Elder Feng had been able to recover from his demonized state due to him prevailing over the heart demon within him. The so-called demon heart was the Demon of Temptation existing within his heart.
“You are me, and I am you. We have the same strength and share the same thoughts. No matter what, you won’t be able to defeat me.”
The indifference in his voice caused the extremely competitive Ye Mo to feel furious. He formed a Dragon Spear in his hand and stabbed at the heart of the Heart Minion. The Heart Minion formed a completely identical Dragon Spear and stabbed out as well.
Bang!
The spears clashed, creating sparks while dragon roars rumbled in the air. At the same time, both of them retreated several steps backward.
After a moment of slight bewilderment, Ye Mo waved his Dragon Spear. A bloody red spear light appeared and spiraled as it charged at the Heart Minion. Unfortunately, the Heart Minion also used the Sky Blood Cycle as well. Once again, the two attacks canceled out each other.
Ye Mo attacked again and again, and the Heart Minion defended again and again. Both of them were using exactly the same techniques. After several dozen exchanges, they clashed and separated once again.
Only now did Ye Mo understand why the Heart Minion had said those words earlier. Their strength were completely the same. His attacks were completely ineffective against the Heart Minion.
“This is actually happening?” Ye Mo started thinking of a strategy to defeat this opponent. Then, his eyes lit up as a black radiance lit up on his Dragon Spear. Ye Mo directly transformed into a black shadow that flashed forward to instantly arrive beside the Heart Minion before stabbing out at the Heart Minion.
With no change in his expression, the Heart Minion casually stabbed out with his spear. Ye Mo was actually pierced through by this attack.
“Haha, I’m behind you. It’s your loss.” The stab of Ye Mo was in fact a feint. Using his Technique of Interchangeability, he arrived behind the Heart Minion in a flash.
Ye Mo punched out at the Heart Minion. His punch streaked through the air with an aura of destruction and slaughter around it. This was a punch capable of exploding an Energy Shaping Eight Realm warrior. Even if he himself would not feel too good after being hit by this attack. And yet before his punch could be sent out, a kick whipped out at him, similarly bringing with it an aura of destruction and slaughter. The kick landed on Ye Mo’s chest, flinging him away and sending him crashing on the ground.
“What exactly is going on?” Ye Mo stood up in astonishment. He only understood something after he crashed onto the ground.
Since the Heart Minion was the demon in his heart, a representative of his inner desires, the Heart Minion would know any tactic Ye Mo could think of in advance. Any planned attack would not work and would instead get countered by the Heart Minion.
“It’s quite painful to be beaten by myself.” Ye Mo stood up and wiped the blood trailing down his lips. With a solemn expression, he looked at the Heart Minion.
Inwardly, he was thinking of a way to defeat this opponent. They had the same techniques, and his opponent knew all his thoughts. How was he supposed to defeat an opponent like this?
“Master was able to defeat his own heart demon and obtain a powerful strength. Since he was already demonized, his heart demon was even more powerful than him. Why can’t I even defeat a heart demon that has the same strength as me?” Ye Mo muttered, the chant of the Iceheart Technique echoing in his mind again.
“To defeat him, I need to reach the selflessness state. To be selfless is to exert no control over my own thoughts, thus reaching a truly powerful form.”
Ye Mo shut his eyes, turning completely calm. He focused his entire strength on emptying his mind. Suddenly, his mental state turned clear, as clear as ice, with no distracting thoughts.
As of this moment, Ye Mo seemed to have forgotten even his own existence. When the Heart Minion saw this, his pupils shrunk. With his Dragon Spear, he took the initiative for the first time and attacked Ye Mo. With his eyes still shut, Ye Mo raised his Dragon Spear and blocked the Heart Minion’s attack.
“It’s your defeat.” It was unknown who was the one who had uttered this sentence. However, after it was spoken, the Dragon Spear in Ye Mo’s hands transformed into a hundred spear shadows that pierced out. Akin to roaring dragons, the spears pierced out with an earth-shaking momentum.
The Heart Minion immediately waved his Dragon Spear to block Ye Mo’s attack. But with each block, he became less and less effective. Eventually, he could no longer keep up with Ye Mo’s movement.
Clang!
The Heart Minion’s Dragon Spear was knocked out of his hand. Ye Mo struck out with his spear, stabbing through the Heart Minion’s chest. The Heart Minion bellowed miserably and transformed into numerous streams of black radiance that all converged inside Ye Mo’s body again. Cracks appeared in the empty air around Ye Mo before the entire space shattered, and Ye Mo return to the real world.
There, Ye Mo was still seated cross-legged, deep in his meditation. Defeating the Heart Minion alone was still insufficient to fully master the Iceheart Technique and reach the selflessness state.
One day passed.
Once again, Ye Mo entered the world of nothingness. This time, his opponents were two of him. Even though he was already capable of entering the selflessness state, it was still a difficult feat to defeat two copies of him. This was an extremely bitter battle, and he was almost killed by the Heart Minion. The moment he was killed here, his cultivation would go astray. Things would become extremely dangerous.
Ultimately, the battle ended with Ye Mo’s victory.
Yet another day passed.
This time, Ye Mo fought three of him at the same time. Once again, he won after a bitter battle. His opponents grew in number without stopping. But after numerous attempts, Ye Mo’s selflessness state continued to grow stronger and stronger.
This lasted until Ye Mo defeated seven of him. At that moment, he woke up from his meditation. This meditation session had lasted an entire month. Currently, his mind felt blank, and his body did not feel like his own.
“Did you reap any benefits from this one month long meditation session?” Ling’er asked when she saw Ye Mo waking up. She stretched, showing off her alluring curves.
“I’m not far from mastering the Iceheart Technique. My cultivation heart has reached the selflessness realm,” Ye Mo said with a confident smile.
“What? You reached the selflessness state?” Ling’er was greatly shocked.
Cultivating the heart was in fact a state where one united with one’s heart. With the heart, one would be able to connect with the world outside. The selflessness state was a state where one completely forgot about oneself. One’s heart would be completely emptied, and this was something even more profound than cultivating the heart.
As for the state beyond the selflessness state, Ling’er was clueless as well.
But it was not easy to reach the peak of the selflessness state. One had to defeat 100 of oneself to reach that level. “Yes. The current me can defeat seven of myself when entering the selflessness state. In other words, I will have no fear even when seven Energy Shaping Eight Realm warriors attack me at the same time. The only thing I lack now is an offensive technique.”
During the one month he spent in meditation, the Rising Dragon Pillar had been automatically absorbing the energy of heaven and earth as well. On top of that, the constant suppression on his body and the Rank Two Magical Formation he was in pushed his body into a certain state of saturation. The Five-Elements Energy in his body was starting to condense before being released to enrich Ye Mo’s body.
“When should I advance if not now?”
Crack!
This was the sound of a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon.
