Chapter 816: Glazed Ice Step (1/2, please subscribe)

What... what happened?

Fang Yue felt a bit dazed.

He was like an internet-addicted surfer on a high-speed board, suddenly having his cable yanked out—the whole person just froze.

The seawater before his eyes turned turbulent and unfathomable, utterly without pattern; he could no longer calculate the shape of the waves or the formation of their trajectories.

The surrounding wind force and wind direction became capricious and bizarre, ever-shifting, impossible to read in their trajectories—let alone turning the wind into an assist to boost his speed.

The Glazed Ice Step that had just been honed to a thousand-times-tempered mastery suddenly became unfamiliar and alien in an instant; he didn't even know where to place his next step, at a loss like a complete beginner.

Not the slightest trace of that earlier wondrous feeling of seeing through everything could be felt anymore.

The world was still that same world.

Only the way he looked at the world was no longer as clear as before—he had reverted to his mundane eyes.

River water was river water, sea breeze was sea breeze, carrying no special meaning; it was even less possible to see through the phenomenon to the essence, or to foresee the subsequent changes of the things around him.

He had become ordinary him again.

For a moment, Fang Yue felt a kind of vertigo—that enormous gap was like plummeting from the clouds into an abyss, hard to adjust to.

And yet Fang Yue had to admit: the way he looked now was the real him.

That earlier unfathomable state had been something he reached only by chance, by snatching a sliver of fortune from the Demon Corpse.

Although that state had vanished, in truth, what he had mastered was still imprinted in his mind.

It was just that losing the state all at once made Fang Yue unable to adjust for the moment.

Following the method in his memory, he kept swinging his legs.

Sure enough, the Glazed Ice Step was performed once more—only it had become very clumsy and stiff, like a beginner on ice skates, his figure barely able to stay steady, entirely relying on the momentum accumulated earlier to glide forward.

"Ye Ge! It's Ye Ge!"

"That's great! It's really Ye Ge!!"

"I knew Xiao Ye would definitely come back!"

"Hahahaha! Brother Ye has finally returned safe and sound!"

From the stationary great ship Han Jiang up ahead, familiar voices rang out one after another.

But Fang Yue had no energy to pay attention; all his focus was on the work of his feet.

Even after experiencing that special state of epiphany, the actual difficulty of using the Glazed Ice Step was still far greater than imagined.

It was a method of gathering internal force at the soles of the feet, using the many acupoints on the soles as the core to circulate the internal force.

And with every resonant circulation between the internal force and the acupoints, an intense special cold Qi would be unleashed!

This cold Qi could freeze the substance beneath one's feet in any environment, reshaping it into a special ice surface conducive to gliding.

Every time this special ice surface was formed, a small portion of internal force was consumed, left on the ice to maintain the structural stability of the surface.

Then, under the control of one's own will, the ice beneath one's feet could spread forward, or outward at any angle, forming an ice path.

This special ice path was the key to the Glazed Ice Step's ability to boost speed to the extreme!

As long as one was on this special ice surface and used the Glazed Ice Step, speed would receive the ultimate boost.

And the key within the key was internal force!

Only the internal force produced by the Frozen Heart Method could generate the internal force needed by the Glazed Ice Step, and could produce the special ice surface.

And while on this ice surface, the might of the Frozen Heart Method would also be amplified—the two complemented each other.

So these two techniques were actually mutually reinforcing, intimately linked special techniques; to unleash their might, neither could be missing!

Similar to the relationship between the Starfire Blade Technique and the Starfire Heart Method that Fang Yue had once cultivated, but in terms of effect, difficulty, and the tightness of their connection, they were not on the same level at all.

The relationship between the Frozen Heart Method and the Glazed Ice Step was even tighter; when the two worked together, the amplification was far beyond what any acquired-stage technique could compare to.

In Lord Han's inheritance, these two techniques alone had already made Fang Yue feel his strength had risen another level.

If he could gather that final sword technique as well, uniting the three, his strength would surely rise yet another floor!

But the Glazed Ice Step alone had already made Fang Yue dizzy; that final sword technique would probably also be extremely difficult to learn.

Fortunately, Fang Yue's Comprehension foundation was high, and combined with the fact that he had truly felt it out with this body during that earlier special epiphany state, by the time Fang Yue charged up to the great ship Han Jiang and leaped, he had roughly grasped the basic operation.

Although afterward he couldn't reach the terrifying proficiency of the epiphany state, at the very least it had reached the point of being usable.

Before the others crowded around him joyfully, Fang Yue opened the system prompt and glanced at it.

"System Prompt: Congratulations to player 【Yese Liming】 for learning 【Glazed Ice Step】."

"Name: Glazed Ice Step."

"Grade: Rain Grade."

"Layer: First Layer."

"Restriction: 10 points Comprehension, Human Realm, Frozen Heart Method 【First Layer】, 10,000 Force-Channeling Value, 10,000 Force-Dissipating Value."

"Description: Glazed Ice Step—treading on ice, none can match."

"Effect: When active, the substance beneath one's feet will freeze into ice; treading on ice, speed surges! Comes with the special effect 【Stacking Ice】!"

"Stacking Ice: While continuously gliding on the special ice surface created by internal force, speed will gradually stack, faster and faster! If interrupted, leaving the ice surface, or losing speed, this effect is lost and must be accumulated anew to obtain it again."

"Note: Friction, friction, on this smooth ice—step after step, it's the devil's step."

This system prompt had popped up very quickly after he had used it during that earlier epiphany state.

Only Fang Yue at that time hadn't noticed it at all—his mind had long been captivated by that epiphany state, completely oblivious to anything else.

The Glazed Ice Step, as a Rain Grade step technique, was several tiers above the Shadow-Treading Step in level, and the speed when activated was frighteningly fast.

Most importantly, it could stack!

As long as one wasn't interrupted and kept gliding on the ice surface, the speed amplification would only grow faster and faster, more and more outrageous.

Simply put, this was an operation-type skill with a low floor and a very high ceiling.

In the hands of an expert versus an ordinary person, it produced two entirely different effects.

Similar to how only killing monsters without taking damage can guarantee the maximum activation of the 【Stacked Ice】 special effect of the Glacial Ice Step.

Fang Yue had experienced that ultimate speed like racing a car during his epiphany state.

However, that seemed to have an upper limit; even so, that kind of speed was already at a level that跨越 tiers, not a speed that should exist at this level!

Moreover, Fang Yue vaguely felt that what limited the speed of the Glacial Ice Step in the epiphany state was not internal force or anything else, but his own body's strength. The self in epiphany seemed to know that that speed was already the limit, and that pushing further would damage his own body, so it controlled the speed.

(End of this chapter)