Chapter 1920: Obvious Progress
The three men angrily slapped the space barrier with their hands, furiously demanding that Xu Huo release them, or else they would never let the matter rest.
Since they were Platinum Eye players, it was certain they carried several life-saving instruments on them. Although they couldn't use items, they could still use instruments. So the three of them each used a pop-up pen-shaped instrument to pierce the space barrier. One of them pointed angrily at Xu Huo, "You're finished today!"
Xu Huo raised his hand to stop him, "Look beside you."
The three turned their heads to look, only then realizing that black lines had appeared around them at some point. Sharp, thin blades were slanted around them. Forget about walking out, even if they moved too much, they might injure themselves.
The three instinctively withdrew their hands. But dealing with this kind of item wasn't completely impossible. They couldn't take out items, but the triggering conditions for some items didn't require them to move. So one of them planned to forcefully break through the tangents using a defense item. However, unexpectedly, before even touching the tangents, he was blocked by something invisible in the air. And this time, it wasn't a space barrier like before. Judging from the way the defense barrier was being attacked, it was something like a sharp weapon!
Not understanding the situation made this player cautiously step back. When he looked at Xu Huo again, his expression was different.
The room fell silent. After a moment, seeing no sign of him backing down, the leading player among the three said, "Are you going to fight us to the death?"
"To the death?" Xu Huo laughed. "If I kill you here, who would know? Even if someone finds out later, the game world is huge. Would Platinum Eye put out a game-wide wanted notice for me just because of you?"
"Kill us?" His attitude made the three laugh. "Do you think you can kill us?"
"I see. So when you said 'to the death' earlier, you only meant me." Xu Huo lightly clapped his hands. "Killing you wouldn't be easy, of course. But you can try..."
His gaze swept across the ground. The three followed his eyes, only then seeing a mass of black object gathered at their feet that was clearly not their own shadow. It had already covered their legs at some point, and this black shadow hadn't been intercepted by their defense items.
The three immediately realized Xu Huo was also a Mental Super Evolver. They were suddenly on high alert. Since they weren't Super Evolvers, they couldn't immediately tell whether everything they were experiencing was real or an illusion. Perhaps the item failure earlier was also an illusion, not reality!
Seeing them starting to waver, Xu Huo said, "You can run to the station. To save your lives, it's not shameful."
The three refused to admit defeat so easily. But then he continued, "I'm friends with Bai Kou. It's not good to cause trouble on her turf. Besides, this little matter isn't worth killing over. But I could strip you naked and send you to Mechanical Castle, letting your story be forever passed down in the City Hall. How about that?"
The three's faces changed drastically. Then they swiftly disappeared from the room.
Xu Huo called the hotel staff, had them change his room, and handed over a video recording of the three dumping things onto his bed. He told the hotel to go ask those three for compensation themselves.
The hotel was very accommodating, immediately arranging a room change. Since he was a VIP member, they even upgraded his room type for free and gave him three sets of discount coupons.
No one disturbed him for the rest of the time. Xu Huo slept until dawn. The next day, he woke up full of energy, ate breakfast at the hotel, and then took a car to Mechanical Castle.
He happened to arrive at a coincidental time, running into those three men coming out of the inner castle looking disheveled. When they saw him, they no longer had the hostile expressions from yesterday. They lowered their heads and silently walked away.
"It was our management error. Please forgive us, Mr. Xu." Hou Pei, the player Xu Huo had seen during his last visit to Platinum Eye, appeared in Mechanical Castle today. After politely apologizing, he led Xu Huo to Bai Kou's study.
Those three were just a small matter, not worth bringing up openly. When they met, neither mentioned it, directly starting the day's training.
Unlike previous days, today Bai Kou no longer focused entirely on her own training. She also paid attention to Xu Huo's progress, discussing with him the problems easily encountered during evolution and ways to break through.
Logically speaking, Bai Kou wasn't a Temporal Super Evolver. She had no ability to guide Xu Huo in areas she hadn't touched. But her evolution in both mental and spatial aspects far surpassed Xu Huo's. She had done a great deal of homework on temporal evolution. Even if she couldn't put it into practice, she could help in theory, especially when he encountered theoretical bottlenecks he couldn't understand.
Besides that, they also sparred a bit in spatial power.
Xu Huo had already seen several examples of Spatial Super Evolution. Bai Kou indeed couldn't reach Lawrence Li's level, but replicating Madam Gong's killing method was no problem. Whether using compressed space bodies to blow people up or tearing people apart from a distance, she could do it all.
Currently, Xu Huo could only compress space to a volume of less than ten square meters. He could crush very few objects. He could remotely demolish buildings, but he felt this wasn't as useful as space barriers and Space Ray Blades.
"That's because your control of spatial power hasn't reached perfection yet," Bai Kou said. "Perfection doesn't necessarily require a large scale. It's like the absolute range of the spiritual realm. No matter how much or how little, as long as you can completely control it, that's enough."
"But compared to last time, you've improved a lot."
"I'll teach you another little trick."
As she spoke, she casually tossed a metal ornament from the desk into the air. Then she lightly flicked her index finger, and the metal ornament was pierced through the middle, as if by a very fine blade.
"It's not just space barriers that can be stacked. Besides, stacking space barriers like that is too slow."
She pushed the metal ornament, suspended in the air, toward Xu Huo. "Try stacking space rays into a sharp weapon. Since you can create a certain range of Space Ray Blades, compressing them together shouldn't be difficult."
"This way, can it penetrate barriers formed by space items?" Xu Huo asked while practicing.
"Dream on. The effect of space items, as seen from Space Teleportation Items, is a relatively stable spatial state. Since it's been made into an item, it won't be so easy to break through with just an evolver's power."
Bai Kou casually picked up a fruit and took a bite. "But once you evolve to a certain level, it won't be a problem. This method is just teaching you a shortcut. Besides, qualitative change from quantitative accumulation is also a kind of progress. First learn 1, then reach 10. It's not hard to understand."
Xu Huo nodded. He asked a few more questions about controlling space rays and spent an hour completing the reinforcement of the ray blades.
(Chapter End)