Liu Yuan stood in place, feeling the spirit power surging within him due to the completion of the sixth spirit ring. His heart was filled with indescribable excitement and anticipation.
"What skill will I get this time?"
He thought to himself with great expectation.
As if in response to his anticipation, the System's cold yet pleasant notification sound rang out once again on time.
[Ding!]
[god-bestowed spirit ring age confirmed: Sixty thousand years.]
[Analyzing spirit ring skill based on Host's Spirit Ability... Analysis successful!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining the Mega Rayquaza Spirit's Sixth Soul Skill: Swords Dance!]
It's here!
Liu Yuan's spirits lifted, and he immediately focused his attention on the skill description provided by the System.
[Skill Name: Swords Dance]
[Skill Type: Buff-type Spirit Ability]
[Skill Effect: By performing a dance containing supreme sharpness, it significantly stimulates one's fighting instinct and desire to attack, highly condensing spirit power and converting it into pure physical attack power. Each complete performance forcibly increases physical attack power by two stages.]
"Swords Dance..."
Liu Yuan carefully savored the description of this skill, and his eyes instantly lit up!
It's actually Swords Dance!
This is also a god-tier skill!
His current strongest buff skill, "Dragon Dance," increases speed and attack power by one stage each. It's a very comprehensive strengthening skill and one of his main reliances for fighting opponents of a higher level.
But "Swords Dance" is even more extreme and pure!
It directly increases attack power by two stages!
This is also very good!
"Wait..."
"Since they're both dances anyway, can I find a way to achieve a Fusion of Dragon Dance and Swords Dance?"
"Achieving an increase of three levels of attack power and one level of speed with just one dance."
"Eh..."
"Actually, if I could pull this off, it would be awesome!"
Once this idea appeared, it was like a prairie fire that could no longer be contained.
He recalled the key movements of the two skills in his mind.
Dragon Dance mimics the posture of a Divine Dragon soaring through the Nine Heavens, circling and dancing. The movements are elegant, agile, and continuous, emphasizing a certain "momentum."
Swords Dance mimics the moment a peerless swordsman swings their sword to strike. The movements are bold, fierce, and expansive, emphasizing a certain "intent."
The movements of both... although different in style, seem to share similar core exertion techniques?
Both use specific physical movements to guide and stimulate the flow of spirit power within the body, thereby achieving the effect of self-augmentation.
It seems like I really can give it a try!
Acting as soon as he thought of it—this was Liu Yuan's consistent style.
He looked around; this forest clearing, emptied by the aftershocks of his battle, was the perfect testing ground.
"Martial Soul Possession!"
Liu Yuan shouted in a low voice. In an instant, emerald green dragon scales surged from beneath his skin like a tide, quickly covering his entire body.
His figure elongated, becoming more upright and slender. A pair of illusory dragon wings flickered on his back, and the majestic Aura of a ruler of the sky spread out.
To the side, the Snow Empress was boredly kicking small pebbles at her feet when she suddenly felt the change in Liu Yuan's Aura and couldn't help but look over curiously.
She saw Liu Yuan strike a pose, take a deep breath, and begin to dance slowly.
His movements were initially smooth, filled with the elegant and agile charm of the Dragon Dance, his body winding like a dragon or snake, driving the surrounding airflow to rotate and rise.
But soon, his movements changed, forcibly adding a bold movement full of sharp slashing intent into the smooth dance.
"Hmm?"
The Snow Empress tilted her head, her icy blue eyes filled with confusion.
What on earth is he doing?
These movements... why do they look so awkward?
It was like an elegant dancer suddenly throwing wild punches in the middle of a performance—neither here nor there, and full of incongruity.
Liu Yuan was also frowning at this moment.
He realized that things were far from as simple as he had imagined.
The spirit power circulation route of Dragon Dance is smooth and continuous, while the spirit power explosion method of Swords Dance is instantaneous and point-to-point.
When he tried to blend two completely different spirit power circulation methods, the spirit power within his body immediately clashed.
One force wanted him to "glide," while another wanted him to "slash."
The two forces pulled at each other in his Meridians, almost causing his previous movement to deform and nearly making him lose his breath.
"No, again!"
Liu Yuan was not discouraged. He dispersed his spirit power, calmed his breathing, and began to try again.
This time, he slowed down.
He no longer sought to perform the fused dance in its entirety but instead disassembled and combined it move by move.
First was an opening move of Dragon Dance. When the spirit power flowed to his arm, he tried to infuse the sharp "intent" of the Swords Dance into it, and then slowly swung a Hand-blade.
"Swish!"
A pale green Wind Blade appeared out of thin air, slicing through a large tree several meters away!
"It's working!"
Liu Yuan's eyes lit up.
Although the spirit power circulation was still a bit sluggish, at least he had successfully fused some characteristics of the two skills in one move!
Encouraged, he immediately immersed himself in this wonderful exploration.
He sometimes circled like a swimming dragon, sometimes lunged like a sharp sword; sometimes the movements were continuous like water, and sometimes fierce like fire.
At first, his movements were full of contradictions and incoordination, looking like a child learning to walk—stumbling and comical.
The Snow Empress watched from the side, completely confused, her small mouth slightly agape.
This guy... he hasn't gone crazy, has he?
She even began to seriously consider whether to go up and knock him unconscious with a palm strike to let him cool down.
But gradually, the confusion on the Snow Empress's face was replaced by a hint of solemnity.
Because her perception, far exceeding that of ordinary people, keenly captured the changes happening in Liu Yuan.
The spirit power Aura that was originally flowing steadily on the surface of Liu Yuan's body began to become extremely unstable, sometimes violent and sometimes restrained, like a pot of water about to boil.
But as time passed, instead of subsiding, these unstable fluctuations began to interweave and fuse with a strange rhythm!
The elegant and majestic Aura belonging to "Dragon Dance" and the fierce and sharp Concept belonging to "Swords Dance"—these two completely different energies actually began to mesh bit by bit during his seemingly clumsy movements.
The Snow Empress's eyes grew wider and wider.
She saw that one of Liu Yuan's twists carried both the winding of a dragon and the strangling intent of a sword; one of his forward lunges had both the swiftness of a dragon and the indomitability of a sword.
The most direct manifestation was that the spirit power Aura surrounding Liu Yuan was rising and climbing at a visible speed!
That wasn't a simple increase in spirit power, but a transformation of "quality"!
His Aura became as heavy as a mountain and as sharp as a blade!
"This guy... he's not just jumping around randomly..."
The Snow Empress murmured to herself, her icy blue pupils reflecting Liu Yuan's increasingly coordinated and powerful figure, her heart churning with shock.
"He... he's creating a completely new Spirit Ability!"
And at this moment, Liu Yuan, completely immersed in his own world, was unaware of the Snow Empress's shock.
His eyes were closed, and he was dancing entirely by physical instinct and his understanding of spirit power.
He felt as if he had entered a mysterious and profound Realm.
In his perception, Dragon Dance was a complete energy loop, while Swords Dance was a series of sharp energy nodes.
What he had to do now was to perfectly embed these "nodes" onto the trajectory of the "loop"!
I don't know how much time had passed, but when the last sluggish movement was performed by him in a brand new and coordinated way—
"Buzz!"
Liu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes!
A brilliant green light flashed through his eyes and vanished!
His entire Aura exploded at this moment!
He slowly raised his hand and struck an opening pose once again.
This time, his movements no longer had the slightest delay or awkwardness.
His body was like a true Divine Dragon, spiraling up in an elegant and vigorous posture, but every twist and every stretch caused the air to make a "chi-chi" cutting sound!
His fingertips, elbows, knees, and even any part of his body seemed to have turned into indestructible sharp blades!
This was a perfect Fusion!
It was the elegance of the Dragon and the slaughter of the sword!
It was the perfect unity of Dragon Dance's "momentum" and Swords Dance's "Concept"!
An unprecedented sense of powerful strength filled Liu Yuan's entire body.
He could clearly feel that his speed and attack power were soaring at an efficiency that surpassed simple addition!
"It... actually works!"
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