Mental Space

When Chang Guan woke up, the first thing he did was to examine his body. He searched himself, only to notice that the rotation of his Qi was extraordinarily slow. Noticing this, he instantly increased the rotation of his Qi, and in a small period of time, it was back to the original 67 R/s.

After searching his body, he realized that other than his slow Qi circulation, he was completely normal. Suddenly, he felt a pang of pain coursing through his head. And slowly, he began understanding what had happened.

"I've fully digested my enlightenment."

An enlightenment is a glimpse into the Dao of Heaven, even if it's only a small enlightenment, it will have a powerful impact on your psyche.

Before, Chang Guan had gotten the immediate benefits of an enlightenment, such as increased Qi and faster rotation, but had yet to fully digest the comprehension of the Dao of Heaven. But after a week of time, it was fully understood and manifested itself in the strange space that Chang Guan had entered.

What this comprehension helped him do, is understand how to control his emotions by controlling the rotation of his Qi. A high rotation will make him excited and give him an adrenaline rush, as well as the increased destructiveness of his Qi, whereas a low rotation will calm him down and stabilize his Qi him, giving him nearly precognitive abilities.

What had happened with the strange space, was he had slowed down the rotation speed to such a low degree, where he emptied himself of all emotion, allowing him to properly control his soul inside of his mind. His soul will always be what he identifies as himself, which is why he saw himself as the 14-year-old boy at the Yellow Mask stage.

Chang Guan looked around, only to realize, that he had barely slept for 10 minutes, which was strange because it felt as though he had been inside of his mind for at least 30 minutes. Afraid that he would forget how to enter his mind, he swiftly sat down, and nervously tried to re-enter his mind.

He sat, slowly decreasing the rotations. 67, 65, 63, 60, 55, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, 3, 1. The rotations kept getting slower and slower.

At the same time, Chang Guan became calmer and calmer, eventually, when the rotations finally fell below 1, Chang Guan's eyes shut. A few seconds after they shut, Chang Guan once more entered his mind.

"About 10 seconds?", Chang Guan mumbled thoughtfully.

Now understanding this room more than before, he vividly visualized the Ryuu Clan. It didn't take long before the previous space of nothingness, was replaced with the majestic building of the Ryuu Clan.

"So it really does make whatever I imagine?"

Him thinking of the Ryuu clan was an experiment to see how this space worked. Unwilling to stop the experiment, he imagined his deceased rival, Ryuu Kiyoshi. Just like before, nearly instantly after the thought solidified, a figure appeared. This figure was easily recognized as Ryuu Kiyoshi.

Just like with Chang Guan's grandfather, Ryuu Kiyoshi was not only semi-transparent but also filled to the brim with killing intent.

Sensing the killing intent, as well as being equipped with the previous circumstance of meeting someone in this space, Chang Guan instantly jumped back and created a Body Double. His body double had 60% of his power, signaling that his Body Double Tactic was on the sixth laver.

Ryuu Kiyoshi jumped forwards, unsheathing his saber and using the Body Double Tactic. His body double had 70% of his power, meaning that Ryuu Kiyoshi had mastered the Tactic fully.

Not only that but both Ryuu Kiyoshi and his body double somehow grew 2 more heads, 4 more arms and began radiating an unbreakable killing intent.

All of this was caused by the advanced Tactic that he practiced; the Shura Tactic. This Tactic had 3 layers, each giving the user another essence of the Shura. The first let the user grow 2 more heads and 4 more arms. Each arm would come equipped with the user's main weapon.

The second gave the user a powerful killing intent, suppressing everyone weaker than you. Unfortunately, this had no effect unless there was a certain gap in strength.

The third and final layer allowed you condense your killing intent into a core inside of your Dantian. You could then release it and merge it with your Qi, powering up the Qi.

Ryuu Kiyoshi had only practiced the first 2 layers, but that in it of itself was a lot. Seeing that Ryuu Kiyoshi was going full force from the beginning, Chang Guan was pumped and he too went full force. He used his new understanding of the "Rotation Intent" to maximize his R/s.

This was just the fancy name he had given to his newfound power to delicately control the rotation of his Qi. With this understanding, he could temporarily increase it to 70 R/s, and also give him an adrenaline rush and the senses of a beast.

He also released his Ocean lock Tactic, which was on the second layer, meaning a suppression of 20% of Chang Guan's strength, slowing down both Ryuu Kiyoshi and his body double.

Chang Guan then jumped back, pulling out 6 knives from his robes, throwing them at Ryuu Kiyoshi. While throwing them, he used the Misdirect Knife Art on 2 of the knives, hiding them from being noticed.

*Clang!*

Ryuu Kiyoshi's body double leaped to the side of him and easily blocked the 4 visible knives. Then, Ryuu Kiyoshi seemed to sense something, leaping to his side, narrowly avoiding the hidden knives.

Although all of this took a long time to explain, it happened in the blink of an eye. Ryuu Kiyoshi and his body double launched forward, surrounding Chang Guan. Ryuu Kiyoshi was easily faster than Chang Guan, having mastered the Stacked Speed Tactic. In fact, he was so fast that even Ryuu Kiyoshi's body double was faster than Chang Guan.

Suddenly, Chang Guan felt a powerful concentration of energy over at the 6 sabers.

"Cr*p!", Chang Guan yelled out loud. They were trying to use the Exploding Lotus Saber Art to finish of Chang Guan!

Chang Guan, in a moment of desperation, threw out 6 knives, hidden with the Misdirect Knife art, one towards each right hand, but it was too late. The sabers reached their end, and the Qi exploded in a powerful explosion, destroying Chang Guan's body.