Chapter 602

Boom!!

Countless experiences and memories regarding the "Phantom Thunder Step" exploded in his mind.

Within just a few breaths, Xu Jingming fully mastered this combat technique.

"So this is the Phantom Thunder Step," Xu Jingming's eyes glowed slightly.

Although he had already studied the combat technique's secret manual, studying it and truly mastering it were vastly different.

He clearly realized that once the Phantom Thunder Step was activated, his agility would reach an utterly terrifying level!

"Too bad this villa's training room is too small to use it."

As a sixth-rank psychic, Xu Jingming could cover a hundred meters in a single sprint.

The villa's hundred-square-meter training room was fine for warm-up exercises.

But testing a movement-based combat technique like this? Impossible to fully unleash.

"Forget it, I'll head straight to the virtual world later."

"Also, I need an opponent—preferably one with sufficient agility..."

Xu Jingming glanced at Xia Lan, who was enthusiastically cooking in the kitchen.

Space-type psychic ability, elusive and unpredictable.

Hmm, she's perfect!

Yunshui Tianhu is a lord-level ferocious beast unique to Dayangzhou.

Xia Lan had bought meat from a fifth-rank Yunshui Tianhu.

Ordinary people couldn't even cut the flesh, let alone cook it.

But Xia Lan, wielding space power, effortlessly sliced it apart with her Void Blade.

In less than an hour, she prepared a full table of dishes.

And the taste was excellent.

Just this alone justified Eva's praise of her as virtuous.

After lunch, Xu Jingming brought up the idea of sparring in the virtual world.

Xia Lan didn't refuse; she sat beside Xu Jingming on the sofa and put on the neural helmet.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

In the virtual world, an endless grassland stretched before them.

Xu Jingming and Xia Lan were teleported in, one behind the other.

This was the virtual world's combat mode, allowing both sides to engage in the most realistic battle possible.

"You really want to fight me?"

Xia Lan asked eagerly.

As a fifth-rank psychic, she naturally couldn't defeat sixth-rank Xu Jingming.

But in virtual world combat mode, one could freely set their own power level.

And she had set hers to seventh-rank upper tier!

Even so, seventh-rank upper tier might still not be enough to beat Xu Jingming.

More importantly, Xu Jingming said he wouldn't activate his enhancement state!

"I'm just testing my movement-based combat technique—go ahead without holding back."

Xu Jingming said casually.

He wouldn't enter Thunder Extreme State or Thunder Storm State, nor would he activate his Mind Net's passive perception.

He wanted to see what state the Phantom Thunder Step could achieve under these conditions.

"Oh?"

Xia Lan's eyebrows lifted slightly; she realized this might be her only chance to ever defeat Xu Jingming.

Her body grew warm with excitement, space power spreading wildly, making her entire form appear ethereal.

"If that's the case, then I'm coming!"

Xia Lan's figure flickered and vanished instantly.

When she reappeared, she was already behind Xu Jingming, hundreds of meters away!

Void Flash!

A Class-A space combat technique—except for a fraction-of-a-second casting delay, it was nearly identical to teleportation!

Xu Jingming's Lei Shan was different; it was merely afterimages created by extreme speed.

Swish!!

Xia Lan was less than five centimeters behind Xu Jingming.

Her dagger, gleaming with cold light, struck like a venomous snake toward his neck!

As a student of the Heaven's Prodigy Training Camp, she was no mere ornament.

This strike was swift and precise, amplified by the physical prowess of a seventh-rank upper-tier psychic.

She felt even a seventh-rank peak psychic would die instantly under this blow!

But at that moment, golden lightning like mist suddenly spread out.

Next, Xu Jingming slipped away like a slippery eel, dodging the strike entirely!

More crucially, he hadn't moved far at all—his body was still only a few centimeters from her dagger!

"Looks like that's not so impressive after all," Xu Jingming blinked.

With the Phantom Thunder Step's enhancement, he felt his movement had never been this agile.

"Again!" Xia Lan lunged forward, swinging her dagger once more—but again, she missed.

"I just refuse to believe it!"

Her apricot eyes widened slightly, and Xia Lan struck again.

Under the seventh-tier upper rank bestowed by the virtual world, and her formidable spatial abilities.

Xia Lan's swinging speed could only be called terrifying!

But Xu Jingming, with golden Lei Guang suffusing his whole body, didn't employ any other combat techniques either.

As if taking a leisurely stroll through a courtyard, he dodged these lethal attacks one after another with ease.

At first Xia Lan still refused to believe it, but the more she fought, the more she began to doubt her life.

If Xu Jingming had activated an amplification state, strengthening his physique.

Or used an advancing-type movement combat technique, missing would be understandable.

But right now, every single time it was just a few centimeters short, yet that dagger simply couldn't land on Xu Jingming!

"I'm done, I'm done! You're as slippery as a loach! I just can't hit you at all!"

Over ten minutes later, Xia Lan finally couldn't take it anymore.

This level of combat intensity was nothing to her.

But when she wasn't allowed to use her spatial-type binding combat techniques, she simply had no way to deal with Xu Jingming!

"Giving up already?" Xu Jingming was still somewhat reluctant to part.

Unlike the advancing-type movement combat technique 'Lei Shan,' Phantom Thunder Step places greater emphasis on subtle control.

When executing Phantom Thunder Step, the Lei Guang suffusing around his body essentially functions as a sensing radar.

Once an attack descends, he doesn't even need to think about it himself—his body naturally reacts.

Moreover, just as Teacher Su Qingli said, this Phantom Thunder Step can still be executed while using Thunder Dragon Wings.

Xia Lan's strength had been forcibly boosted within the virtual world, so naturally it couldn't compare to a true seventh-tier upper rank Grandmaster.

But he hadn't used any amplification state either, achieving such an effect with only Phantom Thunder Step—already very impressive.

"If I activate Thunderstorm State and then execute Phantom Thunder Step.

Back then on the genius tournament's arena, Catherine probably wouldn't have even had a chance to touch me."

Xu Jingming thought silently to himself.

Besides, this was only the beginner level of Phantom Thunder Step—he could still continue adding points and increase his proficiency.