Chapter 2086: A Heart Like a Double Silk Net, with a Thousand Tangled Knots

If Heaven Has Emotion can be both a cultivation technique and a martial skill.

Having grasped the artistic conception in his heart, creating it was not difficult.

“Heaven is heartless, but humans have feelings; if Heaven had feelings, Heaven would also grow old!”

The ethereal thought entered his body again. The opponent's flawless sword technique changed in his eyes, leaving behind faint gray traces where it passed, interwoven like a fishing net.

It was these forces that controlled him, making any move he made fall into passivity.

“The Way of Heaven has order. These sword marks seem chaotic, but they actually follow a certain pattern. Acting according to the pattern is like weaving a heavenly net, vast and wide, sparse yet not missing anything!”

Zhang Xuan was neither sad nor happy; his face showed no emotion.

Previously, he had little understanding of the order of Heaven. Under this artistic conception, he saw that the opponent was actually following a specific rule.

This was a commonality of all things in heaven and earth, which no one could escape.

Like frequency: as long as you find the corresponding resonance frequency, even the hardest things can be easily destroyed.

The opponent's Heavenly Order Sword Art might not be flawless, but it could control the patterns in your moves, making you follow his patterns, like resonance, ultimately defeating you.

In layman's terms, it pulls your intelligence down to his level and then beats you with rich experience!

“The sword marks of Heavenly Order can form such a heavenly net. If I had a sword technique that could make patterns no longer patterns, I would have cracked it...”

Another insight emerged.

His understanding of the sword path deepened once more.

With a light smile, the cold energy of Tongshang Sword surged, and the sword intent formed a huge net in the air, similar to the opponent's yet completely different.

“A heart like a double silk net, with a thousand tangled knots!”

A line of poetry appeared in his mind, and the first sword move of If Heaven Has Emotion was created!

The sword technique integrated within him. Zhang Xuan flicked Tongshang Sword again, and the sword technique Kong Shi had used seemed to be imprisoned. The previously vast and leak-proof heavenly net became like several nets piled together, entangled, with roots and knots intertwined, unable to break free in a short time.

No matter how orderly the passage, if you block it with countless nodes, it becomes congested, and power cannot flow through. Thus, it can no longer control others or set rules.

The so-called pattern was instantly broken.

Just as he was about to attack and destroy Kong Shi's thought, he saw Kong Shi lightly retreat, leaving the battle circle.

“To find the flaw in my sword technique so quickly and destroy it, your talent and comprehension are already qualified to become a god!”

Stroking his beard, Kong Shi smiled.

“We haven't decided the victor...”

Exhaling, Zhang Xuan narrowed his eyes.

He had comprehended such a powerful sword move, yet the opponent was unharmed and easily dodged, showing that his power was not exhausted. If the battle continued, he might not win.

In fact, the opponent's moves were more refined, and his chances of winning were greater...

If so, why retreat?

“Victory or defeat is not important. I appear here only to test the strength and talent of the challenger on behalf of the gods! You broke the Heart-Piercing Array in one-tenth of the time, comprehended seven divine artistic conceptions on your own, and found the loophole in my sword technique in such a short time, creating a new sword technique. Your talent is unparalleled through the ages...”

Kong Shi said calmly.

“Test? Challenger?” Zhang Xuan was completely confused.

Wasn't this guy bent on killing him to get the Heaven's Path Library?

Why did it feel different now?

It was as if this thought was not the same person he had encountered before.

Puzzled, he was about to ask when Kong Shi opposite said, “If I'm not mistaken, you should have obtained Heaven's Path Imperfection!”

Zhang Xuan narrowed his eyes, full of vigilance.

He had just thought the opponent might have changed, but mentioning the library would likely reveal his tail again.

“So that's it... In the Divine Hall, the strong are always respected. The victor can leave a thought to test the next challenger. Leave a thought, so that later comers can be better tested...”

Kong Shi said.

His thought flickered, as if about to collapse at any moment.

Zhang Xuan had encountered this situation many times before. A thought was only a part of a person; often after completing a mission, it would shatter and disappear completely.

It was somewhat similar to a one-time recording.

Back in the Master Teacher Continent, every time he saw Kong Shi's thought and wanted to ask about the innate fetal poison, this guy would directly shatter.

“As for... the divine spirit energy, the hall will naturally absorb a strand. You will get it after leaving the hall...”

With a flicker, Kong Shi's thought went “pop!” and disappeared on the spot.

Zhang Xuan frowned, doubt rising in his heart: “Could it be... there really is a real Kong Shi and a fake Kong Shi?”

The Kong Shi thought that had just dissipated was somewhat similar to the thoughts he had seen in the Master Teacher Continent, with a kind and gentle brow, giving a feeling of a gentle breeze and fine rain, while the one who had rescued him from the Divine Hall was completely different!

Could it be... this was the thought left by the real Kong Shi, and that one was fake!

But why couldn't the Heaven's Path Library see through the fake one either?

Could it be that in this world, besides himself, Kong Shi, Luo Ruoxi, and Luo Qiqi, there was another Derivation Void Constitution?

“Let's not worry about that... Since this Kong Shi said that having divine spirit energy means I can obtain it... Regardless of whether he is good or bad, once I become a god, nothing will matter!”

With a light smile, Zhang Xuan moved his spirit, leaving a thought in the hall, while he himself flickered and walked out along the passage.

Having left his thought in the hall, the hall recognized him. Returning was very simple. Soon he reached the entrance of the hall, where his clone stood outside the barrier, unharmed.

Relieved, Zhang Xuan came to the front and turned to look at the huge hall before him.

The towering hall still blocked the dark vortex. Suddenly, a golden stream of energy shot out from the vortex, suspended between the two pillars of the hall.

This stream of energy was like gold, emitting dazzling light. Even before approaching, it gave a sense of soul-crushing pressure.

“Is this the divine spirit energy?”

He had always wondered if that Kong Shi thought was deceiving him, but now it seemed not.

This energy, like the first time he saw mercury spirit energy, gave a heavy pressure. Absorbing it rashly seemed capable of shattering all meridians.

Moreover, the power it emitted was similar to the pictures he had seen before, something only a true god could possess.

In other words, by absorbing this divine spirit energy, he might truly break through to godhood, reaching a level unattainable by anyone in this abandoned continent!

His eyes lit up. Taking a deep breath, Zhang Xuan stomped the ground and shot straight toward the golden energy.

Before he reached it, a sword light suddenly appeared.

The space before him seemed to be cut in half, revealing a dark crack.

Zhang Xuan retracted his body and stopped.

“Thank you. I knew you could do it. And indeed...”

Then, a mirror suddenly appeared before him. A hand emerged from it, gently pinched the suspended golden energy, and no matter how it struggled, it could not escape.

Whoosh!

A special jade bottle appeared. With a gentle scoop, the energy was collected inside.

The figure turned around, and Zhang Xuan clenched his fists.

It was Kong Shi!

“You are not Kong Shi. Who are you?”

Zhang Xuan narrowed his eyes.

He had been wondering why the opponent hadn't appeared. It turned out he had been hiding in the void, waiting to reap the benefits after Zhang Xuan obtained the divine spirit energy!

But... when he came, he had checked carefully and found no folded space. Where had the opponent come from?

And how did he traverse space?

Most importantly... if the thought in the hall was the real Kong Shi, then this one was fake!

This would explain why he didn't know about the teleportation array under Xuanjiang City, and why the Kong Shi thought in the hall seemed unaware that he possessed the Heaven's Path Library.

“If I'm not Kong Shi, who am I?”

The old man in the air showed a ferocious expression again: “I am him, and I always have been!”

Whoosh!

With a roar, he struck down with a palm.

The airflow here was already chaotic. With this strike, space instantly collapsed into black cracks. Zhang Xuan dared not advance and retreated repeatedly.

“His strength... has indeed grown much stronger!”

He narrowed his eyes.

The opponent could shatter space with one palm; his strength was indeed much greater than when he fought the clone earlier.

However, his palm power lacked order and did not contain the power of Heaven. He did not use Heaven's Path techniques.

Although vigorous, there was no orderly heavenly net.

“He must be fake...”

Realization dawned.

Since Kong Shi, like himself, possessed a part of Heaven, he could naturally use Heaven's Path techniques.

Previously, he had never seen Heaven's Path martial skills besides his own, so he didn't know what they looked like. But in the hall, Kong Shi's thought clearly used them.

Having such means but not using them...

There was only one possibility: this one, though he didn't admit it, was indeed fake!

The real one could fully use Heaven's Path techniques and martial skills, and was even stronger!

“Give me the divine spirit energy...”

Knowing this was not the time to dwell on it, Tongshang Sword appeared in his hand again. He called to his clone and charged straight into the air, unleashing the sword net.

A heart like a double silk net, with a thousand tangled knots!

He used the move he had just comprehended.

The opponent's strength was only greater than his. The previous divine sword intent might not be of much use, so he struck with his strongest technique from the start.

“Good sword technique... But I won't fight you now. I'm going to break through to godhood. Once successful, the library will be mine, and no one in this world can stop me!”

Before the sword energy reached him, Kong Shi laughed, leaped back into the mirror, and disappeared as if he had never been there.

“Damn it...”

Zhang Xuan's face turned ashen.