Chapter 240: Chapter 165: Legendary Trait: Extreme Battle Spirit!_2

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“It’s not just you who has truly touched this realm with me!”

This time, Jiang Chen didn’t speak.

Instead, he mimicked ancient creatures like the Dragon God Monster and used more efficient will fluctuations that spread faster and more accurately to convey his thoughts.

As a result, the “voice” reached the Purgatory Asura’s mind first.

Only then did he move his body and pounce towards the Purgatory Asura!

This time, Jiang Chen, other than not activating the temporary burst state of Return to Primal State, even turned on Energy Overload to a certain extent.

His force agility attributes jumped directly from 160 million to 200 million.

Combined with the Time Acceleration ability that he had developed based on Rapid Action as he matured.

It was as if in a blink of an eye, like a magical power word, he increased his own speed to eight times its normal rate.

His real speed reached 1.6 billion!

That was already the speed of an 8th Rank!

Even in the perception of a Legendary Overlord of 7th Rank strength, Jiang Chen was already moving so fast he was almost creating afterimages.

In an instant, he arrived behind the Purgatory Asura, his weapon transformed from an orb, unleashing countless dense attacks.

Jiang Chen held nothing back, exerting half his full strength!

He believed that if the Purgatory Asura had reached that realm.

Then, it would certainly be able to handle attacks of this intensity.

Indeed—

The Purgatory Asura lived up to Jiang Chen’s expectations.

Clearly, it had been circled to the rear by Jiang Chen.

Clearly, its movements were far less swift than Jiang Chen’s.

Yet, as if it had foreseen the future, it dodged Jiang Chen’s numerous killing moves with “slow” movements, threading through the gaps in the attacks.

It even closed its eyes, yet still didn’t suffer a single hit.

Despite the vast difference in speed, it achieved absolute evasion!

“Your killing intent is too heavy.”

“I can feel your killing intent, feel your soul, feel your thoughts…”

“All of this makes your attacks traceable.”

The Purgatory Asura said, lifting a white bone saber, and striking towards Jiang Chen.

To Jiang Chen, in his state of eightfold speed, the strike seemed extremely slow and could be easily avoided by stepping back.

However, Jiang Chen didn’t step back but swung his own weapon to confront the attack.

Although the saber’s strike was exceedingly slow and its trajectory very clear.

Jiang Chen’s weapon seemed to automatically dodge the saber, allowing it to pass through the onslaught in an extremely strange trajectory.

And strike his chest.

The force burst forth!

The base strength of the Purgatory Asura was only 200 million.

Yet, the strength Jiang Chen actually felt exceeded 800 million. The pitch-black armor on his skin was cleaved open.

More importantly, the strike coincidentally landed on Jiang Chen’s point of exertion.

It disarrayed his attacking rhythm for an instant before he recovered.

Jiang Chen had indeed touched that realm, yet there was such a vast gap between his and what the Purgatory Asura actually displayed!

But he wasn’t alarmed; instead, he felt elated.

This strength…

Was exactly the strength he needed!

“Have you seen it clearly?”

After delivering the strike, the Purgatory Asura paused.

Jiang Chen shook his head in reply.

“No, I haven’t.”

The Purgatory Asura revealed a smile.

That was right.

To be fixated on technique, obsessed with the cleverness of that one cut.

One might gain some growth, but would lose the essence.

Only by looking beyond the superficial and feeling its will, its soul.

Would be the true path to a higher realm.

“It seems you have indeed touched that realm…”

“Worthy of being the opponent I value.”

After a brief pause, the battle continued.

If it were any other mecha pilot, the Purgatory Asura would quick show its ferocious demeanor.

But it had already acknowledged Jiang Chen’s talent, and its movements were very gentle, emphasizing will over force.

In other words…

This was [Feeding Moves].

And Jiang Chen had already spent enough time consolidating at the 6th Rank.

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Sparring with the 6th Rank Master Luo, he had touched upon the threshold of the realm.

Now, under the deliberate feeding of moves, he grew even more rapidly with extreme speed!

Moreover, with near-perfect coordination of strength, agility, defense, and spirit, he formed an extremely balanced Perfect Body.

Just a period of time had passed.

He had mastered the method of controlling his Martial Soul, reaching a polished state.

Even the Purgatory Asura could not judge his attacks through his Martial Soul.

The evasion rate dropped significantly.

The Purgatory Asura used his two arms to wield weapons, blocking and parrying some of the attacks that threatened him.

He still maintained an extremely relaxed posture.

“Your Martial Soul is now smooth and flawless, it seems like not a bit leaks out…”

“But that’s not enough.”

“Since you exist here, you inherently influence everything around you, no matter how perfectly you conceal or hide.”

“Even the slightest trace can be part of what others perceive.”

“The focus is not merely on the self, but also on feeling.”

“Control your Martial Soul, control your instincts, use them to sympathize with heaven and earth.”

“You can’t completely resist the perception of others, but you have to perceive the Martial Souls of others.”

“Use your Martial Soul to sense the countless elements in the world, and use your inherent combat instincts to discern it all…”

Jiang Chen was already just one step away.

Under the guidance of the Purgatory Asura, he fully immersed himself in his Martial Soul, entering a very high state of mind and sensing endless streams of information.

Because he was in combat, with the guidance of his Martial Soul, he quickly focused on the opponent in front of him.

He discarded countless other pieces of information, leaving only the overflowing information from the Purgatory Asura.

Even then, this information was incredibly complex, a veritable sea of data.

The clash itself happens in an instant, and to analyze so much information in such a short amount of time, was almost impossible.

No wonder the Purgatory Asura said one must make choices based on instinct.

But…

He is the Asura of Infinite Purgatory, after all, who has gone through millions of years of battles, with combat instincts honed to the extreme, almost like foresight.

Although Jiang Chen’s skills had peaked and he had grasped this realm, he was far from possessing such terrifying instincts.

After briefly experiencing it.

He had only managed to force the Purgatory Asura to use four arms.

Clearly, he had not reached his level of mastery.

What to do?

The final step, instead, was stuck on time!

In an optimal state, instinct provided Jiang Chen with an answer.

[Instinct: Use your super brain.]

Yes.

Whether as a mecha pilot or an Abyss overlord, in the midst of ultra-high-speed combat, even with high agility, it is not possible to instantly analyze countless pieces of information to make the best decision.

Jiang Chen is different.

Besides his high agility, he also had vast computing power provided by the numerous intelligent modules he’d absorbed, as well as accelerated thinking from the power of time…

Combined with his own honed combat instincts and multiple abilities, he achieved a multiplicative boost.

He was the only one who could forcefully analyze this information!

Super brain, activate!

Countless pieces of information passed through instinctual reaction, filtering out a great deal of irrelevant data.

The remaining combat information was processed by the super brain at high speed, analyzing the best possibilities.

When piece by piece of information and each action were sifted through by the super brain.

The blurry figure of the Purgatory Asura gradually sharpened in Jiang Chen’s heart.

He seemed to enter a kind of ethereal state.

Everything the Purgatory Asura was about to do the next second, all his actions, became crystal clear, reflecting in his mind.

He simply swung his weapon, letting it appear in the right place at the right time.

The two weapons collided just right.

Clang!

Accompanied by the tremor in the air, time appeared to stand still for a moment.

The next moment, Jiang Chen’s ferocious attack completely overwhelmed the Purgatory Asura!

[Your trait has been sublimated.]

[Weapon Grandmaster sublimated to Extreme Battle Soul.]

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[Extreme Battle Soul]

[Type: Legendary Trait]

[Effect: Allows the mecha pilot to easily master any weapon, any ability, exerting four times the effectiveness.]

[Description: Extreme in thought, supreme in soul.]