Ten "Bronze" great swords reached the hands of the beastmen in the Gale Foot Slash Wave training group, and the experiments on the Gale Foot Slash Wave resumed.

Although the progress here lagged behind the Iron Block combat technique, with the arrival of the large swords, everything finally got on track.

During this period, the extraordinary beastmen in the slash wave experiment group, despite being limited by their weapons, could almost perform a Fighting Qi Slash with wooden swords after nearly a month of practice. However, they hadn't yet figured out how to create a vacuum wave by tearing through the air.

But Austin firmly believed that with the beastmen's relentless training, success would inevitably follow.

After switching to new weapons and getting familiar with them for several days, thanks to their prior foundation, the beastmen could successfully attach Fighting Qi onto the great sword, producing slashes.

However, these slashes were just ordinary Fighting Qi application techniques. Although powerful enough to chop through a tree without resistance, they could not form a long-range vacuum slash wave at all.

"The principle of the Gale Foot is likely rapid contraction and extension of leg muscles, followed by a swift kick to compress air and create a sharp vacuum-like slashing wave... This seems a bit difficult."

Unlike Iron Block, where Austin's previous world had physical references, the Gale Foot was completely fanciful. Human strength couldn't make one's kicking speed surpass the speed of sound.

Fortunately, Austin's world was not one where the extraordinary had not yet emerged. Magical energy and Fighting Qi truly existed.

"Once Fighting Qi is released from the body, its condensed energy automatically disperses into the surrounding air, quickly diminishing. As a result, warriors in this world rarely have long-range attack methods. So, how can we combine the principles of Gale Foot with Fighting Qi to create a slash wave?"

Watching the beastmen in the field tirelessly striking the air, hacking hundreds of times before resting and continuing, Austin kept pondering.

This period had witnessed over a month's arduous training. Initially, the beastmen returned home each day with sore, weak hands, relying on the Dragon Nest Tribe's witch doctors and their herbs for relief. The terrifying training volume would have already broken them if not for their life force surpassing that of humans and their extraordinary beastman physiques.

Even so, after over a month's training, the extraordinary beastmen of the Gale Foot Slash Wave experiment group could, at most, extend Fighting Qi two inches when slashing, stirring a bit of airflow, but had no clue for actual slash waves detaching from the blade.

Austin saw clearly that without a breakthrough in the right direction, ten or eight more years of training wouldn't allow them to develop a real slash wave.

In fantasy novels, the protagonist trains swordplay in the deep mountains, swinging a sword ten thousand times a day, persevering without fail.

Ten years later, they draw their sword, splitting mountains and severing rivers.

Perhaps if the beastmen continued practicing for decades, they might achieve those fantasy novel effects. But by then, Austin might not care for such combat techniques as Gale Foot Slash Wave.

"Troublesome, but mainly, how can we keep Fighting Qi from dispersing and maintain its attack power outside the body?"

With high-density Fighting Qi, nature's gradient diffusion law causes it to disperse in all directions once outside the body, rapidly diluting into nothing, thus making it lack much killing power.

This difficulty in achieving the Gale Foot Slash Wave was unlike that of Iron Block Combat Technique.

The Iron Block technique applied Fighting Qi internally, while the Gale Foot Slash Wave was a long-range flying slash attack.

"When casting magic spells like Fireball or Water Ball, the magic power within disperses rapidly while flying. However, mages condense and constrain it with their spiritual power, allowing spells to retain significant power when flying quite far, as long as they're within the spiritual power's range. Do I need to similarly constrain Fighting Qi with spiritual power?"

A thought suddenly occurred to Austin, but he quickly negated it.

"No, the nature of Fighting Qi and magic power is completely different. Fighting Qi cannot be controlled with spiritual power, or else warriors would have long become like mages with long-range bombardment abilities."

Austin pondered intensely but had not made any breakthrough for several days.

Watching the beastmen still diligently swinging their swords, Austin could not help but wonder if the creation of the Gale Foot Slash Wave combat technique was going to fail.

This day, out of ideas, Austin flew up, leaving the nest to clear his mind.

It had been two months since winter set in, and during these two months, Austin had focused entirely on refining copper and the Navy Six Techniques, unaware of how quickly time had passed.

Flying high and gazing down at the snowy, crystal-clear, magnificent earth below, his mood suddenly lifted.

With a loud roar and a rapid flapping of his wings, his body flew like wind and thunder across the sky at incredible speeds, even breaking the sound barrier and causing sonic booms in the air.

The resistance from breaking the sound barrier did not trouble his robust body at all. On the contrary, it exhilarated him to fly a considerable distance high up.

Since coming to this world, almost four years had passed. From fearfully contending with Blood Wolves for survival to establishing a foothold in the forest, gaining a foundation and a self-protective power, it felt like a dream.

"Whatever, I've endured many dangers before, and I can't believe I won't figure this out."

After venting in the sky, Austin even casually intercepted a flying giant beast on the way.

Back then, he had to avoid these creatures, fearing becoming their prey. Now, he could casually kill them, and even his clan could see them as mere quarry, a remarkable sentiment to reflect on.

After his excursion, a refreshed Austin flew back to the Dragon Nest Tribe. Approaching the tribe, he saw a group of young beastmen tossing stones into the snow like skipping stones over water, oddly playing with snow.

"A group of carefree children."

Seeing this scene, Austin sighed.

But just when he intended to look away, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him like lightning across his mind.

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