Chapter 247: Splitting Soul
"Why exactly did it choose me?" After calming down again, Ning Yan Huo, clutching a bag of items, began to ponder the question.
"Could it be because my ability is a curse? But with an ability as weak as mine, it can, at best, only make people a little unlucky. There are so many people with related abilities across the country..."
"To a great figure who can casually bestow priceless treasures, any further thoughts from a small ant like me are futile. As long as he can truly avenge me, anything else is fine."
Although his heart was warped by hatred, anything unrelated to revenge still appeared remarkably rational.
As an atheist who intensely disliked religion, he certainly didn't believe that the being who had just appeared behind him was a real devil.
"I'm still too weak." After pondering fruitlessly, Ning Yan Huo nevertheless followed the steps written in the plan, and began to make himself stronger at the fastest possible pace. "Without external assistance, it might be impossible to eradicate this super cult with hundreds of millions of followers in a lifetime."
The black-robed avatar watched Ning Yan Huo, who had begun following his plan, from hundreds of meters away. He showed no further reaction, and instead turned his thoughts to his own matters.
In just two short months, supported by endless battles in the virtual network and a large amount of spiritual materials in the real world, Bai Mo, enduring the continuously rising threshold, opened another acupoint.
More and more people cultivating the Martial Path began to discover this problem: as they continuously grew stronger, there were fewer and fewer opponents of the same rank who could serve as whetstones.
Meanwhile, Zhang Xu was still in seclusion, researching how to perfect his emotional control ability, making it respond precisely to his will.
Around his place of seclusion, a thousand-meter perimeter had been directly cordoned off with warning tape. No one dared approach. Emotions beyond one's own control were truly terrifying. Now, all the supplies he needed daily were transported by robots.
But on this day, a rare guest arrived at Zhang Xu's cabin.
"How is it? Still unable to control it at will?" Bai Mo's black-robed avatar asked calmly. The surrounding emotional influence aura couldn't sway him in the slightest.
"Indeed, your Splitting Soul Chapter is not so easily subdued, Mr. Bai."
"After all, it involves constantly battling oneself; it's indeed not easy. It's a pity my progress in the Martial Path is too slow, so I can't improve it further."
"I'm very curious how you came up with such a cultivation technique." Although Zhang Xu knew, after reading the entire technique at the time, that this Splitting Soul Chapter of the Canopy had no hidden pitfalls, and could even be said to be uniquely creative.
However, he couldn't understand how Bai Mo, whose Martial Path cultivation was merely at the sixth or seventh acupoint, could have discovered a cultivation technique for breaking through the Nine-Orifice Body.
"This was originally Old Man Hua's original creation, an idea he had for a breakthrough. I merely added a few modifications related to my Ten Thousand Phantoms Sutra, so it can't be said that I came up with it." Bai Mo honestly stated the truth.
"No wonder... so it was Old Man Hua's work." Most members of the Martial Arts Symposium held Hua Taishan in great reverence. As a pioneering explorer, he had selflessly pointed the way forward for countless practitioners of the Martial Path. "Can I disseminate it?"
"We are merely partners; this is your concern, not mine." With the experiment largely successful, Bai Mo no longer cared much about such matters. "However, I suggest you only make it public after reducing its side effects."
"Finally, I want to test just how strong I am now. Those guys outside are all too weak!" Zhang Xu, who had originally been doing his best to restrain his Aura, instantly erupted with terrifying oppressive power.
A powerful, tangible will oppressed the entire cabin, causing the furnishings inside to tremble slightly.
"As expected, all martial artists are battle maniacs. Regardless of reason, regardless of relation, they simply want to fight." Bai Mo's avatar unfurled his Starry Sky Dharma Body, enveloping Zhang Xu within it.
Endless starlight within the Dharma Body shone upon him, making him instantly feel as if he had entered a rare state of enlightenment. Thoughts raced through his mind, many doubts were resolved, and his desire to fight vanished, as he temporarily lowered his fist, which was still enveloped in golden light.
"No, this is wrong!" Two seconds later, Zhang Xu realized he had been tricked. Using his Dharma Body to isolate himself from the starlight, the world before his eyes instantly plunged into darkness.
However, having cultivated the Martial Path to his level, he no longer needed his eyes. He could clearly perceive the world through his repeatedly enhanced Mind's Eye.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..." After he began resisting the starlight, his Dharma Body Golden Body slowly dissolved under the starlight. Zhang Xu felt as if everything around him was repelling him. He then realized he shouldn't fight on his opponent's home ground, and immediately burst forth with his full speed, leaving the embrace of the starry sky.
"I was still too overconfident." He had originally thought his Martial Path cultivation far surpassed his opponent's. He wanted to proactively enter the Dharma Body to probe Bai Mo's true depth. As a result, he nearly capsized.
"No need to test further, right?" The avatar retracted his Dharma Body, and slowly walked toward Zhang Xu.
"How can your will be so powerful as to reach such a level, able to penetrate my defenses, and make me experience the illusion of enlightenment!" He also reined in his Aura, returning to his previous state.
He, who had been complacent and satisfied since his breakthrough, encountered a setback for the first time.
"Everyone has their secrets, don't they?" Bai Mo said with a light chuckle. "The reason my Martial Path cultivation is only at the seventh acupoint is simply because my threshold is too high. Each step for me is much higher than for others."
The sparring between the two lasted no more than ten seconds, but it had already alarmed most of the Martial Arts Symposium members.
Due to the previous news from Su Zhe City, many of them recognized the widely popular starry sky background online. However, very few truly knew the identity of the Starry Sky Dharma Body's owner.
"Who is fighting Zhang Xu?" The center of the Starry Sky Dharma Body was precisely where Zhang Xu usually cultivated in seclusion, and also one of the Symposium's forbidden areas.
"It seems to be an old friend of Old Man Hua..." said a young man who had once observed Bai Mo sparring with Hua Taishan, and happened to remember the appearance of Bai Mo's Starry Sky Dharma Body.
Many people walked to the thousand-meter perimeter's cordon, and then stopped, not advancing further. They were still lingering with fear from what had happened before.
On the day he successfully broke through, hundreds of people surrounded Zhang Xu after he emerged from seclusion, laughing continuously. Even the most stoic martial artists revealed smiles uglier than crying.
All of this was simply because Zhang Xu's heartfelt joy at his successful breakthrough had infected everyone around him to varying degrees.
"It's nothing, just some friendly exchange." Zhang Xu dismissed all the onlookers who had come to watch the commotion, and once again chatted with Bai Mo about improving the Splitting Soul Chapter of the Canopy.
Coincidentally, Bai Mo had also gained many new ideas from his previous discussion with Yu Xi. The two continued chatting as if nothing had happened, as if the sparring earlier had never occurred.
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