"How... outrageous!"
Jia Hua's heart jolted violently, and the sudden turn of events startled him enough to change his expression.
He dared not delay. At once, he surged his Dharma Power, trying to withdraw and disperse this "Mirror Flowers and Moon in Water."
Yet however he urged it on, the surrounding scene seemed caught in the crushing grip of an invisible hand, unable to budge.
All his Dharma Power sank into it like a clay ox entering the sea, unable to stir even a single ripple.
Jia Hua's heart sank. I've hit an iron wall.
The art practiced by the Peaceful Way Abbey was called the "Upper Pool Fishing Azure Art." Tracing its origins led to the path of "Shi Water." This was the water of transformation in the yin position: in the heavens, it became clouds, mist, rain, and dew; on the earth, it became cavern springs, streams, and marshes. It was divided into five manifestations.
One of those manifestations represented water as clear as a mirror, suddenly stirring with ripples. If it formed a Dao fruit, it was called "Reflecting Shadow Chill."
It could reflect people and reveal their shadows, restore clarity to turbid waters, cleanse the mystic vision, and mend the cracks in heart and nature.
Jia Hua had only just completed his "Nature Root," and naturally remained far from such a level.
But however far the Peaceful Way Abbey had fallen, it was still a sect of the Ancient Chu Remnants, with some reserves of heritage left.
By combining several illusion arts with methods of probing the heart, then invoking his "Nature Root" to empower them regardless of the cost, he had created this technique of his own.
It could draw cultivators of a lower realm into a meticulously arranged "Mirror Flowers and Moon in Water,"