"The power of time?"
Long Na'er felt a little jealous as she sensed Chen Ming's mind enter an overclocked state.
How should she put it? Although she was the Silver Dragon King and had theoretically inherited all of the Dragon God's elements,
in reality, out of the nine Dragon Kings' powers, she only possessed seven. Not only did the stabilizing attribute form the Golden Dragon King's body on his side, even the trait of time belonged to the Golden Dragon King.
In truth, the attributes she controlled were only seven: Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, Light, Darkness, and Space. She could only derive some secondary attributes and indirectly interfere with time a little.
If she could complete the power of time, her strength could at least be strengthened by ten to twenty percent. Unfortunately, there was no way to make up for the time power she lacked.
After all, she was born without that trait and without the corresponding talent.
In Chen Ming's eyes, Long Na'er's movements were broken down into several different scenes — scenes that had just happened, scenes happening right now, and scenes that would happen soon.
Three different scenes coming together was enough to throw an ordinary person's mind into chaos or even collapse, but Chen Ming was able to analyze them in detail.
With full confidence, Chen Ming controlled his power to clash against the Silver Dragon Spear. Various elements collided with each other. Powerful forces were unleashed again and again, but each time they were blocked in a perfectly timed manner.
This was unreasonable. According to his calculations, this shouldn't have happened.
With the same amount of Spirit Power, Chen Ming's should have been stronger, yet he was losing in the clashes.
It was not that Chen Ming's control over energy was weaker.
Instead, there was some special area where Chen Ming was blank.
Because of that, Long Na'er could suppress him one-sidedly, and even break his abilities apart again and again.
Chen Ming used his body to take several stabs head-on. His defense, which even a Spirit Saint could not easily break, was pierced by the Silver Dragon Spear again and again.
His energy was drained several times.
Only then, through being beaten, did Chen Ming finally feel what he was missing compared to Long Na'er.
In theory, his energy flow was already the best.
But Long Na'er did not follow reason.
The theoretical best was only the best for energy and Spirit Power.
It was not the true locked upper limit.
"So that's how it is?"
"The element itself isn't important."
"What matters is self-awareness."
"What matters is self-recognition…"
Light flashed in Chen Ming's eyes.
His left and right hands suddenly lit up with red and blue light.
Two different powerful attributes covered his arms.
Each attribute was weaker than when used alone, but they still had more than eighty-five percent of their normal effect.
The two energies that should have rejected each other, water and fire, began to meet and collide.
From that clash, a chaotic field capable of destroying energy was born.
Spirit Power was a type of energy. But all this time, Chen Ming had treated it as something scientific and reasonable.
He analyzed it, broke it down, recorded it, then made deductions.
But he had forgotten two key points.
The source of Spirit Power was the soul.
The physical rules it showed were only there to match the physical rules of the universe.
At its core, this thing was a special kind of energy between idealism and materialism.
Chen Ming's methods were indeed controlling energy.
But they were not suitable for controlling Spirit Power.
At least, they were not the most suitable method for controlling Spirit Power.
Focusing too much on technique and theory, and placing too much importance on delicate energy control, had instead lowered the upper limit of Spirit Power without him realizing it.
Thinking too much and hesitating over every step could raise the accuracy of Spirit Power control.
But to go beyond that limit of accuracy, one needed their own will.
Yes — to use his own will to unify Spirit Power, to forcefully suppress Spirit Power and elements, and make the nature of the elements change according to his thoughts.
It wasn't him adapting to the elements, but the elements adapting to him. He would further modify and derive the elements on their foundation, turning them into something uniquely suited to him. He would use his own rules and thinking to violate the laws of the world, twisting the world's laws.
Simply put — the difference between the two was the difference between Spirit Abilities and combat skills.
A powerful self-created Spirit Ability wouldn't be weaker than a combat skill, but even the most basic combat skill that fused Spirit Power with will would be stronger than ninety-nine percent of Spirit Abilities and self-created Spirit Abilities.
Chen Ming's previous method was like raising the quality of soldiers to an extremely high level and giving them the best equipment.
But there was no true commander.
Those soldiers could only advance in a stiff and rigid way.
Long Na'er, on the other hand, had soldiers who were not as strong, but she had a domineering and powerful commander.
This commander could rule over all soldiers and see through the weaknesses in Chen Ming's rigid formation.
Every soldier was willing to die for her.
In other words, every bit of power could burst out with strength beyond normal theory.
The Silver Dragon King might not understand why it had to be done this way.
But she was simply born able to reach this level.
With her elemental talent and the instincts inherited from the Dragon God, her skill had completely surpassed the limits of what humans could imagine.
She was not Gu Yue, nor was she Na'er. She was not the personality-split version from the early stages of Douluo 3. Her knowledge and insight were almost complete.
Chen Ming's body slightly hunched forward. Then his legs became wrapped in two different types of Spirit Power — water and fire. The Spirit Power surged and collided, erupting with extremely powerful propulsive force. Chen Ming charged forward with a posture like a collapsing mountain.
"Energy Rotation—First Style!"
Water and fire spun rapidly, clashing and canceling each other out, giving birth to a trace of chaotic power.
The four elements controlled by Long Na'er were worn away under Chen Ming's attack as easily as if they had been erased.
Although the exchange rate between the two powers was far from one to one, and Chen Ming needed two or even three parts of his power to cancel out one part of Long Na'er's power, even so, surprise and panic flashed in Long Na'er's eyes for the first time.
With her elemental power directly canceled out, and the dragon spear unable to continue attacking, she had no choice but to rely on pure strength and technique to resist Chen Ming's violence.
Even though her entire body was tensed to the limit and every muscle was erupting with power, she still couldn't save herself from defeat in the face of that pure numerical gap.
The Silver Dragon Spear was knocked out of Long Na'er's hand and flew away, stabbing straight into the rock wall.
Long Na'er herself was forced back by Chen Ming's remaining power.
She slammed into the wall and hung there like a painting.
The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy uniform she was wearing was directly turned into a battle-damaged version under Chen Ming's power. She let out a "wah" and vomited a mouthful of blood, clearly having no strength left to continue fighting.
Chen Ming took a deep breath and reached out to pull Long Na'er down from the rock wall. Both of them let out a long sigh at the same time.
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