After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 108 The Strength of Water

Shen Xu never expected that there was such a secret between the Wang family ancestor and Qingzhu Zhenren three hundred years ago. He could feel the complex feelings the Wang family had for him, but he was also deeply impressed by the Wang family's magnanimity and spirit.

Not only did they easily give him the last chance to comprehend the true meaning of water, Master Qingzhu, but they also wanted to give this incomparably precious stone wall to the Qingzhu Sword Sect.

However, it would be even better if he could be told how to use this stone wall before leaving. At this moment, Shen Xu looked at the stone wall in front of him with some difficulty. How exactly does this illusion wall work? There is no switch or anything. He has already touched all parts of the stone wall, but the stone wall does not react.

"Does it require injecting vital energy?" With that thought, he sat cross-legged in front of the stone wall, placed his hands on the wall, closed his eyes, and began to channel the vital energy from his dantian into the stone wall.

Suddenly, Shen Xu felt as if he were surrounded by something very soft, a very comfortable feeling. When he opened his eyes, he found a young man standing in front of him who looked very much like Wu Ying, but whose face he couldn't see clearly. However, he was not wearing a white robe, but a green robe that exuded a strong vitality.

Before Shen Xu could react, the figure in the green robe flicked his sleeve, and two water droplets with completely different auras appeared in front of him. One was soft and delicate, the other surging and powerful. The soft one was clearer, while the surging one was somewhat blurry. Shen Xu understood that this meant he was being forced to make a choice.

With a thought, the gentle, delicate flow of water vanished instantly, while the surging, turbulent mass of water gradually filled his vision, merging all his consciousness into it, and plunging him into darkness.

"Whoosh...whoosh whoosh..." Loud sounds reached his ears in the darkness.

"The sound of waves!" Shen Xu couldn't help but be surprised.

He opened his eyes and found himself in the middle of a turbulent sea. White waves crashed against him, and the sound of the waves filled his ears. Countless waves swept over his consciousness, making it roll and rise and fall, as if he had become a white wave himself.

“Here…” It must have been a scene from his memory, because he saw a familiar lighthouse.

His consciousness drifted with the waves, constantly being chased forward by the waves behind him. Unlike the water droplet world in the Cloud and Mist Bamboo Realm, here he was the water droplet that was manipulated at will. He could do nothing and could only drift with the tide.

The momentum of countless waves gathered together was beyond his small strength to change, giving him a feeling of fighting against heaven and earth alone. Gradually, he gave up resisting and began to feel the power of the water.

He could feel waves constantly merging into the wave he was in, his power growing stronger and stronger, and the amount of seawater he swept up increasing. Gradually, he transformed from a small ripple into a towering giant wave, with countless fish and shrimp moving within his body.

Huge waves crashed against the reefs, instantly submerging them with a thunderous roar.

He could see that there were originally many reefs blocking the nearshore area, but after hundreds or thousands of years of erosion, only a few reefs remained, struggling to hold on. As his wave crashed over the reefs, one of them collapsed and was swept away by him into the depths of the sea.

This is the strength of water, its fierce power sweeping away and destroying everything.

Shen Xu felt that his understanding of the meaning of water had deepened. At this moment, another giant wave crashed into him and immediately changed his direction. He tried his best to control the water around him so that it would not disintegrate in the impact, but it was to no avail. He turned into a small wave again.

But the impact he just experienced gave him a sudden realization: when the water flow becomes too strong, it becomes uncontrollable, but another wave of water can change its momentum. Therefore, the energy of each wave of the Six Waves should not be evenly distributed, but rather each wave should be stronger than the last.

With this sudden realization, Shen Xu felt a dizzying sensation, as if time and space had shifted. He slowly opened his eyes, and the sound of endless waves still echoed in his ears, but all he could see before him was a stone wall reflecting his image!

"As expected of the Phantom Wall! It truly deserves the name 'Phantom'!" Shen Xu thought to himself, marveling at how it had even evoked memories of his time at the beach on Earth.

"But it would be great if I could see some other memories!" he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

Looking at the illusion wall in front of him, Shen Xu tried to input his vital energy again, but there was no response.

"It seems Uncle Wang was right; this illusion wall can only reveal the true meaning of the ancestor one last time."

However, the vital energy in my dantian has not decreased. Logically speaking, such a magical treasure usually requires a lot of vital energy to activate.

"Did the Wang family pay for it for me?" Shen Xu couldn't help but wonder.

"Oh no!" Shen Xu suddenly seemed to realize something, and quickly opened his package and the porcelain bottle containing the Nourishing Essence Pill, only to find it empty.

"I knew it!" Shen Xu felt a pang of heartache.

Generally, such treasures automatically absorb external energy when activated, and his package was located in the area with the highest concentration of energy in this space.

He then checked all the porcelain bottles and found that the Illusion Wall had left him with about a few dozen. Sure enough, how could one cultivate without money? Activating such a treasure once would require hundreds of Nourishing Yuan Pills, and it was estimated that only those major sects could afford it.

"But why didn't Uncle Wang remind me? Did he know I had a lot of Nourishing Essence Pills?"

Shen Xu thought about it and realized that this was the only possibility. It couldn't be that he himself didn't know that activating the Phantom Wall required a lot of vital energy!

Standing up, Shen Xu bowed deeply to the illusion wall before walking out through the black stone gate.

"How is it? Nephew, have you made any progress?" Wang Huai asked with concern from behind the door.

"Thank you very much, Uncle Wang. I have learned a lot this time," Shen Xu said, bowing to Wang Huaizheng.

Wang Huaizheng smiled and said, "Nephew, you are truly gifted. Not every clansman who tries to comprehend the meaning of the ancestor has ever succeeded."

"Uncle, how long have I been inside?"

"About an hour."

"It's only been an hour, but I thought I'd been inside for a much longer time!"

“Nephew’s words will probably make every member of the Wang family who goes to comprehend the Illusion Wall feel ashamed, because most of them cannot even last for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. It is indeed no coincidence that you were able to pass the ancestral master’s test,” Wang Huaizheng sighed.

"It's getting late, I should hurry and see my nephew out!"

"Thank you for your trouble, Uncle Wang," Shen Xu said, bowing again.

At the gate of the Wang family mansion, Shen Xu promised Wang Huaizheng, who had come to see him off, "Uncle Wang, I will never forget the great kindness of the Wang family. I will repay even the smallest kindness with the greatest gratitude. If the Wang family ever needs anything from me in the future, I will do my best to help them."

Wang Huaizheng said with a smile, "I am very pleased that you have this intention, my dear nephew. I don't actually expect you to do anything for the Wang family. I only hope that you will not disgrace the legacy of our ancestors!"

"Shen Xu will keep Uncle Wang's teachings in mind!" Shen Xu bowed solemnly to Wang Huaizheng.

"Alright, hurry back to the sect! There are probably still many people who want to see you!"

"Okay!" Shen Xu replied and turned to leave the Wang family.