Chapter 334 – Truths and Lies (XX)

Chapter 334

Truths and Lies (XX)

What the hell is happening?!

Lu Yuhan’s mind was reeling, more so than ever before in his life.

This entire ‘battle’… it was strange. Stranger than anything he’d experienced before. Try as he may, even after purposefully ignoring the ache of his scar, he couldn’t conjure half–no, not even a quarter—of his strength. Any time he tried to imbue a concept into his attacks, it was as though there was a higher force that stopped him.

He couldn’t summon or manipulate Laws, he couldn’t nullify lesser martial arts, he couldn’t use the overpowering quality of his Qi to dismantle any other.

It was as though he were forced to fight with both his arms tied behind his back while he was on his knees as well as blindfolded.

But… it wasn’t natural.

He’d felt the natural restrictions of Heavenly Laws before, and they were not like this. This felt more suffocating; while, with the natural restrictions, it was a literal ‘restraint,’ this was more akin to a ‘lock’.

A lock that prevented him from doing anything he wanted to do.

Then there were those monsters… that attack right now, from that boy, had a strange wrap to it–it wasn’t Qi, but rather mana. It meant that there was a shaman among them, and judging by the sheer level of that attack, as it managed to actually wound him, it was not a low-circle tier one.

Two more shadows were flying toward him, as though there was wind behind them flurrying them onwards, and then there was the boy in front of him.

… he didn’t seem tired.

In fact, none of them did–it was as though they had inexhaustible quantities of Qi, but that wasn’t the case. Though they all had reserves generally greater than others on their level, it wasn’t by such a cosmic amount; rather than the total reserves, it seemed more that they recovered Qi so quickly it was borderline impossible.

He’d never seen anyone–not even his Master–recover Qi as speedily as they did. Even if they occasionally used Qi Recovery Pills, the general rule was that only about 30% of the pill’s total Qi could be safely consumed, and it would have to be done so over the course of an hour, at least.

But they? Minutes, at most, with barely leaving any residual Qi.

The boy’s blade descended yet again.

Clang.

His arm vibrated all the way to his shoulder; it wasn’t merely physical strength but something more. Though he outmatched the quantity of Qi, still, the purity… the purity of his Qi was somehow lesser. With each subsequent clash, it was like a hammer striking truth into his bones: this boy, who looked no older than fifteen, had purer Qi than he, someone who once reached a Nirvana, did.

“Impossible!!” he hissed angrily, his breath hitching as he forced a wave of shadows to push the boy back. “How… how do you have such a pure Qi?! It’s impossible!”

“Impossible?” the boy tilted his head with a faint smirk, his robes fluttering amidst the violent winds of their clash. “Few things are impossible in this world… though even those don’t apply to me.”

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Lu Yuhan frowned at the boy’s provocative words yet couldn’t find it in him to refute them. He slammed his palms together yet again, summoning an array of enshadowed daggers; yet, like all previous times, once he tried to imbue laws or concepts into them… he faltered.

Something in him snapped like a branch of a tree bent too forward, unable to endure the pressure any longer.

The sword came at him yet again, this time around pushing him back.

It made no sense!

He was a Sage!

He’d touched Dao!

He’d reached Nirvana!