Returning to Source:Tao of Imitations!

Wu Shuang realized even the bag of food he had brought along was missing.

He had no plans of heading back where he came from. If anything, he wanted to follow his master's advice and traverse the wilderness to the other counties as fast as possible.

Realizing he couldn't even locate a rag to hide his naked body, he accepted his circumstances and shifted the topic to distract himself.

"You just mentioned Martial body and True Qi! Are they the only stages in the True Martial realm?" He asked as he was interested.

"Not really! The True Martial realm is divided into many stages and the Martial Body is the first level, followed by Vein opening that leads to the dantian in the human body being accessed, then True Qi, True Sense, Divine Power, True Will and finally the Completion stage where all the (Trueqi, True Will and Divine power are perfect. When one fuses Divine power and True will, it brings about absorption of world energy and a transformation of the energy in the dantian into Stellar Qi."

"Huh! Stellar Qi is the third stage of cultivation?" He was indeed engrossed and the fact he ignored his naked body made the soul of the woman shocked at this shameless disciple of hers.

"No! It is called the Extreme Martial realm, not Stellar Qi realm. Those at this realm are able to absorb world energy and convert it into steller Qi. But this is far off from you, after you have reached completion stage we can talk about this again." She corrected him.

Suddenly Wu Shuang's figure paused slightly, and looked down. He had just stopped on so something soft, and after stomping down with some more strength, the dust was pushed to the side and what appeared in his sight was a corpse of a teenage girl, probably seventeen.

It was just that his stomp had caused the chest area to become deformed.

He looked at it without much change in expression. It was already a corpse and he didn't kill her, as such he felt nothing.

But the same couldn't be said for the soul hidding in his body.

"Cough! Cough! Disciple, are you so ruthless. You didn't even spare the corpse of this young girl. If her family found out, I think they would be willing to skin you alive." The moment she said this, Wu Shuang had a strange expression on his face.

Because of his stomp, the clothes on the corpse were shattered. It was why she was saying he didn't spare even corpses.

But Wu Shuang's attention was on the small sword in the hand of the corpse. He forcefully pulled it causing some of the fingers on the female corpse to become deformed.

When he put his hands on the corpse just about to move it, and see if it had any more good things, he heard movement coming his direction. He was also alert and retreated some distance, only to discover the place he was standing had been struck by a strong force.

"Master! Now look at what your crow mouth has done! Her family has arrived." He complained secretly.

"What do you mean by my crow mouth? Disciple, I was not the one that forcefully stripped a female corpse and even took her precious goods without her permission!" The voice in his head retorted directly.

"Huh! Master, how come when you say it like this, it sounds wrong in my ears." Wu Shuang couldn't help but complain slightly.

"Don't dwell on it, escape already. Among those people there are some that have gone further in the second realm, it would be a problem if someone on a higher level appeared. More importantly, the identify of this woman you robbed is not small."

Hearing the words coming from his master, Wu Shuang's figure that was already starting to escape almost staggered.

"Robbed? Master, when did the dead have ownership of treasures? Sigh! I guess I can only bear this infamy." As he complained, he was stroking the sword.

Clearly he wasn't affected by her words in the slighest.

He felt there might be a hidden meaning behind her words, but he couldn't tell exactly what it was.

But he didn't have time to ask anything as he heard an angry shout, and could tell the other party wanted to skin him.

"Damn! That beast defiled the young mistress! Get him, we must give our mistress some explanation."

"Huh! What the hell?" Wu Shuang was shocked.

Shou!

A sharp sound of something coming from behind him was heard.

Wu Shuang hurriedly doged to the left and his speed didn't decrease in the slighest.

He could clearly hear roars of anger and resentment but he had no intention of find out more.

The power of those attacks he had just evaded was not small, but he didn't stop.

"Master! When did we defile anyone?" He asked

"What do you mean by we? Sigh! Are you going to return the sword you took forcefully?" The voice in his head sounded again.

"Master! What are you saying? I clearly picked this sword, what does it have anything to do with that corpse?" Wu Shuang's narrative suddenly took a 90° turn.

"Even if they want my sword to burry that corpse along with it, can't they speak nicely." As he spoke of this even he himself had some embarrassment on his face.

"Disciple! I have never known that you are this shameless! If I didn't know, I would have almost believed this sword was your family legacy." The soul mocked Wu Shuang's shamelessness.

But what it didn't say was that it was glad, after all having to rise in the path of cultivation, those that were morally upright would not end well.

Wu Shuang had no plans of returning the sword. The moment it entered his hands, it felt just right.

Besides, he didn't think a corpse had any right to hold onto a sword.

It was just that he realized no one was chasing him.

But as he continued escaping, he finally realized that all this while, he didn't even feel any sound of footsteps or someone following him.

Even when they attacked, it seemed as though they used long range methods. He couldn't help but slow down and ask cautiously.

"Master! What is wrong? How come no one is chasing us?"

He thought she would ignore him, but she actually took her tine mocking him.

"Hehe! Why would they? Do you really think that everyohe is a mad man that will take the risk of falling into a spatial rift.Only you would dare to run around carelessly in such an environment. Perhaps ignorance is bliss." Her sound was somewhat mocking.

"Huh! What do you mean master?'' he asked as he looked around vigilantly.

"It's too late to retreat. I told you to approach the heaven reaching sword not just so that you can breakthrough your cultivation to the True Martial realm. You should know that even though true martial realm is a step forward towards the strong, it isn't worth it taking the risk to come to this place." The soul's voice sounded in Wu Shuang's mind.

"What is worth taking the risk?" He asked after hearing what had been said.

"You should have seen heard that most people that enter the wilderness rarely come back right?" She didn't answer his question but rather asked him one.

When Wu Shuang heard this, he thought of how he had to struggle before breaking through to the True Martial realm.

Only after forging his martial body could the environment in this place become bearable, and he could feel that the deeper he walked the stronger the pressure on him was becoming.

With such a situation, he had concluded in his mind that those who approached the depths of the wilderness either died from being crushed by the pressure or starvation.

But from the tone of his master's words, things were far from that simple.

When he was preparing for her to tell him more, she suddenly started to talk about a different matter.

"I asked you to come to this place, for more than just providing you an environment to breakthrough. The most important thing is to locate some spatial zone that might allow you to leave this place." She replied seriously.

"What is a spatial zone?" He heard her mention the word spatial again.

"It's just some area where distance is twisted and walking through you can cover large distance in a single step. Even in some rare cases, from one region to another, but that is rare." She replied patiently.

"So you aren't stopping me from moving fast so that I can locate some spatial zone?" Wu Shuang was slightly enlightened.

"Things are not as simple as you make them, but you can understand them like that. The reason those fellows didn't rush to deal with you or collect the corpse of their companion." He replied

"Huh! What do you mean?" He suddenly felt something was wrong.