Myriad miles of wild sand seal the sword's fate, blood dyes the martial world, leaving no life behind.

Ultimate move against ultimate move,狂肆 xié style, battling boundless sword intent.

In that instant! Only black light pierced the void, a deadly flash advanced.

As the fighting spirit gradually subsided, the two were already standing back-to-back.

The battle of destiny, here, had determined the victor.

"Hoo—" Kuang Zong Jian Ying looked at the sky, exhaling a long breath, and then slowly said, "In the end, your skills are superior..."

At the same time, Feng Bujue, standing several meters behind him, his back turned, as if he had eyes on the back of his head... without even raising his head, he reached out and caught the nunchaku falling from the sky.

"Ah..." Feng Bujue continued, "Only by a hair's breadth."

This sentence should be regarded as Jue-ge's affirmation of Sword Demon, because he admitted to the "hair's breadth" that the other party said, and did not correct it to "a load."

"You guy..." However, after two seconds of silence, Sword Demon said with a wry smile, "...you're lying to me, aren't you?"

"Heh..." Feng Bujue also laughed, "You... I gave you a way out, and you don't want it."

At this moment, in fact, both of them already knew very well—the outcome of the final exchange just now had been decided long before both sides made their moves.

At the moment of throwing out the nunchaku, Feng Bujue had already calculated all the possibilities that would happen next; even the details such as "how high the nunchaku will fly after entering the swordless domain, how long it will fly, and where it will fall" could be accurately calculated by him, which shows that he has completely analyzed Sword Demon's moves and the strength of the sword qi (energy) in the swordless domain... He made his move with full confidence.

"No need." Sword Demon shook his head in response when he heard the words, "What you gave me is already enough."

As soon as he finished speaking, the injuries on his body finally broke out...

In an instant, only a "poof—" sound was heard, and a cloud of blood gushed out from the countless crack-like wounds in front of him.

Blood reflected the red glow of the sky, staining the yellow sand all over the ground.

The sword was defeated, the body died, and Kuang Zong Jian Ying fell to the ground in response, turning into light and disappearing.

When he fell, there was a look of relief on his face...

At least for Sword Demon personally, even if this peak battle journey ends with this battle, he has no regrets.

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"Not easy..." As soon as he returned to the viewing space, Feng Bujue lengthened his voice and howled in a tone of voice after engaging in heavy physical labor for a long time, "Exhausted!"

"Are you urging us to praise you a few words?" Ruoyu said, looking at him.

"Ha! How is that possible?" Jue-ge laughed and scanned everyone, "I don't expect you guys to praise me, so I directly and proactively flaunted my achievements and emphasized to you the fact that I have worked hard."

"Okay, okay... Seriously, this game was really well played." Miss An still said a fair word, "It's rare to see you not use any tricks, and win a head-on fight in a proper manner, and the opponent is still that Kuang Zong Jian Ying."

"But I still don't quite understand..." Snow had a problem again at this time, he looked at Jue-ge and said, "Why don't you use Chuck Norris's Shaver?" He paused and added, "In the previous rounds of the competition, it's fine if you don't use it, those opponents really don't have the strength to force you to use that item... But the last round against Qiu Fengse seems to be a bit of a suspense, right? And just now, if you shaved your head directly in the first thirty seconds, you could have won, right?"

"Tsk... Do I need you to tell me?" Feng Bujue's response did not surprise Snow, it was the especially arrogant type, "This is strategy, understand? Strategy!"

"So..." Snow narrowed his eyes and continued, "What exactly is the strategy..." He showed a rather helpless expression, "You said that forcibly selling blood to open the three-stage transformation when you fought Qiu Fengse last round was also a strategy, and insisting on not using the shaver this round is also a strategy... Is it real?"

"Don't you think you're quite smart? Think about it yourself." Feng Bujue immediately looked at Snow with a contemptuous look and said, "Also, don't you think you have too many questions? Who gave you the right to ask so many? Don't you know that the final question right of this team belongs to Wang Tanzhi?"

"Uh..." Facing such cheap power, Snow was speechless.

"Wait a minute..." At this time, Xiao Ling suddenly showed a look of enlightenment, "In this way... After the last round against Qiu Fengse, the 'strategy' you were talking about... is it true?"

"Hey hey... Your reflex arc is a bit long..." Jue-ge said, "Could it be that you're pregnant?"

"Well... it's possible." Xiao Tan didn't get the point that this sentence was saying that his wife had become stupid, and nodded thoughtfully.

Then he was beaten by his wife...

"Pregnant your head!" Xiao Ling raised her hand and gave Xiao Tan a "chestnut", then turned her head and said to Jue-ge, "What does this have to do with my reflex arc? The last time you said that, it sounded like an excuse you found after playing off, who would take it seriously and deduce it."

"Okay, okay... then it's my fault." Feng Bujue spread his hands and looked at everyone, "Then you all know now, right? There is indeed strategic significance behind my behavior."

"After knowing it, it's not a very difficult strategy to guess." Xiao Ling has a quick mind. After confirming that Jue-ge's so-called "strategy" is not nonsense, she almost said the correct answer without thinking, "To put it bluntly... this is to convey 'some information' to players from other teams, right?"

After her reminder, everyone also reacted.

"Oh!" Snow patted his forehead and stared at Jue-ge with wide eyes, "In this way... in the match against Qiu Fengse, you just wanted to tell others that 'Feng Bujue can use other players' skills'?"

"To be precise..." Jue-ge replied, "What I want to convey is the information that 'Feng Bujue can use the skills he sees in the competition for his own use'."

"So... the three-stage transformation you used in that match were all skills used by players from other teams in this S3 competition... and they were all impressive and visually easy to identify transformation skills." Ruoyu followed his train of thought and continued.

"That's right." Feng Bujue continued, "There is a reason for opening those three transformations. If it was just to win, I would have opened Soul Advent as well."

"Oh?" Xu Huaishang, who was on the side, heard this and his expression changed slightly, "You can even use Soul Advent?"

"Yes, I can." Feng Bujue replied, "In fact... the principle of most S-level abilities is not that complicated. The reason why these abilities are high-level is only because the energy intensity is high and the consumption is high when they are generated..." He paused for half a second and added, "Of course, there are also some abilities that I can't learn or can't use, such as the Battle Demon Descent that has lost the source of its power, and the 'left and right hands' that Gui Xiao mastered through the blood sacrifice of official NPC."

"Wait a minute." The next second, Ruoyu said again, "We can talk about how many skills you can learn later... The problem now is, what exactly is the purpose of your strategy? Why do you want to let people from other teams know that you can use other people's skills?"

"It's very simple." Jue-ge spread his hands and replied, "To set obstacles for their next game psychologically."

"In other words..." Xu Huaishang murmured, "They will be afraid to use powerful skills randomly in the game because of your concerns?"

"Yes." Feng Bujue continued, "Especially those strong teams that have hope of winning the championship or the desire to win the championship... They, or the team behind them, must consider the possibility of encountering me in a certain round in the future; in order not to let some of their trump cards become weapons that will turn against them in the future, they have to make adjustments in all aspects from troop deployment to skill tactics selection."

Hearing this, An Yueqin didn't understand a bit, "But... even so, the gap between those strong teams and the casual player teams is still impossible to narrow, they will still win the games they should win, and they won't lose because they have hidden a few big moves." She curled her lips, "Your strategy, at most, will only affect the outcome of the battle between the two strong teams; and for us, it's not beneficial at all... On the contrary, it will make those strong teams keep their trump cards until they meet us."

"No... no..." A second later, before Jue-ge could answer, Ruoyu took over with a thoughtful look, "This move is very useful..."

"Eh?" An Yueqin wondered, "How do you say that?"

"Let me explain it." Feng Bujue smiled at Ruoyu, who had already understood, with a rather proud expression, and then looked at the others and said, "First of all, about the duel between strong teams and weak teams... I didn't expect those seed teams to lose to casual player teams because of this 'restriction' that I set, but... in order to defend against me, the difficulty of winning the game will inevitably increase, and the process may become more tortuous as a result."

"Well... in order to hide some things, they expose more things instead..." Snow appropriately interjected.

Feng Bujue didn't respond to his words, but cast a look of affirmation at him and continued, "Secondly, the situation of the two strong teams fighting each other... that's not a problem at all; in that kind of strong-strong duel with similar strength, neither side can increase the risk of the entire game in front of them for the sake of a victory or defeat that has not yet arrived and may not come... To take a step back, even if they really want to hide something, they may not have that extra strength."

"That's true..." An Yueqin nodded, "Hiding big moves' is indeed only possible when there is a certain gap in strength between the two teams."

"So, the statement 'Let those strong teams keep their trump cards until they meet us' does not exist." Feng Bujue shrugged and continued, "When two strong teams meet, the big moves that should be opened still have to be opened as usual."

"Eh? Thinking about it this way..." An Yueqin said again, "If people ignore you from the beginning, just pretend that they don't know that you can learn other people's skills... won't it be fine if they just play as they should?"

"That's right." Feng Bujue said with a smile, "But that's impossible."

He was right, that was impossible...

Many people should have heard this example: When a person faces a small stream two meters wide, he can jump over it easily, but when he comes to the edge of a canyon that is exactly the same width as the small stream, he has the illusion that the canyon is wider than the small stream and that he may not be able to jump over it.

This is the impact of "psychological pressure" on people.

In this world, not only does the "unknown" bring fear, but "known" can also be used to create fear.

The timer on a bomb, the food reserves in a closed space, the battery level on a mobile phone that is running out, one's own age... these visible and knowable things all belong to the latter.

There are many things that don't matter when you don't know them, but once you know them, psychological pressure will be generated...

People will be disturbed by this pressure, and thus fear, retreat, become abnormal, and change...

Feng Bujue's first strategy was a means of applying pressure on a psychological level—if other seed teams didn't know that he could learn skills, then nothing would happen to them, but once they knew, they couldn't be indifferent.

Even if someone tells them to just play as usual and ignore this matter, but when it comes to the game... especially when fighting against those casual teams whose strength is different from their own, they will still overcorrect because of this psychological pressure.

As a result, as Snow said—in order to hide some things, more things are exposed instead.

"Okay... I understand what you mean." An Yueqin thought for a while and said, "I have roughly figured out the reasons why you kept holding back until the tenth round to do this, so..." She asked again, "What is the strategic significance of your insistence on not using Chuck Norris's Shaver?"

"It's for Gui Xiao." At this moment, Xu Huaishang suddenly interjected.

As the only professional player in the club, her emphasis on opponents like Gui Xiao is self-evident, so she thought of the point immediately and made this reasonable and well-founded speculation...

"Yeah." Feng Bujue responded, looked at Xu Huaishang and said, "After all, that kid is the only one I know besides me who can see through the data... Although he hasn't shown any ability to 'learn other people's skills' so far, he has mastered the 'data perspective' for much longer than me, and it's hard to say whether he has deliberately hidden some kind of power similar to mine or even stronger."

"Wait a minute..." Snow heard this and said again, "Since he can see through the data, then does it make a difference whether you use it or not? He can see it as long as it's in your knapsack."

"That's okay." Feng Bujue said, "As long as I don't take it out and use it, what he can see is nothing more than the special effect description of 'giving you a cool appearance', how can he know anything?"

"Well..." Snow recalled, indeed... in all the publicly available video data of Thriller Paradise, there are no scenes of Jue-ge shaving his head and fighting; he himself only learned about the actual effect of the shaver after joining Hell's Frontline and hearing his teammates say it, he really wouldn't understand it just by looking at the item description, "That makes sense..." Snow thought to himself, "However... you have done this to prevent him alone... From a certain point of view, can you be considered to be affected by the psychological pressure exerted by Gui Xiao?"

"Where~ ah..." Feng Bujue stared at his dead fish eyes and continued, "Swallowing Heaven Ghost Xiao has never been a psychological obstacle; from beginning to end, he has been an objectively existing and unavoidable problem, all teams or individuals who want to win the championship have to face him and find a practical solution. From this point of view, everything I have done so far is a matter of course, and I will stick to these things until I fight him." Speaking of this, he paused and changed the subject, "Of course, if you have to talk about psychological warfare, he has indeed made similar attempts..."

"You mean..." Ruoyu understood what Jue-ge meant, "...his deliberate performance when fighting Shiva?"

"Ah..." Jue-ge responded, "That kind of 'showing off' childish approach, although it seems very clumsy and redundant to me, but generally speaking... that's his way of conveying information, right?" He tilted his head and continued, "Everyone knows that he is ridiculously strong, he doesn't need to put pressure on people in this way... A more reasonable explanation is that this kid wants to convey the message 'I'm just so strong, you clean your neck and wait for me' to a few or one person... for example... me."

"Well..." Snow pondered for two seconds and continued, "If this conclusion were said by someone else, I might say that he is 'self-righteous', but if it's you... I always feel that there can be a big feud here..."

"Okay, if he really has any feud, I'll be the one to bear it... Besides, how do you know that's not another one of my strategies?" Feng Bujue raised his eyebrows and said, "In short, what you should prioritize now is not the feud between me and Gui Xiao, but how to deal with the sister and brother combination on the other side in the upcoming 'middle battle'."