The Legend of Min Hong

Chapter 533: The Shadows [1]

They are beings created from thoughts, and thus do not have any form of substance to themselves; thus, it was quite stunned that not only could Min Hong sense him, but actually catch him, and there were no explanations to such situations, at least none that their entire clan and religion knew of

Thus, he was extremely petrified to realize that a human could actually catch him, and that told him that this kid, whoever he was, was someone who could snuff him out if he wished it

"We are the sons of the shadows are beings born from accumulated thoughts of every other sentient being" The figure began as Min Hong paid attention

"It all began with our ancestors who suspected that people must always leave remnants of their thoughts in a specific area, and that the aura of these thoughts linger around longer than normal, and that is the reason why, people feel tense whenever they enter an area with a lot of people having solemn thoughts"

"The atmosphere becomes a little heavy and everyone abruptly finds themselves abruptly having bated or heavy breaths"

"It was from this that he fashioned a formation which can gather all these thoughts aura from the atmosphere and condense them into a small point the size of an embryo"

"Since these were thoughts it means there is also a shred of sentience and consciousness within these auras, and thus, after condensing these thought to a certain point, a confused thought and consciousness is born"

"But because these are thoughts which are powered by mental energy, it means they can have no substance to them and would rather disperse the moment they leave the formation; at least, that was what was generally believed, until a consciousness managed to escape"

"The consciousness barely moved a few meters before it began to disperse, but luckily, a part of the dispersing shadow fell into the shadow of our creator's assistant, and when our creator realized with his strong mental sense that the consciousness was actually residing within the shadow of his staff"

"He then made a quick experiment by shining light on the spot where the shadow of his staff was to be, and after hearing the shadow scream, he realized that the consciousness he had developed could only reside within shadows, and from then on, he continued to furtherly experiment on the shadow and began with movement"

"He told the consciousness to try jumping from shadow too shadow, and whilst that turned out to be a successful experiment, the cost were too enormous, as the consciousness lost almost half of its entire essence"

"Our creator for many years afterwards did many experiments trying to find a way to solve the problem, but then all his efforts proved abortive"

"Until he took in a disciple that was very adept at principles of dualities"

"This disciple could manipulate Yin & Yang, Light & Darkness as well as Life & Death, and then the disciple gave an idea which he thought could solve the problems"

"He figured out that what makes a being a being is because he possesses sentience"

"Then sentience itself is a collection of information based on thoughts of a specific entity which is based on the experiences the entity has had, be it via physical phenomena or abstract phenomena"

"Then on a faithful day whilst gaining enlightenment on his Daos, the kid stumbled on an enlightenment that thoughts actually exists at the point where the physical meets the spiritual and the abstract"

"Thus, the point was to find a material that has the properties of these three factors but lacked all of it simultaneously, and that is when he came up with Dark Qi, or like it is called now demonic energy"

"A demon is mostly abstract in the sense that mortals never know until they have been possessed, and even cultivators have them in terms of internal demons"

"They are also spiritual in the sense that they can influence and affect people's souls and spirit and finally they can be physical once they have possessed a human or beast and use them to manipulate natural physical phenomena"

"Though his explanation was crude and somewhat lacking, but he claimed that he didn't know how to explain it in a way that everyone would understand and revealed that everyone might have to gain their own specific enlightenment on how to find a better container for the consciousness"

"Then he decided to use demonic Qi and after that proved to be the right ingredient"

"But there was a drawback; the demonic Qi could protect us from the effects of the light but couldn't house us in person and that is why we jump from shadows to shadows whilst using the demonic Qi to protect ourselves" The figure spoke as Min Hong nodded;

"Alright then, who is Yao?" He asked;

"Yao is a race, and they are not from here, and they are all immensely powerful"

"Unh How powerful?"

"Well, for starters, they were claimed to be born with a Dan Formation stage cultivation power at birth, and that is all we know"

"How can you be working closely with them and still claim to know nothing!?" Min Hong frowned as his grip over the figures neck increased

Min Hong had wrapped his hand in Chaos Dao which in itself was erratic and contained all other elements and energies, and thus he was able to grab the shadow with it, and it was an idea he thought of on the spot

"We are beings of the shadows, we exist within the mysterious junction that links all realms, existences and planes together"

"We do not owe allegiances to anyone and trade with anyone who has anything we think can help us in our search for a way to exist as a being and not just as a consciousness or intangible being"

"But you are not scared of death are you?" Min Hong asked;

"Death!?"

"We do not die Even if you shine light on me, I will simply disperse into lingering thoughts once again until the others come over and simply use the thought gathering formation to bring me back" The shadow replied with a jeering tone of some sort;

"Alright Thanks for revealing your weakness"

Min Hong abruptly smiled as he waved his free hand and the space around his hands rippled and opened  before he then clenched his hands within the void cracking open another pocket of space where he tossed the shadow and then flooded the little space with Chao Qi which he turned aggressive with a thought