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Shifting the entire Hyperbloom reaction chain to "during the attack" or "on the target" was not complicated in theory, but putting it into practice was anything but easy.
If this task were handed to three Vision holders to execute, then to complete it "during the attack," it would first require the Hydro and Dendro Vision holders to attack at the exact same moment with perfect consistency, and then require the Electro Vision holder to precisely grasp the instant a Dendro Core was born. How much tacit understanding would those three need?
Even if it were completed "on the target," a minimum level of coordination would still be required. The three would have to attack strictly in sequence.
And most importantly, it required "three Vision holders of different elements." If one person could achieve that alone, it would be equivalent to one person rivaling three.
The more types of elements a reaction requires, the more it highlights the advantage of mastering multiple elements.
The faster the reaction efficiency, the more it highlights the advantage of triggering reactions alone without needing coordination.
"Use the [Portable Elemental Particle Generator] to create Hydro particles, Swirl them with Anemo, release Dendro to produce a Dendro Core, then release Electro… releasing Electro together might be even better…"
His right hand had to be responsible for activating the [Portable Elemental Particle Generator], which naturally also took on the task of Swirling.
His left hand had to release Dendro and Electro at the same time the Swirl completed. The Dendro needed to fly faster, aiming for and catching up to the Swirled Hydro, while the Electro needed to fly more slowly, following the Dendro but waiting for the first two to finish reacting.
The sequence was like this, the theory was clear, and the Hyperbloom effect was achieved—but Victor Wang still felt somewhat flustered.
He generated Electro and Dendro again and compared it with Thunder Surge. It was far smoother than Hyperbloom.
Even after moving the reaction trigger to "during the attack," Hyperbloom still had many flaws in its casting prelude. The biggest issue was having to separate tasks between both hands, with Dendro and Electro needing to aim and chase.
Simultaneously calling upon two different elements was not much harder than controlling two wind blades at once, and he had been practicing all along. By now, he could simultaneously control 841 streams of wind. Let alone two elements—even calling upon seven different elements at once would not be a problem.
The reason he had to separate left and right hands was that the entire reaction process had to follow a sequence. Hydro particles were easily influenced by all other elements when released, Anemo Swirl could easily entangle Electro, and Electro and Dendro would also react with each other—distances had to be carefully controlled.
This was an inevitable problem in multi-element manipulation.
Even after he mastered Hydro and eliminated one Swirl, he would still face a similar issue—how could he ensure that, when multiple elements were released simultaneously, the ones that needed to react would react, and the ones that should not react would not?
The simplest solution was the one he was currently using: increasing distance. But that, in turn, reduced reaction efficiency.
After some thought, he decided to change his approach. He put Swirling Hydro with Anemo, releasing Hydro–Anemo, releasing Dendro, and releasing Electro all into his right hand. He would rather spend more effort maintaining their distances than split tasks between both hands. As long as they were fired along the same trajectory, aiming would no longer be an issue—he only needed to control the speed of each element.
He tightened his grip on the Wentian Sword and treated a fast-rolling tumbleweed ahead as his enemy. His thumb lightly pressed the guard, and a droplet of watery light drifted out. Before it could be scattered by the howling sandstorm, it was instantly Swirled by the Anemo surging from the Wentian Sword, spreading across the entire blade. Hydro–Anemo took shape.
Along both sides of the sword blade wrapped in Hydro, elemental power shimmering with purple and green condensed. Hydro–Anemo and Dendro shot toward the tumbleweed at the same time, while Electro deliberately lagged half a beat behind.
During flight, just enough Hydro and Dendro to form a Dendro Core made contact. Both were fully consumed, and a Dendro Core with no inherent propulsion appeared, hovering in midair, about to fall. At that moment, the Electro from behind arrived, supplying it with new power.
The activated Dendro Core formed from three elements continued flying toward the tumbleweed and effortlessly eliminated the target.
It was much smoother than before.
But he still had to precisely control the speed of each element—especially the speed of Electro.
Was there really no more room for optimization?
Did multi-element usage really have to rely on maintaining distance to control reactions?
This could be an unprecedented multi-element hybrid combat technique. It had to be pushed to perfection…
Victor Wang sank into quiet contemplation.
Meanwhile, the wind and sand around him either whined or howled, offering no peace, while the blazing sun scorched relentlessly, making everything feel irritable.
A tumbleweed rolled in from afar. Perhaps sensing danger, it quickly used a sudden change in the wind to veer away and escape.
The stone that had been blasted into dust earlier was finally stripped of all its remaining fragments by the increasingly fierce wind, turning completely into sand.
Wind. Sand. Even if everything else were desolate, these two seemed as though they would exist forever.
Victor Wang thought of Erosion Blast.
Erosion Blast possessed tremendous power without relying on elemental reactions because it followed a stacking approach—compressing what could have been a broad gust of wind into a thin blade, then stacking dozens or even hundreds of such blades together in layered rotation. It was like compressing volume without reducing input, completely abandoning traction, and vastly enhancing cutting power—like the Anemo Archon's Grand Ode.
Moreover, it consumed a massive amount of elemental power. Once control was released from the inside out, the compressed elemental power attempted to return to its natural state but was blocked by the outer layers. Only when the outer layers were also released did all the accumulated expansion finally break free, resulting in an elemental explosion.
Thus, Erosion Blast focused on compression, and there was no need to maintain distance between individual streams of elemental power.
Victor Wang had once considered whether Electro-infused Erosion Blast or Pyro-infused Erosion Blast could be achieved in one step—housing them within the same Erosion Blast, one layer of Electro, one layer of Pyro. At the very least, Electro inside and Pyro outside. But the moment those two elements touched, they would explode. The same applied to Dendro, Hydro, and Cryo. Only Geo was truly stable—but Geo could not be Swirled.
Geo cannot be Swirled…?
Geo truly cannot be Swirled.
Geo and Anemo are the two most peculiar elements.
Geo only triggers Crystallize with other elements. It consumes other elements, turning them into corresponding crystals, while itself remains unmoved.
Anemo only triggers Swirl with other elements. It spares nothing of itself, fully transforming into wind of the corresponding element.
Moreover, neither of them can apply elemental application. Going a step further… according to the records of [Advanced Elemental Reaction Theory], Geo constructs do not carry Geo element themselves!
When a Geo shield is attacked by other elements, it produces Crystallize. But Geo constructs such as stone pillars, meteorites, slabs, and walls created by Geo have their elemental power contained within. Externally, they do not carry Geo element, and when attacked by other elements, they do not trigger Crystallize!
Of course, they are still Geo constructs at their core. Under conscious control, they can still resonate with Geo and unleash Geo elemental damage.
To prevent any chance of misremembering—or errors in [Advanced Elemental Reaction Theory]—Victor Wang immediately created a Geo construct to test it himself. The result did not disappoint—
Geo constructs does not readily react with other elements.
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