Chapter 189: Everyone, Look Here! Developing Lu Jian

Everyone, look! Development of Lu Jian's ability, help!!

Everyone, look! Development of Lu Jian's ability, help!!

The half of the previous chapter has been completed.

Then there are two things: one to share, one to consult.

First, sharing the discarded draft of the future development direction that Jie Chuan Ci Lang abandoned in this book.

The development direction originally given to Ci Lang was not the Sleep‑Dream style, but Drunken Immortal Ci Lang.

His elegance and agility are his strengths; his inner emptiness is his weakness. He just wants to play a sufficiently exquisite tennis match, but forgets that tennis is a pure competitive sport whose sole purpose is to win.

So he referenced the setting of the Wine Sword Immortal.

Based on the setting that Ri Ji Ruo excels in martial arts, Ci Lang was introduced into the Jackie Chan Drunken Fist Template, appearing drunk but not actually intoxicated, body drunk but mind not drunk.

Finally, a footwork technique similar to Celestial Wind Cloud Body Art was developed, along with a sword‑wielding style of ball‑control skill.

But it felt too disconnected from the Net King setting, so in the end I scrapped it.

Drunken Immortal Ci Lang was switched to Sleep‑Dream Ci Lang.

Last night I was tangled up to death, only thinking a short nap would clear my head, and ended up sleeping until dawn.

Although I am writing this book, I also read the comments and promptly adjust some of the outline's settings.

First, let me introduce my two different ideas about Lu Jian's ability.

The transformation of this ability was originally set, but when I began writing I started to wrestle with it again.

So it's easy to guess: Bai Shi's match will also incorporate Lu Jian's ability.

One is the setting I have always thought of before.

Honestly, this book is actually a work we all completed together, haha.

Therefore, before this part of the content is fully decided, I want to lick my face and consult everyone's thoughts.

The second is the content of the match between Jiecheng Wu and Bai Shi.

In the match against Sanada, Huang Lai Template has already perfectly merged (except ZONE); in the match against Mu Shou, the abilities of Qing Feng and Zi Yuan have perfectly merged.

【End】: When certain preconditions are met, the tennis ball struck by Jiecheng Wu cannot be returned, unless the opponent's strength is a level higher.

Development direction: fate‑type, order abilities.

Inspiration reference.

1. Lu Jian's obsession with astrological fate; before matches he always carries a lucky charm, often saying "Do one's best, listen to destiny."

So I wonder if, when he enters the Net King world, the abilities he develops will lean toward fate development;

2. A full‑court three‑pointer, after completing the triple threat, cannot be blocked once it leaves the hand, unless someone caps it with an ultra‑high jump.

3. Lu Jian's three‑point shots always hit, like an established order, just as water flows down, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

4. Lu Jian's other dimension, the three Norns of Norse mythology, each representing a stage of the other dimension. (The three goddesses cue a three‑pointer)

The woven lifeline, the source of life, is Kroto; the allocation of life ticks, representing the life journey, is Laxesis; the reclamation of the lifeline, representing the end of fate, is Atelopos.

They respectively symbolize the birth, change, and end of fate.

The three‑stage other‑dimensional Jiecheng Wu: "Do one's best, listen to destiny; you are human, I am heaven; from the moment you step onto the court, your fate has already been scripted, destined to march toward the final end."

These are things I have thought of long ago.

But before writing, I suddenly hesitated.

Should I make Lu Jian's ability so abstract that it differs so much from the intuitive image of a three‑point shot?

Would everyone like it written this way?

So I wrestled with the second ability.

【Lang Jinu Si's Spear】: wound‑inflicting output, projecting like a meteor streaking across the sky.

This is a spear that once pierced Jesus Christ, the only weapon to have ever harmed a god, thus also called the Fate Spear.

Inspiration reference:

1. The Fate Spear aligns with Lu Jian's fate attribute.

2. The opponent, known as the Bible, is Bai Shi; Lang Jinu Si's Spear, the fate‑piercing spear that pierced Jesus, might suit this match better.

3. The form of the technique matches a full‑court three‑pointer. (Historically, the original object was broken into three pieces, also cueing a three‑pointer.)

4. The other‑dimensional development direction of this move hasn't been decided yet, but it will most likely start from Lang Jinu Si's Spear.

In comparison.

Which setting would everyone prefer more?

After I set up the framework, I will finish the remaining parts based on everyone's suggestions.