Chapter 91: Small Hallucination Like Truth

Meng Su died?

The Meng Su at the scene disappeared. Li Bai carefully sensed it, and he really disappeared. Three swords, three swords strangled Meng Su.

Li Bai sheathed his sword with a flourish, then cast his gaze toward Shi Xiaoxiao. What he saw was Shi Xiaoxiao waiting on the sidelines, composed and unhurried, without the slightest trace of sorrow. Her brother had died; shouldn't a sister be grieving?

A panic stirred in Li Bai's heart. A figure, pitch-black from head to toe, appeared less than a zhang away from him.

This blackness was like a black hole; one could not even perceive its three-dimensionality, seeing only a dark silhouette. Soon, the interior of this black figure began to churn, emitting tiny specks of starlight, like stars in a pitch-black night sky. Li Bai was very familiar with these stars—they were his own sword intent.

This sword intent slowly quieted down within the pitch-black body, and then the dark figure began to turn white, finally becoming as white as the bright moon. There was not a single trace of black on the white figure; even the hair, eyes, and clothes were pure white. The white figure slowly extended its right hand toward Li Bai.

"Sword, rise." A soft shout rang out in the air.

Hearing these two words, Li Bai felt his hair stand on end.

The white figure was expressionless and icy cold. As its arm rose, a sword slowly condensed in its hand, the sword light biting and the sword intent dense.

Li Bai looked at the expressionless, eerie white figure. He hurriedly took a gulp of wine, shifted his feet, and his body began to sway in a dreamlike manner.

As the sword in the white demon body's hand solidified, a streak of sword light tore through the cold, dark night, thrusting toward Li Bai.

"Frost Fall." The same supernatural ability, the same sword intent, only used by a different person. And aimed at a different target.

Li Bai watched helplessly as the eerie white demon body returned the supernatural ability he had unleashed upon himself, without the slightest deviation.

Following the shout of the two words "Frost Fall," countless frost-like sword beams wrapped around Li Bai's entire body like a spring silkworm spinning its cocoon.

Li Bai knew this was an illusion, but his supernatural ability was one that turned illusion into reality; naturally, the demon body before him could do the same. This was a supernatural ability from the Phantom Demon Scripture called: Small Illusion Like Truth.

Li Bai did not want to passively receive his own supernatural ability. He took another gulp of wine, and then sword light soared into the sky from his body. Li Bai vanished, leaving behind only a sword with biting cold light, its tip pointing to the sky, surrounded by countless frost-like sword beams dancing around it.

This powerful sword intent transformed the surrounding moonlight into rippling water waves. These waves absorbed the Frost Fall unleashed by Meng Su's demon body. The absorbed sword light of the Frost Fall became even more piercing. Suddenly, the massive sword body began to shrink, even dissolve, until only a strand of killing intent remained. This killing intent locked onto Meng Su's demon body.

A single sword strike crossed space, crossed the demon Qi surrounding Meng Su's demon body, pierced through Meng Su's demon body, and then tore it into pieces, turning it into dust that dissipated in the air.

The long sword stood in the distance, the sword intent dissipated, and Li Bai revealed himself from the void.

After revealing himself from the air, Li Bai looked at Meng Su's demon body, which had shattered in the air: "This time, you must be dead."

He looked for Shi Xiaoxiao, but suddenly discovered that Shi Xiaoxiao was gone, as if she had vanished from this space-time, or he had vanished from the original space-time.

"Illusion, rise." Following these two words shouted coldly.

Li Bai saw Shi Xiaoxiao; Shi Xiaoxiao had been standing in place the whole time without moving. The space around him began to crack like a mirror. The illusion was broken, and he saw Meng Su standing before him, composed and unhurried.

Who exactly had cast the Phantom Demon Scripture on whom?

Li Bai finally began to feel afraid.

The Phantom Demon Scripture was the Li family's secret, never to be passed on. The Li family's top expert, Li Huan'er, had already transformed Small Illusion into Great Illusion. Although he was not of the direct line in the Li family, he was still an outstanding talent, and he could be certain that Meng Su had absolutely never practiced the Phantom Demon Scripture.

"There is a ghost, and the ghost is on that eerie black and white demon body. The demon body copied my supernatural ability and then used it on me," Li Bai muttered.

"You have already struck with your sword; now it is my turn."

After speaking, Meng Su moved, and with a light, fluttering palm, he struck toward Li Bai.

"I will also use three moves. If you can take them, you may leave; otherwise, follow me for a year and be my bodyguard."

Seeing that Meng Su was bizarrely abnormal, Li Bai already held him in high regard. Seeing Meng Su pounce toward him like a meteor, how could he dare to be careless?

Li Bai hurriedly drew his sword and pointed his right hand toward the moon. The bright moon in the sky seemed to dim for a moment. This moment of darkness was exchanged for Li Bai's whiteness; Li Bai's entire body emitted a bright, clear moonlight.

Countless Li Bais suddenly appeared before Meng Su's eyes. Meng Su could no longer lock onto him, so he simply stopped trying to lock on.

Meng Su's palm suddenly opened and grabbed toward the void; it was Meng Su's signature skill—the Nirvana Grasp.

A black hole appeared in the center of Meng Su's palm. This black hole generated immense suction. Under the suction of this black hole, the countless Li Bais began to twist and deform, as if turning into liquid people.

The moonlight on Li Bai's body began to gather toward Meng Su's hand.

Swaying within the powerful suction, Li Bai once again activated his demon body. Li Bai cultivated the sword, and that sword body was Li Bai's demon body.

One could see sword intent flowing on Li Bai's body. His entire body began to turn ethereal, and the soaring sword intent began to shrink, finally condensing into a sword flashing with cold light.

That sword was grabbed into Meng Su's hand along with the powerful suction.

The sword body carried intense sword intent, and this sword intent stirred the Nirvana power in Meng Su's hand. The black hole formed by the Nirvana power began to shatter and dissipate.

Then, the sword intent remained fierce, thrusting directly toward Meng Su's fingers, intending to sever Meng Su's fingers from his palm.

Meng Su's hand suddenly loosened, and then his five fingers formed a strange seal. A strange demon power spread out in Meng Su's hand.

"Reverse." Meng Su shouted softly.

This was the third time Meng Su had used the Reverse Demon Scripture. This supernatural ability was relatively eerie, or rather, Meng Su had not yet fully mastered it. The Reverse Demon Scripture was the supernatural ability Meng Su valued most, because only this supernatural ability was Meng Su's own; all the others, whatever demon arts or thought power, were forced upon him by others or this world. He did not trust them. He could use them, but he could not rely on them. He only wanted to rely on himself.

Because the previous two uses had both been successful, Meng Su also had confidence in this use, but the facts slapped him in the face.

One could see that strange demon power pushing Li Bai's demon power to reverse. Li Bai slowly recovered from the sword body back to his physical body, but this reversal stopped halfway. No matter how desperately Meng Su drove the Reverse Demon Scripture, Li Bai's reversal could not proceed.

Li Bai turned into a monster with the upper body of a sword and the lower body of a ginseng root.

The most critical thing was that the sword body of the upper half was still filled with surging sword Qi, and Meng Su's Nirvana Grasp grabbed right onto the sword body.

That piercing sword Qi severed all five of Meng Su's fingers.

Meng Su hurriedly operated the Reincarnation Lotus, and the severed fingers quickly recovered. After recovering, Meng Su feared that Li Bai's demon body would continue to change and then be detrimental to him, so he flicked his five fingers, operating the "Intent Finger Flick" to seal all the meridians in Li Bai's lower body.

After doing all this, Meng Su clapped his hands and took a step back: "Done."

One could see the Li Bai before him, half sword and half human; Li Bai had turned into a walking sword.

Li Bai began to desperately operate his demon power. That half-human, half-sword figure would turn into an ethereal sword body one moment, and then into a faint Li Bai physical body the next.

After tossing and turning many times, Li Bai helplessly gave up.