Only then did Xiang Shaoyun understand that he deserved the gravekeeper elder's remark of a "complete mess". The battle techniques displayed by the gravekeeper elder's afterimages weren't even used alongside any sort of astral energy. 

Only the forms of the techniques were displayed, yet that was enough to give Xiang Shaoyun a feeling of inferiority. With the absence of astral energy, one couldn't even say that the gravekeeper elder was merely using his higher cultivation level to embarrass Xiang Shaoyun.

When the afterimages vanished, the gravekeeper elder looked at Xiang Shaoyun and asked, "Do you understand?"

Xiang Shaoyun nodded deeply and said, "Yes. Thank you for your guidance, elder."

He then bowed. In truth, he had the urge to take this elder...