Chapter 467: Illusion and Reality

Logically, if Ye Yuan was blasted to death, his techniques should have dissipated immediately.

Yet the countless flying petals showed no sign of dissipating; instead, they accelerated toward Lin Chao!

Seeing this, Lin Chao's expression changed drastically.

He Mingde also hadn't expected such a turn of events and was greatly shocked.

His figure flickered and vanished from the spot!

But it was already too late!

Although a late Soul Sea cultivator was fast, he was clearly a beat too slow in moving now.

Clusters of petals quickly surrounded Lin Chao!

"Ah! Sect Master, save me!"

He had felt the power of this technique earlier, but now facing it head-on, he realized how terrifying it truly was!

No matter what techniques he unleashed, he couldn't stop the petals from eroding him!

"Puff, puff, puff..."

In the blink of an eye, the petals broke through his protective primal force and sliced into his flesh!

"Lin Chao!"

By the time He Mingde arrived, Lin Chao had already collapsed limply to the ground, his life or death unknown.

He Mingde's face turned ashen as he stared at the scene in disbelief.

A mere first-layer Sea Transformation cultivator had actually succeeded in a sneak attack right under his nose!

His earlier strike had clearly hit Ye Yuan. Even if Ye Yuan were only at first-layer Sea Transformation, or even first-layer Soul Sea, he should have been dead beyond doubt.

But why hadn't that technique dissipated?

He Mingde suddenly looked up and scanned his surroundings, trying to find Ye Yuan's figure.

Yet where was Ye Yuan?

It was as if he had just struck empty air!

This feeling was extremely unreal; He Mingde had never encountered such a situation before.

Suddenly, He Mingde's expression changed.

A figure gradually materialized before him—it was Ye Yuan, the very one he had just blasted to death!

Ye Yuan glanced indifferently at Lin Chao lying on the ground and sighed, "Pity. After all, I've consumed too much primal force; killing you is a bit beyond my strength. Consider yourself lucky to have escaped with your life."

Looking at Ye Yuan not far away, He Mingde was utterly baffled. How had Ye Yuan dodged his attack just now?

That feeling just now was definitely right; he had indeed struck Ye Yuan.

A first-layer Sea Transformation cultivator had fully endured his blow and yet stood before him unharmed. What was going on?

He Mingde was a shrewd and calculating man. Seeing Ye Yuan reappear, he did not attack immediately.

He looked around but found nothing unusual.

Where was the problem?

"Boy, how exactly did you do it?" He Mingde suddenly asked.

Ye Yuan raised his head slightly and looked at He Mingde. "I did it because I wanted to. Aren't you infallible in your calculations? Try to guess what method I used."

He Mingde frowned. Ye Yuan's confident demeanor clearly showed he wasn't afraid of an attack.

"Hmph, playing tricks! Die!"

He Mingde struck out with a palm, blasting Ye Yuan to death again!

Exactly the same feeling as before—the Ye Yuan before him was dead beyond doubt.

This time, he should be truly dead, right?

He glanced around again but sensed no trace of Ye Yuan's aura, only the corpse before him.

For some reason, He Mingde felt a sense of relief.

"Are you looking for me?" A faint voice came, startling He Mingde into a cold sweat.

Looking up, Ye Yuan was standing there perfectly fine, as if nothing had happened!

"You... how are you still alive!" He Mingde's expression changed.

Ye Yuan chuckled. "You should be grateful that my cultivation is still low; otherwise, this attack on Youyun Sect would have been your death! Now, take your people and get lost!"

He Mingde's face turned ashen. He finally confirmed that he had fallen into an illusion!

But... when exactly had he fallen into the illusion?

Could it be that behind this youth there was an even more powerful existence?

He Mingde was astonished to find that this illusion was extremely realistic.

If not for Ye Yuan's unreasonable existence, he wouldn't even have known he was in an illusion!

"How exactly did you do it? You're only at first-layer Sea Transformation; how could you set up such a powerful illusion array?" He Mingde asked gravely.

Using an illusion array to deceive a cultivator of a much higher realm was simply impossible!

Moreover, this was not a small-scale illusion array but a large-scale one that needed to fool everyone in Zichen Sect. The requirements for the array master were terrifyingly high.

Ye Yuan grinned. "Remember the Great Evolution True Sect?"

This time, He Mingde was truly shocked. "You... you are a disciple of the Great Evolution True Sect?"

"You can think of it that way. Back then, to stop your Hurricane Realm invasion, the Great Evolution True Sect used all its strength to seal the passage between the two realms, but you destroyed that seal. Now using this great array against you is nothing but just retribution!" Ye Yuan said calmly.

"Impossible! Although the Great Evolution True Sect's arrays were powerful, they didn't have such an illusion array!"

He Mingde was clearly very familiar with the Great Evolution True Sect and was full of disbelief.

Ye Yuan smiled. "If the sect master of the Great Evolution True Sect had mastered this array back then, there would have been no Wind Emperor. If he dared to come, he would have come and never returned!"

He Mingde's shock was beyond measure. He knew Ye Yuan wasn't lying.

This array was too powerful, causing even him, a late Soul Sea cultivator, to fall into it unknowingly.

If the sect master of the Great Evolution True Sect had comprehended this array back then, it might not have been impossible for him to trap Emperor Wind across realms!

What shocked He Mingde even more was that even the sect master of the Great Evolution True Sect couldn't comprehend this array, yet this youth had understood it!

He Mingde knew the Great Evolution True Sect well and understood what kind of genius its sect master was.

Just how monstrous was this youth before him!

"Alright, there's not much time left. Thank you for sending Sect Master Luo and the others back from thousands of miles away. Now, you can get lost."

After saying this, Ye Yuan's figure faded away on the spot.

He Mingde shuddered in alarm. Had the array already disappeared?

But compared to before, nothing seemed different!

No!

He Mingde's expression changed. He was about to check the prisoners from Youyun Sect when he heard the Zichen Sect disciples already shouting!

"Ah! Where's Tianfeng?"

"Luo Qingfeng is gone too!"

"And Xiao Jian and Ling Potian!"

"This... what's going on? I was holding them just now; where are they?"

...

All... all gone?

Wait, Xiao Jian, Ling Potian?

Weren't these two already dead?

He had clearly seen Lin Chao order their execution just now!

He Mingde's gaze sharpened as he looked toward the spot where they had been beheaded, but there were no corpses, not even a drop of blood!

He Mingde was completely disoriented. His mind was in a daze—what was real, and what was false?

He suddenly glanced at Lin Chao lying on the ground. It seemed only this was real...