Martial God Space

Chapter 272 – Devil arts power technique

Ye Xiwen’s inner state was naturally not going to be same after the crazy absorption spree.

Slowly, Ye Xiwen’s aura began to transform from that of a soldier to a general then to a king, emperor and moving closer to that of a sophist.

This was a natural outcome since he was absorbing the knowledge of a lot of people, for example, unrivaled profound scholars, Zen Buddhists, Taoist experts etc. All of them with distinct features and expertise in various fields and since each of them had reached the heavenly level of understanding in their respective fields of expertise, Ye Xiwen had to benefit accordingly by gaining essences of miscellaneous knowledge. He was just like a gluttonous person who was using mysterious space to devour knowledge and gaining from that.

He was slowly approaching the level of understanding of a sophist.

He was very much enjoying this whole mass study session. He was slowly walking inside while reading all the books in his path. He would sometimes come across two very different perspectives to the same idea, then, he would sit cross-legged on the ground to ponder about the newly obtained contradicting ideas to find out the correct one.

For example, life or death, which one is eternal? One must plan ahead for unforeseen problems or one should not give in to groundless fears, which one is correct? There were a lot of confusing and contradictory concepts in this world and Ye Xiwen needed to choose which perspective he wanted to follow.

(NT: wèi yǔchóu móu – before it rains, bind around with silk (idiom, from Book of Songs 詩經|诗经); to plan ahead; to prepare for a rainy day

Qǐ rén yōu tiān – man of Qǐfears the sky falling (idiom); groundless fears)

“Who is this insolent person that dares to peep at my kingdom?!” As soon as Ye Xiwen sent his soul search into a royal Dao book, suddenly, a huge ghostly figure emerged from it. It looked like the ghost of a majestic emperor. Ye Xiwen could see traces of uprightness and elegance, however, its cold eyes were glaring at him.

Ye Xiwen noticed from the author’s name inscribed on the book that the author used to be a great emperor of some ancient dynasty that ruled Great Yue State in the past. So, the ghostly figure apparently belonged to that emperor.

“A mere book demon like you thinks of himself as the master of this book’s world? I suggest you open your eyes and see that your book is in my hand. The source of your very existence is in my grasp. I guess that should be enough to tell who is the boss here.” Ye Xiwen sneered and said.

After surviving the baptism of the Demon Emperor’s imposing aura, now the imposing aura of no other emperor could have any effect on Ye Xiwen.

“How dare you!” The ghostly figure shouted and flew towards Ye Xiwen. It suddenly used royal fist technique to throw consecutive punches at him, summoning forth a tornado of enormous and powerful dragon qi.

The emperor must have been at a profound realm when he was alive, no wonder his ghost was so powerful in the form of a small book demon.

According to the history records, the Great Yue State had reached the peak of governance and dominance and had also become a well-known country among the ten countries of the southeast region when he was the emperor of this country.

His theory of governance was so popular that it was recorded, based on his personal notes, as rules to be followed by the other rulers in the course of history.

After a lapse of innumerable years, Yi Yuan School collected the notes and stored it up in this library in the form of a book.

This book demon’s power was clearly above truth ninth peak level, perhaps reaching Complete Truth realm.

(NT: truth ninth stage