Every slash, every finger strike, the very flavor of the Law contained in each of his opponent's attacks—all of it was repeatedly digested, deconstructed, and comprehended, amplified by absolute focus and hundredfold time.
The flashes of inspiration that had flickered by mid-battle now became incredibly clear.
"A blade... it's not just a tool for slaughter. It's an extension of will, power, and Law..." Li Wen muttered, giving his wrist a slight flick.
HUM!
A beam of blade light, condensed to the absolute limit, silently slashed out.
It lacked an earth-shattering aura, but it carried a strange sense of "stagnation," as if the flow of time paused slightly wherever the blade light passed.
This was a new insight into "stillness" and "flow," born from his hundredfold temporal perception and his integration of the annihilation concept from the All Things Return to Ruins Finger.
He began to move upon the flowing river of time.
