THE TECHNIQUES PART 5

Li Hua stepped forward and felt the world hesitate. The air missed her presence for a heartbeat. She was there, but she wasn't there. When Li Hao turned to look at her, his gaze slid past where she had actually stepped.

"Good," Old Xiao murmured. "Now for the true test—you must learn to make the world move with you."

He gestured, and the mist around them began to dance in unnatural currents. The siblings watched as he demonstrated, not stepping through space but letting the world accept his presence as part of its own movement. "You must blend into the fluctuations of your surroundings. The way a shadow shifts with the sun, the way mist curls with the wind. Let the world decide your position, not you."