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Tao Sai had only one thought in his mind: if Lan Xiaojia saw this scene, she would probably explode with anger on the spot.
She didn't have much time to think about anything else. Cheng Li was already lunging at her. Tao Sai quickly stood up and, in a flash, raised her arm to block his punch.
Cheng Li's attack continued without stopping. When his punch was blocked, he immediately retracted his fist and threw another hook. This time the distance was closer and the speed was too fast to block. Tao Sai could only protect his head with his arms.
The hook punch hit her forearm hard. She was thin, with slender arms and no muscles. The punch was a collision between the fist and the forearm bone.
A sharp pain suddenly struck her arm, and the force of the fist knocked her back half a step.
Cheng Li's eyes were dull, and he wouldn't give her even a second to breathe. He exerted force from his hips and kicked forward with his leg.
Tao Sai reacted quickly, spun to the side, and the tactical boot narrowly missed her abdomen by a mere two or three centimeters. Cheng Li retracted his leg and kicked again, repeatedly. Tao Sai retreated, helplessly using her arm, still aching, to block. After several consecutive kicks, the pain was piercing, and Tao Sai gritted her teeth, enduring the pain until her forearm went completely numb.
After retreating to the cabin, Tao Sai turned around and ran in, swinging his arms as he ran in an attempt to relieve some of the pain.
Cheng Li pursued relentlessly, but as he entered the hatch, he suddenly lost sight of his target. He listened for any movement, cautiously treading against the wall, arms raised to his chest to protect his head. Just then, a figure nimbly lunged at him from the second-floor guardrail. Cheng Li, perceptive enough to detect the sound, turned his head to assess the situation, and ducked backward.
Tao Sai, who was flying over, clenched the spring knife in his hand and slashed it hard in the air, drawing a crescent-shaped cold light, but the blade just brushed past his chest and missed.
Cheng Li, bent over and falling to the ground, swung his legs, exerting force from his waist, and flipped nimbly up with a somersault. Meanwhile, Tao Sai, on the other side, missed her attack, rolled over on the ground several times, and stumbled to her feet. She looked up with a startled look. Cheng Li had already rushed to her face as she was climbing. He threw an unhesitating uppercut, so fast that it was almost invisible, and it hit Tao Sai directly on the chin.
A crisp, crunching sound reached Tao Sai's ears. Her jaw was definitely dislocated. The punch shook her head so much that her brain was almost shaken. She suppressed the dizziness and firmly grasped Cheng Li's arm, which was about to be pulled back. Then she turned around, her back facing him, and suddenly exerted force with both arms, using her shoulders as a support point, and threw him forward fiercely.
The explosive force of more than 20 points of strength attribute directly threw a strong man weighing about 160 pounds several meters away. Cheng Li landed on his back, slid on the floor for a few meters, and hit the corner of the wall.
Tao Sai also didn't give him a second to breathe. She jumped up again. She leaped in the air and hit him hard with her elbows and knees, the most lethal parts of her body.
Even a muscular man like Cheng Li howled in pain after being hit hard in the chest by Tao Sai's knee.
Tao Sai pressed on him, clenched his fists, and punched him in the face without saying a word. There was no reason not to retaliate after being hit by a heavy punch.
Suddenly, she caught sight of a punch coming towards her and grabbed his wrist before he could react, neutralizing his counterattack. But before she could relax, Cheng Li's head slammed forward, giving Tao Sai an unexpected headbutt.
With a loud bang, Cheng Li's hard head hit Tao Sai's forehead without any force relief, just like a football player's full-strength header. Her body was knocked backwards by the huge impact.
Tao Sai fell to the ground, feeling dizzy and as if his skull was shattered.
Cheng Li is a real killing machine. Nothing can happen. He doesn't care about his own pain. He only executes the order of "attack her".
He possesses excellent fighting skills. The ability to withstand blows is the most important indicator in fighting. Coupled with the blessing of the illusion, these injuries have no effect on him at all.
Before Tao Sai could recover from her lying on the ground, he had already stood up and pressed his face against her again, grabbing her upper body with both hands, easily lifting her up, and then throwing her down with all his strength.
She was thrown out and hit the metal railing, breaking it and rolling down the stairs.
With 40 points of resistance, Tao Sai's ability to withstand blows is also strong, but she needs to slow down after the continuous heavy blows.
After rolling on the stairs a few times, she grabbed the railing and climbed up, then quickly ran to the next cabin, entered the nearest room, closed the door, and the sturdy cabin door could temporarily keep her safe.
Tao Sai leaned against the wall, breathing heavily, and was soon covered in sweat.
In order to practice close combat skills, she deliberately did not use any skills, but even without using any skills, she still felt exhausted.
Part of the reason was that the body's rapid recovery after the injury consumed energy, and the other part of the reason was naturally the intense close combat between her and Cheng Li. In just a few minutes of fighting, Tao Sai felt that the intensity was greater than half an hour of anaerobic exercise. She had to maintain absolute concentration at all times, and every muscle and every joint in her body was in a triggered state, which really could exercise people.
After catching his breath, Tao Sai carefully grabbed the door handle, listened to the movement outside, and quietly opened the cabin door.
She had just peeked out when the hatch suddenly kicked open, sending Tao Sai crashing down. Cheng Li rushed in, grabbed a chair, and slammed it down on her head. Tao Sai dodged left and right, avoiding the blows, but the room was too narrow, forcing her into a corner with no way to retreat or evade. She gritted her teeth and, despite the pain, threw a punch at him.
With the huge disparity in fighting power, Tao Sai had little strength to fight back. The pain all over her body made it difficult for her to bear. She was distracted and was picked up and thrown to the ground by Cheng Li again.
Tao Sai fell to the ground, in extreme pain. His strength was completely exhausted and he no longer had the energy to dodge.
There was still a dull look in Cheng Li's eyes. He moved without hesitation or pause as he indifferently lifted up the chair that had been deformed by his smash and delivered the final fatal blow.
Tao Sai raised his arm, aimed his T7 pistol, and pulled the trigger. With a bang, the bullet hit Cheng Li's forehead accurately. He fell backwards after being shot.
Tao Sai gasped, waiting for him to fall to the ground and struggle until he died.
Then the illusion was broken.
In fact, if she closed her eyes just now and let him pick up the chair and smash her to death, she would have escaped from the illusion. But in the end, she couldn't help herself. She would never give her opponent a chance to kill her, not even in her own illusion.
The challenge failed.
Cheng Li is a bona fide boss in the illusion. He possesses all the illusion's attribute bonuses. As a physical monster, he possesses an endless supply of strength. He's also agile, with swift reactions, astonishing attack speed, and agile movements. He also possesses acute perception, extending his vision beyond obstacles. Finally, his resistance to damage is crucial. If his resistance were represented by a health bar, he'd likely have four or five, while Tao Sai might only have a thin one.
Without using weapons and skills, it is almost impossible for Tao Sai to defeat this boss at the moment.
Although it is difficult and challenging, Tao Sai will not be discouraged and she will continue to try.
There is a high probability that she will still fail next time, but she will improve through repeated failures. Actual experience is the best teacher.
In the next hour, Tao Sai once again asked Cheng Li to pull her into the illusion and gave the order to attack her.
During this hour, she went from being able to hold out for only a few minutes and flee the entire time to gradually being able to hold out. In the final round, she held out for a full fifteen minutes. They fought from the deck to the bottom cabin, from the kitchen to the anchor locker, causing him considerable damage in the fight.
Tao Sai woke up from the illusion, and her exhausted physical strength was restored to normal. She was very satisfied with such progress. She was confident that she would be able to face Cheng Li head-on in a few days.
However, today's fighting training can only stop here. After a few exciting sparring sessions, although her physical strength has recovered, mental damage is inevitable. The feeling in the illusion is real. Her one-hour sparring is not much easier than a life-and-death fight.
Tao Sai paused for a moment.
In the next period of time, she plans to switch to the next training program.
Tao Sai removed the [Illusionary Realm] from Cheng Li and reinstalled it on herself. In her own illusion, her ability attributes were greatly improved, but if she trained herself in her own illusion, the training results would not be of much reference value.
But the training program she was going to conduct was skill proficiency.
Using skills consumes energy, and continuous use will exhaust physical strength, but in the illusion, skills can be used infinitely and there is no skill cooldown. This is the best way Tao Sai can think of to practice skills.
There's nothing much to say about individual skills, just activate and use them according to the skill description. She mainly wants to practice combination skills.
For example, the "Gravity Slingshot" combination of [Gravity Adaptive] and [Tempered] was a good example. After numerous practice sessions and actual combat, she had mastered some of the techniques and was using them fairly well, but she felt there was still room for improvement. Using both skills simultaneously consumed a significant amount of energy, and regular practice would exhaust her. However, in the illusion, she could practice extensively and repeatedly.
Tao Sai firmly believes that "practice makes perfect" and that the saying "the more skilled you are, the bolder you are" is not an empty statement. She fully believes that she can turn two skills into one through continuous practice, making the activation of the skills become muscle memory and integrated into her body instincts.
She walked onto the deck, and it was still raining heavily outside. But getting wet didn't matter, as she was the only one in this dreamland.
She leaped up a cliff about ten meters high, and then used the "gravity slingshot" to leap again and again in the primeval forest on the shore, fully feeling the best time to activate [Tempering], feeling the simultaneous force of her ankles and toes, feeling the change of gravity from maximum to minimum, and feeling the use of her core strength to maintain the best posture to reduce air resistance.
After half an hour, she counted herself and found she had done 200 exercises, which was more than enough.
Then Tao Sai was going to practice the "double displacement" combination of [teleportation] and [clone] that he had conceived before.
The maximum distance of [teleportation] is five meters, and the maximum distance of throwing the clone forward is about ten meters. If it can be done as Tao Sai expected, she can move fifteen meters in an instant.
Instantaneous displacement of fifteen meters is a rather exaggerated concept. When you advance, you can instantly rush in close to the enemy and kill the squishy tank in one second like an assassin in the game. When you retreat, you can escape in one second and get away quickly.
The specific steps of using "double displacement" are to throw the clone forward first, then transfer the consciousness to the clone in seconds, and activate [teleport] at the moment of completing the first displacement. In this way, a person can rush to fifteen meters away in less than a second.
The difficulty of this combination skill lies in the change of perspective. Switching the perspective of the [clone] is dizzying enough, and then launching a displacement in milliseconds, and then quickly adapting to the surrounding environment and entering combat state, which is very difficult.
But now Tao Sai can practice repeatedly and use a lot of practice to adapt to the discomfort caused by the perspective switch.
The activation of "Double Displacement" is much faster than that of "Gravity Slingshot" because "Gravity Slingshot" still has a process of catapulting and sliding, while she can do "Double Displacement" more than twenty times in one minute without consumption.
Tao Sai chose a relatively flat area in the woods and practiced the "double displacement" repeatedly back and forth. After less than ten minutes, she could kick a mineral water bottle hanging on a treetop fifteen meters away at the moment the displacement ended, and she would not miss the target like the first time.
She wasn't satisfied with this, because battle scenarios were ever-changing, and advancing in a straight line offered relatively few variables. She thought it wasn't necessary to advance in a straight line, perhaps she could turn or something.
Five minutes later, Tao Sai had a preliminary idea in his mind.
When facing an enemy within ten meters, first throw the still illusory clone forward. While the clone is sliding, the main body will initiate [Teleport] to the front and upwards. At this time, the person in mid-air can best attract the enemy's attention. When the enemy is attracted by the figure in mid-air, the clone will take shape, switch its consciousness to the clone, and then kill the enemy in front of it in seconds.
In this way, the original position, the position teleported in mid-air, and the enemy's position are no longer a straight line, but form an acute triangle.
She named this the "Tao Triangle Kill."
The last thing to practice is the [Space Fold] plus [Thunder] that I learned from Minghao. This seems to be a good skill combination.
Tao Sai had never used [Thunder] before, and only imitated it in the illusion.
After equipping [Thunder] in the skill slot, she attempted to activate it. She spread her palms, a few scattered arcs of electricity swirling around them. Over time, the white plasma light gathered more and more, gradually converging into a fist-sized ball of light. She blasted it at a tree directly in front of her. With a loud bang, a hole exploded in the trunk, piercing straight through.
It was powerful, but not as powerful as Minghao's first attack on her clone last night. That thunderbolt not only exploded her head, but also shattered a container with its impact. He must have stored up his strength for longer.
[Thunder] requires charging to inflict damage, and the longer it's charged, the higher the damage. She guessed the steps involved, thinking it should be done in one place, then a space wormhole would be opened, and then it would be unleashed on the target in an instant.
The combination of these two skills is a powerful weapon for assassination. Once the specific coordinates of the target are known, it can be killed with one blow.
An hour later, Tao Sai meticulously completed the training task she set for herself and took the initiative to close the illusion. If these three combined skills are used well, coupled with her fighting skills, she will become a top master in the true sense.
After exiting the illusion, Tao Sai browsed through her skill list and found a "×2" in bold font after the skill [Space Warp - Level A]. She had first snatched one from Cao Yu, and then another one from killing Ming Hao last night.
When her sight focus hovered over the font, a dialog box popped up next to it, prompting her that she could perform the [Fusion Upgrade] operation.
Tao Sai hesitated for a moment, deciding between keeping two [Space Warp] or [Fusion Upgrade]. Keeping two would allow her to use one for herself and equip the other to another [character]. However, since she rarely needed to use both [Space Warp] at the same time, she decisively chose [Fusion Upgrade].
After completing the operation, the eye-catching "×2" font disappeared. She then clicked on [Space Warp] in the skill list. In the text description, the maximum range of the space wormhole increased from 500 kilometers to 1000 kilometers, and the skill level also increased from A to A+.
Did it just double the distance? That's a huge loss. Two 500km teleport skills seem much more useful than one 1000km teleport skill.
Tao Sai frowned and wondered if there were any hidden benefits that were not reflected in the text description?
She opened a space vortex in front of her eyes, and at the other end of the wormhole was the large empty warehouse of the "Deep Sea Fish" several hundred meters away.
She walked in slowly, and suddenly her eyes lit up as she thought of something.
She had used [Space Warp] many times, and each time she activated it, she knew the energy consumption at different distances. Just this time, through a wormhole a few hundred meters away, she could clearly feel that the energy consumption was half that of the original [Space Warp]. She tried several more wormholes at closer distances, and sure enough, the energy consumption was half that of the previous one.
After repeated experiments and verification, Tao Sai came to a conclusion.
It can be expressed by the formula: energy consumption per unit distance × distance = total energy consumption of [space folding].
If the "total energy consumption of [space folding]" remains unchanged, but the "distance" is doubled, then the "energy consumption per unit distance" should be halved accordingly to keep both sides of the equation equal.
Tao Sai nodded with satisfaction, mathematics never deceives him.
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