Sanssouci Valley ...... Just a fantasy?

Li Qing and Wendy glanced at each other, and they both saw a deep sense of surprise and disbelief in each other's eyes.

Although from the very beginning, the two felt that this beautiful Sanssouci Valley was as beautiful as a fairy tale world, which was very wrong, but the two never thought that Sanssouci Valley was just an illusion.

Especially Li Qing. His "Black Knight's Will" talent is extremely resistant to all kinds of mental spells and hallucinogenic abilities. Ordinary visions could not interfere with his perception at all.

After coming to Sanssouci Valley, in Li Qing's feelings, all the qiē was no different from the truth. What you see in your eyes, what you smell in your nose, what you feel in your skin, what you taste in your mouth, and even what you perceive in your spirit...... It's all real existence.

Only the overly beautiful, fairytale environment will give him a hint of eccentricity.

"Being able to deceive my perception makes me regard the illusion as a reality...... Li Qing secretly thought in his heart: "The power of creating the illusion seems to be quite high-end. Legendary level of power? No, it's not enough...... Then, it can only be a true god-level power! ”

As soon as he thought of this, Li Qing's heart sank: "Could it be that Wendy and I have broken into the realm of a true god?" Not right either. If I have strayed into the realm of a true god, then even if that true god has no hostility towards me, the existence of this power itself will awaken the Queen of Darkness who is sleeping in the seed of power in my heart! ”

The Dark Queen recuperated in the power seed in Li Qing's heart, because she only had half a soul and no physical body, it was difficult for the Dark Queen to exert her power in reality.

But she can protect Li Qing's soul and keep Li Qing's soul from being violated.

And all the realms of the true gods have extremely strong assimilation power. In particular, it can assimilate souls, assimilating mortals who have strayed into the realm of the true god into believers of the true god.

This kind of assimilation does not even need to be deliberately operated by the true God. The energy radiated by the realm itself is already capable of automatic assimilation. Just as the sun can pour light and heat automatically without anyone manipulating it.

And once Li Qing's soul shows signs of being forcibly distorted, the Queen of Darkness will inevitably wake up.

But now that the Queen of Darkness has not awakened, it means that the illusion of Sanssouci Valley has not caused harm to Li Qing's soul.

"Without distorting my soul, it cannot be the realm of the true God. But it can hide my perception and make my Black Knight's will talent not work, which means that the illusion has the energy of the true god level...... That's weird......"

While Li Qing was thinking, Wendy asked Ovilia curiously: "Miss Ovilia, if Sanssouci Valley is just an illusion, then you ...... I'm sorry. She made a gesture, "Forgive me for taking the liberty of being a fantasy in the entire Sanssouci Valley, then what kind of existence are you elves?" Why is it that in my perception, neither you nor those elf children just now are any different from the real beings? ”

As a mage, Wendy's perception is also very good. In her perception, the elves such as Ovilia are real beings, without any illusory feeling.

This made her very curious, if Sanssouci Valley was an illusion, then what were the elves such as Ovilea?

"We ......" Ovilia sighed with a dazed look in her eyes and said, "We are all elves who should have died a long time ago. All the elves in Sanssouci Valley, whether they are adult elves or elven children, or those little elves, are all beings who should have died 43,000 years ago, when the elven empire collapsed. ”

Li Qing tasted a subtle meaning from her words, and couldn't help but wonder: "Listen to what you mean, the elves in Sanssouci Valley...... Have all been in existence for more than 43,000 years? ”

"Not bad." Ovilia nodded, "All the elves in the valley have indeed existed for more than forty-three thousand years. ”

"Huh?" Wendy gently covered her small mouth, and their eyes widened: "Won't it?" How is this possible? Even the High Elves can't live for 43,000 years, right? ”

Elves have a long lifespan, but even the two high elves of gold and silver elves cannot live for more than three thousand years [Legend has it that the longest-lived elf living on the continent is already more than two thousand seven hundred years old. It was a wood elf. Although the blood of the gold elf and the silver elf is nobler than that of the wood elf, the lifespan is not longer than that of the wood elf, and the legend says that the ultimate lifespan is about three thousand years. 】

"Elves naturally can't live for 43,000 years, but Sanssouci Valley is an illusion." Ovilia said, "Didn't Miss Wendy just ask what kind of existence the elves of Sanssouci Valley are? The elves of Sanssouci Valley are actually spirits who have long abandoned their bodies and only have their consciousness stored in Sanssouci Valley! ”

"Spirits?" Wendy was surprised, and Li Qing was also shocked.

"How can it be a spirit? You are flesh and blood......"

"The physical body we have now can only rely on the Sanssouci Valley Storage." "Once we leave Sanssouci Valley, we will lose our current physical bodies and become pure consciousness beings who are worse than ghosts. ”

In addition to consciousness, ghosts also have bodies composed of negative energy, which can have a certain impact on the physical world. And the existence of pure consciousness cannot have any effect on the material world, and will not even be perceived by any living being - pure consciousness that cannot have any influence on the material world and cannot communicate with anything makes no difference at all.

"More than 43,000 years ago, on the eve of the collapse of the Elven Empire, in order to escape the fate of complete annihilation, we elves abandoned a qiē and moved into the Valley of Sanssouci. Survive in this isolated valley of Sanssouci. ”

Ovilia said slowly, "The long years have made the elves in Sanssouci Valley abandon more things. Magic, martial arts, magic, ...... This kind of ability, which we once possessed, is gradually forgotten by us who only have consciousness left......"

With Ovilia's narration, Li Qing and Wendy gradually understand what kind of price the elves in Sanssouci Valley paid for survival.

The magical illusion of Sanssouci Valley allows the elves who have abandoned their real bodies to have false bodies. But this false body made the elves lose the ability to study magic, exercise martial arts, and cultivate divine arts. The Valley of Sanssouci, where there is always peace and abundance, also makes it possible for the elves not to use any lethal abilities.

During the long years of peace, the elves' abilities gradually deteriorated, and eventually they were completely forgotten.

Not only is the ability degraded and forgotten, but even all kinds of knowledge have been forgotten by the elves - the enterprising spirit of the elves is far inferior to that of humans. Living in Sanssouci Valley, you hardly need to master any knowledge and skills, you don't need to learn and progress to live well, and after a long time, who can still maintain the mentality of learning?

If you don't learn, you forget. No matter how good the memory is, it can't resist the erosion of time.

Not only have the elves of Sanssouci Valley forgotten their knowledge and abilities, but many of them have even lost their motivation to survive during the long years of peace.

A large number of elves were completely confused when they were alive, and then died quietly. Some elves who are confused but still have a desire to survive have degenerated into children, throwing away all the memories of adulthood and relying on the childish innocence of children to survive......

The elves of Sanssouci Valley have no reproductive ability. The number of elves in the valley has been decreasing for more than 43,000 years. The elves who originally moved into Sanssouci Valley were more than 200,000. Now there are less than 10,000 left, and eighty percent of them are elven children - most of these elven children were once adult elves.

"If you come a thousand years late...... Even if it's only a few hundred years late, there should never be a single elf again. ”

Ovilia said sadly: "A life of isolation and eternal peace is not so good. Here, we do not find the direction to survive and have no motivation to forge ahead. Sanssouci Valley is still the same Sanssouci Valley that it once was, and nothing has changed for more than 40,000 years. But the elves in the valley are dying...... Speaking of which, I've lived enough. Maybe soon he will die quietly. ”

Li Qing and Wendy were silent.

They are all young, and they all have all kinds of good things in life. There are countless ideas, and there are many dreams that have not yet been realized.

But even though they haven't lived too long, they can imagine how boring and empty it must be to live in isolation and idleness for tens of thousands of years.

There are no dreams, no novelty, no pursuits, just living for the sake of living. The unchanged little world, the unchanged sunset and sunrise, the unchanged Sanssouci Valley, no matter how many days have passed, it is always the same scenery......

Even elves can't stand this boring life, right?

Li Qing sighed in his heart: "No matter how carefree I am, if I stay in the same place for tens of thousands of years, every day repeats the same life as yesterday, there will never be novelty, there will never be surprises...... Then I won't be able to live, right? Fortunately, my Su Su is an idle person, and with her, there will never be a shortage of powerful enemies, and there will never be a shortage of amazing adventures across the plane......"

Wendy also has a concern: "A life without even adventures is terrible!" More than 40,000 years of idleness, a little thought about it, it's creepy! ”

Thinking of this, Wendy looked at Ovilia with a little sympathy in her eyes.

Seeing the sympathy in Wendy's eyes, Ovilia smiled gloomily and said, "The fate of the elves in Sanssouci Valley is actually not worthy of sympathy. Who told us not to have the courage to live and die with the Elven Empire? It's fate that lingers on us cowards...... ...... of the punishment imposed"

Li Qing and Wendy were silent.

After being silent for a while, Li Qingcai, who didn't want to continue the heavy topic before, changed the topic and asked: "Since Sanssouci Valley is an illusion, and the elves in Sanssouci Valley are only consciousness bodies with false bodies, then what kind of existence form do the two outsiders, Wendy and me, exist in Sanssouci Valley?" ”

"You ...... It's the same situation as us. Ovilia said, "Only the conscious body can enter the Valley of Sanssouciac. Your present body is also a false body that relies on the Sanssouci Valley. ”

"What?" Li Qing and Wendy were shocked.

"Only consciousness can enter Sanssouci Valley?" Wendy ate and said, "So...... Me, I'm dead with Tony? ”

Li Qing quickly checked his body, and then his heart sank: "I feel different!" The true qi in the dantian is gone! There is not even a trace of the true qi that once existed, which is completely different from the feeling of emptying the true qi. The true qi that I have cultivated by myself is based on my physical body, and now there is no trace of any trace of my true qi, which means that my body is indeed different! But the seeds of power are still ......"

Li Qing's power seed, although it resides in his heart, is actually bound to his soul. Even if Li Qing loses his physical body, the seed of power will not disappear.

And as long as the seed of strength is still there, Li Qing's strength can retain most of it. Even his biggest hole card, the Queen of Darkness, who sleeps in the seeds of power, is still with him.

This discovery made him feel a little more settled.

"No, you're not dead, you're just temporarily detached from your consciousness and body." Ovilia said, "The altar you saw earlier is the entrance to Sanssouci Valley. When the altar is activated, your consciousness is withdrawn from your body and transported into the Valley of Sanssouci. And your body is still alive under the protection of the altar. However, once consciousness is out of your body for too long, your body will still die. ”

Wendy breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "And how long will our bodies survive?" ”

"It won't take more than a month at most." "It was the same with our bodies. A month after entering Sanssouci Valley, an elf once went out to investigate and found that our bodies had died, and most of them had just died, indicating that a month is the limit of physical survival. ”

"In other words, we have to be back in our bodies within a month." Wendy frowned and said, "Although there is a month limit, I don't want my body to be thrown in that cave for a month without any security." What if you get eaten by some underground monster? ”

Ovilia comforted: "Don't worry, under the protection of the altar, no external force can harm your body. ”

Wendy pouted and said, "Then you must return to your body as much as possible." I don't want to die for no apparent reason, leaving only a consciousness that can't leave Sanssouci Valley. I don't want to live for tens of thousands of years in this Sanssouci Valley with nothing to do! I'm going on a great adventure, finding knowledge of ancient magic, and becoming a great adventurer of legendary mages! ”

Li Qing also said: "Yes, we must leave Sanssouci Valley as much as possible." ”

Before entering Sanssouci Valley, he sensed Yiwen's cunzài. Ewen must have been sent by Susu to find him, and his hope of returning home was at stake. But now Ewen is not in a good situation, besieged by countless undead groups, and is in dire need of support. He didn't have much time to linger in this illusion.