983 Illusory Additional Self (2/2)

He chose to end their journey and go back all because he found the trace of this man, head of the Zhen Shen Sect, Qiu Ye.

Yue Jiang Men, which Shang Jiuming belonged to originated from Shang ancestors. As they did not have enough disciples, twenty years ago Yue Jiang Men was torn apart. Some disciples obtained a swordsmanship rubbing and then disappeared. Some went to follow other powerful sects, some traded their swordsmanship, some changed their names and built their own sect. And Qiu Ye was one of them.

Qiu Ye said with a smile, ”You are old enough to know the manners. Don't you know how to call your sect uncle?”

”Yue Jiang Men do not have deceiving disciple like you!” Shang Jiuming felt hurt by hearing him mentioning it. He lifted his left hand and made a hint to Xu Cheng and Shang Lingxi to retreat.

If he could not defeat him, they could still escape.

Qiu Ye activated his seven orifices twenty years ago and had his inner heaven and earth form recently. Now even if he grew old with less energy, he still had the same power at his youth since his vital energy was now almost perfect.

Qiu Ye put on a false smile and said coldly, ”Shang family has been leading the sect for a long time and you hide many swordsmanship secrets. I come here today for justice.”

”Jiuming, I remember clearly that your father took away the biggest rubbing. If you give it to me, I promise not to kill you guys.”

”Draw your sword out. Take it from my corpse then,” Shang Jiuming replied.

”Master!” Xu Cheng shouted and tried to stop him. He thought that since they already got the puppet, rubbing was no longer that important.

Shang Jiuming looked at him and said, ”Qiu Ye's real name is Qiu Shenglou, a very sinister and cunning man. Do not count on him to keep his promise.”

”You ask for it. Do not blame me then!” Qiu Ye suddenly moved and the light of his sword went out as if the sword was hidden somewhere.

When getting closer, the sword light suddenly appeared again like a fragrance in the wind without any color or shape. But when you smell it, it already went inside your lungs.

Shang Lingxin stared at it with a stunned look. How powerful the art of Lingering Scent in Wind was! The art they still had not been able to master.

Could it be that they lost that rubbing and therefore not be able to master it?

Shang Jiuming had a strange feeling as if he saw all the secrets of this attack. He even already understood how Qiu Ye was going to respond in the next movement. It seemed that he was already very familiar with this art and grabbed its nature.

Since when did I begin to be so familiar with this art? Shang Jiuming soon had an idea. He drew out the sword and pointed to the empty place on left side. Meanwhile his body followed the sword's movement and curled a bit.

Two swords stopped at the same time. One sword pointed over one's shoulder almost touching his body. Another sword thrust into the person's throat and blood flowed out like river.

Qiu Ye looked at him with surprise and horror and gave out a dying sound, as if he was questioning, ”How did you make it happen? Why?”

Could it be that you gathered other swordsmanship rubbings?

”This is the real Awakening Celestial Sword Style,” Shang Mingjiu felt confused at the very beginning but after he realized what had happened. He became excited and happy.

If he could master it completely, he would become the top figure in Jiang Hu.

And that white figure he saw in his dream did not seem to be an illusion nor a devil spirit but a strong spirit left by the Awakening Celestial Sword.

He could experience samsara for several rounds with a Living Buddha and defeat them. It would not be hard for him to leave behind his willpower.

Qiu Ye slumped down on the ground with a confused look. Shang Jiuming found scrubbing from his body and then threw him in the river.

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At night Shang Jiuming took out the Celestial Sword Puppet and put it on the table. He bowed to it several times.

Only this time he performed three kneelings and nine kowtows in the same manner of worshipping ancestors!

”Dear Awakening Celestial Sword, I will do everything I can to develop your power.”

Suddenly Meng Qi's Divine Sense suddenly moved and felt a subtle change in this world.

Just like practicing Sambhogakaya, what he did to this world would cause a reaction. Practicing Sambhogakaya took advantage of this reaction to feel the reality. As one's Divine Sense became more powerful, one would be able to feel subtle changes and understand one's own projection. By adjusting bit by bit, the projection would become more and more real and eventually became the real projection.

Projection could be different depending on different universes. Just like looking into the mirror, the same person standing in different positions would see different images of oneself. Therefore it was important to find out the feature of one's projection.

Meng Qi's Divine Sense turned to a Dao Yi Glaze Lamp and lit up karma threads, which linked himself and the responses from this world. He compared them and then adjusted a bit.

After a while he stopped adjusting and had a vague idea about leaving a stamp:

There is my legend left in this world, therefore many knew about the existence of the Awakening Celestial Sword and had their own image of it, an illusory additional self. What I should do now is to adjust its image to the feature of projection. And when they two correspond to each other, I might be able to leave a stamp!