Chapter 0496 - What is true and what is false
The gray walls are full of cracks, a piece of peeling jade-white wall skin hangs down from the top of the wall, there are no flowers and plants in the flower bed, only rotten and dry soil, pieces are tangled into clumps, like a dry and cracked riverbed in a great drought, and the bluestone next to the flower bed has been dilapidated, and the surface is pitted, revealing the gray and white inside.
This cloud palace is long dead, and like most things in the world, it has not escaped the erosion of time.
The rune paper burned out, the aura quickly dissipated, and the ripple-like ripples reappeared, and the three of them saw a flower in front of them, and the white jade wall, colorful flowers, and slightly wet paths all reappeared.
"This place is really just an illusion...... Anya's hands trembled slightly, she leaned down and gently plucked a small pale red flower, her eyes were stunned, "I can feel the softness of the flower, I can also smell the fragrance coming from it, in my opinion, this flower is completely real, like any flower I have ever seen." ”
"This is the horror of illusion," Yin Song calmed down after knowing that there were no ghosts or anything like that here, "There are very few monks who specialize in this way, but if they can go all the way, their strength and methods will become more and more terrifying, I don't know if you have heard a story, rotten Keqiao people." ”
"This is the story of the Terrans. Su Qi raised his eyebrows, "The woodcutter has watched chess for more than a hundred years." ”
"That's right, in fact, this is not just a story, someone has really done it in the past," Yin Song's expression was serious, "It is extremely difficult for half-emperors who specialize in illusion to break through the realm and become emperors, they often try to create a huge real illusion, and then introduce many mortals, even monks, to live in it, these people are unaware, and they have experienced birth, growth, marriage, childbirth, and death in it, and the owner of the illusion tries to enlighten by observing them....... In the past, there was a half-emperor who specialized in illusion to create an illusion where the passage of time was different from the outside world, trying to understand the road of time from it. Yin Song blinked again, "Who do you guess this half-emperor is?"
Anya dropped the flower in her hand, "It can't be Emperor Yun, right?"
Yin Song smiled, "It's one of his sons, known as the emperor in the human race, who also has a Dao pupil, and was considered a possible emperor at the time, but he disappeared in the war with Heavenly Court in the end. ”
Su Qi glanced at the nearby clouds and mist, and asked softly, "Can the illusion continue to function after the death of the master?" Emperor Yun has been dead in battle for 200,000 years, but the illusion here is still so powerful, maybe this illusion is not from the hand of Emperor Yun. ”
"It depends on the situation," Yin Song gently stroked his chin, his eyes a little wandering," I remember that there is a record in the ancient books in the hall that it is impossible for such a huge illusion to operate only by the aura of the monks, even the emperor can't, they must create some kind of magic weapon as the basis for carrying the illusion, and then this illusion can rely on this magic weapon to maintain the operation, but according to the different magic weapons, the duration of the illusion is also very different, if this illusion is really from the hand of the Yun Emperor, then it has been running for at least 200,000 years, and the magic weapon that carries it is undoubtedly an imperial weapon. ”
Yin Song also reached out and picked a flower, he stared at it for a long time, suddenly picked the petals, stuffed them into his mouth, chewed them quickly and vigorously, and said vaguely, "It's a little astringent, but there is also a special fragrance, even the taste is so real, even if this illusion is not from the hand of Emperor Yun, most of it is from a half-emperor." ”
Su Qi glanced at the nearby clouds and squinted, "These clouds and mist ...... It is very likely that it is used to carry illusions. ”
"In that case, this magic weapon is likely to be the cloud disk in the Emperor's bedroom. Anya was a little unhappy, "The Great Emperor's Bedroom Palace can't even break into the Nine Zhuo City Lord, so isn't there no one who can crack this illusion at all?"
"You don't have to crack it," Su Qi shrugged, "At least this illusion hasn't posed any danger to us yet, but we need to be careful, anything we see here is likely to be unreal." ”
"Wait," Anya suddenly remembered a question, her gaze moved back and forth on Su Qi and Yin Song, and her face turned slightly pale, "Are you real?"
Su Qi was stunned for a moment, a powerful illusion can not only conjure up almost completely real landscapes, buildings, flowers and plants, but can even create a living person, he can talk, laugh, cry and suffer, he can be an emperor, he can be a blacksmith, he can be an omnipotent monk, or he can be a seriously ill patient.
"How is it possible," Yin Song's smile was bright, "no matter what, it is impossible to conjure up a living us, right?"
Two pieces of rune paper surfaced behind Su Qi's back, and the two spirit pens were quickly outlined on the paper, and he looked at Yin Song with a little vigilance.
Yin Song seemed to sense what Su Qi was thinking, he turned his head and looked at Su Qi without blinking, his big smile converged, leaving only a faint and mysterious smile.
A chill surged from Su Qi's back, and two pieces of rune paper flew out from behind him quickly, one flew towards Anya, and the other slammed into Yin Song's chest.
A faint ripple flickered.
Su Qi was shocked, Yin Song turned out to be really an illusion!
The Eight Desolation Sword quickly shot out and galloped towards Yin Song, but before he could slash it, Yin Song's body shattered, turned into fragments, and melted into the surrounding clouds and mist.
Anya brushed away the burning rune paper on her body, looked at each other with Su Qi for a moment, and then said a little dryly, "Where did the real Yin Song go? Or did there never be a person like Yin Song from beginning to end?" Maybe after we got out of the ice field, everything was just an illusion, and we hadn't even left the ice field yet, wandering in front of that sacrificial temple. ”
Anya was visibly frightened, the combination of false and real in the illusion made it almost impossible for her to tell what was true and what was false.
Is there really a Cloud Palace? Maybe the entire Nine Secret Places is a huge illusion, and from the moment they step in, everything is false, so how can they find that girl named Chang Su? Maybe they have exhausted their efforts, and what they found is just an illusion.
Su Qi had a headache, but he quickly remembered one thing, over the years, many monks had entered the Nine Secret Land, and they brought back Spirit Grass and Realm Beasts, which showed that at least part of the Nine Secret Land was real.
The illusion only comes from the Cloud Palace.
This is the greatest possible.
If this is the case, the Yin Song they met is also real, but after stepping into the Cloud Palace, everything begins to change, they are separated without knowing it, and an illusion Yin Song appears beside them.
So who is the real Yin Song next to him now?
False self and Anya?
Su Qi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that Anya had seen a black shadow in the clouds just now!