Online: I Can See Health Bars Chapter 1571 - 702: Teaching Talent

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Previously on Online: I Can See Health Bars...
Nanyuan En brings Fang Yu to a private training ground to assess his martial arts. After demonstrating several techniques, Nanyuan En asks for Fang Yu's assessment, but Fang Yu deflects, claiming he cannot advise on the Nanyuan family's inherited arts. Frustrated, Nanyuan En challenges Fang Yu to a spar. Despite Nanyuan En using all his skills and even his trump card, Fang Yu effortlessly evades each attack, leaving Nanyuan En bewildered by his overwhelming skill.

The gap in strength is visible to the naked eye.

As long as Fang Yu is willing, he can wrap this Mr. Nanyuan En around his finger, coaxing him to be happy and satisfied.

It’s nothing more than giving in a little, just entertaining the young master.

However, there’s no need for that.

Being so high-profile as a guest elder of the Nanyuan Family, sparring back and forth with a young master, anyone would know I’m just going easy.

"The flow of Qi Force... is too intense..."

Nanyuan En has talent; otherwise, Nanyuan Xian wouldn’t value him so much.

This talent is now being displayed at this moment.

His attention is no longer on Fang Yu, but on repeatedly pondering over Fang Yu’s words.

The pinnacle technique of thrusting power requires intense Qi Force clashes in the body to generate powerful force to unleash the strike.

So intense external Qi Force flow is unavoidable.

If you reduce the movement of Qi Force to achieve concealment, making it hard for the enemy to gauge the strike’s range or direction, it would weaken the very essence and intent of the move, becoming counter-productive.

But Instructor Diao has said it...

In deep thought, Nanyuan En looked up at Fang Yu.

"Instructor Diao, let me try again, please guide me!"

Once Fang Yu nodded slightly, Nanyuan En retreated some distance, and the sign of Qi gathering appeared on him again.

But quickly, this display of Qi wrapping around his body was gradually suppressed by him.

It’s fine until he attempts the manipulation, and once he does, Nanyuan En discovers a problem.

To achieve concealment and make the move unpredictable, reducing the total amount of gathered Qi on the body is necessary. As the Qi amount reduces, not only does the move lose its power significantly, but its speed also drops, rendering it ineffective!

Like a flame dying out, the move Nanyuan En was about to execute suddenly stopped, and he put down the sword in his hand with a defeated look.

"Instructor Diao, it’s not working. If I want to unleash full power, I must go all out, meaning experts like you can predict all movements. However, if I conceal the move’s trajectory, it becomes non-threatening, drastically losing power..."

He seems to be speaking both to Fang Yu and to himself, distressing over the balancing of power and concealment in his mind, constantly calculating and adjusting to find the perfect point, the perfect Qi Force measurement.

But... he was too focused on an answer and overlooked something.

Fang Yu smiled and said, "Mr. Nanyuan, sometimes, to hit the mark, besides concealing the move’s movement, you can mislead the enemy with feints and deceit. These methods don’t require reducing the move’s power; instead, they might need amplifying the move’s presence and noise. This is more practical than what Mr. Nanyuan is attempting now."

What a joke!

Although Fang Yu doesn’t have much instructional experience, he’s been through countless life and death battles and has keen insight.

Sure enough, with Fang Yu’s suggestion, Nanyuan En was momentarily stunned.

He was just like someone stuck in a rut, only thinking about balancing concealment and power, using his genius-level comprehension and mind to wrestle with this aspect.

Once he shifted his thinking, the possibilities opened up!

If a move’s power range is only the size of a square, the enemy can easily predict it. But if you change this square range to a rectangle or circle, continuously expanding the presence range, the enemy won’t pinpoint the real landing spot?

This posturing noise doesn’t require much effort yet can disrupt the enemy’s judgment, and it doesn’t sacrifice the move’s power, achieving two goals with one act!

"Instructor Diao, I understand! I’ve learned!"

Such matters, with Nanyuan En’s talent in martial arts, he could have thought of himself, requiring some time first to get unstuck from his rut to figure out this method.

And Fang Yu’s suggestion only skipped a few steps for him, directly reaching the target.

Even so, the guidance role of Fang Yu as an instructor indeed became apparent at that moment, which is why Nanyuan En’s respect was not false, but genuinely grateful.

"Expanding range, increasing turbulence..."

Nanyuan En began pondering it on his own, seemingly not needing Fang Yu’s sparring before understanding it clearly.

This, in turn, made someone feel at ease.

Seeing this, Fang Yu was about to sneak off to find Ding Hui, considering today’s instructing work finished, when Nanyuan Shiran, who had been silent and observing for a long time, suddenly stepped up, giving Fang Yu a fist salute.

"Instructor Diao, please guide me as well."

Fang Yu looked at the health bar above Nanyuan Shiran’s head.

[Nanyuan Shiran: 621/5000.]

Aren’t you the guy who almost got beaten to death by Song Zhenrong, and haven’t even healed yet, why are you joining in...

Fang Yu scratched his head, thought for a moment, and still agreed.

Although he knew his time at the Nanyuan Family wouldn’t be long, while he was there, he should still do his essential job as well as possible.

"Then you... demonstrate the martial arts you know?"

Nanyuan Shiran shook his head, looking Fang Yu directly in the eye.

"Instructor Diao, I seek direct combat guidance! The move I intend to perform is both of the Nanyuan Family’s martial arts and not, as I am still exploring it myself, so there’s no need to demonstrate. I only ask for some advice from Instructor Diao."