The golden jade slip came into his hand. Before the warm touch even faded, a massive, chaotic yet mysterious information stream surged into Xiaoqi's sea of consciousness like a breached dam! At the same time, several fierce attacks carrying killing intent had already arrived from all directions, sealing all his escape routes! Sword qi tore the air, blade force severed light, technique flashes wove a net of death!
Below, Yan Feng's eyes nearly burst from their sockets, roaring continuously, struggling desperately to rush up. Shui Wu Hen, Liu Xu, and several other formidable cultivators also had red eyes, each deploying techniques. Attacks arrived in an instant!
Critical moment!
Xiaoqi didn't even have time to distinguish what exactly the information flooding his mind contained. The intense crisis sense tightened every nerve in his body to the extreme! He instinctively wanted to activate the Swimming Dragon Nine Turns movement technique to dodge sideways and backward. That was the fastest movement method he currently commanded.
However, the instant his intention moved, as spiritual energy operated according to the Swimming Dragon Nine Turns basic method—
(sudden change)!
The massive information stream flooding his mind, some mysterious insights about body movement, spatial displacement, and force application from the golden jade slip, actually produced a peculiar resonance with the Swimming Dragon Nine Turns basic chapter he had long mastered!
It was as if a thunderbolt exploded in the chaos of his sea of consciousness!
All along, the many obscure and unclear points encountered while cultivating the Swimming Dragon Nine Turns—those concerning how to more efficiently mobilize muscles, bones, and spiritual energy, how to explosively generate ultimate speed within inches of space, how to utilize environmental and even opponent's force for displacement—at this moment, were like being unlocked by a key, instantly shattered by the ancient movement technique true intent contained within the jade slip!
Blessing upon the heart!
Water becoming a channel!
His originally intended dodging direction, at the moment before attacks struck, suddenly changed trajectory in a way defying common sense! Not retreating in a straight line, nor simply sidestepping, but his entire body, as if losing skeletal structure, with an extremely subtle yet (perfectly calibrated) amplitude, suddenly twisted, sank, then rebounded!
"Buzz!"
An unprecedented subtle vibration echoed through his body. The spiritual energy in his dantian spun rapidly. For a moment, Xiaoqi felt as if he had transcended the physical body's limitations, possessing a momentary perception of the surrounding space—its density, flow direction, and every subtle gap!
His body seemed to understand on its own. At that instant of twisting and rebounding, he borrowed the force of the incoming attacks, even absorbing a portion of their energy. Like a swimming fish dodging a net, or smoke threading through bamboo, he—slippery, unpredictable, and incredibly fast—threaded through the seemingly impenetrable net of attacks!
"Such evasion!"
"What movement technique is this?!"
Countless exclamations of shock rose. The cultivators attacking, their techniques and sword qi, actually passed through the space Xiaoqi had just occupied, colliding and exploding behind him!
Xiaoqi's eyes shone bright. This wasn't just avoiding. This was using enemy force against enemy force, finding the fatal gaps in an encirclement and breaking through!
He had achieved a breakthrough in movement technique! The Swimming Dragon Nine Turns, combined with the insights from the jade slip, hadbroken through () from the original " (Hidden Dragon in the Abyss)" to this new realm—" (Hidden Dragon Emerges from the Abyss)"!
The original technique emphasized concealment, waiting, and explosive acceleration. The new breakthrough focused more on perception of space, force (borrowing), and perfect utilization of every condition to achieve instantaneous directional changes!
This was no longer just basic-level evasion, but a true combat-level movement art!