Max looked at the countless figures of Darian surrounding him and a faint smile curved his lips. 'A speed mirage?' The thought surfaced calmly in his mind as his eyes sharpened. He had already seen through the trick the instant Darian split into dozens of afterimages.
Without hesitation, he activated his Dimensional Sovereign Body. The shift was subtle yet absolute. The space around him seemed unchanged to outsiders, yet to Max everything became crystalline and precise.
The chaotic blur of motion that would have confused any ordinary cultivator turned painfully clear. Every ripple in space, every disturbance in movement, every fluctuation of aura revealed itself to him. Darian's so called mirages became nothing more than shallow reflections. Max could pinpoint the true body moving among them as easily as spotting a flame in the dark.
