The next day, Hou woke up by Mo Huai's gently pushing,
"Wake up, today is the day we leave these identities behind,"
Hou opened his eyes and yawned, unconsciously he pushed with his hands to sit up. Then he remembered what happened last night, the burns, and looked at his hands.
He turned then and saw the flesh completely healed, no signs of any burning at all. He looked up at Mo Huai,
"Did you heal me?"
"Just a simple healing technique,"
Mo Huai walked backwards, around the room. As he did, miasma formed from the air or more accurately it reformed. He was dismantling the semi permanent barrier he had set up. He continued,
"Not that it was needed, your Celestial Law Amplifying Physique would have healed by now anyway. Not only does it absorb laws effectively, amplify them, it also uses the laws. Healing can be done with the body by using laws, it seems the Celestial Law Amplifying Physique amplifies even that effect, meaning you heal quick."
Hou moved to the side of his bed and started to stretch, cracking his neck. He mumbled to himself,
"Interesting, I wonder what other effects the physique has..."
Mo Huai caught what he said and answered,
"It is interesting indeed, once we do this inheritance we'll go to the Sect Leader and since he knew True Sage of Celestial Ink. If anyone could unravel the secrets of your physique, its him."
Hou nodded and got up fully, activating his disguise ring. He hair shrunk, changing colour to a dull brown from his bright pink. His clothes went from martial, to scholarly.
Mo Huai saw that Hou was ready and finished undoing the barrier, all the walls became a shade of purple. The miasma settled on the walls before snapping back to Mo Huai like elastic.
Hou saw this and asked,
"I always meant to ask, what is your miasma? Is it the same as what I saw in the 'Sealed Solar Tomb', wasn't that qi?'
Mo Huai heard the question and sat on his bed,
"Sit down, I'll explain then we'll say goodbye to Xiao Ye. Then I'll bring us to Huan Die, she can bring us to the inheritance easily."
Hou followed Mo Haui and at atop his bed, facing Mo Huai. Once he sat, Mo Huai begun,
"As you can guess from my title, Nine Clouds Purple Miasma and all that you've seen, my main abilities focus on miasma. That is the Dao I practice mainly, the category of laws. Miasma is a form of clouds, the main cultivation methods in Nine Clouds Sovereign Sect relies on these types."
"I understand so far..."
"Miasma is a type of cloud which focuses on corruption and penetration. It is a type of cloud focused on attacks and pure power. There are multiple ways I use 'miasma'"
Hou interjected,
"Like qi?"
"Like qi, yes. One type, is the qi you mention in the Sealed Solar Tomb. It is because of how I refine qi that it becomes entangled with miasma laws. Your qi for example, I noticed it is entangled with blood laws. This is just what happens when you use qi, an outside force of mental energy. It is not your power and you need to bind it with laws to even use it, that is what refining qi is."
'I didn't think of it like that...so refining qi is bounding to laws, which is why it can be controlled. This theory makes sense, it does explain why with Yue's method the qi turns blood like, while Mo Huai's is miasma' Hou pondered to himself.
Mo Huai continued,
"That is just one type, the main type I'm using is actual miasma laws, manifested into a form. Like I have warned you before qi is weak and can easily be manipulated by anyone, I do not suggest relying on it. Just as it could help you, it could be exploited by enemies, you understand?"
Hou nodded and Mo Huai added,
"The other type, miasma laws. I manifest them, miasma as a law can be manifested as a cloud or fog. I use this as a way to use Miasma laws easily, for this barrier I can use the corruptive idea of miasma to block leaks of sound."
"But why would you use it rather than laws by themselves? Why make it material?"
"There is many reasons really, but for my specific case, miasma laws are highly physical. Even if they were kept in the astral world, they would corrupt the material and do the opposite of I want. Counterproductively, miasma can be made physical and it instead becomes less corruptive to the material world. Think of it like diluting a poison, to control its effects."
"Hmmm...-" Just as Hou was going to say something he heard a knock on the door.
He looked to Mo Huai and back to the door, Mo Huai chuckled to himself and moved his head away to the door. He gestured for Hou to answer it.
Hou stood up and walked to the door, carefully opening the door, to see Xiao Ye standing outside. He quickly stammered,
"Do we need leave? We were just gonna-"
Before Hou could continue, Xiao Ye put her finger over his lips and said to him,
"I come as myself to you, not as a staff. You were so generous to me, I really enjoyed our date so...take this!"
Xiao Ye pushed a small parcel into Hou's arm then jogged away, leaving Hou stunned. He peeked out the door and looked either way, not finding Xiao Ye, he closed the door.
As he walked back to the main room where Mo Huai sat, he opened the package. Inside there was a letter and a small bag.
On the envelope, it read
"Do not open until you leave!!! -Xiao Ye"
Hou stared at it for a second before breaking out in a blush and placing both the letter and bag into his robe. He then thought to himself with a smile on his face,
'As much as I enjoyed your company Xiao Ye, I'm busy right now. When I can make my people's lives better and become stronger, I'll be back,'