Xianxia: Why am I here?

253 Illusion or projection?

Watching Ruruo on the side cultivate seated Wang did not move forward but rather waited as he moved around to check the nearby areas. He was in a rush the first time he entered but that was not the case now. Still, he did not find anything so he could only return to the original spot and saw Ruruo seated cross-legged some hundred meters ahead. In this way, he become sure that she had indeed gained something and did not continue to approach her rather he looked around even more.

Several hours passed by and he would always do the same after some time, advance, and check the areas ahead too but the thing that made his face change slightly was the fact that the wailing seemed to keep increasing. At the same time, he clearly saw that the area around him distorted slightly and a figure similar to himself appeared. It was illusionary and by the time he had adapted to the wailing in this place, it solidified into a person but the resemblance was too similar. Just seeing it he felt some killing intent arise for some reason.

Even though he could not use perception he could see the figure in white, which he could tell was Ruruo, about several hundred meters away from him. Now he knows that he has to deal with this illusion or projection that had appeared before him. In all the possible scenarios, he was sweating not because of fearing the figure before him, but rather the fact that he thought his life was too lucky for some reason as though someone had intentionally done it. This feeling was indeed not good and that is why when he thought of this a black spot was already taking shape and another him also appeared.

Two identical figures that were standing some distance from him made him very uncomfortable, but surprisingly, Ruruo did not even seem to notice Wang’s situation after waking up, she just kept forging ahead. She could feel that her head was hurting from time to time and the wailing was also intensifying but did not reach the level that Wang’s had.

When Wang saw how the two clones were observing him, with some expressions like they were alive. Wang looked into their eyes and could see that they were not listless at all, moreover, their eyes showed some kind of conviction to accomplish something.

Dispelling these thoughts, he indeed moved his arms and shook his shoulders slightly already coming to some understanding. Perhaps that environment to feel the state of mind was empty did not just come for free. Even those entering for the first time have to withstand the wailing. Most were even eliminated at this point.

At the same time, Wang’s face become serious as he threw a punch ahead. It seemed casual and yet to manage to force the two shadows to retreat.

“Well, I have never thought that there would come a day when I would have to fight against myself.” Wang seemed to be complaining but deep down he was excited.

As he spoke, he moved towards the two figures whose images resembled him in all aspects. and decided to use his pure physical strength. He is someone that does not like to wait for an enemy to take initiative so he plunged into the attack right away. Only an afterimage was left behind and then a huge sound of collision could be heard and Wang retreated several steps with a shocked expression. He found that the two also retaliated but the power they generated was several times that of his, and yet he could feel it was not their energy was a higher level rather they applied it uniquely.

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From this collision, he did not hesitate at all to attack again and the attacks were superimposed yet the result was not like he had expected. He could only retreat at a fast speed, looking solemnly at the figure before him. At this time he was already feeling the pressure but did not retreat, and when he moved beyond some area, the figures suddenly started to attack too. It seemed they were imitating the moves he had just used some time ago to attack them,

“This speed!” He gasped when he saw the two figures disappear in his line of sight, and only the sound could inform him that he was being attacked from the sides. For the first time, his scalp went numb, he was not willing to let this attacks land. But he could not escape from such a speed, and at this time he remembered some manual he had studied back then thinking it was some sword technique yet it was not, the Sea Calming Manual. When the attacks were about to land he started to make some movements that seemed to create some unique zone around him.

When the attacks arrived within this zone, he felt and even perceived the exact area, forcing him to try retaliating but the impact of these attacks even though blocked, made his arms numb. It was as though they had lost consciousness but he was still looking at the figures that seemed to also be attacking again.

He was sure that this speed is not something that can allow even him to improve his strength greatly, but he never once managed to cultivate a decent movement skill, all the ones he got turned out to be useless and he fused them with the body skills in the past. From then on he has focused purely on his physical strength and disregarded trying to come up with ways to acquire movement techniques that can allow him to improve his strength.

At this time he was indeed convinced of the thoughts he had in the past about speed and strength being the most important. When one can move and even arrive before an enemy in an instant and destroy them with immense power that surpasses their ability to withstand. In the end, he still has some weaknesses that he had been overlooking all this time and thus he planned to do something about it.

“Indeed, the utilization of the sea calming manual is not the best at all, I seemed to have not spent much time trying to improve it compared to other skills and in the end just got rid of it by fusing the technique with others. It is not important anymore, I still managed to maintain some of its advantages after all. But at the moment, it is very difficult to deal with the two replicas, using physical strength alone.”

As he retreated and defended, he was thinking and calming himself down since he could retreat and leave anytime if he become afraid of the challenge. But that was not his plan at all, this was the best opportunity he could have and he did not plan on using other means because he could see that the more methods he ende dup using, might actually become his own doom.

From his observation, the miriror images of himself could also only use the same moves, as for other aspects, such as speed and energy manipulation, it was made in such a way that it was faster and better than him. To defeat this two is not just a matter of using his strength at this point rather he had to find his weakness, from the two figures fighting him.

Even when Wang was retreating he could see two shadows on his trail, not even giving a chance to think and suprisingly, thy were getting faster and faster to the point that it was almost impossible to see thair trajectories. But after reaching a certain point, he no longer obsesed himself with what they could do rather what he could accomplish to walk out of this place the winner.

When an enemy is faster than you, the it becomes impossible to do anything to them at all. Even with some means perhaps the combat power they posses might not pose a threat but what if they kept avoiding, then becoming exhausted and consumed to death. But Wang did not have that option as he reackoned this figures would not get tired. In that way this method was already excluded as the results would be in revverse instead since he had to be faster in the begining and even at this moment he could hardly take the attacks from the two figures head on.

“If this goes on, things are going to be bad for me and getting that chance to enter the center would be almost impossible, but then again, I think completing this would be very unfavourable towards me in the end. It seems that we can only spend time fightinh this two but winning it not allowed.” He was very sober. He needeed this chance to cultivate in this place as he prepaired to break through opportunity. But wining would mean that the next time he entered this space perhaps the opponents might be beyond his capability.

“Going head on is considered reckless but it is almost impossible to dodge this attacks with the speed that they have.” He considered his options silently.