200 Chapter 1358: 3-dan Heavenly Art of Dimension Unravel (1/2)
Knowing that the others would get suspicious if he continued dwelling on this matter, Zhang Xuan decisively changed the topic. ”Brother Yuan and Brother Luo are injured, so I'll be counting on you to take care of them. I'll head in to take a look.”
”Let me do it instead!” Bi Hongyin stepped forward and said, ”I specialize in dealing with illusions and soul attacks, so I should be able to withstand them better.”
”Alright then.” Zhang Xuan hesitated for a moment before nodding. ”There's a good chance that there are many different formations in there, so be careful. Make sure that you don't use your cultivation regardless of the situation.”
The illusion formation was a separate entity from the spatial seal, which was the reason why Zhang Xuan did not notice it through the Library of Heaven's Path. Otherwise, he would have surely reminded Luo Xuanqing in advance.
”Un.” Bi Hongyin nodded before sealing her cultivation completely.
Her ability to seal her cultivation was not as absolute as Luo Xuanqing's, so Zhang Xuan was still able to see through her using his Eye of Insight. However, she was still able to keep her zhenqi from emanating, and the formation was unlikely to be sensitive enough to sense the zhenqi concealed in her dantian either.
Hu!
The young lady began proceeding forward, and in just a few steps, she arrived at where Luo Xuanqing and Yuan Xiao came under attack. As if something had come to her vision too, she abruptly stopped as well.
”Be careful!” Yun Lianhai could not help but remind her.
”There's no point shouting. The spatial seal in there prevents sound and even one's Spiritual Perception from getting through!” Luo Xuanqing shook his head.
”It seals off Spiritual Perception as well?” Astonished, Zhang Xuan tried to extend his Spiritual Perception over, but upon reaching a certain point, his Spiritual Perception seemed to disappear in an abyss. No matter how he pushed on, he was unable to sense anything at all.
It was a very perplexing and bizarre situation. It was obviously something that was right before them, but due to a profound manipulation of space, it felt like these two spaces were in completely different worlds.
Amid everyone's worried gazes, Bi Hongyin continued advancing forward steadily, but eventually, she was still unable to hold herself back from driving her zhenqi, and as a result of that, she was jolted out of the spatial seal just like everyone else.
Zhang Xuan rushed over and asked, ”What happened?”
”After entering the spatial seal, I was teleported into another space where a saint beast was rampaging all around, devouring everyone in its sight. Unable to withstand it, I could only make a move in the end,” Bi Hongyin explained with a reddened face.
She had been determined to suppress her cultivation down to the very end, but she simply could not bring herself to stand by as the saint beast attempted to bite off the head of a child.
”Teleported? But you didn't move at all!” Yun Lianhai exclaimed.
All of them could clearly see Bi Hongyin with their own eyes, so there was no way she could have been teleported somewhere else.
”Don't you think it's weird that we are able to look into the spatial seal despite being unable to perceive it with our Spiritual Perception?” Luo Xuanqing suddenly interjected.
”This…” Yun Lianhai fell into deep thought.
Sometimes, what the eye saw might not necessarily be real.
Just like mirages in the desert, no matter how lifelike and authentic they seemed to the thirsty explorers, they were actually all illusions.
The reason cultivators believed in their Spiritual Perception was because they were extending their consciousness directly toward their surroundings to perceive it, so it was much more unlikely for them to perceive something incorrectly. In their current situation, they were indeed able to see the entire situation clearly with their eyes, but who could guarantee that what they were seeing was real?
”Brother Yun, can you help us sense if that Dongxu Gourd is real?” Zhang Xuan suddenly spoke up.
”Alright!” Yun Lianhai nodded.
If what they were seeing within the spatial seal was false, there was a good chance that the Dongxu Gourd could be fake as well.
A droplet of blood flew toward Yun Lianhai's glabella, and an eye abruptly opened up between his brows. The eye quickly turned its gaze toward the gourd in the sky.
A moment later, he shook his head and said, ”I can't sense the presence of any treasure…”
”You can't sense it?” Luo Xuanqing's face turned pale.
He had prepared for a very long time in order to acquire this Dongxu Gourd. If it turned out to be an illusion, he really might break into tears!
”Let me take a look at it,” Zhang Xuan said with a frown.
He could not make a clear assessment of the situation with what they had gathered so far, so the most effective way was for him to enter the spatial seal personally to check things out.
”Be careful,” Luo Xuanqing instructed.
”Un.” Taking a deep breath, Zhang Xuan suppressed his cultivation before making his way into the spatial seal.
The method he used to seal his cultivation was not as advanced as Luo Xuanqing, but the zhenqi he cultivated was the Heaven's Path zhenqi. As long as he willed it so, not even Saint 9-dan experts would be able to discern his level of cultivation, let alone the others!
Hu!
As soon as he entered the spatial seal, his surroundings abruptly turned completely white. He tried to extend his Spiritual Perception to the limits, but he was still unable to perceive anything at all. It was as if he was standing amid a barren land where he was the only man existent within this world.
Luo Xuanqing and the others had already vanished without a trace, as if they had not even been there in the first place.
This sure is a little unnerving… Zhang Xuan thought with a frown as he slowly proceeded ahead.
Shortly after, a mountain range appeared before his sight.
After which, he arrived before a waterfall with a lake at the bottom. The cascading water sounded deafening in the surroundings.
This is…
Taking a closer look, Zhang Xuan's heart began beating in agitation.
He had been there before. That was where he had first met Luo Ruoxin!
The Verdant Mountains of the Huanyu Mountain Range!
In this very place, he had witnessed countless spirit beasts gathering around the waterfall, and he had thought that they were intending to do Luo Ruoxin harm. So, he had charged forward in the hope of saving her. That was how they had first met.
He quickly turned his gaze over to the waterfall, and a beautiful figure stood calmly over there. Just as always, she stood with an air of indifference, reminiscent of an inviolable lotus. It seemed as if there was nothing in this world that would be able to faze her.