 seconds to fully recover his soul source.

In addition, his soul source limit has also increased a lot, to 40%. Compared with before, his soul source is much more abundant. This is also the reason why his Soul Eater's attacks were so painful before. After all, the Soul Eater's true damage is calculated according to the length of his soul source bar.

Lu Li took a longevity pill and ate it. The alchemist in Brother Gong's adventure group was very capable. The quality of the pill he refined was not low, all above 300, and there was no downward fluctuation.

Just one pill restored his life span to full, and the white hair on his head began to turn black from the roots, giving him a feeling of returning to youth.

Lu Li had not stopped taking the medicine yet. The holy-level pill could increase his upper limit of lifespan by 213 years. After swallowing it, Lu Li refined it for a while and felt that his vitality had become stronger.

Looking at the panel again at this time, because of the improvement in his personal attribute strength, plus the elixir that increases his lifespan limit, he can theoretically live another 550 years.

The state is fully reached and the problem of soul source has been solved. Lu Li is ready to start trying out whether his martial arts furnace works well.

He came to the training room he had opened up in the house, sat cross-legged on the ground, and placed Ni Qian Kun and eight other B-level sword techniques in the martial arts furnace.

Theoretically, he uses the A+-level Ni Qian Kun swordsmanship as the main body and other swordsmanship as consumables to deduce a new S-level swordsmanship. While the basic power is improved, it can also trigger the 60% damage increase effect of the skills deduced from the Martial Arts Crucible.

"Furnace, deduction!"

Lu Li entered the deduction state, and saw his soul source bar dropping rapidly, but because of the effect of the fairy seed, his soul source value would increase rapidly again.

As this increase and decrease occurred, one could see Lu Li's soul source bar jumping back and forth, but it always remained at the full value.

This kind of extreme deduction would definitely not be possible before he had the Fairy Seed. His soul source would be drained within 50 seconds. In fact, once the soul source value drops below 10%, he will begin to experience some negative effects, such as dizziness or something like that.

So theoretically speaking, his original soul source was only enough for 45 seconds of deduction, but now it can maintain its balance and continue to deduce.

A few hours later, with a ding sound, Lu Li's deduction ended.

He checked the results of the deduction. Since it was his personal subjective deduction, the deduced moves were still named by him. He had no intention of changing the name, and he named the new sword technique Ni Qian Kun.

It's just that the new sword technique has become an S-level martial art. In terms of basic damage, the original damage multiplier of Ni Qian Kun was 520%, but now it has become 960%.
Lu Li roughly understood how this was calculated. The most basic damage multiplier of Ni Qian Kun was actually 400%, but because of the effect of turning decay into magic, it gained a 30% increase, which is 520%.
The newly derived S-level Reverse Universe has a base multiplier of 600%, and because it is a derived technique, it gains a 60% bonus, which becomes 960%.
In addition to the increase in basic damage, the various special effects of Ni Qian Kun have also been improved. For example, this sword technique was originally used by Lu Li to deal with the general situation. Now the effect of Ni Qian Kun in breaking the enemy's skills has become stronger.

Lu Li was very satisfied with the deduction results of the Martial Arts Crucible. If he could deduce all his commonly used moves, he believed that his combat power foundation would leap to a higher level.

Just do it when you think of it. Anyway, he still has a long time to stay in the space, so Lu Li plans to deduce all his commonly used soul sword techniques and deduce them to S-level.

He would also deduce and purify those common sword techniques that he originally used frequently but used less frequently after awakening his soul.

In the past, he often heard his master say that on the road of martial arts, one must first learn, then become proficient, and when one reaches a certain level, one should not do addition, but subtraction, that is, to improve one's "purity".

Lu Li has learned a lot now, and the Martial Arts Crucible can help him purify it, melting various skills into one and streamlining them into the moves he needs.

It took Lu Li about a week to complete the basic deduction. Although he was quite tired, he was in high spirits.

Because in his martial arts panel, one can see a large number of S-level martial arts moves, which were all deduced by him.

What surprised him even more was that Lu Li discovered that his Martial Arts Furnace talent had a certain linkage with his Limiter Removal talent.

Lu Li's limiter removal talent will not only benefit him in terms of basic practice stats, but also provide a bonus when he is honing his skills.

The process of deducing martial arts in the Martial Arts Crucible seems to help improve his skills. This is reasonable if you think about it carefully. After all, by deducing swordsmanship, you will naturally gain a lot of insights into swordsmanship, which will improve your expertise in swordsmanship.

Combined with the tenfold gain from the limiter removal talent, Lu Li's mastery of swordsmanship rose three levels in just one week!
(End of this chapter)

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