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Countless holographic screens flickered rapidly across Ji Wuye's vision. This was another opportunity or the reason to further his goal - revisiting that pivotal moment when he hadn't or why he didn't evaded the earlier attack.
Ji Wuye focused his intent on manipulating the Feline Reflexes skill lingering dormant within him, outclassed by his strengthened physical abilities.
Thus, by deceiving his mind into perceiving a sudden threat, he could forcibly trigger the skill's activation and elevate its proficiency.
Yet of course, that was just another reason, for the main reason...
Ji Wuye's gaze sharpened as he studied the embodiment of Song Jia's raw emotions unleashed.
Human emotions were paradoxically simple yet infinitely complex, their true depths still eluding even the most renowned scholars of the Jianghu.
However, one aspect of Song Jia's turbulent emotions Ji Wuye understood with certainty...
'This is ideal,' he mused inwardly, observing the graceful fury of Song Jia's movements. She leapt with explosive power, her ascent whipping up a faint cyclone that sliced through the surrounding grass.
The second move, Rising Gale.
The massive forms of the Dark Wolves were torn asunder by her rising vortex, their shredded bodies scattering in her ascending wake before she descended with a thunderous boom. The shockwave unconsciously sent the coachman's limp body rolling across the clearing.
But...
"Whoops." Ji Wuye reacted with preternatural speed, easily catching the fallen man and preventing further injury.
In stark contrast, Song Jia knelt amid the devastation, chest heaving as she glared down at the torn earth, only to finally succumb and pitch sideways in a dead faint.
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Now she had at least executed the second move, Rising Gale, a couple of times, even if she couldn't do it at will, but...
"Perfect for reinforcing her muscle memory," Ji Wuye remarked, gently setting the coachman aside before approaching Song Jia's prone form.
Her turbulent emotions were the true object of his scrutiny.
Ji Wuye had deduced that he himself was the catalyst, whether inadvertently provoking Song Jia's potential to unleash the Rising Gale upon witnessing him with Senior Sister Lian, or through more overt annoyances during their travels.
As of for the reason why him?
'Most likely curiosity driving her reactions,' he pondered.
Now, Ji Wuye studied Song Jia's unconscious form cradled in his arms, her shallow breaths and feather-light weight belying the fury she'd unleashed moments before.
In this state, features relaxed in innocent repose, she was a vision of tranquil beauty - provided one overlooked her battle-madened persona.
He had carefully orchestrated the escalating spiral of emotions - disbelief, reluctance, anger, and finally shock - to trigger her hormonal stress response.
Once her feelings reached that precipice, Ji Wuye introduced the final key: 'danger.' the Dark Wolves.
That overwhelming sense of peril, combined with the built-up emotional turmoil, flooded her system with adrenaline instead of causing a mental breakdown.
This would resonate through her very being, shattering the limiters restraining her full potential.
But..
'If it failed to manifest...' Ji Wuye's thoughts trailed off as he gently laid Song Jia's prone form on the torn earth, her white martial robes now stained by dark wolf blood and clods of upturned soil.
There was still the coachman.
The coachman represented another 'key' to forcibly unleashing her repressed potential.
From his observations, Song Jia's core values centered on moral 'protection' befitting the moral codes of the Jianghu.
If sheer mortal danger proved insufficient, then protecting the weak and an innocent could still trigger and focus those roiling emotions into a potent conduit for her latent potential.
"Now... the subordinates are neutralized," Ji Wuye remarked, surveying the ravaged grasslands littered with a shallow crater marking Song Jia's impact. Only the injured alpha of the Dark Wolves remained.
But...
HOWL-!
A feeble howl pierced the stillness as Ji Wuye's crimson gaze fell upon the broken forms of the Dark Wolves felled by Song Jia's Rising Gale. Their battered bodies lay unmoving, shallow panting the only sign of life remaining amid the desolation.
The weakened Dark Wolves lay broken and barely clinging to life, while the alpha of the Dark Wolf pack glared defiantly at Ji Wuye from across the ravaged field. Though still reeling from his earlier kick, the beast's hate-filled crimson eyes slowly regained their menacing glint.
It began circling warily, fearful after witnessing Ji Wuye's overwhelming power yet still driven by predatory instinct.
But such tricks were futile - the alpha's speed and ferocity paled in comparison to Ji Wuye's pure physical abilities.
SWOOSH-!
Like a passing breeze, Ji Wuye moved among the fallen Dark Wolves with dizzying speed, each flick of his blade accompanied by strangled yelps resounding across the grasslands. Fortunately, no travelers passed along the nearby road to mistake the piteous cries for a woman's pleas for aid.
Soon, only the alpha remained, glaring murderously at the one who had so ruthlessly culled its pack. It could only limp about helplessly, unable to approach the unconscious forms of the coachman and Song Jia.
Yet suddenly, Ji Wuye turned his back to tend to them, giving it a chance to attack.
"GRRR-!" Like a maddened beast whose family had been killed, it couldn't miss this golden opportunity and instantly lunged, overwhelming and shadowing the bodies of Ji Wuye, Song Jia, and the coachman.
But then...
Ji Wuye's senses suddenly dilated as his body locked into hyper-awareness. His every muscle fiber thrummed with coiled potential as his hands unconsciously tightened around his jian's hilt. Time itself seemed to slow to a crawl around him.
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SLASH!
In a blur of motion, arterial blood sprayed through the air as a severed lupine head arced overhead, the alpha's ambush thwarted before it could even began. The decapitated corpse crumpled to the earth with a meaty thud.
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A self-satisfied smile played across Ji Wuye's lips. Of course, this feigned vulnerability had been wholly orchestrated to trigger his reflexive counter.
The battlefield lay silent, the once fearsome Dark Wolf pack now mere corpses scattered amidst the torn earth.
Ji Wuye had effortlessly dispatched them without even deploying his full martial prowess - just a series of blindingly quick slashes leveraging his overwhelming physical superiority.
No refined stances or precise executions were required, a stark testament to how far his body had transcended its previous limits in this new timeline.
With the threat neutralized, Ji Wuye's crimson gaze shifted focus, catching a solitary figure watching from the distant road they had traveled. Even from this remove, he could make out the unmoving dot that had bore witness to the entire deadly spectacle.
Ji Wuye's lips curled up as he spoke, "What will you do now, Senior Sister?"