Chapter 833 - 828: Dimensional Grasp
The Swordsmanship Manual has a limit on the number of times one can attain enlightenment, the second part can only be enlightened once.
However, Bai Pu had long relied on his formidable memory to "store" all the information and feelings from enlightening the second part of the Space Mystical Arts in the Heart Image Space. Now he could simultaneously recall the Swordsmanship Manual while comprehending this piece of "Twisted Root."
Generally, the most basic is the Space Mystical Arts. Progressing further, there are different specialization directions like Space Cutting, Space Traversing, Space Constraining, and more.
Bai Pu wanted to unite the four major Mystical Arts he already possessed, and it turned out that the most basic Space Mystical Arts was the most suitable.
Cross-legged, Bai Pu began to comprehend.
"Hmm... the speed of comprehension seems a bit fast!"
Bai Pu felt his thoughts flowing like a fountain, originally all the visible but untouchable key points were opening sequentially.
This is somewhat related to the "Twisted Root," but certainly not solely the root’s credit.
Could it be... that it was just now that Ming Yue and Qingyun helped me decompress, making me feel at ease and inspiration burst forth? If we say—
Bai Pu couldn’t help but think of certain colorful content.
He quickly slapped his face, pushing away these dirty colorful thoughts, settled his mind, and earnestly comprehended the Space Mystical Arts.
As a special system Mystical Arts, the Space Mystical Arts was already harder to comprehend than regular Mystical Arts. Moreover, Bai Pu had previously possessed four elemental and six Mystical Arts, thus the difficulty of comprehending the seventh Mystical Arts was inherently high.
Luckily, Bai Pu had previously gained a preliminary glimpse, and now he simply needed to connect the previously puzzling barriers. This had some accumulation before.
...
Two days later, within the cabin.
Bai Pu slowly opened his eyes.
At the moment of opening his eyes, his understanding of this world improved again.
Stronger spatial perception, a clearer understanding of the position and arrangement of items indoors.
Space Mystical Arts, comprehension successful!
Looking at the "Twisted Root" in front of him that had turned into countless fine sand and scattered away, Bai Pu let out a long breath.
[Space Mystical Arts (Beginner): You can incorporate the Space Mystical Arts into ordinary attacks, increasing the damage you cause by 60%. Special Effect: Passive, your grasp and perception of space have improved.]
The special effect of the Space Mystical Arts is very peculiar; it doesn’t have an actual effect for attack or defense, merely a vague statement that "grasp and perception of space deepen."
However, Bai Pu was very satisfied, as this indicated he comprehended the most basic Space Mystical Arts, rather than specialized aspects like Space Cutting, Space Constraining, Space Traversing, etc.
Basic Space Mystical Arts means greater inclusivity, used for integrating the top-grade four elemental Mystical Arts and congealing them into Bai Pu’s own "True Intent Prototype," most suitable.
Although at this time the Space Mystical Arts is just beginner, but at the moment the Space Mystical Arts comprehension succeeded, Bai Pu developed some inspiration on how to integrate his combat skills into the Space Mystical Arts—this is what is called analogous understanding.
If an Awakened has already cultivated a Mystical Art to mastery and established a Mystical Arts system, after comprehending a new Mystical Arts, pushing the new Mystical Arts to mastery level will be very rapid.
After Bai Pu comprehended the Red Lotus Mystical Arts previously, he swiftly developed the "Red Lotus Fire Snake" magic, integrated his series of fire element magic into the Red Lotus Mystical Arts system, and even developed "Sea Heart Flame Mist" as a compound mystical arts skill. Though it was due to his extraordinary comprehension, it also had a great relationship with this characteristic of analogous understanding.
Ultimately, it is still because comprehending new Mystical Arts is too hard. Once comprehension of new Mystical Arts succeeds, after crossing that threshold, pushing the new Mystical Arts to advanced, mastery level is actually not difficult.
The series of Bai Pu’s skills that first gave him spatial mystical arts inspiration was unexpectedly the "Lasso Strike."
"When I use Lasso Strike, if I incorporate my understanding of space, can I compress the space for the target to dodge?"
Bai Pu raised his hand and made a virtual grasp, five strands of fighting qi chains shot out, pulling several cushions not far in front of him to himself.
"Not just that, the flight path of the fighting qi chains can also be shortened by utilizing the properties of the Space Mystical Arts so that in other people’s vision, the projectile speed of Lasso Strike will be faster, achieving an ’frame-skipping’ effect that the naked eye cannot catch up with!"
Bai Pu felt that Lasso Strike could be renamed, it could be changed to—Dimensional Grasp!
In just about half an hour, Bai Pu had perfected the details of the Space Mystical Arts skill "Dimensional Grasp."
After completing this step, the mastery progress of the Space Mystical Arts on his panel subtly changed to "Advanced."
"Gasp... my Lasso Strike originally contained the Mountain Shattering Mystical Arts special effect ’Suppression’!"
Bai Pu suddenly had a movement in his expression, feeling a bit excited. He quickly opened his personal panel and carefully checked his Mystical Arts skill "Dimensional Grasp," finding that the Level 4 Effect "Suppression" was indeed still there!
Inadvertently, Bai Pu through an inconspicuous skill Lasso Strike, completed the preliminary integration of Space Mystical Arts and Mountain Shattering Mystical Arts—
This is definitely good news!
Although it has not yet reached the level of compound Mystical Arts, the "adhesiveness" of Space Mystical Arts to the four elemental Mystical Arts has already begun to show.
"Great! Now I have comprehended the five mystical arts. The next step is to merge all five mystical arts, forming a compound mystical arts, then comprehending the True Intent Prototype. Such a True Intent Prototype... I wonder what grade it will be? It definitely won’t be just Third Grade!"
In Bai Pu’s eyes, the flame called ambition was burning.
As Bai Pu was pondering how to delve into "Dimensional Grasp" and complete the integration of Space Mystical Arts and Mountain Shattering Mystical Arts, suddenly there was a shake underfoot, and the bottom of the ship seemed to contact an object.
Beiming Chuan’s voice sounded on the Turtle Ship Deck:
"Already reached Steam Hills, the Red Annihilation River Territory is ahead! The Patriarch has ordered all Oath Warriors to assemble!"
...
Bai Pu walked out of the cabin, ascended the steps to the deck.
In the middle cabin, Wu Qingyun and Wu Mingyue, as well as Rein, Leia, Salacia, and others appeared.
It is worth mentioning that the Heig Team had already returned.
After all, they were merely support, and didn’t play a significant role in the battle of Profound Water Palace, not achieving the key condition for Main Quest One: The Black Heaven Festival, so naturally couldn’t start Main Quest Two.
"Now within the Human Camp, there are probably only six Awakened like us left," Salacia glanced around with a sweet smile, "Gangxin, who are these two women..."
Wu Qingyun said flatly, "I am Blood Spider, and this is Wushan Divine Lady, we are both members of the Gangxin Squad."
Leia said with a smile, "Blood Spider, Divine Lady, the relationship with Gangxin is like mine with Rein."
"Ah?" Salacia’s face suddenly stiffened.
For the past two days, Wu Qingyun and Wu Mingyue, besides communicating a bit with Rein and Leia, spent the rest of the time in seclusion cultivating Mystical Arts. They didn’t interact with Salacia, so they didn’t know each other.