Chapter 583 Convinced (1/2)

Shen Lian pointed at Yi Zhi with his fishing rod. At that moment, Yi Zhi felt like it was the end for him.

It was just like what was written in the register of life and death. If the person was recorded to be dead by midnight, he would not live till dawn the next day.

Yi Zhi moved but he was not moving forward or backward. He was not going up, down, left or right but he gave out a feeling that he was moving.

Because of this odd ”movement”, all in a sudden, Shen Lian's killing vibe had lost track of its target.

Shen Lian was impressed as Yi Zhi, in fact, had moved. This movement was not made by him but instead, it was from his surrounding with him being at the center of everything.

The movement was relative. As everything was moving, Yi Zhi was moving in relation to it.

Shen Lian too was part of the everything and he did not escape from Yi Zhi's odd technique. Shen Lian felt that the reason why Yi Zhi was better than Guan Longzi was that he had a better understanding of things. He was able to peel off the external layers to see the principle.

The reason why Yi Zhi said he was number one in witchcraft was that the most famous witchcraft was the Prayer of the Masses and Yi Zhi made use of the prayer in this principle.

He was not praying to the God or the demons or any grand beings. He was praying to the unwavering principle that existed in everything.

As people always said, to make changes with feelings and to make an understanding with principle. It was appropriate to be used here too as Yi Zhi made the principle move and hence, everything else followed suit.

The principle within everything was the essence of the technique of Yi. From Yi Zhi's description, it was definitely not a boast that he could refine Lianshanyi.

Shen Lian did not intend to compete against Yi Zhi in terms of achievement in the technique of Yi. He swung his fishing rod around and the reeds that were tainted red by the sunset soon flew around. The odd thing was that when they flew, they behaved as if they were out of the physical world and that the red sunset could not leave a trace on them. If that was the only thing, it was fine but the thing was, Yi Zhi could see clearly the original color of the reeds.

The reeds were as white as snow.

The reeds which were white as snow was coming towards him in a stern manner. They were not like everything else and they were not dream-like. He could not treat them as something that really existed but he too could not ignore them as they pointed straight to his heart.

Yi Zhi was surprised, ”What a great ”difference between the object and the self.”

He could peel off the external layer to identify the real principle but even the 'principle' was only his mere understanding. Shen Lian sent the reeds flying and hence, what he saw were the reeds but then again, they were not exactly the reeds. They could well be imaginary. Whether they were real or imaginary, it simply depended on his judgment. In reality, they were where the ”difference between the object and the self” were hidden. They were what Yi Zhi could see by his eyes. He needed to distinguish whether what he saw were the reeds or whether ”he” saw the reeds.

Just like the saying by Buddha, ”Everything that has a form is not real. Once one is able to realize that, one can then be enlightened.”

This was just like how when a common man was knocked out, he felt like he could see stars dancing in his eyes but in reality, there were no stars seen. They could only be observed because of the concussion. However, if there were indeed stars in the void and what the eyes were seeing were still imaginary, what should one do with this?

This was the ”difference between the object and the self”. An object was an object and the self was the self. If one could see an object because of the self, would one consider the object as real?

That was the challenge Yi Zhi was facing, whether he could ignore the snow-like reeds that were flying towards him and simply treat them as imaginary. However, if there was a reality within the imaginary, what should he do?

To be enlightened meant to be able to see the principle, seeing not the shape but the reality.

The technique Shen Lian just used was from Dream Heart Sutra and Free Form Incantation. Furthermore, he combined the Powang state among the nine states of cultivation from Qing Xuan Earth and Star with the two techniques.