Chapter 462: Two Hearts

Zheng Anqi Sheng looked at Li Miao in astonishment, spitting out words of disbelief.

He finally understood everything.

Within Li Miao, there existed two paths of the Xuanlan realm.

One path was realized in Nanjing, connecting to the "Jiezi," fully mastering his own body, exchanging injuries for power, fighting to the death—this could be called the miracle of 【Base Strength】.

The other path was identical to his own, connecting to the "Sumeru," releasing true energy externally to transform it into substance and making it harder than Vajra—this could be called the miracle of 【Ten Thousand Phenomena】.

However, unlike him, who transformed his protective true energy into weapons, Li Miao's 【Ten Thousand Phenomena】 did not appear outside his body but appeared directly inside—he fused the two miracles, transforming his protective true energy into muscles, tendons, and bones, filling his own body.

That extraordinary brute force.

That eeriness of being able to continue attacking even when limbs were severed.

These were the results of the two miracles merging and acting together.

But even as his own conclusion, even as a result deduced from what he had seen with his own eyes, Zheng Anqi Sheng found it hard to accept.

"Two paths of Xuanlan, how is this possible!"

"Xuanlan is a realm that varies from person to person; even if one cultivates to connect to the same path of life-cultivation, it is absolutely impossible for identical miracles to appear... but why can he have two paths of Xuanlan! How can one person have two hearts!"

"Even Zhang Sanfeng and Bodhidharma could never be as eerie as him!"

His mind raced, his expression shifting between light and shadow.

On the other side, Li Miao raised his hand to his shoulder and pressed down violently.

*Crack. *

Just like latching a spring, he pressed his arm back into place, and the wound that had been transparent from front to back disappeared.

"Ah... I just learned it not long ago, I'm not very proficient yet."

"What, do you understand now?"

Li Miao tilted his head and smiled.

"Who... exactly are you?"

Zheng Anqi Sheng said hoarsely.

"Guess?"

Li Miao said with a smile.

Zheng Anqi Sheng could not guess.

Just as he said, one person could not have two hearts—except for Li Miao.

He really did have two hearts.

In that storm within his mental image, he had seen his other heart, the heart that had been sleeping in his body since the day he transmigrated.

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Let us turn the time back to the end of the battle of mental images.

Li Miao carried the corpse parts of the Zheng Anqis, leaped up from the seawater, and jumped into the slowly swirling storm.

As if crossing some barrier.

Everything around him instantly quieted down.

The sound of the wind and the tides all disappeared.

There was no wind, no water, only a pitch-black darkness where one could not see their own fingers.

In this darkness, Li Miao saw a living person.

A beggar.

He said to Li Miao: "Give my body back to me."

Li Miao gave a ferocious smile, lifted the corpse parts in his hand, and smashed them down with a boom.

"If you win, I die; if I win, you die!"

"If you want it, come and take it yourself!"

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Li Miao slowly relaxed his shoulders.

Although he had also cultivated 【Ten Thousand Phenomena】, he did not like or excel at Zheng Anqi Sheng's way of using it. It wasn't that he couldn't use weapons, but when truly fighting, he still preferred using his fists. Moreover, that usage was not compatible with his own 【Base Strength】.

The methods he had used in the battle of mental images gave him inspiration.

The miracle of 【Base Strength】 lay in using damage to one's own body to exchange for stronger force, and power that became even more violent after being injured. But an injury is an injury, and missing flesh and limbs would not recover on their own. ===== CHAPTER 463 =====