Supreme Swordsman of the Nine Heavens

Chapter 904

Seeing Primordial Yin Yang Again

“You?” Mu Yu asked.

“Yeah, I’m not sure about the rest, but I’m sure the, ‘Heaven’s long-lasting reign ends at dawn. The spirit Shadow God binds isn’t part of the five elements’ part is a reference to me,” Xiaoshuai responded.

“You’re not part of the five elements? Wait a second… I’m pretty sure I’ve heard something similar… Illusion Spirit! Illusion Spirit said something similar! It said something to you, ‘Just as you can’t identify me, I can’t identify you. I can’t insert you into dreams I create. The rules of the world classify us as entities beyond the five elements. Some unknown force restricts us, true?’ I just don’t know what ‘Shadow God binds the spirit’ refers to.”

“Shadow God is Old White Beard, and the spirit refers to me!”

“Uh… Does Shadow God symbolise an identity or might?”

“Probably the latter? Maybe it’s a title for when your strength reaches a certain threshold? Have you not noticed Sword Shadow Dust Gale, Illusionary Shadow Clear Rain, Evil Shadow Eternally Youthful all have the ‘shadow’ word in their name?”

“Shouldn’t Bai Jie also be a shadow god, then?”

“He’s a dick. If he was a shadow god, would he need to covet Old White Beard’s immortal body? He doesn’t have the same qi as the stupid illusion spirit and me.”

“I can’t remember. I only remember I joined him on an important mission elsewhere – not Celestial Prison. I remember seeing freckles of stars, boulders zipping across my line of vision, red energy blasting into the ether and qi being blasted back and forth. The two of us ended up gravely injured and then… Dick-eater Bai Jie wouldn’t have screwed us over, otherwise.”

Mu Yu also saw people, each powerful enough to obliterate Third Heaven, hiding in fog to ambush his shifu and Xiaoshuai. There were corpses littering the ground and a black hole in the sky, yet Xiaoshuai and Feng Haochen approached it when it devoured everything around. A loud explosion then switched the scenery to plates of drumsticks and duck thighs. And roast goose.

“Why are you thinking about food all of a sudden?” questioned Mu Yu.

“I can’t remember anything else. Eating is the most important, anyway.”

“If only you were as formidable as you were back then, I wouldn’t have so many issues to deal with.”

“Who cares how formidable I was or am? All that matters is that I’m handsome.”

Mu Yu kept staring at the text for a while longer. “If I view the text as positions in an eight trigram diagram, I can try linking the eight characters.”

Mu Yu kept moving around until he lined the characters up in the eight trigrams’ eight positions overhead, reaching the centre of the cauldron at the same time. The cauldron started to vibrate as the text faded. A black and white light streaked from above into the diagram, covering the green formation in his hands, shrouding Mu Yu inside the reflection. The black and white energy crept down to where Mu Yu stood, swirling into the shape of a yin yang symbol, where his feet were on the two circles inside the two halves. The black and white halves revolved as though they were chasing each other.

“Primordial Yin Yang?” Mu Yu muttered. “No, it’s different. This doesn’t feel as intimate with me.”

Bouncing off the revolving qi, Xiaoshuai asked, “Does that mean you have to make them acknowledge you again? Haha, stop. Stop! It tickles! Woo!”

Xiaoshuai vaulted to the top of the qi and shouted, “Charge, Knight Xiaohei!”

The white qi sprung up, bouncing Xiaoshuai up and then whipping its body to catch him.

“Knight Xiaobai, let’s capture Xiaohei!” Xiaoshuai assumed his human form to ride the white portion, angering the black portion.

How did he befriend them? Mu Yu wondered, feeling his Primordial Yin Yang express an urge to get out of his body.

Mu Yu ejected the black and white qi inside him as they wished so that they could play with Xiaoshuai’s group. Notably, the qis were eager for Xiaoshuai to ride them. Mu Yu could tell which duo belonged to his even though they were entwined in some sort of game.

“You can be Dabai. You can be Xiaobai. You can be Dahei, and you can be Xiaohei,” asserted Xiaoshuai, pointing to the various qis.

“What should I do about the primordial yin yang here?”

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