422 Under Control (1/2)

”Xijiu, is this the Air Partition skill? Excellent Kung Fu!” praised Si Chen, as he walked closer.

Gu Xijiu watched as he walked closer. She raised her hand and pointed the tip of her sword at him, ”Are you a human, a ghost, or an illusion? Aren’t you dead? I’ll kill you if you take another step!”

Si Chen did not know what to say.

He walked towards the tip of her sword and moved it away. He held her hand and placed it on his face, ”Come here, feel this, does a dead person feel this warm?”

An hour later, Gu Xijiu finally figured out the whole story. The mussel turned out to have been cultivating its vital energy in the mountains for thousands of years. The place was its underground nest.

The mussel was best at creating illusions for those who had mistakenly entered the place and making them fall into a dream.

When Gu Xijiu and Si Chen fell into the nest, they fell into the first illusion that the mussel had created for them. However, the illusion was not life-threatening. At most, it could only cause people to get lost.

The moment Gu Xijiu teleported was the time she truly fell into the illusion. It was a life-threatening state, this time. If she were unable to crack and solve it, she would be trapped for eternity until her flesh was completely dissolved by the mussel, even her soul would not make it out.

The mussel could sense the emotions and thoughts of the entrapped victims. It would know the people who were truly important to them in the abyss of their minds, thus transforming into their shapes to lure the victims with its illusions.

Once the entrapped victims believed it, they would willingly put their hands in its grasps and become its meal.

Si Chen was trapped in the first level and Gu Xijiu in the second, which was why she could not find Si Chen even though she felt like she was still at the same place.