Chapter 897 - Stone Mirror (1/2)

Translator: Chaos_  Editor: Chaos_

Not just these servants, even Monarch Qi Hu who was currently within the small courtyard was influenced too.

And the huge Vermillion Nightmare God Bird fanned its wings behind Xue Ying, bringing down the cultivator controlling the protection array from within the palace. Monarch Qi Hu was struggling to stay awake, making it hard for him to direct any array at all. As a result, Xue Ying was able to easily break apart the arrays by controlling the void, causing the palace to appear from nothingness.

Xue Ying stepped on the void. With a step, he appeared right in front of Monarch Qi Hu who was located in a small courtyard deep in the palace.

“Damn, break for me, break for me…”

Monarch Qi Hu was currently feeling uneasy.

The illusory technique had arrived so suddenly, engulfing him entirely before he knew it. It felt similar to having nightmares when he was young. He had barely opened his eyes before falling yet into another nightmare. He struggled out before falling in, struggled out… Monarch Qi Hu honestly felt like he had returned back to the past even though he was stronger than even Black Chief Devil in terms of soul and heart realm.

Facing this illusory realm, he had not fallen into oblivion entirely. He was still conscious enough to know that he currently was immersed in an illusory realm and was trying to get out of it!

Indeed.

He had broken out of the illusory realm and could vaguely sense the surrounding courtyard. But closely following that, he fell into yet another illusory realm! He was doing his best to break out of it, but another would arrive shortly after. This made him transfer back and fro between reality and illusion.

“Hu hu hu~” The fiery-red airstream pervaded within the courtyard and also affected Monarch Qi Hu. He was pulled back into the illusory realm time after time.

That was how impressive the Vermillion Nightmare illusory realm was.

It was unlike the illusory realm unleashed using the laws and profound mysteries system. The illusory realm unleashed by the Vermillion Nightmare was a side-effect of its presence, and Xue Ying did not have to control it. Along with its presence, it would create an alluring aura that encompassed all enemies, pulling them into the illusory realm time after time. Even if Monarch Qi Hu had reached the higher ‘Heart as the World’ realm, he could only barely utilize 50-60% his full heart strength!

But Monarch Qi Hu’s current heart realm was only at the ‘Heart as Blade’ realm and was struggling to even get out of the illusory realm. He could barely ‘sense’ that there was an enemy within the courtyard–the white-robed teenager Xue Ying!

But the scene in the courtyard and the scene in the illusory realm was starting to fuse in his consciousness.

“No, no, how could this be? How…” Monarch Qi Hu felt unreconciled. Nevertheless, he felt cold in his heart since he understood that this was a dangerous predicament he had never encountered before.

In the past, he could still display his strength and resist against possible dangers while escaping with his life.

But at this moment, he was embroiled in a battle with the illusory realm and could not focus on the enemy at all.

‘Is it Dong Bo Xue Ying?’

‘He, how did he become so strong?’ Monarch Qi Hu did not dare believe, ‘The previous time we fought, he did not have such a frightening illusory realm technique.’

…

Within the courtyard.

Xue Ying watched as how Monarch Qi Hu was continuously trembling. He could not help but sigh inwardly: ‘The illusory realm technique might sometimes be inadequate, and yet it might be mighty at times.’

Facing cultivators with a weaker heart realm, the effects of the illusory realm were outstanding! It was much better than engaging in direct combat.

But its effects towards those with a stronger heart realm were weak.

And the ‘Vermillion Nightmare illusory realm’ was an ancient cultivation technique. It was stronger than just solely using illusory techniques. It could forcefully pull the enemies into the illusory realm continuously, influencing the strength of the enemies. Thus, just this technique alone could reach the sixth level Star Pagoda strength. Even those who could maintain awareness would be forced to multitask and fight against the illusory realm. They would naturally become weaker when engaging in combat!

‘Monarch Qi Hu is no longer able to resist.’ Xue Ying shook his head.

“Mercy, mercy…” Monarch Qi Hu barely shouted out. He could not even open his eyes. Clearly, he was still struggling in the illusory realm.

“Descend.”

Xue Ying did not show any mercy.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, it was impossible for Xue Ying to even agree to the transaction in the past. But because the two commanders of Chief Devil Cliff were infamous for being devils, Xue Ying chose to accept the conditions. Killing these huge devils would mean saving many weaker ones. The rules of the Great Void Heaven Temple also encouraged disciples to kill these devils. It was only within the region that World Ancestor governed that other holy grounds did not impose this rule on killing all devils.

Cultivators like Xue Ying who came fighting alone was not considered a huge matter.

Instead, if a large batch of experts were led by the Great Void Heaven Temple Palace Master in to kill all devils within the Myriad Ancient Sacred World, it would naturally rile the World Ancestor!

“Multi-Layered Dark World.”

“Hong~”

Multiple layers of Dark World descended and envelop around the body of the trembling Monarch Qi Hu. The illusory realm descended and turned into reality. It also began absorbing the surrounding World Energy greedily, forming waves of movement and causing the surrounding to fluctuate. There was a staggering total of 2,500 layers that could be perceived at the membrane of this dark world!

If one said that the power of 600 layers of Dark World was comparable to the Sky Punishment Edge, then a staggering 2,500 layers of Dark World far transcended a single Sky Punishment Edge! The reason why Xue Ying unleashed so many layers of Dark World was that he could completely converge the power of this move inside the Dark World without letting it spill over to the surroundings. If he threw in too many Sky Punishment Edges, it would affect a considerable area around him.

This palace contained many other servants, though they were forcefully captured by Monarch Qi Hu. They were just some of the weaker cultivators, and there was no point letting this battle affect them.