Chapter 395 - 197: A Good Mentor and Helpful Friend, the Stage 4 Mission
Chapter 395: Chapter 197: A Good Mentor and Helpful Friend, the Stage 4 Mission
Zhang Daoxuan, who had been silent the whole time, showed a rare hint of longing.
The desire to fly is a longing rooted deep within human DNA.
But he quickly regained his composure and asked,
"Once you’re in the air, try turning, or making sudden starts and stops."
At his words, Lin Ye took a deep breath and levitated once more.
He had learned his lesson this time, applying only a minuscule amount of gravitational force.
He carefully tried moving in the six basic directions: up, down, left, right, forward, and backward.
It went smoothly.
He was like a fish gliding through water, weaving through the Martial Arts Hall with incredible grace.
But a problem arose when he tried to turn—for instance, switching from flying forward to flying left.
The gravitational adjustments required to make a turn were instantly and infinitely more complex.
He felt as if his brain were an old processor, simply unable to compute and execute such complex commands simultaneously.
As a result, he lost his balance in mid-air, spinning like a top for several rotations before he managed to stabilize himself.
Zhang Daoxuan seemed to have anticipated this.
He dragged a metal training dummy over from the side and said to Lin Ye,
"It’s about what I expected. You can’t master complex Gravity Manipulation yet."
"I speak from experience."
"In a situation like this, my advice is to forget about finesse. Just focus on making the object you’re controlling move faster and applying more propulsive gravitational force."
"Try to overwhelm finesse with brute force."
Lin Ye understood.
’Of course. Mastering any skill is a process that starts from scratch.’
’Even though Zhang Daoxuan’s Sword Control Technique was a dazzling spectacle now, the pinnacle of technical skill...’
’He must have had his own share of clumsy and embarrassing moments when he was first learning to control his Flying Sword.’
Lin Ye landed on the ground. With a thought, a Purple Crystal Rhombus shimmering with an eerie light materialized out of thin air before him.
He locked his sights on the chest of the metal dummy ten meters away.
This time, in addition to the telekinetic control from Crystalization, Lin Ye prepared to add gravitational propulsion!
However, having learned his lesson from crashing through the ceiling, Lin Ye held back.
He didn’t go all out, carefully adding only about twenty percent of the gravitational force.
WHIIINE—
A hum so sharp it threatened to pierce their eardrums suddenly rang out!
The instant the thought formed in Lin Ye’s mind, the Purple Crystal Rhombus simply vanished!
Dongfang Zhen and Zhang Daoxuan didn’t even have time to blink.
The next second.
BOOM!
An invisible shockwave seemed to detonate within the Martial Arts Hall!
Without warning, a perfectly smooth hole appeared, running straight through the sturdy chest of the metal dummy!
This was followed by an even deeper boom in the distance.
The two men whipped their heads around in horror.
There, on the half-meter-thick load-bearing wall at the back of the Martial Arts Hall, was another, seemingly bottomless hole!
Sunlight streamed in from the other side of the wall, forming a straight pillar of light that clearly illuminated the dust motes dancing in the air.
The jaws of Dongfang Zhen and Zhang Daoxuan dropped in unison.
They hadn’t seen the rhombus’s trajectory at all!
It had all happened too fast!
So fast their eyes couldn’t possibly track it!
Lin Ye stood where he was and sighed softly.
Zhang Daoxuan took a deep breath and slowly walked over to the pierced dummy. He reached out a finger, feeling the intense heat at the edge of the hole, a result of the incredibly high-speed friction.
He remained silent for a long time before turning to look at Lin Ye with an incredibly complicated expression.
"Mr. Lin, that’s not object manipulation..."
"That’s a heavy cannon!"
Lin Ye flushed and gave a wry smile.
"I still can’t seem to hold back."
"I don’t even know where the rhombus went."
Dongfang Zhen clapped him on the shoulder, speaking like a seasoned veteran.
"Perfectly normal! Everyone goes through a period of familiarization and mastery when they first awaken their powers."
"My own awakening was a complete disaster."
"I lost control for a second and knocked out the power grid for our entire neighborhood. My dad had to pay a fortune in damages, then he strung me up and gave me a good thrashing, haha!"
While the two were talking, Zhang Daoxuan had already quietly set to work.
He dragged over several wooden training hurdles from somewhere.
He then arranged them and the unlucky, hole-chested dummy in a line, creating a crooked path.
"Brute force alone won’t get you very far."
Zhang Daoxuan looked at Lin Ye, his tone calm.
"I think you should start by learning to control yourself."
"In a moment, I want you to levitate again and weave between these hurdles in an S-pattern at your slowest possible speed. Start by training your turning and precision control."
"Once you can skillfully control your own flight, apply that same feeling to your Crystalization ability."
As he spoke, he took out a marker and drew a large X on the dummy’s back, right over its heart.
"Once you can turn with ease, start trying to speed up and increase the gravitational effect."
"The day you can control your Purple Crystal Rhombus at its fastest speed, have it launch from the front, loop around, and exit through this X on the dummy’s back—that’s when you’ll have mastered the basics."
Lin Ye listened intently, a wave of warmth spreading through his chest.
’This is what it means to have a good teacher and a true friend.’
For the rest of the afternoon, the Martial Arts Hall became Lin Ye’s personal training ground.