174 Steps of Underlying Shadow 2 (1/2)

The first technique listed within the book titled the , the , was to be interpreted as a martial technique capable of providing the practitioner an absolute evasion against physical assaults to the body.

When An Fei had read through the technique, she had obtained the impression that the technique outlined an alternate method of transferring external kinetic energy, defying the natural laws of physics with the ultimate cheat known as refined atmospheric spiritual qi, the spiritual essence contained within the body.

By ingraining a preconfigured set of motions into the essence of the body to allow the bones to respond without any extensive planning, the technique carved a distinct series of channels for the spiritual essence to convey the additional kinetic energy and prevent the circumstance of injury.

”Capture, realign, and release.”

The young girl tapped her finger onto the ground, swaying her body to the rhythmic sound reflected off of the crystalline floor.

An Fei scanned through the pages of the book, her eyes dragging over each blurred character as though it were an infested evil.

”The realizes the theory that every existence possesses an invisible field of interaction… one that permits others to make contact – is it referencing about inertia?” the young girl's eyebrows shot up in thought, only to deflate later.

”But inertia would defy the phenomenon I experienced, and spiritual essence would similarly break that theory into smithereens… If one person does not possess a field of influence or merges into another person's field of influence, then the second person will never be able to inflict harm, huh…”

The young girl could understand this argument solely due to the fact that she had experienced such phenomenon hundreds of times.

Each time she engaged combat with an enemy, An Fei had not received a single scratch onto the linen coat even if claws were scraping against her face.

The instant any object attempted to strike her body, the transmitted force would simply be diverted and redirected to strike towards its source.

As the 's engraving of passive spiritual essence channels nullified any form of physical resistance, it simply wasn't possible to inflict physical harm onto An Fei's body.

That, she was well familiar with. However…

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”To merge into another existence's field of interaction, the practitioner transmits a blank pulse of spiritual essence through the preconfigured channels into their surroundings via a thin, polarized wave,” the young girl deciphered with difficulty.

”The constant emission of blank pulses of spiritual essence without a unique frequency prevents the detection of the practitioner even though visual… perception… is functional, and tactile senses are not incapacitated.”

…what was a polarized wave?

An Fei scratched her head in frustration, her mind painfully devoid of any information relative to the passage's topic.

The young girl had an inkling that she could perhaps obtain a clue had she not become embroiled in the massive conflict over a single mirror, but only released a heavy sigh of regret.

As for a blank pulse…

”Ah, I don't know!!”

The young girl released a heartfelt cry before sinking backwards until her back rested against the ground, reveling in the warm and comfortable sensation transmitted through the sky-blue crystal floor.

An Fei rubbed at her eyes as she tortured her already exhausted mind a step further, dragging herself by chains to read on further to obtain a single clue that could remove a portion of the mental haze tamping on her consciousness.

”Spiritual essence comprises of an intention, imprint, and direction. A blank pulse is generated… by eliminating either the intention or imprint, or assimilating the direction into the imprint.”

The young girl's spirits became invigorated by a slight amount, though her mind remained as blank as ever.

An Fei curled her fingers into tight fists as she bored holes into the book's white pages, her consciousness threatening itself to not fall asleep.

Spiritual essence comprised of an intention, imprint, and a configured direction.

That, by itself, was rather self-explanatory, or at the least, the fundamental definitions were easily decipherable.

The spiritual essence used to construct the handle-less steel sword that accompanied her journey throughout the Wu Ji Forest was a prime example of such definitions.

Each time she conjured the sword, An Fei gathered the spiritual essence at her heart to traverse through the channels defined by the , disperse from her body, and coalesce into a sword.

The channels formed by the cultivation technique constituted the imprint, the intention was the manifestation of the steel blade radiating with malevolence, and the direction was any coordinate irrelevant to her physical body.

And yet…