Chapter 361 – Meeting Huang Binghu Again (1/2)

The surface of the water was so calm that it was like a mirror. Even the raging waterfall was unable to create a single ripple in it.

Li Qingshan lowered his head. The reflection in the mirror suddenly smiled at him, but it was much more flagrant than his own smile.

When he bent over, extended his hand, and touched the surface of the water with the tip of his finger, ripples spread out in all directions. They went from the very centre to the edge of the pool, with no signs of stopping.

The spirit turtle’s daemon core constantly flashed as daemon qi surged steadily, rapidly being drained away until it was almost depleted.

Xiao An was drawn away by this sight too. At the centre of the ripples, a real and a fake hand actually held one another.

A hand extended from the surface of the water, followed by a wrist, an arm, and an equally handsome face. Droplets of water rippled down like pearls.

Li Qingshan slowly pulled another Li Qingshan out from the reflection of the water. They seemed exactly the same, without the slightest difference at all.

Xiao An was amazed as well. Her eyes could see through falsehoods, but she was unable to spot anything wrong with him at all. He seemed like Li Qingshan’s twin brother.

Innate ability: Watermirror’s Image.

This was the name Li Qingshan had given it—an attempt to pluck the flower in the mirror, to scoop the moon in the water.

It was a so-called clone technique. Among the water element techniques, there were so-called water clones, but they were just condensed from a ball of water. They were made to seem like a real person through the use of some water transformations. However, when it came to actual battle, they were not particularly useful at all apart from drawing away the enemy’s attention and serving as a sandbag.

However, the Watermirror’s Image seemed fake, but it was real, and it was all under Li Qingshan’s control.

Li Qingshan felt like his mind had split into two, currently viewing the world from two perspectives. It was quite a strange feeling to be able to see himself, and he was rather unaccustomed to controlling two people at the same time.

Xiao An’s expression became even stranger as she watched on. The two Li Qingshans stood in front of one another and extended their hands at the same time, touching “their own” faces. It was like a mirror.

Li Qingshan raised his hand. Every bit of texture seemed so real. He could even feel a beating heart and flowing blood.

This was not a fake person moulded from water or earth, but an actual clone. Everyone said clones lacked power, but his clone truly possessed power. However, he was more willing to call it a mirror image.

However, separating the mirror image from his original body was difficult. He would always treat them as a single body and control them like that, moving forwards or backwards together.

Li Qingshan ended up shooting a glance at her, so she raised her face and shot a glance back at him.

Li Qingshan was helpless against her. He closed his eyes and tried his best to comprehend the feeling of drawing a circle with his left hand while drawing a square with his right.

Stopping a while later, Li Qingshan circulated his daemon qi, bending his knee and stepping on the water, but only his clone shot off into the air.

He arrived in the sky, overlooking the many mountains and gazing at the clouds in the distance.

On the ground, ridges and peaks rose and fell furiously like waves, giving off a sense of boundlessness.

Suddenly, he saw an insignificantly small hump at the end of the boundlessness, like a crouching ox.

To the side of the crouching ox sat a peaceful little village. Many farmers worked near the village. It was so peaceful and quiet that it seemed like a tiny drawing. All of Li Qingshan’s memories suddenly awakened.

So his homeland was not far away at all!

For a moment, he forgot about the difficulties of depending on others. He forgot about the pain from the combination of hunger and cold. Perhaps his memories had beautified everything, or perhaps these matters no longer bothered him anymore. All that was left in his mind was a child playing a reed flute on a large, black ox, walking through the mountain path unhurriedly. Yes, this was his only piece of wealth.

Suddenly, he felt an intense urge to go back and take a look, to have a look at the place he had called home for all these years.

However, he immediately dismissed this thought.

Must you be buried in your place of home? Sufficient are the green mountains overgrown. This was the oath he had sworn to himself!

That place no longer had anything tying him to it.

If there were things he was unable to let go of, then one would be underground, one would be in the academy, and one would be in the heavens.

He gazed at the sky and smiled. A sensation of utmost freedom was imprinted deeply in his heart back on the ground.

On the ground, Li Qingshan walked out of the pool and arrived before Xiao An. He crouched down on one knee and firmly embraced the only person he shared happiness with, his eternal supporter. “Xiao An, do you see? I’ve become so powerful. From today onwards, no one can just harass us anymore. I’ll definitely make them all pay the price if they do.”

Xiao An could feel that the current Li Qingshan was slightly different. It was not due to the change in his appearance. Instead, his personality was slightly different too. Compared to when he was in human form, he would always give off a fearless sense of flagrance in daemon form.

She preferred him like this more, as he always seemed a little happier in that state. However, no matter who he was, he was always her Li Qingshan.