Chapter 116: Fluctuating Friction Dance (2/2)
”I will see you at around 2, and we will practice till dawn once again. I had hoped to keep you till 3, but since you can just use pills, for the most part, it's quite helpful. Okay, I'm leaving. I will see you later.” Wen Cheng left with the other 6 books and left Alex with the single movement technique.
Alex looked at the book and started reading it. ”Fluctuating Friction Dance. Use your Qi on your entire body to remove or add friction to your movements. Helps one move and stop as required. Doesn't have any elemental alignment, so anyone can learn it.
”Hmm… Friction? That's a very unique thing for a technique. So, it's like increasing and decreasing my resistance to the surrounding? How fast can I get by just removing some friction?”
He read the whole book and didn't have to stop to practice mid-read like he had yesterday. After a few minutes of reading, he got the notification.
<Congratulations, You have learned [Fluctuating Friction Dance]>
”Okay, let's test this out.” He started moving his Qi around his body. Some of the Qi started to leak from all over his body, while most of it ended up in his legs where it strengthened them. He willed the Qi to make his immediate surroundings frictionless and moved forward.
His legs were now too strong and he moved at an incredible speed due to the lack of friction. As such, the room wasn't large enough for his first maneuver
BANG
”Ow,” Alex screamed as he hit the wall. His already hurting body hurt even more. ”God, that hurts.” He looked around the room and wondered if it would be large enough for him to train in.
”Alright, let's not remove all of the friction, I will need some to control myself.” He once again started channeling his Qi around his body as he coated himself in Qi, removing most of the friction around himself. However, he didn't send as much Qi into his leg and only increased the strength by about half as much as last time.
He prepared himself and dashed forward. He was still quite fast, but not as fast as he was previously. So, when he reached the end of the hall, he managed to easily stop himself by removing the Qi around him.
'Hmm… what if I increased the friction at the end of the run?' He decided to try once again. He removed his friction, strengthened his legs, and dashed.
He smoothly ran forward and just before he was about to reach the end, he increased his friction. Abruptly, his speed decreased at once and he came to a stop at once. The Qi formed a soft blanket that stopped him from moving forward and cushioned his abrupt stop.
Over the next couple of hours, he started testing different ways to use the movement technique and started getting good at it. Unlike Elusive Heavenly Sword which was focused on one's body, Fluctuating Friction Dance required Qi, so it took him a while to properly learn it.
By 2 am, however, he had made quite a bit of progress in using the movement technique.