kvmb Chapter 441 Initial Understanding of the Essence of Immortal Arts
Chapter 441 Initial Understanding of the Essence of Immortal Arts
The gray, hazy space, like a crumpled rag, twisted and tumbled before my eyes.
The afterimage of the Blood Demon was still flashing before my eyes. I could even smell the nauseating stench of blood in the air, mixed with a burnt smell, probably left by the backlash of my spiritual energy.
I clutched my chest and coughed up a mouthful of bloody saliva. Ugh, disgusting!
"You...are very good..."
A deep voice, like a cold, venomous snake, crawled up my spine, making my hair stand on end.
I looked up abruptly, and a tall figure slowly emerged from the distorted space.
He was dressed in black, his face hidden in the shadows, making it impossible to see his features clearly. Only his eyes, like two cold stars, emitted a chilling light.
Is this Mo Yu?
A powerful pressure, like Mount Tai pressing down on me, almost made it hard for me to breathe.
My heart was pounding like a frightened fawn, wanting to escape this suffocating sense of oppression.
Master Huixin, Ziling, and Elder Qingfeng also appeared in the illusion at some point, their faces filled with worry.
Master Huixin's lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but she was stopped by an invisible force, and her face turned pale instantly.
Zi Ling's face turned pale. She clenched her fists, wanting to rush forward, but it was like an ant trying to shake a tree—futile.
Elder Qingfeng sighed dejectedly, his eyes filled with despair, muttering to himself, "It's over, it's over..." as if I were already dead!
This guy... is tough to deal with!
I gritted my teeth and forced myself to calm down.
This oppressive force is more than ten times stronger than the Blood Fiend!
I felt my bones creaking and cracking, as if they were about to be crushed at any moment.
Mo Yu moved.
With a mere wave of his hand, a black energy surged toward me like lightning.
Before I could react, I was violently knocked away and crashed heavily to the ground, feeling as if my internal organs had shifted.
"Pfft!" I spat out a mouthful of blood, my vision went black, and the pain in my body made it almost impossible for me to breathe.
Damn it, the speed and power of this attack are simply beyond my ability to withstand!
"Hahaha..." Blood Fiend's ear-piercing laughter rang out again, "You overconfident little girl, you think you can defeat Lord Mo Yu? What a fool's dream!" Hearing his gloating voice, I wanted nothing more than to rush up and tear his mouth apart!
I struggled to stand up, but found that my body was no longer under my control.
Mo Yu's attack not only injured my body, but also disrupted the spiritual energy within me, making me feel as if countless needles were pricking my meridians.
"Give up," Mo Yu's voice rang out again, cold and ruthless. "You have no chance of winning." His words were like a sharp knife, piercing my heart and filling me with despair.
Am I really going to lose?
Did all my previous efforts go to waste?
Do not!
I can not be reconciled!
Mo Yu raised his hand again, and black energy condensed in his hand, forming a huge black sphere that exuded an aura of destruction.
I knew that if I were hit by this sphere, I would surely die.
My consciousness began to blur, and the whispers of my inner demons rang in my ears again, mocking my incompetence and ridiculing my overestimation of my abilities.
I felt like I was back in the past, back in the days of Xiao Yao, the useless girl everyone laughed at, feeling powerless and desperate...
Just when I was about to give up, a familiar voice suddenly rang in my ears, gentle yet firm: "Yao'er, hang in there!"
Warm Dust!
It was Wen Chen's voice!
This sound, like a ray of dawn, pierced through the darkness and illuminated my heart.
I suddenly opened my eyes, and a flame of hope rekindled in them.
I...I can't give up! I still have Wen Chen, I still have my dream! I...
“No…” A deep voice came from my mouth, trembling slightly, yet incredibly firm.
I...I will definitely stand up!
I struggled to raise my hand, trying to grasp at something, even just a straw...
"Wen Chen..."
My call was like a pebble thrown into a still, deep pool, without even an echo.
Only Mo Yu's gaze, as cold as ancient ice, remained fixed on me, as if trying to freeze my very soul.
This guy doesn't seem to care at all whose name I call, or rather, he doesn't take me seriously at all!
He seemed to have noticed my momentary wavering, that faint hope that had been ignited by hearing Wen Chen's voice, which he saw as a laughable struggle.
"Futility in your thoughts will only hasten your demise." Mo Yu's voice was deep, yet it struck my heart like a heavy hammer.
He waved his hand again, and this time, it was no longer a single black energy, but... countless twisted shadows!
Holy crap! What the hell is this thing?!
Those shadows were like demons crawling out of the depths of hell; they shrieked and twisted, surging towards me from all directions.
They have no physical form, yet they exude a chilling aura and an air of despair.
What's even more terrifying is that when they approached me, countless horrific images instantly flooded my mind!
Those are my most unbearable memories—when I first transmigrated, I was called a "good-for-nothing" by those so-called "geniuses" in the family; I was beaten black and blue and crawled on the ground like a dog just to fight for a little bit of meager cultivation resources; it was the helplessness and fear when facing powerful enemies; it was... the despair of struggling on the edge of life and death countless times!
"No...get away!" I clutched my head in agony, feeling like my head was about to explode.
These inner demonic illusions are a hundred times more real than those created by the Blood Fiend before; they precisely strike at the deepest fears and weaknesses within me.
My body was pressed firmly to the ground by an invisible pressure, and I couldn't move.
The surrounding space was no longer a gray, hazy area, but a thick, suffocating darkness.
I feel myself sinking deeper and deeper into an abyss with no end in sight.
Coldness, loneliness, despair... all the negative emotions overwhelmed me like a tide.
The figures of Abbess Huixin, Ziling, and Elder Qingfeng had long since disappeared, and even Xue Sha's annoying laughter could no longer be heard.
Here, it seems only I am left with this boundless darkness, and Mo Yu, who is high above me, looking down at me indifferently like a god.
"Do you see? This is your true nature. Struggling is pointless." Mo Yu's voice echoed in the darkness, carrying a cold, judgmental tone.
My consciousness became increasingly blurred, and the physical pain and mental torment almost made me give up the fight.
Maybe...maybe he's right, I shouldn't have come into this world at all, I'm just a complete failure...
Just as my fingers began to lose strength, and my soul seemed about to be completely swallowed by the darkness...
and many more!
wrong!
Just now... just now in that broken illusion of Blood Fiend, I think... I grasped something?
What does that feel like?
It wasn't a simple burst of spiritual energy, nor was it a brutal collision; rather, it was... a wondrous rhythm?
A kind of...compliance?
It's like... water!
Yes, just like water!
Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.
Spiritual power is the same; it can be a raging flood or... a clear spring that nourishes all things!
If the spiritual energy within me is currently a chaotic flood, why should I try to block it?
Why can't we...guide it?
That crucial point!
The nun Huixin hesitated to speak, but I myself vaguely grasped the key to the immortal technique at the critical moment of life and death!
It's not about control or suppression, but rather... understanding and... going with the flow!
right! That's it!
An indescribable realization dawned on me, like a lightning bolt cleaving through the chaos in my mind!
To hell with the Dark Abyss!
To hell with these inner demons and illusions!
I am Xiao Yao!
Xiao Yao crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
How could I possibly fail in such a godforsaken place!
"Break for me!!!"
With my last ounce of strength, I let out a shout in my heart.
I no longer try to resist the negative emotions flooding my mind, nor do I try to suppress the raging, chaotic spiritual energy within me.
Instead, I focused all my energy, opened my mind, and felt that chaos, understood that rage, and then... gently... guided it with the still vague essence of the immortal technique that I had just grasped!
Imagine yourself as a riverbed; no matter how turbulent the flood, I remain unmoved, simply guiding its flow!
Om-!
In an instant, I felt as if my body had turned into a luminous body!
The chaotic spiritual energy that had been rampaging through my meridians, causing me unbearable pain, seemed to have found an outlet and began to circulate at high speed along a mysterious trajectory!
A dazzling white-gold light suddenly burst forth from my body!
This light, pure and warm, carrying an overwhelming and unstoppable aura, instantly dispersed the surrounding viscous darkness, purifying all those shrieking and twisted shadows!
"what?!"
In the darkness, Mo Yu's astonished voice rang out for the first time.
He seemed completely unprepared. Under such a powerful mental shock and energy suppression from him, I not only didn't collapse, but instead... broke through?!
The invisible pressure that contained his immense power, enough to crush my soul, melted away rapidly when it came into contact with the platinum-gold light emanating from me, just like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun!
I felt a sense of lightness throughout my body, and that suffocating pressure disappeared!
The illusions in my mind receded like the tide, and my vision became clear again.
Although it's still that same gray and gloomy space, the feeling is... completely different!
An unprecedentedly powerful force is surging within my body!
The previously blocked meridians became completely unobstructed, and the previous injuries were healing rapidly.
I can clearly feel that my cultivation level... has broken through!
The bottleneck that had been troubling me for so long was actually broken through in this way during a life-or-death crisis!
Haha! This is truly a stroke of luck!
I slowly stood up from the ground. Although the platinum light on my body had become somewhat restrained, it still exuded a terrifying power.
I looked up at Mo Yu not far away. He was still shrouded in shadow, but I could feel that his cold, star-like eyes were filled with disbelief.
"You..." Mo Yu's voice carried a hint of barely perceptible seriousness, "You actually... comprehended 'that'?"
"Which one?" I raised an eyebrow, a provocative smile playing on my lips. "Which one are you talking about? Sorry, I just grasped a lot of things and can't quite tell right away."
Who cares about "which one"! Now it's my turn to fight back!
I took a deep breath and slowly gathered the newly generated spiritual power within my body, which was circulating according to the essence of immortal techniques, at my fingertips.
It was no longer the violent energy of before, but rather a power that was... harmonious and balanced, yet contained supreme majesty!
"Try taking this move!"
I let out a sharp cry and pointed my finger forward!
A beam of white-gold light, condensed to its fullest extent, shot towards Mo Yu like a shooting star streaking across the night, carrying the power to purify everything!
Mo Yu's expression changed slightly, as if he dared not take the blow head-on. His figure blurred instantly as he tried to dodge.
Hmph, trying to run away? Too late!
With a thought, the platinum beam of light seemed to have eyes, and with a turn, it still accurately locked onto Mo Yu's aura!
boom--!
With a deafening roar, Mo Yu's figure was engulfed by the platinum-gold light, and then he was violently blasted away, crashing into the distorted spatial barrier with a muffled thud.
Although I know that this attack may not have really seriously injured him, being able to force him back is enough for me to hold my head high!
I stood there, feeling the surging power within me and a deeper understanding of immortal arts, and a sense of pride welled up within me.
This mysterious immortal technique is indeed incredibly powerful!
However, I am also aware that this is just the beginning, and I am still far from grasping the essence and fully mastering it.
The road ahead is still long!
Mo Yu's figure stabilized again in the distance. He looked at me with a complicated expression.
I clenched my fist, feeling the surging power within me, preparing to...
suddenly!
Click——!
A crisp cracking sound rang out without warning, seemingly coming from all directions, yet also as if it were right next to my ear.