526 Tian Long

Madam Liang contacted Wu Long with a communication talisman, notifying him about a small attack on the Tingren Kingdom forces.

‘Mm?’

As she received a message back, she raised her eyebrow, and taking out three talismans and a separate communication jade, flowed her Spiritual Qi into them, being careful to not use Reinforced Qi as he instructed.

The three talismans floated around the communication jade and started rotating, an array circle appearing between them with symbols forming in different locations, forming complicated patterns.

“Haha, I don’t even understand how to activate it… truly, his talisman and array skills are something else alltogether…”

She chuckled, shaking her head in wonder as normally one had to know the process and structure of the array, and the way to control the talismans. But what she did was simply supply Spiritual Qi and felt it streaming in a constant flow toward them.

She then concentrated closing her eyes, drawing on her smoking pipe, and as her eyes opened they had a beautiful, surreal flower appear in both of them.

She puffed a long stream of herbal smoke along with infusing her Spiritual Qi in profound flow, the smoke clouding in front of her and gradually condensing into a silhouette of a human, which started to gain more and more features until it formed an image of Wu Long.

“Hmm, well then, I have a tough job to pull off…”

She then sighed, as she had to make an alibi for Wu Long, thinking if she could recreate his mannerisms right, but just as she had the illusionary Wu Long start moving, the communication jade she floated before with the talismans rotating around that were now enclosed in a small sphere of glowing patterns rushed into the illusion, hiding within the chest.

“Ah, yes, voice…”

She smiled, but then froze in spot, as the illusory Wu Long smiled toward her, goosebumps appearing all over her as this was the first time her own illusion did something outside her control.

“Thank you, Madam Liang. I will take over from here-…”

“Hiccup…”

He chuckled at the terrified Illusion Art Master who shuddered and jumped a bit when he started speaking, an involuntary hiccup cutting into his speech.

“Hiccup, hiccup…”

Madam Liang’s deep green eyes which were now round looked at him like that of a deer standing before a sudden bright light.

“Aah… don’t worry, this is not a Mirage Mayhem, your cultivation did not deviate. I used an arcane method to connect my consciousness to take hold of this illusion.

I will also need your Spiritual Qi to maintain form, so please don’t cut off the supply”

He chuckled, as she drew a heavy sigh, and then filling her lungs with air…

“Don’t scare me like that!!!”

She then almost cried as tears appeared in the corners of her eyes, since Mirage Mayhem was a very serious cultivation deviation that in most cases meant the practitioner was becoming severely mentally unstable, and was well on their way to become completely insane.

“Hahaha, sorry, sorry

I wanted to surprise you later in more peaceful circumstances as I didn’t actually think we would need this emergency measure”

He chuckled with a slightly guilty look, scratching his head behind his back.

“Still… this is…hiccup…”

“Pretty neat, isn’t it?

I became even more interested and invested in talismans, arrays, and formations when I learned how many things like these I can do with them”

He smiled at the reddened cheeks of the former Great Seductress, who quickly started circulating her Qi to stop the hiccups, and then turned his gaze at his hand that was made of Madam Liang’s Illusion Art.

While he valued the combat power and versatility Symbol Arts gave him, such non-combat applications, which granted him different abilities to tackle tricky situations was what truly ignited the passion in him about learning as much as he could.

“Hahaha, neat is a very mild way to put it…

…! But… are you not vulnerable on the other side? As far as I was told you didn’t take anyone with you to protect you in such instances…”

She lightly laughed, shaking her head as she finally somewhat calmed down, but then gasped as a natural conclusion dawned on her, that if his consciousness was now here, he had to be absent-minded on the other side.

“Hm? Oh, no, you don’t need to worry about me.

Being in many places at the same time is something I can do with no difficulty”

Wu Long chuckled, the ‘corpse puppet’ on the other side standing at the edge of the pagoda, using his Dao Runes to galvanize the storm around the island.

“…?! … like, a cloned consciousness or a separated part?”

“Hahaha, there are techniques like that, but no.

The common problem with those techniques is that just like a Mirage Mayhem they can grow out of control and then you have a huge problem on your hands since you can become hostile with another version of yourself”

He lightly laughed, the prospect he mentioned causing chills to go through Liang Yuhan.

“No, I simply trained for an insane amount of time to be comfortable seeing with multiple sets of eyes, receiving information from several sensory organ systems and move several bodies at the same time all with one consciousness.

I truly am in both places at the same time, you can call it limited omnipresence, as I can handle quite a few separate processes at the same time”

He then added, as her eyes glinted with amazement.

‘So this is what a mind of someone like him is capable of…’

A thought ran through her head as she once more realized just how surreal it was to talk to someone like him.

“Do you… always use this ability?”

“Mm, I often ponder on techniques, analyze and think about multiple things at the same time, especially during fighting pointless battles, or boring conversations with butthurt people, so that time would at least not be completely wasted, though never when I am spending time with my women, hahaha.

They always have my undivided attention”

He made a bright smile that caused her to show a wry one.

“In the past I’ve also used it to control puppets and the like…, since I have several alter-egos throughout Seven Boundless Worlds that I wanted to keep separate from my real identity, in fact… you may recognize the disguise I am using currently with your True Phantom Image Technique.

Wait, let me project it for a moment, I am going to borrow your Spiritual Qi, if you let me control its flow in the technique… yes like that”

He then said as he saw a glint of interest in her eyes when he mentioned alter-egos.

The illusory image became hazy, and then formed into the man with a talisman over a white mask.

“…!”

Madam Liang froze in place, her eyes widening.

“T-T-Tian Long?”

She exclaimed with bewilderment.

“Yep, the Heavenly Dragon. I have four other alter-egos in this series”

“Four…? If this one is the fifth…Tian Long… Wu Long… Five Dragons…? d-don’t tell me that…”

“Haha, correct”

He chuckled, nodding to her assumption.

“Well, I better get going before I am late to the party, as I would soon start where I am as well, it would be better if both I and Tian Long appear roughly at the same time”

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Tian – Heaven

Long- Dragon

Wu – Five

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