Doubts Amid the Ruins, Limits of Fist Intent (Part 2)

Since the Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva had emerged from the Buddhist faith, the explanation naturally had to be deduced from Buddhist teachings.

The so-called "Three Interludes" undoubtedly meant past, present, and future. Yu Ci clearly remembered that the Future Star Tribulation Scripture cultivated by Ling Xi Wanderer had come from the Black Heavenly Buddha Mother's lineage. It could transform its practitioner into a demon creature, a truly strange art.

Following that line of thought, there were probably also a Past Majestic Tribulation Scripture and a Present Worthy Tribulation Scripture, which corroborated the Three Interludes Tribulation Scripture Bai Lian had mentioned.

Of course, that was all speculation. The heart of the matter lay elsewhere.

The real difficulty was this: Yu Ci felt that he could no longer distinguish the difference between "two" and "three."

Lu Qing had once said that she had possessed two consciousnesses since birth. One was Lu Qing, and the other was Lu Suhua. The former had devoted herself to demonic arts and could be considered Madame Yellow Springs's successor; the latter cultivated secret mystical sect techniques and had undoubtedly learned from Lu Chen.

By that account, combined with Bai Lian's words, the one who had "produced Lu Chen's Fist Intent samadhi" should have been Lu Suhua. Correspondingly, the peerless sword-and-ring arts belonged to Lu Qing.

But now the problem arose: the one currently wielding the Rainbow Shadow Sword and Sun Concealing Ring to roam the world was Lu Suhua. So where was Lu Qing?

One explanation was that Lu Suhua had only switched to cultivating the peerless sword-and-ring arts after she and Lu Qing had completely split apart. Yet if one looked deeper—without Lu Qing, she could not use fist techniques. So which of them had truly been the more skilled one?

Yu Ci could