Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 602 - 246 Deduction

Chapter 602: Chapter 246 Deduction

After the silvery mist had dissipated, Xiang Shan walked to the wall and leaned against a rack. Moments later, the back of his prosthetic body opened layer by layer, exposing his head along with his spine.

The connectors plugged into numerous interfaces on the spine detached automatically. A set of mechanical arms lifted Xiang Shan’s head and reinserted it into the somewhat mismatched prosthetic body.

The other heroes rose by themselves. One of them, a Northern Hero, said admiringly, "Such martial arts expertise is truly rare in life, absolutely incredible."

After returning to his spare prosthetic body, Xiang Shan moved his neck and said, "Thanks for the compliment."

"To defeat so many Northern Land heroes at once..." a Burrow Dragon said excitedly, "Do such martial arts really exist?"

"It is a bit more advanced than you think," said the Northern Hero. "The Nameless Hero just defeated all of us twice."

The Burrow Dragon was stunned, "Twice? What... what does that mean?"

"We were simulating combat with Mystic Tortoise True Gang martial studies," the hero explained. "Logically, he just needed to target our ’virtual heat vents’ and sway a bit to suffice. However, after accomplishing this, the Nameless Hero also pushed us slightly, using the form of multiple force release, destabilizing our balance."

"In actual combat, viewing the Mystic Tortoise True Gang as one instance, and destabilizing balance as a second..."

The young Burrow Dragon’s eyes shone as he looked toward Xiang Shan, "This... It’s no wonder he dares to plan something as audacious as attacking Paradox City! He’s truly formidable! Such martial arts could definitely..."

Cain walked over and lightly tapped on the youngster’s head, "Ignorant fool. Even the highest skill in martial arts is limited. Even a Martial God would not claim they can surely breach Paradox City. No matter how skilled the Hero is, it’s still a gamble with their life. Go and check the components."

"Oh."

The Burrow Dragon promptly approached the maintenance instrument and inspected each component removed by the optical instruments one by one.

All these components were test pieces, forged from one or two special materials. This process was adopted to observe the wear and tear of these components to determine the pressure exerted on different parts of Xiang Shan’s customized prosthetic body while being used.

Each person has their own martial arts style, different strategic preferences, hence the pressure and wear on various parts of the prosthetic bodies differ.

Since the battlefield is unpredictable, prosthetic bodies also must be prepared for "protracted warfare."

Now, even this aspect must be considered by the prosthetic manufacturers on the side of justice.

Several Northern Heroes gathered together, discussing the insights they had gained during their recent exchange. Meanwhile, Xiang Shan fell into deep thought.

Comrade Cain tentatively asked, "Nameless Hero."

"Ah," Xiang Shan turned his head, "How is the condition of the prosthetic? I posed some rather... personalized demands, it must not have been easy, right?"

"Actually, it’s fine. Among the technical blueprints issued over the generations by the Martial Gods, there are many that perfectly meet your needs, Nameless Hero," said Cain with considerable admiration. "The martial arts you practice must surely be the direct lineage of the Martial Gods, authentically righteous."

This was supposed to be a compliment. Unfortunately, Cain and the Nameless Hero were not well-acquainted; otherwise, he would have noticed the oddity in the posture of the Nameless Hero just now.

"Tomorrow we need to test out hand-to-hand combat," said Xiang Shan. "I have several types of martial arts blending in my mind right now... and these martial arts still need to be integrated."

Xiang Shan had invited the Northern Heroes for sparring not only to test the new prosthetic but also to refine his own martial arts.

His current martial arts skills were cobbled together from here and there. While he had indeed captured quite a bit of experience accumulation, the martial artists defeated at his hands typically practiced only one or two types of martial arts in their lives and did not have the experience of combining so many martial arts.

This integration had to be undertaken by Xiang Shan himself.

He intended to organically combine Mystic Tortoise True Gang, Mech Armor Iron Fist, bladesmanship and the recently acquired spear skill—ensuring at least those martial arts wouldn’t interfere with each other.

Using the Mystic Tortoise True Gang with the left hand and the Sonicon Blade with the right would definitely pose a problem—the magnetic field of the Mystic Tortoise True Gang would surely interfere with the operation of the Sonicon Blade.

However, employing the Electromagnetic Draw Sword Technique in the gaps between moves of the Mystic Tortoise True Gang could achieve instant remarkable effects.

Among the past users of Mystic Tortoise True Gang, probably only Guardian Zhi from Six Dragons Sect had entertained such an idea.

Xiang Shan was now eager to try and create some new moves to form these martial arts into an organic system.

Or rather, as the "founder of cyber martial arts," his creative impulse was stirring.

This was probably influenced by the memories he received from Guardian Zhi.

It must be said, Six Dragons Sect was really good at using Xiang Shan’s memories to brainwash.

This segment of memory could provide a martial "desire to express."

Even Xiang Shan himself could be influenced by it.

Cain exclaimed, "I never imagined someone could disassemble martial studies into a system so quickly, continuously evolving new moves..."

"Perhaps I remembered the martial arts of past humans."

"What?"

Comrade Cain found this statement too perplexing.

Anyone knows cyber martial arts don’t have a direct lineage from natural people’s past martial studies, even if there are occasional similarities, those are more like a result of "convergent evolution" in nature—a result of "convergent evolution" produced by supercomputers from "optimal strategy groups" and optimization over many years of experience.

"It’s exactly because I know what the martial arts of past humans were like that I understand what ’superhuman martial arts could be,’" Xiang Shan responded.

He did not directly learn the martial arts from Lu Xuanyu. At most, Lu Xuanyu had given him a small amount of education on martial arts.

Moreover, the cyber martial arts he created did not intersect with the martial arts culture promoted by Lu Xuanyu.

In Lu Xuanyu’s view, "Martial Arts" was a concept akin to culture and art. Lu Xuanyu was more concerned with an artistic expression—it was about explaining his own spirit while simultaneously refining it.

Xiang Shan’s cyber martial arts, on the other hand, were born from a basis in "technology." The culture related to cyber martial arts was all packaging done by Xiang Shan. In cybernetically enhanced people, martial arts also lost the meaning of "strengthening the body and refining the spirit." All metaphysical values were ascribed by Xiang Shan, the creator.

Guardian Zhi was drawn to the perspective showcased by Lu Xuanyu.

There’s nothing wrong with that—if it weren’t in such a damned era.

The obsession and interpretation of martial arts by Guardian Zhi was exactly what Xiang Shan did not need.

But, just as "Impurity Contemplation" involves envisioning unclean things to eliminate one’s own craving for desire, achieving "Purity,"

it was precisely because of that experience that Xiang Shan knew what cyber martial arts for assassination "should not be like."