I have an eye of truth

The bugs around were getting more and more numerous; indeed, they were gradually forming a sea of beetles. Facing the enemy, the bugs were fearless, determined to kill the enemy at all costs.

Or perhaps only after enough of them died would those bugs possibly retreat.

Wang Yang retreated while killing, not knowing how many bugs he had killed, but in any case, the energy gained was enormous.

This battle continued until evening. After Wang Yang didn't know how many bugs he had killed, he finally decided to rest, after all, there were too many bugs here. Anyway, since the bugs weren't leaving, he could just continue tomorrow.

So, Wang Yang quickly retreated. These beetles simply couldn't catch up, and could only watch helplessly as the enemy escaped.

This was probably the first time beetles had encountered an enemy that couldn't be surrounded.

Returning to a relatively safe open space, Wang Yang set up camp on the spot and began to rest.

"Energy Reflection, this skill, seems to be able to fuse with my Astral Qi Armor. If that's the case, it should still be able to exert some effect, right?" Wang Yang thought, absorbing the skill from the beetle.

The Energy Reflection skill was directly used as a supplement to the Astral Qi Armor, fusing together.

However, after experimenting, Wang Yang frowned. "No, this is too wasteful of energy."

Indeed, after strengthening this skill, his Astral Qi Armor began to have counterattack capabilities. As long as he was attacked, his Astral Qi Armor would release invisible energy to counterattack and attack the enemy.

This was the same as the counterattack of those beetles, but the attack was more powerful and more pervasive.

However, the range was not very large, it had to be within two meters of him. With the strength of an advanced professional, two meters was close combat. Similarly, only martial artists would fight him within this distance. If it were a mage, it would be impossible.

Even martial artists often break away from the two-meter range. His own saber energy could attack remotely, and the effect would not weaken within ten meters. Even if others were not as good as him, they wouldn't be too far off, right?

Moreover, this attack has a limit. The limit is related to him. The higher the intensity of his Astral Qi Armor, the stronger this counterattack power will be. However, because the consumption is not large, the attack cannot be too exaggerated.

This counterattack, at its current limit, has just reached the level of an ordinary attack by an advanced martial artist.

Of course, this attack intensity is actually very powerful. But the problem is that as long as he encounters an attack, he will definitely counterattack, and that's the problem. Even if the other party keeps using ranged attacks, this counterattack will continue.

In this case, his Astral Qi consumption would be very high.

Helpless, Wang Yang decided to continue strengthening. It seemed that the energy he had collected this time could not be saved.

A large amount of energy began to merge into the new skill according to Wang Yang's thoughts, gradually improving and transforming it.

Unconsciously, the skill changed, no longer that passive, all-round counterattack. This counterattack became controllable, and Wang Yang could decide whether to counterattack or not, without wasting energy at will.

Similarly, the counterattack intensity was no longer fixed, but based on the enemy's attack intensity.

Wang Yang set this counterattack intensity to be the same as the enemy's attack intensity, up to the limit. This would prevent the situation where an insignificant person cuts him once, but he has to consume the attack of an advanced professional to counterattack.

Consumption was further reduced, which was already very good.

Immediately following was the attack distance. With strengthening, the original two-meter distance became three meters. Although it only increased by one meter, for the skill, it increased by 50%.

Energy Reflection became Spike Reflection, indirectly making his Battle Qi Armor more fluid and denser. Wang Yang found that his armor's defensive power had increased greatly.

Even without the counterattack ability, just this improvement alone was worth it.

"Generally speaking, attacks are more powerful than one's own defense. Therefore, setting the counterattack to be the same as the attack intensity means that most melee enemies are simply no match for me. I'm not afraid even if I'm surrounded."

Wang Yang muttered to himself, calculating some things to pay attention to in battle.

"Another thing is the counterattack direction of the energy spikes. The attack comes from which direction, then counterattack in that direction. This won't work. In this case, the energy spikes will sometimes fly around randomly, making it difficult to hit the target. It seems that I need to add a way to lock on to the target. In that case, this skill needs to be further modified and strengthened."

So, a large amount of energy was injected into this new skill again.

This time, the energy collected this time was basically used up.

However, this time Wang Yang was finally satisfied. When launching a counterattack, Wang Yang used a dual lock of energy and vitality. The target that matches both the energy and vitality source of the opponent is the target of the energy spike attack.

There would be no situation where, because the attack angle was tricky, his energy spike counterattack angle was even trickier, and he didn't know where it ran off to. At least, the energy spikes knew where their enemy target was.

Speaking of which, being able to do this was because of Wang Yang's vitality recovery ability.

He already had a vitality skill, so he could grasp vitality and perform vitality locking.

At first, Wang Yang also wanted to perform a mental soul lock, but that was even more difficult. With Wang Yang's current ability, he simply couldn't do it. Therefore, in the end, he settled for the next best thing and chose this.

Unfortunately, this skill itself is not a skill that attacks vitality, otherwise the effect would be stronger, and it would be easier to lock on.

Unconsciously, this skill has been completely perfected, and even its original appearance is somewhat unrecognizable.

Even if the beetle itself came, it might not be able to recognize the relationship between this skill and itself.

The beetle's counterattack is a surface counterattack, directly impacting a surface. Wang Yang's is an invisible spike, sharper and less likely to be discovered. It will definitely be useful to trick some melee professionals in the future.

"It seems that, in this case, there's no need to actively turn it off."

Wang Yang suddenly realized that it didn't matter if he didn't turn off the skill. Because the skill locks on to vitality and energy, and the skill will not launch a counterattack if there is only energy and no vitality. That is to say, in the case of ranged attacks, because the enemy is not within three meters of him, the spikes will not launch. In this way, it doesn't matter if this ability is always turned on. Wang Yang patted his head, why didn't he think of this sooner? What a pity, a sum of energy has been wasted, and he must think clearly before modifying skills in the future.