Chapter One Hundred and Five: The Powerful Magnetic Armguard

By that reckoning, the Particle Impact Fist could hardly be called a fully formed, comprehensive superliminal combat art.

Still, Bai Yuxi had already begun to think through some follow-up techniques. He was simply held back by a lack of proficiency and by the limits of his own ability, so for the moment he could not use them.

For example, the so-called "Moon Step" and "Tempest Leg" Willie had mentioned before...

Bai Yuxi was genuinely astonished that the "particle impact" skill he had mastered seemed able to imitate certain moves from animated stories, as if a whole new door to creating superliminal combat arts had been thrown open before him.

"Maybe I should make time to go through those classic serial comics again, or binge some of the new shows?"

While Bai Yuxi was quietly mulling it over, Willie on the other side was still hopping around and clamoring to learn Bai Yuxi's "Particle Six Forms."

Driven nearly to madness by the noise, Bai Yuxi could only brush him off. "If you want to learn the Six Forms, then first learn particle impact!"

"If I could learn particle impact, would I need you to teach me?" At that, the black foreigner instantly deflated, muttering, "Forget it. I might as well go to the superliminal warrior training camp and learn my scientific fighting..."

For some reason, the particle impact Bai Yuxi had stumbled upon so casually seemed, to Willie and the others, like an insurmountable mountain.

Even after hearing Bai Yuxi and the girl genius explain it, and even after understanding the operating principles of particle impact, and even after imitating the process by which Bai Yuxi had blundered into mastering it, they still could not make it work.

No matter how they tried, they just could not use it, and they did not understand why.

Could it be that learning superliminal combat arts really depended on personal talent and aptitude?

Unlike the black foreigner, who kept whining in one long stream of complaints, the foreign girl Maya, after Xian Youyou had bolted off in a fit of strange excitement, had been chewing on her finger and frowning in deep thought, as though Xian Youyou's shout of "I get it!" had suddenly sparked some inspiration in her.

Just as Willie was pestering Bai Yuxi to demonstrate particle impact again, Maya suddenly picked up her practice weapon and began pacing back and forth, murmuring to herself as she gestured in the air.

Bai Yuxi and Willie both noticed her, but neither paid much attention, thinking she was simply practicing her fighting technique.

Yet just as Xian Youyou's boisterous voice rang out again from outside the training ground, the short staff in Maya's hands suddenly flashed. Bai Yuxi caught it perfectly in his line of sight.

Whether superactive particles or X particles, they were invisible to ordinary people.

But in the eyes of extraordinary individuals who carried multidimensional energy-structured information factors within themselves, they were a kind of luminous, energy-bearing substance, visible to the naked eye and perceptible to the senses.

So the instant Bai Yuxi saw the flash from Maya's short staff, Willie, who had his back turned to her, seemed to sense something and whirled around at once.

"Hey!"

"Maya!"

"What did you just do?"

Unfortunately, the flash from Maya's staff had been far too brief. By the time Willie turned back, he had seen nothing, and could only ask in confusion, "Why did I feel your energy level explode to such a terrifying degree for an instant?"

But Maya seemed not to hear him at all. A trace of delight showed on the foreign girl's delicate face, and no one knew what she had grasped, but her lips moved softly as if she were silently murmuring something to herself.

This state... Bai Yuxi promptly grabbed the dim-witted black foreigner who had been about to rush over and kept him from disturbing Maya.

At that moment, little Xian Youyou also came charging into the training ground with the girl genius in tow, closely followed by their exasperated captain, Luo Fei.

"Xiao Bai! Xiao Bai!"

Xian Youyou shouted at Bai Yuxi excitedly, "Again! Again! Let me see if you can still block my attacks!"

Bai Yuxi noticed that a strange pair of arm guards had been fitted onto her forearms. He looked in puzzlement at the girl genius she was dragging along, then at Luo Fei, who wore a helpless expression.

"What have you all been doing in the training ground?"

Luo Fei said gloomily, "How did it happen that the moment Youyou charged in, she went crazy demanding a pair of magnetic arm guards from Xiaoke?"

"Magnetic arm guards?"

Bai Yuxi curiously glanced at the metal bracers on Xian Youyou's arms.

At first glance, the gloves looked a little like Iron Man's armor arms. The parts wrapping around the forearms were somewhat bulky, but it was clear they concealed something inside.

Xian Youyou clapped her hands together, and five arrowheads sprang out from the wrist section of the arm guards, making Bai Yuxi understand their purpose. Wasn't this basically something like a magazine?

And in the palms of the metal arm guards, there was a black device on each side. No one knew exactly what they were for.

"Xiao Bai! Enough nonsense!"

Now equipped with new gear, Xian Youyou declared haughtily and, without another word, aimed the arm guards at Bai Yuxi, ready to strike.

"Smack!"

The girl genius slapped the back of her head. Expressionless, Su Xiaoke reached out and touched the arm guard, and the metal device split open with a hiss, detaching from Xian Youyou's arm.

"Ow! Mine! Mine!" The little girl flailed in indignation, trying to snatch back the arm guard that the girl genius had confiscated.

She was then bonked on the head again and, tearfully clutching it, shrank off to one side to sulk in circles.

"What is going on?" Bai Yuxi stared blankly at the captain.

"Those are a black-tech version of sleeve-arrow arm crossbows!" Luo Fei explained with a wry smile. "Xiaoke can't fight herself, so she designed a pair of projectile weapons to protect against accidental encounters with extraordinary creatures."

"Although I don't really understand the black technology Xiaoke used to make these magnetic arm guards, their destructive power is indeed terrifying."

"The special crossbow bolts they fire can't be blocked even by high-level superliminal warriors, and they can easily pierce the superactive shields of extraordinary personnel!"

"Since the bolts are made from extremely rare native-dimension materials, there aren't many of them. Each gauntlet only has twelve, and they have to be recovered after use."

"So Xiaoke installed two special supermagnets in the palms, which can remotely retrieve the bolts after firing..."

Luo Fei cast a strange glance at Xian Youyou, who was still drawing circles on the ground. "Just now, Youyou ran over shouting that she 'got it, got it,' then dug out the magnetic arm guards Xiaoke hardly ever uses and dragged us down here, saying she wanted to demonstrate something to us."

"That impressive?"

Bai Yuxi was intrigued by what Luo Fei had said.

The girl genius put on the pair of arm guards herself. No one knew what she did, but a ring of narrow slits opened around her arms, and dozens of special bolts, gleaming with a cold light, clattered to the ground.

Then Su Xiaoke casually waved her hand, and the bolts scattered across the floor trembled slightly before all floating up and gathering into her palm.