Chapter 602: Terrifying Agility! Xia Lan

BOOM!!

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

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

"So this is the Phantom Thunder Step," Xu Jingming murmured, his eyes glinting slightly.

Although he had already studied the combat manual, there was a vast difference between reading it and truly mastering it.

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

"Too bad this villa's training room is too small—there's no room to use it."

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

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

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.

Spatial ability—elusive and unpredictable.

Yeah, her it is!

The Water-Storage Sky Tiger is a lord-level beast unique to Dayangzhou.

Xia Lan had bought meat from a fifth-rank Water-Storage Sky Tiger.

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

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

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

And they all tasted 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 for the most realistic duels.

"You really want to fight me?"

Xia Lan asked eagerly.

As a fifth-rank adept, she couldn't possibly defeat sixth-rank Xu Jingming.

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

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

Even so, even at seventh-rank upper limit, she might still not beat Xu Jingming.

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

"I'm just testing my movement technique—go ahead, don't hold 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 kind of 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, spatial power spreading wildly, making her seem almost ethereal.

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

Xia Lan's form flickered—and vanished from her spot.

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

Void Flash!

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

Xu Jingming's Thunder Flash was different—it was merely afterimages created by extreme speed.

SWISH!!

Xia Lan was now 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 Talent Training Camp, she was no mere ornament.

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

She was certain even a seventh-rank peak adept would die instantly under this blow!

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

Next, Xu Jingming slipped away like a slick eel, dodging the strike entirely.

More importantly, he hadn't moved far—his body was still only centimeters from her dagger!

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

With the Phantom Thunder Step, he felt his agility had never been this extraordinary.

"Again!" Xia Lan lunged forward, slashing with her dagger—but again, she missed.

"I don't believe it!"

Her almond eyes narrowed, and she attacked once more.

With the seventh-rank upper-limit power granted by the virtual world and her formidable spatial ability,

Xia Lan's strike speed was terrifying.

Yet Xu Jingming, wreathed in golden lightning, didn't use any other technique.

He moved as calmly as if strolling through a garden, effortlessly evading each lethal strike.

At first, Xia Lan refused to accept it—but the longer she fought, the more she doubted reality itself.

If Xu Jingming had activated his enhancement state, boosting his physique,

or used a dash-type movement technique, she could understand missing him.

But now—he was just barely avoiding her blade by centimeters, yet she couldn't land a single hit!

"I give up! You're as slippery as an eel—I can't even touch you!"

After more than ten minutes, Xia Lan finally snapped.

This level of combat intensity meant nothing to her.

But without using spatial lockdown techniques, she had absolutely no way to land a hit on Xu Jingming!

"Already giving up?" Xu Jingming still felt unsatisfied.

Unlike dash-type movement techniques like Thunder Flash, the Phantom Thunder Step emphasized fine-tuned control.

When activated, the lightning surrounding his body acted like a sensory radar.

As soon as an attack came, his body reacted instinctively—no conscious thought needed.

And as Su Qingli had said, the Phantom Thunder Step could still be used even while activating the Thunder Dragon Wings.

Xia Lan's power had been artificially boosted in the virtual world, so she wasn't comparable to a true seventh-rank upper-limit master.

Yet even without any enhancement state, just using the Phantom Thunder Step, he'd achieved this effect—it was already incredibly strong.

"If I activated Thunder Storm State and then used the Phantom Thunder Step,

Katharine might not have even gotten close to me on the Talent Competition stage."

Xu Jingming thought silently.

Besides, this was only the basic level of the Phantom Thunder Step—he could still invest more points to increase its proficiency.