Chapter Seventy-Two: The Real Illusion (Part II)

The burning city, the blurred sky, the grand ball, the hypocritical expressions, the wonderful performances and the free flight in the blue sky, the images were intertwined in Xiuy's mind, and the intricate information almost made him completely lost.

"These ...... What the hell is this? I saw myself, I saw myself killing like a dream. Xiu Yi said in shock.

In a compassionate tone, Fink said, "It's not a dream, it's a real thing." ”

"I don't understand!" Huey yelled, "If that's the case, what's going on now?"

"This is the illusion, the illusion of the Magic Gate, a test. Everything that happens in front of you is something that has happened, not a real existence!"

"I don't remember. ”

"That's because that part of the memory is with me. ”

"And who are you?"

"I'm you...... Or part of you. Fink looked at Huey and said, "When I wake up...... It's in Fink's body. But I can't control Fink's fate, he's still himself, and I can only play a role occasionally. Your fate and mine's fortunes have begun to change, and you have rejected my previous arrangements and chosen a different path. As much as I tried to get everything back on track, you turned it down. Perhaps, from the very beginning, you were eager to control your destiny in your own way. You don't like my arrangement, and you don't like everything that has happened. ”

Xiu Yi looked at Fink in a daze, "You said you were me?"

Fink shook his head: "To be honest I don't know, I used to think I knew who I was, where I came from, and what I was going to do, but now I don't know anymore. I began to wonder, to wonder why I existed. It's like a lonely ghost who can't find his own home......"

Xiu Yi was dazed: "I don't understand." ”

"Yes, you don't understand, but the key question now is whether you can get out of it all. It's like you're trying to change your fate, Huey, you don't like the feeling of indulgence, do you? Yes, neither you nor I like it. But I can't help you this time. You must rely on your own strength to get out of this illusion and get out of control. ”

"How do you get out?" shouted Huey.

"As long as you can prove that all of this is false and non-existent, you can come out. ”

"How do you prove it?"

"Use your wisdom and think about it...... That's the last thing I can do for you. Fink's voice gradually lowered.

After a moment, Fink suddenly raised his head and looked at Huey in shock, "Did something happen?" Why am I here? What is this place?"

"I don't know. Huey replied, "Don't you remember what you just said to me?"

Fink blinked in confusion, looking like he didn't remember anything.

Xiu Yi was at a loss.

In the distance, Pierre and Andrew walked over.

Cold eyes looked at Huey and Fink.

"Wow, it looks like our little friend has seen something and is trying to escape. But where can you escape here?" Andrew said with a strange smile.

Beside him, Pierre was snorting with disdain.

Xiui looked at Pierre's cold eyes, and a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart.

An image flashed through my mind, it was Pierre's desperate cry before he died.

"I saw your death, Mistress Pierre. He said suddenly.

Pierre's footsteps paused, and an angry swagger appeared on his face: "What nonsense are you talking about, little bastard. ”

"You're dead, and you have no reason to stand in front of my eyes. Huey replied, "I killed him." ”

Andrew laughed maniacally: "Pierre, did you hear that? He said he killed you." This little bastard is simply insane!"

Huey turned to Andrew, "So are you, Lord Andrew." You are all non-existent, just my hallucination. Exactly...... You are created by me. It was created from my memory. ”

"Oh, is it?" Andrew continued to laugh, "and what would it be like to be killed by your own memories?"

"I don't know, maybe I won't wake up again. Xiu Yi muttered.

Pierre said coldly: "That's a pity, but I'm not interested in listening to your nonsense." ”

"That's not nonsense. ”

"It's ridiculous. Andrew shook his head as well: "I've never been so real. ”

"Really?" said Huey, sneering.

"Of course. Andrew replied: "I have lived on Purgatory Island for twenty years, and I came here on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor to work for my mentor, and that's all. ”

"Then you should know the name of your family patriarch?" said Xiui suddenly.

Andrew immediately shut up, and he looked at Huey in horror.

Hue shouted, "Answer me, Andrew, you're from House Dalimore, you don't know the name of your family patriarch, do you?"

Andrew looked at Huey dumbfounded.

He couldn't answer.

"You don't know, do you?" said Xiu Yi coldly, "Everything you know is what I know, but when I ask questions that I don't know and you should know, you can't answer them." Because your existence is based on my memory. ”

"Nope. Andrew shook his head in horror.

He took a few steps back.

Suddenly, his tall body turned into a cloud of smoke and dissipated on the ground.

Xiui slowly turned to Pierre, whose face had become extremely ugly.

Xiu Yi said slowly: "What are the names of those girls who were raped and killed by you?"

"No!" Pierre, who could not answer, also dissipated into a cloud of smoke.

But the world still exists, and the illusion is not gone.

Huey turned to Fink with a solemn expression.

It was the last person standing next to him.

"No, Huey, you can't kill me. Fink took a few steps back: "I'm your friend!

"Fink......" Huey's voice was a little dry.

"Huey, I helped you! I saved you!" Fink shouted, "You can't be so ungrateful! We can live here together, please don't kill me!"

Huey shook his head, "You're not Fink. ”

Fink stagnated.

Xiu Yi stared at the other party with a cold look: "You are such a cunning fellow, you stole my memories, stripped me of my most important ones, and now you are trying to use the friendship between friends to keep me in this illusion forever! You are not Fink, Your Excellency the Grand Elder Cripwell!"

Fink's movements froze.

A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on the face of the freckled boy.

He even began to applaud.

"Very good, Huigler, how did you find out that something was wrong?" his voice became thick and powerful, and a faint smoke rose around him, enveloping the entire valley.

The scene gradually changed, the valley no longer existed, and Xiu Yi was in a huge space that was incomparably wide.

In front of Huey's eyes, Fink was gone, only a huge magic crystal hovering in the air, and the image of an old man flashed in it.

Xiui smiled at the old man, "It's not worth wondering. I've changed the original events in my memory, and I'm not doing what happened as it once was. I wasn't supposed to be sent into the valley, but here I was, and everything that shouldn't have happened happened, and not the way I expected. So the question arises, how did such an experience come about?"

"Don't you think that is supposed to be the inevitable result of your choice? A choice must have a result, and new results are generated. The old man in the crystal ball replied.

"That's right, but the problem is that this is a new script, and although new choices must have new results, this result always needs to be written. I'm not the one who wrote the result, I just gave the choice. It's like the person who wrote the question doesn't have to give the answer himself. Someone else gave me a new answer to the question, so I had to realize that there was another person who was secretly manipulating everything. Although he played everything perfectly, the truth is that he still left traces of manipulation. ”

"What traces?"

"Andrew and Pierre shouldn't be in the canyon at the same time, because you don't know what happened in the canyon. You don't know because I don't either. I haven't experienced anything like that, so you're going to have to make up one of your own, which makes the event a serious problem. For example, we were taken into the canyon and no one cared about us. For example, I can easily run away and get out of the puppet warrior's guard without a pass......"

So you realize that it's not just a fantasy based on your memories, it's another person and you are involved in everything. ”

"This is the only way to make the illusion go smoothly and normally. Even though I don't know anything about illusions, I know that no illusions can develop freely without manipulation. ”

"Then how do you know it's Fink and it's me?"

"Because you can seal my memories, but you can't seal my feelings. Human emotions are sometimes beyond all else, and I don't feel a trace of heartache when I see Bloody Lan bite off your finger. At that time I was surprised what made me so cold-blooded, but then I understood. Because you're not Fink, you can deceive my eyes, but you can't deceive my feelings, the instinctive emotions that are deep in my memory. ”

"I see...... You're right, I didn't create a fink from your memories. I played Fink myself, but I hid the memories of your other life in Fink's body. Because only in this way can I get close to you and control the development of the plot perfectly. ”

"For this, you even simulated a virtual emotion to influence me. Hue had a disdainful smile on his face. He was referring to the voice yelling in his head.

"I want you to think it's your instinctive awareness. ”

"If my instincts were really sound, he would never say something that is headless, brainless, and unfocused. He would tell me what was going on in the simplest and most direct way, not just blaming. So from the very beginning, I suspected that this consciousness was a ghost. The purpose of this consciousness is to bring me back to everything I have ever experienced, in the capacity of a twelve-year-old simple Huey Glare. ”

"It's a pity that you didn't listen, but you pulled out the ghost face flower and completely revised all the stories that had happened. Are you really not afraid of the consequences? Is that your wisdom?"

"Wisdom?" Xiu Yi sneered: "What is wisdom? Everyone has a different way of thinking about problems, so they have different ways of coping with them. Some are rational, some are emotional. When I actually lived on Purgatory Island, survival was the only thing that mattered to me, so everything I did was for the purpose of survival. But when I live in the illusion you have created for me, the most important thing is to get rid of the doubts in my heart, get rid of the power that tries to manipulate my destiny, and solve the mystery of the unknown. So I had to do the opposite, to pick and choose what shouldn't be done. The purpose is simple, that is, not to be controlled by fate. If you say that this is wisdom, then I'm sorry, I don't think there is real wisdom in this world at all, just different views on the same events, and different outcomes of making different choices. As long as that result is what you want, then your means are full of wisdom. ”

"Well said. "If the old man in the crystal ball had a hand, he would definitely applaud it.

"There's one thing I don't understand. Xiu Yi said: "Although I can still think and still retain some ways of thinking that I recognize, the disappeared memory does still make me have a major thinking disorder, and I still can't make accurate judgments about many things at the first time." If it continues like this, it is very likely that I will not be able to get out of this illusion in the end, and the key to my escape from him is the result of you releasing a small part of my own notological memory. Don't think I can't guess that you did it on purpose, it's just that I don't understand why. ”

"Because it's a test, not a nirvana. The test has to leave a clue, and who will give an unsolvable question during the test?" Cripwell replied, "so I have to give you some hints at the last minute." But I didn't expect that, with this little hint, you would not only succeed in defeating Andrew and Pierre, but even discover my presence. Oh, and I forgot to tell you, in fact, you only need to be able to defeat Andrew and Pierre. There aren't many people who can come to the Western Continent, so I can only choose as many goals as I can. The so-called harsh test is itself a joke when there are not enough candidates...... Otherwise, when you send the Abyssal Dragon to the Samurai's Gate, it will already be a corpse. Speaking of which, you are really bold enough, don't you know who destroyed the Western Continent?"

"By humans. Xiu Yi quickly replied, "It was destroyed by humans, Basgate, the Lord of the Abyss, is human, and it is humans who unleash the forbidden spell magic that destroys the continent." From any point of view, it is humanity itself that destroys itself. I know that the people of the Western Continent hate the Demon Realm, but you can never deny the fact that only humans themselves can destroy them. Any other life, any form, any calamity...... It's just tools and expressions. ”

The old man in the crystal ball was silent.

After a long time, he finally sighed and said, "You're right, kid, the Western Continent was destroyed by humans themselves. The only thing that can destroy humanity is human beings themselves, even the powerful Demon Realm...... Can't do it either. ”

"So I dared to send Xu in, although it was because I didn't know that there were life forms to think about here, but I also believed that even if there were, as long as my brain wasn't too confused, there was no reason to despise him because he was an abyss demon dragon, or kill him regardless of whether he was good or bad. Of course, if you're an idiot, there may be exceptions. But sometimes we have to choose to expose our children to some challenges and trials. Today, a demon dragon from the abyss has entered the inheritance gate of the Western Continent, and tomorrow, he may become the new human protector. ”

"Is that so?" the old man's face showed a hint of confusion, and a large cloud of smoke filled the crystal ball: "I can't be sure about this, I need to think about it." ”

"Speaking of which, I don't know what kind of being you are, aren't you dead, why do you still have such a clear soul?"

"I am indeed dead, as to why my soul is so clear...... Aren't you also a soul mage, you should know what the soul is, and that's the root of our ability to learn soul spells. ”

"Soul ......" Xiu Yi opened his mouth, "To be honest, I don't know what kind of existence it is until now. ”

"You know, it's just that you don't realize it. In fact, the soul is just the embodiment of human memory in another way through the carrying of energy. Soul spells can not only attack human consciousness, but also create illusions and control minds. This soul crystal carries my consciousness, so you can completely understand that although my ** has died, my soul lives on. ”

"Eternal?" Huey chuckled, "How can there be eternity in the world?"

"That's right, there is no real eternity in this world. Congratulations, young man, you have passed the Labyrinth of Souls anyway and are eligible for the Inheritance of the Gate of Magic. When I pass on all my knowledge of magic to you, the moment of my true death will come. My soul remains behind three separate doors, one of which has vanished hundreds of years ago, and now it's my turn. Cripwell's voice gradually deepened: "But until then, I need a commitment from you. ”

"What promise?"

"Fight against the Demon Realm and kill Busgate. ”

"What did you say?" said Xiuyi.

I said...... Kill Buzzgate. As you can hear, Basgate is not dead, he is just trapped, but one day, he will break through. At that point, he will return to the abyss and lead his Legion of the Dead to do it all over again......"

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When he walked out of the door of magic, it was as if Huey had changed as a different person.

The encounter at the Magic Gate made Xiu Yi fully comprehend the mystery of soul spells.

He didn't expect that the Western Continent's ability in soul spells would be so powerful that it could create such a soul labyrinth.

It was the most powerful soul labyrinth Xiu had ever seen, and the soul labyrinth of the Soul Eater Ring and the Tower of Death were so insignificant compared to them.

At this point, Xiu Yi really understood that the so-called test itself is actually a way of inheritance.

All magic is nothing more than the skill that humans learn how to master the power of heaven and earth. Skills can be learned, explored, and created, but the understanding of the origin of things is not easy to learn.

From this point of view, the various spells hidden in the Magic Gate are not even more valuable than the tests given to Xiui in the Labyrinth of Souls.

But it is precisely because of this that a new confusion arises in Xiuyi's heart.

What is Gong Hao's existence?

He even wondered if the world he was in was another larger labyrinth of souls, a dream space, just a boring prank trick of some powerful being, kneading two souls together and then throwing them into a certain world, like looking at a leaf and letting it float and float.

However, after going through the test of the magic gate, Xiu Yi finally felt a little abnormal.

If the soul is only the embodiment of memory through energy, then to some extent, is the so-called Gong Hao's soul just a copy of a certain memory?

Hue Igler, still just Hue Igler.

He never died, only ceased to be a single being.

If so, then how did this soul memory come about?

Perhaps, he will not be able to find the answer in his life, and maybe, one day, the answer will appear automatically.

No longer thinking about this troublesome problem, the samurai's door opened, and Asahi had already walked out of it.

He hung his head.

"I failed, father, I failed to pass the test of the Samurai Gate. Asahi cried and threw herself into Shui's arms.

"What's going on? ”

Asahi then intermittently recounted his encounter at the Samurai Gate.

In the Samurai Gate, Asahi suddenly grew into an adult demon dragon.

He returned to the abyss, becoming one of the most powerful beings there, while also encountering the most formidable adversary of all, Basgate and his Legion of Death.

In the battle for the abyss, his mother Rita and father Shui were killed one after another, leaving Asahi alone.

Basgate challenged Asahi to do so.

Asahi is scared, and the little one chooses to run away from the fight.

"I have failed your expectations, father. Asahi whimpered.

"No, kid, that's not your fault. Xiu Yi caressed Asahi's little head lovingly and said, "You're still young, you're just a child." You can't face a challenge from Basgate in that situation. You must know that the reason why I sent you into the gate of the samurai is not so that you can learn what kind of powerful power, if a person wants to be strong, he not only needs strong strength, but also needs to have a strong heart. Remember Lancelot? I used to criticize him for not having the heart of a brave man. Later, he understood, so he challenged everywhere, and then retreated. People will have times when they are afraid of death and danger, but one day, people will find that there is no point in fear and avoidance, and in the face of him, even if the sword pierces us in front of our eyes, we must watch it pierce into it! We can die, but we must die with our eyes open. ”

Huey was very skeptical that Asahi had really failed, and from his conversation with Cripwell, Huey realized that Cripwell was still very wary of demonic creatures. I'm afraid he won't teach the important way of the samurai to Asahi so easily.

Before Asahi passed the test, Cripwell used a soul spell to modify Asahi's memory.

However, Xiui is not sure about this, the purpose of sending Asahi into the Samurai Gate was to exercise his strong qualities and cultivate his courage, from this point of view, Asahi can come out of the Samurai Gate crying, which means that he already has a sense of shame and a desire to improve.

That's very good progress.

People's maturity is not determined by age, but by their experience. Asahi's experience at the Samurai Gate is destined to be of immeasurable help to him in the future.

So at this moment, Xiu Yi comforted: "Asahi, you regret that you didn't do what you longed to do, which in itself is a huge improvement. Someday, you'll really grow. At that point, you can also come back and try the Samurai Gate again. ”

"Can I try again?" Asahi looked at Xiui in surprise.

"Of course. Xiu Yi nodded: "The temple only stipulates that a person cannot challenge different doors, but it does not stipulate that the same door cannot be challenged repeatedly. Believe me, Asahi that one day you will come back here and re-pass the test to become a true powerhouse. ”

There was one sentence that Huey didn't say. Before letting Asahi return to the Samurai Gate, Shui will put Asahi to the test. If one day, he discovers that Asahi has really reached the point he expected and failed to pass the test, he doesn't mind wiping everything to the ground by forcing his way through the samurai's gate.

The old thing had to weigh the consequences.

As for now, let that Cripplewell in the Samurai's Gate think about whether it is time for a demon creature to accept the inheritance, anyway, the three souls share the same mind, what Xiu Yi said in the Magic Gate, and Cripwell in the Samurai's Gate also knows.

"Yes Father. At this moment, Xu nodded seriously.

"Well, it's over here, and it's time for us to go home. Xiu Yi hugged Xu Lang and said. With a gentle wave of his hand, a harmonious soul energy sprinkled through Rising Sun's body, washing away the pain in his heart.

"Oh, father, your soul spell ......," Asahi cried.

"Yes, I've leveled up, and at the Gate of Magic I've mastered the mysteries of true soul spells. Now I'm a fourth-level soul mage. Xiu Yi smiled, "And from now on, my soul spells will no longer have any talent limitations." ”

"Then you passed the magic gate, then the rest of the magic knowledge ......"

"It's all in my head, Asahi, it's far more than you think, so much you can't even learn. Xiu Yi winked at Xu and smiled, "It's like being in an unguarded granary, all you worry about is how to digest them as quickly as possible." ”