Chapter 800: Chapter 800
"How is this possible... The Eight Great Sword Paths?"
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The Eight Great Sword Paths is an extremely primitive martial art... even more primitive than Mech Armor Iron Fist.
As it goes, it was indeed cyber martial arts created by Martial Ancestor Xiang Shan. But in form, it more closely resembles the "swordsmanship of Homo sapiens".
The Eight Great Sword Paths was a transitional product that Martial Ancestor created while extracting the essence of Homo sapiens’ martial arts to test and validate concepts. Its martial arts code is extremely simplistic, so much so that it can be used with just a biological brain—Martial Ancestor even defined the "artistic conception" of this swordsmanship with a primitive worldview of naive materialism for the developers’ ease of memory.
Even Yawgmoth did not regard it as "martial arts" and deleted it from the Martial Ancestor’s memory, releasing it openly.
Relying on this to combat any modern form of cyber martial arts is like using a "horse stance" or even "running," "long jump," or "stretching exercises" in the ring—this was basically a draft created casually by Martial Ancestor, not martial arts at all!
If it weren’t for his friend Zhili Jiliu, who happened to be a "martial arts enthusiast," a martial arts fanatic, Protector Ti would not have recognized this style of swordsmanship...
No, Protector Ti actually wanted to deny this conclusion.
Indeed, many "conclusions" of this experimental work, the Eight Great Sword Paths, have been absorbed into the subsequent cyber martial arts, many martial studies show the "shadow" of its concepts, and it’s possible he recognized it incorrectly...
The combinations and modifications of those sword forms can only remind him of the Eight Great Sword Paths—only compared to the original Eight Great Sword Paths, it is more suited to environments with weak gravity, more exquisite, and better evades the primitive aspects constrained by the inherent concepts of Homo sapiens.
——Is there a master... a fervent admirer of Martial Ancestor who forcibly elevated the Eight Great Sword Paths to a "usable" level?
——But this is too odd, she just... how to describe this... she shouldn’t have the insight to see through this move, nor the reflex to follow through...
In just a moment, the storm-like attack halted, the capacitors at each node of the magnetic chain weapons were recharging, and most magnetic chain weapons were cleverly nudged into positions unfavorable for launching attacks by the opponent’s clever force.
He needed to regroup and reassemble the formation.
But Protector Ti had already become serious at this moment.
"You are worthy of me using this move." He even couldn’t help but laugh aloud.
Gloomy Style Sixth Form · Great Capture
The moment the storm ceased, Jeanne opened her palm. Two iron rods, only ten centimeters long, slowly floated in midair and were then swatted away by Jeanne’s excitedly waving hand.
[I did it, damn it, I’m the best!] Xiang Shan shouted.
This feeling was like in a fighting game, offsetting a big move the opponent painstakingly crafted with dozens of light attacks.
Even he himself might not dare to claim he could reproduce that scene one hundred percent...
No, more accurately, if it were his main body, he probably could. But with Jeanne as a disruption, he might not achieve it again.
And why did he use something like the Eight Great Sword Paths? Because Jeanne didn’t have any other martial studies to handle sword-shaped short and medium-length weapons here. Having a framework is better than relying solely on impromptu reactions.
Asgard was stunned, but seeing the attack stop, she still yelled hoarsely: "Run! What are you waiting for..."
[Don’t move!] Tumor Xiang Shan ordered: [This is truly the moment to risk our lives. Move only when I tell you!]
The magnetic chain weapons flew like octopus tentacles in front of the two, reforming their formation.
This time, even Asgard could sense the lethal intent within. She screamed: "Are you dumb..."
At that instant, Xiang Shan said: [Left side, one meter...]
Jeanne’s foot moved instinctively, stepping out thoughtlessly. At that moment, the two consciousnesses inside this biological brain executed exactly the same, perfectly synchronized operation.
The unimaginable occurred.
A massive roar erupted. In that instant, ten magnetic chain weapons either suddenly launched or fully recoiled. Multiple magnetic chains fired like electromagnetic guns, penetrating through the street surface where Jeanne and Asgard stood, even through the lower-level martial arts school and the commercial street below that, and ultimately impaling several residential layers.
Meanwhile, the recoiled magnetic chain weapons crashed into surrounding steel buildings, causing severe deformation, severing fixed chains. A box-style house slammed into another, falling like dominoes.
Even Protector Ti himself was swept into it. Due to the direction of the magnetic chain weapons’ recoil being roughly consistent with his position, he was caught off guard and was directly crushed by the oncoming building.
Admittedly, the attack had been dispersed and attenuated multiple times, not enough to breach Protector Ti’s defense. But before the buildings stopped colliding, it was also difficult for Protector Ti to act.
At that moment, all the magnetic chain weapons lost control, releasing their capacitors in one strike, and now nothing could reel them back.
Protector Ti quickly reviewed the visual information recorded just moments ago.
Finally, he saw in the perspective of a martial artist from a certain martial arts school...
Between the magnetic chain weapons, for a moment, there were several "flashes of light"—in an extremely short span, countless straight "lights" appeared between the magnetic chain weapons.
"Is this... nanoconductor wires?"
Nanometer-level conductor threads coated with a special carbon crystalline layer. The wire inside is a slice of "room temperature superconductivity" and "superconducting quantum computer" technology, and the carbon molecular strength of the outer layer far surpasses steel by a hundred times.
This stuff can indeed penetrate into the magnetic chain weapons. Subsequently, when the magnetic chain weapons discharged, the current would be guided by these metal threads, "misleading" the perception of the magnetic chain weapons.
Of course, this is only momentary. Even if the electric current density resistance of the conductor is hundreds of times that of copper, the electricity provided by the reactors on the magnetic chain weapons is sufficient to sublimate it into gas.
But that moment is enough.
The magnetic chain weapons were deceived by erroneous perception, given a erroneous command in the moment he seriously executed the move, leading to the disorder.
——When exactly did he achieve it... why...
——Ah! Could it have been at that moment...
Protector Ti thought about the moment the opponent picked up the steel pipe, that seemingly meaningless sword blossom...
——No, no, it’s not meaningless. When she twirled two sword blossoms, she wrapped the nanowires around the two steel pipes.
Protector Ti seemed to see the opponent’s actions.
The nanowires loosely draped over the steel pipes. Then, every collision between the steel pipe and the magnetic chain weapons resulted in the weak and fragile steel pipe shattering. However, the fragmentation of the steel pipe did not hinder the nanowires from winding onto the magnetic chain weapons.
Overly complex lines naturally formed knots.
The person’s sword choreography pushed the magnetic chain weapons away, causing the nanowires to stretch taut. When the magnetic chain weapons lifted again, the nanowires would slide into the gaps between blades along the edges, eventually cutting into the conductive artificial muscle fibers.
In the end, the unimaginable happened naturally.